Swallow the starry sky, grind to become the strongest in the universe

Chapter 170 The True Human Being Appears, Stirring Up the Universe

Virtual universe, Hongmeng dimension, intelligence department.

Inside the palace, shrouded in endless, eerie light, Yu Duan once again found the head of the intelligence department.

"Venerable Yu Duan, is this our first meeting?"

The dark figure, seemingly composed of shadows, smiled at Yu Duan, showing none of the rumored coldness, but rather great enthusiasm.

Yu Duan remained noncommittal and went straight to the point: "Your Majesty, I need the intelligence department to help me investigate some information about the Cosmic Venerables, especially their latest location information."

"A cosmic sage? No problem."

The Shadow Monarch readily agreed, and then he received the list sent by Yu Duan.

The list contains 147 people, all of whom are from the Demon Race, the Mechanical Race, the Insect Race, and the Northern Frontier Alliance. They are either powerful members of their own race or powerful special life forms who have joined their alliance.

"so many people?"

The Shadow Monarch was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Yu Duan and said, "Venerable Yu Duan, the Hong Alliance does have a lot of information on these powerful figures, which I can provide to you for free."

"However, it's difficult to provide the latest location information."

"The whereabouts of these cosmic overlords are beyond the reach of ordinary infiltrators, making detailed investigation impossible. Otherwise, the risk of our Hongmeng infiltrators being exposed would be greatly increased."

If Yu Duan only needs information about a single cosmic venerable one, then that's fine.

But 147 characters is a bit too many.

Each and every one of those on the list is either a top-tier cosmic overlord or a super-strong individual just below that level.

This kind of intelligence is inherently difficult to obtain, requiring the deployment of a large number of undercover agents to gather information.

Each time intelligence is gathered, the risk of the undercover personnel being exposed increases.

"There's no need for a forced investigation. Just keep a close eye on them. If you get any information about these people, just send it to me immediately."

Seeing Yu Duan say this, the Shadow Monarch breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "No problem. I will notify Venerable Yu Duan as soon as these people on the list make a public appearance outside their respective territories."

"Thank you, my Lord!"

……

The primordial universe, deep within the spatial interlayer.

Within the vast divine realm, Yu Duan, who had been silent in the temple, slowly opened his eyes.

At the center of Yu Duan's brow, his closed vertical pupils opened, revealing a dazzling purple galaxy-like pupil.

"Om-"

Those purple pupils were endlessly deep, with dazzling, interwoven patterns that seemed to devour all gazes, making it impossible to look away and causing one's consciousness to sink into them.

"With the blessing of the Holy River, I am roughly comparable to a special life form with a genetic level of 3000 times. In addition, with a top-level illusionary treasure, I can definitely be considered a top-tier cosmic overlord!"

The strength of the divine body in the state of the Holy River depends on the strength of the 'source divine power' within the River of Life.

Therefore, whether it is the weakest human being empowered, or the undead demon banyan and the frost behemoth clone empowered with 700 times the genetic power, the divine power can be increased to the strength of 3000 times the genetic power.

The Blood Sea clone is too large in scale; even if it transforms into a sacred river, the source god power will be greatly diluted, rendering it practically ineffective.

"The master is too modest."

"With me here, your use of the peak soul treasure amplification illusion technique will far surpass that of the so-called top cosmic overlords."

"With the power of a top-tier illusion treasure, an ordinary soul treasure can only weaken its master's illusions, no longer providing absolute defense. Even a cosmic master would find it difficult to achieve this."

The voice of the Holy River Spirit resounded in Yu Duan's consciousness, its tone unusually confident.

Yu Duan's treasure is amplifying illusion magic. If it were a treasure amplifying soul attack, Yu Duan's burst damage would be greatly enhanced.

Yu Duan still has a lot of room for improvement.

If the strength of the divine body is raised to the level of 'a hundred times the genes of the Lord of the Universe', and the necromantic demon avatar uses the ultimate talent secret technique, the power of the illusion can be increased even further.

At that time, ordinary soul-type treasures will be unable to weaken Yu Duan's illusionary power.

Of course, this only means that illusions cannot weaken the soul's annihilation by illusory divine power; it can still be blocked by soul-type treasures.

"The amplification from mere illusions is too limited and far inferior to the amplification from true soul attacks."

"And when faced with a soulless life, my strongest methods are rendered useless."

"I'm still too weak. I must advance to become the Lord of the Universe as soon as possible."

With a thought, Yu Duan focused his mind on the Book of Cause and Effect, and the progress bar for his most recent [Pre-drawing True God-level Will] was slowly increasing.

"Paying off the advance costs, honing my will to the limit for 154 million epochs."

This time, by pre-drawing the will of a true god, he directly crossed three minor levels—the ordinary level of the universe master, the peak level of the universe master, and the limit level of the universe master—from the initial entry into the will of the universe master, and then forcibly broke through to the true god level.

According to feedback from the Book of Cause and Effect, a cosmic master who can create ultimate secret techniques will inevitably have a will that reaches an ordinary level.

By analogy, those who can create the strongest secret techniques are at the top level.

Finally, there are those who create the strongest secret technique of fifth-order fusion, whose will can generally reach the limit of the universe master level, and may even possess the will of a true god.

Each small level significantly increases the cost of advance payment, not to mention the major bottleneck from the final cosmic master to the true god.

The time required to hone one's will increased dramatically from the initial 1.6 epochs to 154 million epochs.

"Time may not be valuable, but 154 million epochs is indeed too long. We must find a way to speed it up."

Yu Duan no longer wanted to research any methods to improve efficiency.

What's more intuitive than directly accelerating time to improve efficiency?

In the vast ocean of space, there may be a special area that can both accelerate time and temper one's will.

With Yu Duan's current god-level will, he can easily penetrate areas with at least ten thousand times the time acceleration.

The so-called 154 million epochs is just over a hundred epochs, or even less.

"Now, you can also purchase the Time Palace."

Yu Duan is not incapable of using 'time acceleration' on his own, but it is difficult for him to maintain it for a long time.

If one is in a state of mental fortitude, it becomes even more difficult to use time acceleration.

The Time Palace is a special treasure that can accelerate time simply by consuming cosmic crystals. Only a cosmic master who has fully comprehended the laws of spacetime can create it.

However, the Time Palace is not cheap, as it requires the intervention of the Lord of the Universe to create it. A Time Palace accelerated tenfold is much cheaper; the Lord of the Universe can create a large batch instantly, so the price is only 10 Treasure Points.

The Time Palace, which is accelerated by 100 times, requires 100 Treasure Points.

As for the Time Palace with a thousand-fold acceleration, it requires 2 Treasure Points. Even a Universe Lord would have to put in some effort to build a Time Palace with a thousand-fold acceleration.

"This is troublesome... I only have 1.4 Treasure Points left."

"Forget it, who knows how long it will take for Hongmeng to send the target information."

"In that case, let's take the initiative and hunt for some treasure points along the way."

"It's time for Star Sword Venerable's disguise to be retired!"

Yu Duan was well aware of the significance of his status as a 30,000-year-old Universe Venerable, as long as he made a public appearance.

Therefore, the three major hostile races—the Zerg, the Demon Race, and the Machine Race—will certainly not let the opportunity pass and will attempt to assassinate him.

Although the universe's overlord can easily annihilate beings who have just entered the Venerable level.

However, if Yu Duan were a high-ranking member of an alien race and wanted to assassinate a cosmic venerable from an opposing race, he would definitely choose to send a more powerful top-tier cosmic overlord to maximize the success rate.

"Boom!"

With a thought, a majestic divine mountain palace, shrouded in chaotic mist, appeared before Yu Duan.

This is the Mountain of Light, formed from the River of Life. Yu Duan is already able to fully unleash its power, and suppressing top cosmic overlords is no problem.

Even if a top-tier cosmic overlord has a soul treasure guarding him, Yu Duan still has a way to bypass this restriction.

……

Just half a day later, on the other side of the starry sky, far beyond the human territory, in the Chi God Clan Star Sector.

"Rumble..."

The majestic palace and sacred mountain made a grand display, shaking space and time, and flew towards the deepest part of the Chi God Clan star sector at sub-light speed.

At the summit of this sacred mountain, Yu Duan made no attempt to conceal himself, sitting cross-legged atop the mountain.

This starry sky may seem calm and peaceful, but it has already gathered countless cosmic venerables.

Without the power to survive against a top-tier cosmic overlord or such a formidable opponent, blatantly crossing star sectors is tantamount to suicide.

"That is... Yu Duan, the newly ascended Venerable One of the human race?"

"A supreme treasure! This aura is definitely a supreme treasure! A newly promoted Venerable actually possesses a palace-type supreme treasure!"

"Quickly, contact those cosmic overlords in our clan who are skilled in soul control. Even if they have palace-type treasures, Yu Duan is just a newly promoted Venerable. There is hope that he can be killed by soul control!"

Yu Duan made no attempt to hide his presence, and his whereabouts were easily discovered by the cosmic venerables of various powers.

However, they did not act rashly. After all, they were protected by a palace-type treasure, and it would be troublesome if they alerted Yu Duan and he escaped.

……

"That's strange. I've been flying for most of the day, and I've made such a big commotion. Has no one noticed me?"

On the sacred mountain of the palace, Yu Duan was puzzled. He had been fishing for so long, yet no fish had taken the bait.

"Then let's make it even bigger!"

With a thought, Yu Duan unleashed a torrent of divine power, seemingly inexhaustible, into the palace-type treasure.

Boom!

The palace trembled violently, creating a series of spacetime storms that rapidly traversed the vast galaxy at near-light speed.

After an unknown amount of time, Yu Duan sensed a subtle fluctuation in spacetime.

Suddenly, Yu Duan opened his eyes.

"Humanity ends here, and dies!"

A vast sound echoed beneath the starry sky, and then a vast domain rippled outwards, with an endless sea of ​​sand boiling and covering an area of ​​hundreds of billions of kilometers.

In the sea of ​​sand, a ferocious beast with jet-black scales emerged, instantly unleashing its strongest move, an endless stream of ethereal divine power, as it charged towards Yu Duan.

"Domain treasure? Universe overlord? Too weak."

A flurry of thoughts flashed through Yu Duan's mind, and then he hid inside the Supreme Treasure Palace while simultaneously sending out a distress call through the Hong Alliance.

"Demon Clan Alliance, a cosmic overlord-level Soul Devouring Beast is hunting me down. Requesting backup."

While Yu Duan was maneuvering the palace to smash through the sand sea domain, he also started causing trouble.

Yu Duan will not easily make a move unless a top-tier cosmic overlord intervenes.

Therefore, we can only rely on the help of Hongmeng's allies, and the more intense the battle, the better, and the bigger the commotion, the better.

"Venerable Yu Duan? A newly promoted Universe Venerable dares to come to the battlefield of the Chi God Clan? What nonsense!"

"This Venerable Yu Duan holds an extremely high position. Befriending him will benefit our clan. Let's go, let's hurry and go provide support!"

"..."

"I am Lord Rock Minister of the Flint Clan, and I will arrive within three minutes!"

“Yu Duan, I am from the Yan Ying clan…”

"Junior Brother Yu Duan, I'm on my way to Guiyi."

Instantly, Yu Duan's inbox received dozens of reply emails, and the speed of reply emails increased dramatically.

Rumble!
The vast sea of ​​sand collapsed, and the Soul-Devouring Beast of the Demon Clan Alliance stared in disbelief at Yu Duan, who had fled.

"Impossible! My 'Wild Sand Demon Realm' is already very close to becoming a supreme treasure... This is troublesome!"

The Soul-Devouring Beast immediately became anxious and used its movement technique to chase after Yu Duan. It once again used its domain, not to completely suppress him, but only to prevent Yu Duan from using teleportation or other means of escape.

"I have trapped the human Yu Duan. He possesses a palace-type treasure, which I cannot kill. I request the support of a top overlord skilled in soul annihilation!"

Within a dozen seconds, hundreds of cosmic venerables and cosmic overlords from various major forces converged on Yu Duan's direction within this vast territory.

And with each passing second, more cosmic venerables will see the message and be mobilized.

(End of this chapter)