Swallowed Star: Lord of Taihuan
Chapter 31

The Supreme Secret Art of Refining False into True

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Jiang Yao truly understood the saying, "Cultivating step-by-step is just waiting for death," on a profound level.

Even ignoring the fact that the will of Bizhang had "devoured" one of the main vines of the Universe-level Moyun Vine, its will was constantly strengthening bit by bit. The prison suppressing the will of Bizhang—the Xu Yuan Space—was opened by Jiang Yao using his own soul, so he felt this process quite clearly.

In order to consistently suppress the will of Bizhang and avoid being possessed, Jiang Yao had to keep getting stronger, and he could not afford to be slow.

However, he still insisted on not breaking through to the ninth stage of the Star level before the pinnacle genius competition in over three hundred years; or rather, he preferred not to miss the genius competition unless absolutely necessary.

After all, Jiang Yao knew how much blood, sweat, and tears the two pinnacle powers of the human race invested in the cultivation of geniuses in their core layers.

With Jiang Yao's current level of comprehension of the Origin Laws, there was actually no bottleneck to breaking through to the Universe level. Aside from his domain not yet meeting the standards, there were no obstacles to reaching the Domain Lord level either, provided he had enough energy nutrient solution.

But there was a world of difference between one Universe-level and another, or one Domain Lord and another.

Moreover, if he could not obtain the best cultivation from the two major powers, his progress at the World Lord level and beyond would slow down, so he could not lose the big picture for the sake of small gains.

Thus, under the restriction of not breaking through to the Universe level within three hundred years, he could only adopt other means to become stronger.

Regarding the comprehension of Origin Laws, as long as he persistently released a sliver of the will of Bizhang from time to time to improve his own will through confrontation, and transformed his body to become increasingly close to the Origin Laws, coupled with the fact that the main sect of the Lingtong Race surely possessed secret techniques for cultivating Origin Laws, his comprehension would naturally continue to improve rapidly.

The same applied to his body. Jiang Yao's current gene level was already twice that of the vast majority of the human race, which meant his physical strength foundation was also twice that of humans at the same level.

It could be said that although Jiang Yao still presented himself as a Spirit Reader Controller, in terms of the Martial Artist path, he also possessed high aptitude and a foundation that surpassed his peers.

Beyond his will, comprehension of Origin Laws, and physical improvement, there were also some methods that yielded immediate results.

That was the improvement of the Control Chapter of the Xu Yuan Opening.

Jiang Yao was currently at the first stage of control. According to Bajie, if he could raise his control power to the second stage, it would greatly alleviate the pressure brought by the will of the Desolate God, enough to suppress Bizhang for a long time, and perhaps even allow him to attempt to incarnate as Bizhang, which would allow Jiang Yao's strength to increase even faster.

But to quickly raise the control power of the Xu Yuan Opening to the second stage, he needed to collect more secret techniques related to the Origin Laws of this world.

With the help of Bajie, he would translate these secret techniques into Yan Script and then engrave them onto the membrane of the Xu Yuan Space.

"The Xu Yuan Space is a mysterious existence that lies between reality and illusion. The method to quickly improve the Xu Yuan Space is very simple; it does not require physical objects or visible treasures."

"It requires analyzing and mastering the law architecture of this world!"

Bajie's tone was serious: "Let the Xu Yuan Space continuously improve its cognition of the law architecture of this world, making it a unique supreme divine ability based on this Source World. If you can raise the Xu Yuan Space to the extreme, let alone controlling the will of a few Desolate Beasts, you could even achieve Refining False into True!"

Jiang Yao was somewhat incredulous: "Refining False into True?"

Is it the same Refining False into True that I understand?

Bajie revealed a look of pride: "That's right, the extreme of the Xu Yuan Space is Refining False into True. For example, if you imagine a fifth-order mental weapon within the Xu Yuan Space, then when you take it out to the outside world, it becomes a genuine fifth-order mental weapon!"

"If you create a special life form with 100 times the genes in the Xu Yuan Space and take it to the outside world, it becomes a genuine new life form!"

"Therefore, the secret technique of the Xu Yuan Opening is rooted in the architecture of world rules. Only when the Xu Yuan Space is completely coupled with the underlying architecture of this world can the power of Refining False into True be realized."

"Actually, this is somewhat similar to the Virtual Universe network of your human race."

Bajie's pig face now rarely showed a look of admiration: "The fact that the Virtual Universe can simulate the Origin Laws of the real world means that the creator of this Virtual Universe network must have reached the point of knowing the ten laws of this world like the back of their hand; otherwise, how could it be simulated?"

"However, if you can raise the Xu Yuan Space to the extreme, not only can you simulate the Origin Laws of the real world like the Virtual Universe network, but you can also bring the items and even life forms you create that contain these Origin Laws into the real world!"

"This is far beyond the Virtual Universe network."

Bajie chuckled: "If you can fully comprehend the ten Origin Laws of this world, translate them into Yan Script, and engrave them in the Xu Yuan Space, then you will naturally be able to quickly raise this divine ability to the highest realm."

Jiang Yao rolled his eyes. If I could fully comprehend them, I wouldn't need to cultivate the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God!

However, his understanding of the Xu Yuan Opening secret technique had indeed been refreshed once again. After cultivating the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God, he had originally felt that it was more profound and powerful than the Xu Yuan Opening. After all, it could increase his gene multiplier and transform his body to be closer to the Origin Laws; that had to be a secret technique on the level of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual.

Now it seemed that the Xu Yuan Opening was not just a simple prison built in advance to contain the will of the Desolate God; this was a true supreme secret technique.

But any secret technique or ultimate art involving Origin Laws was certainly not cheap. Either he had to rob for it, spend money to buy it, or some were even impossible to buy with money.

Looking at it this way, the 6 million Universe coins that had seemed quite generous before didn't even count as a single hair.

Bajie continued: "It's not over yet. Before your Xu Yuan Opening reaches the second stage, you can't just open the door and release the bird every time you encounter danger, risking mutual destruction, right? Be careful of burning yourself if you play with fire too much."

"So, you also need to have some trump cards for self-preservation."

"As a Desolate Beast, Bizhang naturally has its own bloodline divine abilities. Of course, unless you incarnate as a Desolate Beast, you certainly won't be able to execute them, but I have some confidence in modifying and simplifying its bloodline divine abilities to refine them into secret techniques suitable for this world."

"You have already entered the threshold of the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God. In fact, Bizhang is you, and you are Bizhang, so these secret techniques derived from Bizhang's bloodline divine abilities can only be practiced by you, and only you can master them in this universe. This is another benefit that the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God brings to the practitioner!"

"It's just that for these few bloodline divine abilities, if you want to refine them, not only are the requirements for your physical foundation quite harsh, but they also require the assistance of some treasures—preferably treasures containing the Origin Law of Fire or the Origin Law of Light."

Jiang Yao couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. Good grief, he had just opened an account and had some money, but the mountain-like economic pressure was already following one after another.

Jiang Yao pondered for a moment: "The main sect of the Lingtong Race, as a dignified holy land, should have secret techniques or ultimate arts involving Origin Laws, right? I will try to see if I can get the old clan leader to fight for the qualification for me to observe the sect's secret techniques."

Because of the ambush at Yinhu Island, his "bloodline divine ability collapsed," and he had paid a heavy price. If Yinhu Island did not want to go to war, they should choose to compensate and reconcile. Therefore, there would naturally be compensation for his losses. Jiang Yao was not interested in resources to re-nurture his so-called bloodline divine ability, so he would see if he could fight for compensation in the form of observing secret techniques.

As for the trump cards for self-preservation...

"I will stay in the holy land honestly for these three hundred years, so my safety should be guaranteed, right?" Jiang Yao stroked his chin: "There doesn't seem to be any need to be too urgent about cultivating Bizhang's bloodline secret techniques, right?"

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