Chapter 290: Universe Venerable

Palace of Qianbao River.

Xiao Yu held a massive book in both hands, studying it earnestly.

Three months later, the content of Primordial Soul Fifth Layer was already memorized by Xiao Yu; thereafter he only needs to keep studying.

Now Xiao Yu began cultivating the Source Soul secret method, accelerating the recovery of his soul power.

According to the method, after a soul metamorphosis it will also recover automatically; given his current realm and the massive loss of soul power, a complete restoration would require tens of thousands of epochs.

Cultivating the Source Soul secret method, without relying on any treasure, restores all soul power in just a hundred years.

Xiao Yu told his attendant that he would close himself off for a hundred years, during which no one would see him.

……

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye a hundred years had elapsed.

The soul's sensitivity was amplified two hundredfold, and the speed of comprehending the laws increased by more than a hundred times.

Countless visible torrents of spatial divine energy surged from the void into the massive World Tree.

Xiao Yu's soul power had fully recovered, and all of it was the soul amplified two hundredfold as before.

Above the Divine Kingdom swirled a massive multicolored vortex, its span extending a light‑year and occupying most of the kingdom's sky. The aura of the Eight Lower Origin Laws blended perfectly; at the vortex's core lay a void radiating the endless essence of the Space Law.

Boom!

Earlier, Xiao Yu had been just a breath away from fully comprehending the Space Law.

Now the speed of law comprehension surged, becoming boundlessly swift.

Xiao Yu materialized inside the multicolored palace of the Divine Kingdom.

Not only did his comprehension speed of the Chaos Law accelerate.

But also his comprehension speed of the Space-Time Origin Law surged.

Space Law, achieved!

A smile appeared on Xiao Yu's face as he vanished from the palace.

Xiao Yu's Human True Body bathed in the divine energy ocean, ravenously devouring.

Within his body, the Divine Kingdom.

Fifty years passed in an instant.

The endless pressure of the Cosmic Origin Law descended directly upon the Divine Kingdom, causing the entire kingdom to boil.

"Instant, Kill, Seal have fully merged!" Xiao Yu murmured, divine power surged; countless strands of law appeared, forming three fragmented Secret Pattern diagrams in mid‑air, which then merged one by one into perfectly combined Secret Patterns.

Wah‑wah‑wah!

The Virtual Universe recorded many images of strong cultivators breaking through to become Universe Venerable, and Xiao Yu had seen them all.

This is a Secret Pattern diagram of that strange lifeform, similar to the seventh illustration of the Universe Chaos Stele.

With the soul restored, it maintained its previous allocation.

Xiao Yu had paused his comprehension of the Time Law, focusing solely on the Space Law.

Whenever a strong cultivator breaks through, a multicolored vortex of Space Origin Ocean descends. Usually such vortices are small, only a few hundred kilometers in diameter.

But when he broke through himself, that multicolored vortex spanned a diameter of a light‑year!

It far exceeded imagination.

It dwarfed the scenes seen when many strong cultivators broke through to become Lord of the Universe.

"Fortunately I broke through within the Divine Kingdom; otherwise who knows what commotion this scene might have caused?" Xiao Yu murmured.

The larger the upheaval during a breakthrough, the greater the indication; it is a good sign.

Only that it alerts the Alien Tribe, who may dispatch assassins of unknown caliber against him!

Advancing from Immortal to Universe Venerable increases Divine Body strength by a hundredfold.

Ordinary humans rise from 100,000‑fold Realm Lord power to 10,000,000‑fold, whereas Xiao Yu, now a perfect‑gene being, has divine power purity of 10,081 times.

Add to that Xiao Yu's current size and the immense volume of the World Tree.

The divine power he devours is easy to imagine!

"Seize the time to devour!" Xiao Yu whispered, devouring divine power with his whole heart.

Within the Primordial Universe, when a strong cultivator breaks through the three great realms—Immortal, Universe Venerable, and Lord of the Universe—the Universe Origin descends, but only at the Immortal stage can one fully absorb and perfectly convert the Divine Body.

Both Universe Venerable and Lord of the Universe have only brief windows to absorb divine power, and how much they can take depends solely on their ability.

In just a moment, the endless divine energy ocean vanished.

"The World Tree is so massive that even frenzied devouring can only convert 5% into Divine Body."

Xiao Yu has been at the Immortal Level for over ten thousand years; during those ten thousand years the World Tree never ceased growing, its height reaching fifty trillion kilometers, its canopy diameter exceeding five light‑years—surpassing the Divine Kingdom's diameter—and thus it had to fold space.

Over ten thousand years the World Tree continuously devoured Universe Primordial Energy, channeling it to the Divine Kingdom, while also drawing in various Space Fragments to attack and devour the kingdom, growing its diameter from eighty trillion kilometers to three light‑years.

"Previously, Zhen Yan Wang crossed into Universe Venerable, achieving a 92% Divine Body conversion."

"Human strongmen, when advancing to Universe Venerable, generally have Divine Body conversion around 90%."

"And the Golden Horn Beasts of the Starlit Beast Alliance, upon crossing into Universe Venerable, have a conversion rate of about 50%."

The higher the genetic tier, the larger the Divine Body, and the lower the conversion rate upon entering Universe Venerable.

If the World Tree Clone's body conversion rate is only 5%, the divine power it devours and absorbs is countless times that of a Golden Horn Beast.

Now that Xiao Yu has entered the Venerable tier, the World Tree has undergone a qualitative metamorphosis, its height soaring to one light‑year.

The Divine Kingdom likewise underwent a transformation.

As the Divine Kingdom gradually changed, it continuously absorbed divine power from the World Tree; the Tree's countless roots and stems sustain a relatively slow output.

But 'slow' is relative to a World Tree whose height reaches a light‑year.

Five days later, the Divine Kingdom's transformation had just concluded, with the World Tree having consumed a full 2% of divine power—a massive investment.

Yet those investments were all worthwhile.

Xiao Yu felt his control over the Divine Kingdom, and the Kingdom's stability greatly increased; Xiao Yu was confident that even the Lord of the Universe, once entering the Divine Kingdom, could be suppressed.

He had never fought the Lord of the Universe, but he understood the auras of many Lords of the Universe very well.

The World Tree itself can stabilize the Divine Kingdom; the favored one who controls time and space is also within his own Divine Kingdom, so any Lord of the Universe who is not too powerful can be suppressed inside the Divine Kingdom.

Within the Divine Kingdom, Xiao Yu's ninety‑six incarnations each merged back into the World Tree, then spawned new avatars.

In this way, each incarnation possessed the strength of a Universe Venerable.

Divine Kingdom teleportation.

Xiao Yu reappeared within Qianbao River.

The Chaos City Lord, continuously scanning the entire Qianbao River, immediately detected a change in Xiao Yu's aura.

"Huh? He actually broke through to become a Universe Venerable," the Chaos City Lord exclaimed in surprise. "He broke through Immortal status in just over ten thousand years and has now become a Universe Venerable! As a Venerable, with his strength, his chances of survival anywhere he goes will be far greater!"

Xiao Yu suddenly sensed someone watching from afar; before his breakthrough he could not detect it, but now he could feel it clearly.

And he also guessed the identity of the gazer.

He materialized in front of that palace.

"Huh? Time‑Space King, you have broken through—no, I just called you the wrong title; I should address you as Time‑Space Venerable," said one of the Universe Venerable guards before the great hall.

"Ha ha, I just broke through, so I came here to report to the teacher," Xiao Yu replied with a slight smile.

He then stepped forward and appeared directly before the Chaos City Lord.

"Teacher." Xiao Yu said respectfully.

"Broken through?" the Chaos City Lord asked casually.

(End of chapter)