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 structure of different materials in the universe at the Planetary level or even the Star level.

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

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

Moreover, World Lords could directly use World Power to attune themselves to 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 Origin Source Land, would this method become useful again.

Yet the complex material structures capable of inspiring World Lords or even Undying beings were, in turn, beyond the ability of powerhouses at the same level to analyze.

Of course, Lin Qingyu's path was not unique. Similar lines of thought surely existed. Leaving aside everything else, the Secret Rune Diagram school that had appeared in the Original work followed a cultivation philosophy 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?" A thought suddenly occurred to Lin Qingyu. "At first, some creature could use a certain Innate Secret Technique to analyze matter, comprehend laws through that analysis, and once it became strong enough, directly analyze already-formed Secret Pattern Diagrams to reverse-engineer the Cosmic Origin Law."

Although Innate Secret Techniques 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 lifeforms, and other Special Lifeforms could also master different Secret Methods.

I don't plan to use the Secret Rune Diagram school to break through. A path someone 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. I have no way of obtaining a complete inheritance either, Lin Qingyu thought.

Because he was familiar with the setting of Swallowed Star, he had a very clear plan for his cultivation path. In particular, for the hurdle of becoming a True God, he had already resolved to take the Divine Power path and break through with a 100,000-fold Gene Level.

Powerhouses on the Divine Power path could still comprehend laws, but breaking through by comprehending laws did not necessarily allow one's Gene Level to evolve.

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

Forget it. It really is too early to be considering the True God level now. What I need to do is break through to the Star level as quickly as possible, Lin Qingyu sighed inwardly.

Some matters could not even be spoken aloud. Universe Masters could reverse time. His current strength and status were still insufficient, so merely thinking about certain things was enough.

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

Inside Qiulong City's Curio Shop, the clerk had long been waiting by the entrance, staring eagerly into the distance.

The moment he saw Lin Qingyu, he immediately put on a perfect smile and stepped forward to greet him.

"Esteemed 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 tall sat quietly in the warehouse.

The Nutrition Pod's shell was made from C7-grade Liuwen Titanium. It had a certain nurturing effect on the body by itself, and the shell 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 problems, Lin Qingyu directly stored both the Nutrition Pod and the Nutrient Solution in his storage ring.

Then, amid the clerk's enthusiastic farewell, Lin Qingyu left the Curio Shop.

After returning to the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship, Lin Qingyu placed 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 wouldn't have asked for so much money," Bata said. "For an ordinary Planetary-level warrior to break through to the Star level, the resources needed would cost at most three or four hundred million Black Dragon Coins. Your Gene Level is high, so the energy required for your breakthrough is unavoidable, and naturally costs more. In fact, this is already considerably less. Ordinary people using resources to break through also need to buy additional treasures to stabilize their foundation, but you do not."

"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 soaked through 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 the evolution, but his Will Space remained busy.

The will generated 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 within the Nutrition Pod contained the core technology of the Virtual Universe Company's masters. While those technologies were patented and Lin Qingyu could not use them to make money, being able to analyze even part of an apothecary's formula was still extremely worthwhile.

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

"Using external aid to strengthen oneself may indeed leave ordinary cultivators with the hidden danger of an unstable foundation, but I have no such problem," Lin Qingyu said.

What did an unstable foundation mean? This foundation did not refer to one's Life Gene Level; ordinary enhancement did not involve that at all.

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

Foundation—Conception—Domain—World—Origin Law.

This was the normal cultivation path of the universe's powerhouses.

To break through into the Domain, one had to make Origin Force and Mental Force resonate and form Domain Power. Without sufficient control over Origin Force and Mental Force, it was impossible to possess a Domain, let alone the World Power and Origin Law that came afterward.

For powerhouses, major realms were leaps in life level. Minor realms, meanwhile, were accumulations of energy, as well as control over and familiarity with that accumulated energy.

For ordinary people, the energy they painstakingly refined and accumulated themselves was inevitably easier to control than energy forcibly poured in from outside.

But geniuses were different. Geniuses who grasped a Domain or even an Origin Law 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 powerhouse's control over energy.

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

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