Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Virtual universe, Ningxuan Island, inside a villa.

Lin Yan sat on the sofa, clicked on the introduction below the Time Palace, and began to read it carefully.

"I can't believe it!"

After a moment, Lin Yan finally understood why the notification said that this thing was useless.

Treasures like the Time Palace are essentially just cultivation grounds, only with a faster flow of time. However, the input and output of energy resources are completely disproportionate.

Maintaining the Time Palace requires an enormous amount of energy. Generally speaking, the greater the proportion of time flow, the greater the energy required and the more difficult it is to maintain.

This is just as described in the original work.

In order to enable Luo Feng to cultivate in the Beast God Realm, the Mountain-Sitting Guest paid a considerable price by activating a 10,000-fold acceleration.

In the inheritance space of the Broken East River lineage, and even in the small universe of the Giant Axe Founder, maintaining a high rate of time flow also requires a large amount of energy.

According to the information provided, the Time Palace can adjust the time flow rate to three times: 2x, 5x, and 10x.

The energy resources required to operate at twice the time flow rate for one year are worth one hundred Hunyuan units.

Operating at five times the time flow rate for one year would require energy resources worth one thousand Hunyuan units.

Operating at ten times the time flow rate for one year, the energy resources consumed would be worth ten thousand Hunyuan units.

This is simply burning money!!!

Operating at ten times the speed for a year would burn through the assets of an ordinary immortal god, and could bankrupt a four-star client. Operating at ten times the speed for a thousand years would be a price even a marquis-level immortal could not afford.

Even if the operation is accelerated tenfold for a thousand years, the actual time is only ten thousand years. It consumes tens of millions of assets just for an extra 9000 years.

"besides……"

Lin Yan continued reading.

Besides consuming enormous resources, the most crucial point about the Time Palace is that, while it's fine for immortal gods, for those below immortality, the lifespan consumed is calculated based on the time palace's limits.

In other words, if you stay in the Time Palace for a hundred years, your lifespan will be consumed by a hundred years, regardless of how much time has passed outside, your body, your soul...

They will all truly grow old for a hundred years.

For immortal gods, lifespan is not an issue, but for realm lords, lifespan is finite.

No wonder it's considered a chicken rib (meaning something of little value).

Except for some special needs, such as the need to quickly recover from injuries or quickly master a certain secret technique, using the Time Palace is a waste of resources.

Wasting energy, wasting lifespan, wasting wealth.

"purchase!"

Lin Yan still decided to buy it.

Although the Time Palace was extremely costly, time was a more precious resource to him than money. He needed to raise his strength to a sufficient level before the catastrophe.

If he can accelerate his cultivation in the Time Palace, the charging speed of his stone slab will increase several times, and his comprehension of the laws will also increase several times.

As for lifespan—

As a peak Realm Lord, he has enough lifespan to squander.

However, Lin Yan glanced at his account balance and saw that he only had a little over 60,000 Mixed Yuan Units.

This number was already a considerable fortune in the eyes of an immortal, but it wasn't even a fraction of what he needed for his future cultivation.

The Time Palace requires one million Chaos Units; maintaining its operation costs money, and purchasing cultivation resources also costs money.

He needs more money.

"I need to find a way to make money," Lin Yan muttered to himself. Some scenes from the original story involuntarily surfaced in his mind, especially the Locke Divine Water in the hands of the slave owner Pansy.

That's a fortune worth 6.3 billion Hunyuan units!

Six billion!!!

With this fortune, he won't have to worry about money for a long time to come.

Lin Yan had considered this before, but his previous strength wasn't enough to guarantee he could deal with Pan Xi. If she escaped or the news leaked, he would be in trouble.

But now...

Lin Yan stood up and looked out the window at the bustling Ningxuan Island. The streets were crowded with people, and various buildings stood side by side, creating a prosperous scene.

"Fat cat," he said.

"Here!" The fat cat jumped off his shoulder, landed in front of him, looked up at him, its eyes full of excitement.

"Help me investigate, within the territory of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, investigate Pansy... no, investigate the Fire Phoenix Organization."

"clear!"

The fat cat swiped its paws in the air a few times, skillfully paid a query fee, and then a light screen unfolded in front of Lin Yan, displaying a dense array of information.

"The Fire Phoenix Organization consists of eighteen high-ranking members, also known as the eighteen directors of the Fire Phoenix Group. These eighteen directors jointly control the entire Fire Phoenix Group, and every hundred years, one of them is elected as the temporary leader. These eighteen directors are—"

Lin Yan didn't read through them one by one, but went straight to check Pan Xi's information.

"Pansy: Level 3 Realm Lord, born a slave, is the spiritual leader of the Fire Phoenix Group and the recognized boss. He rarely enjoys pleasure and often cultivates in secluded places. He currently resides at the Fire Phoenix Group's headquarters, the 'Bain Asteroid Cluster'."

Even after paying a considerable fee, very little information could be found. The Fire Phoenix Organization did a good job of protecting its intelligence. In the Virtual Universe Company's intelligence database, there were only a few lines of information about Pansy.

From being born a slave with nothing, he has now built such a foundation and become a powerful realm lord, and he is even cultivating in seclusion in a place like an asteroid cluster...

If outsiders were unaware of the reason, they might even appreciate it.

After all, judging from the information on the surface, Pan Xi has perseverance, ambition, and ruthlessness. Apart from being unscrupulous and having no bottom line, he has all the good qualities.

"Pansy, a third-tier Realm Lord, possesses the Snail Flower, a ninth-tier Realm Lord-level plant-assisted life form, and the Iron Vine Grass, also a ninth-tier Realm Lord-level plant..."

Lin Yan turned off the light screen and remained silent for a long time. If he wanted to obtain the Locke Divine Water, which was worth 63 billion Hunyuan units, he had to go to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom in person.

but……

To add another layer of protection, he first needs to improve his own attack methods.

"Mirage of a Thousand Layers..."

Lin Yan immediately focused his attention on the secret technique for controlling this weapon.

Over the past few hundred years, he has not devoted many attempts to analyzing and deducing this secret technique, only about ten times in total, relying mostly on his own comprehension.

While the analysis and deduction of the stone slab are highly effective, each iteration requires the consumption of one unit of energy, and the accumulation of energy takes time.

He devoted most of his energy to "Spirit of the Tides" and "Void Shadow Codex", with "Mirage Thousand Layers" having to take a backseat.

Even so, with the extra time to comprehend and with a deeper understanding of the laws of space, Lin Yan predicted that he would soon be able to master the third form.

The third layer of form...

The Mirage Realm!!!

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