To Pass Off Fake as Genuine

"I absolutely cannot take this head-on!"

Shi Yan's expression was somewhat ferocious. His current state was not good. After fighting for so long, even with the endless supply from his Miniature Universe, his divine power was now less than fifty percent.

A full-force strike from God Eye True Master would likely reach the pinnacle of the ninth tier. Without a Supreme True Treasure to protect himself, he absolutely could not withstand this blow.

"...There's no other choice."

Shi Yan's gaze darkened. A Silver Flying Ship flew out from within his body. He entered the ship and charged directly toward that "Eternal True God."

"A Peak Palace Treasure?" God Eye True Master sneered with disdain. "My Eternal True God uses the Supreme True Treasure Eternal Palace as its vessel, naturally possessing sealing and suppression abilities. A mere Peak Palace Treasure dares to show off here... Wait, something's wrong!"

God Eye True Master suddenly noticed that the Holy Sound Ship had broken into the radiation range of the "Eternal World." Without the protection of the Space-Time Domain, the Holy Sound Ship immediately felt as if it were trapped in a quagmire.

The three-headed, six-armed beast struck down with a claw. The Holy Sound Ship was completely powerless to resist and was directly swallowed and suppressed by the Eternal Palace.

God Eye True Master's expression changed drastically. In the massive halo behind his head, the God Eye's light blazed intensely, illuminating the void. In the far distance, a phantom figure gradually emerged—it was Shi Yan.

At this moment, he had already arrived at the edge of a Void Wormhole, exposed by God Eye True Master's secret technique. Shi Yan looked back at God Eye True Master and Blood Orchid Ancestor, who was rapidly closing in.

God Eye True Master and Blood Orchid Ancestor both stopped in place.

Shi Yan was now at the very edge of the wormhole. The two of them had no hope of stopping him.

"God Eye True Master, Blood Orchid Ancestor... This time, I'll remember this!"

Shi Yan's murderous gaze swept over the two of them, and then he immediately dove into the wormhole.

"God Eye True Master! How could you let him escape!" Blood Orchid Ancestor looked furious. Compared to the God Eye Race, Blood Orchid Ancestor had an even slimmer hope of transcending reincarnation, so she valued this operation even more.

God Eye True Master was in a terrible mood as well. Hearing Blood Orchid Ancestor's accusation, he said impatiently, "This Time Beast God's mastery over the Dao of Time is so profound. He sacrificed a Peak Palace Treasure and used his Future Body to create a false image while his True Body hid in a past timeline. Unless I used a secret technique, I couldn't see through it. How can you blame me for this?"

Blood Orchid Ancestor was momentarily speechless. If he had manipulated the timeline right under their noses, naturally he wouldn't have deceived them.

But Shi Yan had paid the price of a Peak Palace Treasure, using a secret technique within the treasure to create a convincing fake. Unless God Eye True Master had been constantly illuminating his True Body, detecting it in time would have been extremely difficult.

Just as the two stood in silence, two more Palace Treasures appeared in their line of sight. They were the Seventh True Master's Supreme True Treasure "Ice Cliff Fortress" and the Sixth True Master's Peak Supreme Treasure "Green Wave Palace."

"God Eye."

"Teacher!"

The four True Masters quickly arrived and also noticed the stagnant atmosphere.

"It seems the Time Beast God escaped." The four True Masters all guessed the situation.

God Eye True Master seemed a bit distracted. His gaze swept over the other four True Masters, and he said, "Let's go. We're heading back."

"Wait."

At that moment, Star True Master suddenly spoke up to stop God Eye True Master and the others who were about to leave. He then turned to look at Blood Orchid Ancestor and said, "Blood Orchid, our God Eye Race came all this way for nothing. Don't you owe us an explanation?"

Blood Orchid Ancestor was startled. She quickly retreated into her Palace Treasure and became alert, shouting, "Third True Master, I did my best in this pursuit of the Time Beast God. Our cooperation was mutually agreed upon. What explanation do I owe you?"

With Star True Master's provocation, Green Eye True Master also reacted, taunting, "Blood Orchid Ancestor, do you think the God Eye Race is someone you can summon and dismiss at will?"

"Sixth True Master, you!" Blood Orchid Ancestor was enraged. "Twisting words! Your God Eye Race just wants to assert dominance. Spouting such high-sounding nonsense!"

"Hmph! Say whatever you want. If you don't give our God Eye Race an explanation today, don't expect to leave easily." The Second True Master's voice was cold.

"Hahahaha... I am a dignified Universe Supreme Being. Do you think I would bow to you? I'm not the Time Beast God, who doesn't even have a single Supreme True Treasure."

Endless vines, swirling with cyan light, extended out from the Palace Treasure. The sharp aura of the Supreme True Treasure seemed ready to tear everything apart.

"Hmph, overestimating yourself!"

God Eye True Master's gaze sharpened. He once again manipulated the Eternal World to suppress the surroundings. The clash of two Supreme True Treasures made it feel as if the entire world was trembling.

The other four True Masters all made their moves.

"Green Eye Divine Light!"

"Star Hand!"

"..."

In an instant, battle erupted once more.

Half a month later, two pieces of news spread through the entire Universe Ocean like a tsunami.

"Have you heard? Blood Orchid Ancestor of the Black-Veined Stone Pillar Space was killed by the combined forces of the God Eye Race's five True Masters." A two-faced, four-armed and a three-headed, eight-armed powerhouse were exploring the Inner Domain of the Universe Boat together. They were two Universe Masters of the Purple Moon Holy Land.

"The God Eye Race?" The three-headed, eight-armed Universe Master grew interested. The Purple Moon Holy Land had been situated in the Universe Ocean for endless ages, but races as powerful as the God Eye Race were rare. "Wasn't Blood Orchid Ancestor cultivating in the Black-Veined Stone Pillar Space all day? Why would she fight the God Eye Race for no reason?"

"Of course it wasn't for no reason. You've heard of that Time Beast God who rose to fame in the Primal Universe, right?" the two-faced, four-armed Purple Moon Holy Land powerhouse asked.

"Naturally."

"Rumor has it that Blood Orchid Ancestor and the five True Masters of the God Eye Race joined forces to hunt down the Time Beast God. In the end, the Time Beast God was forced to flee into the core region of the Universe Boat... Tsk tsk, even those elders of our Holy Land, with maps bestowed by the Ancestor, have to tread carefully in the core region, right?" the two-faced, four-armed Universe Master clicked his tongue in amazement.

"The core region of the Universe Boat is indeed an extremely dangerous place. But since Blood Orchid Ancestor and the God Eye Race teamed up to hunt the Time Beast God, how did they end up turning on each other?" the three-headed, eight-armed powerhouse first agreed, then grew puzzled.

"What else could it be?" The two-faced, four-armed powerhouse sneered. "The God Eye Race is nearing their limit. In their last Reincarnation Era, they're bound to go all out. Six of them ganged up on one, yet they let the Time Beast God escape. Blood Orchid Ancestor became the perfect target for them to flex their muscles."

"These True Gods of the First Reincarnation Era really are crazy... Too bad, trying to break through reincarnation is hopeless." The three-headed, eight-armed powerhouse's face twisted into a mocking smile.

"Exactly. Pinning their hopes on a Beast God—how foolish. Let these pitiful wretches struggle. As long as it doesn't affect us, it doesn't matter."

Two Universe Masters of the Purple Moon Holy Land regarded the God Eye Race as a joke.

In their view, what did strength matter? Though they were only Universe Masters, they could exist for endless eras. Those Universe Supreme Beings, no matter how dazzling, would turn to ashes after three reincarnations, remembered by no one.

Though they dared not bare their teeth at the Universe Supreme Beings to their faces, behind their backs, the Universe Masters of the two Holy Lands were all exceedingly arrogant, and the Universe Supreme Beings themselves were too lazy to leave their Holy Lands.

"Alas... Blood Orchid."

In the Black-Veined Stone Pillar Space, Star Lord Beichi, still cultivating quietly in the Second Pillar Space, let out a helpless sigh.

He had long known that cooperating with the God Eye Race was like seeking skin from a tiger. He had also tried to make Blood Orchid Ancestor understand that the matter was impossible and thus abandon it, but unfortunately, Blood Orchid Ancestor had set her mind on this path, and the final outcome had not surprised him.

Yet he also understood that Blood Orchid Ancestor had been fighting for the hope of transcending reincarnation that she believed in, and in the end, she fell—one could say she fell on the path of transcending reincarnation.

Now Blood Orchid Ancestor had failed and fallen. Whether it was the God Eye Race that killed her or he, Star Lord Beichi, if they could not transcend reincarnation, they would only end up following in Blood Orchid Ancestor's footsteps.

"If I cannot break through before the end of this Reincarnation Era, I too will die. Reincarnation... I must..." Star Lord Beichi closed his eyes again, continuing his cultivation as he had for the long ages past.

Elsewhere, in the Primal Universe, the Hulan Secret Realm.

Lord Fengtian, Qing Huan, who had been cultivating quietly in the Hulan Secret Realm ever since Shi Yan left, had just learned these two pieces of news from some of his friends.

This immediately unsettled Qing Huan. He hurriedly traveled through the Universe Passage of the Hulan Secret Realm to reach Shi Yan's Miniature Universe.

Inside the Miniature Universe, heaven, earth, and all things were still in the early stages of evolution. At this moment, Shi Yan's Miniature Universe, like Original Ancestor's Initial Universe, had its laws manifest, making it an absolute cultivation paradise for the weak.

But for a Universe Master like Qing Huan, it made little difference. Of course, Shi Yan had granted him the authority to mobilize the universe's origin within the Miniature Universe, so here, Qing Huan was absolutely invincible, just like Chaos City Master in the Initial Universe.

"Teacher! Teacher!"

Qing Huan's voice resounded through heaven and earth.

As the master of the Miniature Universe, Shi Yan could naturally "hear" his little disciple's shouts.

Divine power coalesced across heaven and earth, and soon, a silver-haired youth appeared before Qing Huan—it was Shi Yan's divine power avatar.

"Brat, stop shouting. Your teacher is perfectly fine." Shi Yan's divine power avatar wore a somewhat helpless expression.

Seeing Shi Yan's divine power avatar appear, Qing Huan said with some dissatisfaction, "Teacher, what do you mean 'perfectly fine'? That's the core zone of the Universe Boat. In history, who knows how many Universe Supreme Beings have fallen or been lost there."

"And who knows how many Universe Supreme Beings have obtained precious Supreme True Treasures there and greatly increased their strength." Shi Yan retorted with a grin, then, before his little disciple's face could fall, added, "Alright, I know you're worried about me, but I've already entered the core zone. Saying more is useless. As for you, stay in my Miniature Universe for now, so no one takes the chance to cause you trouble."

"Then, teacher, how are things with you now?" Qing Huan pressed.

Hearing this, Shi Yan's expression turned somewhat strange. He hesitated for a long moment before speaking slowly, "Well... in a certain sense, things are actually not bad?"