Chapter 444: Black-Patterned Stone Pillar

"This Cosmic Vessel is a truly powerful Ultimate Treasure, and its interior must also possess some special abilities, such as teleportation," Xiao Yu thought.

"System, learn the Cosmic Vessel's teleportation Secret Pattern," Xiao Yu muttered.

【10 trillion Wish Gold Coins have been deducted!】

Immediately, an invisible energy manifested out of nowhere and then surged into Xiao Yu's consciousness.

Streams of information poured into his mind.

One after another, Secret Pattern Diagrams appeared in Xiao Yu's consciousness, being rapidly absorbed by him.

【Wish has been fulfilled.】

After a moment.

"So that's it—moving from one space to another, one can turn the Teleportation Channel into void, then condense it into a point, thereby directly linking two distant points," Xiao Yu muttered to himself.

This technique isn't really difficult, and the Secret Pattern Diagram is easy to learn.

However, employing such a method requires extremely strong power.

Xiao Yu also wasn't sure whether he could execute this Secret Pattern.

At once, the Flame God Pearl automatically activated, the Divine Body ignited, the entire Cold Cliff Fortress vaporized, and then it fell directly onto the bottom of Yan Shui Lake within the endless abyss, onto the endless ice-soil layer.

Immediately, Xiao Yu gripped the Source God Blade in his hand, thrust it straight through the Cold Cliff Fortress into the ice-soil layer, and the Source God Blade emitted countless rays of light.

The light twisted, forming countless Secret Patterns, and began drilling into the endless ice-soil layer; in an instant, a massive Secret Pattern Diagram spanning hundreds of billions of kilometers appeared across the vast endless ice-soil layer.

The massive Secret Pattern Diagram's light suddenly shot skyward.

Whoa!

The entire Cold Cliff Fortress vanished into thin air.

"That completes the teleportation," Xiao Yu said, also surprised by this method.

The external light was faint.

Space-time flowed.

Immediately, the Cold Cliff Fortress materialized on the ground of an island.

The Three Thousand Blade Domain's scanning function activated.

"Safe," the domain reported back.

Detecting no danger, Xiao Yu flew out of the Cold Cliff Fortress and absorbed the fortress into his Divine Body.

From afar, he gazed at the successive undulating palaces; Xiao Yu observed these stone palaces, whose walls bore countless patterns that seemed to recount an ancient history.

Among the patterns were a massive flying vessel illustration and scenes of powerful beings battling; countless strong ones were beheaded yet still fought fiercely.

"It seems to tell that the creators of the Cosmic Vessel rode this Cosmic Vessel to some place, clashed with unknown formidable enemies, and barely won. As for what happened after the victory, and why this Cosmic Vessel appears here, it is unknown," Xiao Yu organized the pattern content, speculating.

Each stroke of the pattern conveyed to Xiao Yu an ancient aura and the boundless affection the artist felt at the time.

Even after endless cycles of reincarnation, it could still affect Xiao Yu.

Immediately, Xiao Yu walked straight inside, intending to probe some of the ancient civilization's secrets.

Following a palace's main gate, he entered, observing that the entire palace was filled with ancient carvings recording their civilization's battles, revelry, roars, suffering, and so on.

Palace after palace, as he passed, Xiao Yu gained a deeper understanding of the Cosmic Vessel's makers.

Soon, Xiao Yu reached the interior; the palace carvings here were clearly distinct from the others, each stroke possessing a far stronger emotive rendering capability.

Even an unknown and complex script appeared.

Those characters were the same as the ones used by numerous Ultimate Treasures to convey messages.

"These ancient, intricate characters on the wall can directly convey the meaning they intend. It's as if endless anger, sorrow, resentment, regret, and other moods are expressed outright," Xiao Yu, unfamiliar with the wall's script, said.

The meaning of these characters, however, penetrated straight into his mind.

"What exactly did they experience? Was the Cosmic Vessel destroyed by battling World Beasts, or for other reasons? Was it in this Primordial Universe's Cosmic Sea, or another Primordial Universe region?" Xiao Yu wondered.

The Cosmic Vessel's might is self‑evident; even damaged, it remains immensely powerful, and if intact, it would be even stronger.

Probably only the Original Will could suppress it.

If the Cosmic Vessel were destroyed by a World Beast, it would be a World Beast that has already devoured a Primordial Universe.

In that case, that dimension would no longer exist within the Primordial Universe.

"Is this an encounter in the Cosmic Sea? How could the Supreme Law permit a return from the Origin Continent? Even if the World Beast representing destruction won, the Supreme Law shouldn't allow it," Xiao Yu grew increasingly puzzled.

Palace after palace, everything his eyes swept over was recorded in Xiao Yu's memory.

As soon as Xiao Yu stepped into a massive palace, he noticed the difference: there were also some elegant decorative carvings.

From the palace's layout, one could infer that its owner held an extraordinary status.

Entering the courtyard, his eyes fell upon a stone wall about two thousand meters long, exuding an immensely strong aura.

"On this stone wall, there are countless Secret Patterns," he said.

Although this Secret Pattern Diagram belongs to a Secret Pattern school, it differs somewhat from the patterns he previously obtained, greatly supplementing the patterns he acquired from the system.

"This Secret Pattern is a school even more profound than the Fundamental Law and Fusion Principle, and it even discusses the Chaos Law," Xiao Yu was momentarily entranced.

"System, copy all the Secret Patterns on this stone wall into my Divine Kingdom," Xiao Yu muttered.

【100 quadrillion Wish Gold Coins have been deducted!】

An invisible energy spontaneously generated, then enveloped the entire stone wall, imprinting all the Secret Patterns and their artistic conception onto it.

It then surged into Xiao Yu's body, passing through an unknown conduit directly into the Divine Kingdom, leaving beside the World Tree a stone wall about twenty thousand kilometers long and ten thousand kilometers high.

【Wish has been fulfilled.】

Immediately, Xiao Yu walked out of this palace and headed toward the last two palaces.

These two palaces were the same, all engraved with episodes from the owner's life, largely similar to the previous ones.

Leaving the island, Xiao Yu rode within the Cold Cliff Fortress, his thoughts still unsettled.

Seated inside the Cold Cliff Fortress, divine power surged into the Flame God Pearl, and the Divine Body burned.

He held the Source God Blade and pierced through the palace into the island.

Countless Nine-colored Divine Power spread out, light flashed, forming streaks of Secret Pattern, and the surrounding hundreds of billions of kilometers were shrouded by the Endless Secret Pattern.

Afterward, the Cold Cliff Fortress vanished into thin air.

When it reappeared, it was already located in the void above Yan Shui Lake.

「The next target is the Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar; coincidentally, the secret chamber space represented by the Black Token of the Lord of the Five Hun is also there. 」 Xiao Yu focused his thoughts on the coordinates within the Sea of Knowledge.

Time passed, Xiao Yu rode the Cold Cliff Fortress through one dangerous place after another; along the way he encountered countless powerful beings of the Cosmic Sea, who, upon seeing the Cold Cliff Fortress, made way for it.

Nowadays, among the powerful beings of the Cosmic Sea, Xiao Yu can be said to be known by all, unknown to none.

Finally, after thirty years, he reached the area of the Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar.

Xiao Yu gazed at the whole space; the sixteen black-patterned stone pillars, each about a thousand light-years tall, some were well-developed.

Each pillar was densely covered with countless Secret Patterns; Xiao Yu recognized all of them, but when combined, he found them somewhat puzzling. (End of chapter)