This Is Basically a Chaos Stele!

"No wonder Flint Star Sector Lord rose so quickly..." Jiang Luo thought.

According to what he knew about Flint Star Sector Lord, he had remained utterly unremarkable right up until the Domain Lord Level.

Only after he went to the Outer-Region Battlefield did he return home as a World Lord.

After that, he soared upward, eventually becoming one of the few Sector Lord Level Great Axe Warriors in the entire Gulun Universe Kingdom.

According to the last message Flint Star Sector Lord had left on this Water Planet, he had obtained this Golden Eye in the Outer-Region Battlefield.

Though Flint Star Sector Lord had treasured it like a priceless artifact, at first he had thought it was merely a Golden Eye from a Venerable Level Space-Time Nightmare Beast.

As one of the Eighteen Royal Clans of the Demon Race, the Space-Time Nightmare Beast prized its Golden-Silver Eyes above all else.

Even after death, its Golden-Silver Eyes retained all sorts of wondrous properties, containing some of the Space-Time Law it had mastered in life.

Especially those of a Venerable Level Space-Time Nightmare Beast.

But Flint Star Sector Lord soon uncovered the secret of the independent space-time within the eye.

It was not only an independent space-time, but one that contained the true essence of the Space Origin Law!

It was thanks to this that Flint Star Sector Lord made rapid progress in the Space Law, reaching a level close to that of a Marquis Immortal after cultivating for only a hundred or so eras.

He had even worked out a secret technique that could enhance his combat power:

He could project part of this vast space-time outward!

It was just like a World Lord casting his World Projection.

But the Space-Time Projection of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast's eye was far more powerful than a World Projection!

Even though Flint Star Sector Lord could project only a tiny part of this space-time, it could easily suppress the Law Domain of an ordinary Immortal God!

According to Flint Star Sector Lord's last message, when he returned to the Outer-Region Battlefield a second time, he had clashed with a powerful Alien Race Immortal over the Flame Star Behemoth's egg. He had survived and escaped thanks to his Space-Time Projection.

But he hadn't managed to evade the Soul Attack, and ultimately perished.

Only after Flint Star Sector Lord became a Sector Lord Level Great Axe Warrior and rose high enough to learn more secrets did he realize that this Golden Eye was most likely the eye of a great Space-Time Nightmare Beast Universe Master, left behind after its death!

Jiang Luo silently agreed with Flint Star Sector Lord's guess.

He'd found the treasure a little strange when he first learned about it in Flint Star Sector Lord's hoard.

As a member of the Demon Race Royal Family, a Space-Time Nightmare Beast would surely be resurrected after death, whether it was at the Venerable Level or even the King Rank or Marquis Level.

Once resurrected, the Space-Time Law contained in its Golden or Silver Eye would surely vanish from its remains, leaving them worthless.

Otherwise, the Space-Time Nightmare Beast would become prey for countless races.

Unless it had been killed in a way that made resurrection impossible.

But killing a Universe Venerable in a way that made resurrection impossible was incredibly difficult.

It made much more sense if the Golden Eye had come from a Space-Time Nightmare Beast Universe Master!

After all, Universe Masters couldn't be resurrected.

Flint Star Sector Lord had been startled when he guessed the truth. He'd even turned down invitations from the five great powers, choosing to remain an independent cultivator.

Thinking of Flint Star Sector Lord's final message in the crystal ball, Jiang Luo's expression grew solemn.

Because of the special nature of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast's Golden-Silver Eyes, the Demon Race tried to resurrect every Space-Time Nightmare Beast of Marquis Level or higher that fell in battle.

If resurrection proved impossible, they would spare no effort to recover the eyes lost when a high-ranking member of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast clan died.

The Demon Race knew all too well how the natural Beast Gods had been hunted down.

Though Space-Time Nightmare Beasts were nowhere near as valuable as natural Beast Gods, whose entire bodies were treasures, the Demon Race still took every precaution and employed all kinds of methods.

Under the Demon Race's forceful measures, few powerful beings among the countless races of the Primal Universe still coveted the eyes of Space-Time Nightmare Beasts.

If you killed one of their high-ranking powerhouses, the Demon Race would resurrect it as quickly as possible, and any eyes you'd obtained would become worthless.

If you killed a low-ranking Space-Time Nightmare Beast, its Golden-Silver Eyes contained little Space-Time Law and weren't worth much.

And if you killed one in a way that made resurrection impossible, you'd face the Demon Race's relentless pursuit.

That was why Flint Star Sector Lord had stressed in his final message that whoever inherited his treasure must never reveal anything about the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast.

"Then how did Blood Demon King find out?" Jiang Luo wondered.

"Right, it must have been when Flint Star Sector Lord clashed with an Alien Race Immortal over the Flame Star Behemoth's egg on the Outer-Region Battlefield. Faced with death, he had no choice but to use his trump card, Space-Time Projection, and Blood Demon King guessed the truth?"

Jiang Luo frowned slightly. "That doesn't make sense either. If the Space-Time Projection Flint Star Sector Lord figured out on his own was enough to reveal that the eye belonged to a Space-Time Nightmare Beast Universe Master, then Blood Demon King wouldn't have been the one to figure it out..."

The Space-Time Nightmare Beast was only one of the Eighteen Royal Clans of the Demon Race. Only one or two of them had ever become Universe Masters throughout history.

Once Jiang Luo entered the Giant Axe Arena, he could probably find out the identity of the fallen Space-Time Nightmare Beast Universe Master.

That meant there were probably only a handful of people in the entire Primal Universe who had ever obtained the eye of a Universe Master-level Space-Time Nightmare Beast.

Most people probably didn't even know the eye could produce a Space-Time Projection, much less how it worked.

"Could Blood Demon King have obtained the other Silver Eye of that unlucky Space-Time Nightmare Beast Universe Master?" Jiang Luo half-joked, half-speculated.

If Blood Demon King had the other Silver Eye, he would naturally understand the function of a Universe Master-level Space-Time Nightmare Beast's eyes much better. That would make it easier to explain how he'd guessed the truth from the Space-Time Projection Flint Star Sector Lord had used.

Jiang Luo shook his head, set down the crystal ball, and looked up at the glittering stars in the boundless night sky.

Then he began to observe them using the visualization method Flint Star Sector Lord had left inside the crystal ball.

After an unknown length of time,

the countless stars suddenly began to change. One after another, they disappeared from Jiang Luo's sight, as if they had gone dark.

Trillions upon trillions of stars vanished at an unimaginable speed, as though the brilliant starry sky had been nothing more than an illusion.

Before long, only 108 stars remained in the entire sky!

They revolved along an indescribably profound trajectory.

Those countless stars had actually been projections of these 108 stars!

The instant Jiang Luo saw the 108 stars, it was as if he saw blazing suns hurtling toward him.

Then those blazing suns transformed into drops of water, streaks of sword light...

Jiang Luo abruptly came to his senses, his eyes filled with astonishment. "This is basically a Chaos Stele!"

"No wonder Flint Star Sector Lord said in his last message that this space-time contained the true essence of the Space Origin Law."

The 108 stars explained the 108 most fundamental mysteries of the Space Law!

It was easy to understand how Flint Star Sector Lord had progressed so quickly in the Space Law.

This Golden Eye really was the greatest opportunity that had allowed Flint Star Sector Lord to rise to prominence!

The Immortal Gods behind the various factions in the Huanming Star Sector had all coveted the treasure he'd left behind after his death.

It wasn't necessarily that they were greedy for Flint Star Sector Lord's wealth.

More likely, they believed he'd had an extraordinary opportunity and might have left behind some incomparably precious treasure.

"What a pity..." Jiang Luo sighed. "Flint Star Sector Lord was still held back by his limited knowledge."

Even with a Chaos Stele of the Space Law at his side, he still needed guidance from a sufficiently powerful teacher and sufficiently profound manuals to make the most of this independent space-time.

And those could be found only among the Core Layer of the five great powers.

But Flint Star Sector Lord had been afraid that others would discover his greatest secret, so he'd chosen to remain an independent cultivator, too wary to enter Chaos City or the Giant Axe Universe.

Perhaps, in his eyes, the most precious thing in Chaos City was the Chaos Stele.

With a Golden Eye that let him comprehend the true essence of the Space Law, how could it possibly be inferior to a Chaos Stele?

"The shortcoming of independent cultivators isn't just a lack of resources. What they truly lack is knowledge."