301: The Great War of the Main Universe's Foundation and the Current Status of the Avatars

In the Core Region of the Sea of Origin, Lin Chen could finally enter seclusion to cultivate in peace, no longer troubled by external affairs.

Since arriving in the Dize Universe, he hadn't had a moment of stable cultivation, as he was constantly dealing with matters related to the Sea of Origin.

The growth of his cultivation had relied entirely on the passive enhancement of his talents.

While passive enhancement was good, he still preferred cultivating step-by-step himself to accelerate the growth brought by his talents and make faster progress.

Now, he could finally cultivate in seclusion peacefully.

On the level of rules, he needed to receive feedback from the Karma Network, injecting it into the Karma Concept to strengthen it, striving to master the Karma Concept as soon as possible.

On the physical level, the tempering of his Divine Body, Divine Soul, and Divine Power could not be relaxed for even a moment.

He estimated it would take him another three hundred years to reach the end of the God Rank; the Karma Divine Kingdom would also likely complete its transformation during this time, growing into a pure Dao Rhyme Level world.

The Karma Divine Kingdom didn't need internal development; it only needed to elevate its own status. Thus, Lin Chen only needed to provide resources, and the Divine Kingdom would grow into a Dao Rhyme Level world.

This meant that in three hundred years, Lin Chen would be Attaining the Dao to reach the Foundation Level.

At that time, he would truly step into the Foundation Level, possessing the trait of immortality and ranking above the Void Realm.

Currently, he only possessed Foundation Level combat power but had not yet obtained the various characteristics of the Foundation Level, so he was still somewhat lacking.

While Lin Chen settled down in the Dize Universe, some changes occurred in the Main Universe, and his various Clones were affected to varying degrees.

Main Universe, Tian Yuan Battlefield.

The Battle of Tian Yuan had been raging for over a hundred and seventy years.

On a cosmic scale, a hundred-odd years was negligible, not a particularly long time.

But for the myriad cosmic races participating in the Battle of Tian Yuan, this was not a short time, especially for those small and medium-sized races barely capable of joining the war.

Tian Yuan, which had accumulated power for countless years, not only had a massive number of cannon fodder but also over a hundred Foundation Level combatants, with seven existences at the Peak Foundation Level.

These seven Kings of Tian Yuan corresponded exactly to the seven super great races, pinning down the top experts of those races.

On the Foundation Level battlefield, because the Main Universe and Tian Yuan were equal, neither side could do anything to the other; even if a physical body in the present world was destroyed, the Soul anchored in the great universe consciousness or Tian Yuan could not be wiped out, making it impossible to completely kill any Foundation Level being.

Because of this, conflicts between Foundation Levels were frequent.

Both sides fought with the intent to kill.

Although they couldn't completely kill the opponent, after silencing an opponent's physical body, the silenced Foundation Level being would need anywhere from a thousand to ten thousand years to recover.

Whether in the Main Universe or Tian Yuan, as long as enough Foundation Level beings were forced off the field, the scales of victory would tilt.

Whichever side retained more Foundation Level beings would have a higher probability of winning the final victory.

Year 172 of the Tian Yuan Era.

Another great Foundation Level battle began.

The Tian Yuan side deployed 128 Foundation Level beings.

The Main Universe side deployed 205 Foundation Level beings.

This battle temporarily rewrote the landscape of the Battle of Tian Yuan.

Because the Main Universe had more Foundation Level beings, they suppressed the Tian Yuan side from the start; often, one Tian Yuan Foundation Level being had to face two from the Main Universe.

Shortly after the start, an Early Stage Foundation Level being belonging to Tian Yuan was besieged by over five Main Universe Foundation Level beings, its physical body was obliterated, and it entered the resurrection phase.

Tian Yuan already had fewer Foundation Level beings; if this attrition continued, they would inevitably face defeat.

Thus, the seven Kings of Tian Yuan stopped playing fair.

They began to use the power of Tian Yuan to forcibly repel the top experts of the seven great races, then used their absolute strength to instantly obliterate twenty-one Early Stage Foundation Level beings belonging to the Main Universe.

This was the reason why the Tian Yuan side, despite having fewer Foundation Level beings, could still contend with the Main Universe.

Tian Yuan Foundation Level beings could borrow the power of Tian Yuan at will without paying much of a price.

However, Main Universe Foundation Level beings could not easily borrow the power of the great universe consciousness; frequent use would lead to a shortage in the power the great universe consciousness used to suppress Tian Yuan.

Thus, with these gains and losses, the combat power of both sides remained roughly equal.

The battle continued, and with Foundation Level beings on both sides being silenced, neither side was willing to let it go.

The Main Universe side had to silence more than twenty Tian Yuan Foundation Level beings, or else they would lose the battle.

A one-to-twenty-one exchange ratio was unacceptable even for the Main Universe with its higher numbers; only when the ratio dropped to one-to-two would it be considered acceptable, a break-even state.

This battle lasted for a year before ending.

On the Tian Yuan side, 18 Foundation Level beings were silenced, with 107 remaining.

Among the silenced were two in the Late Stage, five in the Middle Stage, and eleven in the Early Stage.

On the Main Universe side, 35 Foundation Level beings were silenced, with 241 remaining.

Among the silenced were one in the Late Stage, seven in the Middle Stage, and twenty-seven in the Early Stage.

The casualty ratio for both sides was 18 to 35, roughly a one-to-two level; neither side won, both suffering a wave of attrition.

This is how wars between equals are; no one wins, and they only wear down each other's effective strength through repeated battles.

However, the Foundation Level beings forced off the field only entered a state of silence and would resurrect in the future, so one could say there were no real losses; neither Tian Yuan nor the Main Universe could establish an advantage to change the course of the war.

With no winner on the Foundation Level battlefield, the God battlefield and the lower-level battlefields remained in a stalemate, with both sides trading blows over various carved-out battlefield regions.

At this rate, Tian Yuan and the Main Universe would likely fight until the end of time, eventually both dropping in status due to excessive energy consumption and entering a periodic Age of Dharma Decline.

Unless a new force intervened to break the balance, the war would not change.

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Outside the battlefield, in the Human Race Ancestral Court Great World.

Since the Main Body left, Aura had not left the Ancestral Court Great World for over a hundred years.

Because of the Main Body, every 10 years, his speed of digesting and absorbing the Dao Fall Power would increase significantly.

What would have originally taken several hundred years to absorb two portions of Dao Fall Power was now completely finished, and his mastery of Dao Fall Power had reached the Half-Step Foundation Level.

To Attain the Dao and reach the Foundation Level, he was only short of destroying a Dao Rhyme Level world and using its remains to ascend.

However, without the help of the Main Body and other Clones, Aura could not Attain the Dao; the growth of his Dao Fall Power had reached a Bottleneck, and he could only wait for the right opportunity.

On the other side, Faith Lin Chen resided in the Mortal World Divine Kingdom.

He also grew stronger every 10 years, with his speed of analyzing and converting Authority increasing by 10%.

Faith Lin Chen had already absorbed 68% of the fragmented Omnipotent Authority derived from "God"; in another century or two, he would be able to absorb and master the remaining part.

Once he obtained the full fragmented Omnipotent Authority, Faith Lin Chen would be able to directly Attain the Dao to reach the Foundation Level without relying on external items, embarking on the path of completing the Authority.

Barring any accidents, Faith Lin Chen would be the first among Lin Chen's Main Body and Clones to Attain the Dao and reach the Foundation Level.

Furthermore, stepping into the Foundation Level through Authority did not require a place of enlightenment or any other additional conditions; as long as the Authority was fully mastered, he could naturally step into the Foundation Level.

In this regard, Attaining the Dao through Authority had a significant advantage, though ordinary people could not take this path.

In the Profound Light Mirror Universe, Mirror Lin Chen had also reached the Half-Step Foundation Level, and his comprehension of the Mirror Rules had reached 165%.

In another century or two, Mirror Lin Chen would also cultivate the Mirror Rules to 200% Perfection and obtain the status of the Mirror Dao Lord.

During this process, the semi-treasure void-reality mirror would also be promoted to a Dao Rhyme Treasure, growing alongside Mirror Lin Chen.

Afterward, like the Main Body, he would raise his cultivation to the Peak of the God Rank and make preliminary preparations for Attaining the Dao.

Once Mirror Lin Chen was ready, he could return to the Main Universe and use the accelerated growth of the Five Regions Great World to Attain the Dao and reach the Foundation Level.

Barring any accidents, Mirror Lin Chen would be the second Clone to step into the Foundation Level.

As for Variable Lin Chen in the Main Universe, he was still in the middle of his schemes; the cultivation of the Power of Fixedness and Unfixedness was different from conventional power and naturally could not be treated the same.

Perhaps at any moment, Variable Lin Chen would appear and Attain the Dao to reach the Foundation Level, or it might take a thousand years for him to catch up with the rest of the group's cultivation progress.

Everything remains unknown.