Nutrition Pod

Lin Qingyu's path was difficult to imitate. At the very least, ordinary lifeforms below the World Lord level had virtually no chance of copying it.

Others did not possess a Will Space, much less the ability to analyze the microscopic structures of different substances in the universe while still at the Planetary level or even the Star level.

By the time those powerful beings gained the ability to analyze the microscopic composition of various materials, the mysteries contained within those simple, analyzable materials could no longer move them.

World Lords, for example, could directly use World Power to form B-grade and C-grade materials. Naturally, such materials could offer them no inspiration.

Moreover, World Lords could directly use World Power to resonate with the Cosmic Origin Land, so they had no need for this method as assistance. Only upon reaching the Undying level, when they could no longer merge with the Cosmic Origin Land, would this method become useful again.

Yet those complex material structures capable of inspiring World Lords and even Undying beings could not be analyzed by experts of the same level.

Of course, Lin Qingyu's path was not unique. Similar ideas certainly existed. Setting aside anything else, the Secret Rune Diagram school that had appeared in the Original work followed a cultivation approach similar to Lin Qingyu's.

"Speaking of the Secret Rune Diagram school, could it be that the earliest Secret Rune Diagram school was born this way?" Lin Qingyu suddenly had an idea. "At first, there may have been a creature capable of using some innate Secret Method to analyze matter, comprehending laws through that analysis. Once it grew stronger, it directly analyzed already-formed Secret Pattern Diagrams to reverse-engineer the Cosmic Origin Law."

Although the innate Secret Methods found in the universe could not compare to Lin Qingyu's Will Space, there were quite a few Secret Methods capable of analyzing matter.

For example, Lord of Nine Nether's "Creation" Secret Method from the Original work could analyze material structures to create life. Other Special Lifeforms could also master different Secret Methods.

I do not intend to use the Secret Rune Diagram school to break through. A path someone else has already walked cannot lead to becoming a True God. Besides, no one in this Era of Reincarnation or even the previous three Eras of Reincarnation has cultivated the Secret Rune Diagram school, so I have no way to obtain a complete inheritance. Lin Qingyu thought.

Because he was familiar with the setting of Swallowed Star, he had arranged his own cultivation path with great clarity. In particular, he had already resolved to take the Divine Power path when breaking through to become a True God, advancing with a hundred-thousandfold Gene Level.

Experts who took the Divine Power path could still comprehend laws, but comprehending laws to achieve a breakthrough would not necessarily allow their Gene Level to evolve.

In the world of Swallowed Star, one's foundation was extremely important.

Forget it. Thinking about the True God level now really is too early. What I need to do now is break through to the Star level as soon as possible. Lin Qingyu sighed inwardly.

There were some things he could not even say aloud. Universe Masters could reverse time. His current strength and status were still insufficient, so merely thinking about certain matters was enough.

"Bata, we can head to the Curio Shop now." Lin Qingyu stood up, took two bodyguards with him, and headed for Qiulong City.

At the Curio Shop in Qiulong City, the clerk had long been waiting at the entrance, staring expectantly into the distance.

The moment he saw Lin Qingyu, he immediately revealed a flawless smile and stepped forward to greet him.

"Honored Mr. Lin, the Nutrition Pod you ordered has arrived. This way, please," the clerk said respectfully.

Led by the clerk, Lin Qingyu entered a warehouse.

A metal pod three and a half meters long, two point four meters wide, and three point two meters high sat quietly within the warehouse.

The body of the Nutrition Pod was made from C7-grade Liuwen Titanium. It had a certain nourishing effect on the body by itself, and the pod alone was worth two billion Black Dragon Coins.

Beside the Nutrition Pod stood a transparent container of roughly ten cubic meters, filled with emerald-green liquid. This was the Nutrient Solution Lin Qingyu would use to break through.

After Bata confirmed that there were no issues, Lin Qingyu directly stored the Nutrition Pod and Nutrient Solution in his storage ring.

Then, amid the clerk's eager farewells, Lin Qingyu left the Curio Shop.

After returning to the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship, Lin Qingyu set up the Nutrition Pod and Nutrient Solution in an empty room.

"Bata, this Nutrient Solution should be enough for my breakthrough, right? My Gene Level is fifty times higher, after all," Lin Qingyu said.

"Of course there's no problem. I calculated it long ago, otherwise I would not have demanded so much money," Bata said. "The resources an ordinary Planetary level cultivator needs to break through to the Star level would cost at most three or four hundred million Black Dragon Coins. Your Gene Level is high, so the energy required for your breakthrough cannot be lacking. Naturally, it costs more. In fact, this is already much less than usual. Ordinary people who use resources to break through must also buy other treasures to reinforce their foundations, but you do not need to."

"Good. Then let's begin." Following the Nutrition Pod's instructions, Lin Qingyu poured the Nutrient Solution into it.

Then he removed all his clothes and lay down inside the Nutrition Pod.

An incomparably comfortable sensation instantly permeated Lin Qingyu's entire body. He felt his body, Sea of Consciousness, Origin Force, and Mental Force all slowly growing.

"Record it." Lin Qingyu's bodily consciousness immersed itself in evolution, but his Will Space did not remain idle.

The will produced by Void Conception gave him extra mental capacity to record and observe the process by which the Nutrition Pod strengthened him.

After all, the Nutrient Solution in the Nutrition Pod contained the core technology of those masters from the Virtual Universe Company. Although the technology was patented, and Lin Qingyu could not use it to make money, being able to analyze even part of an apothecary's formula was extremely worthwhile.

"Sure enough, the process of strengthening the body inevitably involves the absorption and circulation of Cosmic Energy." Within his Will Space, Lin Qingyu roughly analyzed the process of his own enhancement.

"Relying on external power to strengthen oneself may indeed leave ordinary cultivators with the hidden danger of an unstable foundation, but that will not be a problem for me," Lin Qingyu said.

What did an unstable foundation mean? This foundation was not one's life gene level, and ordinary enhancement did not involve that.

The so-called "foundation" at the Planetary and Star levels referred to one's degree of control over Origin Force and Mental Force.

Foundation—Conception—Domain—World—Origin Law.

This was the normal path of cultivation for powerful beings in the universe.

To break through to the Domain level, Origin Force and Mental Force had to resonate and form Domain Power. If one's control over Origin Force and Mental Force was insufficient, one could not possess a Domain, much less World Power and Origin Law afterward.

For the cultivation of powerful beings, major realms represented leaps in life level. Minor realms, meanwhile, represented the accumulation of energy, as well as control over and familiarity with that accumulated energy.

For ordinary people, energy they painstakingly refined and accumulated themselves was naturally easier to control than energy forcefully infused from outside.

But geniuses were different. Those geniuses who grasped Domains or even Origin Laws at the Star level would never suffer from the so-called problem of an unstable foundation. Their control over their own energy far surpassed that of others at the same level.

The process of absorbing Cosmic Energy and converting it into one's own Mental Force and Origin Force could only increase an ordinary expert's degree of control over energy.

However, this process was useless to geniuses, because their mastery over their own Origin Force and Mental Force had long surpassed the level they occupied.

Simply absorbing and converting Cosmic Origin Energy could not improve their control over their own energy. Thus, when the Virtual Universe Company trained such geniuses, it would not let them waste time on this process.