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

Chapter 182 The Secret Technique of Creating Beyond One's Rank, The Tribulation of Kodi
"Eternity, thank you, thank you!"

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Lord Zhenma quickly thanked Yu Duan.

At the same time, he flipped his hand and took out the top-grade weapon, which was a mace-like weapon with two layers of secret patterns intertwined in blue and black, but the second layer of secret patterns was not complete.

Generally speaking, only top-tier treasures have two layers of secret runes.

A very small number of top-tier treasures may have incomplete third-layer secret runes, such as the Mad Demon God-Slaying Armor.

"I had previously thought that I would need Peng Gong and his team to come and help, so I am willing to contribute this treasure to the alliance at the lowest possible price."

The Lord of Zhenma looked sincere as he erased the mark from the treasure: "But today, since you alone have come to my aid, I will transfer it to you at the lowest possible price."

A top-tier weapon-type treasure rarely exceeds 100 treasure points.

However, this purplish-black mace already has a second, incomplete layer of secret patterns, making it one of the most exquisite types, worth 300 Treasure Points, and some people are willing to buy it.

If it's the lowest price, then it's only around 80 Treasure Points.

"Alright, then I won't stand on ceremony."

Yu Duan also had 100 Treasure Points given to him by the clan during the Great Axe Conference. He directly transferred 80 Treasure Points to Lord Zhenma and then accepted the mace.

"River Spirit, by absorbing this mace, it's equivalent to several top-tier weapons of average quality?"

"Reporting to Master, it's probably four or five items."

Upon hearing this, Yu Duan had a thought, and the mace merged into his body, where it was instantly dissolved and devoured by the divine body constructed by the River of Life.

Repairing the River of Life is an insurmountable challenge; without the strength of the strongest being in the universe, it's extremely difficult to obtain the treasure needed to condense the third secret rune.

Just then, in the virtual universe, Master Peng sent a message to Yu Duan.

"Eternal, the Lord of Zhenma has suddenly stopped calling for help, don't rush over there!"

During the pursuit, the Lord of Zhenma kept sending out messages for help.

The fact that they suddenly stopped asking for help gave Peng Gongzhi a bad feeling.

"It's been resolved. I forced the Lord of the Nine Stars to retreat. He has an extremely powerful palace-type treasure protecting him, so I can't do anything to him."

The inner domain of the spaceship, a region dominated by countless towering volcanoes.

A hazy golden light was flashing rapidly, traversing a long distance in the blink of an eye.

"They forced them to retreat?"

The golden light stopped, revealing the figure of Master Peng, a man of imposing stature with a large beard hanging down in front of him.

Peng Gong was somewhat taken aback. Although the Nine Stars Lord was not considered very strong among the four levels, he was not weak either.

They were actually forced to back down by Yu Duan?
Yu Duan's strength truly astonished Master Peng.

He knew that Yu Duan possessed a top-tier illusion magic treasure, but that probably wasn't enough, was it?
The divine body is about 30 times weaker, and the secret technique must be at least one level stronger than the opponent's in order to barely be able to fight head-on.

"Eternity, how did you achieve that?"

"I had a bit of luck and obtained a top-tier domain that was extremely compatible with me. It's a perfect match and I can activate it perfectly. As for secret techniques... according to what the Dark Lord teacher said, it's close to that of the Star River Lord."

After hearing Yu Duan's explanation, Peng Gongzhi felt a little uneasy.

What a strange twist of fate.

What a perfect fit!

For some reason, Peng Gong's master thought of his ancestor from back then.

The original ancestor once achieved an incredibly powerful feat at the level of the Lord of the Universe, comparable to the three ancestral gods in the primordial universe.

He is the only universe lord who possesses sixth-tier combat power without relying on supreme treasures.

"If Eternity truly breaks through to become the Lord of the Universe... perhaps he can also achieve the sixth rank?"

Upon realizing this, Peng Gongzhi felt a strange mix of emotions.

In the early days of humanity, the territory of humankind was far more than the 1008 Great Universe Kingdoms of today!

With the suppression of the Primordial One, the human race lost more than one Universe Lord in that great war, and also lost many territories.

……

The inner domain of the spaceship, in another direction.

Three streaks of light rushed toward the area of ​​the black-patterned stone pillars. The one in the center was Yu Duan, and the ones beside him were the Lord of Zhenma and the Lord of Yanying, who was a step behind.

"It's a pity that the Lord of the Nine Stars got away."

Yu Duan clicked his tongue with some regret. If he could capture the Lord of the Nine Stars, he could give the River of Life a feast.

Hearing the heaven-defying words that came out of Yu Duan's mouth, the Lord of Yan Ying couldn't help but say, "Eternity, how can a fourth-order universe lord be killed so easily?"

"Such beings must at least possess high-grade palace treasures by their side."

"Even Chaos and Peng Gong couldn't kill them directly. They could only suppress them with higher-level palaces and send them into the primordial universe to be killed."

Apart from the life forms of this cycle, any other life forms in the cosmic sea that enter the primordial universe will be suppressed and killed by the primordial universe.

Even true gods, even those protected by supreme treasure palaces, are as fragile as paper in the face of the primordial universe.

"No, I have to find a way to get a supreme palace-type treasure."

This time, the reason why we were able to force back the Lord of the Nine Stars was entirely due to the fact that the domain forcefully 'sealed' the opponent's teleportation and other abilities.

Yu Duan, on the other hand, was able to endlessly harass the Lord of Nine Stars. Even if his destructive power was slightly weaker, he could still wear down the opponent to death.

But a palace-type treasure turned the tide. "I underestimated Eternity before, but now I realize I was so wrong. If Eternity hadn't come to my aid, even if I had handed over the treasure weapon, the Lord of the Nine Stars probably wouldn't have let me go."

The Lord of Zhenma recalled the scene of the previous pursuit, and a look of helplessness appeared in his eyes.

"No need to be polite. I've made a great deal by exchanging 80 Treasure Points for a top-tier weapon."

"Even so, Eternal, you still saved me. From now on, within the Hong Alliance, I will follow your lead without question!"

Lord Zhenma spoke with gratitude, which made Lord Yanying secretly despise him.

Throughout countless ages, other cosmic lords have also helped you, Zhenma.

Why don't I see you, Zhenma, say that?
They simply felt that Eternal had immense potential and were planning to latch onto a powerful backer early.

……

Before long, Yu Duan returned to the depths of the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar area.

Through years of tempering his will, Yu Duan's willpower has also increased considerably, and he now resides in a region with a time flow rate of 1.3 times.

Including the previous progress, it is estimated that it will take about 120 epochs of the original universe for Yu Duan to repay the price of this advance.

"My 'Cosmic Evolution' technique has reached a bottleneck."

"Perhaps we can try to create a high-level secret technique with a low-level understanding, thereby breaking through the bottleneck."

Yu Duan recalled that the Broken East River inheritance contained a sixth-order True God-level secret technique based on the fundamental law of metal.

A lower-level fundamental law is simply the most ordinary immortal-level insight.

It's three whole major realms away from being a true god.

"Take it one step at a time. First, try to create a peak or ultimate secret technique using a lower-level law, and then try to create a venerable-level secret technique."

As soon as Yu Duan had a thought, his understanding of the fundamental laws of light emerged.

Of the ten fundamental laws, Yu Duan is most familiar with the laws of light and time.

For the vast majority of immortals, without integrating their understanding of higher-level laws, the mere application of the fundamental laws of light is insufficient to create even ordinary secret techniques; they are essentially mediocre.

Some of the most outstanding among the immortals are able to create ordinary secret techniques using a single superior law.

But that's basically the limit. Many geniuses and powerful individuals wouldn't be so bored as to force a top-tier secret technique based on lower-level laws.

In the blink of an eye, several years have passed in the primordial universe.

Within the area of ​​the black-veined stone pillars, countless halos of light and black mist intertwined, forming a millstone that emanated from Yu Duan's body, creating a unique domain secret technique.

"Creating top-tier secret techniques is a piece of cake."

With the acceleration of time flow, it took only about 6 epochs for Yu Duan to create a top-level sword technique using the fundamental laws of light.

"The simplification of the complex patterns of the Black-Veined Stone Pillar and the secret patterns of the River of Life have greatly inspired me."

"But it took 60,000 epochs to achieve this step, which is still not fast enough."

The secret patterns of the River of Life are terrifyingly simple.

Based solely on the two fundamental laws of light and time, and belonging to the most ordinary Venerable-level comprehension, it supports the power of a supreme treasure of the highest grade.

The secret runes of a normal, top-tier treasure are usually only mastered by a fifth-order universe lord, and have been simplified many times over.

"Continue to study the secret patterns of the River of Life; this is not the limit."

"According to speculation, the limit of the second layer of the River of Life's secret runes is equivalent to a Venerable-level being able to comprehend and create a fifth-order secret technique."

……

In the primordial universe, time passed peacefully and serenely.

Tens of thousands of years have passed since then, and 34 eras have passed since Yu Duan was bestowed the title of Eternal Lord.

Nothing major has happened to the human race; not even a new Venerable has emerged. The latest Cosmic Venerable is still Yu Duan from back then.

The only event that was widely discussed was when, hundreds of years ago, Kodi, the strongest Realm Lord-level member of the Primal Secret Realm, successfully crossed the three Primal Heavenly Mountains and became the personal disciple of the Chaos City Lord.

It is said that this Kodi is not only the personal disciple of the Lord of Chaos City, but also a close friend of the newly ascended great being, the Lord of Eternity.

Such potential and such a background made Kodi a hot topic of conversation among the human elites.

On this day, inside the magnificent Temple of Eternity.

"Creating an ultimate secret technique using a single lower-level law...it's actually this difficult."

Yu Duan frowned, his majestic Kui head radiating immense authority.

"Master, we received an email from Aarons. He and Koti are in trouble!"

Aarons?
With a thought, Yu Duan's consciousness directly connected to the virtual universe, where he saw Aarons, who had broken through to the Immortal realm and was titled 'Sword King'.

"Lord of Eternity!"

When Aarons saw Yu Duan, he was about to bow when Yu Duan interrupted him.

"To make a long story short, what's the situation between you and Koti?"

Aarons quickly replied, "Yes!"

"Kordi and I were exploring a secret cosmic realm when he inexplicably fell unconscious. I didn't sense any attack."

"I suspect that there might be a problem with Koti's clone."

(End of this chapter)