Chapter 233: Master and Disciple

Within the territory of the Mechanical Race, inside the Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm.

In this Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm once lived the ordinary race known as the Lei Shen Race, who even established the holy land called the Lei Shen Temple!

Unfortunately, the cosmic territory where the Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm was located was occupied by the Mechanical Race, and the Lei Shen Race living within the secret realm was soon discovered by the Mechanical Race's powerful figures.

After being discovered by the Mechanical Race's powerful figures, the Lei Shen Race, unwilling to submit to the Mechanical Race, was naturally exterminated by them.

However, the Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm was fraught with dangers; even the Lei Shen Race had not explored the entire realm. Coupled with the immense difficulty of development, the Mechanical Race abandoned the idea of occupying this secret realm.

Over time, the Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm became a well-known Cosmic Secret Realm in the universe, and many powerful figures from countless races in the universe were willing to come here to explore.

At this moment, the Seventh Elder and Ninth Elder of the Mud Frog Race, an ordinary race within the Nine Realms Alliance, one of the universe's top powers, were carefully exploring this Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm.

Both of them possessed the combat power of a Mid-Realm Venerable; even if they encountered a High-Realm Venerable, they could withstand them.

Moreover, the leader of the Mud Frog Race, the Mud Frog Sage, was a Cosmic Hegemon; unless there was a massive conflict of interest, no one would be willing to initiate combat with them.

Just then, a streak of purple-blue light suddenly flashed and vanished before the eyes of the two Mud Frog Race elders.

"It must be Purple-Blue Thunder Glass!"

The Seventh Elder of the Mud Frog Race, having perceived the purple-blue light, spoke very quickly.

"Absolutely correct!"

The Ninth Elder of the Mud Frog Race replied similarly: "The Fourth Elder once obtained a piece of Purple-Blue Thunder Glass in this Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm, and the scene of its emergence was exactly like this. I never expected us two to encounter it again this time. Let's go check it out quickly!"

Purple-Blue Thunder Glass is an extremely precious material for forging artifacts; throughout the vast universe, it can only be produced within this Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm.

However, the emergence of Purple-Blue Thunder Glass follows no pattern; it can appear anywhere within the Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm, making it something one might encounter by chance but cannot seek out.

Therefore, upon seeing the scene of the Purple-Blue Thunder Glass emerging, these two Mud Frog Race elders were quite excited.

But just as they pursued the fleeting purple-blue light, they soon saw a human figure clad in silver battle armor.

And in the hand of that human figure was currently held a cone-shaped crystal emitting purple-blue light, which was indeed the Purple-Blue Thunder Glass.

Two against one, it seemed as though they held the advantage.

Yet, upon seeing that silver-armored figure holding the Purple-Blue Thunder Glass, a hint of apprehension quickly flashed across the faces of the two Mud Frog Race elders.

"It is Venerable Yao Guang of the Human Race!"

"Retreat quickly!"

After a brief telepathic exchange, these two elders of the Mud Frog Race immediately activated their movement techniques and flew rapidly in the opposite direction!

In fact, if it were in the past, when they encountered powerful figures of the Human Race, as long as there was no massive conflict of interest, they could coexist peacefully.

However, not long ago, Yan Di, who had broken away from the Human Race, led his subordinate Yan Shen Race to join the side of the Nine Realms Alliance. Since then, although the relationship between the powerful figures under the Nine Realms Alliance and those of the Human Race was not exactly confrontational, it had become much more tense than before.

And the strength of Venerable Yao Guang was completely comparable to the Mud Frog Race leader, the Mud Frog Sage; naturally, upon encountering him, they had to retreat quickly.

Otherwise, if they truly angered Venerable Yao Guang, whether the two of them could return to the Mud Frog Race alive was another matter entirely.

On the other side...

"The Seventh Elder and Ninth Elder of the Mud Frog Race?"

Watching the two figures retreat rapidly in the distance, Venerable Yao Guang had no intention of pursuing them.

Firstly, there was neither deep hatred nor any conflict of interest between him and these two Mud Frog Race elders.

Secondly, this Lei Shen Temple Secret Realm was located within the territory of the Mechanical Race; although he could come here to venture forth, he still needed to keep a low profile!

As for the conflict between the Human Race and the Yan Shen Race, and the matter of the Yan Shen Race joining the Nine Realms Alliance, it was something a small Mud Frog Race could not influence.

"Purple-Blue Thunder Glass? It seems my luck is still quite good!"

After the two Cosmic Venerables of the Mud Frog Race departed, Venerable Yao Guang looked at the cone-shaped crystal emitting purple-blue light in his hand, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

Although Lu Qingshan had obtained some precious treasures on the battlefield beyond the domain back then, and even handed over that top-tier heavy treasure armor to Venerable Yao Guang to exchange for other treasures, he had never thought to deduct even a fraction of it, nor had he ever thought to make Lu Qingshan bear the debt incurred when he exchanged for that Thunder Dragon Shaking Heaven Armor.

After Venerable Yao Guang had ventured in a Cosmic Secret Realm within the Qing Guang Universe Country for a period of time, he discovered that there were not many opportunities within that Cosmic Secret Realm, so he hurried to other secret realms.

He did not expect that shortly after he left that Cosmic Secret Realm, Venerable Princess Yu Shu of the Universe's First Bank found him.

After chatting with Venerable Princess Yu Shu, Venerable Yao Guang finally learned that his earlier journey to that Cosmic Secret Realm had been misunderstood by Venerable Yonglang and others.

However, Venerable Yao Guang did not care too much about it and continued to venture in various Cosmic Secret Realms.

Thus, in the blink of an eye, tens of millions of years passed.

But unfortunately, the quantity and quality of precious treasures in these secret realm lands were far inferior to those of the Primitive Star; therefore, even after venturing for tens of millions of years, he had only managed to barely accumulate seven or eight Heavy Treasure Points.

And this Purple-Blue Thunder Glass in his hand now, even if contributed to the Human Race's treasury, would earn him ten Heavy Treasure Points. Combined with his gains from the previous period, it was enough to fully repay all the Heavy Treasure Points he owed Venerable Huoshen.

"After repaying the Heavy Treasure Points owed to Huoshen this time, there will still be a little left!"

Venerable Yao Guang thought silently to himself: "After returning to my Human Territory this time, I can also settle down and cultivate for a while!"

But just as the thought flashed through Venerable Yao Guang's mind, he suddenly received a message sent by Guardian Bafen, the position monitor of the Tongtian Bridge plane.

"A message from Guardian Bafen?"

Upon receiving the message, Venerable Yao Guang was slightly surprised, after all, he had not instructed Guardian Bafen to do anything recently.

But after he finished reading the content of the message, the entire person was stunned.

On the message was the news that Lu Qingshan had cleared the twenty-first layer of the Heavenly Thunder Tongtian Bridge.

"This... how is this possible?"

Upon learning that Lu Qingshan had cleared the twenty-first layer of the Tongtian Bridge, Venerable Yao Guang was undoubtedly extremely shocked.

You must know, just one thousand years ago, when Sovereign Beihai broke through to the Cosmic Venerable Realm, he and Lu Qingshan had sighed that the Human Race was very lucky.

And for a Cosmic Venerable like him, a thousand years was completely the blink of an eye, so the scene at that time felt to him as if it were yesterday.

At that time, he had also thought that Lu Qingshan might one day break through to the Cosmic Venerable Realm in the future, but he never could have imagined that only a thousand years had passed, and Lu Qingshan had followed closely behind Sovereign Beihai to break through to the Cosmic Venerable Realm.

"Hahaha!"

After the shock passed, Venerable Yao Guang, coming to his senses, quickly showed a smile on his face: "With Young Master Qingshan's strength, after this breakthrough, he is considered quite excellent even among Mid-Realm Venerables!"

"The Teacher will likely bestow precious treasures this time; after he settles down and cultivates for a while, his strength will probably be comparable to an ordinary High-Realm Venerable!"

"Plus Young Master Qingshan's enviable ability of creating clones, it seems another formidable powerful figure is about to appear in the universe!"

At this moment, Venerable Yao Guang was undoubtedly extremely delighted.

After all, given the relationship between him and Lu Qingshan, if Lu Qingshan's strength grew, it would certainly be a good thing for him as well.

After all, even a cosmic overlord like Venerable Yao Guang would encounter dangers when roaming the universe, so often when venturing into the cosmos, one needed to find reliable companions.

And given the relationship between Lu Qingshan and himself, once Lu Qingshan's strength grew a bit more, he could roam the universe together with Lu Qingshan.

Especially since Lu Qingshan possessed the ability to create clones, for powerful beings roaming the universe, this was simply like a tiger growing wings.

"By the way!"

Venerable Yao Guang quickly thought: "Junior brother Lu Qingshan has just broken through to the Venerable Realm this time; he is probably still completely confused about cultivation in the Venerable Realm. I had better go over and explain it to him!"

Thinking this, Venerable Yao Guang's figure quickly vanished from the spot.

On the other side, as soon as Lu Qingshan was kicked out of the Tongtian Bridge plane, he received many messages sent to him by powerful beings, and even many powerful beings directly found his residence on Lei Ting Island or within Hong Alliance City.

Moreover, unlike last time when he had displayed Hei Fengwang's invincible strength and most of those who visited him were Hei Fengwang-level powerful beings, this time, among the many powerful beings who sent him messages and actively visited him, most were those lofty cosmic Venerables.

However, this was not strange!

Although the human race now had thousands of cosmic Venerables, the number of cosmic overlords among them was very small; most were of the Lower Venerable, Middle Venerable, and Upper Venerable strength levels.

And although Lu Qingshan had just broken through this time, before his breakthrough he already possessed Hei Fengwang's invincible strength; even just after breaking through, he was able to unleash strength at the Middle Venerable level.

If he accumulated strength for a bit longer, reaching the Upper Venerable level would be very possible.

And more importantly, Lu Qingshan also possessed the ability to create clones; just this single point was enough to make countless cosmic Venerables pay close attention!

After all, to completely kill a powerful being with the ability to create clones, only soul attacks would work.

And the stronger the being, the more they valued mental will, so killing them via soul attack became even more difficult!

Perhaps at the Immortal stage, one could still kill enemies slightly weaker than oneself through soul attacks, but at the cosmic Venerable level, even the most ordinary cosmic Venerable would make soul-killing extremely difficult; let alone soul-penetration to destroy all of the opponent's clones.

Precisely for this reason, cosmic Venerables with the ability to create clones were absolutely the most difficult opponents among all cosmic Venerables.

When a cosmic Venerable without clones perished, even if they could be resurrected by the race's high command reversing time and space, they would still owe the race a massive debt;

but a cosmic Venerable with the ability to create clones, even if they perished, could use other clones to nurture new clones again; at most, they would only lose some treasures and energy!

Precisely for this reason, although Lu Qingshan had just broken through, his combined strength placed him in the upper-middle ranks among the many cosmic Venerables of the human race, so naturally he would receive attention from many cosmic Venerables.

However, Lu Qingshan currently had no time to attend to these super powerful beings who came to visit him, because his master, Lei Huanwang, had already arrived at his residence within Chaos City.

And accompanying Lei Huanwang was Tongye Wang, who had previously left Chaos City but had just happened to come to Chaos City to meet Lei Huanwang.

Inside Chaos City, in the living room of Lu Qingshan's residence, Lu Qingshan, Lei Huanwang, and Tongye Wang, the three master and disciples, were now sitting around a round table.

"Lu Qingshan, have you truly mastered the complete Time Origin Law and broken through to the Venerable Realm?"

Lei Huanwang, sitting nearby, even though he had already received news from his friend, still found it hard to believe at this moment.

After all, he had cultivated for endless ages and long understood how incredibly difficult it was to take that final step!

In fact, back then, Lei Huanwang had cultivated for only over twenty million years and had already comprehended the three major branches of the Time Origin Law;

but now, tens of billions of eras had passed, and Lei Huanwang had even perished three times in succession, yet ultimately he still had not comprehended that final step, mastered the complete Time Origin Law, and entered the cosmic Venerable Realm!

But now, how long had Lu Qingshan cultivated?

And he had so simply and smoothly crossed into the cosmic Venerable Realm?

"That's right!"

Lu Qingshan nodded slightly, then quickly released a pressure belonging to the cosmic Venerable level.

Although his original body had not absorbed divine power, he had previously reconstructed his own divine power using the complete Time Origin Law, so naturally he could now release pressure belonging to the cosmic Venerable level.

"This..."

After feeling the shocking pressure released from Lu Qingshan, Lei Huanwang's heart was filled with endless sighs.

Back then, when he took Lu Qingshan as his disciple, it was simply because he thought Lu Qingshan's will was quite excellent and his character was also decent, so he did it casually!

But who would have thought that after only tens of millions of years, Lu Qingshan had already entered the cosmic Venerable Realm, a realm Lei Huanwang himself could not break through despite cultivating for endless ages!

If this had happened tens of millions of years ago, he would not have dared to even imagine it!

But now, this incredible event had happened right before his eyes.

"Junior brother Lu Qingshan!"

Tongye Wang, sitting nearby, even lifted her wine cup and sighed: "I truly did not expect that I would come to Chaos City just to see the master and would happen to encounter the grand event of your breakthrough into the cosmic Venerable Realm!"

"Junior brother Lu Qingshan, now that you have entered the cosmic Venerable Realm, you cannot forget us senior brothers and sisters in the future!"

Although Tongye Wang had previously planned to cultivate in seclusion within Chaos City, because her divine power was damaged causing a loss in her soul, cultivating in seclusion within Chaos City was ineffective.

So to recover her divine body faster, Tongye Wang returned to the Primordial Universe.

Unfortunately, the divine power she had lost back then was truly too much, so even after tens of millions of years had passed, her divine power still had not recovered to a perfect state.

"What kind of words are those, Senior Sister!"

Lu Qingshan quickly raised his cup and said: "Back when I first became a disciple under the master, I was merely an Immortal Army Commander; at that time, Senior Sister, even though you were a Hei Fengwang Immortal, you still took such good care of me. Even if I have become a cosmic Venerable, am I not still your junior brother?"

Hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Tongye Wang could not help but smile on her face.

Then she directly teased: "Junior brother Lu Qingshan, if you hadn't mentioned this, I would have forgotten! It has only been tens of millions of years, and you have broken through from an Immortal Army Commander to the cosmic Venerable Realm; where can I, who has been stuck at the Lower Hei Fengwang level, go to reason about this?"

"I have followed the master in cultivation for so many years and have seen quite a few powerful beings, but I have truly not seen many as abnormal as you, Junior Brother!"

"I actually just had better luck!"

Lu Qingshan quickly said: "Senior Sister, as long as you work hard in cultivation, you will definitely have a chance to break through to the cosmic Venerable Realm in the future!"

"Break through to the cosmic Venerable Realm?"

Hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Tongye Wang quickly said with a smile: "Junior Brother, stop joking with me! If it were the master breaking through, that would be very possible! As for me, even if I could in the future pass the nineteenth layer of the Heavenly Thunder Tongtian Bridge like Third Senior Brother, I would be content!"

"This time, Lu Qingshan's breakthrough to the cosmic Venerable Realm is truly a great joyous event!"

Lei Huanwang, who had come to his senses nearby, quickly raised his cup and said: "Come, let us all raise our cups and drink together to celebrate for Lu Qingshan!"

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan and Tongye Wang quickly raised the wine cups before them.

After draining the fine wine in the cups, Lu Qingshan suddenly received a message from Venerable Yao Guang.

"A message from Senior Brother Yao Guang?"

With a thought from Lu Qingshan, a virtual screen instantly appeared before him.

Seeing this, Lei Huanwang nearby quickly asked, "Qingshan, is something wrong?"

"It's a message from Senior Brother Yao Guang!"

Lu Qingshan quickly replied, "Senior Brother asked me to go see him right now!"

"Then go quickly!"

Hearing Lu Qingshan address Venerable Yao Guang as Senior Brother, Lei Huanwang was already quite used to it by now: "If the Master is summoning you, it must be something urgent!"

"I'm already on my way!" Lu Qingshan quickly said.

On the other side, Lu Qingshan, whose consciousness was connected to the Virtual Universe, quickly appeared within Venerable Yao Guang's residence.

"Senior Brother!" Lu Qingshan quickly greeted warmly.

"Junior Brother Qingshan!"

Upon seeing Lu Qingshan's figure again, Venerable Yao Guang quickly smiled and said, "Your breakthrough this time truly took me by surprise!"

"Although I felt you definitely had a chance to break through to the Cosmic Venerable realm, I never expected your breakthrough speed to be this fast!"

"How does it feel to become a Cosmic Venerable?"

"The power of a Cosmic Venerable is indeed very formidable!"

Lu Qingshan quickly nodded and said, "My current strength is at least several thousand times greater than before!"

"That is natural!"

Venerable Yao Guang quickly nodded and said, "Compared to a Peak Domain King, a Cosmic Venerable differs by a hundredfold in basic divine power alone; add to that the huge gap in law comprehension, and once one breaks through, their strength is naturally incomparable!"

"However, after this breakthrough, your law comprehension only qualifies as the Lower Venerable Realm. Yet, your life gene level, body amplitude, and protective treasures are all excellent, so your strength can rival most Middle Venerables!"

"This..."

After hearing Venerable Yao Guang's words, Lu Qingshan felt quite puzzled in his heart: "Senior Brother, when I previously challenged the twenty-second layer of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge to Heaven, the guardian's techniques somewhat resembled Spatial Lock, one of the three major branches of the Spatial Origin Law. I wonder what exactly is going on? How are strength and law comprehension among the Cosmic Venerable level divided?"

"Qingshan, do not worry!"

Venerable Yao Guang quickly said, "I called you over today precisely to explain the specific details of this matter to you!"

After saying this, Venerable Yao Guang quickly began to educate Lu Qingshan on the various common knowledge points regarding the Cosmic Venerable level.

(End of this chapter)