The Birth of a Treasure

In the time that followed, Chu Yuan continued his seclusion.

With Clock accelerating time, over the previous several decades he had grasped Soul Fusion and converted it into Nine Nether Tribulation Rain.

Afterward, he had interrupted his seclusion on a whim... This time, naturally, he intended to cultivate spatial secret arts.

The five spatial secret arts Yu Hong had traded to him were not bad either, but Chu Yuan now had something better, so naturally he would cultivate the better one first.

Namely, the set of [Exile] secret arts left behind by Hope's former self.

During this time, some people invited him to search for treasure together, but he turned them down.

There were also Sovereigns from the same Original Star Region who came to visit, hoping to befriend him, only to be turned away by Hope.

Time passed in such an uneventful manner...

The [Exile] secret art sounded simple enough.

But in truth, it was a secret art that combined both offense and defense!

When he first began studying it, Chu Yuan had thought its effect was to exile people to some distant territory, or even beyond the great universe... At the time, he had marveled at how enormous the expenditure would have to be.

And it would be useless too—wouldn't they simply come back after being exiled...

But after comprehending it, he discovered that this secret art was completely different from what he had imagined.

Exiling an enemy could trap them within endless spatial corridors!

Like a labyrinth, layer upon layer, it was almost impossible to break through! Even if one forcibly broke free, the scouring spatial turbulence would leave no telling where they might be thrown.

If one exiled oneself, one could completely conceal oneself within the layers between spaces, making detection difficult...

From this alone,