nownovels Chapter 346 Cultivating the Primordial Eye
Chapter 346 Cultivating the Primordial Eye
Chapter 346 Cultivating the Primordial Eye
Although the complete secret technique cannot be optimized yet, Chen Yuan can lower the standards and optimize it to the level of a true god first.
With his command, the words appeared smoothly on the panel, indicating that the mission proceeded without any major setbacks.
[Establish optimization task; optimization goal: virtual universe secret technique; optimization direction: reduce the level of the secret technique to the limit of a true god, enhance self-learning and concealment abilities, and ensure perfect compatibility with the host.]
[The mission requires 99 billion units of primal energy. Should a simulation be conducted?]
"Even after abandoning universality, it still requires 99 billion units, which means that at its peak it would require 9900 billion units of energy, equivalent to the ninth level of the tenth rank, which meets my requirements."
Chen Yuan nodded secretly. Fortunately, the optimization technique only required one percent of the energy; otherwise, he really wouldn't have been able to come up with 9900 billion right now.
As for 99 billion? That's just a drop in the ocean, only enough for a year's worth of absorption.
So Chen Yuan said directly, "Confirmed, let's begin optimization."
[Optimization task successfully created! Current simulation time remaining: 9 years and 281 days]
"As expected of a secret technique at the pinnacle of true god level, it takes a long time."
Chen Yuan sighed inwardly, knowing that this was a rehearsal in the simulation space, with a speedup of ten thousand times!
This also means that the optimization time for the virtual universe secret technique at the True God level should be ten directions of years.
Even with the acceleration provided by the simulation space, it would still take a full 20 years to complete the optimization.
"Fortunately, I'm not in any trouble right now. It's just 20 years, I can wait."
With about four thousand years to go, Chen Yuan's flawed laws will be sorted out, and at that time he will be able to successfully break through to the level of a Universe Venerable.
Now that he has acquired the Star Tower, and has nothing else to do, he might as well take this time to go into seclusion and continue to improve himself.
After confirming that the secret technique was simulating normally, Chen Yuan continued his cultivation at his usual pace.
During this period, all the cosmic lords who were supposed to visit had come, and Chen Yuan had also accepted 20 commissions as he wished. Among them, 19 were top-tier treasures, and the other was the supreme treasure armor that the giant axe wanted.
These materials have been piled up into twenty towering mountains in the Shiyuan Hall, but they are not all materials; several finished treasures are also mixed in.
Unfortunately, even at 40% of the price (10% for materials + 30% for refining costs), not all universe lords can afford it. For example, the Silver Mist Lord, as a newly promoted universe lord, can only afford a little over 100 Treasure Points.
Those second- and third-tier universe lords of those races, although their situation is slightly better than that of the Silver Mist Lord, are still only slightly better, and even if they take out a thousand treasure points, it is still difficult.
So these people came up with a plan. They used their original core treasures as a blueprint, added many materials, and hoped that Chen Yuan could "upgrade" their treasures to peak quality.
Well, to put it nicely, it's an upgrade; to put it bluntly, it's basically no different from a complete reforging.
However, compared to selling the treasure to the clan and then using the treasure points to buy materials, directly taking the treasure and having Chen Yuan reforge it would indeed consume less resources. However, this method requires more skill from the treasure refiner.
Chen Yuan readily accepted this offer; he wasn't afraid of the trouble and actually quite supported it.
According to Master Zuoshanke, if he wants to break through to the level of supreme treasure refining, he needs to improve his refining skills in all aspects and not just focus on one aspect.
Among the many techniques of treasure refining, reforging a supreme treasure is also an important step, which can effectively enhance his ability to disassemble and deconstruct the supreme treasure.
Chen Yuan himself would also hone these skills with his own materials, disassembling and refining finished treasures, refining them and disassembling them again, over and over again.
These treasures that need to be reforged are no different to him from other commissions that require starting from scratch; they are all just for honing his skills.
Time passed day by day, but Chen Yuan did not start refining the 20th task because his Abyss Whale clone was still upgrading Irelia's treasure and could not spare the time.
Therefore, he simply used the Primordial Eye to analyze the essence of these materials, which was a win-win situation, since only the analyzed materials could be used for refining.
Besides not wasting the increased proficiency from the Primordial Eye, the materials he fully analyzed would also make him more adept at crafting supreme treasures later on.
Thanks to the Eye of Primordial Chaos, after entering the second level, it became incredibly fast to analyze ninth-tier materials. Chen Yuan only spent a little over three hundred years to analyze all 20 batches of materials. The most time-consuming of these was the supreme treasure material sent by the giant axe, which took him a full hundred years to process. As for the other ninth-tier materials, even though there were many of them, it only took him two hundred years.
After analyzing this batch of materials, his proficiency with the Primordial Eye reached 71%.
Prior to this, the proficiency level of this secret technique was only 39%, meaning that this batch of materials gave Chen Yuan a total of 32% progress in the Primordial Eye, which is a significant improvement.
It should be noted that it took him a full four hundred years to increase the Primordial Eye from 7% to 39%, which translates to more than a million years in the Primordial Palace!
However, that was due to the scarcity of materials.
In the past four hundred years, the only item Chen Yuan could use to upgrade the Primordial Eye was the [Nameless Sword Embryo].
During the process of the system collecting data, the Primordial Eye, acting as the system's "magnifying glass," also gained a lot of proficiency. Until the progress of the [Nameless Sword Embryo] got stuck, this secret technique finally stopped at 39% proficiency.
Now, thanks to the vast amount of materials, the Eye of Primordial has finally pushed its proficiency to 71%!
With the progress more than halfway complete, this also means that the Primordial Eye can now barely collect information on eleventh-tier items.
"In other words, with the current level of mystical techniques and the assistance of the system, we should be able to continue collecting information on the Nameless Sword Embryo."
"Oh, and the Star Tower too."
He had only recently taken control of this supreme treasure and hadn't even started collecting data on it yet. According to his calculations, it should be able to collect information on the eleventh tier, just like the Nameless Sword Embryo.
"It seems that the breakthrough of the Primordial Eye is in sight."
Thinking of this, Chen Yuan couldn't help but smile. The Nameless Sword Embryo and the Star Tower were now like experience potions in his eyes, which could steadily increase the proficiency of the Primordial Eye over a long period of time.
Furthermore, before reaching the sixth level of the arcane arts (God King level), these two treasures can provide more than half of the proficiency at each level, thus enabling the collection of effects for the next level to be activated in advance, forming a virtuous cycle.
Of course, this is all on the premise that things really turn out as he predicted, and that the proficiency gained doesn't diminish afterward.
However, although the upgrade of the Primordial Eye is promising, Chen Yuan is not in a hurry to collect information on the Star Tower and the Sword Embryo, because there is another treasure that is ahead of him, namely the Wu Killing Wings!
Inside the Shiyuan Hall, Chen Yuan activated his sealing power, firmly immobilizing the two pairs of silver-white wings in front of him.
These two pairs of wings are on the left and right. The left pair is the Wu-killing Wings obtained from Luo Feng, while the right pair is the Flowing Light Wings taken from the Mechanical Race's Heavenly Intestine Venerable.
Of course, both of these names were imposed by later generations. In fact, the true name of the wings should be "Chaotic Golden Wings".
"A single-target, eternal, true god-level mechanical treasure, truly extraordinary."
Chen Yuan's eyes gleamed with a milky white light as he scanned the two wings.
At its current level, the Primordial Eye could barely analyze even a Void True God-level treasure. However, when it looked at the two wings, it found that there was a part of the material of each wing that it could not analyze.
Of course, very little of the content cannot be analyzed; only about one percent of each wing is unanalyzable. Apart from that, over 90% of the information on these two wings is at the level of ordinary treasures. Of the remaining information, over 80% is at the level of true gods, and nearly 20% is at the level of void true gods.
The last part that cannot be analyzed should be the eternal essence contained in these two wings.
Chen Yuan spent over a hundred years analyzing all the contents of the two wings except for the Eternal level, and increased his proficiency with the Primordial Eye to 83%.
"The remaining essence cannot be analyzed for the time being, so let's leave it for now."
"Next—let's try to fuse these two wings together and see if we can create something new."
Thinking of this, Chen Yuan had a thought and released the sealing effect of the Shiyuan Hall.
The next second, the two pairs of wings eagerly converged towards each other, intertwining and combining, while the intensity of the pressure emanating from the treasure also surged instantly.
Finally, a brand new supreme treasure wing appeared before Chen Yuan's eyes. The original two pairs of wings merged and became four wings. The grade also rose from the original ordinary supreme treasure to a level that was infinitely close to the peak supreme treasure.
"Let me see if the essence of these two treasures changes after they are combined."
Chen Yuan activated the Primordial Eye once more and looked at the brand-new wings. "There are indeed changes!" A hint of joy flashed in his eyes. "The proportion of those above the tenth rank has increased significantly, almost doubling, and there's also a lot of new content."
"And the most core, eternal essence accounts for a staggering five percent!"
Chen Yuan was both delighted and regretful at this moment, because neither the Primordial Eye nor the system's computing power were at a high level. Even the Primordial Eye, which was in a slightly better condition, could only barely observe the essence of void-level items.
If he were to break through to the Cosmic Venerable realm and the system's computing power were to increase, there would be hope of uncovering the secrets of the Eternal realm, but that would take far too long.
However, the Wu-killing Wings belonged to Luo Feng, and Chen Yuan was only borrowing them. He needed to return them to Luo Feng before he finished his cultivation and went out to train.
"No, that's not right. There's still hope."
Suddenly, a thought struck him: "The Primordial Eye is almost at the third level. The third level corresponds to the Void level. As long as the proficiency exceeds fifty percent, then it is possible to barely observe the essence of the Eternal level."
"At that time, the system will be able to collect data on Eternal True Gods by using the Primordial Eye on the third layer as a springboard!"
Chen Yuan thought it was feasible, and he thought that as long as he could build up the Eye of Primordial Chaos to more than half of the third layer before Luo Feng left, he could successfully collect the information from the Wings of the Killer Wu.
"Hopefully, the Star Tower and the Nameless Sword Embryo will be powerful enough to provide me with sufficient proficiency."
So Chen Yuan spent several more decades analyzing the merged Wu-killing wings, and his proficiency with the Primordial Eye reached 93%.
Next, we'll analyze the Star Tower.
"Wait, something's not right."
After observing for a while, Chen Yuan suddenly stopped, frowning as he looked at the incredibly slow progress on the panel.
He suddenly realized that the system was anchored to external time and was not affected by the time acceleration of the Primordial Palace. In other words, relying solely on the system to slowly collect data would probably take at least several hundred or even a thousand years to raise the Primordial Eye to more than half of the third level.
Given that much time, Luo Feng must have left long ago.
"No, I need an environment with accelerated time."
Chen Yuan thought to himself, "Should I ask my teacher to let me into his miniature universe? Or—could I try to reverse the relationship between the Primordial Eye and the System, using the Primordial Eye as the primary observer and the System as a secondary observer?"
"Given my current level of control over the system, it seems quite possible."
With that in mind, Chen Yuan no longer hesitated. He opened the panel again and tried to activate the system's [Data Collection] function, using this ability as a springboard to stack the observation ability of the Primordial Eye.
"It's done!"
As he watched the essence being gradually revealed from the Star Tower, Chen Yuan's face lit up with joy: "This way, I can utilize the accelerated environment of the Primordial Palace to quickly improve my proficiency with the Eye of the Beginning!"
"Well, my main body still needs to sort out the laws and cannot stay in the Primordial Palace for long. This cultivation should be left to my clone."
"Perfect timing. Since the creation of the Fusion Secret Technique, the Soul Devouring Beast clone has had nothing to do, so it's perfect for it to come and take over my cultivation of the Primordial Eye."
At the same time, a thought suddenly struck him: "Ireil's treasure has been upgraded, and now we can begin refining the treasure entrusted by the clan."
Therefore, after the soul beast Chen Yuan handed over the cultivation task of the Primordial Eye, the Abyss Whale clone located at the other end of the Primordial Palace summoned Ireil: "Your 'Wisdom Master' has completed its upgrade, Ireil."
With a thought, Chen Yuan, the Abyss Whale, sent the 'Wisdom Master' component, which had become part of the pinnacle treasure set, flying to Ireil's front. "Try it and see if it works."
As soon as Ireil finished refining the treasure, a look of surprise immediately appeared on her face: "It's actually a top-tier treasure! Thank you, Master!"
"Whatever you like is fine."
Chen Yuan smiled. "Oh, right, I have a little gadget here. You can take it and play with it."
As he spoke, he tossed over the divine body of the "Master of Machinations," a body crafted from various precious materials, whose value was no less than that of a top-tier treasure.
However, to Chen Yuan, it was indeed just a trinket. If it weren't for the fact that the power of the universe lord level god within this body had not yet dissipated, he wouldn't even bother to glance at it.
But this mechanical body, combined with divine power, was an invaluable treasure to Irelia. "It's actually the divine body of the Mechanical Universe Lord, and it's preserved so perfectly!"
Clearly, Irene recognized the "trinket" her master was talking about at a glance, and exclaimed with delight, "What a coincidence! I've been studying the Treasure Refining Manual recently and have learned quite a few techniques from it."
"With such a complete divine body of the universe, I can easily refine it into an avatar of myself."
"At that time, I will use this clone to drive the Intelligence Master, and I will be able to reach the combat power of a fourth-order Universe Master!"
"It seems you haven't wasted your time studying these past few centuries," Chen Yuan said with a smile. "In that case, keep up the good work."
"Of course, while the art of refining treasures is excellent, one should not neglect one's own cultivation."
"Understood." Irene nodded her little head. "Master, I'll go cultivate now."
"Go."
Watching Irene's departing figure, Chen Yuan also turned his gaze to the materials not far away.
"Now, I should start working hard too!"