ebonymovies Chapter 24 Time Palace: Zero-Cost Time Acceleration
Chapter 24 Time Palace: Zero-Cost Time Acceleration
"100"
Gao Ya looked at the number of the fifth batch of contracted disciples and thought, "We've reached our limit."
The number of slots for World Lord-level Initial Universe Comprehending has always been limited to one million, including core members of the five major powers at the World Lord level and below. This is a rule set by the Primordial Ancestor.
However, the five major powers monopolized half of the slots, making it easier for them to arrange for their core members at the universe, domain lord, and world lord levels to apply for entry into the initial universe.
The remaining 500,000 were distributed to independent cultivators through various channels, including auctions and the extraterritorial battlefield military system.
In this instance, among the 100 million contracted disciples, 50 are core members of the secret realms of the five major powers, while the other 50 are members of various large and small cosmic kingdoms, local forces, and cosmic lone wolves within the human race.
Once the 50 slots for rogue cultivators are filled, the release of slots for Realm Lords will cease. Any rogue cultivators wishing to enter will have to wait for others to leave, essentially creating a one-slot system.
"Original Mirror Imprint!"
[Comprehension: 5037.16 million + 7524.5 million (newly added)]
[Divine Power Burning: Combat Power Boost: 55x + 99x (New)]
[Willpower: Universe Master Level + King-Level Limit Level *2 (New) + King-Level Invincible *1]
"So that's how it is." Gao Ya felt as if a key had been unlocked. The supreme treasure battle blade in his hand swept through the air, leaving a trail of afterimages. With a flash of light, the surrounding spacetime distorted, as if the blade light had passed through a wormhole and directly reached the other side of spacetime.
Fast, too fast!
It's three times faster than a sixth-tier secret technique!
He slowly opened his eyes and said softly, "Two hundred million comprehension points only slightly accelerated the creation of secret techniques; there weren't any major changes. It will still take quite some time to fully create a seventh-tier secret technique."
"However—" he sensed the divine power within him: "The amplification of my combat power through divine power combustion has increased to 154 times!"
"My original top-tier treasure has been replaced with a peak-tier treasure, my sixth-order secret technique has been replaced with a top-tier sixth-order technique, and with my combat power boost increased by a hundredfold, my actual combat power has reached the top-tier eighth-order level from the sixth-order level!"
"If I replaced my weapon with a supreme treasure, I would possess ninth-tier combat power!"
Gao Ya felt a moment of dizziness; the rapid increase in his combat power made it seem unreal.
After a while, he regained his senses and teleported to the divine realm.
Burning divine power is indeed tempting, but the cost is also high.
"Absorb it!" The divine power of the Nine Nether Sea surged from the surface, forming a water dragon that swept into his body.
The Nine Nether Sea has grown to 0.8 light-years, which is more than enough to support the continued expansion of his divine body.
200亿公里、300亿公里、400亿公里、500亿公里.......1000亿公里、2000亿公里......6000亿公里！
"Phew... still not enough."
Despite his ability to unleash a 154-fold increase in combat power through divine power burning, this method of burning is extremely brutal and generates considerable waste.
For example, he consumed 1000 points of divine power, but only used 100 points to actually increase his combat strength; the remaining 900 points were wasted in the process.
Therefore, the divine power he consumes during battle is quite astonishing. With his current divine body spanning 6000 billion kilometers, under his full power, his divine body probably wouldn't last more than fifty rounds.
Gao Ya gazed at the Nine Nether Sea, which had shrunk by trillions of kilometers, and fell into quiet contemplation.
For millennia, he has poured countless treasures into replenishing his divine body, causing the Nine Nether Sea to rapidly expand from 0.1 light-years to 0.8 light-years.
However, as the Nine Nether Sea grows ever larger, the number of treasures useful for its expansion decreases, and in the future, it will only be possible to reach the scale of the Lord of the Nine Nether Sea through the accumulation of countless years.
However, the current thorny problem is that the Nine Netherworld clone has not yet figured out a way to autonomously enhance its life gene level. This results in its life gene level always being ten times lower than that of the main body, and the consumption of transferring divine power to the main body to expand its divine body is also ten times greater.
Even if the Nine Nether Sea expands to 12 light-years, theoretically it can only expand the divine body by a maximum of 1.2 light-years.
Theoretically, as the divine body grows larger, the effectiveness of divine power replenishment decreases, similar to the effect of Blood Crystal, which is essentially ineffective against special life forms with extremely high genetic levels.
Sitting above the Sea of Nine Netherworlds, Gao Ya watched as the sea slowly recovered, and his eyes lit up.
"Eh, chaotic energy!"
The true god's miniature universe uses chaotic energy as its energy source, and can absorb external energy on a large scale, transforming it into divine power without any life imprint.
If he could replicate this process, he would have a continuous supply of divine power, which could then be used as the source of divine power for his enlightenment space.
Gao Ya separated a wisp of his consciousness and entered the virtual universe, searching through the human race's top-secret database. There he found the Giant Axe Founder's research on miniature universes.
After a short while, he finished browsing through the entire research content, a faint look of disappointment on his face.
Even the founder of the Giant Axe hadn't fully grasped the research on energy transformation. He only knew that for chaotic energy to transform into divine power without any life imprint, it would go through an intermediate stage: disintegrating into law particles.
As for how it was dismantled, and how it transformed into divine power after dismantling, nothing is known. The creator of the giant axe believes this is beyond the comprehension of at this stage.
"It seems we'll have to put the matter of divine power on hold for now."
"At worst, I'll hold back in future fights. If I don't unleash my full power, my divine power is enough to burn through a hundred or so rounds."
Even the giant axe couldn't figure it out, so Gao Ya didn't think he could make any breakthroughs with his level of understanding.
Of course, it wasn't entirely without gains. The founder of the giant axe also researched the time flow rate of the miniature universe and concluded that for the Time Palace to possess a time flow rate of over a thousand times, it would need to be upgraded to at least the level of a high-grade treasure.
So, back in the Void Realm, Gao Ya multitasked, simultaneously researching the Time Palace and creating a seventh-order secret technique.
Currently, the Time Palace can accelerate time by up to a thousand times. If it can be combined with the Enlightenment Space, it will not only greatly accelerate the speed at which he creates secret techniques, but it also means that the original three-year comprehension time that his divine body, which burned for 10 light-years, could only maintain would be directly increased to three hundred years.
The future looks promising!
However, the key difficulty lies in energy.
The Temple of Time requires a substance called Time Crystal as its energy source; its production is extremely limited and its price is incredibly high.
Furthermore, the Time Palace operates similarly to a miniature universe; the faster time accelerates, the higher the cultivation level and the greater the number of cultivators who can comprehend it, and the more expensive it becomes.
It's fine for a World Lord to use a hundredfold acceleration inside, but if it were a Universe Lord, the required Time Crystals would be astronomically expensive, something even he couldn't afford.
However, what Gao Ya did not expect was—
When he replaced the Time Palace's main palace with a high-level flying palace-type treasure, and changed the operating laws of the acceleration space to his unique spacetime laws that were transforming into the source of time and space, the acceleration speed of the entire acceleration space was frozen at 100 times, and even the energy used changed.
"It's actually the primordial energy of the universe!" Gao Ya exclaimed in surprise.
Through his soul perception, he could clearly sense that the Time Palace was autonomously absorbing the primordial energy of the universe. Although the speed was quite slow and not enough to sustain the operation of the Time Palace, the result was truly astonishing!
When the energy source changes from Time Crystals to Cosmic Crystals, the cost of using the Time Palace becomes almost zero!
"Prepare one trillion Chaos Universe Crystals for me," Gao Ya contacted the head of the business department at the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company.
"Yes, sir."
Soon, these cosmic crystals reached Gao Ya's hands, and he threw them into the Time Palace.
1倍、2倍、3倍、4倍.......100倍！
Driven by the cosmic crystal, the Time Palace reached its peak operating speed and began to operate continuously!
"It really is the primordial energy of the universe!" Gao Ya exclaimed excitedly.
With the shackles of energy broken, once he accepts several more rounds of disciples, the laws of spacetime can be further upgraded to the source of laws.
When he refines the top-tier treasure palace, or even the pinnacle treasure palace, he will be able to accelerate the time palace by a thousand or even ten thousand times and operate it for a long time, using the same energy source as the primordial energy of the universe!
This is something even a True God's miniature universe cannot achieve.
Only Duan Donghe's cultivation space can rival his... No, Duan Donghe's cultivation space can only accelerate time, but cannot improve comprehension!