Chapter 382: The Arrival of the Heaven-Still Palace

After the Light King left, Lin Qing began his seclusion to assimilate the gifts bestowed by his fellow disciples.

Aside from the gifts he could use directly, he planned to exchange the rest at the Chaos Trading Guild for credits, acquiring what he truly needed.

In the end, Lin Qing kept twelve gifts: two Chaos Rare Treasures, the Instant Divine, a branch of the Cosmic Tree, the Pillar That Stabilizes the Realm, two primordial bloodlines of Chaos creatures, a pass to a Chaos Wonder, material for cultivating the Cosmic Catastrophe Body, and two rare substances to enhance the foundation of Eternal Treasures.

The remaining gifts were exchanged at the Chaos Trading Guild for over a hundred billion credits.

He then purchased Chaos rare materials to cultivate his Eternal Treasure set, as well as vast quantities of Chaos wonders to nurture his Mind Walker avatar and Instant Divine avatar.

The cost of cultivating the Eternal Treasure set was indeed staggering; Lin Qing deliberately selected the finest materials to nurture his core treasure toward the Pillar-tier, spending over thirty billion credits to elevate his life treasure to the peak of Eternity.

The Mind Walker avatar had already entered its mature stage.

The later cultivation required little expenditure—he spent only fifteen billion credits on three drops of “Divine Resentment Water.”

After transforming the Instant Divine into his avatar, though it had to be nurtured from infancy, as a normal Chaos creature it did not require the precious mind-type rarities the Mind Walker avatar demanded; cultivating it from infancy to peak took only sixteen billion credits.

Once mature, the Instant Divine itself possessed formidable combat power at the peak of Eternity, and crucially, it possessed a unique innate talent for “Time Stasis,” making it an excellent combat aid.

“Only one avatar slot remains.”

Within a specially created independent spacetime, Lin Qing sat cross-legged, gazing at his four avatars, a faint smile appearing on his face.

The Eternal Gate ability grants one avatar slot at each of its five stages: Awakening, Primitive, Stellar, Void, and Chaos.

The Void-True avatar serves as the Supreme Deity in the Main Universe on his behalf.

The Black Flame avatar inherited the second-generation bloodline of the Chaos Lord “Lord Burner of the Cosmos” and also possesses the formidable innate talents of the Demon Race.

The Mind Walker avatar excels in all mind-based techniques and can amplify his mental will.

The Instant Divine excels in the domain of Time Stasis; its pure innate talent for the “Now” rule grants it an innate affinity for the Now rule, aiding Lin Qing’s own comprehension of it.

The final Eternal Gate avatar remains the Blood Cauldron King; to facilitate its future destruction and recreation, Lin Qing deliberately did not elevate its life tier, leaving it at the low-level Chaos life form stage.

At his current tier, merely gestating a low-level Chaos life form as the Eternal Gate would require only a few years to recreate.

“Now I wait for the Nine-Mind Sage avatar…”

Lin Qing mused inwardly, “If I truly cannot find a Nine-Mind Sage, or lack the chance to make it my avatar, then seeking the juvenile form of a ‘Silent Sage’ or ‘Ice-Ficus Sage’ would also be acceptable…”

In the boundless Chaos, Chaos creatures bearing the title “Sage” are exceedingly rare, each possessing astonishing wisdom.

Among them, those aiding humanity’s comprehension of spacetime rules are even fewer, and their assistance is not extraordinary.

The best choice remains the Nine-Mind Sage.

“It’s up to luck now.”

Lin Qing shook his head slightly and resumed cultivating his life treasure.

Amid accelerated time, centuries passed in the blink of an eye; the aura of his life treasure grew heavier and more silent, its size expanding over tenfold to over ten trillion li in height, with the surrounding spacetime completely congealed.

This terrifying power could effortlessly crush a multitude of Eternal beings with the slightest movement.

Moreover, after absorbing the two rare Chaos materials that enhanced its foundation, the quality of his life treasure improved further.

Though still far from reaching the Pillar-tier Cosmic Treasure, he had at least taken the first step.

“Five billion credits remain.”

Lin Qing mused inwardly, “These credits can be used to cultivate the Mountain-Sea Realm—first elevate my cherished ones to Transcendence, guide them to the King Realm, then send them to the Heavenlight Divine Nation…”

Forcibly cultivating ordinary Void life forms to the level of Chaos life forms demands an immense cost—most high-level Chaos beings dare not even consider it.

Even Eternal beings would feel the pain.

Yet he was no longer an ordinary Eternal being; even casually receiving gifts was enough to make most Eternal beings envious to madness.

Elevating his loved ones to Transcendence, however, was not difficult.

“I’ll return to the Mountain-Sea Realm soon—perfect timing to check on the Nine-Mind Sage’s heart again.”

After outlining his plan, Lin Qing resumed his seclusion.

Throughout this period, he maintained his Mind Walker avatar’s time acceleration at a hundredfold rate; though the cost was staggering—requiring one Chaos Source Crystal annually—he paid no mind to this expense.

Amid accelerated time, another hundred years passed; after absorbing the essence of twenty-four Cosmic Tree branches, his inner world expanded to nearly 47.9 billion kilometers in diameter.

Combined with the nine Pillars That Stabilize the Realm, his combat power surged several times over the previous limit.

Several millennia passed thereafter.

“The Cosmic Catastrophe Body has been perfected to its utmost.”

Lin Qing slowly retracted the terrifying aura that nearly shattered spacetime, inwardly marveling: “The secret art created by the Divine Realm Lord, when perfected, truly surpasses the Supreme Secret Arts…”

…

Time flowed on, and three hundred years had swiftly passed.

On this day, Lin Qing emerged from seclusion.

“Master Lin Qing is out so soon?”

Star Forge Marquis chuckled, “It seems you’ve fully assimilated the spoils from last time? Your Chaos creature avatar should now be nearing the late mature stage, correct?”

After slaying the Absolute Far Marquis, the Hidden Flow Marquis, and two Black Robe Saints, over ninety percent of the spoils went to Lin Qing.

According to his estimation, such wealth was more than sufficient to nurture Lin Qing’s Chaos creature avatar to the late mature stage—even for precious mind-type Chaos creatures.

“About right,” Lin Qing smiled.

“Then I’m at ease.”

Star Forge Marquis relaxed slightly, “With your terrifying Illusory World Annihilation technique combined with even stronger mental will, your Yazhili must be even greater.”

At that moment, the Crimson Serpent form of the Devouring Flame Serpent slithered out from Star Forge Marquis’s sleeve, shaking its tiny head: “If that’s the case, perhaps even a regular peak-Eternal could be matched—we could fight them. Good, good.”

It already possessed strength nearing that of a peak-Eternal; facing an Eternal peak who could only unleash a fraction of their power, it had every confidence to fight.

“Still, we must remain cautious.”