363: Chapter 363 Insights into the Thousandfold Critical Strike Return Array!

"I was indeed hiding outside the Formation, wanting to see how you would handle it."

"But just now, I suddenly sensed an extremely violent and dangerous fluctuation of the Space Origin erupting from this underground cave."

"I feared that your youthful impetuousness would lead you into a trap without knowing the depths of the situation, so I disregarded everything to tear through the void and come take a look."

Lu Yuan spoke these words with righteous indignation, filled with the deep concern of a father for his son.

His gaze once again locked onto the crystal in Lu Li's hand, a hint of "apprehension" flashing in his eyes at just the right moment.

"Lier, quick! Listen to your father and put that thing in your hand down immediately! Whatever you do, do not use spiritual power to probe it!"

Lu Yuan's tone grew heavier as he warned in an extremely serious and unquestionable manner.

"Ah? Is it that serious?" Lu Li was intimidated by his father's rare serious expression and instinctively wanted to let go, yet he felt that aside from the strong spatial fluctuations, the crystal didn't seem to have any offensive properties.

"Father, what exactly is this thing?"

"You truly are a newborn calf that does not fear the tiger." Lu Yuan snorted coldly and began his deep deception: "This crystal is called a void divine crystal! It is a peerless, ominous object born from the core of an ancient space-time storm! It contains extremely violent and highly unstable spatial Origin Laws within it."

To increase his persuasiveness, Lu Yuan even brought out a set of profound cultivation theories: "Although you have cultivated the peerless Chaos Body and possess a powerful Physical Body, you are after all only in the Void Immortal Realm. Your comprehension of the Law of Space has not yet reached Great Perfection or the stage of condensing Immortal Golden Nature."

"Once this divine crystal is overstimulated by external spiritual power, the spatial Laws inside will erupt instantly."

Lu Yuan took a step forward, staring intently at Lu Li, and threatened him word by word: "That kind of backlash is not something you can withstand right now! Once it erupts, at best it will directly shred your Divine Soul, causing Qi Deviation and turning you into an idiot; at worst, it will instantly trigger a miniature black hole, sweeping you into an unknown spatial turbulence and leaving you lost in the void forever, with not even your bones remaining! Even I wouldn't be able to save you in time!"

"Ah?!! This... it's that dangerous?!"

Lu Li, after all, lacked worldly experience and had a near-blind admiration and trust in his father, Lu Yuan. Hearing that the crystal posed such a terrifying risk of backlash, his face turned pale with fright.

His hand trembled, and he almost threw the void divine crystal away like a hot potato.

"Don't be afraid. With your father here, nothing will go wrong."

At this critical moment, Lu Yuan acted swiftly. His large hand lunged forward, and with a posture that seemed forceful but was meant to "protect," he snatched the void divine crystal from Lu Li's hand and held it firmly in his palm.

He let out a long sigh, appearing as if a great weight had been lifted, and said earnestly:

"Such an ominous object must never be handled lightly. My cultivation is profound, having reached the Profound Immortal Late Stage, and I have a half-immortal artifact protecting my Divine Soul, so I can barely suppress its turbulence."

"I will keep it for you for now. Once your cultivation reaches the Golden Immortal Realm in the future and you can truly master the Law of Space, I will return it to you to help you refine a supreme Magic Treasure. How about that?"

"Oh... okay, then. Father is right; safety first."

Although Lu Li felt somewhat reluctant to part with the treasure he had just found, the thought of the terrifying consequences his father had described—Soul destroyed and bones turned to dust—sent a shiver of fear through him.

He nodded obediently and didn't forget to offer a concerned reminder:

"Then Father, you must be very careful holding it; don't let it backlash against you."

"Mhm, Lier is very considerate. I know what I'm doing."

Lu Yuan solemnly tucked the void divine crystal into his sleeve space, but in his heart, he was already overjoyed, practically wanting to give himself a round of applause for his acting.

He reached out and patted his son's shoulder heavily, a "kind fatherly" smile of gratification appearing on his face:

"Regardless, you did very well this time! To have an Epiphany before such a complex remnant Formation, not only escaping safely but also finding such a rare object, your Formation attainments must have made a qualitative leap."

"After we return, I will surely reward you well. I'll give you an extra meal and have your mother stew some soup for you using the flesh of an immemorial species!"

Hearing his father's praise, the slight regret in Lu Li's heart was instantly tossed to the back of his mind, and he laughed with a face full of pride: "Thank you, Father!"

At the very moment that the crystal-clear void divine crystal fell into Lu Yuan's palm and was judged by the System as a "successful interception."

Deep in Lu Yuan's mind, the cold, mechanical, yet incredibly wonderful System notification sounded like heavenly music, exploding frantically!

【Ding! Detected that the Host has successfully intercepted the Son of Destiny Lu Li's top-tier purple Opportunity: "Incomplete Ancient Killing Formation Insights (Great Grandmaster Formation Realm)"!】

【Successfully triggered thousandfold critical strike refund!】

【Congratulations to the Host! Obtained critical strike reward: "Supreme Formation Dao Origin Insights"!】

【Note: After fusing these insights, the Host's Formation attainments will undergo a qualitative transformation, jumping directly to the rare "Supreme Formation Great Grandmaster" of the Immortal Realm.】

【The Host can see through the illusions of all Formations in the world at a glance, and casually set up or repair true Immortal Rank grand Formations. Within the Formation Dao, your word is Law!】

【Ding! Detected that the Host has successfully intercepted the Son of Destiny Lu Li's top-tier purple Opportunity: "Ordinary void divine crystal (Incomplete Space Origin)"!】

【Successfully triggered thousandfold critical strike refund!】

【Congratulations to the Host! Obtained critical strike reward: one "Immortal Rank Void Source Stone"!】

【Note: This source stone is a spatial treasure born at the dawn of the Universe, containing absolutely complete and flawless Immortal Dao spatial Laws.】

【It can ignore any loss to perfectly repair and significantly strengthen cross-domain teleportation Formations of any level.】

【Using this stone, even teleporting across the myriad worlds of the heavens will be as easy as walking on level ground!】

Refreshing!

It was simply refreshing to the depths of his Soul!

Lu Yuan closed his eyes tightly, suppressing the urge to throw back his head and roar towards the sky.

In that instant, he felt a vast sea of incredibly complex Formation Dao knowledge flooding into his Sea of Consciousness like a divine empowerment.

Countless Formation mysteries regarding the veins of heaven and earth, spatial nodes, and the movement of stars automatically arranged and combined in his mind.

He even felt that as long as he wished, he could now simply wave his hand and borrow the Evil Qi of the Soul Severing Ridge to instantly set up a peerless ominous Formation capable of trapping and killing a Profound Immortal!

And the ordinary void divine crystal in his sleeve was also undergoing earth-shaking changes under the power of the System.

What was originally just a transparent stone emitting weak fluctuations had now become as deep as a cosmic black hole, with billions of stars seemingly being born and dying within it, flowing with the purest and most primitive Immortal Dao spatial Laws!