The Nine Secrets of Swallowing the Stars Combined

"Currently, our Primordial Secret Realm has a total of 110 registered princes, including 3 at the Universe level, 10 at the Domain Lord level, and the remaining 97 at the World Lord level. Naturally, Your Highness is included among these 97." Aytor introduced to Ba Qi while flying through the air. "The number of World Lords in our Primordial Secret Realm has always been strictly controlled within one hundred, and it has never exceeded the limit."

Ba Qi nodded slightly upon hearing this; he was already very familiar with these rules.

"Each manor below is equipped with its own resident personnel—an immortal mentor responsible for guiding cultivation, plus an immortal deity dedicated to protecting Your Highness's safety," Aytor continued. "Your Highness should also be able to sense that the aura emanating from these manors along the way belongs to immortal beings."

Ba Qi nodded slightly. Along the way, he had already sensed dozens of immortal auras of varying strengths, which were contained within each manor.

"As the Lord of the Primal Realm, you will naturally be equipped with your own Immortal Mentor and Guards," Aytor added with a smile. "According to the rules, Your Highness chooses and apprentices your Immortal Mentors, while your Immortal Guards are directly assigned by the clan's higher-ups. However, the information I have received so far indicates that Your Highness's guards have not yet been finalized. I suppose the higher-ups have other considerations, so Your Highness need not worry about it."

Upon hearing this, Ba Qi remained unmoved.

Given his current progress in comprehending the Law of Metal, breaking through to immortality is only a matter of a hundred years. At that time, he will unlock the second level of the Nine Secrets and give birth to a second clone, whose combat power will far exceed that of ordinary immortals. This so-called immortal guardian is of no significance to him.

Moreover, once one steps into the Immortal Realm, one will automatically exit the Primal Secret Realm, and will no longer be eligible to enjoy these exclusive privileges.

A moment later, the two figures slowly came to a stop.

"Your Highness, we have arrived," Etor said.

Upon hearing this, Ba Qi turned his gaze downwards.

A vast and magnificent manor stood silently. At the entrance, a diverse group of people from all races of humanity stood waiting, holding their breath in anticipation.

As Aitor and Baqi slowly descended, everyone in the square immediately knelt down, their expressions extremely respectful, and shouted in unison, "Greetings, Your Highness!"

"Your Highness, the thousand warriors kneeling in front are your personal guards, and the nearly ten thousand behind are servants responsible for managing the daily affairs of the manor." Aytor first pointed to the warriors at the front of the line, who were wearing uniform black armor, and then gestured to the crowd behind them.

"Your Highness! I am Keping, the deputy captain of your guard!" At the front of the group, a man with a single horn on his head, covered in fine gray hair, and bearing the mark of the primordial law between his brows, knelt on one knee, looked up at Ba Qi, and spoke with utmost respect.

Ba Qi glanced at him and nodded slightly.

"Since the selection of the captain of the guard has not yet been finalized, he will be in charge of His Highness's guard affairs for the time being," Etholl explained from the side.

After explaining everything, Ettor bowed and took his leave, while Baqi, led by Vice Captain Keping, stepped into his own manor and familiarized himself with the rules and layout of each place.

……

Inside the study of the villa at the heart of the estate.

Ba Qi sat on the sofa, twirling a crystal glass filled with crimson wine between his fingers, and instructed the intelligent computer: "Dika, retrieve all relevant information about the Primal Secret Realm Master, including details of all permissions and benefits."

"brush!"

A palm-sized, golden miniature lizard instantly leaped out of the personal terminal, hovering in mid-air, its voice cheerful and loud: "No problem, Master! I'll get it ready for you right away!"

……

While Ba Qi was familiarizing himself with the identities of the core members of the Primal Secret Realm one by one in the virtual universe.

Deep beneath the ruins of the ancient gods in the Blood Luo World.

A blurry human figure was silently walking through the air, its form sometimes solid and sometimes illusory, as if it had completely merged with the surrounding void.

He seemed to walk slowly, but with each step he took, his figure would instantly merge into the turbulent flow of time and space, and when he reappeared, he was already thousands of kilometers away.

Even more astonishingly, wherever his figure passed, the surrounding void would spontaneously distort, forming a completely independent spacetime. The terrifying baleful aura in the ruins of the ancient gods, powerful enough to tear apart a realm lord, would be violently reversed as soon as it approached, unable to touch him in the slightest.

"This is it."

A moment later, the blurry figure stopped and stood silently in the void.

"rise."

As a calm self-talk fell, the void within a radius of thousands of kilometers trembled violently, centered on him.

Then, a shocking scene unfolded: time in this area began to flow backwards, everything around was tracing back to the past, and images that had long since vanished into the past appeared and froze in the void one after another.

Soon, a blood-red palace quietly appeared in the previously empty void. Then, figures who had once stayed here flashed by one after another, all of them human powerhouses who had set foot here in the past.

Finally, the flowing image suddenly froze, showing a burly human man standing quietly before the throne inside the hall.

"I've found you."

In the void, the blurry figure, seemingly independent of the river of time, suddenly shot out two dazzling beams of light from its eyes, piercing straight into the frozen past.

If Ba Qi were here right now, he would be utterly shocked—this figure frozen in time is none other than himself.

"Buzz!"

In the deep hum of time and space, the river of time continues to flow backward, the images flashing rapidly, tracing back to a more distant past.

"stop."

As the words fell softly, the frantically rewinding time and space suddenly froze.

At this moment, in the scene in the void, the young Ba Qi stood quietly, holding a crystal-clear Blood Crystal that shimmered with a crimson aura in his hand.

"Buzz!"

Another tremor of spacetime, the stagnant time no longer flows backward, but instead flows swiftly along the trajectory of the years towards the present timeline.

The past scenes were completely recreated in the void: one could clearly see that the Blood Crystals in Ba Qi's hands appeared one after another, all of them merging into his body, until they were fused to the perfect limit of the Blood Crystals.

Finally, the flowing time returned to its original place, perfectly aligning with the current timeline, and the surrounding void returned to peace.

The blurry figure that had stirred the river of time still stood silently in the void.

"He actually fused the Blood Crystal to its perfect limit in one go..."

"Incredible."

The blurry figure muttered to himself, his tone carrying a hint of barely perceptible surprise, and the surrounding space and time seemed to ripple with his emotions.

"rise."

As soon as the words were spoken, the river of time began to flow backward again, this time at an even faster pace, rushing straight back to the years thousands of years ago.

A moment later, the turbulent spacetime completely subsided, and everything returned to normal.