Twenty Thousand Years

Chapter 78 Twenty Thousand Years

After confirming his next plan, Li Che's true form began to organize the many divine materials and treasures left behind by Daoist Yi Guang.

As a second-step Dao Lord who has mastered the strongest Dao, Dao Lord Yi Guang has lived for less than ten thousand Chaos Eras, but he has experienced countless adventures and naturally accumulated a considerable number of treasures.

Among them, the most valuable items in Li Che's eyes were a batch of eternal divine weapons used by Daoist Yi Guang during his lifetime, including weapons, armor, wings, flying boats, chains, palaces, etc. Although Li Che was not quite sure of their value, it was conceivable that they were extremely expensive.

Beneath that lies the most powerful cultivation method of that Dao Lord, a technique compiled by Dao Lord Yi Guang into a complex method of flight, representing the ultimate speed of "light".

Then came a massive amount of Chaos Spirit Liquid and Chaos Crystals, which included not only the accumulation of Daoist Yi Guang over many years, but also the accumulation of these hundreds of thousands of Chaos Era Inheritance Cave Heavens.

Finally, there were the numerous treasures, divine materials, scriptures, supernatural powers, and secret techniques left behind by Daoist Yiguang. Some of these were fragments he had accumulated over the years, while others were items he had specifically purchased in the period before his death.

Of all the items, the most useful to Li Che at the moment is the flying boat beneath his feet, named the "Hundred Luminaries Divine Traveling Boat." This is a flying treasure of the Chaos Spiritual Treasure level, exquisitely crafted, and possesses considerable offensive power.

Its defensive capabilities and ability to fly are sufficient for many world gods to use.

Due to Yi Guang Daojun's special storage method, the artifact spirit within this Chaos Treasure did not collapse during the long period of hundreds of thousands of Chaos Eras. With the artifact spirit's assistance, Li Che, using his Celestial Immortal power, easily completed the recognition of the artifact spirit as its master and ordered it to speed off in a certain direction.

With the legacy left by Daoist Yi Guang, plus the accumulation of the Bronze Gate Cave Heaven over tens of thousands of epochs, Li Che now possesses a considerable amount of Chaos Spirit Stones and Chaos Spirit Liquid. Even if he were to send this Chaos Spirit Treasure Flying Boat on a journey through several Chaos epochs, it would be no problem at all.

Although Li Che did not have the latest star map of this chaotic void, he had no idea which direction the nearest chaotic world was, so he could only fly in any direction at random.

He was somewhat disappointed that the legacy left to him by Daoist Yi Guang did not include puppets at the level of Ancestral Gods or Ancestral Immortals, or even at the level of True Gods or True Immortals. It was likely that he had already decided to make the White Ape Puppet his protector.

But Daoist Yi Guang probably didn't expect that over the years, the white ape puppet's spirit had long since collapsed, forcing Li Che to destroy its core of will, thus depriving Li Che of an important ally.

Now he has to take his chances, hoping that as long as he keeps flying, he will eventually encounter some chaotic world.

Fortunately, since his second primordial spirit was in the Three Realms, Li Che's original body in the Desolate Era world was not afraid of getting completely lost in this vast chaotic void.

He rummaged through Daoist Yi Guang's legacy and quickly found many things that suited him: "The body-refining scripture 'Yi Guang World God,' sufficient for cultivating to the level of a World God, along with the matching body-tempering supernatural power 'Aurora Undying Body,' hmm? This 'Nine Netherworld Severing Needle' method is quite suitable for refining Qi, and it can also be used for the second primordial spirit."

"The Heart of the World... Daoist Yi Guang actually left behind twelve of them. After my divine soul has been consolidated for a while, I can try to cultivate the 'Thousand Body Sacred Scripture' at the Heavenly God stage."

"Oh, right, I also need to find a few secret techniques to help my second primordial spirit advance to the Golden Core stage. I wonder if there are any corresponding treasures in the Three Realms..."

After spending more than an hour selecting a complete set of scriptures, supernatural powers, and magical treasures that suited his body-refining and qi-cultivation methods, Li Che quickly immersed himself in the process and began his cultivation as a celestial being.

Meanwhile, Li Che's second primordial spirit, far away in the Three Realms, also began to get busy.

He knew very well that in the current turbulent Three Realms, his mere cultivation at the Celestial Immortal level was simply not enough. If a great calamity were to suddenly descend, a mere Celestial Immortal would be nothing more than cannon fodder.

Therefore, after becoming a Celestial Immortal, Li Che's second primordial spirit requested a long leave from the Heavenly Court. He obtained a set of pure Yang magic treasures, the "Ten Lights Extinction Needles," from his master, the Jade Cauldron Daoist, and began his travels and cultivation in the Three Realms.

The first stop on Li Che's second primordial spirit's journey was the Great Xia World in the Crimson Bright Realm.

While Li Che's main body and second primordial spirit in the Desolate Era world were busy with their own tasks, his several avatars in the Devouring World were also not idle.

His human avatar, as a disciple of the Lord of Void Gold, had no trouble cultivating in the initial universe. Most of the time, he sat on the balcony of his residence, looking up at the sky, comprehending the laws and challenging the path of secret techniques.

Occasionally, a few junior disciples from the Xujin lineage would gather at Li Che's residence, both to exchange ideas on the laws of the universe and to strengthen their relationship.

In the hands of these junior disciples, most of whom were immortal kings, Li Che broadened his horizons. There was a dazzling array of delicacies and wines, some of which were rare treasures produced in limited quantities within human territory, some were spoils from the territories of hostile civilizations, and some were precious treasures produced in the secret realms of the universe. Of course, Li Che never neglected his cultivation while enjoying these occasional treats.

After nurturing his star clones for over 3,400 years, Li Che finally achieved a qualitative breakthrough in his understanding of the fundamental laws of space, successfully mastering the complete spatial strangulation technique.

More than a hundred years later, Li Che made another breakthrough and mastered the complete spatial sealing technique.

More than 5,500 years after the creation of his clone, Li Che's human clone successfully defeated his 1500th opponent on the path of secret arts in the virtual universe. The ingenuity of his self-created secret arts was highly praised by the Lord of Void Gold.

After that, Li Che's human clone changed direction and began to study the last major branch of the fundamental laws of space—teleportation.

Perhaps due to his profound accumulation of knowledge in the other two major directions of spatial laws, comprehending the direction of teleportation did not pose too much of a challenge for Li Che.

In just over a hundred years, Li Che has already made some progress, comprehending two minor categories of teleportation directions.

After that, Li Che studied dozens of secret methods for comprehending, analyzing, and utilizing teleportation, and his understanding of this superior fundamental law continued to improve.

Eight thousand years after the creation of the Starry Sky clones, Li Che mastered all the minor branches of the spatial laws of teleportation, and then merged them to transform them into complete teleportation!

From then on, Li Che finally mastered all three major branches of the spatial origin law: sealing, strangulation, and teleportation, successfully reaching the ultimate level in theory for the realm master level.

But Li Che did not stop.

After successfully mastering teleportation, he devoted almost all of his human clone's energy to challenging the path of arcane arts.

Starting with his 1501st opponent, Li Che attempted to combine all the mysteries of teleportation, sealing, and strangulation with his ultimate understanding of celestial bodies like black holes, integrating them all into the simplest and most direct spear thrust.

This is a difficult process that is completely different from simply perceiving the laws.

The requirement on the path of secret arts is essentially to defeat powerful opponents with minimal power, the purest understanding of the laws, and combat techniques. After the 1500th level, those opponents have reached a very "hellish" level.

For example, simultaneously dealing with four colossal star beasts of the immortal god level at their peak bloodline; for example, facing a special immortal being who possesses an innate secret technique with extremely high lethality; for example...

Through the trials and tribulations of one underworld opponent after another, Li Che's self-created secret techniques continued to improve, progressing towards the ultimate secret technique.

More than 21,000 years after Li Che conceived the Starry Sky clone, he finally defeated his 2000th opponent on the path of secret arts. The first and second forms of his self-created secret art, "Return to the Void," finally achieved a qualitative breakthrough, successfully reaching the level of the ultimate secret art.

Afterwards, Li Che broke through the Giant Axe Bridge in the virtual universe and defeated his opponent on the 20th floor of the bridge with an almost crushing victory, causing quite a stir among the five giants at the pinnacle of humanity.

In the same year, Li Che successfully passed the World Lord level Giant Axe Purgatory, which was a place similar to the Primordial Tongtian Mountain in the Giant Axe Arena. Those who successfully challenged the World Lord level could obtain 1000 billion points.

In those years, the leaders of various races, including the Zerg, the Demon Race, and the Mechanical Race, frantically searched for Li Che's location in the Primordial Universe, hoping to find this newly emerged genius of the human race, a genius of tens of millions of years.

But soon, these high-ranking members of the race were surprised to discover that Li Che, a core member of the Giant Axe Secret Realm, had been staying in the Initial Universe ever since he joined the Giant Axe Arena.

This gave the leaders of the opposing races a strange sense of powerlessness, but they were also eager to fight and wait for the day when the world lord, Li Che, would go out.

But Li Che paid no attention to these threats from other races.

Because more than 22,000 years after he conceived the star clones, his understanding of the fundamental laws of light and time reached the level of the 20th level of the Bridge to Heaven.

P.S. If you think it's a bit far-fetched that my protagonist, at over 70,000 years old, simultaneously reached the 20th level of the Tongtian Bridge in terms of time and space and created the ultimate secret technique, you can check out "Swallowed Star". There's a guy named Luo in it who became the master of the universe at just over 100,000 years old (I'm speechless).