Swallowing the Stars: Primordial Heavenly Dragon

Chapter 88 What is a Halberd?

"Based on your time, and considering your ability to accelerate time, you have at least 1,000 epochs. If you master this power within 1,000 epochs, you will be considered qualified; within 500 epochs, you will be considered excellent; and if you master it within 100 epochs, you will be directly recognized by the Divine Tower, and your 'Dao' will be imprinted within the Divine Tower, allowing the Divine Tower to recognize you as its master."

"Can this world hold out for so long?" Venerable Qingming asked anxiously.

"No, at most 1 years, and this world will fall into reincarnation again." Wei Huang shook his head and then said to Yan Yong, "But you are the inheritor of the Divine Tower, and the Divine Tower will protect you. Even if the world enters a long period of reincarnation, you will not be disturbed in the slightest."

"Ten thousand years? The strictest requirement is only one hundred epochs. Doesn't that mean there's no hope for the Wei world?" Venerable Qingming said in utter despair, as if he had become a walking corpse once again.

Yan Yong, on the other hand, was calculating that if he entered the giant axe's miniature universe and accelerated it by ten thousand times, he could effectively have ten thousand epochs' worth of time to comprehend it.

However, the secret realm has been open for less than ten thousand years. Each time it opens, it only lasts for one era, after which all external life within the realm perishes. He doesn't know if it's due to the Divine Tower, but if it's due to the primordial universe, he dares not stay any longer.

Yan Yong voiced his doubts.

"That's right. The primordial universe allows the Wei world to open once every 100,000 epochs as an opportunity for you outsiders, each opening lasting for one epoch."

After the secret realm closes, you external life forms will lose the protection of the original universe, and the Divine Tower will kill outsiders and turn them into nourishment. However, you are special, and the Divine Tower will not harm you.

Each time the secret realm opens, the terrain of the Wei world undergoes a significant change. This is actually a form of self-protection for the Wei world, slowing down the rate at which outsiders can acquire resources.

With his doubts resolved, Yan Yong felt much more at ease. Given his current progress of defeating over 1300 opponents, he certainly had enough time to master this ability.

……

In the virtual universe, on Tianzhou Island, inside the Giant Axe Temple.

"Disciple greets Master." The phoenix clone withdrew from the Divine Origin Secret Realm and connected to the virtual universe.

"Haha, I've heard about your great battle against the Lord of Sirius in the Divine Plains Secret Realm. Well done!" The Founder of the Giant Axe laughed with satisfaction. "Have you encountered some kind of bottleneck?"

"Master, I have encountered a legacy that requires mastering the essence of the halberd, but the legacy has a time limit. I need to accelerate the time to increase the success rate," Yan Yong said respectfully.

Although the Divine Origin Secret Realm cannot connect to the virtual universe, the insights and consciousness of the clones are shared. As long as the Phoenix clone can defeat 1500 opponents of the Halberd Technique, Yan Yong's main body will be able to master the essence of the Halberd.

"What kind of legacy?" the founder of the giant axe asked curiously.

In his knowledge, of the three cycles within the Cosmic Sea, only he and Yan Yong possessed the intent of weaponry. His giant axe intent even helped him create an eighth-order secret technique. He never expected that such a power would exist in the primordial universe, and that mastering this power was merely a prerequisite for obtaining the inheritance.

Such a legacy may be related to ancient civilizations. Yan Yong may be able to break through the cycle of reincarnation by obtaining this legacy, allowing the human race to establish the third sacred place in the cosmic sea.

"It is a lineage of a state called Wei," Yan Yong said.

"What inheritance?" Yan Yong's words sounded like divine pronouncements to the giant axe, completely failing to convey their meaning.

"It is a legacy that can transcend reincarnation." Yan Yong rephrased the statement, but unexpectedly, the words "Wei Kingdom" became a taboo subject. It must be that this "Wei Kingdom" refers to the Wei Kingdom of the Origin Continent, which is why it was banned.

"Are you sure? Do you know what reincarnation is?" Giant Axe asked, his face full of surprise but also a little uncertain.

"The guide of that lineage told me about these issues." Yan Yong shared some of the things he could about the Divine Tower and his experiences within the secret realm.

When Giant Axe heard about the Skeleton Clan and the Divine Eye Clan, he was already mostly convinced. After hearing the conditions for the inheritance, he was completely convinced of the story.

Immortality requires a thousand epochs to master the power of intent. It took Giant Axe 1 epochs to master this power after becoming a Universe Venerable. In other words, with his aptitude, he is very likely not to meet the requirements of the God Tower, let alone now that he is the strongest in the universe, the conditions will be even more stringent.

"Alright, let Chaos take you to my miniature universe. It will take me a long time to return from the Cosmic Sea, so I'll go directly to my miniature universe to wait for you," the giant axe said excitedly.

Wasn't he risking his life in the cosmic sea just to fight for a sliver of a chance to escape reincarnation? Now that this disciple has such an opportunity, naturally we must do everything we can to help him.

"Thank you very much, teacher," Yan Yong said respectfully.

"Hahaha, you little rascal, most of humanity's hopes are pinned on you. You'd better do your best. Go on, go on." The giant axe waved his hand with a laugh.

Yan Yong then teleported to Thunder Island, to the Chaos City Lord's palace, and repeated what he had just said.

Unexpectedly, these words had an even greater and stronger impact on the Lord of Chaos City.

He immediately encouraged Yan Yong, saying, "Junior brother, you must succeed. This is an incredible opportunity."

After saying that, he immediately used the Divine Kingdom Teleportation to arrive next to the Phoenix clone, and led the Phoenix clone to the miniature universe of the giant axe.

……

"Qingming, my master has a place that can accelerate cultivation. My 'avatar' in the outside world can enter it to cultivate. I am confident that I will succeed within ten thousand years." Yan Yong comforted the Qingming Venerable, who was like a walking corpse.

"Really? Golden Dragon, you're not lying to me?" Venerable Qingming exclaimed excitedly.

In other words, he is the overlord of the universe. If it were an ordinary person, experiencing such ups and downs would have driven them crazy long ago.

Yan Yong nodded confidently. In his estimation, it probably wouldn't take that long.

"Are you ready?" Wei Huang's consciousness asked.

"Senior, I'm ready." After entering the miniature universe of the giant axe, he will have an incredibly long time.

"Alright, I'll demonstrate it again. The rest is up to you." Emperor Wei thrust out his halberd once more. This time, Yan Yong concentrated all his energy and immersed himself in comprehending the meaning of the halberd.

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Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Under the leadership of the Chaos City Lord, Yan Yong's phoenix avatar finally arrived in the giant axe's miniature universe, and the giant axe also created an avatar to oversee the acceleration of time.

Yan Yong's clone has already defeated 1400 opponents. With those two insights, Yan Yong quickly broke through the previous bottleneck and made rapid progress, successfully defeating 1400 opponents.

However, it has encountered a new bottleneck.

The 1401st opponent was a powerful human who wielded a whip-like weapon. This long whip transformed into countless whip shadows, using softness to overcome hardness, leaving Yan Yong with nowhere to use his halberd techniques.

……

The Heavenly Dragon clone awoke from his comprehension. He had a premonition that if he continued to comprehend, he would probably break through immediately. If he broke through to the Venerable level, he wondered if it would increase the difficulty of the assessment. Generally speaking, the difficulty of such assessments is divided according to the level of strength.

At this moment, as long as I gain the approval of the Divine Tower, I can begin the process of breaking through to the Universe Venerable level.

The Heavenly Dragon clone also devoted its energy to comprehending the halberd technique.

"What is a halberd?" Yan Yong pondered this question. The fact that the Wei Emperor repeatedly asked this question must be the key to grasping the essence of the halberd.

"What is a halberd? Isn't a halberd just a spear?"

"No, when I first answered that question, the Wei Emperor said I was still far from good enough. The second time I answered that the halberd is a weapon of slaughter, he praised me for my improvement. Could the problem lie in my understanding of the halberd?"

Yan Yong went to ask the founder of Giant Axe about this question.

"Haha, that's an excellent question." The founder of the Giant Axe laughed upon hearing the question. "I know the answer to this question, but I can't tell you the answer directly. Only when you discover the answer yourself can you truly master it."

"However, I can give you a hint." The Giant Axe Founder stood up, and a divine axe appeared in his hand.

"Think carefully about what you hold in your hands? Where is your path?" With a single swing of the axe, the powerful essence of the axe was revealed within this miniature universe.

"What do I hold in my hand? Where is my path? What is a halberd?" Looking at the sky filled with the shadows of axes, Yan Yong fell into deep thought about these three questions.

Time passed quickly in this contemplation.

More than 3,000 years have passed in the primordial universe, and 30 million years have passed in the miniature universe of the giant axe. The secret realm is about to close.

The Azure Nether Venerable waited anxiously on the side. Unlike Yan Yong, they didn't have that much time, but they didn't dare to interrupt Yan Yong's comprehension, so they could only watch anxiously from the side.

Both the Phoenix clone and the original Phoenix are researching secret techniques, the Nine Netherworld clone is busy transforming into the sea, and the Universe clone has also left the Divine Origin Secret Realm to begin wandering the universe. These questions cannot be answered by working in isolation.

Yan Yong's first stop was an unfamiliar, low-level cosmic country. Here, he saw a native planet and witnessed how this planet rose to power and gradually became strong after producing a genius in just a thousand years.

We also witnessed the rapid decline caused by the fall of this genius. If it weren't for the fact that the genius had brought the entire planet into the cosmic kingdom while he was alive, and that his child had become the new planetary ruler, the entire planet would probably have become a slave planet.

Yan Yong shook his head. This level was completely insufficient for him to break through and continue wandering forward.

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