Swallowing the Stars: Primordial Heavenly Dragon

Chapter 77 Fishing for the King of Fishing

On the edge of the universe, before a vast and boundless secret realm.

The secret realm emitted a strong purple light, which carried extremely powerful energy. An ordinary cosmic venerable would probably be annihilated on the spot if he encountered it.

"The timing is perfect; this secret realm will open in a month." Inside the Eight Desolations Tower, Yan Yong quietly watched this scene.

The Divine Plains Secret Realm is an extremely mysterious secret realm.

Normally, this secret realm is hidden from view, and even a cosmic venerable would find it difficult to discover before he arrived.

Only a thousand years before the secret realm is about to open will it emit an incomparably powerful purple divine light, a light that can easily annihilate the divine body of a cosmic sovereign.

Once the secret realm is fully opened, this divine light will subside, allowing ordinary realm lords to enter and explore.

Each time an era begins, if the secret realm closes after an era and anyone remains inside, they will perish completely.

Countless ages ago, there was a cosmic ruler from another race who, relying on his powerful avatar, stayed inside, determined to uncover its mysteries.

As a result, they perished completely the moment the secret realm closed, including their clones waiting in a safe location, all without warning.

This event served as a warning to all the powerful beings of the primordial universe, who would never dare to remain inside the secret realm just before it was about to close.

Moreover, this secret realm only produces ordinary treasures at best, which makes even top-tier overlords and above have little interest in it.

Yan Yong came here for three reasons: first, this secret realm produces ordinary treasures, which at most attract some cosmic overlords, making it very suitable for his current training; second, he doesn't have many treasures, so acquiring a few would appropriately increase his wealth; and third, this secret realm is one of the few places in the primordial universe that can be avoided by the virtual universe and cannot be covered.

It is known that virtual universes are only excluded in a few strange places. The two scenarios mentioned in the original work are the original star and the strongest being in the universe whose words become law.

Therefore, Yan Yong concluded that there were other secrets to be explored in this secret realm. Since the human being himself did not have anything urgent to attend to at the moment, he could spend some time coming over to try his luck.

The secret realm was very vast, about 10 light-years in length and width. Once the secret realm was opened, one could enter directly. Therefore, although many cosmic venerables had arrived, Yan Yong was surrounded by no one.

Holding a wine glass, I sat leisurely inside the Eight Desolations Tower, waiting for the secret realm to open.

Buzz~~

The once vast and boundless purple divine light receded without warning.

The entire secret realm seemed to rewind time, and the purple divine light that had just emanated "shrank" back at an even faster speed.

Yan Yong put away the Eight Desolations Pagoda, leaped to the outside of the secret realm, and then flew straight in.

Each time the secret realm opens, it will be different, so Yan Yong did not rashly use teleportation. Instead, he turned the detector to its maximum power and carefully rode the Golden Fear Hou along the way.

"It's a bit weak, only at the limit of being a king. It will soon be unable to keep up with my pace." Yan Yong patted the head of the golden pheasant under his crotch, pondering whether he should find an opportunity to get a more powerful mount for this trip.

"Master, I have been cultivating very hard," the Fear Golden Hou said anxiously.

It vowed that in order to become its master's powerful mount, it had been cultivating desperately, and would frantically try to comprehend the laws of space whenever it had the chance.

He's working even harder than when he was free.

Before becoming a mount, it was stuck at the limit of becoming a king for countless years and could not make any progress. After that, its cultivation was sporadic, and it would occasionally go to adventure banquets with its friends.

However, after becoming a mount, in order to be ridden by its master forever, it never had a moment of leisure and devoted every bit of its energy to breaking through to become a Venerable.

"Alright, alright, even if you can't be my mount in the future, you can still guard the gate for me." Yan Yong patted the head of the Fear Golden Hou to comfort it.

"Awoo!" The monstrous beast roared excitedly, its spirits lifting as it hurried on its way.

After three years of searching, Yan Yong had not obtained a single treasure. The only time he encountered a treasure, it had already been fought over.

By the time Yan Yong arrived, the others had already put away the treasure and quickly moved away from him.

"What happened? There's not a single treasure." Yan Yong angrily slammed his halberd into the mountainside beside him.

Watching others happily pocket the treasures, Yan Yong admitted that he was jealous.

Rumble~

The mountain range was cleaved in two by a single halberd strike, and a blinding golden divine light shot out from the fissure.

"The treasure is right beside me?"

Yan Yong stood right next to the golden light without feeling any discomfort. He sent a servant to feel it carefully and found that the golden light was not harmful.

He sped away, determined to take the treasure before any other powerful figures arrived. Ideally, a powerful alien would arrive just as he finished collecting the treasure, leaving them to watch helplessly as he took it away.

Arriving at the source of the golden light, Yan Yong saw a golden ball of light, 1 kilometer in diameter, inside which something was being nurtured.

"It's almost ready to be formed." Yan Yong stared intently at the ball of light.

"There is treasure here."

"It seems like a treasure has been unearthed over there; the golden light is dazzling."

Soon, exclamations arose as groups of powerful figures from various races discovered this treasure land.

Among them were even quite a few immortal powerhouses, but these immortal powerhouses usually went on adventures in small teams. When they saw that there was already a 'Venerable One' guarding this place and that other Venerable Ones were on their way, they immediately knew better than to leave.

Although Venerables generally don't target Immortals, that's only when there's not enough profit to motivate them. But now that the treasure is right in front of them, they have to put aside all pretenses.

"This treasure is probably a domain-level treasure," said a humanoid being with two horns on its head, a bird's beak, a human body, and an ox's tail.

The aura emanating from this life form was extremely evil and eerie. Yan Yong used the virtual universe system to inquire and learned that it was the Prison Clan, which stood at the pinnacle of the original universe races, just like humans.

The Prison Clan refers to powerful beings born in a perilous place in the universe, who survived hardship there and emerged as powerful warriors. The Prison Clan's powerful members differ in appearance, mannerisms, and even their life essence, encompassing both rock-based and flesh-based life forms.

Strictly speaking, the Prison Clan is more like an alliance, which includes various races born in the perilous land they call "Prison".

It's unclear why life born in such a place could eventually form an alliance. Surviving in such a perilous place would inevitably involve endless struggles, and the hatred hidden beneath those struggles must be incredibly intense.

Yan Yong glanced at the other person indifferently, without saying a word.

Perhaps the Venerable One of the Prison Clan was talking to himself and did not continue to speak with Yan Yong.

As the treasure's aura grew stronger and its golden light intensified, more and more powerful individuals arrived, quickly reaching more than 10 people.

They are all powerful beings at the level of Cosmic Venerables.

However, the divine power level of the Universe Venerables is not as exaggerated as that of the Immortals, who go from 100 times the power of a peak World Lord to 100,000 times the power of a peak World Lord.

Only an elevation in the level of life genes can elevate the level of basic divine power.

Therefore, one cannot judge a person's true level of attainment by their appearance alone.

Soon, the golden light emanating from the treasure began to recede, eventually transforming into a golden seal.

"As expected, it's a domain-level treasure." The Prison Clan Venerable laughed heartily and charged forward first.

"Attack!" shouted a mechanical race elder, and the other mechanical race powerhouses beside him rushed forward as well.

Among the many powerful individuals on this trip, the mechanical race had the largest number of members, a total of three Universe Venerables. It was unclear whether they were a team formed from the beginning or a team that was temporarily assembled later.

"This treasure is destined for me, so why don't you all stop here?" With a swing of his halberd, a torrent of flames surged forth, demonstrating the power of the fourth level of the Fire-Void Fusion Law.

"A mere beginner Venerable dares to try and steal our treasure?" a Universe Venerable said disdainfully.

However, this alien race did not waste time with Yan Yong, since its target was the treasure, not Yan Yong.

The group of powerful figures quickly rushed to the treasure, and the first to rush out, the Prison Clan Venerable, began to prepare to put the treasure away.

"Black Prison Venerable, put down the treasure." The Mechanical Clan Venerable was shocked upon seeing this, and many mechanical puppets combined into a powerful formation to launch an attack on the Black Prison Venerable.

Boom~~

Sensing the killing intent, the Black Prison Venerable retreated instantly, no longer caring about the treasure.

"Everyone, these mechanical race members are numerous and powerful. Why don't we join forces and drive them out of the arena?" Yan Yong suggested while casting a secret spell to defend himself.

"How should these treasures be distributed?" a venerable one asked.

"After driving out the mechanical race, it will naturally be up to each person to rely on their own abilities." The Black Prison Venerable, extremely annoyed by the mechanical race's sneak attack, was the first to agree.

"If we don't drive away these powerful members of the mechanical race, who among us dares to say that we can fight three Universe Venerables alone if they join forces?" Yan Yong said.

"Damn human, how dare you target my machine race! You'd better die first."

One of the mechanical race venerables signaled to his companions to continue the treasure hunt, while another mechanical race venerable controlled a puppet to provide support from the side, and he himself controlled his puppet to attack Yan Yong.

"Haha, human, I think you should hold off one of the machine race experts for us first, and we can take care of the other two."

The other powerful figures were naturally pleased to see this, as it eliminated two opponents, allowing the mechanical race venerable one and Yan Yong to fight freely.

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