Awakened Memories

An apparently boundless asteroid belt stretched before him, with a universe spaceship over a hundred meters long floating among the asteroids.

A two-meter-tall man with sword-like brows, starry eyes, and black battle armor lay atop an asteroid as he awoke.

"Master, you're finally awake."

A virtual kitten circled the man. When it saw him awaken, it stopped in front of him and hurriedly greeted him.

"What happened to me?"

"Who am I?"

"I'm Zhou Yuan? No, I'm Lu Yuan?"

"Who exactly am I?"

The conflicting memories in the man's mind finally merged into one.

"I'm Zhou Yuan, and I'm also Lu Yuan. I actually transmigrated? But I wasn't even hit by anything."

After sorting through his memories, Zhou Yuan finally understood his situation. More than a thousand years ago, his former self, Lu Yuan, had transmigrated into the world of Swallowed Star—and had even transmigrated to a place beyond the Origin World.

Lu Yuan's consciousness had merged with Hunyuan Energy and the Dao of the Hunyuan World, forming a Hunyuan Dao Seed. It had then broken through the Origin World and entered the universe, reincarnating as the current Zhou Yuan. However, before reincarnation, he had only possessed an ordinary person's consciousness, so the Supreme Rule had directly sealed away his memories from his previous life.

After reincarnation, relying on his decent talent for cultivation, he had spent over twelve hundred years rising step by step from an ordinary nameless youth to a Universe Level 2 warrior. Unfortunately, his parents had lacked talent. They had only given birth to him when they were several hundred years old, and had long since died after exhausting their lifespans. Only the descendants of his eldest uncle's and third uncle's families remained.

With nothing to hold him back, Zhou Yuan began roaming the universe. Three months ago, he had happened to learn that a small secret realm, the Yunyan Secret Realm, had appeared. Although its primary explorers were World Lords and Immortal Level powerhouses, some outer regions were suitable for Universe Level and Domain Lord level adventurers.

With the mindset of trying his luck, he had piloted the Goshawk here. To his surprise, he had actually found an Earth Heart wrapped in mysterious stone within the Shattered Star Belt at the edge of the secret realm.

That mysterious stone possessed extremely powerful shielding abilities. Even his detection equipment had failed to notice anything unusual. If the Goshawk had not accidentally struck that asteroid while avoiding the others, causing the Earth Heart to release a faint trace of origin aura, he would likely have missed this tremendous opportunity.

After returning to the spaceship, he had impatiently taken out the Earth Heart to examine it. Who would have thought that the pure earth-origin energy contained within it would happen to activate the Hunyuan Dao Seed that had long slumbered inside him?

The instant the Hunyuan Dao Seed awakened, it not only shattered the seal of the Origin World's Supreme Rule and allowed him to awaken his memories of his previous life as Lu Yuan, but also directly poured a fully deduced secret technique into his sea of consciousness.

The enormous amount of information crashed against his soul like a tsunami, causing him to pass out immediately. That sleep had lasted a full three months.

This secret technique, deduced by the Hunyuan Dao Seed with its final trace of Hunyuan Energy, had a total of nine layers. Each layer could double his genetic level, increase his body volume by a thousandfold, and raise his strength tenfold. After cultivating the first layer, he would also awaken an exclusive secret technique.

The only regret was that, restricted by the Origin World's Supreme Rule, this secret technique could only be cultivated by him and could not be passed on to anyone else.

Zhou Yuan shook his head, trying to dispel the swelling sensation in his mind. Even though he had awakened, the immense amount of information about the secret technique still made him dizzy. He stood up and stretched his stiff limbs, producing a series of crisp bone cracks. The muscles beneath his black battle armor instantly tensed and relaxed, brimming with explosive power.

After surveying his surroundings, Zhou Yuan found himself in the Shattered Star Belt at the edge of the secret realm. Resources were scarce here, making it the perfect place for Universe Level and Domain Lord level adventurers.

The Shattered Star Belt was several hundred light-years wide and encircled the entire secret realm. Though it was only a small secret realm, it still spanned over ten thousand light-years. The belt surrounding it was incomparably vast.

As for the higher-level World Lords and Immortal Level beings, they were all adventuring on the dozens of vast continents in the center. After all, the closer one got to the heart of the secret realm, the richer the resources became.

"Beibei, how long was I unconscious?" Zhou Yuan withdrew his gaze and looked at the virtual kitten before him, his voice restored to its usual calm. Beibei leaped through the air onto his shoulder, her golden eyes full of concern. "Master, you were unconscious for a full three months."

"Thanks for the effort, Beibei." Zhou Yuan rubbed the kitten's head, his tone carrying a trace of barely noticeable gentleness. "Take control of the spaceship. Head toward the outer edge of the Shattered Star Belt. Once we enter the Dark Universe, stop at the edge of the belt."

"Okay, Master!" Beibei replied excitedly.

Beibei was Zhou Yuan's intelligent assistant. She possessed advanced intelligence and had already developed emotions, though she was not yet an intelligent lifeform.

The spaceship began accelerating. It was a C1-class universe spaceship and one of Zhou Yuan's important assets.

Zhou Yuan walked straight to the main control seat and sat down, watching the cosmic star map projected before him in three dimensions as his fingers lightly tapped the armrest. Right now, he needed an absolutely safe environment to digest his awakened memories and the contents of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique. The outer edge of the Shattered Star Belt was precisely a place that World Lords and Immortal Level powerhouses disdained to visit, while Universe Level and Domain Lord level adventurers rarely ventured there. It was the ideal choice.

While the spaceship accelerated toward the Dark Universe, Zhou Yuan closed his eyes and sank his consciousness deep into his sea of consciousness. At its very center floated a gray, misty seed. Its surface was covered in profound patterns, as though it contained the ultimate mysteries of the entire universe. It was his greatest support—the Hunyuan Dao Seed.

As his consciousness delved deeper, the Hunyuan Dao Seed's three major functions clearly surfaced in his mind:

First, secret technique deduction. The Hunyuan Dao Seed had fused with the Hunyuan Dao. As long as it possessed sufficient origin energy, it could deduce secret techniques of any level. Even top-tier secret techniques of the Divine King Ultimate Realm would pose no difficulty. The newly awakened Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique had been deduced using its final trace of Hunyuan Energy.

Second, soul protection. As long as the Hunyuan Dao Seed remained intact, no one in the entire Origin World could kill or enslave him through soul attacks. This was equivalent to giving him a trump card for survival.

Third, origin amplification. It could amplify the clarity of Zhou Yuan's perception of origin laws. In particular, after coming into contact with a Heart of Origin, he could directly communicate with the corresponding origin, producing an effect equivalent to a hundred times that of a World Lord-level powerhouse. However, he had only come into contact with the Earth Heart so far, so only his perception of earth origin had reached that level. His perception of the other origin laws remained at the level of hundredfold clarity.

He then began examining the secret technique transmitted by the Hunyuan Dao Seed. After all, it was the best secret technique he could currently access, likely one of the very best in the entire Primal Universe. The only reason he did not dare call it number one was because of that old schemer Seated Mountain Guest. In a Primal Universe of another dimension, it would probably be number one.

The secret technique had nine layers and a very low threshold. One only needed to learn the secret runes, then use them to connect and consume energy in order to cultivate it. However, the energy consumption could only be described as terrifying, reaching ten thousand times one's own energy reserves. The higher one's realm, the more energy was required. If an Immortal cultivated it, the energy consumed would be enough to restore their divine body more than ten thousand times.

Although cultivation was simple, the effects of the secret technique were extremely powerful and mainly consisted of four major functions:

First, every layer increased genetic level by onefold, with a maximum increase of 10,081 times. The effect would only take place after cultivation was completed.

Second, every layer increased height tenfold, meaning body size increased by a thousandfold. The upper limit was restricted by the Supreme Rule.

Third, every layer increased comprehension.

Fourth, successfully cultivating the first layer would grant the secret technique Myriad Transformations. It would be equivalent to an innate secret technique and would have no usage threshold.

Zhou Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and a fiery gleam flashed through their depths. With the heaven-defying treasure that was the Hunyuan Dao Seed, along with the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, his future was destined to be anything but ordinary. Punching the slacker City Lord and kicking City Lord Luo might not be impossible.