The rules of space are one of the fundamental pillars of the universe's operation.
What is a pillar rule? It means that without the rules of space, the universe would become imperfect or even collapse.
Everything that exists, all things, depend on space; it is the foundation of all things.
Lin Yuan's complete mastery of the rules of space, even if only one aspect of it, has changed his perception of the outside world entirely.
Before understanding the rules of space, Lin Yuan was like a fish in water, seeing and feeling only his immediate surroundings. But after understanding the rules of space, it was as if he had leapt out of the water and could see more and further.
"The rules of space may not be as mysterious as the rules of time, unable to reverse the flow and resurrect the dead, but they permeate all things more deeply," Lin Yuan thought to himself.
At this moment, he had fully reached the ninth rank. Without mastering the rules of space, even if his combat power exceeded the threshold of the ninth rank, if he were to fight a ninth-rank expert, the opponent could come and go as they pleased, using space to toy with Lin Yuan at a higher level.
It's like a whale living in the deep sea; no matter how powerful it is, it cannot threaten life on land.
"Mastering space is just the beginning. Next, I need to integrate the Tao of Tai Chi and various cosmic powers with the complete rules of space, forging my own path."
Lin Yuan's heart surged with excitement. The path to the ninth rank was within reach; he just needed to complete the final integration of rules to step into the ninth rank.
In the myriad races of the universe's starry sky, the ninth rank is considered a fundamental existence. Many weaker and ordinary races have their strongest ancestors at this level.
"My internal world?"
Lin Yuan's consciousness descended into his internal world, discovering that the originally 100M-mile-plus internal world had begun to expand massively again.
Fortunately, Lin Yuan had anticipated this, taking out the prepared Taiwei Pure Crystals and integrating them into his internal world.
In no time, the internal world expanded to a size of 131M miles in radius.
The heavy power of the world operated, and ordinary invincible eighth-rank beings would be crushed under such immense world power, unable to resist.
"With the support of my current internal world, completely absorbing the mysterious green liquid from the gourd shouldn't be difficult."
Lin Yuan thought to himself. In recent years, he had tried to absorb the green liquid but had always been stuck at the final bit. Now, he estimated he could easily pass through.
"First, absorb the green liquid."
Lin Yuan's consciousness returned to the outside world, taking out the gray-green gourd, tilting it down to begin absorbing.
Several thousand light-years away from the B0001 Alien Battlefield.
A black spaceship ended its wormhole traversal, revealing itself.
"Is that the B0001 Alien Battlefield?" Lin Yuan, inside the spaceship, looked at the colossal object thousands of light-years away.
The B0001 Alien Battlefield was the first medium-sized alien battlefield opened by human civilization, about twelve light-years in size.
Even invincible eighth-rank beings could fight freely on this battlefield without holding back.
"Forget it, I'll just use Great Teleportation for the remaining distance."
Lin Yuan exited the spaceship. After comprehending the complete rules of space, a single Great Teleportation could span hundreds of light-years without any "cooldown time," much more efficient than the spaceship's wormhole traversal.
Of course, using Great Teleportation for long distances consumed a lot of energy. If not in a hurry, using the spaceship for wormhole traversal was better.
Lin Yuan decided to try traveling by Great Teleportation for the remaining thousands of light-years, just to experience the feeling.
Swish.
On the edge of Battlefield 0001.
Lin Yuan's figure appeared, looking at the battlefield before him.
"The spatial fluctuations are significant, far denser than those at the Yin Primordial Spirit's medium-sized alien battlefield," Lin Yuan thought.
The spatial fluctuations in alien battlefields stem from the constant fighting of countless strong beings and the presence of permanent spatial rifts.
As the oldest alien battlefield, B0001 had frequent escalations of war intensity in the distant past, with tenth-rank Evolvers wielding ultimate weapons tearing permanent spatial rifts much wider and longer than other medium-sized battlefields.
Small alien battlefields typically have spatial rifts ranging from tens of meters to several hundred meters, while medium-sized battlefields often have rifts over ten thousand meters, between ten to twenty thousand meters.
The largest permanent spatial rift on Battlefield 0001 reached thirty thousand meters.
These are not ordinary spatial rifts but permanent ones, "wounds" that even the universe's inherent operations cannot heal.
"I should first check out the thirty-thousand-meter-long permanent spatial rift."
Lin Yuan concealed his aura and headed towards the target location. In an alien battlefield, spatial fluctuations are significant. Even if one masters the complete rules of space, it's best not to use Great Teleportation.
The fluctuations can easily affect the teleportation, causing deviations or even temporary disorientation in the layers of space.
Milky Way Main Star.
Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, with green flames burning wildly inside him, finally calming down.
"I've finally absorbed it completely."
Lin Yuan's consciousness descended into his internal world again, looking at the massive world that had silently reached 133.2M miles in radius, with a satisfied expression.
For human Evolvers who master the complete rules of space, the limit of their internal world is around ten million miles in radius. Special life forms with peak bloodlines, like the Star Sea Kun, or other special space beings, have an internal world limit of several tens of millions of miles.
Having an internal world exceeding a hundred million miles at the eighth rank is likely only achievable by rare special life forms that can't even form a proper race.
The universe is fair, nurturing all living things. The stronger the innate talent and bloodline of a life form, the harder it is to reproduce.
Human civilization has a terrifying reproductive ability, but most have mediocre talents.
Star Sea Kun have powerful innate talents and bloodlines, but their reproduction is extremely difficult. They can barely form a race.
Some special life forms are so rare they can't even form a race. The innate talent of these special life forms is beyond ordinary understanding.
Many ancient gods who dominate regions of the universe are born from such origins.
"Next is... the blue liquid."
Lin Yuan flipped his right hand, revealing the mysterious gourd.
At this moment, the color on the gourd's surface began to slowly change, from gray-green to gray-blue.
"Absorb."
Lin Yuan tilted the gourd, and a drop of deep blue liquid dripped out.
Boom.
The blue liquid entered his throat, transforming into pure blue flames, burning through Lin Yuan's internal organs.
In a few days.
Lin Yuan tried several times, and his internal world expanded to 145M miles in radius.
"Further expansion will not be as quick as before." In such a short time, the foundation size increased by more than double, entirely due to Lin Yuan's internal world reaching its basic limit.
Subsequent growth would have to be gradual, slowly adapting to the burning of the blue flames.
"In these years, I've finally accumulated thirty strands of Breaking Boundary Source Energy."
Lin Yuan's mind sank into his consciousness, sensing the quantity of Breaking Boundary Source Energy.
Before the eighth transmigration, Lin Yuan had accumulated thirty-six strands of Breaking Boundary Source Energy.
Descending into the Spirit Realm consumed ten strands, and bringing the mysterious gourd and Primordial Essence Gold consumed two strands.
After the eighth transmigration, twenty-four strands remained.
In recent years, Lin Yuan's Breaking Boundary Source Energy reached thirty strands again.
"The ninth transmigration is not urgent."
Lin Yuan pondered. He was currently at a critical stage of integrating the rules, and traversing now would only affect his progress to the ninth rank.
After breaking through to the ninth rank, when his cultivation reaches a temporary bottleneck, he could consider transmigrating again.
For Lin Yuan, cultivation was possible anywhere, whether transmigrating other worlds or in the main world. Both could rapidly enhance his strength.
Transmigrating other worlds primarily allowed Lin Yuan to understand cultivation systems outside the main world and gain benefits from different dimensions.
For instance, the Spirit Realm had no suppression on cosmic power, enabling Lin Yuan to comprehend dozens of cosmic powers, including over ten high-level ones and one primordial-level cosmic power.
In the main world, this would have been nearly impossible. Even with Unrivaled Insight, it would have wasted a lot of time and hindered future cultivation.
In the Spirit Realm, the myriad creative forces presented to Lin Yuan provided the correct direction, naturally speeding up his comprehension.
In the main world, where cosmic power couldn't be replicated, Lin Yuan would have had to start from scratch, potentially taking wrong paths.
"Having comprehended the rules of space, I can now try to challenge the second floor of the Black Tower."
Lin Yuan's heart stirred. In recent years, his attempts on the second floor of the Black Tower were merely to hone his use of cosmic power.
He hadn't seriously tried to pass through.
But now, he wanted to give it a shot.
Comprehending the complete rules of space brought a qualitative transformation in all aspects, including offense, defense, and survival.
An eighth-rank being who comprehends the complete rules of space could cause great trouble for invincible eighth-rank beings. Even if surrounded, they couldn't be harmed.
Such a being could travel through numerous layers of space with a single thought, making it nearly impossible for invincible eighth-rank beings to even touch them.
Buzz.
A strand of Lin Yuan's consciousness descended into the Devil Jade Space through the Devil Jade Mark.
In front of the majestic nine-story Black Tower, the humanoid statue Shen Ji looked at Lin Yuan with a smile, saying, "Here to challenge the second floor again?"
Over the years, whenever Lin Yuan took a break, he would come to challenge the second floor of the Black Tower, and the humanoid statue Shen Ji had gotten used to it.
Watching Lin Yuan's attempts at the second floor was one of the few entertainments in its long, tedious existence.
Better than near-eternal slumber.
"Yes," Lin Yuan nodded.
The next moment.
Lin Yuan appeared on the second floor of the Black Tower.
The humanoid statue Shen Ji remained outside the Black Tower, observing the scenes on the second floor.
"I wonder how long this little guy plans to hone his cosmic power."
Shen Ji thought silently.
It had long noticed that Lin Yuan was using the second floor to hone his cosmic power.
Boom! As soon as Lin Yuan appeared on the second floor, a heavy pressure assaulted from all directions.
Previously, Lin Yuan would immediately counter with various cosmic powers. The pressure from the second floor couldn't be resisted by a mere strand of consciousness.
But now?
After mastering the complete rules of space.
With a thought, an "absolute space" formed around Lin Yuan.
Absolute space was an advanced application of spatial power, dissipating the incoming pressure from the spatial level. Though Lin Yuan's surrounding space seemed to be only ten feet wide, it was essentially separated by numerous layers of space.
Ordinary eighth-rank Evolvers couldn't even get close to the absolute space, and all their attacks would be trapped in the layers of space.
An eighth-rank being who mastered the complete rules of space might not be able to kill invincible eighth-rank beings, but they could certainly make their lives difficult.
For instance, they could exile invincible eighth-rank beings into the depths of space layers.
There, with no up or down, left or right, it wouldn't be easy for invincible eighth-rank beings to escape, possibly being trapped for decades.
"Not even needing to use cosmic power?"
Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow. Standing on the second floor, the surrounding space subtly distorted, dissipating all the pressure.
However, Lin Yuan knew this was just the initial stage. As he moved closer to the central staircase, the pressure would increase.
Eventually, relying solely on absolute space wouldn't be enough to perfectly resist all the pressure.
Especially in the middle area, the infinite pressure would condense into phantom creatures attacking Lin Yuan.
"Let's see how far I can go."
Lin Yuan wasn't confident about passing the second floor, but with his increased strength after comprehending the complete rules of space, he wanted to try.
Success would be great, but even failure wouldn't matter.
Lin Yuan considered the second floor of the Black Tower a benchmark for testing his strength.
According to the humanoid statue Shen Ji, those who passed the second floor were generally strong among ninth-rank beings.
Although the ninth rank's numerous methods involved more than rule and cosmic power mastery, these were crucial aspects.
If Lin Yuan could pass the second floor, he might not be the strongest among the ninth rank, but he would be stronger than more than half of them.
Outside the nine-story Black Tower.
The humanoid statue Shen Ji watched Lin Yuan's performance with great interest.
Whenever Lin Yuan came to challenge the second floor, Shen Ji paid close attention, enjoying the diversion from boredom.
However, seeing Lin Yuan effortlessly withstand the heavy pressure of the second floor without using cosmic power this time, Shen Ji was stunned.
"This..." Shen Ji carefully observed Lin Yuan, especially the slightly distorted space around him.
"Has this little guy comprehended the complete rules of space?"
Shen Ji was bewildered. A few years ago, Lin Yuan's understanding of the rules of space was decent but far from complete mastery.
How did he comprehend it so suddenly?
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