Swallowing the Stars, Hu Yanbo's Pre-Godhood

With a thought, Huiguang Hou took out a multifaceted crystal, about half the height of a person, with a dark silver color, from her world ring.

The crystal floated silently in mid-air, its shape composed of countless facets of varying sizes and sharp angles, resembling a giant diamond that had been naturally sculpted.

Looking at the crystal, which had nothing extraordinary about it except for its peculiar shape, Marquis Panshi's eyes revealed a hint of doubt.

Even Hu Yanbo, with his advanced perception as a king, could not detect any abnormal energy reaction on the surface of the crystal.

"Is this it?" Marquis Pan Shi couldn't help but ask, his tone filled with confusion. "It seems... to have nothing special about it?"

Hui Guanghou turned his gaze to Huyan Bo: "Huyan Bo, you can use your divine power to penetrate its interior, and you'll find out!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Yanbo separated a wisp of immortal divine power and infiltrated it.

"Buzz!!!"

A sudden change has occurred!

The previously silent, dark silver crystal suddenly trembled violently!

Sizzle—!

In an instant, visible spatial ripples, centered on the crystal, surged violently within a radius of several kilometers, like a boiling tide, with countless tiny silver-gray spatial cracks appearing and disappearing unpredictably!

"Hiss hiss hiss~~~"

Amidst this bizarre phenomenon of violent spatial distortion and numerous cracks, countless densely packed and extremely complex mysterious characters suddenly began to emerge on the smooth cut surfaces of the dark silver crystal!

Hu Yanbo's gaze was instantly drawn to the text. His pupils contracted as he focused all his energy on memorizing and analyzing the composition of the patterns, trying to understand their meaning.

However, even with his high level of cultivation as a king and his profound understanding of the laws of space, he was completely unable to decipher any meaning of these words!

"What...what kind of writing is this?" Marquis Panshi was even more dazzled by it.

Huiguang Hou also shook her head blankly. She had only caused the crystal to change when she tried to penetrate it with divine power.

Her intuition told her that this object was no ordinary item and was likely the reason she was being hunted down, which is why she took it out.

But Hu Yanbo only frowned slightly for a moment before regaining his composure.

"No problem. With the virtual universe at my disposal, it's not difficult for me to search and translate this unknown script with my current permissions."

For ordinary people to achieve immortality through bestowing titles of kingship, they might only be able to access publicly available intelligence databases within human communities.

However, Hu Yanbo is the personal disciple of Yuan Huang, the fourth-ranking figure in the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance!

The virtual universe permissions granted to him by this identity far exceed those of an ordinary king!

Even peripheral information about the most mysterious and ancient force in the universe—the Ancestral God Cult—can be accessed!

Not to mention a certain script!

With a thought, Hu Yanbo scanned and recorded the mysterious text he had captured, and at the same time sent a request to the virtual universe system for "Unknown Text Translation Search".

The virtual universe system connects almost all the databases of the human race and even its vast network of allies, making it extremely efficient for retrieving information in an unknown script.

"Buzz!"

Almost the instant the search request was sent, a clear translation into a common human language and a detailed explanation quickly appeared in Hu Yanbo's mind:

This is the inheritance crystal of the Sky-Splitting God Envoy. Any World Lord-level being with a soul can receive the complete inheritance of the Sky-Splitting God Envoy.

"After receiving the inheritance, you can begin to cultivate the 'Secret Technique of the Sky-Splitting Divine Envoy'."

"After mastering the entire secret technique to perfection, one becomes a candidate for Divine Envoy. A candidate for Divine Envoy can then fuse this inheritance crystal into their body. If successful... they can become the new 'Sky-Splitting Divine Envoy'."

"In the vast universe, there is only one Sky-Splitting God Envoy."

"If the current Sky Rift God Envoy is in office, other inheritors who have completed their cultivation can only become 'Sky Rift God Envoy Candidates'. Only when the current Sky Rift God Envoy perishes will a new 'Sky Rift God Envoy' emerge from among the Sky Rift God Envoy Candidates."

"The Inheritance Crystal can be passed on once every 10081 epochs. The last inheritance of this Inheritance Crystal was 10061 epochs ago, and it will take about 20 more epochs... before the next inheritance can take place."

Hu Yanbo's consciousness quickly scanned through this information, and a huge wave of emotions surged in his heart!

Divine Messenger Inheritance Crystal!

It's this thing!

"I retract my previous statement!" Hu Yanbo mentally refuted his previous careless thoughts in the most severe way.

What do you mean by "it doesn't matter whether there are treasures or not"? What do you mean by "the so-called treasures produced in ordinary universe secret realms that can make even a newly ascended King-level Immortal envious fight over them are probably not of much use to me"?

These ideas are completely wrong!

That's completely wrong!

Even the treasures that early-stage immortals vie for can make even stronger individuals envious!

In ordinary divine messenger inheritance, perhaps only one successor can be cultivated every long period of time. Although precious, they are not unique.

The 'Sky Rift Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal' before us represents the key to the only Sky Rift Divine Envoy in the universe!

More importantly…

An even more astonishing thought flashed through Hu Yanbo's mind like lightning, making him gasp for breath!

He suddenly remembered that in the original story, the Lord of Chaos City gave Luo Feng's Dream Light Envoy two choices.

One option is to exchange it for a chance to inherit the divine general's legacy!

"If I could tell my teacher about this 'Sky-Splitting Divine Envoy's Legacy Crystal'..."

Hu Yanbo's heart suddenly raced, and his blood seemed to be boiling!

"With Master Yuanhuang's status in the Hong Alliance, he must have the means and the ability to secure a suitable opportunity for me to inherit the 'Divine General's Legacy'!"

This possibility instantly made Hu Yanbo's mind incredibly clear and intense!

Accepting a "Divine General's Inheritance" once can save him one future opportunity to receive it!

This is far better than having to painstakingly repay the debt after trying to use an amplitude-enhancing secret technique to break through the King-level limit!

The repayment conditions for advance payments are not always as easy to meet as they were before.

In this case, to repay the debt for the title of King, one has to dance on the edge of a knife.

It can reduce one life-or-death adventure and greatly increase one's strength!

If one could exchange this inheritance crystal for a safer and potentially more effective inheritance opportunity, it would undoubtedly be a win-win situation!

It should be understood that powerful individuals who have been granted the title of King are normally categorized into three levels: Initial King, Advanced King, and Peak King.

Only a select few who possess secret techniques of physical or spiritual amplitude, or who create their own pinnacle secret techniques, or who have encountered special circumstances, can unleash the ultimate combat power of a king.

Above that!

A combination of numerous extraordinary encounters and one's own abilities is what allows one to become a King comparable to an ordinary Universe Venerable, such as the True King Yan.

Therefore, every powerful individual who reaches the limit of becoming a king has gone to great lengths.

He had this opportunity simply because he saved an old friend.

This trip truly achieved three goals at once!