Chapter 427: Blue Tide Crystal

"Leaving? At least you have some sense," Xiao Yu's divine power kept watching the movements of the Blue Palace Treasure behind him.

Given Xiao Yu's current reputation throughout the Cosmic Sea, he could practically walk across it.

Aside from the natural dangers of the Three Great Absolute Lands and the Two Great Holy Lands he dares not enter, only the yet‑unborn Beast Crisis and the Jin's World deep within the Cosmic Sea can still intimidate Xiao Yu.

The Cold Cliff Fortress accelerated toward the vortex, quickly reaching thirty thousand times the speed of light, and Xiao Yu maintained flight at that speed.

In a short moment, it had penetrated the vortex by dozens of light‑years, a distance already beyond the range of Xiao Yu's divine power to detect.

"Fortunately, before entering I left divine‑power crystals in the three directions outside the vortex; that lets me sense my position. Otherwise I'd have lost direction and could only rely on the system," Xiao Yu thought.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Countless colorless crystals slammed into the Cold Cliff Fortress at high speed, generating massive shockwaves.

"The vortex's rotation speed is still accelerating, now at one hundred thousand times light speed," Xiao Yu sighed.

The rapid water flow caused the Cold Cliff Fortress to spin and advance with the current; by rotating with the flow while plunging quickly into the vortex, the fortress's damage was greatly reduced.

However, Xiao Yu had to constantly adjust the fortress's angle to prevent deviating from the course.

One month later.

"We should be nearing the vortex's core," Xiao Yu's divine power, now able to extend only about one light‑year, added, "The vortex speed has exceeded 230,000 times light speed."

In this region of the vortex, the water droplets have turned a deeper, pure blue, and the aura of the Water Law now rivals that of an ordinary Strongest Being.

As time passed, when Xiao Yu had been inside the vortex for half a year.

The Cold Cliff Fortress had reached the vortex's core, as if separated by a layer of deep‑blue water membrane.

Outside the membrane, the water flow had reached an astonishing one million times light speed, a hundred times the outermost flow.

The vortex water flow, mixed with endless particles, was even more formidable; even the Peak Palace Supreme Treasure likely couldn't survive more than a minute before being destroyed.

The Cold Cliff Fortress spun rapidly with the current, quickly completing a circle around the core region.

With a thought, Xiao Yu's boundless divine power spread, permeating the water membrane.

"Boom!"

Instantaneously, Xiao Yu felt that strand of divine power ripped apart, even the soul imprint being stripped away.

"So that deep blue wasn't a water membrane but a layer formed by differing high‑speed rotations," Xiao Yu thought, simultaneously sensing the lethal force of that extreme speed.

Xiao Yu's mind shifted, and the entire Cold Cliff Fortress, along with himself, rapidly shrank until it was only the size of a speck.

Thanks to having cultivated the Heavenly God Transformation to the Third Rank through the system before becoming Lord of the Universe, his body could freely change size.

Moreover, this transformation hardly altered his body's strength.

Then a speck turned into a streak of light, rushing into the water flow rotating at five million times light speed.

Xiao Yu felt himself spinning with the torrent at extreme speed, completing a rotation in less than ten seconds.

At that breakneck spin, Xiao Yu had to reduce the speed to a normal hundred times light speed.

"Huh, this differs from the outer region; the deeper you go, the slower it gets, and it rotates with the flow as if all the inner currents were a single whole," the newly entered Xiao Yu immediately sensed the difference.

One day later.

Xiao Yu's divine power finally spread far enough to uncover the truth of this treasure.

In the endless vortex core floated a deep‑blue crystal no larger than the palm of a hand, perfectly spherical, suspended in void, radiating boundless Water Law power; its surface glimmered like tides, rotating periodically, taking about ten seconds per turn.

The inner vortex water flow seemed fixed by that tidal flow, rotating together with it.

The Cold Cliff Fortress suddenly accelerated and instantly expanded to a size of a million kilometers, as if also anchored by the luminous tide, continuously rotating forward.

In a short time, the fortress finally reached the side of the deep‑blue crystal; with a thought, an abyss opened beside it, and boundless suction began drawing in the surrounding water flow.

Yet the deep‑blue crystal remained unaffected by the suction, still calmly hovering in the void.

The abyssal opening of the Cold Cliff Fortress then closed, since keeping it open would only suction more water.

"Could it be that it still requires recognition of a master, and only after that can it be harvested," Xiao Yu thought, then left the fortress and appeared beside the deep‑blue crystal.

Outside, he more directly sensed an aura comparable to that of the Giant Axe Founder.

"A treasure, yet not a refined Ultimate Treasure, its power already terrifying—this must be something extraordinary," Xiao Yu stared at the deep‑blue crystal, feeling that his Primordial Soul Secret Method now had new material.

Xiao Yu instantly felt that the materials he had exchanged in the primordial universe, once comparable to top‑grade High-level Treasures, no longer seemed appealing.

Now he had a better option.

He absorbed the Cold Cliff Fortress into his Divine Body, then tossed a World Ring far away; the ring traveled only a short distance before being fixed by the flow, subsequently rotating together.

Inside that World Ring was a divine‑power duplicate of Xiao Yu; should his true self encounter danger, he could instantly use the system to recreate a duplicate.

With no worries behind him, Xiao Yu immediately appeared beside the deep‑blue crystal, his right hand brimming with boundless divine power, reaching for the crystal.

As if he had met endless obstruction.

Both hands instantly exerted full force, even employing his self‑created secret art; the black‑glowing hands finally grasped the entire crystal.

However, no matter how his divine power permeated, it could not enter the crystal, nor move it.

"It seems not a lack of power, perhaps the issue lies in the type of divine power that can permeate," Xiao Yu thought.

Then the divine power in his right hand instantly transformed into blue Law Power, and his entire arm radiated boundless Water divine power.

The remaining Law Power was all absorbed into his Divine Body.

Instantly, boundless Water divine power surged into the crystal, and Xiao Yu truly saw its form—it was indeed a perfect sphere, the most standard spherical shape, even at the smallest scale he could perceive, it was exceedingly smooth.

"Boom!"

Xiao Yu felt his right hand as if holding an entire universe, immensely heavy.

Yet despite the weight, he finally sensed the crystal moving under his grip, far better than the earlier helplessness.

At the same time, a message entered Xiao Yu's mind, revealing that the deep‑blue crystal was called Blue Tide Crystal. (End of Chapter)