Swallowing Starry Sky: The Treasure Refining Lord
Chapter 11

The Three Great Worlds

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Three worlds: two real, one fake.

The combination of these three worlds is simply invincible.

The Inner World possesses an invincible "life-saving" ability; unless one is a powerhouse of space laws or space-time laws, it is absolutely impossible to discover its traces. In the Inner World, one can improve their strength imperceptibly without the need for strenuous training.

The Treasure Refining World holds countless "cutting-edge technological tools," making its ability to refine treasures and earn money absolutely top-tier.

The Image World allows for the practice of "treasure refining" in a virtual environment; it is not only cost-effective and efficient, but one also need not fear if an accident occurs.

Shi Fen carried the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror and, with the intention of testing gravity, arrived at the Inner World once again.

Through the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror, he attempted to alter the gravity of this world.

Starting from 1x, he slowly increased the gravity he endured at a rate of 0.1x every 10 seconds.

An invisible force enveloped every part of Shi Fen's body, with every single cell bearing the weight. He tightened his muscles, anchoring himself to the ground like a nail.

Shi Fen closed his eyes, his expression solemn, adapting to the increasing gravity while taking deep breaths.

2x gravity...

3x gravity...

Shi Fen's heart beat laboriously within his chest; anyone standing near him could hear the "thump-thump" of his heart pounding.

His breathing became increasingly heavy, his legs began to tremble, and the lack of blood supply to his head caused waves of dizziness. It felt as if his body had been stuffed with countless lead weights, making even the act of standing incredibly difficult.

37x gravity.

This was his current limit.

After maintaining this gravity level for just five minutes, Shi Fen could no longer hold his standing posture and collapsed heavily onto the grass.

Shi Fen restored the gravity to 1x Earth gravity and stood back up, needing a long time to calm down before his physical condition returned to normal.

37x gravity is already this intense; if it were 10,000x, I fear I would be crushed into a pulp, Shi Fen thought with secret alarm. However, this is truly a great place for cultivation. Compared to this, the gravity rooms at the Elite Training Camp are nothing but trash.

Shi Fen felt that with this Inner World, he didn't need to enter the Elite Training Camp, nor did he even need to practice Gene Energy cultivation methods. Given ten years or so, he could become a War God.

With 24-hour adjustable gravity and dense cosmic energy, the conditions were so perfect that he didn't need to train or learn Gene Energy cultivation techniques. By simply "letting his heart follow the heavens," adjusting the gravity here to a level that didn't hinder his normal activities, and living his daily life here, he could improve his strength imperceptibly.

It is no exaggeration to say that anyone who stays in here long enough could become a War God!

Having adjusted his state, Shi Fen once again modified the gravity of the Inner World.

This time, he didn't increase it; he set the gravity to zero.

The moment it hit zero.

Across the vast grassland, the water droplets on countless slender blades of grass instantly detached and hovered around them.

The breeze formed by the dense cosmic energy of the Inner World did not stop with the disappearance of gravity. Driven by inertia, it continued to move in its original direction, causing countless tiny water droplets to be swept up by the wind.

They flew from the ground toward the sky.

When a phenomenon one is accustomed to is suddenly reversed, it becomes an unimaginably beautiful sight.

As gravity vanished, Shi Fen witnessed this magical scene.

At the same time.

His soles lifted slightly from the ground, and he felt the oppressive weight on his body vanish instantly. The muscles that had been tightened to support his body suddenly had "nothing to do," and he experienced a novel sensation of "relaxation."

With a forceful push of his spiritual power against the grass, Shi Fen drifted toward the sky.

Countless tiny water droplets, caught in his wake, swirled around him as they flew upward. Seeing the myriad droplets nearby, Shi Fen hurriedly wrapped his body in spiritual power to prevent his clothes from getting wet.

After doing so, he closed his eyes, enjoying the pleasure of floating off the ground.

After floating for a while, he felt an inexplicable "panic." This flight without a destination, feeling like being "exiled" into space, made him afraid.

He hurriedly applied his spiritual power to his clothes, controlling his posture to stand in mid-air.

He understood the greatness of astronauts.

In the empty void of space, there are no leverage points; without special equipment, astronauts cannot move.

Every time an astronaut performs an extravehicular activity, they must bear the risk of being "exiled." If an accident occurs and the connection between the person and the spacecraft is lost, they will be "exiled" by space forever.

They would never be able to return to Earth.

Beyond that, they must bear countless other risks.

It can be said that every astronaut is an elite of humanity, a hero among men!

They are worthy of everyone's respect!

Shi Fen stood in the air, his thoughts racing. After a moment of reflection, his figure vanished from the sky, and he returned to his bedroom. At the same time, the gravity in the Inner World returned to normal, and countless water droplets fell from the sky; it began to rain heavily within the Inner World.

Shi Fen emerged from the Inner World without a moment's rest. Communicating with the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror via his spiritual power, he entered the Treasure Refining World for the second time. After Shi Fen entered, the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror hovered silently in the bedroom, one meter above the floor.

He teleported himself to the center of the main hall, carefully using his spiritual power to grab his own clothes and "lift" himself into mid-air, curiously surveying his surroundings.

Compared to before.

On the wall where the bookshelf had originally been placed, there were now three enormous semi-elliptical arches. These arches were estimated to be seventy or eighty meters high and one hundred twenty or thirty meters wide.

The three arches were spaced at great intervals, distributed perfectly evenly across the wall.

Above the doors hung massive plaques, each inscribed with three complex characters. The final character on every plaque was identical.

These must be some kind of halls, Shi Fen speculated to himself.

The arrangement of items in the plaza had completely changed.

The technological tools were now all "cutting-edge," and the simplified versions he had previously used were gone. Furthermore, many of these tools no longer existed as single units; instead, several were lined up side by side.

It was these additional tools that had replaced the space previously occupied by the simplified versions.

For instance, in one corner, ten "Mining Vehicles" were parked neatly in a row.

I've struck it rich. With this much technological equipment, not to mention anything else, if I just spend time mining, refining alloys, and clearing debris, I could become a billionaire in Hunyuan Units.

Shi Fen scanned his surroundings with excitement; this was the harvest reaped from eighteen years of hard work.

It was truly worth it. Shi Fen clenched his fist and struck his palm in excitement. The big shot who passed this inheritance to me is truly generous. Just for completing the first trial, they've given me so many good things.

Let me go down and see if I can use them.

He controlled his body, slowly descending near one of the "tools." He touched it with his hand, but the tool didn't budge in the slightest.

As expected. It seems I still have to find the bookshelves. Shi Fen had been prepared for this and felt no disappointment. He unleashed his spiritual force and flew rapidly toward the leftmost archway.

Hm? It's empty.

Seeing that the interior was completely vacant, Shi Fen let out a soft exclamation of surprise and immediately headed to another location.

Still empty. It seems it must be inside the rightmost archway.

Shi Fen's already rapid speed increased even further. He dashed excitedly into the final archway.

It's here, just as I thought. Upon entering, he immediately saw many items placed in the corner to his right, the most conspicuous of which was, indeed, a bookshelf.

Shi Fen flew up to it.

He discovered that this place was remarkably similar to the previous "Library." Against the wall stood long, standardized bookshelves, and in front of them were the same two sets of "ultra-modern" sofas and coffee tables.

The size of the bookshelves was exactly the same as before.

Half of them contained the Extreme Forging manuals Shi Fen had been studying; even though they still hadn't been translated, he recognized them at a glance. On the spines of the remaining half were four large, complex characters, along with numerous smaller annotations.

Drawing on his previous experience, Shi Fen checked the top-left corner of the bookshelf directly. Unfortunately, there were no "anomalous" books in the top-left corners of either section.

Without hesitation, Shi Fen immediately exited the Treasure Refining World and shifted his consciousness into the Image World.

Upon entering the Image World, Shi Fen stood in mid-air, scanning the area. Relying on his powerful memory and exaggerated information-processing capabilities, he confirmed that there were no differences.

Having confirmed this, he flew at full speed toward the rightmost archway.

Arriving before the bookshelf, Shi Fen saw the book titled Qualification in the top-left corner. He picked it up to flip through it, only to be shocked to find that the book was empty; there was no text recorded on the pages.

Shi Fen hurriedly checked the Extreme Forging books and found that they all contained text, though the books introducing various tools were gone, leaving only those related to forging. He felt a slight sense of relief and began to examine the other section.

As expected, a two-character book.

He yanked the book down and opened it impatiently.

A surge of information instantly flooded into Shi Fen's mind, and both the Treasure Refining World and the Image World lit up with colorful light. Within this radiance, all the characters transformed into the "Huaxia" script.

Feeling the anomaly, the corners of Shi Fen's mouth curled up slightly as he thought to himself, Just as I expected.

He focused his mind, dedicating himself fully to receiving the massive influx of text and imagery.

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