491: Nine system owners?

Time flew by.

More than a month later, Lin Chen finally ended his seclusion.

Under 1.5 billion times time acceleration, he spent hundreds of millions of epochs inside the Palace!

In such a long period, his Physical Body and true spirit finally completed their transformation.

The transformation of the true spirit and Physical Body can only proceed gradually; even using the system panel to add points for improvement still takes a long time.

The higher the Realm, the longer the time!

In truth, Lin Chen's transformation speed was already considered very fast.

Even if ordinary Divine Venerables Break through while using a time acceleration Secret Treasure, the time consumed would only be hundreds or thousands of times longer than Lin Chen's!

Moreover, there would still be various Bottlenecks obstructing them... *Whew~*

Lin Chen let out a long breath. The time spent in seclusion this time was longer than any previous session.

“Fortunately, it wasn't real time. Otherwise... after hundreds of millions of epochs, the Guixu Realm and the Ten Realms Alliance would probably have started a great war long ago...”

He looked at the system panel.

Realm: Divine Venerable Sixth Layer + (Promoted after true spirit and Divine Body transformation.)

true spirit: Divine Venerable Sixth Layer + (Promoted by consuming 3.75 billion cores)

Divine Body: Low-Grade Divine Body First Forging (Promoted by consuming 4.5 billion cores)

Self-Created Dao: Origin True One Great Dao 60% (God Venerable Realm) (transcendence level)

divine ability power: 2246.2

primal origin body: Perfection

Bloodline Power: Half-Step God Emperor Realm

Energy Points: 470 million cores

System Upgrade: Consumes 1 million cores

Looking at the remaining Energy Points, Lin Chen shook his head slightly.

As his Realm increased, the consumption of these Energy Points became too exaggerated!

For the true spirit and Physical Body Realms, every minor Realm increase boosts energy point consumption by 5 times.

For a major Realm increase, the consumption increases by 10 times!

Previously, Lin Chen's true spirit and Physical Body needed 660,000 cores of Energy Points to Breakthrough to Divine Venerable Second Layer.

After every Breakthrough, the consumption increases by 5 times or 10 times based on the original amount.

His Energy Points only managed to push him to the Divine Venerable Sixth Layer level... “Fortunately, acquiring Energy Points is much easier now...”

“Otherwise, for tens of billions of cores of Energy Points, I would have to save until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse...”

In addition to this.

During this period of seclusion, Lin Chen also discovered a pattern.

That is, the further the comprehension of the Origin True One Great Dao progressed into the Late Stage, the more difficult it became!

During this time, he also encountered many Bottlenecks, but fortunately, he could overcome them by adding points via the System.

Even with his current Comprehension Ability, which was comparable to the God Emperor level, comprehending the Dao was far less easy than when he started.

Lin Chen also tried consuming Energy Points to improve his Dao comprehension.

But the consumption of Energy Points also increased!

Moreover, just like the increase in the true spirit and Physical Body Realms, the consumption increased exponentially!

“It must be because the Grade of my Origin True One Great Dao is too high!”

“transcendence level...”

The higher the Grade, the greater the difficulty in improving it, and naturally, the more consumption is required.

The same principle applied to the true spirit and the Physical Body.

If the Grades of the three were lower, Lin Chen estimated he would have reached Divine Venerable Peak long ago!

Although the Energy Points required for improvement were exaggerated, the increase in strength was terrifying.

Lin Chen, as a Six-Star Divine Venerable.

For every 1% progress increase in his true spirit, Physical Body, and Dao, 9.9 Divine Ability Points are added.

His current base divine ability power of over 2,000 points was already comparable to a Five-Star God Venerable Peak!

As for low-star Divine Venerables, they were completely incomparable to Lin Chen.

According to the conclusion reached previously.

One-star to Five-Star God Venerable.

For every 1% progress in their true spirit, Physical Body, and Dao, they increase their divine ability power by 0.48 points, 0.99 points, 2 points, 3.9 points, and 6 points, respectively.

A One-star God Venerable Ninth Layer only has about 74 Divine Ability Points.

Two-Star, Three-Star, and Four-Star Divine Venerable Ninth Layers have around 307, 620, and 1213 points, respectively... Yet Lin Chen is only at the Sixth Layer, and his base divine ability power can already crush the Peak of low-star Divine Venerables!

This is the crushing superiority of high-star Divine Venerables!

This is also why the Five Great Clans of the Heavenly Palace were so eager after learning of the appearance of a Five-Star God Venerable...

If a Five-Star God Venerable grows, especially after Breaking through to God Emperor.

Then it will be a disaster for low-star God Emperors!

A high-star God Emperor can easily crush a group of low-star God Emperors!

However, to Break through to God Emperor, one must have at least Three-Star Aptitude...

As for One-star and Two-Star Divine Venerables, unless they have Heaven-Defying Opportunity, there is no hope of Breakthrough.

“With all my boosts activated now, I have at least over 20,000 divine ability power... I wonder how much divine ability power a God Emperor expert possesses.”

A trace of Battle Intent flashed in Lin Chen's eyes.

Unfortunately, the Palace he was currently in could not set opponents at the God Emperor level.

He guessed that he should be able to fight Half-Step God Emperors now!

After withdrawing his thoughts.

Lin Chen once again consumed 1 million cores of Energy Points and activated the System Upgrade.

This System Upgrade consumed 100 times more than the previous one, making him extremely expectant.

Buzz—

The system panel flickered, and then a progress bar appeared.

Lin Chen roughly estimated that this time it would take at least a hundred epochs to successfully upgrade.

Fortunately, this amount of time was merely an instant for Lin Chen... Time flew by.

Soon, the System Upgrade was complete.

Suddenly!

A child's voice rang out.

“Congratulations, Host, for officially activating the Devouring System!”

“Reward: one transcendence level Divine Artifact, selectable by choice!”

Huh?

What!

Lin Chen suddenly jumped up.

He looked at the system panel with an expression of disbelief.

He saw that a selection interface had actually appeared on the system panel.

There were countless Divine Artifacts displayed!

All types were available!

And everything marked was a transcendence level Divine Artifact!

Lin Chen's pupils instantly constricted to the size of needle points, and his heart pounded rapidly.

“What the hell, Devouring System? Officially activated?”

Lin Chen murmured with a complex expression.

Just as his voice fell silent, the System's voice rang out again.

“Yes, Host.”

“I am the system spirit of the Devouring System. Only by upgrading the System to this stage can I be activated.”

Lin Chen stared intently at the system panel.

After a long time, he finally accepted this sudden change.

The System had always been his biggest secret and the greatest aid to his growth!

Recalling all the past events now, he finally understood.

For instance, when the System derived Battle Techniques or added points for improvement, it could operate exactly according to what he was thinking.

So the System had always been conscious and possessed a system spirit!

It was equivalent to an intelligent assistant... Thinking this, Lin Chen's expression shifted, and he asked tentatively:

“System, why did you bind yourself to me, and where... do you come from?”

Lin Chen voiced the biggest doubt he had always held in his heart.

“Apologies, Host!”

“Although you have officially activated the system spirit.”

“Only a portion has been activated.”

“I don't know many details yet; the Host needs to continue upgrading the System.”

“I only know that the Host is one of the Chosen Ones. There are 9 Chosen Ones in this world, and all of them possess a System!”

“The 9 Chosen Ones are destined to meet in the future.”

What?

Lin Chen, who had originally regained his calm, now felt monstrous waves surge in his heart.

There are 8 other beings who possess a System just like him?

And what exactly is a Chosen One?

“System, what is a Chosen One?”

“Who did the choosing?”

Lin Chen continued to ask.

At this moment, he felt like he had become a chess piece being manipulated.

He had always suspected that there might be an invisible hand behind the System; he never expected it to be true!

“Host, the Chosen Ones were not selected by humans.”

“Instead, they were chosen autonomously by the Systems.”

“As for where the Systems come from, I cannot answer that currently.”

“The Chosen Ones have only one mission: to devour the other Chosen Ones and achieve Ultimate Evolution!”

“Therefore, the 9 Chosen Ones are destined to be mortal enemies!”

Lin Chen fell into deep thought upon hearing this.

There were only two possible origins for this System.

Either it was 'manufactured' by a super expert beyond his imagination.

Or it evolved from the Rules of Heaven and Earth...

Regardless of which it was, Lin Chen did not want to be manipulated by it.

After calming down.

Lin Chen realized he had missed an important piece of information.

“System, are the functions of the Systems belonging to the 9 Chosen Ones... all the same?”

The child's voice rang out in Lin Chen's mind once more.