Guardian Tower's Second Floor

After receiving the Memory Stone left by the Old Sage, Shi Yan departed from the First Ancestor's River of Time and Space.

Within the endless starry sky of the Guardian Tower's first floor.

Countless rivers interwove, black holes and planets each moving in their own orbits.

"The inheritances of the Time Dao and Space Dao are worth referencing when I have the time."

Glancing at the "Primordial Black Hole" and "Star of Worlds" in the starry sky, Shi Yan entertained this thought.

This was only natural. For a cultivator of the Time-Space Dao, the inheritances of pure Time Dao and pure Space Dao were equally precious.

But as the Old Sage had said, biting off more than one can chew leads to indigestion. He was still some distance from the True God limit. When he hit a bottleneck, he could seek inspiration from those inheritances then.

Thinking this, Shi Yan manipulated the Guardian Tower to teleport himself to the second floor.

If the first floor of the Guardian Tower was a place for the successive ancestors of the Three Saints Palace to leave their core inheritances, then the second floor's characteristic was its all-encompassing nature.

The entire second floor of the Guardian Tower was divided into many different zones.

There was a place dedicated to refining treasures.

A zone storing vast knowledge.

An area specifically for creating Secret Techniques.

A space for training combat ability.

And a section for tempering the heart...

Beyond these, there were many, many more, with every function imaginable, opening the eyes of Shi Yan, who had just fully mastered the Guardian Tower. He was even seeing many methods of nurturing junior disciples for the first time.

It could be said that the second floor of the Guardian Tower truly lived up to the name "Guardian."

An Inheritor nurtured through the second floor of the Guardian Tower could guide a faction's rise as naturally as eating or drinking, especially for a faction like the Three Saints Palace, which already had deep foundations.

"...These successive ancestors truly thought of everything." Shi Yan couldn't help but sigh.

With core inheritances, vast knowledge, and extremely complete auxiliary cultivation grounds, combined with the Three Saints Palace's already stringent selection process for Inheritors, those who became successors were all exceptionally gifted.

The Inheritor's own talent, supplemented by perfect nurturing conditions.

To put it bluntly, with this Guardian Tower, it would be a low-probability event for any Inheritor of the Three Saints Palace not to rise; rising was simply the natural outcome.

"As expected of a superpower." Shi Yan silently praised in his heart as he arrived at the "Sea of Memories" on the second floor of the Guardian Tower.

"According to the Memory Stone left by the predecessor, this Sea of Memories is a space every Inheritor of the Three Saints Palace must visit first?"

Hovering in midair, Shi Yan looked curiously at the boundless black ocean below.

As the master of the Guardian Tower, Shi Yan could easily detect that countless black stones were floating and sinking in the black ocean—several hundred million of them. These were all Memory Stones.

The Memory Stones stored here recorded the Secret Technique guides of various other factions, collected by the Three Saints Palace over endless years. Some were obtained through trade, but more were gained through countless wars and adventures.

According to the Memory Stone left by the Old Sage, the countless inheritances and Secret Techniques in this Sea of Memories didn't need to be fully learned, but they absolutely had to be fully understood.

This vast sea of techniques covered bloodlines, treasure refining, puppets, insect beasts, formations, illusions, supreme treasure manipulation, and many other aspects, including numerous extremely obscure techniques.

Understanding these served two purposes. First, to perfect one's knowledge base. Since all paths are connected, broad knowledge might lead to insights by analogy, touching upon one's own cultivated Dao.

Second, to let the Three Saints Palace's Inheritor know the combat styles and methods of various schools.

Even if one couldn't use them, if they ever encountered such an enemy in battle, they would know how to counter their methods.

Shi Yan deeply agreed with the Old Sage's advice.

Generally speaking, when experts of similar strength fought, knowing the opponent's methods was extremely important.

Even against a much stronger opponent, if one understood their attack style thoroughly, the chance of escape would be much higher.

In short, this Sea of Memories was like a highly comprehensive encyclopedia of the Origin Continent. Understanding it could greatly reduce the Inheritor's chance of falling, and if they ever wanted to establish a faction, they would be more than capable.

"Let's begin. First, record all the contents of these Memory Stones." Shi Yan controlled the Guardian Tower, and several hundred million Memory Stones shot out from the black ocean like a dense barrage, quickly blotting out the sky.

"And time acceleration."

Under Shi Yan's control, the time flow on the second floor of the Guardian Tower began to accelerate, quickly reaching 130,000 times.

This was an inherent function of the Guardian Tower itself.

With sufficient energy supply, the time acceleration multiplier of the Cultivation Space could reach millions of times, far surpassing the fixed maximum of ten thousand times in the Duan Donghe lineage's inheritance space.

This was only natural. Although the Duan Donghe lineage had produced a God King in its history—the Third Ancestor of the Duan Donghe lineage—that person was clearly not a cultivator of the Time Dao or Time-Space Dao.

As the saying goes, each has their own specialty. The successive ancestors of the Three Saints Palace lineage were clearly more skilled in time acceleration.

Another excellent point was that the fixed source treasures within the Guardian Tower would continuously convert external energy to store divine power, thus providing part of the energy for the Inheritor.

In fact, below a certain time acceleration multiplier, the Inheritor didn't even need to provide divine power at all.

This was somewhat similar to the Black-Veined Stone Pillar Space of the Universe Boat. That space was also entirely powered by the Universe Boat's divine power to maintain its will impact and time acceleration.

However, the Universe Boat was incomparably vast, so its fixed source treasures were naturally much larger than this two-story Guardian Tower. This was also why most of the Universe Boat's functions could still operate normally after countless ages.

The fixed source treasures in the Guardian Tower were far smaller than those of the Universe Boat, so the energy provided for time acceleration was limited. Since the cost of time acceleration differed for experts of different life levels, the specific acceleration limit was related to the user's strength.

According to the information left in the Guardian Tower, below the True God level, acceleration within 500,000 times required no additional divine power. For a True God, the limit was 100,000 times. As for levels beyond that, due to the restrictions of the Universe Ocean, Shi Yan had no way of knowing.

Even so, this was a pleasant surprise for Shi Yan.

Divine power extended outward, and soon, a vast stream of information poured into Shi Yan's mind without end.

These Memory Stones were different from the inheritance left by the First Ancestor—many were extremely brief, and the information stored within them was far inferior to the Memory Stones the First Ancestor had left behind.

Yet even so, with Shi Yan's soul will at the Void True God level, it took him over five years (nearly seventy eras after time acceleration) to merely skim through the contents of hundreds of millions of Memory Stones, swallowing them whole without digesting them. As for careful study, the time required would be far greater.

Of course, to the Three Saints Palace, which specialized in time and space, these hundreds of millions of Memory Stones were merely a collection—used to broaden the horizons and enrich the methods of disciples and Inheritors.

But to the current Universe Ocean, any single inheritance among them would likely be enough to send all its beings scrambling in pursuit.

After fully memorizing these Secret Techniques, Shi Yan did not rush to study them in detail. Instead, he headed to another area of the Guardian Tower—the Hall of Myriad Treasures.

The "Hall of Myriad Treasures" on the second floor of the Guardian Tower was a place for storing a vast array of various treasures.

The Hall of Myriad Treasures was divided into many zones, each storing different types of treasures.

From common melee weapons like blades, swords, spears, and staffs, to long-range telekinetic weapons such as beads, chains, blades, and silk nets, to large Mechanical Path Supreme Treasures including warships, fortresses, war beasts, and so on.

There were also some strange and rare treasures, such as Alchemy Factories, Puppet Kingdoms, and Insect Beast Nests—undoubtedly priceless to experts skilled in artifact crafting, puppetry, or insect beasts.

All kinds of treasures, categorized in every way imaginable, were available.

Unlike the lineage of Duan Donghe, the Three Saints Palace was an independent sect faction.

The Origin Continent was rife with conflict, and as an independent force, the Three Saints Palace could not avoid being drawn into various wars time and again.

Thus, at its peak, the Three Saints Palace ruled over a domain and maintained a large army. And since an army was necessary, a rich variety of treasures was indispensable.

Unfortunately, during the battle that shattered the Wu Kingdom and the Three Saints Palace, over ninety-nine percent of the treasures originally in the Hall of Myriad Treasures were destroyed or abandoned along with the army's annihilation, and large-scale treasures were nearly all lost.

But for Shi Yan, the mere "leftovers" remaining in the Hall of Myriad Treasures were still a tremendous surprise.

"Swoosh!"

His form shifted, and Shi Yan arrived at the melee treasure zone.

Here, over a dozen treasures still remained—leftover scraps that hadn't been assigned to the army in that battle. The vast majority were True God-level treasures.

Beyond these were a somewhat oddly shaped Void-level treasure curved blade and a finely crafted single-handed sword, which was an Eternal True God-level treasure.

Even for a faction like the Three Saints Palace, Void True Gods were elite combatants in the army, and Eternal True Gods were considered commanders.

Thus, the Void-level and Eternal Grade treasures that hadn't been distributed were far rarer.

But...

"This is the Universe Ocean. True God-level treasures are already Supreme True Treasures, let alone these two..." Shi Yan's gaze burned, feeling like a pauper who had suddenly won a grand prize of tens of millions.

Compared to this trove of treasures that could be called "Supreme True Treasures," Shi Yan, who originally only had a single Peak Supreme Treasure on him, couldn't even be called a pauper—he was a beggar.

And that wasn't even counting the melee treasures. Shi Yan also sensed that in the long-range weapon zone and the auxiliary combat zone, some treasures remained.

And more importantly, the Three Saints Palace had specially prepared the most suitable treasures for its Inheritors.

"I'm rich, I'm rich—I'm rich now!"

Shi Yan was ecstatic.