Chapter 3319: The Path To Becoming A Sequence Progenitor

Inside a spacecraft, a loud voice announced, "Everyone, up ahead is the Umbral Universe. Lord Lu once fought a sequence-rule expert in this universe, a man named Mo Shang. He was eventually executed by Lord Lu during the Heavens Sect's martial declaration. The man...”

This vessel was specifically making a trip across the Endless Frontier. More than 10,000 people were on it, all of whom wanted to visit locations that had once been avoided.

The Endless Frontier had been a nightmare for the people of the Sixverse Association. No one wanted to go to that battlefield, as there was no way to ensure survival after entering. However, it had become possible to freely enter and travel across the Endless Frontier and see places that had once only been known by those who had endured the horrors of the battlefield.

There was a person at the front of the spacecraft who was narrating their journey.

At the back of the ship, people excitedly chatted among themselves.

"We’re back in the Umbral Universe. I never thought that I'd return to this place while still alive, let alone in this manner."

"Have you been to the Umbral Universe before?" someone asked in surprise.

"Heh, it was a long time ago. Back then, I was fighting against Aeternus and the Umbrals in an endless darkness. Everyone was an enemy, aside from yourself, and every second felt like a year. The Umbrals never distinguished between friends and enemies, and I even suspected them of colluding with Aeternus.

"People fell one after another. The war here was brutal."

"For you to have survived this place and returned, you must be a hero," someone commented admiringly.

Someone else agreed, "Yes, a true hero!"

"We came to see the Endless Frontier and the places where countless human elites have shed their blood. We want to remember the past."

"I'm no hero. Only someone like Lord Lu can be called a hero. He’s the reason why Aeternus is no longer a threat, which is why we can now visit the Endless Frontier."

"Of course, Lord Lu is everyone's hero!"

...

In one corner of the vessel, Yu Leng was calmly staring out at the stars, a cold glint in his eyes.

Heroes? Where in this megaverse are there any heroes? They’re nothing more than people who are struggling to survive and scramble to the top. Lu Yin, if you could do it, then so can I!

Yu Leng touched his cosmic ring.

"I wonder if any Nests will be found on the Endless Frontier. Has anyone ever found one here?" someone asked, catching Yu Leng's attention.

Someone else replied, "No, I don’t think so."

"Hey, you at the front! Have any Nests ever been found on the Endless Frontier?"

The enthusiastic tour guide for the Endless Frontier paused. "Nests? No, but this place is still a key area that the Heavens Sect searches through."

"It would be great if there was a Nest here. Finding one is a quick path to the top, and it might even be possible to see Lord Lu himself!"

"You’d definitely get to meet Lord Lu. Nests are simply too important to the Heavens Sect. Just thinking about those rewards is enough to make me drool."

"Stop talking! I don’t even want to sightsee anymore! I just want to find a Nest."

"Do you know how many people in the megaverse have gone crazy searching for Nests? Everyone’s desperate to find one, but that depends entirely on luck. While many Nests have been found, given how spread out they all are, there might not even be one in every parallel universe. How big is a universe? Take this Umbral Universe as an example—even if there is a Nest here, it would take countless years to completely search through this place."

"True, it all comes down to luck."

"Everyone, it’d be great if we can find a Nest, but it’s normal not to. Next, we will be entering the Big Stone Universe. That parallel universe..."

Yu Leng calmly stared out at the stars as he absentmindedly stroked his cosmic ring.

He had no plans to nurture his Nest for the time being. The Heavens Sect was cracking down too hard right now. The moment any insect appeared, it would be discovered. The reason why Yu Leng had joined the tour of the Endless Frontier was precisely because of all the insects searching for him.

The Heavens Sect was not able to locate Nests, but the insects could.

Staying in one place only ensured that these insects would eventually find him, and Yu Leng had no interest in such a death sentence, no matter how desperately he wanted to cultivate his Nest.

Yu Leng had actually been pleased to see more and more Nests discovered. If the day came where he was the last person in the megaverse with a Nest, then given enough time, he would be able to fill an entire universe with his insects and force the Heavens Sect to submit to him. He would become the next Aeternus.

The Endless Frontier? It was possible that this slaughterhouse might appear once again.

Yu Leng's expression grew even colder.

In the Heavens Sect, people had been studying the Rivers and Mountains Painting for quite some time.

"How strange... Why can’t we use it? We can’t control this thing’s sequence particles at all. Is it possible that only people who have cultivated the same sequence particles can control the sequence base?"

"Impossible," Progenitor Chen stated. "Yuan Qi was able to control it, and he clearly didn’t cultivate the Law of Near and Far."

"Zhan Yan didn’t cultivate that law either," Lu Yin added.

"Forgotten Ruins God wasn’t able to control this sequence base, and neither can any of us. It’s quite odd."

"Is it possible that the Spirit Nidus has a unique method for controlling their sequence bases?"

"They must."

"The entire Rivers and Mountains Painting is composed of sequence particles. What sort of unique method could they possibly have? Unless..."

Everyone fell silent, exchanging glances.

"Why didn’t Yuan Qi use the Rivers and Mountains Painting when fighting at the Immemorial Citadel? Even if his opponent was Mister Mu, he could have given the sequence base to someone else. There couldn’t have been that many Ortusers on that battlefield, right?"

"The Rivers and Mountains Painting is a powerful weapon. The fact that Aeternus never used it must be because they aren’t able to."

"There’s no connection between the megaverses. When the Boundary Guardians leave ours and then come back, they are able to sense creatures that don’t belong to this megaverse. There must be a reason for that." Lu Yin suddenly remembered something.

"Are you suggesting that the sequence particles could be different?"

"Possibly."

"Then how do you explain your master? Mister Mu also isn’t from this megaverse. If the sequence particles were different between megaverses, he would have told us."

That was certainly a problem. If there were differences between sequence particles from different megaverses, then Mister Mu and others who were from other megaverses definitely would have noticed it and warned Lu Yin and the others. The same was true of Great Elder Shan Gu and Progenitor Xi.

But if it was not a problem with the sequence particles...

"Spirit Ignition," Wu Tian suddenly said.

Everyone turned to look at the man.

Wu Tian stared at the Rivers and Mountains Painting as he said , "I’ve been studying the Spirit Nidus’s cultivation method, but without anyone to study, I’ve been forced to rely on my own imagination. The Spirit Nidus’s Spirit Ignition is the foundation of their entire cultivation method, which means that, from the very beginning, their cultivation is fundamentally different from ours. It’s like a fish in the ocean versus a fish in a river. They’re both fish, but they’re completely different from one another.

"If we say that the world of cultivators is an ecosystem, then the Spirit Nidus and our Tianyuan Megaverse are completely different environments. Their sequence bases can only be used when matched with a Spirit Nidus cultivation method."

Without any way to get a definitive answer, Wu Tian’s hypothesis provided an explanation that the rest could accept more easily.

At the moment, their problem was that they had acquired the Rivers and Mountains Painting but were unable to use it. They had thought that they would be able to use the sequence base to analyze the Spirit Nidus's cultivation methods, only to discover that the painting was only composed of sequence particles. If they spent enough time studying it, they might be able to learn how to copy it themselves, or even how to construct other sequence bases. However, what was the point?

The Tianyuan Megaverse lacked codified sequence particles, which made it impossible for them to consistently produce specific sequence particles throughout the eons to create sequence bases. Even if the Spirit Nidus shared the method for producing sequence bases with them, the Tianyuan Megaverse would not be able to replicate such treasures.

The systems of the two megaverses were incompatible with one another.

One by one, people broke away, losing interest in the Rivers and Mountains Painting. None of them could use it, which made studying it meaningless.

Progenitor Chen left to continue on in his search for Forgotten Ruins God. Until he learned exactly what had happened to Wang Xiaoyu, he would not let Wang Miaomiao go.

Lu Yin stared at Progenitor Chen's departing figure, and he could not help but feel a moment of pity for Forgotten Ruins God. She was being targeted by Progenitor Chen, and she could not beat him, or escape. She was fated for a difficult period of time.

"Pillar, what is your law of the universe?" Wu Tian suddenly asked.

Lu Yin was momentarily stunned. Asking such a question was a bit inappropriate, as it was really no different from asking a person what their greatest trump card was. However, since Wu Tian was the one asking, Lu Yin did not overthink things, and he answered, "I don't have one yet."

"You can repel sequence particles and prevent them from affecting you. And yet you haven’t comprehended any law yourself?"

"I’ve only just broke through and became a Progenitor, so I haven’t been able to comprehend any sequence particles yet. As for my ability to repel sequence particles, that’s a bit unique."

Wu Tian chuckled. He glanced at Lu Yin, and then at the Rivers and Mountains Painting. The man might as well have been talking with his broad grin.

Lu Yin felt a bit confused, and asked, "Senior, did you think of something?"

Wu Tian pointed at the Rivers and Mountains Painting.

Lu Yin blinked, but then his eyes suddenly lit up as he stared at the painting. "Are you saying...?"

Wu Tian smiled. "Wasn’t this gift delivered to you? No one can use it as a sequence base, and there’s no way you’ll ever give it back to the Spirit Nidus. Your inner universe can already repel sequence particles, which means that you have the embryo of a true universe. It contains everything and nothing at the same time. What you are lacking are sequence particles."

Lu Yin hesitated. "But the Rivers and Mountains Painting was made from Near and Far sequence particles, which won’t be easy to use."

Wu Tian laughed. "Are you seriously complaining? Do you know how many sequence particles this Rivers and Mountains Painting contains? In terms of sheer quantity, this thing has more sequence particles than an Ortuser. And what is your universe? Can a universe only have one law?"

"It probably shouldn’t," Lu Yin muttered. He had already considered this before.

"A universe needs many different laws!" Wu Tian emphasized. He stared intently at Lu Yin. "When you first started cultivating, someone must have told you to focus on just one path, telling you that spreading yourself out and being too diverse would harm you. However, you had a breakthrough, and you used your various cultivation methods to develop four inner worlds, becoming the first person in history to do so. You're already so powerful, so are you really going to hold yourself back now?

"Others might only be able to comprehend one law of the universe, but why should you?

"From one comes two, from two comes three, and from three, all things are born. Pillar, you have a universe within you, an entire universe! How can you be restricted by quantity? One law of the universe? Two? Or will it be like your inner worlds with four? Even that’s too few. It’s an absurd number. A universe should have countless laws!"

Lu Yin’s expression changed. He had previously considered the possibility of mastering more than one type of sequence particles, but his Progenitor’s worlds had fused with his inner universe. He had not been sure whether his path would involve only one law of the universe, four, or possibly even five.

However, Wu Tian was claiming that Lu Yin’s universe should hold countless laws, because that was precisely what it was—a universe.

Lu Yin clutched his chest. "Countless? How long will I have to cultivate for?"

Wu Tian laughed heartily. "Isn't there an opportunity right in front of you?"

"The Rivers and Mountains Painting?"

𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Yes! This is the Law of Near and Far! Absorb this Rivers and Mountains Painting into your inner universe! It's made entirely of sequence particles, so you can disperse them to fill your inner universe with those sequence particles. Since your universe already repels the laws of the universe, whatever laws you allow within it will become yours alone. No one else will be able to use their rules or take yours away from you.

"Within that universe, whatever laws you possess will be your laws and no one else’s. The more laws you gather, the more laws you will have. You will always be strengthening your universe, never diminishing it."