Age of Calamity in Swallowed Star

Qianwu Universe Country.

Deep within the palace, the cultivation grounds of the Qianwu Country Lord.

Lin Ye and his Thousand Shadows clone stood facing each other, both enveloped in a rich scarlet light.

Similarly, strands of indescribable threads entwined them, binding them together forever.

Seeing this inexplicable scene, Chan'er became somewhat anxious.

The Qianwu Country Lord, on the other hand, appeared calm, sipping tea and eating spiritual fruits without a hint of panic.

Carefree and unconcerned.

He wanted to see what kind of strange and unusual events could happen to Lin Ye!

"Hmm!?"

Suddenly, as if realizing something, the Universe Venerable sat up straight, focusing all his attention on the young man before him.

The power emanating from Lin Ye was fundamentally different from the power of laws, nor did it belong to any kind of mental power or original force… This power directly transcended the Qianwu Country Lord's understanding.

Unheard of, unseen!

He hadn't felt this way in countless years.

One must know that the most ancient of the human race's high-level Universe Venerables had experienced countless cycles of time and possessed knowledge as vast as the abyss.

Yet even so, the Qianwu Country Lord still couldn't understand this power.

"Could this… be a power that shouldn't exist in this world!?"

The Qianwu Country Lord, now seated back on his throne, frowned slightly again.

But he didn't find any changes or impact on Lin Ye's body.

As for his clone… the Qianwu Country Lord didn't feel anything was particularly wrong with it.

After all, his old friend Venerable Fenchen was most skilled in the art of clones.

Just as his power was about to surge forth for a careful investigation, a flash of scarlet light suddenly flickered on Lin Ye.

"…!?" The Qianwu Country Lord frowned tightly, then his gaze fixed on Lin Ye's Baihui acupoint on the top of his head.

There, with the scarlet light flashing, a scarlet, strange pagoda shadow slowly emerged, rotating gently.

A faint scarlet glow slowly enveloped down with the rotation of the small pagoda, gradually enveloping Lin Ye's entire body.

This scene also fell into Chan'er's eyes.

"???"

Chan'er turned her head and saw the equally surprised look on the Qianwu Country Lord's face.

The latter simply shook his head, indicating that he didn't know what this was either.

"What… what kind of treasure is this…" The Qianwu Country Lord muttered in a daze.

Even having seen many supreme treasures and heavy treasures, he couldn't find a treasure in his memory similar to the scarlet pagoda before him.

"Could it be a strange supreme treasure!!!"

The Qianwu Country Lord suddenly thought of something, and a dazzling light bloomed in his pair of fiery red pupils.

However, this light vanished in an instant, and he shook his head gently: "Absolutely impossible!"

"Even the pressure of a supreme treasure, even if it's not activated, is not something an ordinary Universe Venerable can withstand, let alone a star-level genius like him."

"I'm really bewitched!"

Chuckling self-deprecatingly, the Qianwu Country Lord dismissed the unrealistic thoughts in his mind and returned to normal.

A pair of bright eyes stared intently at Lin Ye.

At this time, he only regarded the small pagoda as a special treasure left by his old friend for his inherited disciple.

A mysterious treasure that he had never seen or heard of!

……

On the other hand.

Lin Ye, with his eyes tightly closed, seemed to have entered a dream, his sea of consciousness suddenly plunging into a violently distorted, pale abyss.

In this almost endless abyss, a series of broken voices rang out—

"The current me is unable to climb to that realm, and can only go to that original world… to find the most primitive Origin Artifact…"

"Little Seven, you must think carefully. If you fail to awaken on this trip, you will be trapped in endless reincarnation forever, and even Big Brother won't be able to pull you back!"

"Yes, Little Seven, you are only half a step away from reaching the top. Maybe if you endure for a while longer, you can ascend. Big Brother, Xingmang, Jin, and 兓 have already gone to hunt the Myriad Tentacle Dragon Mother, the Origin Serpent, and the Abyss Demon Eye, wanting to help you break through the last step!"

"No… I have made countless attempts over so many years… and still can't take that final step. Now I can only try a different approach and try to start everything over!"

"Are you really going to do this!?"

"If he can reach the top, he will also awaken this part of my memory. Then I am him, and he is me."

"But if you go to that place, you will ultimately start as a mortal!"

"I can accept it!"

"Alright… Now Big Brother will send you to that place. We can only give you a little bit of help on the road ahead; the rest is up to you."

"And the source power of the Thousand Tribulation Floating Pagoda can help you complete a major transformation, which may be of great help to you in the future… And I and your big brothers will also find a way to reverse reincarnation and send a clone to see you."

"Thank you… brothers…"

"Although this time may be very long, I and your big brothers will be waiting for you, perhaps tens of thousands of epochs, or even longer… we will be waiting for your return."

"Go with peace of mind! One day we will meet again."

"I know!"

………

"Ah!!"

Lin Ye suddenly opened his eyes, letting out an angry roar as if startled by a nightmare.

It was precisely because of this roar that the scarlet light on his body was completely retracted, merging into his body.

The energy in the surrounding space, like heated water, gradually became somewhat strange.

At the same time, all of the Thousand Shadows clone's domain lord-level insights were poured into Lin Ye, as if brewing something…

……

"Little Lin Ye, your master is gone, that's an undeniable fact. I hope you can see it through."

The Qianwu Country Lord stood up from the throne and instantly arrived beside Lin Ye.

Then, a pair of large, thick hands gently patted the latter's shoulder, saying earnestly, "Now you are the number one genius in the universe's human race's peak genius battle. You must cultivate well and strive for glory for your master in the future!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, Lin Ye held the Fenchen token tightly, and immediately fell silent.

"There will be a day when I will let the entire universe's human race, and even all cultivators in the entire initial universe, know that I, Lin Ye, am Venerable Fenchen's disciple!!" Lin Ye silently said in his heart: "And one more thing!"

"I will definitely avenge you! Although my current strength is very weak, I will have a day when I am strong, a day when I am qualified to fight the Heavenly Wolf Lord!"

"When that day comes… I will also think of a way to let the Chaos City Lord revive you!"

"Definitely!!"

Lin Ye set a goal in his heart.

Without any warning, the energy in the surrounding space suddenly became boiling.

As if seawater was pouring into an endless abyss, strands of energy, with fluctuations visible to the naked eye, fiercely poured into Lin Ye's body.

At this moment, the acupoints and pores all over his body were in a completely open state, and rich energy and pure vitality poured into his body continuously.

No!

It was through the scarlet pagoda above Lin Ye's head, washing over his entire body like a waterfall.

Lin Ye focused his mind on his dantian, and a deep joy appeared on his face… because the nine stars in his dantian were undergoing a dramatic change.

Expansion! Contraction! Expansion again!—

This was clearly a sign of an impending breakthrough!

Moreover, the fluctuations in the dantian were becoming more and more intense, meaning that this was still a cross-realm improvement.

Without any hesitation, Lin Ye quickly concentrated his energy and spirit, focused his mind, and absorbed these energies wholeheartedly, then channeled these extremely pure energies through his limbs and bones, and finally returned them to his dantian.

In the cycle of repetition, his physical fitness and strength were greatly tempered.

Almost at the same time, the scarlet light emitted by the Thousand Tribulation Floating Pagoda also merged into strands of energy, flowing through his entire body.

The vicissitudes of the origin object, with an indescribable supreme aura, urged Lin Ye to quickly advance from the star level to the universe level, causing a qualitative change.

These energies circulated throughout his body again and again, and finally all returned to the dantian… Almost every return brought great changes to the dantian.

In this way, under the irrigation of nearly endless energy, vortex galaxies constantly appeared in his dantian, quickly solidifying…

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!"

Gusts of energy storms roared in, vying to enter Lin Ye's body.

Still under the watchful eyes of a high-level Universe Venerable and a King-level Immortal.

"…" Chan'er and the Qianwu Country Lord exchanged glances again, both not understanding the reason.

And the entire palace became more and more calm.

The scarlet light illuminated the surrounding palace walls with a scarlet glow, like a lava purgatory.

Lin Ye's aura, which had silently entered a state of cultivation, continued to soar at an incredibly alarming rate… almost every moment, earth-shattering changes would occur.

In the silence, time passed quietly.

One day, three days, five days… forty-seven days!!

It wasn't until the nine vortex galaxies in the dantian completely collapsed and fused, and a singularity symbolizing the domain lord-level powerhouse appeared, that Lin Ye's cultivation slowly ended.

The pagoda body disappeared, and everything returned to calm again.

"Woo… so comfortable!!" Lin Ye opened his eyes, and two dazzling beams of light like sword light burst out from his eyes, sharp and incomparable.

At this moment, he felt comfortable all over his body, and couldn't help but let out a comfortable moan.

In a full forty days, his strength had directly completed a leap from the ninth order of the star level to the domain lord, which could be called a miracle of the human race.

Even the well-informed 'Universe's First Bankrupt' Qianwu Country Lord had never seen this scene happen to Lin Ye.

It was too amazing! Too shocking!

"Where did this little master… come from!" Chan'er looked at the reborn Lin Ye, and couldn't help but exclaim.

If she hadn't been staying in the trial secret realm to monitor every move of Earth, she definitely wouldn't believe that this young man had completed the transformation from the star level to the domain lord in just two and a half months.

Even among the most core members of the Virtual Universe Company, no one could do this.

"Little master, how do you feel now!? Is there anything wrong with your body!?" Chan'er asked anxiously, her beautiful eyes looking at Lin Ye solemnly.

"If there is anything uncomfortable, just say it, both me and Lord Qianwu are here."

"I'm fine, nothing at all."

Lin Ye said with a smile.

He shook his head gently, and then felt the huge changes in his body.

"Life aura, five senses and six senses, breathing method, physical fitness… all perceptions of the surrounding world, everything has changed."

Lin Ye's consciousness went deep into his sea of consciousness… The Thousand Tribulation Floating Pagoda, which had been silent for decades, was no longer the completely scarlet color it once was.

It had become a mysterious giant pagoda with a faint golden color.

"Is this the domain lord level!? It feels so strange!" Lin Ye felt the changes in his body from the inside out, and his expression became excited.

Crossing the universe level one to nine orders in succession, he directly transformed into a domain lord powerhouse.

The spiral arms of the galaxy belonging to the universe-level powerhouse in his body were also completely swallowed by a black hole, collapsing to form a 'singularity'.

That is, the colorful ball in Lin Ye's dantian, which also marks the formal entry into the domain lord level.

Although this colorful singularity is very small, it is very heavy!

Not only did the singularity appear in the dantian, but even the singularity in the depths of the sea of consciousness became colorful.

From the star level to the domain lord level, this is two leaps in physical fitness.

When this small singularity gradually breeds a world inside, the entire domain lord first order to domain lord ninth order will be this breeding process.

When this is completely successful, a fundamental change will occur.

The world nurtured within will form a real world!

At that time, it will be a natural breakthrough from domain lord to world lord.

World lord powerhouses truly form a world within their bodies, and can use 'world power' with a wave of their hands.

At the same time, this world lord world can also allow people to survive and store things, almost exactly like the real world.

Not far from Lin Ye, the Thousand Shadows clone also underwent some changes.

However, compared to the transformation of the main body, the changes of the clone can only be said to be a little bit.

The reason is very simple.

The Thousand Shadows clone itself is a life crystal nucleus as the core energy source, so it can be arbitrarily changed into any desired appearance.

However, before Lin Ye's main body made successive breakthroughs, the life crystal nucleus of the Thousand Shadows clone had already completed the recording of the domain lord-level transformation.

The next thing he is about to reach is the world lord-level transformation.

"Buzz buzz buzz!!!"

At this moment, the Thousand Shadows clone has transformed into an eight-sided crystal nucleus densely covered with countless mottled colorful patterns, faintly emitting a faint glow.

Each side has a different color, giving a very peculiar feeling.

"Each color seems to represent a law!?"

Lin Ye looked at the colorful octahedron that was spinning non-stop, and sighed inwardly.

"As expected of a clone from the Thousand Tribulation Floating Pagoda, it is indeed very extraordinary."

In Lin Ye's eyes, this Thousand Shadows clone is much more powerful than Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast and Demon Killing Race clones.

Fast perception of laws!

Fast cultivation speed!

Infinite variety of transformations!

Moreover, its cultivation and evolution have almost no bottlenecks. As long as its will, life crystal core, original force, and comprehension reach the required level, it can directly break through.

The cultivation of the Thousand Shadow Clone is many times faster than Lin Ye himself.

"I didn't expect to break through to become a Domain Lord so easily. I'm really lucky."

"Perhaps… this is the assistance from the Thousand Tribulation Floating Pagoda."

Lin Ye chuckled softly in his heart, then his eyes turned cold.

He lowered his head and glanced at the Burning Dust Token in his hand, and said word by word in his heart, "One day, I will kill that old Sky Wolf and avenge you, Master!"

"Definitely!"