486: Spiritual Realm! So weak, so poor (two in one)

Lin Yang entered closed-door cultivation.

He directly began merging with the high-quality Time extraordinary characteristic material inside the Bi Yuan Stone Cave.

It was almost impossible for anyone to enter here, and even if by some unlucky chance someone did enter within five years, it wouldn't matter.

Because he had once again crossed the thousand-meter distance limit, taking a small step further, and was merging at the edge of the entrance to the Endless Spacetime chaotic flow.

According to the System, within one step, he was still relatively safe.

If he were to take another step forward, he would fall into an irregular spacetime.

This place could be said to be the absolutely safe spot for closed-door cultivation at present.

The System had saved him over a billion national treasure value by utilizing certain rules, so Lin Yang naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

Protecting the source fire and such was still too far away for him; even thinking about it to the extreme now was useless.

Therefore, Lin Yang calmly began to focus on merging with the Time extraordinary characteristic material.

Years passed by.

Two years later.

Outside the Bi Yuan Wall.

"Lan Ling, were you two really not mistaken before? Did someone really enter Bi Yuan from here?"

Nightshade was already getting a bit impatient from waiting:

"Those who enter the internal space of Bi Yuan usually come out in just over a year at most. I've never heard of anyone staying inside for two years. Could that kid have broken through to the Spirit Realm inside and been teleported out?"

Lan Ling also hesitated: "Anyway, we weren't mistaken. Someone definitely went in. As for whether he broke through inside, that's hard to say."

Hearing this, Nightshade's eyes flashed, and he shook his head, refuting his earlier words to himself:

"There's no spiritual energy inside Bi Yuan, making it almost impossible to break through there, unless he has a large supply of spiritual universal material to absorb. But if he had a large supply of spiritual universal material, he wouldn't have come to Source Star. He should still be treasure hunting inside, and the longer he stays inside, the better the treasures he'll get. This time, we're going to make a big profit."

Lan Ling said nothing.

Years passed again.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the fifth year.

"Five years! It's been five whole years, and that kid still hasn't come out! Could he have really broken through to the Spirit Realm inside and been teleported out a long time ago?"

Nightshade was extremely agitated now.

The longest recorded stay in the Bi Yuan Stone Cave space was just over a year.

But now, five years had passed!

Lan Ling and the others had discovered that the person who entered the Bi Yuan Stone Cave had not yet come out!

This made him, in the subsequent two or three years, increasingly less confident in his initial firm guess.

"Three months. We'll wait three more months at most. If there's still no movement after three months, we'll leave!"

Finally, Nightshade gritted his teeth and made a decision.

In fact, in these past few years, he had occasionally thought about leaving, but each time he felt that he had already waited so long, and if he left just as the person came out, it would be a great pity.

Therefore, he had continued to wait year after year.

But now, Nightshade really couldn't wait any longer.

Because, not long ago, news came from other clansmen that a lucky human had also entered the Bi Yuan Stone Cave from another location on the Bi Yuan Wall!

After entering the Bi Yuan Stone Cave, the shortest interval before being teleported out was three months. Therefore, after receiving this news, Nightshade finally made up his mind: if the person still hadn't come out within three months, he would go and get involved with the humans.

Having waited here for five years, missing countless opportunities, he absolutely had to get involved with the humans.

Lan Ling still didn't speak, but she nodded slightly, clearly sharing Nightshade's thoughts... Inside the Bi Yuan Stone Cave.

Lin Yang slowly opened his eyes.

"Five years, how fast."

The high-quality Time extraordinary characteristic material had been completely merged.

He had also mastered the corresponding characteristic ability—Time Acceleration.

Time Acceleration could be applied to oneself or an enemy, accelerating the flow of time within a certain range. Applied to an enemy, it could cause them to rapidly age or even die after the accelerated time.

However, reaching that level would require an extremely high realm of power.

Currently, Lin Yang could only affect about a thousandth of a second of time flow.

Moreover, after applying it to an enemy, when Time Acceleration ended, the enemy would return to normal.

This thousandth-of-a-second influence could be said to be non-existent.

However, this did not diminish the power of the Time characteristic.

The various methods of the Time characteristic were not numerous. After advancing to the Spirit Realm and even higher realms in the future, it was more about deepening and enhancing the power of the Time characteristic methods already mastered.

For example, with Time Acceleration, the stronger one's power, the longer the process and duration of Time Acceleration would be.

Until it reached the point where one could instantly accelerate a person's entire Life, causing them to age or die, and after Time Acceleration ended, the effects caused by Time Acceleration could not be reversed.

There was also the even more heaven-defying Time Reversal, which was the opposite effect of Time Acceleration, allowing a person to return to childhood in an instant, losing combat ability on the spot.

And even more advanced methods like Time Stop.

Even as the System had mentioned before, the ability to travel through different timelines.

"The effect of Time Acceleration is almost negligible in combat right now, but the Time characteristic itself isn't a powerful early-stage characteristic. Its terror lies in the late stage."

Lin Yang felt it.

Currently, his main offensive methods still relied on the Space characteristic.

The power of Time characteristic methods would only become somewhat useful after reaching the Spirit Realm, at the very least.

Among the three supreme characteristics, the various methods of the Space characteristic were powerful from beginning to end.

While the Time characteristic was weak in the early stages, it became incredibly powerful in the later stages.

So, it didn't affect its inclusion as one of the three supreme characteristics.

As for the Life characteristic, it was somewhat similar to the Time characteristic; its offensive methods were almost limited to a single Life Deprivation, which also became powerful only in the very late stages.

What was truly heaven-defying about the Life characteristic was its ability to resurrect the dead.

Yes, that's right.

Resurrection.

When the power of the Life characteristic reached a certain level, it could resurrect the dead.

Although there were some restrictive conditions, merely the four words "resurrect the dead."

Even if it had no other effects, it was enough to be listed among the three supreme characteristics.

This was the difference among the three supreme characteristics.

After merging with the high-quality Time extraordinary characteristic material, Lin Yang's perception of spiritual energy became even keener, and he learned more things.

"Now, I can consider breaking through to the Spirit Realm."

Then, Lin Yang closed his eyes again, preparing to break through to the Spirit Realm here in one go.

This was an irregular spacetime zone; breaking through here would not cause him to be teleported out of Source Star, free from the constraints of the rules outside Source Star.

This was what the System had told him.

However, before breaking through, he still reconfirmed with the System:

"After I break through here, I won't be teleported out of Source Star. And when I go back outside, will suppressing my power also prevent me from being teleported out?"

"Yes, Host. If you break through here and then suppress your power to return outside, as long as the level of power you use does not exceed the Spirit Realm, you will not be teleported out."

"Very good. The Spirit Realm and non-Spirit Realm are completely different in quality. Even if I suppress my power after breaking through, dealing with those non-Spirit Realm guys outside will be much simpler and easier."

Lin Yang was quite looking forward to going out and hunting down the Old Monster Faction, the Mingye Clan, and the Lingyou Clan guys across Source Star.

Even without breaking through, he was still unrivaled among his peers.

But if multiple people attacked him, it would still be a bit troublesome.

Although he would have to suppress his power after breaking through, even suppressed Spirit Realm power could still take out a guy with one punch.

"This time, the Old Monster Faction members, plus the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan members, will either give up this opportunity to stay on Source Star and escape immediately, or they will die!"

Before closing his eyes, a murderous glint flashed in Lin Yang's eyes.

Previously, his main target was the Old Monster Faction members.

But now, by a strange twist of fate, although he unexpectedly caused trouble, it also turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Since he could break through here without being teleported out, he might as well include the Mingye Clan and the Lingyou Clan.

He hadn't included them before because the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan guys were extremely skilled at concealment.

At the same level, when members of their two clans concealed themselves, tracking them one by one was an extremely mentally exhausting task, requiring constant spatial vibrations to detect anomalies.

But now it was different. Even without using power beyond the limit after breaking through, just through a more subtle perception of the spiritual energy in the world, the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan members would be unable to conceal themselves!

No longer would he need to vibrate space to carefully sense them.

Although he could feel the spiritual energy between heaven and earth even without breaking through, his sensitivity to spiritual energy would rise by more than one level after breaking through.

As Lin Yang began to actively absorb spiritual energy.

A spiritual power far more magnificent and vast than his previous attempt to absorb spiritual energy when he first entered Source Star, instantly surged in.

In a few breaths, it once again filled Lin Yang's body.

There was no spiritual energy in the space within a thousand meters of the Bi Yuan Stone Cave, but in this chaotic spacetime flow entrance area, spiritual energy was still vast.

"Absorb, transform!"

This time, Lin Yang no longer actively dispersed this spiritual energy, but instead began to rapidly transform and absorb it.

Time, too, flowed quietly once again.

Two months, gone in a flash.

"Oh... I broke through."

On this day, Lin Yang murmured softly.

The time it took to break through to the Spirit Realm was much longer than he had expected.

When he absorbed spiritual energy, it usually only took a few breaths to fill his body.

Yet, it still took two months to complete the breakthrough.

"My speed of absorbing spiritual energy is so exaggerated, yet it still took two months. Others might truly need decades to complete this final step of breakthrough."

Lin Yang couldn't help but sigh.

The final step of breakthrough was indeed very arduous.

However, the improvement was indeed very significant.

Far greater than he had imagined.

"Hoo..."

Lin Yang flipped his hand, and streaks of spiritual power condensed, tearing open cracks in the space within his palm.

"Before, the power of Space Severance couldn't damage space, but now it can. Its power has increased by more than ten times compared to before."

A tenfold increase!

At least!

The key was the difference in potency!

A simple increase in power found it difficult to tear space.

Now being able to affect space to a certain extent, that was the real big difference!

"If I used this power against Shadow Kill now, I'm afraid he would be killed instantly."

Lin Yang murmured.

Although he had caused great damage to Shadow Kill at the time, if he unleashed the same amount of Space Severance power, his current power could directly eliminate Shadow Kill.

"Let's continue to refine and stabilize my power before going out."

Following that, Lin Yang was not in a hurry to leave immediately, but continued to stabilize his current power in place.

After advancing to the Spirit Realm, the power of various methods was directly related to the amount of one's own spiritual power.

This was a rare treasure ground, with abundant spiritual energy for him to utilize.

Lin Yang naturally was reluctant to leave easily.

Another half month passed.

"Host, the System has detected abnormal chaotic currents surging in Endless Spacetime. For your safety, please exit this place immediately!"

Lin Yang was continuously refining his spiritual power when he suddenly received a warning from the System.

This forced him to temporarily stop refining, take a step back, leave this connecting area of Endless Spacetime, and retreat into the stone cave.

"Hmm?"

"Someone?"

The next moment, Lin Yang couldn't help but be startled.

Inside the stone cave, someone else had actually entered.

They happened to meet his eyes.

That person was also instantly startled, but upon seeing Lin Yang's face clearly, he exclaimed: "Lin Yang, it's you! You're actually here! No wonder I couldn't find you outside these past few years."

"Oh... a member of the Old Monster Faction?" Lin Yang scrutinized the person, then identified him.

"Lin Yang! Watch your tone! You should address them as Old Ancestor or Progenitor!" The person immediately shouted.

"Old Ancestor? Progenitor?" Lin Yang laughed, "That's your Old Ancestor, not mine. What does it have to do with me? Why do you care what I call him?"

"Lin Yang! You're courting death!"

The other party instantly flared up in anger.

"You're the one who's going to die."

Lin Yang waved his hand lightly, and spiritual power burst forth.

Hiss.

A stream of spiritual power wrapped around the person's neck.

The next moment.

The guy clutched his neck and fell down.

"So weak."

Lin Yang mumbled.

Just a single stream of spiritual power instantly killed this guy.

This was not just a little bit stronger than before breaking through.

Immediately, Lin Yang walked to the guy's corpse, squatted down, and rummaged through the corpse for a while, taking out a specially made bag from inside the battle attire. Inside were all of the guy's supplies.

"So poor."

Looking at the almost empty bag, Lin Yang couldn't help but complain again.

Inside were only a few ordinary quality extraordinary characteristic materials.

"This is too poor, isn't it? The previous three guys at least had a few spiritual universal materials."

Lin Yang somewhat disdainfully cremated the guy's corpse, preparing to leave the Bi Yuan Stone Cave and go hunting.

"Since a member of the Old Monster Faction entered here, there should be many Old Monster Faction members gathered outside, waiting for this guy to come out..."

Lin Yang's eyes flashed:

"This guy died by my hand, and the people outside probably don't know yet, so I can catch them all in one go!"

With this thought, Lin Yang quickly walked towards the exit.

As for not gaining any material benefits here, he no longer cared.

Because he had already gained benefits in terms of power!

At the same time, outside the exit.

Nightshade and Lan Ling and the others had finally completely run out of patience:

"No more waiting! Let's go to the humans. We've wasted over five years here; we must make some of it back from the humans!"

Saying this, the people of the two clans prepared to leave.

But just at this moment.

A ripple suddenly appeared on the Bi Yuan Wall.

Immediately after, a figure walked out from within the wall.

It was Lin Yang.

"Hmm? Why are there so many people?"

The next moment, Lin Yang and the members of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan once again met each other's eyes.

Both sides were stunned.