Creating Heavenly Laws-Chapter 535

Chaos Void.

Chaotic energy drifted everywhere.

A vast chaos continent sped along, constantly crossing great distances of space-time, heading toward a predetermined destination.

On the chaos continent, Lin Yuan gazed calmly into the distance, distinctly feeling that the distance between himself and his true self was rapidly widening. If not for having reached the twelfth rank and greatly increased his mental will, he would likely be unable to maintain this avatar now.

“My comprehension of time and space rules is already at the peak of the seventh level. The range limit of where this avatar can exist is now a thousand or ten thousand times what it was before I stepped into the twelfth rank, which is more than enough.”

So Lin Yuan thought.

To avoid the aftermath of the impending battle between two Chaos Great Saints, the moment the Thousand Treasures Festival ended, the Guming Chaotic Continent began its migration.

Lin Yuan’s avatar remained on Guming Chaotic Continent to serve as an “anchor.”

In his estimation, once his home universe undergoes its Great Destruction, humanity’s new habitat should be somewhere near Guming Chaotic Continent.

First, it would be close to a chaos continent, which goes without saying in terms of safety.

Second, Venerable Guming was fairly benevolent and stable in disposition; otherwise, he would never have openly disclosed that the region was about to become a battlefield for two Great Saints.

After the Great Destruction of the universe, ensuring stability is paramount for humanity’s new home. The lifeforms of the universe, upon first entering the Chaos Void, will need a stable environment to adapt.

“Let’s go have a look.”

Lin Yuan walked out of the inn and into the transaction area of Mingchuan City.

“Brother Milky Way, come check out our shop. We just got in a new batch of items purely for enjoyment.”

“Brother Milky Way, what good is enjoyment? If you have money, it’s better to buy a decent weapon. Our shop specializes in weaponry.”

As Lin Yuan passed by, several twelfth-rank Path-Clearing lifeforms took the initiative to greet him. Although this was just an avatar, the aura he emitted was that of a Path-Clearing pinnacle lifeform, enough to deter most Path-Clearing lifeforms.

In the Chaos Void, a twelfth-rank being qualified one to roam freely, but not many reached the pinnacle of Path-Clearing. Even fewer could reach Dominance. As for Chaos Venerables? Those were overlords of an entire region, not the sort of beings ordinary Path-Clearing lifeforms could hope to encounter.

Since this avatar of Lin Yuan possessed Path-Clearing pinnacle strength, many Path-Clearing lifeforms were eager to befriend him, for more allies means more possibilities.

Lin Yuan responded to greetings with a polite smile and soon arrived before a grand hall.

“Milky Way, you’ve come.” A middle-aged man with thick wings emerged to greet him.

“Master Wan Qu,” Lin Yuan walked over.

“Any luck finding a suitable fragment-world, as I requested?”

A fragment-world refers to a “fragmented asteroid” orbiting the Guming Chaotic Continent. Once slightly modified, it makes a decent place to live, thus called a “fragment-world.”

“Hahaha, Milky Way, you want a fragment-world that’s large enough and free of any radiation, right? It’s not easy to find the right match.”

The middle-aged man with thick wings shook his head.

Those “fragmented asteroids” form from all sorts of materials drifting in the Chaos Void and are eventually drawn in to orbit a chaos continent. Those materials are complicated in origin, and many emit radiation.

A twelfth-rank Path-Clearing lifeform can certainly ignore that influence, but weaker ones? For instance, those of the eighth or ninth rank living under such radiation long-term isn’t good.

“That’s why I came to you, Master Wan Qu.” Lin Yuan smiled.

Dominance Wan Qu was one of Venerable Guming’s disciples, specially in charge of those “fragmented asteroids” around Guming Chaotic Continent.

“Since you, Brother Milky Way, have come to me, I’ll be sure to handle it properly.” Dominance Wan Qu looked at Lin Yuan, shaking his head wryly.

The truth is, while other Path-Clearing lifeforms might see Lin Yuan as a Path-Clearing pinnacle being, someone at Wan Qu’s level could confirm that Lin Yuan was actually at Dominance. After all, he was sure this person before him was not the true body but only an avatar.

If one avatar already carried the strength and aura of a Path-Clearing pinnacle, it leaves no doubt the true body is at Dominance.

That is why Wan Qu was on such friendly terms with Lin Yuan. As a disciple of Venerable Guming, there’s no reason he would be so courteous to a mere Path-Clearing pinnacle.

“To be honest, there are indeed several fragment-worlds that meet your requirements,”

Wan Qu said, raising his hand and producing miniature illusions of fragment-asteroids. These were the scaled-down images of the ones orbiting Guming Chaotic Continent.

“These?”

Lin Yuan’s interest was piqued.

“How many Chaos Stones?”

“This one is one hundred eighty thousand Chaos Stones, that one is one hundred seventy thousand…” Wan Qu began listing the prices.

“That’s too expensive,” Lin Yuan said, shaking his head.

For the purpose of securing a new home for human civilization, Lin Yuan had already discussed with the other nine strongest humans. The cost would come from the civilization’s treasury, with a budget of around one hundred twenty thousand to one hundred fifty thousand Chaos Stones.

“Expensive, is it?”

Wan Qu nodded.

“It is a bit high, but these fragment-worlds are entirely free of radiation and are best for settling a population.”

“If it’s too steep for you, I can keep looking.”

He did not mind that Lin Yuan balked at the price.

“I’d appreciate that, Master Wan Qu.”

Lin Yuan said.

He was not in a rush. From when the main universe starts its Great Destruction to the time it fully collapses, there is still some while to go. Lin Yuan could wait for a more suitable fragment-world to appear.

Because it was a major transaction of over a hundred thousand Chaos Stones, it might drain almost everything from human civilization’s treasury, so it had to be handled with care.

Main Universe.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged. The space-time around him was on the verge of collapse, with myriad rules actively retreating, turning the region where Lin Yuan sat into a “black hole” devoid of any rule flow.

“Three hundred years of cultivation…”

Lin Yuan opened his eyes. Over these three centuries, his time-space fusion comprehension had fully reached the peak of the seventh level. Only a hair’s breadth separated him from the eighth level in time-space.

Likewise, his mental will had made significant gains.

Of course, the biggest progress was in his internal universe.

Two hundred ninety years ago, Lin Yuan successfully refined the jade gourd and acquired the legacy it contained—

“Infinite Void.”

This legacy, created by a thirteenth-rank time lifeform specifically for establishing the foundation of one’s internal universe, is composed of seven layers.

Theoretically, if one masters all seven layers, one’s internal universe will evolve into a behemoth equal to the Chaos Void itself, sweeping aside all opposition.

But the seventh layer of Infinite Void exists purely in theory. Even the founder of the jade gourd, that thirteenth-rank time lifeform, never reached it. It’s just a conjecture.

Even so, the power of this inheritance is shocking. Merely completing the first layer, entering the “initiation” stage of Infinite Void, elevates one’s internal universe to the level of a Chaos Venerable’s universe.

“I’ve succeeded with the first layer.”

Lin Yuan sensed the aura of his internal universe, faintly radiating terrifying fluctuations.

After nearly three centuries of cultivation, Lin Yuan had finally achieved the first layer of Infinite Void.

“Now your internal universe is no different from a Chaos-level internal universe.”

The red-clothed young girl materialized within that internal universe, gazing upon its vastness, nearly twenty million light years across. She spoke aloud.

The legacy known as Infinite Void imposes demanding requirements on the cultivator. Under normal circumstances, one simply lacks the foundation to master the first layer unless one is at the Dominance realm.

And even at Dominance, training to the first layer remains no simple feat, requiring endless effort and time.

Originally, the red-clothed girl intended to caution Lin Yuan against overconfidence, noting that merely Infinite Void’s first layer was hardly enough to roam the Chaos Void freely. But then she remembered that Lin Yuan was only in the Path-Clearing rank. She simply could not voice such warnings.

A Path-Clearing lifeform mastering the first layer of Infinite Void such that his internal universe rivaled that of a Chaos Venerable? Even with partial memories bestowed by the jade gourd’s creator, she had never heard of such a thing.

“My strength still falls short of a true Chaos Venerable,”

Lin Yuan reflected upon himself and reached that conclusion.

Just possessing an internal universe comparable to a Chaos Venerable’s universe did not mean he was truly on the same level. After all, a Chaos Venerable’s methods extend beyond the internal universe alone.

“I’m probably a bit stronger than that chaos dragon beast on Guming Chaotic Continent,” Lin Yuan estimated inwardly.

That beast, nurtured by the Chaos Void, was a remarkable lifeform carrying a faint trace of time lineage. Hence it could, while merely at the peak of Dominance, nearly match a genuine Chaos Venerable.

The chaos dragon beast relied on its natural gifts to reach that point. By contrast, Lin Yuan made it purely through accumulation and a solid foundation.

In truth, Lin Yuan’s full potential far surpassed that of the chaos dragon beast. After all, the beast was already at the pinnacle of Dominance, whereas Lin Yuan was only at the pinnacle of Path-Clearing. Simply at Path-Clearing pinnacle, he could already surpass the beast. Once Lin Yuan stepped into Dominance, he would transform once again, likely ranking among the stronger Chaos Venerables.

“Internal universe…”

Lin Yuan’s mind stirred. Harnessing the power of his internal universe, he extended it across the stellar realm around him.

Whoosh.

Vast stretches of space were dissolved into nothingness. This power far exceeded the norm for a Path-Clearing pinnacle.

In the next instant, the Universe Source Consciousness descended, swirling around Lin Yuan for a few moments before withdrawing.

“The Universe Source Consciousness did not suppress me?”

Lin Yuan watched this, reflecting. He had prepared for the possibility of the Universe Source Consciousness coming to suppress him. If that happened, he planned to hide inside the Mysterious Emperor secret realm.

But in reality, the Universe Source Consciousness did not do as expected. Instead, it departed quietly.

“Is it because suppressing me would come at too high a cost?”

Lin Yuan wondered.

The Universe Source Consciousness has no personal emotions; it acts for the good of the entire universe. The reason it forbids power exceeding the Path-Clearing pinnacle is that such might can inflict irreversible damage upon the universe. Thus arose the iron law.

Yet Lin Yuan’s destructive capacity had just soared far above Path-Clearing pinnacle. The Universe Source Consciousness arrived and sized up his true strength. Attempting to suppress Lin Yuan now would tax even its vast resources, depleting the universe’s source to a huge extent.

Hence it ultimately withdrew, judging that suppressing Lin Yuan was not worth the cost.

“So as long as I don’t directly strike at the Source of the universe, I can act without hindrance,” Lin Yuan mused. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Of course, he knew the Universe Source Consciousness’s tolerance toward him was not limitless. If he crossed that threshold or some bottom line, then despite knowing the heavy price, the consciousness would still act against him.

“I wonder what would happen if I tried leaving the universe now?” Lin Yuan abruptly thought.

Given how much of the universe’s energy and resources he had consumed, leaving permanently would heavily provoke the Universe Source Consciousness.

Lin Yuan guessed that must be one of the Source’s red lines.

“Oh well, better not try,” he shook his head.

Right now, choosing to leave would mean facing the Universe Source Consciousness at full strength in an effort to stop and suppress him. If he waits until the Great Destruction is imminent, the Universe Source Consciousness will be drifting into slumber, so the resistance and suppression would be much weaker then.

In the Calamity Clan domain, a place beyond knowledge, in front of a seemingly ordinary wooden hut, one of the clan’s Strongest Ones stepped outside and abruptly looked in a certain direction.

“That was… a power surpassing the Path-Clearing pinnacle?”

This wooden hut looked ordinary, but for the Calamity Clan, it was a precious artifact left by their mother tribe. Not only has it survived one Great Destruction after another, but it can also observe countless auras throughout the universe.

Just now, two Strongest Ones of the Calamity Clan clearly sensed a surge of power far exceeding the Path-Clearing pinnacle.

“It’s the aura of Milky Way Star Lord, unleashing strength beyond the Path-Clearing pinnacle?” the Strongest One inside the wooden hut said in confusion.

The Strongest One outside was just as perplexed.

They had never doubted that the Milky Way Star Lord exceeded Path-Clearing pinnacle strength. His casually formed avatars already reached Path-Clearing pinnacle, so the true body must be Dominance or higher.

He just never displayed Dominance-level might before because of the universe’s suppressive force.

But now?

Milky Way Star Lord had shown Dominance-level power?

Wasn’t he worried about being suppressed by the Universe Source Consciousness?

Those among the Calamity Clan who have survived from the last cosmic epoch to this one can wield up to Path-Clearing pinnacle power but would be suppressed if they exceed it.

For Lin Yuan, born in the current epoch, the boundary is a bit looser, but releasing power beyond the Path-Clearing pinnacle would still incur the Universe Source Consciousness’s wrath. Being struck by that force is hardly pleasant.

“What?”

“The Universe Source Consciousness didn’t strike? It withdrew?”

Immediately, the two Strongest Ones widened their eyes. Through the hut’s perception, they were certain the Universe Source Consciousness descended upon the region where Milky Way Star Lord acted.

But in the end, there was no sign of an actual suppression attempt. The Universe Source Consciousness simply withdrew.

“The Universe Source Consciousness retreated on its own?”

The Calamity Clan’s Strongest One standing outside the hut was visibly shaken, heart trembling uncontrollably.

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