Returning to the Primal Universe, Reflections Beneath the Stars

After a flash of silver light, Qin Yuan suddenly appeared in the central region of the Primal Star.

As far as he could see, the Primal Star, once bustling with countless top experts from the Primal Universe, had long since fallen silent. Its once-every-ten-thousand-years opening period had ended three years ago. The spatial rifts that had once covered the planet had all closed, and layer upon layer of thick spatial barriers now enveloped its surface, severing all contact with the universe beyond.

Gone from the planet was the lively spectacle of gathered experts and clashing laws. All that remained were barren reaches, silent stellar debris, and the aura of laws lingering in the air, long since grown faint. Only at the Primal Star's core did traces of energy still linger from the great battles fought by countless experts, telling of its former glory.

Qin Yuan stood at the center of the Primal Star, feeling the silence around him without the slightest ripple in his heart. He had now broken through to the True God Realm and had fused with the Void God Hall, a Hunyuan-level flying Palace Supreme Treasure. His strength far surpassed what it once had been. To him, the Primal Star's spatial barriers were no more than a screen as thin as a cicada's wing, utterly incapable of stopping him.

His gaze was calm as he softly uttered the words, "Void Greater Teleportation."

Before his voice had faded, Qin Yuan's figure turned illusory. At the peak of great accomplishment, the power of the Space Law wreathed him, as though he had become one with the whole of cosmic space. The next second, like an invisible phantom, he passed effortlessly through the Primal Star's thick spatial barriers without causing the slightest spatial fluctuation. In an instant, he crossed an endless distance and appeared beneath the boundless starry sky of the Primal Universe.

Beneath the Primal Universe's starry sky, stars flowed all around him, and a brilliant river of stars stretched across the heavens. Familiar fluctuations of the Origin Laws poured into his limbs and bones like a tide. The Time Law, the Space Law, the Five Element Laws... the various Universe Origin Laws still followed their established courses. Everything was just as he remembered it.

Qin Yuan drew a deep breath, feeling the familiar aura of the Primal Universe's origin, and could not help but feel a touch of emotion.

Only a little over three years had passed in the Primal Universe outside, but in the Time-Space Secret Realm, where time flowed far faster than in the outside world, he had spent a full fifty years.

Fifty years, more than eighteen thousand days and nights, without friends or family for company and without outside distractions. There had been only endless, lonely, arduous cultivation, trials of life and death, and contemplation of the laws. He had come close to death amid turbulent currents of space-time, lain awake all night before bottlenecks in the laws, and overturned his own insights again and again, setting out anew on the path of comprehending the Dao.

At first, his Gene Level had been a mere 100 times, placing him among the weakest of Universe Masters. Cutting through thorns and brambles and breaking through layer upon layer of shackles, he had fused with the Void God King's origin and mastered the laws of space-time. In the end, he had grown into a peak True God with a Gene Level as high as 9,000 times, having already formed an initial Miniature Universe.

Only Qin Yuan himself knew the hardships he had endured along the way.

He calmed his mind and looked inward, sensing the peak True God Level Divine Power surging endlessly through him like a torrent of chaos. Every trace of that Divine Power contained the strength to destroy heaven and earth; in his sea of consciousness, the Void God Hall floated quietly, emanating an aura that suppressed everything; and in his palm, the vast, ancient aura of the King of Jin Token seemed to linger still.

He was no longer the man he had once been. Even against an ordinary True God of the Universe Ocean, he had the strength to fight, and he was only one step away from the legendary Void True God.

"It's time to look at my detailed status." With a thought, Qin Yuan silently called out to the system, System, display my current status.

The next second, a pale-blue virtual panel visible only to Qin Yuan appeared before him, clearly listing all his current information:

[Host: Qin Yuan]

[Realm: peak True God (Miniature Universe initially formed)]

[Gene Level: 9,000 times]

[Divine Power: True God Level (peak)]

[Supreme Treasures: Void God Hall (Hunyuan-level flying Palace Supreme Treasure), Star River Domain (Peak Domain Supreme Treasure), King of Jin Token (special token)]

[Law Comprehension: Time Law (peak of great accomplishment), Space Law (peak of great accomplishment), Five Element Laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth (proficient)]

[Self-created secret techniques: "Time-Space: Space Shattering" (ultimate), "Instant Eternity" (ultimate), "Void Greater Teleportation" (ultimate), "Space-Time Annihilation" (ultimate), "Return to the Ruins" (Time-Space Fusion, rudimentary)]

[System Points: 82,000]

[Disciple: Luo Feng (Star Level)]

As Qin Yuan looked at the information clearly displayed on the panel, a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes. His fifty years of arduous cultivation had not been in vain. His realm, Gene Level, Law Comprehension, Supreme Treasures, and secret techniques had all reached unprecedented heights.

His gaze then pierced the endless starry sky toward the Milky Way Galaxy, and he murmured inwardly, Three years.

He thought of his only disciple, Luo Feng. Three years ago, when Qin Yuan left Earth and entered the Time-Space Secret Realm, Luo Feng had been only a Star Level junior who had just set foot on the path of a Martial Artist. His punching force had been a mere 16,000 kilograms, his Gene Level had yet to exceed twenty times, and his understanding of the laws had not even reached the threshold.

But the flames burning in that young man's eyes, that stubborn refusal to admit defeat even as he gritted his teeth in a desperate situation, had reminded Qin Yuan of his younger self. It was precisely because of that disposition that he had taken a young man from Earth he had never met before as his sole personal disciple.

Three years were but the snap of a finger to an expert in the universe, but for a Star Level junior, they were a crucial period for shedding the old and being reborn. Thoughts surged through Qin Yuan's mind. How far had the young man come by now? Had he touched the threshold of fusing the laws of metal and wood? Had he successfully broken through the First Tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual? Or was he stuck at some bottleneck, charging at it again and again but still unable to find the door, gritting his teeth and persevering through failure as Qin Yuan himself once had?

At the thought, Qin Yuan no longer suppressed his eagerness to see his disciple in the slightest. He immediately contacted the system, his tone resolute and firm. "System, teleport me to Earth."

[Ding! Target located. Locking onto Yangzhou City, Jiangnan Base City, Huaxia, Earth.]

[Host's request detected. Initiating Concealed Teleportation, which can evade all monitoring equipment and the senses of all experts on Earth. This teleportation will cost 300 System Points.]

[Current System Points remaining: 82,000. Confirm teleportation?]

"Confirm." Qin Yuan spoke without the slightest hesitation.

As soon as he finished speaking, a gentle yet irresistible light of teleportation enveloped him. There was no vast surge of energy, no dazzling light. In no more than an instant, Qin Yuan vanished completely from the vast void of the Primal Universe, teleporting toward the distant Earth.