Chapter 251

The Mirror Lord, who presides over the Star God Trials, is a Chaos God of Life, and the sole Life Master God in this expanse of Void Sea; Lin Qing had once spoken with her at length.

As a Chaos God, the Mirror Lord has sat upon the position of Life Master God for an immeasurably long time.

She once said—

A Master God is both an office and a responsibility; until a second Chaos God emerges in this Void Sea, she cannot relinquish this position.

She has held the position of Life Faction Master God for too long, too long; the role has lost all meaning to her, yet no new Life Chaos God has risen to succeed her.

"Chaos Child…"

Lin Qing pondered the words spoken by the Void Sovereign, and a suspicion formed in his mind: "The Mirror Lord once said she had high hopes for me—could it be… a Chaos Child is someone chosen by a Chaos God?"

Aside from this, he could think of no other explanation.

And…

The Mirror Lord herself had said that as a Master God, she was watched most closely by the Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan, so she dared not take him as a disciple or form any deep ties with him, lest he be erased by the Yu Xingyuan Demons through that connection.

In other words, the Mirror Lord had once intended to take him as a disciple, but refrained to avoid harming him.

Now that she knows the situation, her willingness to help him is understandable.

"I wonder what kind of status the Mirror Lord, this Chaos God, holds in the Tianyuan Seat Sacred Land…"

Lin Qing muttered to himself.

He didn't dwell on it further, and immediately gathered the scattered divine artifacts and other treasures around him.

Eight monochrome divine artifacts, seventeen bicolor divine artifacts, fourteen tricolor divine artifacts, five tetrachrome divine artifacts.

And… one pentachrome divine artifact!

Plus numerous other treasures and materials.

Their exact value can be appraised later at the Gold Guild once he returns to the Shanhai Realm.

"Made quite a profit."

Lin Qing felt pleased, and turned his gaze toward Weiluo, frozen within the ice crystal.

Though Weiluo was still alive, his soul and body had been utterly frozen and sealed—the Void Sovereign had clearly left him for Lin Qing.

But anyone with sufficient understanding of the Void could dissolve this ice.

"Perfect. Weiluo is a being deeply favored by the universe; if I usurp his fate, I'll inherit his fortune."

Lin Qing smiled faintly and immediately released his Divine Core.

Now, his Divine Core had become bicolor, faintly shimmering with a third hue.

He could now forge bicolor divine artifacts.

Of course, bicolor divine artifacts held no use for him anymore; only a seven-color set of divine artifacts, once he created his own Seven Phases Combined Divine Art, would boost his power significantly.

"Seize."

Lin Qing's will shifted, and the Divine Core—now solidified from concept—began spinning rapidly, while invisible rules spread outward, enveloping the frozen Weiluo.

At that moment, the Divine Core's invisible rule-force descended, as if severing this region from the universe itself.

A boundless, immense will swept across, as if searching for something.

"So that's how it is…"

Lin Qing took a step forward and entered the isolated zone where Weiluo lay.

Then, with a surge of will, he unleashed invisible spatial power, reducing Weiluo's body and soul to nothingness.

Weiluo vanished, leaving only a subspace storage device.

Lin Qing casually picked it up, then withdrew the rule-force emitted by his Divine Core, exposing himself once more to the will of the universe.

The invisible cosmic will circled him twice, uncertain, yet still enveloped him before fading away.

"It's over. So simple…"

Lin Qing sighed inwardly, sensing his Divine Core—now marked with countless faint, nearly invisible cracks.

These cracks were damage caused by isolating himself from the cosmic will; though harmless now, they would take at least tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of years to fully heal before he could isolate himself again.

"Is my fortune improved now?"

Fortune was elusive, intangible, without measurable value; Lin Qing wasn't certain.

But Weiluo was a being deeply favored by the universe, absurdly lucky.

Once a star-born being, Weiluo had risen from nothing, amassing billions of Void Coins in just a thousand years—even the peak Void beings couldn't earn so fast.

Weiluo had primarily relied on extraordinary luck and fortune to accumulate such wealth.

Now, Weiluo's fortune belonged to him.

"But I can find a way to measure fortune precisely."

Lin Qing's mind stirred; he cast one final glance around, then dissolved into nothingness, reviving within the estate of the Bai Ta world.

After reviving, he went directly to the Wanxing Group's Divine Artifact Workshop.

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Tianyuan Seat Sacred Land.

In the palace complex at the world's center, the Lei Ting Temple was forever encircled by endless lightning, dazzling and brilliant.

Inside the palace, Xing Yin knelt trembling before the Lei Ting Wang Zuo, head bowed low, voice quivering: "Father, I've done as you commanded—what must I do next?"

The figure upon the Lei Ting Wang Zuo remained silent for a moment, then said: "Go to the Tianji Prison and serve one million years."

Hearing this, Xing Yin trembled, yet still bowed respectfully: "Yes."

"Child, don't blame your father."

The figure on the Lei Ting Wang Zuo spoke slowly: "This matter involves the Mirror Lord, a Chaos God. Though you meant no harm, you still indirectly offended the Chaos Child she has chosen. Even if the Mirror Lord doesn't care, we cannot afford to ignore it—do you understand?"

Xing Yin bowed his head: "I understand."

"I understand; this is not your fault."

The figure of Lei Ting slowly shook his head and said, "Great as the Lord Gods are, even if they themselves fear not the Yu Xingyuan Demons, they must still be cautious of the Yu Xingyuan Demons. Therefore, the more a Chaos God values an heir, the less they dare to involve too many connections."

He looked at Xing Yin and said, "Even if that Master Jingguang is not from our Tianyuan Seat civilization, since he is the Child of Chaos chosen by Lord Mirror, he must be given sufficient respect."

Xing Yin nodded slightly and said, "If I had known that Master Jingguang cultivated for a few hundred years and already possessed such strength, there is no way I would have provoked him."

"Indeed terrifying."

The figure of Lei Ting sighed, "Even if they are still weak now, which Child of Chaos is not a terrifyingly powerful expert? Even if they cannot become a Chaos God, they are stronger than many Void-level Divine Officials."

He glanced at Xing Yin and said, "Moreover, the Children of Chaos truly favored by the various Lord Gods are often not from our Three Great Sacred Lands."

"Not from our Three Great Sacred Lands?" Xing Yin was stunned, saying in disbelief, "Even the Star Gods of our Three Great Sacred Lands cannot become Children of Chaos, yet those ordinary Level Two civilizations can actually cultivate Children of Chaos?"

"Of course not."

The figure of Lei Ting slowly shook his head. "What I mean is... a higher level..."

Xing Yin was stunned, and immediately understood his father's meaning.

With the divine fire formed by the two-colored divine core, the difficulty of refining life-type Void materials decreased significantly; the speed of extracting the material essence required for a single-colored divine artifact was obviously much faster.

In just over a year, Lin Qing prepared the essence of two hundred sets of divine artifact materials in one go.

After condensing the form, the final step began—communicating with the Universe.

This is also the best method to test luck.

In the past, his success rate for communicating with the Universe was merely 1.1%.

The success rate of communicating with the Universe is like the guaranteed drop rate in a lottery; as long as the first two steps are performed to perfection, once the number of failures in the third step accumulates to a certain extent, success is inevitable.

Therefore, after he failed ninety times in a row, the ninety-first time would definitely succeed.

Lin Qing immediately began to activate his divine core to communicate the Universe with this divine artifact embryo.

"Voom..."

Only to see strange lights appear in the void, circling the surface of the embryo. Waiting only for the great will of the Universe to descend, these points of light could completely merge into the embryo, transforming it into a true divine artifact.

"Boom!"

In an instant, a vast and majestic will seemed to awaken, as if discovering the embryo Lin Qing had refined, and quietly swept over.

The circling points of light also began to rapidly merge into the embryo, making it grow increasingly dazzling, its aura becoming increasingly powerful, as if an incarnation of the Universe's origin, incredibly brilliant and eye-catching.

A divine artifact was thus successfully refined.

"It succeeded on the first try?"

Lin Qing was stunned. "Did I just happen to get lucky this time, or..."

He immediately continued to condense the embryo and then communicated with the Universe.

Only with a large enough sample size can a sufficiently precise probability be calculated.

Success!

Success!

And success again!

Continuous success after success made Lin Qing unable to help but feel excited.

Since he was born, he had never had such good luck!

Finally, on the one hundred and seventieth attempt, the communication with the Universe failed for the first time.

"If I'm not mistaken, the success rate must exceed 99%!"

Lin Qing took a deep breath. "Or rather... the failure rate is less than 1%?"

Others fail at high rates because their refining skills are not perfect enough, whereas his first two steps were perfect; he just lacked good luck.

Now that he had obtained the luck of Verlo, a person so favored by the Universe, it was indeed completely different!

"With such a high success rate, refining divine artifacts and making money is too easy..."

Lin Qing smiled as he looked at the one hundred and ninety-nine single-colored divine artifacts he had just refined. "Earning two or three billion so easily..."

This was only for single-colored divine artifacts.

Once he mastered the refining techniques for two-colored divine artifacts in advance, he could easily refine a large number of two-colored divine artifacts; the value of each two-colored divine artifact exceeds one billion Void Coins, making making money even simpler!

However, for someone at his level, Void Coins no longer held much significance.

True treasures cannot be bought with any amount of Void Coins.

"I'll go try the Silver Labyrinth later."

Lin Qing revealed a slight smile.

The Silver Labyrinth mainly depends on luck; even with his Strange Fate Divination Technique, some situations are beyond control, such as random lotteries. The Strange Fate Divination Technique, used for guidance, is useless in such cases.

Now that his luck has improved, things are different.

"Let's go check out the Silver Labyrinth."

Lin Qing casually handed these one hundred and ninety-nine divine artifacts to the Ten Thousand Stars Group for consignment and then left.

However, the chairman of the Ten Thousand Stars Group contacted him very soon.

"Mr. Master Jingguang, did you kill Verlo, the first heir of the Tianze Group?"

On the communication screen, the girl in black clothes looked at Lin Qing and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes." Lin Qing nodded calmly. "He brought people to ambush me for a treasure, not knowing life from death; he merely sought his own death."

The girl in black clothes understood and was not surprised; it was normal for a Star God of the Tianyuan Seat Sacred Land to have powerful experts protecting him in secret. She was only surprised that Verlo had the courage to do this.

She immediately warned, "Mr. Master Jingguang, it is better to be careful. Verlo is, after all, the first heir of the Tianze Group, and the Tianze Group also has a Void-level Divine Official."

Lin Qing nodded slightly.

"However, why did Mr. Lin Qing suddenly refine so many divine artifacts?" the girl in black clothes asked in confusion. "Do all one hundred and ninety-nine divine artifacts need to be consigned?"

"Correct." Lin Qing nodded, saying, "I seized Vilro's fate and obtained his luck, so my success rate increased slightly."

The black-clad young woman was stunned.

However, as a Star God of the Holy Land, such boldness is quite normal.

Several days later.

In the Inner Sea of the Shanhai Realm.

After the void on the surface of the Inner Sea rippled slowly several times, Lin Qing also emerged from within it.

"Haha, the Silver Labyrinth, the harvest is not bad..."

Lin Qing revealed a faint smile.

This time, he had completely cleared the Silver Labyrinth and obtained its final reward.

However, the Silver Labyrinth is mainly for those geniuses who have not yet grown up, and most of the treasures obtained are of the growth type.

For example... Divine Office Specialization, Divine Office Guidance, Bloodline Treasures, and so on.

A strange fate combined with extremely good luck allowed him to obtain many treasures within the Silver Labyrinth.

And the final reward of the Silver Labyrinth is a lotus-like rare treasure that can extract genes and nurture clones; as long as the life level of the clone does not exceed one's own, it can be successfully nurtured.

For him, it was completely useless, but it could be given to others.

"These treasures would be quite good for cultivating new people."

Lin Qing did not mind.

Once his strength reaches the sixteenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan and he becomes a Primordial Realm Void-level citizen, he will be able to receive the Primordial Realm's Void-level gift.

Moreover...

Lin Qing flipped his hand, and a metal plaque emitting gold and silver two-colored light appeared in his hand.

"The Relic of the Kings, I can enter it completely alone."

The other half of the Proof of Kings was inside Vilro's storage equipment; after he obtained it, the two tokens fused directly together.

"Although it is said to be three trials, if I just let three clones enter, I can completely occupy all three trials!"

Lin Qing thought to himself.

The three trials of the Relic of the Kings are the Star-level, Void-level, and Ruler-level, three quotas.

However, the Black Flame Clone is still a Star-level being; once he masters the spatial rules and transforms into a Void Ruler, he will be able to occupy the three quotas of the three trials.

"Let's talk about mastering the spatial rules first."

Lin Qing was not in a hurry. "Let's first raise each clone to its limit."

In the blink of an eye, more than six hundred years had passed.

(End of this chapter)