A Breakthrough He Couldn't Avoid

"This is such a hassle."

As the saying went, overwhelming force could overcome a hundred techniques. Under an attack at the Peak Seventh Order, countless time dimensions would collapse outright. Only by expending vast amounts of divine power to sustain them could Shi Yan keep them from disappearing.

Of course, using brute force to destroy different timelines also greatly diminished the power of the Monster Beast Progenitor's attacks. That was the fundamental principle behind Shi Yan's life-saving technique.

"Just hold on a little longer. We're almost there..."

Shi Yan silently repeated to himself.

A moment later, Shi Yan, growing increasingly anxious, finally spotted a vast God Kingdom in the distance.

"We're here!"

Shi Yan's eyes lit up. He withstood another blow from the Monster Beast Progenitor, then rushed into his God Kingdom.

"You think you can use the home-field advantage of your God Kingdom?" The Monster Beast Progenitor couldn't help laughing aloud.

The home-field advantage of a God Kingdom could indeed allow a powerful being to unleash even greater strength. But a God Kingdom was also relatively fragile when faced with an opponent of the same level. If the Time Beast God had lured him here to fight, the God Kingdom was bound to collapse—and Shi Yan would have no chance of escaping, either.

"Ha ha ha ha! You old fool, have you lost your mind? You actually dared to lure me into your God Kingdom?" The Monster Beast Progenitor's voice was full of mockery.

"Monster Beast Progenitor... I'll show you that you ought to treat your elders with a little more respect!" Shi Yan fixed his sharp gaze on the Monster Beast Progenitor in the distance.

Before the Monster Beast Progenitor could say another word, the vast God Kingdom suddenly began expanding once more.

As it expanded, the entire God Kingdom began to shake violently. A Void Passage, its origin unknown, connected to the God Kingdom's boundary wall, and a mighty torrent of Chaos Airflow poured through it into the God Kingdom...

An endless torrent of Chaos Airflow flooded the God Kingdom, sweeping through it like a tiger among sheep. Everything inside was effortlessly torn apart and destroyed, returning to chaos.

At the same time, a vast will, carrying boundless power, descended around Shi Yan's God Kingdom.

"Do not... interfere..."

A message entered the Monster Beast Progenitor's mind. Under a nearly infinite force, he was compelled to stop where he was.

"This is... the Origin Will of the Primal Universe."

The Monster Beast Progenitor's expression darkened. With a wave of his hand, nine Universe Masters of the Monster Race appeared around him.

"The Time Beast God... is breaking through?" A silver-white serpent spoke in a shrill voice. It seemed to hold the highest status among the Universe Masters.

"That's right. He's breaking through... from Universe Master to Universe Supreme Being. During this process, he's under the absolute protection of the Origin Will and the Supreme Rules. There's nothing we can do to interfere," the Monster Beast Progenitor said through gritted teeth.

The Monster Race was about to gain a deadly enemy at the Universe Supreme Being level. The thought left the Monster Beast Progenitor in a foul mood.

Even a newly advanced Universe Supreme Being was at least Peak Sixth Order. In fact, nearly every Universe Supreme Being could create a Seventh-Order Secret Technique after undergoing Chaos Evolution.

If their foundation before breaking through was strong enough, it wasn't impossible for them to comprehend a Peak Seventh Order, or even an Eighth Order Secret Technique.

Of course, in the Primal Universe, Universe Supreme Beings were all limited to unleashing power at Peak Sixth Order.

Even so, if Peak Fifth Order or even Sixth Order Universe Masters were virtually invincible in the Primal Universe, then Universe Supreme Beings were completely invincible there. They simply couldn't be killed.

Their attack power wasn't the only thing that mattered. Though their use of divine power was restricted, their Divine Bodies remained those of Universe Supreme Beings. Power at Sixth Order simply couldn't damage their Divine Bodies.

As for suppression, the power of Supreme Treasures was restricted in the Primal Universe as well. Trying to suppress a Universe Supreme Being was nothing but a dream.

Thus, even if the entire Monster Race mobilized, at most they could force a Universe Supreme Being to retreat from the Primal Universe. They simply couldn't threaten one.

That was why independent Universe Supreme Beings in the Primal Universe were beings that none of the peak races dared to provoke. And today, the Monster Race had made an enemy of one.

"Does that old Time Beast God have something wrong with his head? He could've broken through ages ago, but he just wouldn't! If one of the Natural Beast Gods had already become a Universe Supreme Being, how could we have dared to attack them?" The Monster Beast Progenitor couldn't help cursing.

The Monster Beast Progenitor could tell that Shi Yan hadn't broken through because of some sudden insight. In particular, the reluctance on his face before turning toward his God Kingdom made it clear that he had been capable of becoming a Universe Supreme Being for a long time, but simply hadn't wanted to.

The Monster Beast Progenitor's confusion was shared by the other Universe Masters. In their eyes, anyone capable of becoming a Universe Supreme Being would do so as soon as possible. Why would anyone deliberately remain a Universe Master?

That was also why the Monster Beast Progenitor hadn't considered this possibility when Shi Yan fled toward his God Kingdom.

But how could they have known just how ambitious Shi Yan was when it came to becoming a Universe Supreme Being—or, more precisely, a True God?

"The third level of divine power... even the fourth level. Hundred Thousand Times Gene..."

Protected by the Supreme Rules and the Origin Will as he broke through, Shi Yan felt no joy at all.

The white-gold Beast God stood in the God Kingdom, his brow furrowed with reluctance.

Ever since the Primal Universe had first conceived and given birth to him, Shi Yan had sensed an unusual consciousness entering his soul.

That consciousness was weaker than his naturally Universe Master-level soul—more fragile than an ant. Yet it was exceedingly complex, far more so than his own newly born consciousness.

But its soul strength was simply too weak. His soul crushed that consciousness with ease, and everything it carried became his.

From that day on, alongside a jumble of chaotic memories, he had gained the title of a novel.

Swallowed Star.

After his birth, Shi Yan wandered through the young Primal Universe. As he witnessed more and more things that matched the contents of that novel, he gradually came to believe those memories without a doubt. Eventually, he learned what his original fate would have been.

The Natural Beast Gods. Once the races of the Primal Universe grew powerful, the moment they learned of the benefits of the Beast Gods, they would quickly gang up on them and divide them among themselves.

Knowing what lay ahead, Shi Yan had no intention of simply waiting for his fate.

So, once he had confirmed that his memories were reliable, Shi Yan paid little attention to outside affairs. Unlike the other Beast Gods, he didn't spend his days wandering through the universe. Instead, he devoted himself entirely to cultivation.

Of course, he had urged the other Beast Gods to cultivate diligently, too. But there were many things he couldn't bring himself to say, as if some unseen force were restricting him. Without a compelling reason, his free-spirited siblings naturally wouldn't heed his advice.

As a result, Shi Yan had always been something of an outsider among the Natural Beast Gods. But he didn't care. To him, defying fate was what mattered most.

Born with mastery over the fused path of "light" and "time," Shi Yan quickly mastered the Space Law, part of the Primal Universe's mainstream Path of Time and Space, by approaching it from a higher vantage point.

He then perfected each of the Eight Lower Laws in turn. After that, he tried fusing the various Lower Laws with the laws of time and space, and mastered six Beast God Paths one after another. Only the Water-Space Beast God Path remained just out of reach.

When his progress along the Beast God Path hit a bottleneck, Shi Yan changed direction. Using the Lower Laws as resources, he fused them into time and space and focused on the path of time and space.

Through constant accumulation and ever-deeper insights, Shi Yan had discovered a way to become a True God through the Law Path many eras ago.

Yet after finding a way to become a True God through the Law Path, Shi Yan hadn't been willing to break through just yet.

He knew that in this Source World called the Origin Continent, the Divine Power Path was the most profound. In particular, the third level of divine power, above 90,000 times the gene level, and even the fourth level, at 100,000 times, completely outclassed Law True Gods at the same realm.

Shi Yan naturally aspired to become such a being. Even if he couldn't reach the third or fourth level of divine power, a True God at the first level, with 30,000 to 60,000 times the gene level, or the second level, with 60,000 to 90,000 times, would still be far more powerful than a Law True God.

Unfortunately, despite his research into the Divine Power Path, his Divine Body Gene level had only just broken through 10,081 times. It had reached roughly 21,000 times. Though that was enough for him to become a True God, a Divine Body Path at that level would be no different from breaking through via the Law Path.

Shi Yan shook his head, clearing all the distracting thoughts from his mind.

Now that he had broken through, there was no point dwelling on what might have been. The most important things now were to build his Miniature Universe and then comprehend Chaos Evolution.

While Shi Yan's thoughts raced, his God Kingdom continued expanding. New Void Passages kept forming in its boundary wall, and dense Chaos Airflow poured through them into the God Kingdom, tearing the world apart as if bringing about its end.

Shi Yan stood in the void, watching everything calmly.

As the God Kingdom expanded, it also moved slowly. Once it had expanded into a Miniature Universe, the Primal Universe would repel it, sending it into the Universe Ocean. That would be the moment for a True God to construct their Miniature Universe.

About ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

Shi Yan's God Kingdom gradually expanded to its limit. Then the entire God Kingdom trembled, and its boundary wall rapidly transformed into a Universe Membrane. The God Kingdom became a Miniature Universe with a diameter of 100 million light-years.

Boom!

An unstoppable force suddenly struck the Miniature Universe's membrane. The Miniature Universe, already pressed against the Primal Universe's membrane, smashed a hole 100 million light-years across through it, then rolled into the vast Universe Ocean like a ball.

Rumble...

The colossal object, 100 million light-years in diameter, spun and tumbled through the Universe Ocean. The Chaos Airflow, which had recently broken through the God Kingdom's boundary wall with ease, could do nothing to the Miniature Universe's membrane now.

Inside the Miniature Universe, all the original Void Passages had collapsed, and mighty Chaos Airflow filled the world.

Chaos Airflow was the source of all evolution within a Miniature Universe. The later birth of time, space, and the various elements all came from the Chaos Airflow.

A True God had to construct their Miniature Universe before the Chaos Airflow evolved into all things. Once that process began, there would be no further opportunity to construct it. By then, the unstable Miniature Universe would simply collapse.

"Universe construction..."

Shi Yan shifted his form and arrived at a secluded place within the Miniature Universe. This was the source of the entire Miniature Universe.