252: Time acceleration superposition!

Upon arriving in the Origin Chamber, Lin Chen curiously surveyed his surroundings.

This was an incredibly vast, independent space, comparable in size to a small world's main world.

The space had a cosmic starry sky as its background.

Lin Chen looked up, seeing endless starlight showering down from the sky, as if he were currently within a cosmic river of stars, a feeling that was incredibly peculiar.

“Trialist, do you wish to activate the illusionary realm for tempering?”

Just then, the ethereal voice resounded.

Lin Chen smiled faintly and directly refused.

He had the system; his true spirit only needed some time to advance and did not require him to undergo various hardships like other beings to achieve its transformation.

Buzz—

The independent space vibrated once, and then the time acceleration was activated.

At this moment, a wave swept over Lin Chen.

He suddenly felt his mind become exceptionally clear; his memory and thought speed had increased ten thousandfold compared to before.

Lin Chen was inwardly delighted; this was precisely the Origin Chamber's auxiliary effect: a ten-thousand-fold increase in comprehension!

“Let’s begin!”

Then, Lin Chen took out a cyan ancient lamp. This lamp had over a thousand cores, making it incredibly unique. It was precisely the thousand-core ancient lamp, valued at 5 billion points.

Lin Chen flicked his fingertip, and a flame flew out.

Immediately, the thousand cores of the thousand-core ancient lamp ignited.

Lin Chen sat cross-legged beside the ancient lamp. Not long after, a peculiar fragrance wafted over.

Lin Chen felt his comprehension increase by another ten thousandfold!

He then took out ten golden pills and swallowed one.

Buzz—

The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth, and Lin Chen's entire body glowed with golden light.

This enlightenment spirit pill could not stack comprehension; it could only stack time.

After feeling the changes in his comprehension, Lin Chen nodded in satisfaction.

“First, let’s break through to the Two-Step Emperor Realm and see.”

Lin Chen’s thoughts stirred, and he directly consumed 190,000 Energy Points!

The Two-Step Emperor Realm required one’s self-created Great Dao to be 10% to 20% complete.

20% was the peak of the Two-Step Emperor Realm!

Boom—

As soon as the Energy Points were consumed, a massive torrent of memories surged into Lin Chen’s mind.

This was countless times more powerful than when he previously comprehended 1% of the Taiyi Great Dao.

The further one comprehended an ultimate-level Great Dao, the more difficult it became, and the profundities of the Great Dao would also increase exponentially.

Lin Chen relied on the system for advancement, and the energy point consumption for each stage remained unchanged, which actually gave him an advantage... Ordinary Emperor Realm beings might easily create a rudimentary Great Dao.

But subsequent refinement of the Great Dao became very difficult.

Often, countless years would pass without any progress, constantly fumbling in place, or even going down the wrong path and directly suffering qi deviation... Lin Chen, however, had no such concerns.

Under the thirty-thousand-fold increase in comprehension, Lin Chen did not feel any discomfort.

On the contrary, his speed in absorbing and digesting these Great Dao profundity fragments greatly increased!

Lin Chen estimated that it wouldn’t take him more than a few years to break through to the Two-Step Emperor Realm!

And indeed, it happened as he thought.

In just one year, Lin Chen had fully absorbed and comprehended 20% of the Taiyi Great Dao!

“It seems I truly underestimated the changes brought by this comprehension boost; thirty thousand times comprehension is too abnormal!”

“Good thing I didn’t finish all the pills at once, or it would have been a waste.”

At this point, he still had 9 enlightenment spirit pills left.

“Next, it’s time to break through my true spirit and Golden Body realms!”

Lin Chen looked at the system panel.

Name: Lin Chen

Realm: Two-Step Emperor Realm + (Can advance by increasing comprehension of self-created Great Dao.)

true spirit: Five-Step Emperor Realm + (Consume 10,000 stones to advance)

Golden Body: Imperial Rank Five Forged + (Consume 30,000 stones to advance)

Physical Strength: 100,000 Dragon Elephants

Self-created Great Dao: Taiyi Great Dao 20% +

...Energy Points: 281,300 stones

System Upgrade: Consume 1,000 stones

“Next, advancing the Golden Body and true spirit realms will be slower.”

“The strengthening of the true spirit and Golden Body is a gradual process; this can only be done slowly.”

However, this ‘slowly’ was, relative to other beings, an accumulation of countless years... Lin Chen spent one year in the Origin Chamber, and the time wheel could be reactivated.

But just as Lin Chen was about to activate the time wheel, he suddenly noticed that the time acceleration field disappeared as soon as it appeared.

He tried several times, and it was the same each time.

Lin Chen thought for a moment and understood.

He was already in a million-fold time acceleration; if the time wheel could be activated, wouldn't it stack?

Stacking ten thousand times on top of a million times would reach ten billion times.

The higher the time acceleration multiple, the more difficult it was. Ten billion times time acceleration would require terrifying energy consumption and extremely profound mastery of time to achieve.

Lin Chen estimated that even the Time Saint Lord of the Primordial World might not be able to do it... This could be seen from the fact that the black tower could only accelerate time a millionfold.

After all, this black tower was very likely refined by ‘Abyss’.

Suddenly, Lin Chen thought of something.

He adjusted the time wheel's multiplier down to 2 times.

Buzz—

The time wheel instantly floated in mid-air, and a time field appeared!

Lin Chen's eyes widened; it really worked!

He then tried increasing it to 5 times. The time field also operated normally, but this field vibrated slightly, as if it could dissipate at any moment.

Lin Chen immediately stopped thinking about increasing the multiplier further.

After a while, he discovered that the time wheel's field had perfectly merged with this independent space!

At this moment, the time wheel and the Origin Chamber's time acceleration were stacked!

5 million times time acceleration!

And the Origin Chamber's comprehension boost was also applied to Lin Chen!

“Am I exploiting a bug here...?”

Lin Chen’s eyes lit up, as if he had discovered a new continent.

5 million times time acceleration meant Lin Chen could still cultivate for 570 years!

“Enough time!”

Lin Chen then unhesitatingly consumed 40,000 Energy Points to break through his true spirit and Golden Body realms... 160 years later.

A golden light flashed around Lin Chen, and both his true spirit and Golden Body simultaneously broke through to the Six-Step Emperor Realm level!

true spirit: Six-Step Emperor Realm + (Consume 200,000 stones to advance)

Golden Body: Imperial Rank Six Forged + (Consume 600,000 stones to advance)

(Physical body comparable to a sixth-grade Emperor artifact, capable of fighting Six-Step Emperor Realm beings.)

Physical Strength: 200,000 Dragon Elephants

“It seems we’ve reached the next major watershed; the consumption has actually increased by 20 times!”

Whether it was the body cultivation path or the martial dao path, there was a huge bottleneck from the Six-Step Emperor Realm to the Seven-Step Emperor Realm.

The Seven-Step Emperor Realm could also be considered the late stage of the Emperor Realm.

When the Emperor Realm reached the seventh step, the self-created Great Dao was very close to perfection, and its Great Dao power was extremely terrifying... The same applied to body cultivation; the later the Golden Body stage, the more precious the resources required.

Lin Chen could directly advance with the system, while ordinary body cultivators needed to find various rare heavenly treasures to temper their bodies before they could break through!

But those rare treasures were not so easy to obtain.

The body cultivation faction consumed too many resources... It could be said that from the Imperial Rank Golden Body onwards, only forces with incredibly profound backgrounds could possibly afford to cultivate them.

For example, the powerful empires of the Endless Realm, or the invincible Dao Lineages in the Primordial World... “It seems I can only advance my true spirit for now...”

The true spirit was the foundation of everything. Regardless of the advancement of body cultivation or martial Dao Realms, the true spirit had to transform.

For example, on the martial dao path, if the true spirit was higher than the martial Dao Realm, then comprehending the Great Dao profundities of lower realms would become much easier...

Lin Chen directly consumed 200,000 Energy Points to advance his true spirit realm.

He then consumed 1,000 stones to activate the system upgrade!