Chapter 492: Appeal and Sudden Enlightenment

The Cosmic Vessel, Zi Yang Realm region.

At the very moment Lu Qingshan clashed with the Primordial Star Beast, the shockwaves from their battle spread relentlessly in all directions.

Although the Zi Yang Realm did not gather countless powerful beings like the Three Absolute Zones, it still hosted some formidable entities roaming its expanse.

Such astonishing disturbances spreading outward naturally drew the attention of nearby powerful beings.

…

More than ten light-years away from the battlefield between Lu Qingshan and the Primordial Star Beast, a grand palace was slowly drifting through space.

Inside this grand palace, three powerful beings were currently exchanging words.

These three beings shared similar physiques, each with a massive divine eye phantom looming behind them—clearly three powerful members of the Divine Eye Clan, one of the supreme factions of the Cosmic Sea.

“Though no exceedingly precious treasures have emerged in the Zi Yang Realm, the dangers here are also relatively low!”

One elder-like Divine Eye Clan member quickly spoke to his two companions: “We three lack the overwhelming strength of Wu Hun, Jing Yan, and others—venturing into the Three Absolute Zones would still be perilous!”

“Though opportunities here are scarce, they’re still well-suited for us!”

“That’s true!”

Another younger member of the Divine Eye Clan quickly added: “We’ve roamed this Zi Yang Realm for hundreds of billions of eons already. Though we haven’t obtained any exceedingly precious treasures, our total gains still rival those of powerful beings who roam the Three Absolute Zones!”

“But now we’re in the Third Cycle Era—if the Seven True Lords fail to transcend the Cycle before it ends, our Divine Eye Clan will vanish utterly into this endless span of time!”

“Don’t worry!”

The third Divine Eye Clan member spoke up immediately: “Our clan has seven Cosmic Supreme Beings, and the First True Lord is the strongest in the entire Cosmic Sea—surely he will transcend the Cycle and forge a Sacred Universe for our clan!”

Though these three Cosmic Lords were average within the Divine Eye Clan, even their weakest member possessed top-tier third-rank power—strong enough to be formidable in the Primitive Universe.

“The truth is, my own strength is too weak!”

The youngest-looking Divine Eye Clan member spoke quickly: “If my strength were greater, or if I possessed the ability to create clones, I would venture into the Three Absolute Zones to seek special opportunities and contribute to our clan’s transcendence of the Cycle!”

“Who could disagree?”

The elder-like Divine Eye Clan member spoke up: “Though the Zi Yang Realm can’t compare to the Three Absolute Zones, there may still be precious opportunities hidden within—if we keep exploring, we might just stumble upon one!”

“I hope so…”

The young Divine Eye Clan member was about to speak when he suddenly furrowed his brow.

At the same moment, the other two Divine Eye Clan members also brightened, then immediately focused their senses.

“That direction!”

“There!”

After a brief sensing, all three Divine Eye Clan Cosmic Lords turned their gazes toward one direction—the very region where Lu Qingshan and the Primordial Star Beast were battling.

“Go or not?” the elder-like Divine Eye Clan Cosmic Lord asked quickly.

“Go! Of course we go!”

“Exactly! In the Zi Yang Realm, who would dare provoke our Divine Eye Clan?”

The other two Divine Eye Clan members responded immediately.

“Then let’s go!”

“Let’s go!”

Before the words had fully faded, the three Divine Eye Clan Cosmic Lords immediately boarded their palace-class magic treasure and shot forward as a streak of light toward Lu Qingshan’s location.

…

In another region of the Zi Yang Realm’s void, a Cosmic Lord was slowly drifting through space.

He was entirely cloaked in a dark red, bloodstained battle armor, radiating a thick aura of bloodshed—he was the Blood Shadow Lord, a formidable fourth-rank Cosmic Lord from the Second Cycle Era.

The Blood Shadow Lord had once been the leader of a powerful clan. Before the end of the previous Cycle, no one in his Blood Shadow Clan had ever reached the Cosmic Supreme level.

To prevent his clan’s total extinction, he led his people to pledge allegiance to a lone Cosmic Supreme Being, allowing them to survive until now.

“Hmm?”

While drifting, the Blood Shadow Lord suddenly furrowed his brow—he had sensed an unusual fluctuation.

“Unusual disturbance… could a treasure be emerging?”

The Blood Shadow Lord thought inwardly: “The scale of this disturbance suggests the treasure is quite precious—I should go see if there’s a chance to claim it!”

With that thought, he instantly transformed into a crimson afterimage and shot toward the source of the disturbance.

And the direction he headed toward? The very battlefield where Lu Qingshan and the Primordial Star Beast were clashing.

…

Besides the Divine Eye Clan members and the Blood Shadow Lord, other powerful beings had also sensed the disturbances from Lu Qingshan and the Primordial Star Beast’s battle.

Any powerful being bold enough to venture into the Cosmic Sea was no coward.

Now that they sensed the disturbance, they naturally moved to investigate.

All powerful beings who had sensed the disturbance swiftly flew toward Lu Qingshan’s location.

…

On the other side, Lu Qingshan and the Primordial Star Beast’s battle had reached a stalemate.

The Primordial Star Beast’s power was immensely strong—each full-force strike annihilated nearly half of Lu Qingshan’s main battle avatar’s divine energy.

But Lu Qingshan carried an almost limitless reserve of divine energy; after his avatar’s energy was depleted, he could instantly replenish it to full capacity, allowing him to temporarily withstand the Primordial Star Beast’s full onslaught.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

Lu Qingshan and the Primordial Star Beast continued clashing, while Lu Qingshan’s own divine energy steadily dwindled.

After more than ten minutes, Lu Qingshan still maintained peak condition—but nearly one percent of his vast divine energy reserves had been consumed.

“This…”

Feeling the extent of his energy loss, Lu Qingshan internally sighed bitterly: “Now I finally understand how relentless a Cosmic Supreme Being with a Supreme Treasure truly is—and how unfairly those I previously forced back or killed with my vast reserves must have felt!”

Until now, Lu Qingshan had always relied on his immense divine energy reserves to defeat stronger foes.

Now, not only was his power inferior to the Primordial Star Beast’s, but he couldn’t even outlast it in a war of attrition.

As Lu Qingshan sighed inwardly, the Primordial Star Beast, still locked in combat with him, also wore a look of surprise.

“What kind of colossal avatar has this Lord of Myriad Worlds cultivated?”

The Primordial Star Beast continued his secret techniques against Lu Qingshan while thinking inwardly: “In these past ten minutes, I’ve struck this Lord of Myriad Worlds countless times!”

“Even if he carried a divine body tens of thousands of kilometers tall, it should be nearly depleted by now!”

The Primordial Star Beast felt a touch of helplessness.

As a Cosmic Supreme Being, he normally never bothered with Cosmic Lords.

This time, because of several Peak Treasures—and because Lu Qingshan had seized them from his Star Beast Alliance’s members—he had intervened.

He had expected Lu Qingshan to retreat upon seeing him and surrender the treasures—but Lu Qingshan had refused.

He had then assumed he could crush Lu Qingshan effortlessly—but he hadn’t succeeded.

Now, he had been fighting Lu Qingshan for over ten minutes—an outright humiliation for a Cosmic Supreme Being.

“If the other old bastards find out I couldn’t defeat a Cosmic Lord in this long, I’ll be the laughingstock of the entire Cosmic Sea!”

The Primordial Star Beast thought inwardly: “Still, this Lord of Myriad Worlds’s techniques are truly formidable—I wonder how much divine energy he carries, and how long he can keep this up!”

“We’ve been fighting this long—other powerful beings must have sensed the disturbance already. I must end this quickly!”

As various thoughts flashed through his mind, the Primordial Star Beast continued his relentless assault on Lu Qingshan.

For him, once the battle had begun, there was no turning back.

And on the other side…