Chapter 424: Pillar-Level Cosmic Treasures!!

After bidding farewell to his two senior brothers, Lin Qing immediately returned to his home universe in the future timeline.

Entering the spacetime of a top-tier chaotic divine artifact palace, Lin Qing tapped his fingertip and released his life-bound supreme treasure—a nine-layered dark golden pyramid.

Immediately afterward, he released the utterly sealed Heavenly Serpent Emperor.

“First, accumulate cosmic origin energy.”

With a thought, Lin Qing’s immense cosmic origin force surged violently from his internal universe, beginning to accumulate relentlessly.

Crafting a pillar-level cosmic treasure requires vast amounts of cosmic origin energy—most ultimate beings’ single-rule internal universes cannot supply enough.

As a dual-rule internal universe, his output of cosmic origin energy exceeded theirs by more than a thousandfold.

Combined with some chaotic rare treasures that replenished his internal universe’s origin energy, Lin Qing amassed sufficient cosmic origin energy in just three hundred thousand years.

The vast cosmic origin energy surged and converged like an ocean spanning tens of thousands of light-years in diameter.

“First, refine the Heavenly Serpent Emperor.”

Lin Qing glanced at the Heavenly Serpent Emperor; his life-bound supreme treasure instantly transformed into a boundless radiance, engulfing the helpless Heavenly Serpent Emperor.

The illusory universe forged by Illusory Annihilation constantly suppressed the Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s consciousness, preventing resistance.

“Boom—”

The life-bound supreme treasure, already a vessel of a pillar-level cosmic treasure, began wildly penetrating the Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s internal universe with cosmic origin energy under Lin Qing’s activation and the refinement method created by the Future World God.

Within merely tens of thousands of years, the small universe formed by the past rule within the Heavenly Serpent Emperor was stripped away.

“Stabilize.”

Lin Qing tapped his fingertip, sparing no cosmic origin energy to fully refine and solidify this past universe within his life-bound supreme treasure.

Thus, the past universe required for the pillar-level cosmic treasure was complete.

“Aaahhh…”

After losing his internal universe, the Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s life tier plummeted wildly, his aura becoming dreadfully weak.

Lin Qing glanced at him, not rushing to destroy him; instead, he casually extracted the Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s ultimate essence soul. “I’ll keep the soul to enhance the spiritual nature of my life-bound supreme treasure.”

Then he gazed at his life-bound supreme treasure, now one-third complete.

At this stage, the life-bound supreme treasure remained unstable; he had to find within thirty-eight million years a universe formed by the future rule and one formed by the present rule, merging all three universes to forge a true pillar-level cosmic treasure.

Otherwise, after thirty-eight million years, this past-rule universe would dissipate.

“Only the present-rule universe and future-rule universe remain…”

Lin Qing took a deep breath, and at that moment, all key points for crafting a pillar-level cosmic treasure surfaced in his mind.

The present-rule universe was easy to find—after all, the most numerous ultimate beings cultivated the present rule.

But the future-rule universe was extremely difficult.

Almost all were sovereigns of divine realms—he could not forcibly strip their internal universes.

Unless he could capture alive the “Near-Primordial Divine Son” of the River Clan or the “Pillar of Revelation” of the Star Beasts beneath the Star Abyss Demon Clan’s heavy protection—but this was common knowledge among all clans; not only was there no chance, even if there were, it would surely be a trap.

Or… someone willingly sacrificed themselves, voluntarily becoming part of the pillar-level cosmic treasure.

“With humanity unthreatened and the Void Divine Clan dominant, no one would ever willingly sacrifice everything.”

“Unless…”

“That person is myself.”

Lin Qing’s lips curled slightly; he took a deep breath, looked up at his life-bound supreme treasure, and transformed into a vast, brilliant light, flying toward the half-finished life-bound supreme treasure.

Then he merged into it!

Simultaneously, his will seized the remaining eighty percent of the boundless cosmic origin energy, allowing his life-bound supreme treasure to absorb it wildly.

And he began actively stripping his own internal universe!

“I sacrifice everything myself—there will be no resistance!”

“And since I possess both present-rule and future-rule universes, I can skip the complex three-universe fusion process—only need to accommodate the past-rule universe to complete it!”

Lin Qing’s powerful will relentlessly stripped his internal universe, integrating it into his life-bound supreme treasure, allowing his life aura to steadily decline.

As his aura plummeted wildly, the life-bound supreme treasure’s aura surged violently!

This process was far faster than stripping the Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s internal universe!

The Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s internal universe resisted, but Lin Qing actively cooperated, stripping his own internal universe faster, willingly letting his universe merge into his own life-bound supreme treasure!

In short, no better material for crafting a pillar-level cosmic treasure could ever be found.

The only drawback—

Was that he himself could never use the completed pillar-level cosmic treasure.

And this method applied only to crafting a life-bound supreme treasure.

But Lin Qing didn’t care at all!

He allowed all his power to fully merge into the life-bound supreme treasure—even his soul attempted to merge, maximizing the soul’s enhancement of the life-bound supreme treasure’s spiritual nature!

After an unknown length of time, the boundless ocean of cosmic origin energy was entirely consumed.

Within this spacetime, only a dark golden nine-layered pyramid, three million eight hundred thousand light-years tall, remained, its brilliant radiance transcending spacetime; merely its natural aura permeated all spacetimes, even penetrating the chaotic void layers!

The terrifying power it emitted surpassed any ultimate being.

A true pillar-level cosmic treasure!!

“Is this… a pillar-level cosmic treasure?”

Within the immensely towering nine-layered pyramid, Lin Qing’s weakened consciousness sensed this pillar-level cosmic treasure and smiled: “And it’s my life-bound supreme treasure—its power is ten times greater!”

He had lost everything, leaving only a consciousness lingering within the life-bound supreme treasure.

But this was merely the future timeline.

“Return.”

Lin Qing activated the Entropy Reverser with a thought: “Supreme Divine Miracle ‘Illusion to Reality’—I choose to bring back… my ‘life-bound supreme treasure’!”

Simultaneously, he abandoned resistance to the pull from reality, allowing this future timeline to expel and banish his consciousness.

In an instant, Lin Qing felt the world before him plunge into darkness, spacetime violently reversed, and he instantly lost consciousness.

…

“I’m back…”

Lin Qing slowly opened his eyes, sensing the two life-bound supreme treasures hidden within his soul, and smiled.

He extended his hands, palms upward.

Two nine-layered pyramids simultaneously appeared above his palms.

Both were his life-bound supreme treasures.

The difference: the silver-white nine-layered pyramid was the Eternal Treasure, while the dark golden nine-layered pyramid was the pillar-level cosmic treasure!

“Illusion to Reality—successfully achieved…”

Lin Qing smiled as he sensed the terrifying power condensed within the dark golden nine-layered pyramid—far surpassing its former state by countless times!

Once he used this life-bound supreme treasure to manifest World God techniques, his power would surge to an unprecedented, terrifying level!

No matter what Divine Lord secrets or World God legacies he wielded, their power paled in comparison to the pillar-level cosmic treasure.

“Isn’t this a real universe?”

Sensing the boundless universe within his life-bound supreme treasure, Lin Qing immediately recalled the sensation he’d felt upon first arriving in the future, when he had opened his internal universe using chaotic ultimate rules to achieve ultimacy.

Moreover, due to its material and structure, the real universe within his life-bound supreme treasure could resonate with the chaotic void layers, drawing forth even more vast power!