Swallowing the Stars: Become Stronger by Taking on Disciples

Chapter 39 Inner Domain of Flowing Heavy Mountain, Lake of the Origin of Laws

"They still want to ambush and kill me?" Upon hearing the commotion in the primordial universe, Gao Ya guessed what the Divine Eye Clan was up to.

"Strange, how did the Fourth True One know my whereabouts? Apart from the five Venerables who are in charge of the Void Temple, no one else knew I came to the Cosmic Sea," Gao Ya pondered to himself.

The Five Venerable Ones could not possibly betray him, otherwise he would have discovered it long ago.

"Could it be a coincidence? A chance encounter?" Gao Ya couldn't figure it out, shook his head, and thought, "Never mind, the Fourth True One is already dead, the truth is no longer important."

Then, he no longer remained in place, but teleported hundreds of millions of light-years away, plunging headlong into the dreamlike clouds surrounding the Liuchong Mountain.

Breaking through the thick, cotton-like clouds, a bright and clear view suddenly appeared before my eyes.

Ahead lay majestic mountain peaks of various shapes, stretching endlessly like a vast mountain range.

Mist rose from beneath his feet, completely obscuring the base of the mountain.

pedal!

Gao Ya had just landed on a relatively flat rock when a thunderous roar suddenly resounded through the sky.

The clouds and mist in the distance churned violently like boiling water, seemingly brewing terrifying energy.

"Waterspout?" Gao Ya's eyes narrowed.

Every so often, the colorful river of Mount Liuchong erupts with waterspouts that connect heaven and earth, sometimes accompanied by the birth of a supreme treasure.

"I wonder what's at the bottom of the river," he murmured.

Although he was curious, he dared not jump down to investigate.

This river is extremely strange; the water tornadoes it spews out are incredibly powerful.

A waterspout hundreds of billions high could instantly annihilate the cosmic lord.

A waterspout trillions high could annihilate any cosmic lord below the fourth rank.

The legend of light-years high can cause the strongest beings in the universe to fall.

As for the bottom of the river, it is said that a powerful being from the first cosmic era went down there, but not long after, his miniature universe collapsed.

Countless eons ago, a waterspout of the Light Age erupted in the outer realms, also unleashing the supreme treasure armor of a powerful being, which attracted numerous powerful figures to fight over it.

Just as he was pondering, the distant clouds were suddenly torn open by an invisible, immense force, creating a massive rift tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter.

Rumble!

A roar that seemed to come from ancient times resounded through the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a seven-colored water column, like an angry dragon suppressed for billions of years, shot into the sky from the crack, its speed so great that it instantly broke through the height of 10 billion kilometers.

The space around the water column was distorted and torn apart by this brute force, forming visible ripples in spacetime.

In the blink of an eye, the top of the water column had already shot up to a height of hundreds of billions of kilometers.

"call out!"

Just as the waterspout reached its peak, a dark shadow was flung out from its top like a cannonball, shooting outwards at incredible speed.

"Oh? A treasure?" Gao Ya said softly, but his body did not move at all.

It was just a top-tier treasure in its category, not very valuable to him.

"Haha! It's mine!" Almost simultaneously, from a cave on the side of a mountain peak beside the waterspout, a deep blue stream of light shot out and precisely enveloped the black light.

The streak of light hovered high in the sky, revealing its form: a burly lord of the universe, his entire body covered in shimmering blue scales.

He examined the newly acquired treasure in his hand, a satisfied look on his face: "A top-tier treasure of the domain category, not bad luck."

Gao Ya stared for a long time but still couldn't identify which race in the cosmic sea it belonged to, so he simply stopped paying attention and turned to teleport deeper into the outer realm.

The outer realms aren't anything special; the inner realms are where powerful treasures are found.

After a dozen or so teleportations, he arrived at the summit of a solitary peak that was hundreds of millions of light-years high.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~" A fierce wind howled on the mountaintop, and terrifying gales comparable to the full-force attack of a fourth-tier universe master constantly assaulted Gao Ya's body. However, they proved to be weak and easily neutralized when they touched his supreme treasure armor.

His gaze fell upon the side of the mountain wall, where a vortex-shaped entrance to a spatial passage was emitting a faint glow.

"This should be it." Gao Ya didn't hesitate and stepped into the vortex.

A powerful pulling force instantly acted on him, dragging him entirely inside.

"Whoosh!"

A moment later, Gao Ya was thrown out of the spatial portal.

He steadied himself and released his ethereal divine power to sense his surroundings.

"Where have I been teleported to?" He looked around at the seemingly boundless forest, his gaze filled with confusion.

The spatial passage of Liuzhongshan has two drawbacks

First, the destinations are unpredictable. Given the same spatial portal entrance, one person might teleport to point A, while the next person might appear at point B.

Secondly, the spatial passage is one-way. For example, where he is now, there are towering trees, vines, and plants all around him, with no sign of a spatial passage entrance behind him. He just appeared here out of thin air.

Gao Ya compared the records with those of the human race. Other universe lords had also been teleported to forests, but their environments were different from his current ones, so they weren't very relevant.

"Let's find an exit first," he said, choosing a direction and searching while teleporting.

Billions of light-years from the landing point, Gao Ya stopped, hovering in mid-air, looking down at the lake below.

The lake, spanning light-years, is not a single color, but rather a mixture of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet hues, blending together to create a dreamlike halo on its surface.

For some reason, the mesmerizing colors suddenly gave him a sense of familiarity with the lake.

"Hmm?" Gao Ya opened his right hand, and a ball of crimson flame condensed from the essence of fire appeared in his palm, flickering slightly and continuously.

It wasn't just the source of fire! The seven fundamental laws within him—metal, wood, water, earth, wind, thunder, and light—also stirred with a strange aura, as if something beneath the lake was drawing them in.

"Hiss, this feeling... the source of the laws!" Gao Ya's pupils shrank, revealing a look of shock.

This lake is not water, but the source of laws!

Damn it, who's so defiant as to turn the source of laws into a lake and place it here? Those powerful beings from the First Universe Era outside will go crazy if they see this thing!

While they may not be able to comprehend the source of the laws through prolonged meditation here, they might be able to create ninth- or even tenth-order secret techniques, break through to the Void True God realm, and realize their dream of reincarnation.

As he pondered this, he conjured a divine avatar.

"Go down and investigate."

"Yes," the divine avatar nodded, leaping into the colorful lake.

Upon entering the "water," the avatar felt as if it had sunk into an incredibly viscous swamp.

"Space solidification?" The avatar attempted to teleport, but found it was completely useless.

"I can only swim slowly now."

One hundred kilometers, two hundred kilometers, three hundred kilometers... The avatar continued to descend, the surrounding light gradually dimmed, but the aura of the origin of the law became more and more intense and clearer.

"This is a great opportunity!" Gao Ya exclaimed expectantly.

When the avatar descended to a depth of one thousand kilometers, through the avatar's perspective, Gao Ya saw a palace made of dark gold material.

"The Palace of Supreme Treasures?" Gao Ya exclaimed in surprise.

boom!

Suddenly, without warning, a terrifying pressure of will bypassed his avatar and landed on his true body.

"Wow!"