295: The embryo of rules, the concept of a divine kingdom

As he carefully sensed the power of the Dao Fruit, Lin Chen felt a bit disappointed.

This Dao Fruit was very good, but the rules contained within were primarily Earth-element rules, with only a few other types of rules.

If an Earth-element being obtained this Dao Fruit, while one couldn't say they would definitely be able to Attain the Dao, it would increase their success rate by fifty percent out of thin air.

And beings capable of reaching the threshold of Attaining the Dao naturally have a twenty to thirty percent success rate. With the Dao Fruit, the success rate increases to eighty percent. The remaining twenty percent depends on the choice of the place to Attain the Dao and the preferences of the place where the Soul is anchored.

However, for Lin Chen, this Dao Fruit was of little use.

Putting away the Dao Fruit, Lin Chen continued forward.

He carefully sensed the flow of rules and moved toward the direction they were flowing.

Given the scale of the Sea of Origin, nurturing a single Dao Fruit wasn't the limit; at least three Dao Fruits would be nurtured by it.

As expected, Lin Chen hadn't gone far before he encountered a second Dao Fruit.

However, this Dao Fruit was not yet mature. It had just entered its nurturing period and was still absorbing the rules of the Sea of Origin, integrating strands of rules into itself while waiting for the rules to reach Perfection.

"It will probably take another two hundred million years to take shape; that's quite a long time."

Passing the maturing Dao Fruit, Lin Chen continued his exploration.

The Core Region of the Sea of Origin wasn't very large; it was a spherical space with a diameter of 129.6 million kilometers.

A region of this volume is massive for a Mortal, but for a god like Lin Chen, it could only be described as cramped.

If not for the presence of dense rule flows, Lin Chen could appear anywhere in the Core Region with a single thought. Everything within the Core Region would be scanned by him, leaving no information behind.

But with the dense rule flows, Lin Chen's perception was disrupted and suppressed to an area of ten thousand kilometers around him. Exploring the Core Region had to be done bit by bit.

In this vast space, Lin Chen would also have to spend some time to walk through every corner and find all the treasures it nurtured.

Those that could be taken away, such as mature Dao Fruits, had to be taken. Those that couldn't, such as immature Dao Fruits, would be left to continue nurturing, to be collected in the future.

Lin Chen had already defaulted this Sea of Origin as his own property; all the treasures nurtured inside were his.

The Core Region of the Sea of Origin clearly didn't just nurture Dao Fruits; it also nurtured supreme treasures like the heavenly calculation compass.

Sure enough, Lin Chen discovered a supreme Treasure Artifact embryo.

A semi-supreme treasure dominated by Ice-element rules, this semi-supreme treasure Ice Throne was absorbing the power of the Sea of Origin, transforming bit by bit toward the supreme treasure level. It was estimated to take fifty million years to complete the transformation.

"Given the volume of this Sea of Origin, it probably won't nurture many mature Dao Fruits and rule supreme treasures before it completely fades. Once the Sea of Origin fades, the nurturing will also stop."

Lin Chen didn't care much for these treasures in the process of being nurtured. Items below the supreme treasure level could no longer cause a ripple in his thoughts.

He only felt it was a pity for these nurturing supreme treasures. If no external force intervened, they would most likely have their nurturing process interrupted when the Sea of Origin completely faded, their potential permanently locked, unable to progress further.

General rule-type apparatuses stay at whatever quality they were born with; their potential is locked. Very few can break that lock to continue transforming and strengthening.

Supreme treasures like the heavenly calculation compass and the enlightenment stele are rare after all; a single Universe might not even give birth to one.

Retracting his thoughts, Lin Chen began to head toward the center of the Sea of Origin. He instinctively felt that the best things were being nurtured there.

Moving forward, Lin Chen didn't take any detours but went straight for the heart of the Core Region.

Because he was traveling in a straight line, Lin Chen encountered another treasure just as he was about to enter the heart: a formed rule supreme treasure, a lower-rank rule supreme treasure dominated by Life rules.

Since he had encountered it, Lin Chen naturally wouldn't let it go.

After picking up the lower-rank rule supreme treasure, the golden cup of life, even before he began refining it, a dense life aura enveloped his physical body and Soul.

This life aura was very pure and also very suitable for Lin Chen to absorb. The direct benefit was that his cultivation speed increased once again.

Originally, it would have taken another one or two hundred years to Breakthrough to the Master God level. Now, this time was shortened by at least three times. In only forty-odd years, his body, Soul, and energy could all reach the Master God standard, successfully achieving the Master God Realm.

Sometimes, working oneself to death in cultivation really isn't as useful as a corresponding Opportunity.

Even though Lin Chen's cultivation speed was already fast, with the golden cup of life, he would only Cultivate faster.

Those who are already Geniuses will only become even greater Geniuses under the catalysis of Opportunities.

In a good mood, Lin Chen entered the heart of the region.

"As expected, it is nurturing a cosmic consciousness."

A rule embryo was taking shape; this was the omen before the birth of a cosmic consciousness.

Currently, the cosmic consciousness had not yet been born, but once the rule embryo matured, the cosmic consciousness would naturally be nurtured from the embryo.

The rule embryo was not a physical embryo but a conceptual one, much like how a baby takes ten months to be nurtured before birth.

The rule embryo was the nurturing environment, and the cosmic consciousness was the final result nurtured from it.

Lin Chen didn't know if this rule embryo was the only nurturing site for cosmic consciousness in the Dize Universe.

But that didn't stop him from interrupting the nurturing of the cosmic consciousness.

"Perhaps I can integrate this rule embryo into the Karma Divine Kingdom, raising the kingdom's potential to the cosmic level and developing the divine kingdom into my world for Attaining the Dao."

Currently, after over a hundred years of development, Lin Chen's Karma Divine Kingdom was only at the level of a newly entered Middle Thousand Worlds. It still had a long way to go before becoming a Major Thousand Worlds, let alone a Dao Accumulation Level Great World that could carry a Foundation Level.

Precisely because the development of divine kingdoms is slow, many beings who specialize in divine kingdoms cannot use them as their place for Attaining the Dao and must seek another location.

Now that an Opportunity was before him, the Karma Divine Kingdom Lin Chen had opened up had the possibility of growing into a Dao Accumulation Level Great World in a short period of time.

As long as it was nurtured properly, by the time he was Attaining the Dao, the Karma Divine Kingdom would also happen to grow to the Dao Accumulation Level, supporting his Foundation Level attainment.

Gazing at the rule embryo, Lin Chen judged its quality to see how much longer it would take to nurture an ignorant cosmic consciousness, and how much longer to completely nurture a full cosmic consciousness.

"There are less than ten thousand years until the birth of an ignorant cosmic consciousness, and it will take eight million years to be completely nurtured."

"It seems I arrived at just the right time. This Opportunity is meant for me to take."

The timing of Lin Chen's arrival was indeed very good and very appropriate.

In ten thousand years, an ignorant cosmic consciousness would be born within the rule embryo, just like when a baby's body is fully formed during gestation and only needs to absorb nutrients for a while longer before being born into the world.

And the rule embryo of this period had accumulated enough power to nurture a world; at the very least, it could be nurtured to the same level as the current Five Regions Great World.

The current Five Regions Great World was not far from the Dao Accumulation Level. It only needed to follow the routine of absorbing external energy and converting it into its own volume, and the Dao Accumulation Level would be a certainty.

Without any hesitation, Lin Chen decided to incorporate this rule embryo into his divine kingdom to serve as nourishment for its growth.

The rule embryo was connected to the Sea of Origin. If Lin Chen wanted to collect it, the first step was to cut this connection and strip the rule embryo from the Sea of Origin.

After stripping the rule embryo, things would become simple; he just needed to bring it into the divine kingdom, suppress it with the kingdom's power, and continuously absorb its strength to strengthen the divine kingdom.

"Let me think about how to best operate this."

Standing upon the rule embryo, Lin Chen pondered.

While he could certainly use absolute force to directly sever the connection, the price would be damage to the rule embryo's power, and the Sea of Origin would wither and fade directly into the depths of the Universe.

By using this method to collect the rule embryo, Lin Chen would only get a damaged rule embryo, while other things would be lost, all being swept into the depths of the Universe to turn back into pure rules.

Therefore, to maximize his gains, Lin Chen could not act crudely.

He wanted both the rule embryo and the Sea of Origin.

Lin Chen was just that greedy; he wanted it all.