Helpless Breakthrough

"What a nuisance."

As the saying goes, raw force trumps a hundred techniques—under a peak sixth-tier attack, vast swaths of time dimensions would collapse outright, sustained only by Shi Yan burning a massive amount of divine power to keep them going.

Of course, smashing apart different timelines through sheer brute force also drastically drained the Monster Beast Progenitor's attack power, which was the fundamental principle behind Shi Yan's life-saving move.

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

Shi Yan chanted silently in his heart.

A moment later, as Shi Yan grew increasingly restless, a vast God Kingdom finally appeared in his line of sight.

"We're here!"

Shi Yan's eyes lit up. He endured another strike from the Monster Beast Progenitor, then charged straight into his own God Kingdom.

"Relying on home-field advantage in your God Kingdom?" The Monster Beast Progenitor couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The home-field advantage of a God Kingdom could indeed allow a powerhouse to unleash strength a notch higher, but a God Kingdom was also relatively fragile against an existence of the same level. By luring him into the God Kingdom to fight, the Time Beast God would ultimately end up with his God Kingdom shattered—and there would be no escape either.

"Hahaha, old fool, have you lost your mind? Daring to lure me into your God Kingdom?" The Monster Beast Progenitor's voice dripped with mockery.

"Monster Beast Progenitor... I'll teach you that you should still show some respect to your elder!" Shi Yan's sharp gaze locked onto the Monster Beast Progenitor from afar.

Before the Monster Beast Progenitor could speak again, the edge of the vast God Kingdom suddenly began to expand once more.

With this expansion, the entire God Kingdom trembled violently. A Void Passage from an unknown origin connected to the God Kingdom's boundary wall, and surging Chaos Airflow poured into the God Kingdom through the passage...

Endless Chaos Airflow flooded the God Kingdom, like a tiger descending upon a flock of sheep. Everything within the God Kingdom was effortlessly torn apart and destroyed by the Chaos Airflow, returning to chaos.

At the same time, a vast will, carrying boundless might, enveloped the surroundings of Shi Yan's God Kingdom.

"Do not... interfere..."

A stream of information transmitted into the Monster Beast Progenitor's mind. Under the nearly infinite pressure, the Monster Beast Progenitor was forced to halt in place.

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

The Monster Beast Progenitor's expression darkened. At the same time, he waved his hand, and nine Universe Masters of the Monster Race appeared around him.

"The Time Beast God... is he breaking through?" A silvery-white serpent's voice was sharp, and its status among the Universe Masters seemed the highest by far.

"That's right, he's breaking through—from Universe Master to Universe Supreme Being. During this process, he is under the absolute protection of the Origin Will and the Supreme Rules. There's no way for us to interfere." The Monster Beast Progenitor spoke through gritted teeth.

The Monster Race was about to gain a mortal enemy at the Universe Supreme Being level, and that put the Monster Beast Progenitor in an extremely foul mood.

A Universe Supreme Being—even one who had just broken through—was at least peak sixth-tier. In fact, nearly every Universe Supreme Being, after undergoing Chaos Evolution, could smoothly create a seventh-tier Secret Technique.

If their accumulation before the breakthrough was deep enough, comprehending a peak seventh-tier Secret Technique, or even an eighth-tier one, was not impossible.

Of course, in the Primal Universe, all Universe Supreme Beings could only exert peak sixth-tier power.

But even so, if a peak fifth-tier or even sixth-tier Universe Master was nearly invincible in the Primal Universe, then a Universe Supreme Being was utterly invincible—absolutely impossible to kill.

Beyond attack power, although a Universe Supreme Being's divine power output was limited, their divine body remained that of a Supreme Being. Sixth-tier power simply couldn't damage their divine body.

As for suppression, in the Primal Universe, even the power of treasures was restricted. Dreaming of suppressing a Universe Supreme Being was out of the question.

Thus, even if the entire Monster Race mobilized, at best they could force a Universe Supreme Being to retreat in the Primal Universe—they could never threaten one.

This also meant that lone Universe Supreme Beings in the Primal Universe were existences no peak race dared to provoke. And today, the Monster Race had provoked one.

"Is the Time Beast God out of his mind! He could have broken through long ago but chose not to! If even one Natural Beast God had been a Universe Supreme Being, we would never have made a move!" The Monster Beast Progenitor couldn't help but curse loudly.

The Monster Beast Progenitor could see that Shi Yan hadn't broken through on a sudden inspiration. Especially the reluctant expression on his face before he diverted course to his God Kingdom—it was clear he had long been able to break through to Universe Supreme Being but simply didn't want to.

The Monster Beast Progenitor's confusion was shared by all the Universe Masters. In their view, if one could break through to Universe Supreme Being, they would do so as early as possible. Why would anyone deliberately remain at the Universe Master stage?

That was also why, when Shi Yan fled toward his God Kingdom, the Monster Beast Progenitor never considered this possibility.

But how could they know the ambition Shi Yan held for the Universe Supreme Being, or rather the True God stage?

"The third level of divine power... even the fourth level... a hundred thousand times the gene level..."

Breaking through under the protection of the Supreme Rules and the Origin Will, Shi Yan felt no joy in his heart.

The platinum-colored Beast God stood within the God Kingdom, his brow full of reluctance.

From the moment he was first conceived and born by the universe's origin, Shi Yan had sensed an alien consciousness burrowing into his soul.

That consciousness, compared to his soul at the innate Universe Master level, was weaker than an ant—yet it was far more complex than his newborn awareness.

But in the end, its soul strength was too feeble. His soul easily crushed it, and everything attached to that consciousness became his.

From that day on, aside from a jumble of chaotic memories, a novel's title appeared in his mind.

Swallowed Star.

After being born, Shi Yan roamed the nascent Primal Universe, witnessing more and more content that matched the novel. Eventually, he believed those memories without a doubt and learned of his original fate in advance.

The Natural Beast Gods—once the races of the Primal Universe grew strong and learned of the benefits the Beast Gods offered—would quickly be surrounded, hunted, and divided.

Knowing such a future, Shi Yan naturally had no intention of sitting idly by.

So, after confirming the reliability of his memories, he rarely concerned himself with external affairs. Unlike other Beast Gods who wandered the universe all day, he immersed himself entirely in cultivation.

Of course, he had also tried to persuade other Beast Gods to cultivate seriously, but there were many things he couldn't say—as if some invisible force restricted him. Without sufficient reasons, his naturally free-spirited siblings naturally wouldn't heed his advice.

Thus, among the Natural Beast Gods, Shi Yan had always been somewhat of an outlier. But he didn't care. To him, defying fate was what truly mattered.

As a being who innately grasped the fused path of "Light" and "Time," Shi Yan, with his lofty perspective, quickly mastered the Space Law within the mainstream cultivation direction of the Primal Universe, the "Path of Time and Space."

Afterward, he cultivated and perfected each of the eight lower-order laws one by one. Then, Shi Yan attempted to fuse various lower-order laws with the Time and Space Laws, successively mastering six Beast God Paths, only ever falling short by a thread on the Water-Space Beast God Path.

When the Beast God Path hit a bottleneck, Shi Yan changed direction, using the lower-order laws as nourishment, fusing them into time and space, and focusing his efforts on the time-space direction.

Through continuous accumulation, his insights grew ever deeper. Many epochs ago, Shi Yan had already found a path to break through to True God via the law direction.

However, after finding that path to breakthrough through laws, Shi Yan was reluctant to advance just like that.

He knew that in this source world called the "Origin Continent," the divine power route was the most essential—especially the third level of divine power, with over ninety thousand times the gene level, and even the fourth level at one hundred thousand times. Those completely crushed Law True Gods of the same realm.

Shi Yan naturally harbored the ambition to become such an existence. Even if he ultimately failed to reach the third or fourth level of divine power, merely reaching the first level of divine power (30,000–60,000 times) or the second level (60,000–90,000 times) as a True God would still make him far stronger than a Law True God.

Unfortunately, as of now, his research on the divine power route had only just broken through 10,081 times the divine body gene level, reaching roughly 21,000 times. Although that was enough to break through to True God, this level of divine body route was no different from breaking through via the law route.

Shaking his head, Shi Yan cast all the stray thoughts from his mind.

Since he had already broken through, dwelling on such what-ifs was useless. What mattered most to Shi Yan now was the upcoming construction of his Miniature Universe and the subsequent comprehension of Chaos Evolution.

During this time when Shi Yan's mind was wandering, as his God Kingdom continuously expanded, new Void Passages kept forming on its boundary walls. Thick Chaos Airflow surged through the passages into the God Kingdom, tearing apart heaven and earth as if heralding an apocalypse.

Shi Yan stood calmly in the void, watching it all.

As the God Kingdom expanded, it also moved slowly. Once it expanded into a Miniature Universe, it would be expelled from the Primal Universe into the Universe Ocean. At that moment, the True God would have the opportunity to construct the Miniature Universe.

In the blink of an eye, about ten days passed.

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

"Boom!"

An irresistible force suddenly acted upon the Miniature Universe's membrane. The Miniature Universe, already pressed tightly against the Primal Universe's membrane, smashed a massive hole one hundred million light-years in diameter through it, rolling like a rubber ball into the vast Universe Ocean.

"Rumble..."

The colossal object, one hundred million light-years in diameter, tumbled and spun through the Universe Ocean. The Chaos Airflow that had easily breached the God Kingdom's boundary walls moments ago now proved utterly powerless against the Miniature Universe's membrane.

Inside the Miniature Universe, all the original Void Passages had shattered. Thick Chaos Airflow filled the space between heaven and earth.

Chaos Airflow is the source of all evolution within a Miniature Universe. The subsequent birth of time, space, and all elements comes entirely from the Chaos Airflow.

And a True God constructing a Miniature Universe must do so before the Chaos Airflow evolves into all things. Otherwise, once evolution begins, there will be no further opportunity for construction, and the unstable Miniature Universe will directly collapse.

"Universe construction..."

Shi Yan shifted his form and arrived at a hidden place within the Miniature Universe—the very source of the entire Miniature Universe.