Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 316 The Universe Pearl

The primordial universe, the human realm, a wondrous and mysterious place.

The magnificent Thirty-Three Heavens Continent is already dotted with palaces.

This place is mainly the residence of many core students of the Myriad Paths Academy, as well as some immortal gods and cosmic venerables from the Lei Yuan Clan and the native creatures of the Qiyuan Secret Realm.

After more than eight million years of development, the Myriad Paths Academy is now undoubtedly the number one power among humankind.

After all, the existence of the Myriad Paths Academy is truly extraordinary.

Firstly, Wandao Academy imparts its knowledge of many traditions, including the inheritance of a powerful ancient civilization, almost free of charge, which naturally earns it the respect and admiration of all mankind.

Secondly, the Myriad Paths Academy does not participate in the internal struggles of the human race. As long as one is human, even if one is a member of the other five major forces, one can still become a student of the Myriad Paths Academy and obtain a great deal of inheritance and resources. As a result, it naturally attracts almost all humans to join the Myriad Paths Academy.

As for how to acquire a large amount of resources to maintain operations, there is no need to worry, because apart from the initial free basic inheritance bestowed upon the students of Wandao Academy, if they want to obtain more profound inheritances, they must work hard to complete a series of tasks and trials to earn 'Special Affinity Points'.

These tasks naturally include many projects such as resource collection, treasure crafting, potion making, cultivation of spiritual plants and spirit beasts.

Attracted by the numerous powerful inheritances, the students put in their best efforts to complete each task. Even some cosmic venerables and cosmic masters had to contribute a certain amount of treasures to exchange for their desired inheritances.

Therefore, although the Myriad Paths Academy does not directly control the territory or various industries, its acquisition of numerous treasures is no less than that of the other five major forces.

With a large number of talented members, abundant inheritances and resources, the Qiyuan Tower's enlightenment space, and the occasional opportunity to receive personal guidance from the great human being, the Master of Qiyuan Tower, the entire Wandao Academy naturally flourishes, and its headquarters is also incredibly prosperous and bustling!

Moreover, the probability of producing geniuses is greatly increased within the entire Leiyuan Star lineage, nurtured by a special environment modified based on Earth's starry sky.

With the vast human territory occupying most of the original universe for them to explore and hone their skills, they naturally grew extremely fast.

Over the course of more than eight million years, a large number of geniuses have emerged from the Leiyuan Star lineage, and two more Universe Venerables have appeared. The number of Immortal Gods is naturally even greater, and in terms of success rate, it is in no way inferior to the Earth lineage that was born under the guidance of the Mountain Guest.

In addition, there was a group of special life forms that were naturally born at the beginning of the creation of the Wonderful Realm. Their genetic level and aptitude were much stronger than those of ordinary human cultivators. Because they lived in the Wonderful Realm, they could often hear the "sound of the Great Dao" when Qi Yuan "preached", and their cultivation progress was also extremely fast.

In particular, the Ancient Void Whale had long since broken through to the Cosmic Venerable realm. With its nearly thousand times higher level of life genes, it possessed almost the combat power of a top-tier cosmic overlord upon its breakthrough.

Later, he directly became a disciple of Qi Yuan, becoming another of his personal disciples.

Now, after millions of years of cultivation, his cultivation level has become even more profound, and he is extremely close to breaking through to the threshold of becoming a universe master!

Furthermore, the disciples Qi Yuan took in early on, under the guidance of the ancient civilization and with the massive resources provided by Qi Yuan, have all made rapid progress in their strength. Some, such as Cang Fan, Long Ji, and Lu Ming, have already reached the edge of breaking through to the level of a Universe Lord.

The others also possess the combat power of a cosmic venerable or even a cosmic overlord.

Including the life forms created by Qi Yuan using the creative talent of Yuqing's clone over the past eight million years, some of which were extremely outstanding, and many immortals and even cosmic venerables were also born.

Therefore, the entire Wandao Academy lineage can be described as teeming with talent and enjoying endless prosperity!

Wow!
A cyan palace, bathed in rosy light and shrouded in mist, flew from the distant void and landed above the Thirty-Three Heavens Continent.

"It's Biyou Palace!"

"It's the Biyou Palace of the Master of Qiyuan Tower!"

The Thirty-Three Heavens Continent already had a large number of powerful human beings, including several Universe Lords. Naturally, they quickly discovered the cyan palace that appeared in the sky, which was already one of the iconic treasures of the Master of the Wonderful Fate Pavilion.

Whoosh!
A figure teleported over instantly.

"Teacher." Su Ai, a disciple dressed in a silver futuristic battle suit, bowed to Qi Yuan.

This disciple was an intelligent life form of Qi Yuan, and was absolutely loyal to him.

As a mechanical being, this disciple possesses an innately powerful processing speed, and thus, the operation of the entire Myriad Paths Academy is usually controlled and maintained by this disciple.

In addition, after the war in the primordial universe, the father god of the machine race fell, leaving the entire machine race leaderless.

With Qi Yuan's help, Su Ai first forced several Mech Race Universe Lords captured in that battle to acknowledge her as her master. Later, she used the power and network of relationships these Universe Lords held within the Mech Race to further erode the entire Mech Race's internal power.
Now, eight million years later, this disciple has seized control of more than half of the remaining forces of the Machine Race, and can almost be regarded as the new 'Empress' of the entire Machine Race!
The Machine Race, once rampant throughout the primordial universe and one of the six most powerful races, has now almost completely become a vassal of humanity, or more accurately, a vassal of the Qi Yuan lineage.
"Teacher, before you left you said you were going to resolve a major matter concerning the fate of countless beings in the entire primordial universe. I wonder if it went smoothly?" Su Ai asked respectfully.

"It went fairly smoothly," Qi Yuan nodded with a smile. However, his mind involuntarily flashed with the terrifying scene of hundreds of thousands of world beasts surrounding him in the dimly lit land, unleashing their energy attacks at the same time.

Each Realm Beast is no weaker than a Cosmic Sea True God. When hundreds of thousands of Realm Beasts gather, it is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of Cosmic Sea True Gods launching a joint attack!
Such terrifying power would likely kill even a true Void God standing there, let alone Qi Yuan, the Lord of the Universe.

If he hadn't run fast, even with the protection of Biyou Palace, those world beasts wouldn't have been able to do anything to him for a while. However, a large number of world beasts could have attacked together, completely trapping Biyou Palace, or even directly blasting it into some extremely dangerous and perilous places, making it impossible for him to escape forever.

"The suppression of the Time-Space Bead is still too weak. If I had the power of Luo Feng's Wu-Slaying Wings, I could easily deal with hordes of World Beasts."

Thinking it over, Qi Yuan nodded to his disciple Su Ai beside him and said, "Come with me."

A moment later, in a vast space within the Qiyuan Tower that belonged exclusively to Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan and his disciple Su Ai sat facing each other in an elegant pavilion by a quiet lake.

"You've worked hard all these years to keep the entire Wandao Academy running," Qi Yuan said with a faint smile, offering his praise.

"This is simply my duty as a disciple. Moreover, these matters are nothing to me; I only need to devote a very small portion of my consciousness to them," Su Ai replied respectfully.

Hearing its words, Qi Yuan smiled and nodded.

"Firstly, you have made great contributions to maintaining the operation of the Myriad Paths Academy for a long time. Secondly, you are the first among my many disciples, besides Tian Shi, to break through to the level of the Universe Lord. Therefore, I want to give you a reward, a very big reward!" Qi Yuan said with a smile.

"A huge reward?" Su Ai couldn't help but look at Qi Yuan with curiosity.

Having spent a long time together, it, like many other disciples, had long been accustomed to Qi Yuan's generosity. However, something that could be called a "great reward" by its teacher must have been incredibly precious!
"look."

Qi Yuan smiled faintly, then raised his hand and took out a beautiful round bead that was crystal clear and had faint gold and silver threads interwoven on it.

"This is..." Su Ai looked at the round bead with curiosity.

"This item is called the 'Time-Space Bead'."

Qi Yuan explained with a smile, "This is an extremely precious mechanical treasure. Even in the newly emerged Jin world, it is extremely rare. The Time-Space Bead requires a deep understanding of the laws of time and space. Once activated, it can instantly bring the surrounding time and space under complete control, which is much stronger than the control of time and space by the Lord of the Universe. Moreover, it can be used in conjunction with domain treasures. It is a rare and powerful auxiliary treasure."

"You need to maintain the operation of the Myriad Paths Academy and cannot venture into the Jin World. Consider this Space-Time Pearl a small gift from your teacher."

As he spoke, Qi Yuan gently waved his hand, and a wisp of divine power, carrying the Time-Space Pearl, arrived in front of his disciple Su Ai.

"A mechanical treasure, the Time-Space Orb!"

Su Ai looked at the crystal-clear bead floating in front of her. As a trace of divine power imprinted itself onto it, Su Ai immediately felt the vast power contained within the space-time bead.

"What a powerful treasure!"

Su Ai's face lit up with joy, and she immediately stood up to respectfully thank Qi Yuan.

"Thank you teacher for the gift!"

"No need for formalities. You have done a lot for me, and this is what you deserve."

Qi Yuan waved his hand, but a rather delighted smile appeared on his face.

He stirred slightly and immediately checked the system notification he had just received—

[Successfully gifted my disciple a True God-level Mechanical Treasure, the 'Time-Space Pearl'!]

[Base return rate 93x, return begins.]

[The gift gift has brought great joy to the disciple, triggering an 95x critical hit reward, with a final return multiplier of 8835x!]

[Reward: One Eternal True God-level Mechanical Treasure, 'Universal Pearl', has been stored in the system space and can be claimed at any time.]

(End of this chapter)