Chapter 423: Raid on Cangmie Realm

“Clones… no longer hold much meaning for me.”

Lin Qing glanced at the surrounding clones, unconcerned.

His life’s essence had risen to the ultimate tier, granted the Ultimate Seat by Infinite Chaos.

Thus, these clones could not enter the Main Universe, restricted only to the spacetime of their homeworld—including all Chaos Wonders that barred Ultimates.

But at his current level, he no longer cared.

Though these clones could not forge inner universes, with his mental will empowered and a fraction of his core power borrowed, they could still effortlessly crush ordinary Divine Realm Lords.

“Let the clones guard the Shanhai Realm—they can also guide its younger generations…”

Lin Qing sensed the inner universe now fully stabilized, its terrifying cosmic primordial force contained entirely, leaking not a single trace.

With his current terrifying power, even a slight burst of inner universe energy could destroy the entire Shanhai Realm—he had to be cautious.

“First, learn the method to forge a Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasure from the Future Divine.”

Lin Qing’s mind shifted, and instantly the forging technique taught by the Future Divine appeared in his mind.

This exquisitely arcane and complex forging method could only be conceived by a Cosmic Divine’s level of insight; mastering it was absurdly difficult.

But he only needed to prepay for it.

“Learned.”

Moments later, Lin Qing slowly opened his eyes. “Indeed, only a two or three percent chance of success…”

He didn’t care—he immediately observed his countless future lines, quickly locating the one where he successfully forged the Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasure’s core embryo.

“Descend into the future!”

…

Future spacetime.

After his consciousness descended, Lin Qing opened his eyes to find himself within Infinite Chaos, inside a spacetime he had forged.

—This was the exact moment the Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasure’s core embryo had just been forged.

Sensing his life-bound treasure, Lin Qing immediately willed his hand upward, palm open.

A dark-gold nine-tiered pyramid, no larger than a palm, appeared in his palm—and began expanding at an unimaginable speed, transforming in an instant into a colossal entity three million eight hundred thousand light-years tall!

Even the entire Milky Way, before this nine-tiered pyramid, became a trivial decorative trinket.

This was the core embryo of a Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasure.

In size and outward form, it had already reached the Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasure tier.

But it still lacked the three crucial universes.

Even without the past, present, and future universes as its core, the Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasure’s core embryo was over ten times more powerful than an Eternal Treasure!

“The Rule Universe and the Past Rule Universe aren’t hard to find…”

Lin Qing pondered briefly, sent a message through the Second Cosmic Network, then stepped forward, leaving this spacetime to traverse the boundless expanse of the Main Universe.

At his current level, using Illusory Step, he could circle the entire Main Universe in just one or two days.

Only a few hours later, Lin Qing reached the edge of the human race’s many small universes; another ten trillion light-years ahead lay the nearest star-beast clan’s small universe.

Each clan’s small universes clustered closely, enabling swift mutual support.

The human race bordered the star-beast clan on one side and the Mother River clan on the other; their ally, the mechanical clan, bordered both the Source clan and the human race, helping shoulder the pressure from the Source clan.

“Arrived.”

After circling the surface of the Main Universe for a while, Lin Qing spotted a small universe connected to it.

The star-beast clan’s “Cangmie Realm.”

As a Transcendent-level civilization of the star-beast clan, this small universe was slightly larger than the Liewang Realm, with a diameter nearing seventy billion light-years.

“None of the three Divine Realm Lords of Cangmie Realm are Dual-Rule Divine Realm Lords; the realm has dozens of Ultimates.”

Lin Qing gazed at the small universe. “But the star-beast clan’s sole Semi-Deity civilization, the Shoushen Realm, isn’t far from Cangmie Realm. With that Shoushen’s power and Ancestral Legacy, he could easily pursue me…”

The star-beast clan’s strongest was the “Shoushen,” ruler of the Shoushen Realm—a Dual-Rule Divine Realm Lord wielding a top-tier Chaos Artifact, stronger than many High Divine Realm Lords.

The star-beast clan also had four High Divine Realm Lords, but none matched the Shoushen’s power or were adept at evasion.

The proportion of High Divine Realm Lords remained extremely low.

For example, the human race had roughly five thousand Ultimates and hundreds of Divine Realm Lords, yet only nine possessed Dual-Spacetime Rules.

The star-beast clan, with over three thousand Ultimates, had only five High Divine Realm Lords.

After all, the human race’s total number of Divine Monarchs and Dukes was barely over a thousand, and those who became Ultimates were exceedingly rare—unless from a Semi-Deity civilization, there simply weren’t enough Divine Realms to assimilate.

High Divine Realm Lords, across any clan, were absolute apex beings.

At his current power, Lin Qing was no match for them.

But he had already prepared his countermeasures.

“Only Divine Realm Lords in Cangmie Realm cultivate Future Rules—I can’t kill them. But there are many Ultimates who cultivate Past Rules…”

Lin Qing gazed at Cangmie Realm, observed for a long while, mentally projected dozens of futures, then transformed into a streak of light and slammed straight into the outer cosmic membrane of Cangmie Realm.

As a human, he couldn’t infiltrate a star-beast clan’s small universe—he had to force his way in!

“Boom!!”

The outermost cosmic membrane of Cangmie Realm slightly indented, then shattered across a span of hundreds of light-years!

Lin Qing took another step—and appeared inside Cangmie Realm’s universe, near a massive planet deep within.

But no matter how fast he moved, he couldn’t outpace the Divine Realm Lords of this small universe.

In fact, the moment he entered the range of Cangmie Realm’s cosmic core, its three Divine Realm Lords had already detected him!

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

As terrifying cosmic primordial energy spread, three colossal figures simultaneously descended into the starry void around Lin Qing—the spacetime shattered completely, each a monstrous beast tens of light-years tall!

“A human Ultimate?”

“Is that Lin Qing of the humans? How dare he invade our star-beast clan?!”

“Achieved Ultimate status? How arrogant!”

Three immense mental waves surged forth, and the three figures struck Lin Qing without hesitation!

Star-beasts were famed for their naturally powerful bodies; these three Divine Realm Lords of Cangmie Realm were no exception—each unleashed a hoof spanning light-years, a tail shattering dozens of light-years of spacetime, or a blade-like wing slash—all converging on Lin Qing!

They knew Lin Qing was likely a Dual-Rule Ultimate, his raw power nearly equal to theirs.

But so what?

Within their homeworld universe, their strength was more than ten times greater than outside!

And Lin Qing’s greatest weapon—the Illusory Annihilation—his Divine Realm Lord-level mental will—held no advantage here; at best, it might slightly weaken them!

Yet—

“Boom!!”

A boundless illusory universe suddenly descended upon reality, instantly engulfing the three Cangmie Realm Divine Realm Lords—the overwhelming mental pressure made them tremble instinctively.

In an instant, the three Divine Realm Lords’ power plummeted by over eighty percent.