Swallowing the Stars: Ten Thousand Times Return for Taking on Disciples

Chapter 254 Comprehending Time Acceleration, Peak Secret Technique
"Old friend, long time no see!"

In the trial space, within the pitch-black cave, before his opponent even appeared, Lu Qingshan already knew who it was.
That burning sensation felt all too familiar.

In no time, the massive cave was bathed in a fiery red light... and waves of heat rolled in...

"The Crimson Flame Beast, a natural fire sovereign, is a special life form that lives in the magma of stars. It has 108 times the genetic potential... Its power to unleash the laws of fire is more than a thousand times that of humans."

Lu Qingshan didn't greet his old friend. The moment the Crimson Flame Beast appeared, he immediately used Time Acceleration to speed up his body to the limit.

"The Milky Way is beginning to appear!"

"Puff puff!!"

Several sharp blades struck the Crimson Flame Beast before it could react.

The Crimson Flame Beast's flames can destroy everything, but its physical defenses are quite weak.

call! !

As the Crimson Flame Beast unleashed destructive flames, Lu Qingshan held the Banyan Wood Divine Blade in front of him and with a whoosh, retreated to a distance once more.

And in the place just now, everything was completely destroyed in the eruption of flames.

Even solid rock can be melted.

The Crimson Flame Beast let out a painful roar, then collapsed to the ground with a thud.

ended.

Lu Qingshan felt secretly fortunate. Luckily, he could already use time acceleration easily. If he had been a little slower, he would probably have been directly destroyed by the Crimson Flame Beast's final burst of power.

That wouldn't count as passing this hurdle at all.

That Crimson Flame Beast is too ruthless; even before its death, it had such a desperate move to take everyone down with it.

It is likely to be an extremely powerful being among the many special life forms in the trial space.

Having learned from his previous experience, he took the initiative this time and eliminated his opponent first.

If they wait for the Crimson Flame Beast to make its move, the entire trial space will be engulfed in flames, leaving no way to escape. For now, Lu Qingshan does not have the ability to defend against the destructive flames.

After all, the trial space is in a virtual universe, and it mainly tests the mastery of secret techniques, so it is not possible to bring in precious armor.

"The 896th opponent is defeated. Next!"

This time, the Crimson Flame Beast became the 896th opponent. Lu Qingshan had been fighting in this trial space for nearly three hundred years.

"Dong Dong Dong!!"

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

Not long after the Crimson Flame Beast's corpse disappeared, the trial space began to shake violently.

Soon, a colossal beast nearly a hundred meters tall appeared. It had jet-black scales, a forward-leaning spine, and a hunched body. Its pair of molten gold vertical pupils were a full three meters high.

"This is the Gomo Behemo... a special life form with a hundred times the genetic makeup, possessing formidable physical defense,"

The behemoths in the trial space are merely miniature versions; the real Gomo behemoths are likely tens of thousands of meters tall. As expected of a trial space, they can even simulate such a unique life form!

"Roar!!!"

As soon as the Gomo Beast appeared, it let out a roar, and its enormous, mountain-like hand hurtled toward Lu Qingshan.

Its immense power could even shatter the divine body of an immortal god.

"call out!"

Lu Qingshan leaped into the air and easily dodged the attack.

"The Gomo behemo has powerful attacks, but lacks agility, so it's not a big threat to me."

Lu Qingshan quickly identified the other party's weaknesses.

He dodged the Gomo behemo's grasp towards the void with another quick movement.

Then, he flew towards the massive body of the Gomo Beast.

"Time stops!"

With a deafening roar, the Gomo behemo suddenly stopped, causing the mountain rocks to crumble and countless fragments of rock to tumble down.

In that brief moment of stillness, Lu Qingshan had already arrived in front of the Gomo behemo and swung his knife fiercely at its enormous head.

"A thousand stars rise in waves!"

"Boom boom boom!!"

The attacks piled up layer upon layer, all landing on the Gomo behemo. The Gomo behemo let out a painful groan, and then retaliated once more.

Looking at the almost unscathed Gomo behemo, Lu Qingshan was shocked.

The Thousand Stars Overlapping Waves, the second move of the Green Mountain Blade Technique, is arguably his strongest attack at the moment, yet... not even a single scale of this Gomo behemo beast was damaged.

This guy!
Is its defensive power comparable to that of a high-grade armor?
too exaggerated!

The Crimson Flame Beast was already outrageous enough; if you couldn't kill it first, its flames would destroy everything with a single strike. But the Gomo Beast is even more outrageous; with such formidable defense, who could possibly defeat it?

If you combine it with a powerful soul defense artifact, this thing becomes a human fortress, and no one can do anything about it.

"Are we going to have to use a soul attack?"

Lu Qingshan pondered.

The Gomo behemoth's attack speed was not fast, giving him enough time to think.

"No, unless you add a soul attack to the secret technique, even if you succeed, it's just a shortcut and won't improve the secret technique. That's just fooling yourself... Maybe I can increase the attack power of Thousand Star Waves. If ten times isn't enough, I'll increase it a hundred times, a thousand times... After all, this secret technique was designed with a lot of room for enhancement from the very beginning."

The Gomo behemoth level has stumped Lu Qingshan.

He began to research ways to enhance the power of the Thousand Stars Overlapping Waves. By stopping time, he was confident that his attacks would land entirely on the Gomo Beast, provided that he could break through its defenses.

The current Thousand Stars Overlapping Waves are no different from a tickle to the Gomo behemo.

Time acceleration... Perhaps time acceleration could be incorporated into it, increasing the attack speed of Thousand Star Waves by a thousand or even ten thousand times, which would greatly enhance its power.

After finding a direction, Lu Qingshan began to research in that direction.

Boom boom boom.

Within the trial space, the Gomo behemo was constantly attacking, and the endless attacks inevitably brought countless losses... While dealing with the Gomo behemo's attacks, Lu Qingshan was also constantly experimenting with secret techniques on its body.

"A thousand stars rise in waves!"

The power increased by one-thousandth. Sure enough, the approach was correct. Studying the aspect of time acceleration will inevitably lead to progress.

A year has passed.

Ten years have passed.

A century has passed in the blink of an eye!

In the human realm, far from the initial universe, the One-Horned Ghost King's gaze lingered on the law runes of his innate secret technique.

Those wondrous runes were a gift from the primordial universe, allowing him to easily accelerate time even without fully comprehending it.

This also allows him to use the power of time acceleration, far exceeding that of others.

"Accelerate, accelerate... just one last bit more."

While observing the innate runes bestowed upon him by the primordial universe, the Ghost King's clone continuously used time acceleration.

Five hundred years have passed just like that.

Time speeds up!
The Ghost King's avatar gave a soft shout, and an invisible wave enveloped a falling meteorite in the air. The small rock, no bigger than a palm, transformed into a streak of light under the accelerated passage of time, and crashed into the ground with a deafening roar.

boom! ! !
The stars trembled violently, revealing a massive crater tens of thousands of meters deep. Tsunamis and earthquakes followed in quick succession, and a mass extinction silently unfolded on this uninhabited planet.

"Time acceleration amplified the power of the meteorite's impact by more than a hundredfold..."

A hint of joy flashed in the eyes of the Ghost King's clone.

"As expected, having grasped the insights into the laws of time acceleration, my ability to use time acceleration is now even more powerful!"

The Ghost King's clone looked at the shattered planet beneath his feet, his expression somewhat agitated.

Time acceleration, time stop... He has mastered two of the three major branches of the fundamental law of time. He only needs time deceleration to master all three branches.

If the three branches are merged into one, one can master the complete laws of time and become the Time Master!
I've probably completed half of the path to becoming a Cosmic Venerable... but I have the Beast God Inheritance Token, so perhaps I can break through to the Cosmic Venerable level even faster on the Beast God's Path.

The Beast God Inheritance Token is a precious quota comparable to a supreme treasure. If it weren't for the cashback, even with Grandmaster Qingshan's reputation, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to apply to the clan.

After all, those who have been crowned kings and are invincible are still waiting in line, and many cosmic venerables are still thinking of improving themselves through the Path of the Beast God, and their true selves have not yet shown any talent in the Path of the Beast God.

Even the Lord of Chaos City wouldn't give such a precious spot to him!

"Time acceleration has been completely mastered. I should be able to complete the final step on my side as well."

The Ghost King's clone gazed into the distance, towards the direction of the Chaos City in the primordial universe.

Inside the trial space.

"Time stops!"

"A thousand stars rise in waves!!"

Rumbling--

It looked like only one strike, but in reality, Lu Qingshan swung a thousand strikes. It was just that with the acceleration of time, they were connected into one, making it appear as if only one strike had been made.

After the stab, Lu Qingshan escaped.

Then look at the Gomo behemo.

The Gomo beast let out a miserable cry. Over the past few centuries, it had been tortured countless times, like a living target.

Lu Qingshan's previous attacks had not been able to truly harm it.

But this time is different.

After wave after wave of surging waves, the Gomo behemo's sturdy scales began to break, one by one, golden blood appeared, large pieces of flesh fell off, and finally, with a loud bang, half of the Gomo behemo's massive head collapsed.

Its body could no longer sustain the relentless attacks, and it collapsed to the ground with a thud.

It seemed... a trace of relief could be seen in his golden vertical pupils.

"This virtual universe is incredibly well-simulated; the Gomo behemo looks just like it actually exists."

Lu Qingshan looked at the fallen body of the Gomo Beast and thought in surprise. However, after he dealt with the Gomo Beast, no other opponent appeared.

A wooden figure about two meters tall appeared beside Lu Qingshan. Watching the slowly disappearing figure of the Gomo Beast, he said, "Congratulations, Your Highness Lu Qingshan. Your second move of the Green Mountain Blade Technique has probably reached the peak level of a secret technique."

"Can I be considered successful if I haven't killed a thousand opponents yet?"

Lu Qingshan looked at Wan Mu, who had suddenly appeared, and said with a smile.

"I'd say it's barely acceptable. After all, passing the Gomo test means that it has at least reached the level of a peak secret technique in terms of power. Other details can still be added. However, Your Highness Qingshan, your thousand-year trial period has ended... If you want to continue using it, you'll have to ask your teacher to help you."

"Can't I redeem it with points?"

Lu Qingshan asked.

Wanmu shook his head.

“Points can be exchanged for most treasures and secret techniques, but the Trial Space is different. It needs a Universe Venerable to maintain it in order to operate. Points are not very attractive to a Universe Venerable. So if you want a Venerable to make an exception and complete extra work beyond his regular duties, you need to offer a treasure that even a Venerable desires.”

"Never mind, I'll just go find my teacher."

Lu Qingshan shook his head.

A treasure coveted even by cosmic beings? A treasure point? Forget it!
He himself is still lacking a precious treasure!

Anyway, the teacher has nothing better to do...

(End of this chapter)