Lyumila Breaks Through!

Su Ke felt a surge of joy in his heart. After more than ten days of attempts, he had finally made an entry, though he was still far from the "One Thought to Reality" requirement for completing the first Nirvana.

But for him, making an entry meant that everything was possible!

"I wonder how this progress compares to a technique like Eighteen Star Rays, and whether I can grind it up." Su Ke took a deep breath.

He didn't know exactly what kind of secret technique Six Nirvana was or what its purpose was, but its level was definitely far higher than Eighteen Star Rays.

Thinking about how slow it was to grind Eighteen Star Rays, he suddenly felt a sense of trepidation.

For now, he could only hope that Six Nirvana was not a progressive technique like Eighteen Star Rays and could be improved more easily.

Su Ke's situation was different from others. Others might be unable to cultivate it due to talent issues or hit a bottleneck, but Su Ke did not have this problem with his talent. As long as it wasn't something that required external objects (like the Golden Horned Beast devouring metal to grow), as long as he was given time, he could grind up even the highest-level secret techniques.

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Su Ke looked up and observed his surroundings, wondering how the others here were doing.

Those of the Stellar Rank should have an easier time making an entry than him, right?

Su Ke actually harbored a sliver of hope; perhaps... he was actually quite talented in this regard?

On the other side, the various parties near the Stone Gate were also secretly communicating and discussing.

"Jiao Yong, have you made an entry?"

"I made an entry three days ago."

"What about you, Vayne?"

"I made an entry six days ago."

They were mostly using Force transmission in private.

The silver-robed girl near Su Ke said excitedly, "Me, me, I made an entry just one day after arriving here!"

A group of silver-robed people began to offer their congratulations one after another.

"As expected of the City Lord's granddaughter, truly gifted."

City Lord Gulei, the Golden-Robed Elder, glanced over, feeling quite gratified.

He said in a deep voice, "Don't be too happy yet. In history, the earliest geniuses made an entry in three hours, but making an entry is easy, while improving is extremely difficult."

"To date, apart from our ancestor Great Emperor Gulei, no one has been able to cultivate the first image to completion within a year."

City Lord Gulei's tone turned serious, "You must know that we have the Stone Gate to observe now, and the cultivation effect is the best. But if you cannot cultivate it to the 'One Thought to Reality' level within a year, you will gradually forget all related memories afterward. Even if you record the drawings on the Stone Gate, it is useless; no carrier can replicate the cultivation content on the Stone Gate. This is the reason why so many of our ancestors in history have come here and studied it, yet were unable to continue cultivating it afterward."

"And Great Emperor Gulei once said that this Stone Gate secret technique can only be successfully cultivated by those below the Saint level. For others, once they surpass the Saint level, they never have another chance. Those Great Emperors in history also tried to comprehend it again when they came out, but none succeeded."

"The opportunity is only this one year." City Lord Gulei's serious tone made everyone else shudder.

The silver-robed girl with the special status blinked her beautiful large eyes and asked curiously, "Then Grandfather, do you know what this Stone Gate secret technique is for?"

City Lord Gulei hesitated for a moment before saying, "Ancient records in the clan state that Great Emperor Gulei once seemed to say that this secret technique doesn't seem to directly increase strength, nor can it be used for combat. It seems to be related to a person's cultivation talent..."

The silver-robed girl's eyes lit up, "I get it, it means that after cultivating this, you become more and more of a genius. The higher the level you cultivate to, the better your talent becomes. Am I right, Grandfather?"

City Lord Gulei nodded slightly, "It should be about what you said, Lingyin."

The silver-robed girl seemed to have turned into a curious baby here. Her eyes rolled, and she asked again, "Grandfather, our world is a planet, and the concept of a planet seems to have come from the ancestor Great Emperor Gulei, so why don't we leave here and go to other planets? There should be other planets besides us, right?"

If Su Ke were here, he would definitely answer her question: in this star system, apart from this Gulei, which was a life-bearing planet, the other planets orbiting the star were desolate and unsuitable for human survival. And apart from the Universe Rank, even the Stellar Rank found it difficult to survive in the universe for long.

The limit flight speed of a ninth-rank Stellar Rank in the vacuum of the universe was 150 kilometers per second, but this speed was only one-two-thousandth of the speed of light.

The maximum flight speed of a ninth-rank Universe Rank in outer space could reach 1500 kilometers per second! That was only one-two-hundredth of the speed of light!

If the Great Emperors could reach this speed and leave this planet to roam the surroundings, they might discover wormholes within the asteroid belt. But even if they entered, what if they discovered the starry sky on the other side?

A void region with a radius of ten thousand light-years... empty, vast, and boundless, without any coordinates. It would take ten thousand years to fly at the speed of light! Not to mention finding a life-bearing planet by luck in the infinitely vast starry sky; the possibility of getting lost was countless times higher!

Even if some Universe Rank really left through a wormhole and went their own way, a tragic fate would await them.

Therefore, regarding Lingyin's question, City Lord Gulei, as the clan leader, only shook his head. He had seen some hidden records in the clan and knew that many Great Emperors had left the planet to explore the outside world, but some never returned, and most gave up halfway. The outside was too big, desolate, and dead. Only their planet had the colors of life, like an isolated island in a vast, boundless ocean, making people feel desperate.

Even the legendary Great Emperor Gulei who left... who knew where he was? Perhaps he died in some unknown corner of the infinite void.

The more one knew, the more desperate one became.

But he could not share these pessimistic thoughts with his clansmen.

City Lord Gulei, the Golden-Robed Elder, glanced at his beloved little granddaughter again and transmitted his voice, "You've been peeking at that boy over there; you haven't fallen for him, have you?"

The silver-robed girl blushed, acting a bit coy. "Grandfather, I'm already over a hundred years old!"

City Lord Gulei smiled slightly, thinking to himself that he would investigate the boy's situation later; he couldn't let his granddaughter ruin her life.

As for the issue of social standing... their lineage belonged to the direct descendants of Great Emperor Gulei. Even the Great Emperors would look at them differently; no matter which family his granddaughter married into, it would be a condescension.

Time slipped away bit by bit as everyone contemplated and cultivated.

Soon, it was the 126th day since the Stone Gate opened.

Su Ke closed his eyes and entered a state of meditation. The first image from the Stone Gate appeared in his mind, and the Force within his body circulated along a specific trajectory. Every day, he repeated this process tirelessly, over and over again, only stopping to rest when he reached his limit.

Su Ke called this process "Meditation Exercise."

After more than a hundred days of non-stop cultivation, like a tightly wound spring, the work was incredibly grueling, but all that effort had finally paid off.

[Six Nirvana: 55%/First Nirvana].

The improvement in the Stone Gate secret technique was faster than Su Ke had imagined. He didn't know the reason; perhaps the process of Meditation Exercise for origin power took less time than practicing the Eighteen Star Rays—he could perform the Meditation Exercise ten times in the time it took to practice the Eighteen Star Rays once. Or perhaps Six Nirvana wasn't as difficult as he had thought, or maybe he simply had a talent for this aspect?

Su Ke vaguely felt that, aside from his own rank, "talent" might be one of the factors influencing his progress. It was invisible and intangible, yet it undeniably existed.

Was it just that Su Ke's talent in this area had been so poor before that it never manifested? He had only been able to rely on sheer grinding.

But regardless, talent always had a ceiling... while grinding did not.

Su Ke couldn't help but think optimistically: perhaps he really might have a chance to complete the "First Nirvana Perfection" of this first diagram within a year?

If he did, what would he receive once he entered?

Because he had poured all his energy into the Stone Gate secret technique, Su Ke's physical conditioning and blade training had come to a halt.

Usually, Su Ke would strive to improve his physical fitness.

This was because he estimated that once he reached the Stellar Rank, he might gain another talent.

His current second talent was Cultivation Alienation.

However, his first talent remained a mystery, one that Su Ke could never quite wrap his head around.

Just as Su Ke stopped to rest and take a drink of water.

"Beep." His Smart AI signaled that he had received a message from the Virtual Universe.

Su Ke's heart jolted. It was Lyumila. Over these past four months, they had been in contact only a handful of times. He only knew that Lyumila and the others had encountered danger several times, and Khair had even been seriously injured. One could only imagine the perils inside; at times, he even worried that his subordinates might die in there.

The message Lyumila sent was simple.

"Master, I have broken through."