novelraw Chapter 172 The Ouroboros, the Time-Space Beast God?
Chapter 172 The Ouroboros, the Time-Space Beast God?
Chapter 172 The Ouroboros, the Time-Space Beast God?
"Strange, I just checked the data of all the major immortal arrays, and there was nothing unusual about them."
"Old man, it seems that the techniques of your Array Formation Hall are seriously outdated. An amateur is still an amateur. We should just focus on body cultivation. Why bother with side hustles?"
"What do you know?"
The two True Immortals started bickering, and then, seemingly noticing Ye Yang's gaze, they coldly snorted and teleported away.
Once the matter was resolved, the True Immortals disappeared one by one.
In the end, only the True Immortal of Zhushan remained.
"The manor's formations and restrictions did not react at all, however—I used the divine power of reversing time to recreate the past, and through the slightest clues, I did seem to see the figure of a small beast passing by on a path—"
"They sneaked in while I was out capturing those three Voidwalkers who caused you to be corrupted by the Void."
Ye Yang watched as the True Immortal of Zhushan spoke while moving a reclining chair out to lie down in his courtyard, and couldn't help but feel surprised.
"Grandmaster, what is this?"
Zhushan Zhenxian shook his head helplessly: "Twice now, twice in a row. How could I dare to leave your side even for a moment?"
"Minghong, you now have a very high chance of joining the Enlightenment Project. You are a treasure of the entire Dao lineage—didn't you see how all your grandmasters and uncles teleported over as soon as they sensed something was wrong with you?"
He said, "Don't worry about me, just continue your cultivation."
Ye Yang had no choice but to nod and sit down cross-legged in the courtyard.
After this incident, how could he possibly be in the mood for cultivation and enlightenment?
After quickly confirming his mother's safety via the internet, Ye Yang thought for a moment, then sank his consciousness deep into the dungeon world.
He wanted to see if the Void Bead he had thrown in had been completely destroyed.
Or, even if it wasn't destroyed, there should have been some changes.
The primordial universe, Cuilang Starfield, Emerald Rock Star.
A huge black beast suddenly appeared, its eyes revealing a human-like helplessness.
"I almost forgot, in order to achieve the true meaning of Nirvana, without affecting the first clone of Chaos City, I sacrificed the second clone."
"The second Golden Horned Avatar has already advanced to the eighth rank of Domain Lord. Reviving it is incredibly expensive; it cost me over 1500 trillion!"
Nine years after Ye Yang arrived in Chaos City, his second Golden Horn clone advanced to the Domain Lord level. He was so engrossed in cultivation that he didn't eat on time, which is why his advancement to Domain Lord was so slow.
After that, Ye Yang would rather interrupt his cultivation than let his second Golden Horn clone eat on time, so that it could reach the Realm Lord level as soon as possible.
At the World Lord level, comprehending the laws is truly fast!
It is now the 24th year since Ye Yang came to Chaos City, with a 15-year gap in between, which is 49 years in the original universe.
The optimal metal combination achieves an evolution efficiency of 52 times, equivalent to more than 2500 years of normal cultivation.
It takes 150 years for a Domain Lord to progress from the first to the third level through normal cultivation.
It takes 600 years to go from the fourth to the sixth order.
The seventh to ninth order, each order lasts 1200 years, for a total of 3600 years.
Therefore, the second Golden Horn clone is now at the eighth level of the Domain Lord level.
"Now we're drowning in debt again? And it's not something that the profits from the two-world trade can pay off; we'll be lucky to even cover the interest."
"I'll only be able to obtain a large amount of Blood Crystals later, make them into Beast God Blood, and have my master and grandmaster help me, so that I can get a lot of Destiny Points."
The black behemoth with countless intricate golden runes on its body looked at another black behemoth of similar size next to it and the 33.3-meter-tall human corpse, and opened its mouth to activate its innate secret technique 'Devour'.
After swallowing and digesting his two original bodies within his inner world, Ye Yang quickly conceived a second human clone.
"This can be considered as self-produced and self-consumed Golden Horned Beast corpse and inner world containing a large amount of metallic essence, which is quite enough to sustain it. Fortunately, the first generation Golden Horned Beast is ultimately different from the ordinary Golden Horned Beast."
Ordinary Golden Horned Beasts can reproduce, representing the highest bloodline in the universe. However, the first-generation Golden Horned Beast was a special life form with an initial genetic level that was a hundred times higher.
The inner world of itself was also extremely resilient, and it was not burst by the other corpse of itself.
"Then we'll see what happened to the 'Void Beads' that were previously placed in."
Although Ye Yang felt that it would be best if that ominous bead were reduced to scrap, he still harbored a sliver of hope deep down.
What if?
The laws of nature have mutated, which is incredibly miraculous, and the evolution of the primordial universe itself is also incredibly miraculous.
Perhaps it underwent some special evolution, causing the void conception within the Void Pearl to disappear, leaving only the purest void laws.
Perhaps, if we take back the Immortal Alliance, we can continue our cultivation without any side effects?
Of course, Ye Yang knew that this was just wishful thinking on his part.
Not all good things can fall into his lap.
For example, this Void Bead seems to have been deliberately sent to him by the Void Cult as a "sugar-coated bullet" to lure him into the faith of the "Void".
Quickly comprehending the essence of emptiness and rapidly improving one's strength seems wonderful, with endless benefits—a tremendous opportunity.
But in essence, it is a beautiful yet deadly poisonous flower, a trap that must not be touched.
Arriving at a large, empty warehouse, Ye Yang had previously placed the Void Pearl here.
The deployment can only be made near the instance avatar or resurrection point. For Ye Yang now, this "nearby" range is thousands of kilometers.
Upon entering, he was surprised to see that the interior of the warehouse, cast from Class C scrap metal, was severely damaged.
Several metal beams were snapped by some powerful force, and several other metal beams were squeezed into a ball.
More numerous were extremely fine cracks appearing on the metal walls, as if they had been cut by something, with cracks measuring 10 mm in length.
The distances range from centimeters to 80 meters.
Thanks to the sturdiness of the alloy frame, the empty warehouse did not collapse.
"It seems the moment the laws mutated caused quite a stir."
Ye Yang sprayed his mouth, and through these signs of destruction, he found the very center.
On the flat ground there, there was a small handful of crystal fragments.
It is likely that after the Void Pearl arrived in the Devouring World, it lost its original function and power due to the difference in the laws, and shattered into pieces.
"It's still ruined after all." Ye Yang wasn't too disappointed.
If I gain it, I am fortunate; if I lose it, it is my fate. Don't force things that you can't control.
However, he still cleaned up the clump of debris very carefully, just in case these fragments might have some special use in the future.
And so, after cleaning...
Ye Yang actually found a small bead among them.
It was covered by a layer of debris before, so it wasn't noticed.
Unlike the previous Void Bead, which was a hazy, semi-transparent glass, this small bead is completely transparent.
Furthermore, the previous Void Bead had a diameter of 16.1803 centimeters, while this smaller bead has a diameter of 10.081 centimeters.
On the surface of the small bead, countless secret patterns appear and disappear, but they are not clearly visible.
However, the aura of the [void] above disappeared, leaving only the aura of the time and space fundamental laws that devour the world.
Even the aura of the laws has changed, so it seems there is no longer any danger of being eroded and assimilated by the [Void].
Ye Yang immediately activated his innate secret technique, "Resonance in Space and Time," and then clearly "saw" the mysterious patterns on the surface of the small bead. "This is—"
He couldn't help but hold his breath.
The countless secret patterns flowed and swirled, faintly forming the shape of a strange, long snake.
Ye Yang couldn't see the head and tail, but judging from its long body and the countless tiny scales on its surface, it should be a snake.
The long snake coiled endlessly on the surface of the small bead, its body sometimes above and sometimes below.
Ye Yang couldn't even tell how the long snake was coiled around the small bead!
It should be noted that Ye Yang's second clone at this time was essentially at the Domain Lord level, with an incredibly powerful soul and mind.
Even if a regular ball of yarn is completely tangled and knotted into an incredibly complex knot, his eyesight and mental processing speed allow him to see through the entire topological structure of the tangled yarn in a matter of seconds and devise a complete solution.
As for mazes—whether two-dimensional or three-dimensional—Ye Yang can quickly memorize them and calculate the path through them.
The long snake coiled around the small bead, like a tangled ball of yarn, or an endless maze, incredibly complex.
No matter how complicated it is, with Ye Yang's current eyesight and calculation ability, he should be able to quickly figure out the details.
But even after staring at it for more than ten minutes, Ye Yang still couldn't construct all the topological structures in his mind.
The long snake coiled on the small bead, its endless, labyrinthine body stretching and stretching—until finally, it stretched into its own mouth.
A snake that eats itself, its head and tail connected!
boom!
As Ye Yang continued to observe, he inadvertently discovered the head and tail of the long snake, and his consciousness seemed to erupt with a roar.
In his eyes, the snake came to life, its body twisting rapidly, and its entire structure changing.
It opened its huge mouth and kept eating its own body.
But they can never finish eating, and their bodies seem to have no end in length.
"Oh my god!"
Recovering from the shock, Ye Yang looked at the small bead in his hand, but could no longer sense any trace of the aura of [Void] emanating from it.
There are only faint fluctuations in the fundamental laws of time and space, and an atmosphere of endless reincarnation and self-contained cycles.
"Treasure!"
"Now, it has truly transformed into a priceless treasure!"
"The void-like atmosphere has vanished, replaced by this strange, endlessly devouring serpent, creating a self-contained cycle of time and space!"
"And there was no obvious erosion or assimilation; it had no effect on my own 'Tao.' On the contrary, it was like observing the 'Cosmic Chaos Monument,' being guided to comprehend the laws of time and space, and that cyclical state of time and space."
"It's the law of spacetime fusion!"
Ye Yang already possessed a trace of the spacetime fusion law, so he was naturally able to recognize it.
"Could this ouroboros be the 'Time-Space Beast God' that has never been conceived?" Ye Yang couldn't help but wonder.
However, this is ultimately just speculation.
After all, in the Devouring World, it is quite common for the combination of laws and secret patterns to form a strange monster.
The seventh to ninth illustrations of the "Nine Universes Chaos Stele" and the eighth to tenth illustrations of the "Cosmic Chaos Stele" are all depicted as strange and monstrous beasts.
It's uncertain whether this pearl, which has undergone transformation after being altered by the laws, contains the complete laws of spacetime fusion.
The so-called Time-Space Beast God was merely a wild guess by Ye Yang, without any basis.
But in any case...
"This is a cultivation treasure even more powerful than the 'Cosmic Chaos Monument,' pointing directly to the true Dao of Spacetime Fusion!"
"Once others learn that I possess such a treasure, even the most powerful beings at the pinnacle of humankind will likely demand that I hand it over."
Ye Yang took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
Through the distortion of laws, he dismantled the sugar-coated bullets sent by the Void Cult, leaving only the sugar coating.
It failed to lure him into a void of faith.
Instead, it became this heaven-defying treasure!