nownovels Chapter 330 The Star Tower, Begins~
Chapter 330 The Star Tower, Begins~
Chapter 330 Star Tower, Beginning~ (4.2K)
"What arrogance!"
Outside the Star Tower, the Yan Emperor, who had already emerged, naturally embellished his account of Chen Yuan's situation, only conveying the last sentence truthfully, because the Yan Emperor felt that the words were already quite arrogant.
Naturally, this move enraged the strongest among them. How dare a mere Immortal, relying on the protection of the Star Tower, speak so arrogantly to them?
"Emperor Yan!" The silver-white snake head sneered, "Since you can get in, why can't you think of a way to send us in? I want to tear that arrogant brat to pieces."
"I'm sorry, Dream Demon Ancestor." Emperor Yan shook his head, "This access was granted to me by my teacher, and only I can enter the core space."
"If the progenitor doesn't believe it, he can try it himself."
"You—· Hmph, fine, I believe you won't lie to me."
The silver-white snake head paused, then asked, "Now that you've discovered Chen Yuan is inside the Star Tower, why don't you just kill him directly? Because this kid has caused your Yan God Clan considerable losses, hasn't it?"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Yan shook his head repeatedly: "Ancestor, you are joking. Chen Yuan is nominally my junior brother. For me to reveal information about him would already be disobeying my master's orders."
"If I dare to kill a fellow disciple, Master Zuoshanke will definitely not let me off."
Just kidding. Putting aside whether he had the ability to kill Chen Yuan, when he entered the core space of the Star Tower, Master Zuoshanke was watching from the side. How could he dare to make a move against Chen Yuan?
However, because Emperor Yan deliberately concealed the matter of the Mountain Guest when reporting the situation inside the tower, it prompted the Dream Demon Ancestor to ask questions, forcing him to find an excuse to refuse.
"I never imagined that you, Emperor Yan, as the leader of a dignified clan, would have such little spirit."
The silver-white snake head couldn't help but sneer.
Although Emperor Yan cursed inwardly, he could only put on an apologetic smile.
"Alright, Mengcha, you should say no more."
The Zerg Queen smoothed things over, saying, "Emperor Yan scouted the way for us this time and at least got some good news: Chen Yuan's true form is in the Star Tower."
"Everyone," she said, glancing around the room, "as per our previous plan, we will each assign an avatar to seal off this area. Once any unusual activity is detected in the Star Tower, we will immediately summon our true forms to kill Chen Yuan!"
"agree."
"Can."
"no problem."
This was the plan they had initially discussed, so it was naturally approved.
At this moment, Emperor Yan suddenly thought of Master Zuoshanke's evaluation of Chen Yuan, and felt uneasy. He couldn't help but remind him, "All ancestors, please be careful. After all, Chen Yuan was able to cultivate to the level of a top overlord in just a few hundred years. No one knows what methods he has."
"Emperor Yan, I think you're overestimating Chen Yuan a bit."
The silver-white snake head chuckled, "You really think the other side is a top overlord? That's just a smokescreen put out by the human race."
"A mere immortal, no matter how strong, can never reach the level of a hegemon. At most, he can only be compared to a cosmic venerable."
"But," Emperor Yan said urgently, recalling what he had seen in the Star Tower, "what if he really does possess such strength—"
Even if he is a top-tier overlord.
The Dream Demon Ancestor interrupted him, stating unequivocally, "Even we, the four progenitors, would perish completely under our attack."
"No, simply killing him won't work."
The Zerg Queen smiled gently: "It would be best if I were to take action and enslave his soul. That way, even if he dies and is resurrected, he will not be freed from the enslavement, and the human race will completely lose a genius."
"Your Majesty, this is not right," the Dream Demon Ancestor questioned. "Why should you be the one to enslave us? I think it would be better to hand us over to my demon race to enslave us."
What a joke! Faced with a genius who possesses both the King Armor technique and the mysterious "Primordial Secret Records," anyone who enslaves this person will undoubtedly greatly increase the strength of their clan. Who would be willing to hand it over so easily?
Don't be fooled by their current alliance; it's only because they share a common goal. When it comes to real interests, their cooperation is just as fragile.
Even their current ability to cooperate is based on the environment of the primordial universe.
After all, the strongest here can only unleash the upper limit of the sixth-tier peak strength, and is no match for the other progenitors. Otherwise, do you think the other progenitors would not want to take action when they saw the Zerg Queen's weak true form descend?
If they were to reach the Cosmic Sea, true gods like the Zerg Queen and the Machine Father God, who are not skilled in close combat, would never appear in their true forms before others.
So, don't be fooled by the fact that these strongest individuals seem to be having a pleasant conversation and are truly on the same page; in reality, they all wish for the other to die as soon as possible.
A mob.
As the Dream Demon Ancestor and the Zerg Queen argued over the enslavement of Chen Yuan, and even the Mechanical Race Father God and the Zhen Demon Ancestor joined in, the Yan Emperor, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.
In the end, the Zerg Queen conceded a step and proposed, "How about this, as long as you hand over Chen Yuan to me to enslave, I can voluntarily withdraw from the subsequent Star Tower competition."
"Oh? You're actually willing to give up the Star Tower for Chen Yuan?"
"Dream Demon Ancestor asked curiously."
"To me, Chen Yuan himself is more valuable," the Zerg Queen said calmly. "After all, I have already taken control of the Supreme Palace."
The Star Tower doesn't hold that much appeal for me.
"As for you few, none of you have a supreme palace in hand, so you must be determined to get the Star Tower, right?"
"—You're right." The Dream Demon Ancestor gave the other party a deep look, nodded and said, "Alright, since you've given up the competition for the Star Tower, then Chen Yuan is yours."
"As for the Star Tower—we'll each rely on our own abilities then, shall we?"
After the Dream Demon Ancestor finished speaking, he looked at the other two people. To be precise, the two demons looked at the Mechanical Ancestor together.
"—.Okay." Surprisingly, after hesitating for a moment, the Progenitor of Machines actually agreed.
"Haha, mechanical, impressive." The two demon ancestors were naturally delighted to see this, because the demon race had two of the strongest, which would definitely give them a huge advantage when they competed for the Star Tower.
After the discussion, the true forms of the strongest individuals were ready to leave, though each of them left behind a divine power avatar.
Although it is only an avatar, it was separated from the strongest being in the universe, so its strength is not weak.
With at least four people working together, they could seal off the entire space of the Star Tower, which was also to prevent Chen Yuan from teleporting away from inside.
After leaving behind their avatars, the true forms of the strongest individuals also departed one by one, ignoring Yan Di standing to the side.
After everyone left, Emperor Yan remained silent for a moment before finally teleporting away from the spot as well.
In an instant, the once noisy Star Tower fell silent. There was no one inside. All the alien powerhouses had been taken away by the strongest, leaving only a few divine avatars to seal off the space.
Inside the main hall of the Star Tower.
"They're gone."
The Mountain-Sitting Guest suddenly said, "But the space of the Star Tower has been sealed off."
"Yes, I sensed it too, teacher."
Chen Yuan nodded, but there was no surprise on his face, clearly indicating that he had expected this.
"They're trying to trap you like a turtle in a jar," the Mountain Hermit reminded him. "They're just waiting for the moment you take control of the Star Tower."
"I understand." A smile appeared on Chen Yuan's lips.
Very well, it seems these alien races really didn't listen to him and are determined to take action.
"I've already asked my second senior brother to warn them, but it doesn't seem to have much effect."
Chen Yuan said calmly, "In that case, we'll see if these alien races can bear the consequences of provoking me."
Upon hearing this, the Mountain-Sitting Guest showed no concern whatsoever; instead, he smiled and exclaimed, "Excellent! This is truly my disciple!"
"My disciple, what are your plans next?"
"Next? Of course, we'll continue studying until the Lord's recognition ceremony is over." Chen Yuan blinked. "Teacher, you don't think I'm going to rush out and fight them to the death right now, do you?"
He's not stupid. With most of his will controlled by the Star Tower, he insisted on rushing out to fight the enemy, which would not only delay his cultivation but also prevent him from fully unleashing his strength.
Instead, he should stay here and continue cultivating. Once the ceremony of recognizing the master is over, he will settle all old scores with the other party one by one.
"Teacher, please continue the lesson."
"Hehe, okay."
Subsequently, Chen Yuan's various clones once again entered into immersive cultivation, steadily advancing in refining treasure techniques, the Nether Sea Divine Body, the analysis of innate secret techniques, and most importantly, the Meditation Technique.
However, his path of cultivation was not without its challenges.
As time went by, the Star Tower's will impact increased at an increasingly rapid rate, and just as he had predicted, it reached the late stage of the third tier in just a few years, and then surged to the early stage of the fourth tier ten years later!
Even with the boost from his mastery of the Sitting Meditation Technique, Chen Yuan's willpower growth rate almost couldn't keep up with the Star Tower's ascent, and he was slowly overtaken.
The most dangerous time was when the Star Tower's will reached the early stage of the fourth tier, because Chen Yuan's will strength was also at the early stage at that time!
The wills of the two sides were now very close, although Chen Yuan's total willpower was still slightly higher. However, in order to fight against the Star Tower,
He has already staked nearly 90% of his overall will on it.
As a result, Chen Yuan was even forced to suspend the cultivation of his Soul Devouring Beast clone. After all, analyzing the secret technique was indeed very energy-consuming. Only by removing this major drain on his energy could he finally continue the cultivation tasks of his other clones.
Fortunately, as the Star Tower entered the fourth stage, Chen Yuan also gained a chance to catch his breath, because for the next 60 years, the Star Tower will maintain the will strength of the early stage of the fourth stage, and then it will continue for 30 years and 10 years in the next two stages respectively.
Such a long period of time was enough for Chen Yuan to push his proficiency in the Sitting Meditation Technique to a new level. After all, it had been almost two years since his will broke through to the early stage of the fourth level, and he was not far from the middle stage.
Sure enough, just three years later, Chen Yuan's willpower strength successfully reached the mid-stage of the fourth tier, once again leading the Star Tower by one stage.
This also means that the previously suspended practice of analyzing secret techniques can now resume.
Time continued to flow, and thirty years later, Chen Yuan's will broke through again, reaching the late stage of the fourth tier.
Twenty years later, his treasure-refining skills finally reached the ninth level without relying on the Primordial Eye, making him a true 'Peak Treasure-Refining Master'.
He then entered a long learning phase of the "Supreme Treasure".
When the Star Tower's impact intensity reached the mid-stage of the fourth tier, Chen Yuan had already raised his will to the peak of the fourth tier by relying on the Sitting Meditation Technique, and completely broke through to the fifth tier of will in just a few years!
In this way, Chen Yuan gained a significant lead in the race against the Star Tower and secured more than thirty years of time.
Time flies, and when the century has passed and the Star Tower's will has also reached the fifth level, Chen Yuan's will, thanks to his years of cultivation, has not reached the mid-fifth level, but it can be considered the peak of the early stage.
Although they are roughly in the same stage, the total amount of willpower is higher in the fifth rank compared to the fourth rank.
This also means that Chen Yuan has enough extra willpower to distribute among his four clones for cultivation, and there will be no situation like before where he was forced to suspend the cultivation of a particular clone.
Furthermore, in the time to come, the Star Tower will pose no further threat to him.
Because at this point, the Star Tower's will has leveled off and will gradually rise to the peak of the fifth rank over the next three hundred years.
However, this level of pressure no longer had any effect on Chen Yuan. He could easily withstand the impact of the Star Tower's will and devote more energy to the cultivation of his clone.
During this century, although Chen Yuan focused his main energy on his main body, it did not mean that he neglected his clones.
After all, that's how cultivation works. The main body on the front lines only needs to focus on resisting the pressure from the Star Tower, while the three avatars in the rear have many more things to consider.
There's not much to say about the Abyss Whale clone; it steadily improved its treasure-refining skills, advancing from the initial level nine to the peak of level nine, meaning it could refine enough 'Calamity Armor'.
The ultimate treasure at the "Original Soul" level.
It is worth mentioning that the system's data collection on the nameless sword embryo, aided by the Primordial Eye, finally stalled at 10/100,000.
That is, only one ten-thousandth of the data was collected.
After that, it refused to make any further progress.
Chen Yuan checked the system log and found that the system had collected all the data for the entire [Tenth Tier] stage. Although this material was specialized for sword-type treasures, it could at least upgrade other treasures to around the fifth or sixth level of the Tenth Tier.
As for the Azure Sky Sword? As long as the secret runes are complete, Chen Yuan can even optimize it all the way up to the tenth rank, level nine!
As for the secret runes—he and the Mountain Hermit hadn't been learning them for nothing over the years, so he had naturally collected them all long ago.
"In other words, we can now begin the optimization plan for the Azure Sky Sword." Chen Yuan's eyes flashed. "Target: a level nine supreme treasure!"
After starting the simulation and rehearsal of the Azure Sky Sword, Chen Yuan turned his attention to the progress of his other clones.
The diameter of Youhai's avatar has reached 350 billion kilometers, making it several times stronger than Luo Feng, who is at the Immortal level, and it is still steadily increasing in size.
The final Soul-Devouring Beast clone also accomplished an important milestone: it successfully deciphered all the secret runes of "A Thought of Void".
In other words, Chen Yuan has now completely mastered the strongest innate secret technique bestowed upon him by this primordial universe, and can easily use it even without relying on his talent.
"The next step is to integrate the two."
Chen Yuan secretly looked forward to it: "If the fusion is successful, I will master the strongest fusion technique and my strength will completely advance to the fifth level!"
After checking the progress of each part of his body, Chen Yuan entered a state of cultivation again.
Time flies, and three hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.
This also means that Chen Yuan has completely completed the Star Tower's recognition ceremony!
So, on this very day, the four divine incarnations outside the Star Tower suddenly discovered that the Star Tower was trembling violently.
What followed was a voice that resounded through the sky:
"Star Tower, rise!"