A Little Something There

One percent every two seconds—the recovery speed is naturally very fast, but the problem is, this secret technique wasn't created for post-battle recovery!

If one returns to recuperate, the recovery speed will naturally be extremely fast. No matter how much divine power is lost, the Divine Body can be fully restored in less than five minutes.

However, this is far from meeting the demands of combat. The speed of battle between experts is incredibly fast; two seconds is enough to decide the outcome of a fight.

And a 1% recovery of the Divine Body... is simply a drop in the ocean!

"No matter how hard I try to activate this secret technique, the speed of absorption and transformation has reached its limit. It's not the limit of the Miniature Universe, but the limit of this secret technique. So what should I do?" Lu Yan'an muttered to himself.

"A higher Gene Level doesn't change the amount of divine power. Right now, with Gene Level of 200 times, a single strike consumes about 1.3% of my Divine Body. If I reached Gene Level of 2000 times, the purity of divine power would increase, so it wouldn't be affected. However, while my physique wouldn't change, my own consumption would become ten times what it was before!"

"A single strike directly consumes 13% of one's Divine Body? The power, including the Divine Power Burning, is a hundred times stronger, but the consumption is too much—ten times greater... My laws are still improving; if the secret technique were even stronger..."

"Even if I eventually reach the size of Perfect Life Divine Body with a speed of 90,000 kilometers, although a speed of 1% per second is fast, burning divine power, coupled with superb secret techniques, and engaging in hundreds of thousands of battles per second, the consumption still far exceeds the replenishment, making intense battles impossible."

"Every sip and every bite, every display of exceptional strength inevitably comes at a great cost."

"How should I deal with this kind of consumption?!"

As he repeated the question to himself, a sudden flash of inspiration seemed to appear in Lu Yan'an's mind, who was frowning. "When I broke through to the Immortal Realm, how did the Origin Place of the Universe rapidly transform my Divine Body?"

"The Origin Land pours the corresponding divine power of laws into my Origin Bead! It connects the Universe Origin with the Origin Bead, and when absorbing energy, it marks this ownerless divine power with its own mark, so it can be absorbed directly."

As if grasping a glimmer of hope, Lu Yan'an once again immersed himself in the research of the secret technique. However, the biggest obstacle to solving the problem was the step from theory to practice.

Eight years... sixty-eight years... one hundred and thirteen years... five hundred and fourteen years... one thousand two hundred and twenty-four years...

Rumble!

Rumble!

Sound travels very slowly in space, but if cosmic energy is incorporated, everything becomes much simpler.

Just like now, immense energy was being unleashed, the shockwave carrying a tremendous sonic boom that spread throughout the entire universe, destroying the few remaining planets along its path... It was Lu Yan'an, sensing the desolation of the starry sky, had gathered them together from the areas under his jurisdiction...

Now it has completely disappeared into the universe, turned into nothingness, and returned to the embrace of the Universe Origin.

Lu Yan'an was 100 light-years away from where he had just been. He Teleportation there as soon as he sensed the Miniature Universe disturbance.

Even at this great distance, Cosmic Origin Energy mixed with light shone on his face, completely engulfing him in the next instant. The light continued to travel even further. Where he had been standing, it was as if a star billions of times larger than the sun was exploding, simultaneously splattering him with dust and dirt.

Silent.

Lu Yan'an stared blankly into the distance. Without a doubt, he had failed. He had a direction, but the creation of the secret technique had still failed...

In the distance, Venerable Yantian's figure suddenly leaped out from the spatial fluctuations.

As soon as he appeared, he asked with a strange expression, "Venerable Huan Shi, what are you up to now?? I thought you'd been attacked by another self-destructing attack from Universe Overlord!"

Lu Yan'an sighed expressionlessly, "The Creation Secret Technique failed."

Venerable Yantian suppressed his worries and asked curiously, "What secret technique could have such power? And it still failed?"

Lu Yan'an calmly said, "It's not an offensive secret technique, but a restorative one. What I need to do now is to be able to quickly restore my Divine Body during battle to maintain my combat endurance."

Venerable Yantian's eyes widened in disbelief. What kind of restorative secret technique could cause such a commotion?

He nodded. Making up for one's own weaknesses is common; it all depends on the individual. Hearing Lu Yan'an's answer, he hesitated before suggesting, "Actually, I feel that this level of attack, instead of being used as a healing technique, could also be used as an offensive technique..."

Lu Yan'an rolled his eyes, utterly speechless. Did he lack offensive techniques? What he lacked were techniques that allowed for rapid recovery during combat after an attack. If he wanted offensive techniques, he could readily produce highly cost-effective ones.

He then explained, "While the attack power is decent, it requires some preparation time and is easy to dodge. Only the center of the explosion is relatively dangerous; the subsequent attacks are actually quite weak, making it a rather ineffective tactic in combat."

Venerable Yantian's expression softened. A charged attack? It could actually achieve such an effect? If it weren't for burning divine power, it would be quite useful for destroying certain environments.

He asked curiously, "Venerable Huan Shi, how does this attack-type... this recovery-support-type secret technique accumulate power? It's so powerful, is it convenient to reveal it? If it's not complete, it shouldn't be considered a secret technique, right?"

Lu Yan'an originally wanted to give him a disdainful look and then say, "Even if I taught you, you wouldn't be able to learn it."

However, recalling Venerable Yantian's expression earlier, and considering that their relationship wasn't particularly close, he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Actually, it wasn't about accumulating power... well, it shouldn't be the traditional way of accumulating power. I was constructing a Miniature Universe."

Venerable Yantian's gaze gradually froze. Miniature Universe? Does our Venerable even have something like that? Even among the Universe Master, probably very few have ever come into contact with such a thing.

He already considered Lu Yan'an Overlord in his mind, and not just any ordinary Overlord, but Miniature Universe seemed a bit too much, didn't it?

Lu Yan'an could tell from his expression that he didn't understand, so he said perfunctorily, "I constructed a Miniature Universe, making myself the core, thinking that the Miniature Universe would constantly help me replenish my divine power, but the result was obvious: I failed... and the Miniature Universe exploded..."

Venerable Yantian now understood. He hadn't thought that the Miniature Universe could be related to recovery. Encirclement or Strangulation was possible, though. This Venerable Huan Shi was indeed quite cunning.

He couldn't help but laugh. From his perspective, the universe was something only the Universe Master could handle; the Venerable One was simply too far removed from it.

He was qualified to know such secrets. The Initial Universe and the Giant Axe Universe were there for all to see. As the human race's Universe Overlord, only the Giant Axe was stronger than him. With 18 Universe Master and 3 Top Universe Overlord, his authority was already very high.

He felt that this Venerable Huan Shi was overestimating himself, and mocked him, "Venerable Huan Shi, wake up! I think your idea of constructing a universe is really wishful thinking! In my opinion, even if you just construct an organ within Divine Body that specifically converts divine power, it would be more practical than constructing this Miniature Universe!"

"At least you can control things like organs, but building a universe, that's really..."

"Wait!" Lu Yan'an quickly interrupted him, staring blankly at Venerable Yantian. If he hadn't misheard, he seemed to have heard something about constructing an organ to convert divine power?

Build an organ?

Lu Yan'an's eyes grew brighter and brighter. Yes! Why didn't he construct a specific organ to complete the conversion of divine power? Couldn't this Origin Bead have been considered a special organ during his previous breakthrough?

He didn't understand anything else, not even the things that naturally formed under the guidance of these breakthrough and enhancement rules. But the Origin Bead... he knew it all!

Previously, the rapid conversion of divine power was absolutely inseparable from the conversion properties of this Origin Bead! If one could understand how this Origin Bead converts ownerless divine power into the divine power of one's own Divine Body, and accelerate the efficiency of this conversion, wouldn't that perfectly solve the problem?

Why didn't he think of building a high-frequency organ for converting divine power before? The deeper he studied the laws, the more familiar he became with the universe, and he unconsciously started thinking about problems in more complex ways. He even thought about how to build a relatively stable universe and then create corresponding secret methods by imitating the way the universe absorbs and releases energy!

The problem is, he hasn't reached the level of creating a universe! No matter how imaginative his thoughts are, if his level of understanding is too low, everything he creates will be full of flaws.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan'an looked at Venerable Yantian with a strange expression. This monkey really is something else!

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