Chapter 539: with translation of chapter title

Indeed, everyone knows that King Tongnan has stayed at the invincible King of Sealing for many years, already accumulating a rich foundation.

But with so many strong members of the Human Race, breaking through to a Cosmic Sovereign is not about foundation, but about one's own talent, opportunities, and chance!

Do you not see that so many immortal Kings of Sealing have not broken through even after countless years?

In the 600th year of Chu Yang's Stage Two seclusion, Longna finally reached the invincible King of Sealing realm! Cultivating the Dute Insect Race also entered the agenda.

Chu Yang began to frequently enter and exit the Soul Palace, conducting experiments with various genes.

First were the Shenhe Ultimate Gene and the De Novo Ultimate Gene; their gene sequences are rather complex, and perhaps a certain sequence could perfectly match the Dute Insect Race's innate talent.

It is a process of continual trial, because a single failure cannot directly determine the outcome.

Thus, after cultivating hundreds of Dute Insect individuals, Chu Yang finally gave up, convinced that the two ultimate genes could not be compatible with the Dute Insect Race's talent.

Over a hundred billion mixed-element units went down the drain; Chu Yang was not upset, but directly had Longna begin the next trial.

This time, Chu Yang chose the "Monster Fusion Gene", a gene originating from the One-Punch Man world.

When they first learned about the Dute Insect Race, the Soul Palace's research team immediately put the gene project back onto the experimental table.

They collected excellent genes from various worlds, screened them, and then fused together those that met the qualifications but were still too weak.

The Shenhe Ultimate Gene and the De Novo Ultimate Gene were placed in this category, as were the various monster genes from the One-Punch Man world.

Consequently, the Soul Palace research team simply used the original method that produced the ultimate genes to merge all the monster genes together.

This trial went smoothly; after a few dozen failed specimens, a Dute Insect emerged that perfectly inherited a portion of monster gene talent! Chu Yang instructed the Soul Palace research team to prioritize that portion of monster gene and use the others as secondary, refining the Monster Fusion Gene.

The refined monster gene can guarantee a hundred percent success in cultivating monster-type Dute Insects.

Yet even so, Chu Yang still did not cease experimentation.

Because Dute Insects bred with the monster gene can only reach a mid-level King of Sealing tier, far short of the race's upper limit.

Chu Yang treated it as a fallback option; if no other compatible genes could be found, he would resort to using the monster gene.

Through repeated trials and failures, Chu Yang squandered vast resources, and finally identified three compatible genes.

Besides the monster gene, the other two genes are the Douzhan Gene and the Ye Tao bloodline! Among them, the monster gene is the weakest, the Ye Tao bloodline the strongest! Dute Insects cultivated with the Ye Tao bloodline can directly reach a wildly invincible level, but the problem lies in…

Although the strength is sufficient, the Dute Insect warriors inherit no talent from the Ye Tao bloodline, making them merely powerful shells with nowhere to apply it.

More strangely, Longna could not command these insect warriors to perform combined attacks! Their individual power is greater, yet they cannot combine, completely losing the insect race's advantage.

Therefore, before uncovering the hidden talent of the Ye Tao bloodline, Chu Yang did not intend to use it to cultivate insect warriors.

In the end he chose the Douzhan Gene, which originates from Hou Ge.

Just the words "Douzhan" alone are enough to illustrate the greatness of the talent inherited by the Dute Insects.

The Dute Insect Race is humanoid; after merging the Douzhan Gene, six tentacles sprout from its back, it has three heads, and a pair of radiant golden eyes.

The three heads grant Dute Insect warriors wisdom far beyond ordinary insect warriors, yet they lack excessive independent thought; this wisdom manifests only in battle.

Each Dute Insect seems a born combat master! Their six tentacles are weapons, wielded with immense power that contains the force of laws.

The strength of the law's power depends on Longna's comprehension of the laws.

A pair of golden eyes is the main manifestation of the talent they inherit.

When performing a combined attack, they can release their divine power through the eyes, augmenting it with battle will, greatly amplifying the attack's potency.

Dute Insects fused with the Douzhan Gene can reach the limit of the King of Sealing tier.

Yet their combined attack power is not inferior at all compared to other races' King-level legions of the same number! During the second-stage seclusion, in the first five hundred years, Chu Yang merged the Earth Origin Law and the Time Origin Law, and grasped nearly half of the profound Water Origin Law.

Between the 500th and 600th years, a full hundred years, Chu Yang's progress was relatively slow, only advancing his grasp of the Water Origin Law to about two‑thirds.

This is mainly because he devoted most of his energy to attempting to cultivate Dute Insect warriors.

In the 700th year, among the immortal strongmen studying under the Liuli Tower, another successfully broke through to become a Cosmic Sovereign! The one who broke through this time is King Longyu!

Now Tongnan and Longyu have become a pair of divine lovers envied by many, though they themselves have not yet acknowledged it.

It might have been a coincidence, or perhaps luck.

But in less than a thousand years, two people consecutively broke through under Chu Yang's guidance; that's no longer luck!

Some even suspect that Fuyang secretly gave these two a special treatment? Or perhaps…

What secret does the top layer of the Liuli Tower hide? Thus, another turmoil sparked by Chu Yang swept across.

Since Chu Yang never deliberately limited the slots for entering the Liuli Tower, everyone has been trying to obtain qualification to enter the Primordial Universe.

Because, in everyone's view, as long as one can enter the Primordial Universe, they can receive Chu Yang's guidance in the Liuli Tower.

But now it's different!

Human hearts are never satisfied; after obtaining a slot in the Primordial Universe and entering the Liuli Tower, many people begin to seek higher levels.

Both King Tongnan and King Longyu have broken through, and both reside on the ninth layer, listening face‑to‑face to Chu Yang's teachings, which inevitably sparks endless imagination.

Chu Yang did not intervene, but tacitly allowed True Extension King and others to handle it.

It is worth noting that although Longyu the Venerable and Tongnan the Venerable have already broken through, they still rush over rain or shine whenever Chu Yang gives a lecture.

Likewise, they also take part in many affairs of the Liuli Tower.

With two Cosmic Sovereigns stationed, the immortals naturally dare not act recklessly.

Thus, in just a few hundred years, the Liuli Tower turned into a venue Chu Yang uses in Chaos City to select talent.

Venerable Longyu set the rules: to ascend higher, one can only do so via three methods.

Either obtain Chu Yang's permission, become his disciple, or pay a certain amount of wealth…

Under the noble name of not profiteering, it is merely to set a threshold, preventing chaotic scramble and keeping the tower from becoming a smog of discord.

Regarding this claim, no one objects, for everyone knows there is no such thing as a free lunch.

As for whether listening to lectures on higher floors yields extra guidance, it actually does not; however, the closer one is to Chu Yang, the clearer and more vivid the perception each time he demonstrates the universal origin laws.

If one is on the ninth layer and has any doubts, Chu Yang can answer directly; the same applies on the eighth layer.

But below the eighth layer, one does not have this right.

Otherwise, with so many people, if Chu Yang were to answer each query individually, it would take at least several months.

Each floor's criteria are simple: first, if you obtain Chu Yang's approval, you may freely enter and exit the entire Glazed Tower.

To date, throughout the whole Chaos City, only two people have this qualification.

One is Luo Feng, the other is Bei Qiu.

Although everyone envies them, no one thinks it matters.

Luo Feng is hailed as the greatest genius in a hundred million years, second only to Chu Yang, and as a named disciple of the Chaos City Lord; gaining Chu Yang's approval is entirely expected.

The other, Bei Qiu, though of a non‑Human race, belongs to the Golden Horn clan, which is a Human Race vassal, and he himself is a follower of Chu Yang.

Next are Chu Yang's disciples: it is said named disciples can freely access the middle three floors, while direct disciples can freely access the upper three floors.

However, for a long time Chu Yang has never taken any disciples, not even a named one.

This differs completely from other powerful founders in Chaos City; take Zhen Yan Wang as an example—he has thousands of disciples, and many direct disciples as well.

Finally, slots can be bought with wealth; this is the simplest and most direct, and the threshold is lower for many.

One thousand Hun Yuan units grant one chance to enter the second floor for a lecture.

Five thousand Hun Yuan units buy one chance for the third floor.

Twenty thousand Hun Yuan units buy one chance for the fourth floor.

One hundred thousand Hun Yuan units buy one chance for the fifth floor.

The sixth floor costs one million, the seventh ten million, the eighth one hundred million, the ninth one hundred billion!

It looks cheap below the eighth floor, yet the average assets of an ordinary Realm Master are only about ten Hun Yuan units.

A peak Realm Master can reach from one hundred to several hundred Hun Yuan units.

Thus even the price to enter the second floor alone is enough to deter the vast majority of Realm Masters.

The average assets of an Immortal Army Master are around one thousand Hun Yuan units; an Immortal Marquis has ten million; an ordinary Immortal King has one hundred billion…

Of course, those who can enter the initial universe are mostly people with great backgrounds or core members of the five major forces, so their wealth far exceeds that of peers in the outside world.

Even so, the slot prices still divide seekers into several tiers.

Few Realm Masters can reach the third floor; among Immortal Kings and below, very few can attain the eighth floor.

As for the ninth floor, only a handful of top Immortal Kings can enter.

One must know this is not a one‑time purchase; each entry requires buying a new slot.

Usually, when Chu Yang teaches, the first‑floor hall is packed, the second floor is mostly Immortal Army Masters, the third floor hosts the elite among Immortal Army Masters.

Floors four through six are almost entirely Immortal Marquis, with a few Immortal Kings.

The eighth floor, on the other hand, is exclusively Immortal Kings.

Aside from the original eleven Immortal Kings, those who have entered the ninth floor are exceedingly rare—only a few Immortal King Limits or Immortal King Invincibles.

Moreover, these people are clever; they do not blindly buy slots to attend lectures, but only purchase a ninth‑floor slot when they encounter a problem during cultivation or law comprehension.

Thus they can listen to Chu Yang's lecture face‑to‑face and have him answer their questions.

No one expected that this Glazed Tower, once dismissed, would within a few hundred years form a complete "industry chain"…

This is unprecedented in Chaos City, because founding a sect is essentially a process of accumulating merits.

Killing enemies on external battlefields accrues merits; teaching juniors and cultivating strong disciples in the rear also accrues merits.

Trying to profit from this is despised and unworthy of a teacher.

Yet Chu Yang does it, and no one finds it improper! On one hand, each lecture draws so many people that, as Long Yu said, without stratifying the tiers the Glazed Tower would descend into chaos.

Using money as the standard is the best choice!

Because then no one will question it; those who spend lots of money naturally can attend higher‑level lectures.

On the other hand, even those who only attend the first floor benefit greatly, even more than listening to the usual teachings of the Universe Venerables.

Chu Yang's understanding and insight into the laws are profound, and his mastery and application of the laws are also god‑defying.

Standing on the ninth floor of the attic, he can, with a gesture, manifest concrete law mysteries across all floors.

As the saying goes, Chu Yang's evolved law mysteries nearly rival the Chaos Stele!

What can be seen on the higher floors is even more intuitive; the effect even surpasses part of the Chaos Stele.

Gaining a chance to comprehend the Chaos Stele is as hard as scaling heaven, and it gets harder the deeper one goes, because each floor's sky‑bridge difficulty increases geometrically.

Even the first floor, with Chu Yang, offers a free chance comparable to comprehending the Chaos Stele; what more could one desire? Those with deep foundations and greater ambition may climb higher, and that's fine! They spent no money yet received Chu Yang's great grace, how could they be dissatisfied? Thus over these few hundred years Chu Yang earned several hundred trillion Hun Yuan units through the Glazed Tower! Yet the Chaos City Lord took all the money, leaving Chu Yang only ten percent.

Chu Yang gave half of that city to Long Yu and others, after all he couldn't let them work for nothing.

When he first accepted the Glazed Tower as a gift, it was equivalent to him agreeing to mentor several people, so he could not later exploit the favor.

After the money circulated back to Chu Yang, only about three hundred trillion Hun Yuan units remained.

But don't forget, Long Na and Ai Sha have needed a hefty expenditure over these centuries in Chaos City.

Initially Chu Yang gave them a hundred‑year slot, each costing one hundred billion Hun Yuan units, totaling two hundred billion.

Nearly a millennium later that became twenty thousand billion, plus Long Na's early trial‑and‑error costs cultivating the Dute insect tribe, also reaching several ten thousand billion.

What's left is only about two hundred thousand billion.

Fortunately, Bei Qiu's slots don't require Chu Yang to pay; the Golden Horn clan continuously renews them… (End of chapter)