Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Most people need to have a legitimate reason before they do anything.

Lord Weiyang was definitely not a good person, but he wasn't a completely evil cultivator either, which is why he used the Lord of the Insect Nest as a pretext to launch his attack at the beginning.

But Zhou Lin's deep eyes seemed to be able to see through people's deepest thoughts, which even made Palace Master Weiyang feel very strange.

"At most, he is a cultivator in the early stage of God Emperor. He should be like an ant in front of me."

Palace Master Weiyang stopped spouting those high-sounding platitudes and cut straight to the point: "Sell me your flying boat, and I'll give you Hunyuan Crystals, innate treasures, low-grade Hunyuan corpses, or I'll do something for you. Just name your price."

Zhou Lin didn't even bother to answer him. Just say what you want.
In terms of treasures, if those secret treasures in his Origin World were actually used in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, they could probably destroy the Sacred Realm in the blink of an eye.

There was no shortage of corpses. Zhou Lin had just collected a batch of low-level Chaos Source, as well as world-class Chaos Source, high-level Chaos Source, and the remains of the Chaos Source Ancestor for him to study.

“I know you have some talent, but the world is full of geniuses.” Palace Master Weiyang continued, “Sell the flying boat to me, and your path will be much easier.”

Although the secret treasure flying boat seemed rather ordinary in the treasure vault, it was considered an extremely rare treasure by Lord Weiyang and the others.

"Palace Master, I need to begin my cultivation. Let's discuss this after I emerge from seclusion." Zhou Lin smiled and said, "I will give you an explanation regarding the flying boat after I emerge from seclusion."

His silence just now was a sign that he was waiting for the Lord of Yuanxiang Palace to appear, for that person was the one who could directly challenge the Lord of Weiyang Palace.

Unfortunately, whether due to being troubled by the pollution or unwilling to get involved, the Lord of Yuanxiang Palace ultimately did not show up.

The Lord of Yuanxiang Palace had considered investing in Zhou Lin, but he needed to assess Zhou Lin's character, so he naturally wouldn't act rashly, for fear of giving authority to a demon.

"Give me an explanation?" After pondering for a while, Palace Master Weiyang smiled and said, "You'll come out of seclusion next time, right? Then I'll wait for you for a hundred epochs."

For cultivators with infinite lifespans, a hundred billion years is merely a very short period of time, at most enough for Zhou Lin to progress from the early to the middle stage of the God Emperor realm.

Even in the later stages, they would still be tiny ants that Lord Weiyang could crush at will.

What is a late-stage God Emperor who has attained enlightenment?
"After a hundred years, they should be trying to find a way to back down." This was the understanding of Palace Master Weiyang. He had just broken into Zhou Lin's cave when the other party yielded and handed over the flying boat.

If this gets out, it will greatly damage his reputation, so Zhou Lin needs a way out.

As for directly seizing it by force, Palace Master Weiyang had almost never considered it; that was the worst possible strategy.

As one of the three great hall masters of Yulan City, and with a high probability of becoming the city lord in the future, Hall Master Weiyang naturally has to cherish his reputation.

The elders, the lords of the Ghost Workshop, and the lords of the Insect Nest can be shameless.

But as the rule-maker, Lord Weiyang is not good at this. It would be one thing to use his power to intimidate people and buy some Hunyuan Crystals, but what is the point of forcibly robbing them?
From Zhou Lin's perspective, as a prodigy with such terrifying cultivation talent, and with cultivators from the same origin world in Yulan City, it would be difficult for Zhou Lin to easily submit. He needed to save face, so Palace Master Weiyang gave him face.

Palace Master Weiyang had even planned to have Zhou Lin openly sell the secret treasure flying boat, and then he would buy it directly.

This way, Zhou Lin's face was saved, and he also gained practical benefits.

"In the Origin World, the reason why Yanfeng and Leiting dare to offend them is because there is a limit to their power. How many fools can cultivate to become a God Emperor? This Zhou Lin is quite smart. He knows how to do things in order to maximize his benefits."

From the perspective of Lord Weiyang, Zhou Lin is indeed very clever.

Palace Master Weiyang returned home overjoyed, knowing that having such a treasure-filled flying boat would make his future hunting in the Dark Holy Realm much safer.

Unfortunately, he was completely wrong. Zhou Lin's explanation was actually that he would subdue him by force when the time came.

"It's not difficult for me to merge with the Dao and reach the ultimate realm; the real challenge is how to break through to a higher level." Zhou Lin had detailed cultivation plans for each of his clones.

In the holy realms of Lord Jin, Lord Minghuang, and others, he absorbed as many mysteries as possible and then integrated them all into the two paths of cause and effect and the world.

That is, these two single paths are extrapolated to the early stage of God Emperor, the middle stage of God Emperor... or called the Step-by-Step Dao Lord.

According to the titles used for cultivators in countless worlds, Zhou Lin, a cultivator who practices enlightenment, should be called Dao Lord, not God Emperor. He himself also prefers the name Dao Lord.

However, this avatar of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm is responsible for integrating Dao cultivation.

Zhou Lin took out the pills he had bought at the Pill Pavilion and swallowed them. This was the first time he had used such an external object to improve the speed of his thinking. In an instant, he felt countless flashes of inspiration.

A series of inspirations collided, giving him a deeper understanding of the fusion of branch meridians, and Zhou Lin then began to experiment.

Ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, a million years...

He merged one branch after another, getting very close to the ultimate path of the Dao of Fate, but the final threshold was not so easy, after all, the ultimate path of fusion was comparable to the early stage of a normal God Emperor.

……

During the first memory sharing after his seclusion, Zhou Lin had not yet grasped the ultimate truth of the Dao of Fate, but his other clones had already deduced the cause and effect and the world to the level of a Dao Lord.

After thirteen years of seclusion, Zhou Lin finally combined all the branches and comprehended the ultimate realm of destiny and the way of the world. The next step is the most difficult hurdle.

Reaching the ultimate realm of fusion is not difficult.

At least in the process of comprehending the branch, there is a reference point in the original Dao within the source world. However, at the Dao Lord level, no naturally born primordial life form can do so.

Those God Emperors and Dao Lords cultivate by using the secret patterns on the bodies of lower-level Chaos Origin beings to comprehend their teachings. It's like groping in the dark, but at least there are clues to follow.

Zhou Lin truly relied entirely on his own exploration, and even the conception of Yuan Shidao had to be based on wild imagination.

"In my world, cause and effect are all at the level of a Dao Lord." Zhou Lin needs to have a basic understanding of the Dao of Fate before he can proceed.

There is also a primary and secondary distinction in the integration of principles.

For example, Luo Feng's Path of Life and Death involves a higher proportion of life, with destruction used to supplement the output.

Zhou Lin's basic conception of the Dao of Fate is to take the world as its foundation, pursue enormous energy, and then let the energy be exerted in a mysterious way based on cause and effect.

Similar to the Dao of Birth and Death, but without the need to construct a physical body system, Zhou Lin only needs to build a stable world structure.

The energy he can pursue is even more exaggerated than the fundamental Tao of life.

"How should we fuse them?" Zhou Lin was still deep in thought. This step was very difficult. Fusing the Dao to become an early-stage God Emperor would be comparable to becoming a late-stage God Emperor with only one Dao.

The beginning is always the hardest, and the two most difficult hurdles in the path of fusion are the first and fourth steps; the middle ones are relatively easier. (End of Chapter)