412: Customized time and space treasure, Tao fruit condensed

At the edge of the Black Hole, deep within a desolate star, inside a temporary Immortal Cave, a cage woven with myriad runes floated in the center. The silver Dharma Idol within it struggled with increasingly weakening intensity, yet each burst of silver light carried a terrifying power capable of shaking time and space.

Xiao Zhuo sat cross-legged before the cage, his eyes tightly shut. The faint silver rhomboid mark between his brows, however, shone with extreme brilliance, emitting spatio-temporal fluctuations even more profound and mysterious than the Black Hole itself.

His Divine Soul had already entered the cage, continuously suppressing the Great Dao will of the Time-Space Dharma Idol.

The myriad laws indestructible armor covered his entire body. Billions of runes on it transformed into Law chains that pierced through reality and illusion. One end connected to his Dao foundation, while the other deeply pierced into the cage, entwining around the Time-Space Dharma Idol, forcibly extracting and refining the vast and magnificent Time-Space Origin!

The refining process was slow and arduous.

The profundities contained within the Time-Space Dharma Idol were too deep; every wisp of Origin was as heavy as a star and carried an untamed Great Dao will.

Xiao Zhuo needed to use his comprehension of the true meaning of time and space as a guide, and the Dao Principle of Freedom as a furnace, to slowly break it down, melt, and purify it, then completely fuse it with his own Time-Space Dao Seal to form a Dao Fruit.

Outside the Immortal Cave, the desolate star groaned under the Black Hole's terrifying gravity, unable to bear the strain. Its surface continuously cracked, and matter was stripped away by an invisible force, scattering into the eternal dark abyss.

Even though this desolate star was located at the edge of the Black Hole's gravitational influence, it was still affected by the Black Hole, being slowly pulled in. However, the gravity at the edge was much weaker compared to the core layer.

But if Xiao Zhuo remained there for an extended period, this dead star would eventually be completely captured by the Black Hole's gravity and ultimately devoured by the Black Hole.

However, this risk had to be taken. The Black Hole's gravity isolated it from external prying eyes and also suppressed the astonishing phenomena that might be caused when Xiao Zhuo refined the Dao Fruit.

Time lost its precise meaning here.

It could have been an instant, or it could have been a hundred years.

Xiao Zhuo, like an ancient unmoving rock, his aura and the increasingly weakened Time-Space Dharma Idol within the Myriad Dao cage gradually synchronized. The Time-Space mark between his brows, like the only pulsating star in the darkness, grew brighter and brighter, approaching a certain critical point of Perfection...

Suddenly, the gradually powerless Time-Space Dharma Idol abruptly paused, erupting with one last silver brilliance that pierced through all ages!

The entire Myriad Dao cage violently vibrated as if it was about to completely disintegrate!

The dazzling silver light that burst forth within it was not a counterattack from the Time-Space Dharma Idol, but its final flash as its Great Dao will was completely defeated and on the verge of being refined and absorbed!

Xiao Zhuo's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened, silver light exploding within them, as if two surging rivers of time flowed within!

His hands, like dancing butterflies, formed the last incredibly profound ancient seal. The dazzling faint silver rhomboid mark between his brows sharply contracted, then erupted with a roar!

"Condense!" A Dao shout echoed through the star's core, yet it was tightly confined to a small area by the Black Hole's gravitational field, unable to spread far.

Buzz—!

The Myriad Dao cage shattered in response, transforming into billions of streams of light, all coiling back into Xiao Zhuo's body!

The Great Dao will had been completely refined. Now, he only needed to use the "Resource Conversion" function on the panel.

By exchanging Attribute Points for a Time-Space origin supreme treasure and injecting this refined Time-Space Great Dao Origin into it, he could forge it into his own Dao Fruit.

Opening the panel, he saw that his Attribute Points had accumulated to a staggering 310 million over the years.

The quality of the Time-Space origin supreme treasure was crucial to his Dao path. Xiao Zhuo did not hesitate, directly choosing to spend 200 million for customization and an additional 100 million for extra entries.

Spending 300 million instantly depleted his Attribute Points, but the customized entries for the Time-Space origin supreme treasure were also extremely powerful.

The five customized entries were: Control Time-Space Speed; Revert Time-Space; Roam Future; Borrow Future Power; Space Enhancement.

As he confirmed the options on the panel, a silver pupil-like gem immediately appeared before Xiao Zhuo.

Extremely powerful Time-Space energy surged upon it. He could feel that simply by making it his own, even without refining it into his Dao Fruit, it could nearly double his combat power.

His gaze focused on it, and the item's attributes immediately appeared.

"Eye of Time-Space: Control Time-Space Speed; Revert Time-Space; Roam Future; Borrow Future Power; Dimensional Enhancement; Time-Space Shuttle; Time Domain; Time-Space Observation; Time-Space Reset."

"Nine entries! Haha! It seems my luck is really good!" Xiao Zhuo looked at the information of the Eye of Time-Space, a look of joy in his eyes.

A supreme treasure customized for 300 million starts with five entries, then generates one to four additional entries. A supreme treasure can have a maximum of nine entries, and he had truly maxed it out now.

Each entry would not only allow him to directly comprehend the usage of the related ability but also strengthen it by a factor of one.

With this to achieve his Dao Fruit, Xiao Zhuo could not even imagine how strong he would become.

Without hesitation, he directly brought the Eye of Time-Space into his Sea of Consciousness.

The Origin of the Time-Space Dharma Idol, which had erupted with its final radiance, had now shed its arrogance, becoming incredibly gentle, pure, and vast, transforming into an extremely condensed human-shaped phantom flowing with golden and silver light!

Xiao Zhuo formed a hand seal, and the next moment, the human-shaped phantom surged towards the Eye of Time-Space.

Without any hindrance, the Eye of Time-Space accepted everything. Waves of profound Time-Space power brewed within Xiao Zhuo's Sea of Consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, a golden and silver shimmering eyeball appeared in the center of his Sea of Consciousness.

The Time-Space Dao Fruit!

Just as this Dao Fruit, nurtured by a top-tier Time-Space supreme treasure and containing supreme Time-Space power, completely took shape.

In an instant, an indescribable aura of Perfection, antiquity, and transcendence emanated from Xiao Zhuo.

His entire being underwent a fundamental leap in life essence. His Divine Soul, Physical Body, and magic power all sublimated, and his connection with the Great Dao of Time and Space became closer than ever before!

The Quasi-Saint Realm, achieved!

However, the moment Xiao Zhuo achieved Quasi-Saint, an unexpected change occurred!

Perhaps the newly formed Time-Space Dao Fruit resonated in some unpredictable way with the extreme gravitational field inherent in the Black Hole itself, or perhaps the Black Hole perceived Xiao Zhuo, this "foreign object" that had grown even stronger due to his Breakthrough.

From the core of that terrifying celestial body, which had existed for countless millennia, a heart-pounding fluctuation suddenly emanated!

Rumble—!

The gravitational pull in the previously relatively stable gravitational edge zone suddenly surged exponentially!

Terrifying suction, like billions of invisible giant hands, fiercely gripped the desolate star where Xiao Zhuo was located!

The star let out a desperate wail, its rate of cracking and disintegration instantly increasing a hundredfold!

Vast swathes of stellar matter were violently torn away, forming a surging torrent of dark red matter, frantically rushing towards the deep dark core!

"Gravitational tidal wave?!" A silver light flashed in Xiao Zhuo's eyes. Feeling the terrifying tearing force capable of instantly crushing an ordinary True Immortal, a faint, all-controlling smile played on his lips.

His mind stirred slightly.

Buzz!

Without even a single movement from him, his figure, along with the hovering phantom of the Time-Space Dao Fruit, had already vanished from its original spot.

The next instant, his figure had already appeared tens of millions of miles away in the Void Realm, outside the Black Hole's gravitational capture range.

The terrifying gravitational tidal wave formed a twisted and collapsed death zone behind him, yet it could not touch him in the slightest.

Time-Space displacement, a thought and he was there!

Xiao Zhuo stood with his hands behind his back, his silver robe gently fluttering in the faint energy currents of the boundary sea.

The Time-Space Dao Fruit merged into his brow, where the rhomboid mark became even more intricate, emitting a faint glow.

His profound gaze pierced through the vast distance, firmly locking onto the Black Hole, which had undergone an anomaly due to the formation of his Dao Fruit.

At this moment, in Xiao Zhuo's vision, the dark singularity that devoured all light seemed to transform into an aggregate of countless runes.

He saw countless runes being extremely twisted, compressed, until they collapsed into a singularity.

He saw a strange phenomenon where myriad Laws were infinitely stretched, stagnated, and even flowed backward at the edge of the singularity.

Countless profound insights regarding space compression, gravitational distortion, matter annihilation, energy conversion, and time dilation surged into Xiao Zhuo's mind like a bursting dam.

Plunging him into an Epiphany instantly.

"Interesting! Interesting! The Black Hole is actually the ultimate manifestation of the Dao of Gravity, and it even involves some Time-Space Laws. Myriad Laws are all twisted here..." Xiao Zhuo murmured to himself, the silver radiance in his eyes growing brighter and brighter, finally transforming into two brilliant miniature silver holes!

He had a sudden inspiration, and his mind instantly connected with the Devouring Divine Body, Time-Space power, and the anomaly of the Black Hole before him!

A completely new, incredibly overbearing Divine Ability rune took shape in his Sea of Consciousness!

Black Hole Devour!

Xiao Zhuo slowly raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and pressed them remotely towards the Void Realm in front of him.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no radiant anomaly.

But in front of his palm, a palm-sized area of space suddenly collapsed inward and began to spin!

A miniature "pseudo-Black Hole," entirely constructed by simulating his own Time-Space power and the Origin of the Devouring Divine Body, instantly formed!

Terrifying suction burst forth from it!

Although it was far less than one ten-thousandth of a true Black Hole, the Dao charm at its core—that which twisted space, delayed time, and devoured all things—was identical to that of a true cosmic singularity!

The sparse dust of the surrounding boundary sea, free-floating energy, and even faint light were all violently pulled and devoured by this miniature Black Hole!

"It's done!" A sharp gleam flashed in Xiao Zhuo's eyes.

This "Black Hole Devour" Divine Ability, though newly formed and limited in power, had infinite potential!

It perfectly integrated his Devouring Divine Body with his comprehension of Time-Space power and the Dao of Gravity, making it a unique offensive Great Art belonging to him!

He even tried to direct the suction of this miniature Black Hole in reverse, towards the residual gravitational waves emanating from the distant Black Hole.

Buzz!

Two gravitational fields, homologous but different in nature, collided and twisted in the Void Realm, actually forming a brief and peculiar "repulsion" zone!

Although Xiao Zhuo's "Black Hole Devour" was instantly crushed by the true Black Hole's mighty power, the two also held each other in check for a moment. He had indeed shaken a tiny edge of that terrifying gravity!