Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 219 The Gaze from the Endless Chaotic Space, the Spirit of Order and Chaos

The eighth floor of Wuqi Tower.

This is a small landmass suspended in the void. The land is barren, devoid of any life or debris.

However, countless complex and ancient characters emerged in the void.

call out!

A thick beam of light descended from the sky, revealing the figures of Shen Mu and Luo Feng.

"This is the place where the 'Lieyuan Technique' was passed down. It doesn't seem to be anything special."

Luo Feng looked around, his gaze finally settling on Shen Mu: "Senior brother, you seem to know something about the Lieyuan Technique. Could this Lieyuan Technique be the highest inheritance left by our teacher?"

Shen Mu shook his head slightly: "If it were merely the highest inheritance left by our teacher, how could he have regarded it as a hope for revenge?"

Not long ago, the virtual projection of the God King of Jin had told Shen Mu and Luo Feng all about the grudges between the Jin Kingdom, the Shi Kingdom, and himself from his previous life.

He even stated that the Lieyuan Technique was his hope for revenge, and that he trained disciples in the hope that one of them would inherit the Lieyuan Technique in the future.

Shen Mu explained, "This Lieyuan Technique is a secret technique left behind by 'Yuan,' and it is said to be the ultimate expression of willpower."

"You, as the inheritor of the Duan Donghe lineage, should know who Yuan is."

"Throughout history, countless prodigies of the Origin Continent have never obtained the Lieyuan Technique, including monsters who possessed the will of an eternal true god at the level of the Lord of the Universe."

"Moreover, even those old monsters who have been reincarnated are the same. In the inheritance of my Void Extreme Sect, there is a record that an invincible person on the Origin Continent was reincarnated and cultivated again in order to master the Lieyuan Technique."

"The will of that invincible being was said to have surpassed the level of a god-king at its peak. After reincarnation and cultivation, it even possessed the will of a saint at the level of a cosmic lord."

"Of course... as you've seen the final result, the legacy of the Lieyuan Technique still exists, but no one has truly inherited it."

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng clicked his tongue in astonishment.

Then Luo Feng shook his head: "I don't think I can do it either. Even the Lord of the Universe, who possesses the will to be called a Saint, can't do it. We're probably even further behind."

As Shen Mu and the other person were talking, the countless characters floating in the void also changed.

The strokes of all the characters begin to intertwine and connect, ultimately forming a picture scroll containing a huge amount of information.

Both Shen Mu and Luo Feng were immediately drawn into the world depicted in the painting the moment they saw it.

The world depicted in this painting felt to Shen Mu as if it were a 'virtual universe network'.

"Tsk, I'm starting to feel more and more that the Primal's virtual universe is not simple."

Regardless of the circumstances, the progenitor's talent was already extraordinary. The virtual universe covering the entire primordial universe, no matter how it was achieved, was an incredible accomplishment.

Although Shen Mu can now create illusions that cover the entire primordial universe, it is only because the will of the primordial universe actively cooperates with him, allowing his illusions to reflect the entire primordial universe through the origin of the universe.

Within the world of the painting, there is an endless, majestic mountain range.

The mountain range seemed endless; even with Shen Mu's willpower, he could not perceive its end.

At the highest peak of the mountain range, shrouded in endless clouds and mist, one can vaguely see a magnificent palace flowing with crystalline purple light.

"Senior brother, that palace should be the place where the Lieyuan Technique is passed down. Let's go there."

"it is good."

The moment Shen Mu and his companion made their decision, their figures were instantly transported to the interior of the palace by an invisible force.

This is an extremely magnificent and splendid ancient palace.

Around the hall stand towering jade pillars, each carved with endless mysterious images. Without exception, these images exude a powerful pressure emanating from the realm of will, containing boundless mysteries.

Shen Mu's eyes shone brightly, his will was focused, and he tried to observe these scenes, but he was blocked by an invisible force.

The images were all extremely blurry, like looking at flowers through fog or the moon reflected in water—completely indistinct.

Boom!

A tremendous roar resounded, followed by an endless surge of purple divine light that coalesced into a strange beast covered in black dragon scales, resembling a lion or tiger, with a single purple, curved horn on its head.

The beast's eyes gleamed with a majestic purple light, and with every move it made, the entire ancient hall trembled.

"I am the spirit of secret arts. You must all be exceptionally talented individuals to have been granted permission by the God King of Jin to enter this place."

"Therefore, he is qualified to cultivate the secret technique of attracting and drawing in."

The purple beast adopted a perfunctory attitude, completely disregarding Shen Mu and Luo Feng's reactions, and directly spewed out four dazzling purple beams of light.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

With four booming sounds, the four beams of purple light struck the four walls of the main hall.

In an instant, a huge scroll appeared on each of the four walls, the scrolls cascading down like waterfalls, revealing countless naturally formed characters on them.

Among them, neither Shen Mu nor Luo Feng could see the text in the first scroll. This first scroll was the so-called Na Yin Secret Technique.

"The cultivation requirements for this Navigation Technique are extremely high." The purple-horned beast looked down at Shen Mu and Luo Feng with an arrogant expression.

"Since the creation of the secret technique by the autonomous humans, countless geniuses from the source worlds, as numerous as the sands of the Eternal River, have attempted to cultivate it, but none have succeeded."

Clearly, Shen Mu was still being conservative.

The original text only stated that no one on the Origin Continent could master the "Lieyuan Technique".

Little did people know that Yuan was an existence beyond the confines of the cage. His figure was present in the source worlds where countless cultivators existed, leaving behind the inheritance of the Lieyuan Technique.

Unfortunately, over the long years, no one has been able to master this technique of celestial rebirth.

"The Secret Technique of Attracting and Drawing In has three stages."

"Failure in the first phase will not pose any danger."

"Failure in the second stage of cultivation will very likely result in death."

"If you fail in the third stage of cultivation, your soul will surely dissipate and you will die. You must not be careless."

After saying that, the purple-horned beast immediately dozed off, not believing that Shen Mu and the other person could succeed in their cultivation.

Shen Mu and Luo Feng ignored him, their eyes fixed on the Na Yin Secret Technique in the first picture, trying to cultivate it.

The first stage of this Na Yin Secret Technique is incredibly simple; it is merely the fusion of will and divine body.

This is actually the foundation of all willpower techniques. Willpower itself is an ethereal thing, a manifestation of the power of the mind.

Under normal circumstances, when a strong person dies, their will naturally collapses as well.

Only those who have mastered the secret art of willpower and integrated their willpower into their divine body can unleash the Willpower Impact.

Only after such a powerful being dies will the impact of their will remain in their blood, hair, and other remains.

After Shen Mu copied the Mind Thunder Secret Technique talent of the 'Thunder Beast God', his divine body and soul underwent some kind of modification, and his will was perfectly integrated into himself.

Even if one were to cultivate the first stage of this Nascent Soul Secret Technique now, it would only make the fusion of will and divine body more perfect.

After all, in terms of willpower secret arts, even the most basic willpower fusion with the divine body, the Lieyuan Technique is the strongest and can lay the most solid foundation.

Shen Mu already possessed the ability to impact willpower, so the first stage of cultivating the Absorption and Guidance Secret Technique was simply to fill in the gaps and make his use of willpower more perfect.

On the contrary, Luo Feng caused quite a stir during his cultivation.

Whether it was the Netherworld Avatar, the Earthling Main Body, or the Demon Slayer Avatar, they all entered a state of seclusion during this process, unconsciously and instinctively releasing their will-based impacts, causing countless people to fall into a coma.

Fortunately, the Lord of Chaos City and the others were experienced. Shen Mu had caused a similar commotion before, so they were quite adept at handling it.

People migrated and moved around as they pleased, without causing any unrest.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Mu slowly opened his eyes.

"As expected of the Lieyuan Technique, the mere fusion of will and divine body is so vastly different from other will-based secret techniques."

Shen Mu clearly noticed the difference in himself.

Now, his will and divine body are more perfectly integrated. If he needed to concentrate his will to unleash a will strike before, now he can do it with just a thought.

Of course, actively gathering one's own will and unleashing the power of willpower impact is naturally greater.

"Of course. My master is a figure of immense stature. The secret techniques he created are far beyond what your mere God-King secret techniques from the Origin Continent can compare to."

"The difference is like heaven and earth, don't you understand?"

Upon hearing Shen Mu exclaim "Yuan," the purple-horned beast that had been dozing nearby suddenly became interested and enthusiastically explained the greatness of Yuan to Shen Mu.

Upon hearing this, Shen Mu quickly asked, "Senior Beast, could you tell me about Senior Yuan's deeds?"

The purple-horned beast's expression froze instantly. How could it know about Yuan's deeds? From the moment it was born, it had been thrown onto the Origin Continent by Yuan.

"You brat, hurry up and practice the Absorption and Attraction Technique!"

The purple-horned beast, somewhat annoyed, threatened, "Be careful not to be overtaken by your junior brother."

Shen Mu shook his head and laughed upon hearing this, then ignored him and focused his gaze on the second stage of the Nascent Soul Technique.

"The second stage involves modifying the soul to make it more suitable for the Elemental Arts."

"As expected... whether one can master the Lieyuan Technique depends on whether one can complete the transformation of the soul."

"If it's a natural fit, the transformation can be completed; if it's not, there's nothing that can be done."

With a thought, Shen Mu began to draw secret patterns deep within his soul, following the second stage of the Nascent Soul Technique.

Although these runes are complex and vast, they are still incredibly simple compared to the rune diagrams of true god-level secret techniques.

The greatest form is formless, the greatest skill is effortless; this is the essence of it all.

In a short while, intricate secret runes spread throughout Shen Mu's soul.

The moment the secret pattern took shape, a special power arose, like countless steel needles, and merged into Shen Mu's soul.

Waves of terrifying, excruciating pain swept over Shen Mu.

However, Shen Mu was able to easily endure this pain.

With Shen Mu's current mental state, even if he were in so much pain that his soul collapsed, he wouldn't show the slightest unusual expression.

"Not only my soul, but also the imprint of my life is undergoing subtle changes."

As the transformation deepened, Shen Mu's soul and life imprint began to show signs of collapse.

The purple-horned beast that had been watching Shen Mu closely shook its head helplessly.

"What a pity, another failure."

"This kid is quite extraordinary. He's only at the level of a Law Master, yet he has such a high level of mastery of the fundamental Dao."

"Aside from those ancient reincarnations, this kid should have the highest level of comprehension among universe masters... Alas, what a pity."

After uttering a few words of reflection, the purple-horned beast looked up with a complex expression, gazing into the endless void.

"Master...is there truly anyone who can inherit your secret technique?"

A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye, and Luo Feng, who was standing to the side, also successfully entered the second stage.

"What a pity, both of them are about to have their souls disintegrate."

"This kid named Shen Mu has at least held on for this long; this Luo Feng is just too..."

Before the purple-horned beast could finish speaking, Luo Feng's soul suddenly underwent some unknown change and abruptly stabilized.

"This...the soul has undergone a transformation?"

The purple-horned beast immediately held its breath, afraid of disturbing the two.

As time passed, Shen Mu's soul finally began to disintegrate, with strands of pure soul energy escaping, threatening to collapse completely at any moment.

"Shen Mu's will is truly strong. Even in the face of such excruciating pain, he was able to actively control his soul to reassemble."

"It's a pity. No matter how strong your will is, your soul can't withstand the transformation. This is beyond your control."

As time passed, Shen Mu continued to slowly break down, but Luo Feng was once again on the verge of his limit.

Just as Luo Feng's soul was about to collapse, it underwent another unknown change and stabilized once again.

This strange situation startled the purple-horned beast beside him, which jumped up and stared at Luo Feng in disbelief.

"This kid... could he really be going to succeed?"

Luo Feng had already surpassed Shen Mu in the progress of soul and life imprint transformation.

If Luo Feng can undergo another soul transformation, there is a high chance he will succeed!

The purple-horned beast carefully guarded Luo Feng and Shen Mu, waiting for the passage of time.

Not many years later, Shen Mu finally opened his eyes and sighed helplessly, "It really still won't work."

As they spoke, Shen Mu completely broke down.

As the soul was completely annihilated, a ray of light emerged.

This was an indescribable, strange light; its color was beyond description.

Because all colors pale and insignificant in the face of this light, it seems to transcend everything.

"Order, reshaped!"

Ancient syllables resonate in the gaps of time.

The syllable is so complex that no living being can hear its own sound waves; all they hear is a harsh roar.

Even the roaring sound conveys a meaning that is understood to be "reshaping order".

A moment later, the light condensed into a strange cube, emitting a faint glow that pierced through all rules and restrictions, directly causing Shen Mu's soul to reform.

This unexpected turn of events stunned the purple-horned beast standing nearby.

"What kind of life-saving technique is this? It allows the soul to reassemble after it has collapsed?"

In the cosmic sea, as the soul essence of the Flame God Clan clone collapsed, the Earthling main body, the Azure Dragon clone, and other clones all noticed it.

Before Shen Mu could react, the collapsed soul essence reappeared.

This was the first time Shen Mu had encountered such a situation.

Moreover, Shen Mu knew very well that he absolutely did not have the ability to reassemble a broken soul unless he used a method such as "reversing time and space".

……

Within the world of the painting, Shen Mu looked at the strange cube in front of him.

Shen Mu could sense that this strange cube was nothing other than the embodiment of his own life imprint, a part of himself.

"This is... my cheat code?"

Shen Mu could sense that the ability to replicate and plunder the talents of other life forms came from this strange cube, from the very foundation of his own life.

Just as Shen Mu was trying to explore the Shen Mu Square, above the Endless Origin World.

This is a strange plane, also known as the Eternal Land.

An old man dressed in a brightly colored, rustic robe and wearing slippers with his toes showing moved slightly, his gaze traversing countless years to look at a particular time and space.

"The spirit of order and chaos has been revived."

"Let me see who it was in this life?"

"Hmm? He's actually practicing my Lieyuan Technique. Interesting."

"Let me see this child's past..."

"His comprehension and temperament are both excellent, but unfortunately, he will eventually lose everything to the 'secret' he relies on."

"Forget it, I'm not watching anymore."

The old man in the flowered robe knew he couldn't help him.

As long as order and chaos exist in the world, that strange cube will revive, and there is no stopping it.

Whether it is the Lord of Order and Chaos, or the Primordial Chaos Being like the Infinite Serpent, they are the embodiment of rules and concepts, and they will never truly perish.

(End of this chapter)