Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Huangyan Star, above the mountains and forests.

Lin Yan hovered in mid-air, his gaze passing through the layers of red tree canopy and landing on the two figures climbing the mountain path.

"That's interesting."

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

The Mirage Realm has a unique characteristic: it can not only create illusions, but also selectively erase memories.

Everything experienced in the illusion will also disappear when the mirage dissipates, but those with strong enough willpower can resist this targeted erasure of memories.

This frail young man, an ordinary person who had never cultivated, actually retained some fragments of memory after disappearing from the Mirage Realm.

Although those memories faded quickly, a trace of bewilderment and a sense of awe for the unknown remained in my subconscious.

This level of willpower is no weaker than that of celestial-level martial artists.

"Whoosh!"

Lin Yan condensed a ball of pale blue world power at his fingertips. The light was soft and warm, almost invisible in the sunlight.

With a gentle flick, the power of the world silently seeped into a rock deep in the mountains.

That was a small stroke of luck.

Although it was of little use to him, it was definitely an important opportunity for an ordinary person who had never cultivated before to embark on the path of cultivation.

If that skinny young man had enough luck...

From that moment on, he was no longer an ordinary mortal, but a cultivator who had embarked on the path of cultivation.

As for how far he can go on the path of cultivation, that depends on his own destiny.

Lin Yan withdrew his gaze and did not linger.

His figure flickered a few times in the void before disappearing outside the atmosphere of Huangyan Star.

……

Bloodfire Organization, Ningxuan Kingdom Branch.

Inside a luxurious hall, a middle-aged man dressed in a dark red robe sat on a large seat, his face ashen.

Domain master level.

He was the head of the Bloodfire Organization's branch in Ningxuan Kingdom, and was considered a prominent figure in this remote star system. However, the news he had just received made him extremely uneasy.

"The Lord of the Realm?"

He muttered to himself.

A complete capture team vanished without a trace, before they could even finish sending out a distress signal.

If it weren't for the last image uploaded by the spaceship's AI from a corner of the screen, he would have thought the team had stumbled into some kind of dead end.

"That's definitely a global projection!"

The middle-aged man felt both fear and anger. His fear was directed at the unknown Realm Lord. Even the headquarters wouldn't dare to easily provoke a Realm Lord, let alone a mere branch.

And anger...

"What's the name of that little family that came to our aid again?" He looked up at his deputy standing to the side.

"The Yilan family."

The deputy replied respectfully, "It's the family that offered up the coordinates of the Blood Basin Grass planet. Their patriarch, Yi Lanyi, just broke through to the first level of Domain Lord and is considered quite powerful in this star field."

"Strength?" The middle-aged man sneered. "A mere first-tier Domain Lord dares to call himself strong?"

He stood up and walked towards the side hall, then suddenly stopped, turned to his deputy, and asked, "After receiving the news, did you verify its authenticity?"

"Confirmed!"

The deputy quickly replied, "That planet was discovered by their first patriarch 6000 years ago. The later Yilan family, fearing disaster due to insufficient strength, never dared to occupy it."

"snort!"

The middle-aged man snorted coldly, "Tell them the information is wrong, and make them pay ten times the amount, no, directly pay them a thousand resource planets."

His voice was cold and ruthless. "This is the consequence of their distorted information. If you can't do it, then exterminate the entire race. We don't need useless dogs."

Realm Lord...

He's someone you can't afford to offend.

But can't we afford to offend that small family?

……

Traveling in the dark universe.

A silver-white spaceship glided silently through the dark universe. Outside the spaceship was an endless ocean of light, with only the occasional flash of starlight proving that other spaceships existed in this ocean.

Inside the spacecraft's command center.

Lin Yan sat cross-legged, with two mirage feathers floating in front of him, one as white as snow and the other as gray as frost, slowly rotating in the void and emitting a faint light.

After the "Feather of Space" mastered the third form, the Feather of Time began to vibrate in unison.

"Buzz—"

At that moment, two beams of light simultaneously seeped from the two mirage feathers, intertwining in the void.

It has a silvery-white hue, pure and fiery, sharp and profound, as if it could cut through any obstacle.

A shade leaning towards silver-gray, dim and hazy, ethereal and illusory, as if visible yet forever untouchable.

The two lights slowly merged in mid-air, like two rivers flowing into the same ocean. The silver-white and silver-gray intertwined, entwined, and permeated each other, forming a slowly rotating sphere of light in the void.

Secret patterns constantly appeared and disappeared on the surface of the light sphere, each pattern containing profound fluctuations of laws.

"call out--"

Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from the sphere of light and pierced straight into the depths of Lin Yan's consciousness.

"Huh?!"

Lin Yan was slightly taken aback.

The secret runes of "Mirage of a Thousand Layers" surfaced deep within his consciousness, and in the next moment, those familiar runes twisted, deformed, and recombined in the light, transforming into a completely new secret technique.

This new secret technique shares the same origin as "Mirage of a Thousand Layers," but its direction is completely different. It's like a towering tree with branches reaching towards the sky and roots firmly gripping the earth.

Its direction.

It is no longer space, but time.

"Fire, time?"

Lin Yan frowned slightly, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.

The superior law of fire is space, but the core of this secret technique is fire and time. Could it also involve the law of fusion?

time……

One of the two supreme laws, alongside space, it is one of the most fundamental and profound primordial laws in the universe.

Because the lower laws governing time are only wind, thunder, and light, the number of immortal deities who comprehend the laws of time in the entire primordial universe is far lower than those who comprehend the laws of space.

Although Lin Yan has gained some understanding of the laws of space, he has no clue about the laws of time.

Without lower-level laws as a springboard, directly comprehending higher-level laws is far more difficult than asking an ordinary person to build a nuclear bomb from scratch.

"No wonder the Wind Scale Realm Master only keeps it as a collection."

Lin Yan thought to himself.

No wonder, if it were truly suitable, why would the Wind Scale Realm Master, a peak Realm Master, be unable to refine it?

Even for Lin Yan now, unless he tries to analyze the stone slab and confront it head-on, he can only watch helplessly.

Moreover, the analysis and deduction of the stone slab requires energy, time, and he needs to cultivate the secret technique to a certain level before he can begin.

He can't even get started, he can't even touch the threshold of the secret techniques, and he's powerless to analyze the stone tablet.

"call--"

Lin Yan calmed himself down and suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind.

His consciousness once again immersed itself in that secret technique, feeling the profound meaning contained within those runes.

The intensity of fire, the passage of time.

……