This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 411 The Immortals' First Entry into the Primitive Universe

"Is preparation finally complete?"

In the void beyond the Milky Way, a colossal beast nearly 1000 kilometers tall, composed entirely of primordial matter, opened its eyes.

"It's time to set off and take them to the world that devours us—"

The beast's voice was deep and resonant.

Even though its entire body was composed of ethereal matter, which was slightly denser than neutron star matter, the behemoth did not collapse directly to form a black hole.

That's because his body is at the Golden Immortal level, and the black hole refined within his body generates an energy layer domain that strengthens his body, causing his material attributes to exceed limits!

The cosmic pressure between primordial matter was increased by thousands of times, and the gravitational effect was weakened by thousands of times, thus allowing it to roam freely in the void.

Since resolving the development war of the last level nine world, Ye Yang's second clone has begun to grow in size.

Half of the matter was swallowed by the black hole, and the other half was used to construct a brand new battle body.

Now, both the black hole it's attached to and this battle body have grown to about 10 times the mass of the sun!

This size was achieved by utilizing the Immortal Alliance's material reserves.

The mass of a black hole at the center of a typical galaxy is only a few million times that of the Sun.

After a period of cultivation—now Ye Yang's second clone, with the power of a black hole energy layer domain with a mass of 10 times that of the sun, can increase its power by a factor of a thousand!

The domain he controls can cover thousands of light-years, which is one percent of the diameter of the Milky Way. Given more time to accumulate mass, he could probably drag the entire Milky Way with him.

At that point, there would be no need for artificial white holes at the galactic center.

As the mass of the black hole he was entrusted with increased, Ye Yang also found that many strange phenomena near the event horizon became easier to observe.

Especially from the perspective of the Golden Immortal, who relies on the material information state above the horizon of events, it cannot be described as "observation" or "perception," but rather as "direct cognition"!

Human consciousness does not live directly in the real world, but rather in a world of images composed of the subconscious, memories, and feelings.

This "image world" receives sensory information from the outside world (such as first-hand information transmitted by the optic nerve and auditory nerve), and then processes it into sensory "instantaneous memory" that appears in the "image world".

Human consciousness exists directly in this world of images, but it is always separated from the real world by a barrier, making it impossible to truly understand the essence of the real world.

Humans cannot directly perceive the existence of light; they can only perceive light through their eyes, and the brain's relevant processing areas will then form visual information from the perceived light, which is then directly perceived by human consciousness.

Therefore, what humans perceive is "visual light" rather than "material light".

But the Golden Immortal was different—the beam of starlight that Ye Yang saw at that time was not a visual sight, but an influx of material information that directly entered Ye Yang's world of consciousness!

When a black hole devours matter, it encodes the information of that matter onto its surface in a special way. The immortal beings residing on the surface of the black hole naturally perceive the existence of this information directly.

As a result, Ye Yang made rapid progress in his understanding of the laws of matter, and his understanding of the laws of spacetime was not much slower. He even made significant progress in the laws of cause and effect, which he had never been particularly good at.

Even with the same level of comprehension, the speed of understanding can vary greatly due to differences in the amount of information observed.

"I'm still in the rapid growth phase of the Golden Immortal stage, but the development of the world-devouring process cannot stop. Reaching the other side of the Milky Way is not far off."

Main world, Boundless Palace Square, Silver Core Star Sector.

More than a thousand high-ranking immortals from the Immortal Alliance have gathered here.

"Everyone, just give me the sealing beads that contain your respective avatars," Ye Yang said, and then quickly collected all the sealing beads from everyone.

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Before ushering in the Era of All Heavens, after the Immortal Alliance opened the projection of the [Gate of All Heavens], their first priority was to make all immortals the dungeon masters. However, there weren't many good dungeons available, so they chose to cultivate a large number of weak cultivators.

Therefore, each of these high-level immortals can create a duplicate avatar.

After collecting all the duplicate avatars, Ye Yang placed them into his level eight world, which he used as a laboratory.

"The Dao has formulated ten fundamental laws for devouring the world, and then I've added my understanding of the laws governing the operation of the primordial universe—this environment should be very close to the primordial universe, right?"

Ye Yang first needs to let these immortal clones get used to it.

After stabilizing their physical existence in the simulated environment he created, more than a thousand people used the [Swallowing the Stars - Homo sapiens of Earth] life blueprint provided by Ye Yang to transform their life genes into those that devour the local human race of the world.

The soul state has also been adjusted —

With everything prepared, Ye Yang gathered everyone together and extracted them into a sealing bead.

Next, we will take them to the Devouring World.

Devouring the world, the primordial universe.

On an inconspicuous life-bearing planet in the Cuilang Starfield of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.

Ye Yang sat cross-legged on the edge of the cliff, gazing at the endless sea of ​​trees in front of him.

"Aside from the fact that the appearances of the Immortal Alliance cultivators in some of the dungeon worlds are different, most of the Immortal Alliance cultivators look just like Earthlings. It's not impossible to disguise and change one's appearance, but there's no need for it. Earthlings are already all over the Qianwu Universe Kingdom."

"However, if so many Earthling geniuses suddenly appeared before I became the master of the universe, I wouldn't be able to handle them."

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With a sigh, he turned around and pointed to the clearing at the edge of the cliff in front of him.

Through the Gate of the Heavens, Ye Yang released over a thousand people into this place.

Is this the place?

The leader, Haotian Venerable's avatar, scanned the surroundings with a sense of novelty.

However, in order to adapt to their weak bodies that had been downgraded to planetary level, they had sealed off most of their souls, consciousness, will, and memories, making it impossible for their consciousness to fully descend.

Therefore, it is impossible to perceive the rigor and perfection of this world's legal system.

"Everyone, I will now take you to the Qianwu Secret Realm. I have already fabricated your identities. You are all ninth-tier Earth humans, each living alone after your elders have passed away."

"Everyone has already learned the basics of this world before we came here, so I won't go into detail. You can choose your own paths as martial artists or spiritual practitioners."

"You will now become cultivation prodigies of the Dry Witch Secret Realm," and receive the relevant training. There is a virtual universe here, but we won't use that connection; instead, we'll use these tokens—"

Ye Yang distributed a batch of network terminals made of trace amounts of weak boundary materials.

These are tokens that can connect to his secondary network server, and can even achieve cross-world communication. Communication within the Devouring World is naturally a piece of cake.

"I hope that within two eras of this world, that is, within 20,000 years, we will see everyone's faces appear at the highest meeting of the human race."

Ye Yang knew, of course, that it would be quite good if more than 20 of the immortals present could become Universe Venerables within two eras.

After all, the cultivation system that devours worlds is special; one must comprehend the laws of time or space to become a Venerable.

Even if the immortals in the main world who have achieved the status of True Monarch have reached the required level in terms of realm and will, their divine bodies cannot be transformed if they do not fully comprehend time or space.

At most, they will become a group of extremely powerful and invincible kings.

Ultimately, it would be quite good if a quarter of them could become Universal Masters.

Even so, two or three hundred Cosmic Venerables will form a very powerful force within the human race!

As for Haotian Venerable and the others, Ye Yang wasn't too worried about them.

As long as one can advance to the Golden Immortal realm, and their Great Dao and divine soul are entrusted to the black hole's field of vision, their understanding of [spacetime] will rapidly improve as the black hole's mass increases.

In devouring worlds, it will also greatly benefit the laws of time and space. Perhaps in several decades, Ye Yang's faction will be able to add two or three more universe lords.

"A signal covering a virtual universe spanning trillions of light-years of space—is this even possible? What's the underlying principle?"

On the spaceship carrying the genius, the Heavenly Venerable Haotian was studying the virtual universe, repeatedly entering and exiting, but he could not understand its principles.

Meanwhile, on another spaceship, Gouchen Tianzun was experiencing a killing field in a virtual universe—

The Savior of Suffering is studying the mysteries of this planetary-level body —

The Supreme Celestial Venerable was using this body, which possessed ordinary legal aptitude, to diligently sense the fluctuations of the fundamental laws of the universe.

One after another, the great immortals were experiencing this new world in their planetary-level forms.

Genetic energy, spiritual power, life leap, cosmic energy, fluctuations of fundamental laws —

They quickly figured out everything new and interesting, and summarized the patterns.

Using the tokens distributed by Ye Yang, they chatted enthusiastically on the discussion platform set up on the "secondary network".

Soon, on that very day, the Savior of Suffering became the first to break through to the Eternal Star level!

The Supreme Celestial Venerable was the first to cross the threshold of the Earth Origin Law, which devours the world!

Subsequently, these "human geniuses" from various star systems began to upgrade at an astonishing rate, changing every single day.

A month later, the geniuses who had been nurtured in the Qianwu Secret Realm were shocked to find that their rankings in the secret realm had suddenly dropped by more than a thousand places!

He was originally number one, but now he's outside the top 1000.

Within a thousand — they're all Earthlings!

"Actually—I have been secretly cultivating a group of Earthling geniuses for a long time. They are all guided by a group of my subordinates who have been granted titles and privileges, so it is normal for them to behave like this."

Ye Yang had anticipated this, and he summoned the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom to explain: "Regarding resources, I will allocate ten times more resources to the Qianwu Secret Realm. You should average out the resource rewards for those ranked 10th to 1200th, ensuring the difference doesn't exceed 200%."

Bar."

"This situation won't last long. They'll all probably advance to the Realm Lord level within a thousand years, and then they'll all be thrown into the extraterritorial battlefield for trials."

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom already knew Ye Yang's identity as the Lord of the Universe and had now completely submitted to him, so naturally he had no objections and did as Ye Yang said.

Only a group of geniuses who were originally trained in the Qianwu Secret Realm were very dissatisfied.

"Why? Are all the people in the top 1000 humanoids?"

"We would accept the rumored Minghong three clans, but why should these ordinary Earth bloodlines be allowed to do this?"

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"I am the most outstanding member of the Qianwu royal family in this generation, yet I can't even rank 1200th —"

The cultivation of geniuses in the Qianwu Secret Realm is also divided into many levels. However, after the Qianwu Universe Kingdom was selected as a pilot site for the cultivation system, the previous rules were broken.

Everything has been changed to a points-based ranking system, with rankings refreshed periodically based on points, and resources allocated accordingly.

It is divided into four rankings: Planetary & Constant Star Ranking, Universe-level Ranking, Domain Lord-level Ranking, and World Lord-level Ranking.

Geniuses can choose between two training directions: comprehending the laws and comprehending the great Dao. The two directions have different scoring standards.

In addition, there is a challenge mechanism: winning grants you 30% of the opponent's points, while losing results in losing 40% of your own. The player with the higher score cannot refuse a challenge from the player with the lower score.

Therefore, the competition is still very fierce, especially after Ye Yang devoted a lot of training resources to it.

Now, more than a thousand "monsters" from Earth have suddenly barged in, wiping out all the points of the geniuses on the original ranking list and kicking them all out of the top thousand. How could those geniuses who were kicked out not be full of resentment?

Even though a master of the universe was giving them preferential treatment in terms of resources, allowing them to receive two or three times the resources they had previously received despite their extremely low ranking, these geniuses were still very dissatisfied.

But what can you do if you're still dissatisfied?

Those immortals, whose lowest level was barely comparable to True Monarchs, could easily fight across a major level, and with a little comprehension, they could cross the threshold of the laws, making their strength even more terrifying.

They can't beat the challenges, and they can't compete in accumulating points. The voices of these planetary and celestial level little guys are simply ignored by those above.

We can only endure it.

Meanwhile, the cosmic-level geniuses felt immense pressure and were all trying to acquire more resources during this period.

Once those "monsters" from Earth break through to the cosmic level, their good days will be over. At that time, they can only break through to the domain lord level and compete with those predecessors.

On the communication platform set up by Ye Yang, a group of top experts from the Immortal Alliance gathered together.

"Experiencing cultivation from the bottom up is indeed a very different experience."

Haotian Tianzun smiled and said.

After two or three years of adaptation, these dozen or so Celestial Venerables and Quasi-Celestial Venerables have figured out the cultivation path of devouring worlds, and many of them have already broken through to the cosmic level.

There was even a quasi-celestial being who specialized in water magic and received recognition from the fundamental laws of water!

Although his secret technique level was not high enough, he was still suppressed and beaten by the five Heavenly Venerables.

"I tried to comprehend the time and space of this world. Although I didn't do much, I got a glimpse of the whole picture. The rigor of the laws in this world is indeed extraordinary. However, unlike the main world, the laws in this world feel more like leveling up and clearing levels." The Celestial Venerable of Chasing Light was also in the discussion.

For them, this new and vast world was incredibly novel and worth exploring.

However, they entered this world to help Ye Yang harvest destiny points, change the plot trajectory, and suppress the backlash of destiny.

Entering the Qianwu Secret Realm as an Earthling genius was merely to obtain a legitimate identity, adapt to this world, and regain combat power commensurate with his own level.

During this period, as firsthand participants, they also had to provide Ye Yang with suggestions for reforming the cultivation system to cultivate geniuses.

In particular, Haotian Tianzun and several others are extremely experienced in governance, and the plan they devised for Ye Yang to pilot the reform of the cultivation system in the three universe kingdoms is quite suitable.

"It will probably take some time before their strength recovers to a level where they can help me."

Sitting to the side, watching the illusory figures converse, Ye Yang thought to himself, "I should make some arrangements in the Primordial Universe and the Cosmic Sea during this time to change the trajectory of my future destiny."

"This time, I can't let the Giant Axe Founder die so easily."

In a vast expanse of space, infinitely far from the borders of humankind—

A colossal star hidden against the backdrop of starlight is approaching the cosmic secret realm ahead.

Yuan Mysterious Realm!