Swallowed Star: Nightmare of Time
Chapter 109

The Mission Grinder

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"The perfect combination of light and time, what a wonderful feeling!" Lu Yan'an maintained the black hole around his body, feeling this special state of being one with the black hole. He could vaguely feel that his understanding of the Law of Light and Time Fusion was slowly advancing.

Before this secret technique appeared, Lu Yan'an's true form had never experienced such a wonderful sense of progress.

Lu Yan'an suddenly activated his secret technique, controlling the size of this artificial black hole. Black holes of different sizes offer completely different experiences and have different impacts on the surrounding environment. Previously, he only maintained the existence of the smallest black hole, and the gravitational pull emitted by the black hole only affected an area of several hundred kilometers in radius; but now, the radius of the black hole is constantly increasing, and the area affected is also constantly increasing!

At a certain point, the size of the black hole seemed to have exceeded the critical point. Lu Yan'an felt the consumption of maintaining this secret technique increase sharply, and his control over the black hole became weaker and weaker. So, he slowly stopped the operation of the secret technique, and the black hole disappeared in an instant! Leaving only the environment ravaged by gravity.

"This is too amazing, too amazing! This secret technique combines light and time so ingeniously! It's simply... a secret technique tailor-made for me!" Lu Yan'an's face was full of shock, then he smiled broadly. "I had clearly hit a bottleneck in my understanding of the Law of Light and Time Fusion. In these seventeen years, I've only made a little progress, not even reaching the Entry Level."

"But as soon as I activated this Innate Secret Technique, I could feel the inspiration about the fusion of Light Time constantly bursting forth in my mind. In just a short while, my progress in understanding things by analogy surpassed the progress I had made in the previous seventeen years of hard training!" Lu Yan'an exclaimed in amazement.

"Try comprehending it with your true self?" The perception of Lu Yan'an, the Demon Beast Clone on the field, vanished instantly, replaced by his true self.

"Um?"

When Lu Yan'an was comprehending the fusion of Light Time on his true form, the continuous flow of inspiration he had experienced while performing the secret technique completely vanished. It was as if someone had directly pulled the dam at the source, blocking the source of his inspiration. This sudden drop in inspiration caused him great distress.

"This Time Demon Beast Clone is born to comprehend the Law of Light and Time Fusion! Just as fish are born to live in water," Lu Yan'an thought to himself.

Humans can never swim as fast as they can run on land.

The speed at which fish leap on land can never match their speed in water.

Same principle!

The Time Demon Beast is naturally adept at comprehending the Law of Light and Time Law. When comprehending these laws, it also has Innate Secret Technique to guide it, ensuring it doesn't stray from the right path—it's as if the consciousness of the Primal Universe is constantly feeding the Time Demon Beast!

"It suits me perfectly in every way. It's an enhanced version of me in terms of laws, Illusionist, and even survival! The Time Demon Beast Clone has really given me a huge boost." Lu Yan'an kept praising it.

The most amazing thing is that the Time Demon Beast, as an energy life form, also possesses its own Spiritual Force. Furthermore, while possessing Spiritual Force, it is immune to mental and soul attacks from other powerful beings! In other words, relying on this Demon Beast Clone, Lu Yan'an is completely unafraid of enslavement techniques! Even the Soul Secret Technique of immortals and even Venerable are completely ineffective!

The Original Secret Realm, Viska Star.

This is an ancient and massive planet. A disguised and invisible Machine Race spaceship entered the planet's atmosphere, then retracted its spaceship. A figure flashed and traversed hundreds of kilometers, arriving at the endless forests and oceans below.

It was Lu Yan'an.

He wore pure white armor on his upper body, armor conjured by the Time Demon Beast, over which was a standard battle armor, and a blue-black belt around his waist. As for his lower body, he wore black trousers made of woven alloy wire, which was flexible and extremely defensive. A screen made of a tough material was embedded in his right wrist, displaying a large amount of subtitles, which were the information and data detected in the surrounding area.

He carried a black War Blade and a longbow on his back.

"It was really uncomfortable on Mingguang Star. There were so many restrictions, and we couldn't use many weapons, especially technological ones. In the end, it turned out the company was just setting things up; there was no real danger at all! It's much better here on Viska Star. We can use anything, and we can get real training!" Lu Yan'an looked around. "However, the actual danger on Viska Star is indeed much higher than on Mingguang Star!"

The danger on Mingguang Star mainly stemmed from individuals' lack of self-awareness, but Viska Star is completely different; here, real combat is required! One wrong move, and even an immortal would intervene, making it extremely dangerous.

It was under these unknown risks that Lu Yan'an, who had just been given Clone extend his life, descended upon Viska Star.

The journey of cultivation has begun...

"The cultivation task is to photograph the Ancestral God Stele in the Ancestral God Tomb? Are you kidding me?"

The most magical and important "Ancestral God Tomb" on Viska Star is Guardian by a large group of Immortal God. At first Lu Yan'an didn't dare to go deep into it, because if he were accidentally discovered by any of the Immortal God, no matter how hard he tried, with his ninth-level Universe Level strength, the Immortal God could crush him with just their aura!

However, due to the existence of the Demon Beast Clone, he gradually became bolder.

"We'll give it our all for the mission!"

After a series of probing attempts, he successfully infiltrated the Ancestral God Tomb using the disguise and stealth capabilities of energy lifeforms. After thoroughly examining everything displayed throughout the Ancestral God Tomb, Lu Yan'an successfully located the target of his mission in one of the rooms— the Ancestral God Stele! And not just one, but a full twelve!

The task is to photograph all the pictures on each stele, and use these photos as proof. Once all the Ancestral God Stele have been photographed... return and you can collect your mission points... 100,000 points!

This task seems simple, just taking pictures, and it is indeed very easy.

But the danger lies in...

How can one safely enter this Ancestral God Tomb? How can one survive and enter alive amidst a group of immortals eyeing it covetously?

Keep in mind, these are immortals, and not just one, but a whole group!

Mission to Viska Star (Dangerous Level)

It took him half a year to complete, and by utilizing the disguise characteristics of energy life forms, he successfully obtained the reward of 100,000 points. At the same time, Lu Yan'an also realized that the Ancestral God Tomb here had nothing to do with the Ancestral God Religion; it was just a case of the same name.

Mission in the Flame Ice Continent (Dangerous Level)

Completed in 96 days, awarded with job points.

Lu Yan'an began his life of frantically carrying out missions. With the Time Demon Beast's Clone around, he could go anywhere in the world.

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According to the current rules of the Virtual Universe Company, only Universe Level geniuses can take on cultivation missions, Domain Lord- level geniuses are sent out, and World Lord Level undergo life-or-death trials.

Universe Level geniuses can only take on a maximum of 10 missions every 100 years.

To prevent people from endlessly accepting tasks, there is a limit to the total number of tasks each person can accept.

A Universe Level- Desperate Level Mission from Primal Secret Region Member, and a maximum of two from members of the Primordial Secret Realm. Members of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm and the Endless Secret Realm can only accept a maximum of one extreme mission.

This is for safety reasons.

If you're not strong enough, why would you take on a task that's considered "desperate"? Isn't that just courting death?

Secondly, there's the issue of resource allocation.

The extreme danger of these Desperate Level Mission is immense, but the rewards are also incredibly generous. Primal Secret Region Member can accept a maximum of three such missions, which is the highest limit. In fact, the opportunities they contain far outweigh the meager reward points.

Dangerous missions: Primal Secret Region Member can accept a maximum of 15 missions! Members of the Primordial Secret Realm can accept a maximum of 10 missions! Members of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm can accept a maximum of 6 missions! Members of the Endless Secret Realm can accept a maximum of 3 missions!

Hard-level missions have no restrictions whatsoever. However, not many people will spend all their time doing hard-level missions. One reason is the lower rewards, and another is the lack of uncertainty. The problems involved in hard-level missions are all predetermined by the Virtual Universe Company, and even the resources obtainable from them are already arranged. Doing one in the early stages to get by is fine, but doing more is a waste of time!

Based on the reward points, Lu Yan'an didn't even bother with "Safe Level," "Normal Level," or "Hard Level," because the rewards were too meager and not worth wasting his time on.

The rewards for Desperate Level Mission range from a minimum of 100,000 points to hundreds of thousands or even millions of points!

The reward for a dangerous mission is generally 10,000 to 20,000 points, with a maximum of 100,000 points.

The difficult level requires 1,000 to 2,000 points.

The standard level requires 100-200 points.

Safe Level? Forget about it, that's too little.

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