Lin Yuan held his breath.
“Everything in the Human Civilization Treasury, I can take it all?”
From the way the Xuanyuan Strongest One said “take it,” Lin Yuan guessed he wouldn’t need to spend any merit points; if he needed something, he could just have it.
After all, Humanity was an apex race.
Its treasury contained a great many twelve-star treasures of all kinds.
“Yes. If you think you need it, you can take it anytime,” the Xuanyuan Strongest One confirmed with a nod.
“Thank you, Strongest One,” Lin Yuan replied.
He knew most of the treasures in Humanity’s treasury were effectively useless for him.
Gathering the resources required to train the Mysterious Emperor Body to Rank Twelve Perfection would exhaust the entire universe several times over; even if he drained all of Humanity’s treasures, it would be like trying to douse a raging fire with a cup of water.
Of course, the Xuanyuan Strongest One didn’t know that.
But since the Xuanyuan Strongest One had made the offer, it meant Humanity was already prepared to watch their treasury supplies shrink drastically.
“As long as you successfully step into Rank Twelve, no price is too high for Humanity,” the Xuanyuan Strongest One added.
“I’m planning to make the breakthrough after a while,” Lin Yuan said, sensing the Strongest One’s high expectations.
“Before you try for the Ultimate rank, remember to use the assisting treasures in the treasury,” the Xuanyuan Strongest One reminded him.
The Human Civilization Treasury included certain artifacts that could help with reaching the Ultimate rank. For instance, the universe origin item Lin Yuan once obtained, which heightened the time essence of one’s inner world.
There were also other items akin to the universe origin, all of which were coveted by many hidden Rank Eleven beings in the distant cosmic void.
In fact, when the Tuoba Ancient God clashed with Lin Yuan, that Ancient God had hoped to extort a similarly rare treasure.
“Understood.” Lin Yuan nodded.
Once Lin Yuan became an Eleven-Level Citizen, he would reach the highest clearance in Humanity and could freely look up any items in the treasury.
“When you’re about to break through to the Ultimate rank, make sure you let us know. Then we’ll be able to guard against those Rank Twelve aliens,” said the Xuanyuan Strongest One.
When a Rank Eleven being breaks into Rank Twelve, once they leap free of the River of Time, their entire existence transcends interference—no one, not even a Strongest One, can interfere with that final process.
But right before that, when you endure the infusion of primordial chaos, if those Rank Twelve discover it in time, they might try to do something.
Though at best it was just a possibility, Lin Yuan was too important to Humanity for the Xuanyuan Strongest One to allow any risk.
“Alright.”
Lin Yuan nodded.
Rank Eleven breakthroughs had always involved having Strongest Ones stand guard, and stepping into Rank Twelve would be no different.
“Train well. If you need anything, just talk to me or Xia Qin,” said the Xuanyuan Strongest One, ending the call.
“Reaching the Ultimate rank, hmm?”
Lin Yuan sat with his legs crossed, scrolling through all the items in the Human Civilization Treasury.
Ordinary treasures, even at the twelve-star level, were no help to Lin Yuan at this point.
He focused on those which specifically helped in achieving the Ultimate rank, the items the Xuanyuan Strongest One had mentioned.
“Let’s see…”
After a quick scan, Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.
These assisting treasures would be immensely helpful to an ordinary Rank Eleven Perfection being, absolutely priceless.
But for Lin Yuan, they hardly mattered.
Auxiliary Ultimate treasures also varied in rank. The Heart of Spacetime that belonged to the Devil Jade Tower Master was the highest tier, whereas things like the universe origin were mid-tier.
For most Rank Eleven individuals, the success rate for becoming Ultimate rank hovered around one in 100k, or even one in a million.
Even the lowest tier of these auxiliary treasures could make a huge difference for them.
Lin Yuan, on the other hand, likely had at least a ninety-five percent chance of success, maybe even as high as ninety-seven or ninety-eight percent.
With his deep foundation, even the highest-tier items like the Heart of Spacetime wouldn’t change much. Those lower-tier items in Humanity’s treasury would offer no real benefit at all.
Doubling a one-in-100k chance to two-in-100k wasn’t so hard. But raising ninety-eight percent to ninety-nine percent was as difficult as scaling the heavens.
Even the most resource-rich Rank Eleven elites in the chaotic void rarely exceeded a twenty percent success rate in becoming Ultimate rank.
Lin Yuan reached over ninety-five percent purely through his mastery of the Chaos rule, his Spacetime Seventh Stage insights, and other factors.
“I’ll leave these auxiliary treasures for future evolvers aiming to reach Rank Twelve,” Lin Yuan thought.
He then entered the virtual world to chat with his parents and younger sister, Lin Yi.
“Brother, have you heard? The Martial Arts Evolutionary Path is now ranked fifth in Human Civilization! And it all started on our Canglan Star,” Lin Yi said excitedly.
Currently, the biggest news in Humanity was the Martial Arts Evolutionary Path. A mere Rank Eleven path had placed fifth, surpassing five Strongest paths.
Even the average citizen realized how significant that was.
Lin Yi felt it even more keenly. Once upon a time, Lin Yuan had asked if she wanted to practice the Martial Arts Evolutionary Path, but Lin Yi disliked close-quarters combat and chose the Mindforce Evolutionary Path with its ranged focus.
It turned out Lin Yi’s foresight wasn’t exactly the best.
Lin Yuan just smiled.
“Canglan Star not only gave rise to an unparalleled genius like you, Brother, it also produced the Martial Arts Evolutionary Path. Tsk tsk…” Lin Yi marveled at the coincidence.
“It is kind of a coincidence.”
Lin Yuan gave a subtle nod.
He had already anticipated that someone would try linking him to the founder of the Martial Arts Evolutionary Path.
Ordinarily, Lin Yuan was simply known as an unrivaled prodigy who reached Rank Eleven in under a thousand years, effortlessly crushing other apex races.
That alone was unique.
But being the founder of an evolutionary path?
No one connected those two identities right away, even though both happened to come from Canglan Star.
Still, as time passed and the Martial Arts Evolutionary Path rose ever higher in rank—while Lin Yuan also kept advancing—some in Humanity started to suspect that Lin Yuan might be its creator.
Now that Martial Arts had become Humanity’s fifth Evolutionary Path, combined with Lin Yuan’s feats on the super-large battlefield, talk of him being the founder was spreading fast.
Yet Lin Yuan didn’t care.
He was at a point where, even if he openly declared he was that founder, what would it matter? With power on par with an ordinary Path-Clearing being, he was practically impossible to kill anywhere in the universe.
“Brother, what are you looking at?”
Noticing Lin Yuan gazing off into the distance, Lin Yi asked curiously.
“What am I looking at?” Lin Yuan smiled.
“I’m looking at what lies beyond the universe.”
“Beyond the universe?” Lin Yi blinked. She still hadn’t explored much of the Human Civilization’s domain, let alone anything outside the universe.
Outside the universe, in the chaotic void, Lin Yuan, condensed there by chaos energy, brought his avatar to a halt.
“I’ve finally escaped the universe’s influence.” Lin Yuan looked back. The home cosmos now appeared about the size of a fist. At some point, he’d drifted far away from it.
Even in the chaotic void, a universe was a massive celestial body that dominated an enormous region around it.
But now, Lin Yuan could feel himself completely free of the main universe’s influence.
“Hmm?”
“The flow of time has changed.”
Lin Yuan took note, comparing it to his true self’s Soul. Right here, time ran slower—by his estimate, about three hundred to one.
In other words, three hundred years would pass inside the main universe for every single year in the chaotic void.
“The flow of time… It’s similar to that Source World I visited.”
He recalled that after Spacetime reached the Seventh Stage, the Gate of Myriad Realms revealed thirty-three sets of coordinates, linking to thirty-three vast Source Worlds.
The first one he explored had the same time ratio: one year there to three hundred in the main universe.
“So the chaotic void and that Source World are at roughly the same level?”
Time flow provided a clue, though it wasn’t definitive. Time alone wasn’t an absolute measure, but it offered some basis for comparison.
“Let’s keep exploring.”
Lin Yuan picked a direction and disappeared. In a flash, he’d moved tens of millions of light-years.
But the chaotic void was endless. Even after traveling such a distance, the surrounding scenery looked unchanged, and the universe behind him seemed no different.
“Rules in the chaotic void are more complete, so drawing on them is heavier work,” Lin Yuan remarked while continuing onward, carefully sensing his surroundings.
If the rules of the main universe were like an iron rod, then the rules here in the chaotic void were like a supporting pillar of heaven.
Wielding an iron rod versus wielding a giant pillar was an enormous gap in difficulty.
Hence, a powerhouse from the main universe would see their destructive ability drop noticeably in the chaotic void.
On the other hand, the more complete and expansive rules of the chaotic void offered a higher limit. In fact, crossing into the Dominance realm here was slightly easier than doing so inside the universe.
Swish, swish, swish.
Lin Yuan blinked in and out, traversing great distances in an instant. Thanks to his Spacetime Seventh Stage and the external chaos rule, moving through the chaotic void felt as natural as swimming in water.
Rumble…
Suddenly, Lin Yuan paused, looking in a certain direction.
A “shooting star” was falling rapidly from on high, and by his estimation, it would pass through his current position.
“Huh?”
Lin Yuan studied that “meteor.”
“I sense treasure. It contains a lot of twelve-star wonders.”
“Am I really that lucky?” he mused.
He’d barely sent out an avatar to explore, and already there was a cosmic windfall dropping right in front of him.
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