192: Chapter 192: Leaving Wen Muxue, I realized it wasn't raining at all outside.

Lin Yuan returned to Villa [079], walked to the meditation cushion in the center, sat down cross-legged, and sank his consciousness into the star key.

The other two rewards from the Rubiks Cube World settlement were floating in his storage space.

A flash of light passed, and a dark red longsword appeared in Lin Yuan's hand.

The blade was slender, and its surface was covered with raised patterns resembling human blood vessels.

At the hilt, a tightly closed vertical eye was embedded.

When Lin Yuan gripped the hilt.

The vertical eye suddenly opened, revealing a scarlet pupil.

A malevolent aura, like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, rushed up his arm into Lin Yuan's mind, attempting to seize control and assault his sanity.

"Quiet." Lin Yuan snorted coldly.

Dark gold Divine Power circulated in his palm, transforming into chains that wrapped around the hilt.

The vertical eye sensed a higher-dimensional oppressive force of death, quickly reined in its ferocity, and obediently closed.

The panel displayed information.

[Divine Artifact Name: Sinful Blood Sword]

[Tier: True God Rank (Incomplete)]

[Trait 1: Sin. The blade carries the resentment of a deity; once a target is locked, it ignores spatial distance and is guaranteed to hit.]

[Trait 2: Sinful Blood. The blade carries the resentment of a deity; after tasting blood, it can easily slice through shield fields.]

[Trait 3: Bloodthirsty Feedback. After killing an enemy, it devours the divine blood within their body and converts it into pure Divine Power to feedback to the wielder.]

[Trait 4: Size Manipulation. It can change its form and size according to Divine Power.]

Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

This thing was indeed a powerful weapon, likely the sword left behind by a deity who specialized in offensive combat.

When he was a general in the Rubiks Cube World, the blood-colored greatsword he used focused on brute force, relying on pure weight and hardness to smash people.

The functionality of this [Sinful Blood Sword] was far more comprehensive.

With a flicker of his thought, the three-foot-long blood sword rapidly shrank, turning into a dark red sword-shaped pendant.

Lin Yuan hung it around his neck and kept it close to his body.

Next, he opened the third reward: that Diamond Tier special building.

[Name: Tower of Ancestral Aberration]

[Tier: Diamond Tier]

[Function: When placed within the Divine Domain, it can emit an aberration field. Dependents residing in the field for a long time will have their genetic mutation probability increased by 1400% and have a chance to awaken their ancient Bloodline.]

Lin Yuan took a look, then immediately closed his eyes, let his Mental Energy sink, and descended into the Wasteland Divine Domain.

He didn't find an empty space to materialize this building.

The area of the Wasteland Divine Domain had already reached over three million square kilometers.

Building just one Diamond Tier structure would have a limited radiation range.

The improvement to the overall combat power would be negligible.

Lin Yuan hovered high above the Divine Domain and activated his talent.

[Trait Extraction].

Countless dark gold chains extended from the Void Realm, crushing the entire building.

[Aberration Acceleration], [Bloodline Ancestral Awakening], [Vitality Recovery].

Lin Yuan looked at the three trait light orbs floating in front of him and recited.

"Extract."

faith points were consumed like flowing water, and a full thirty million-plus faith points evaporated rapidly.

In mid-air, the three trait light orbs began to split.

One became two, two became four, four became eight...

In the blink of an eye, thousands of identical Diamond Tier trait light orbs had formed.

"Go." Lin Yuan flicked his finger.

Thousands of trait light orbs turned into meteors, crashing into the bodies of the largest red saplings across the New Continent.

A few of the light orbs fell straight into the center of the Insect Race territory, merging into the replica sapling that the insects had forcibly fed to a height of ten thousand meters.

The moment the traits merged.

The red saplings throughout the entire Divine Domain trembled in unison.

Their root systems dug deeper, and the leaves on their crowns turned from red to dark purple.

The speed at which they devoured ley line energy and corpse residue increased several times over.

Central Basin.

The massive trunk of the Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree swayed slightly.

It was in a state of half-slumber and half-wakefulness, using its roots to draw energy from the turbulence of the Void Realm.

Suddenly, it felt the feedback coming from the network of sub-trees from all directions.

A huge liquid metal human face appeared on the surface of the trunk, revealing an anthropomorphic expression of comfort.

It was as if its Meridians had been cleared throughout its entire body.

For an Epic-tier Demon Tree, Diamond Tier abilities were just some small trinkets.

The Demon Tree's sub-trees were merely a small part of its body.

But the sheer quantity made this comprehensive, incremental improvement feel very satisfying to it.

The Demon Tree smacked its lips and fell back into a deep slumber.

After doing all this, Lin Yuan's consciousness returned to reality.

He leaned back on the sofa, and the Ten Thousand Races Blood Covenant Battle mentioned by Bai Ye appeared in his mind.

Red Mist Contamination Zone.

The tumor on the Human Race border that Commander Xiao had always been obsessed with resolving.

A forbidden land specifically bred by the abyss to oppose the Human Race.

Lin Yuan tapped his thigh lightly with his fingers.

As long as he took first place in the Ten Thousand Races Blood Covenant Battle, he would obtain the privilege of choosing a habitat.

If he exchanged the habitat for the Red Mist Contamination Zone, coupled with Commander Xiao's hatred for the Contamination Zone, he would surely support him.

Added with the military and the strength of Starry Sky University, a counterattack against the abyss might not just be a hypothesis.

"The selection tournament in over a month." Lin Yuan's eyes were deep, "Then I will wait for over a month."

He closed his eyes, began to circulate his Mental Energy, and continued to comprehend "Life Emerging from Death."

...

Time passed.

Two days later, the classroom of High-Risk Class 3 was full of people again.

After two days, the shock to the Divine Fire of these Prodigies had finally subsided.

Their injuries had also mostly recovered.

Everyone's gaze toward the seat in the back row held a bit more deep wariness.

Instructor Wen Muxue walked into the classroom in high heels and rested her hands on the desk.

"Class officially begins today." Instructor Wen Muxue didn't act up this time and said directly: "We will discuss the interference of Main God-level Law and dimensional collapse."

The next two hours were torture for the whole class.

Instructor Wen Muxue was completely talking to herself.

The concepts she threw out were extremely abstract, frequently involving galaxy-level mass distortion and timeline convergence.

In between, she mixed in a large number of obscure terms she had created herself.

The demigods below looked at each other in dismay as they listened.

Some of them hadn't even seen what a True God's Divine Kingdom looked like, so how could they possibly understand Main God-level dimensional collapse?

Lin Yuan sat in the back row, forced himself to listen for five minutes, and then decisively gave up.

Instructor Wen Muxue's strength was unquestionable, but her teaching ability was a disaster.

She was completely looking down at basic Law from a Main God-level perspective.

It was basically talking about whatever popped into her head.

Lin Yuan shook his head.

The rules of Starry Sky University were very loose.

As long as the final assessment credits were passing, whether or not to attend class was entirely voluntary.

There was no need to come to this kind of time-wasting class in the future.

Instructor Wen Muxue talked incessantly on the podium for over an hour, and even she felt bored.

She looked at the students below who looked like they were listening to a heavenly book, and scratched her hair.

"Forget it, class ends here today, go back and comprehend it yourselves."

After speaking, she waved her hand, announced the end of class, and walked away in her high heels.

Leaving behind a room full of Prodigies who were doubting their lives.

Bai Ye leaned over to Lin Yuan, his face twisted in misery.

"Brother Lin Yuan, did you understand it? Why do I feel like I recognize every word she said, but when put together, I don't know what it means?"

"Me too." Lin Yuan agreed, "You don't need to call me for this class in the future."

Bai Ye nodded in deep agreement.

Fortunately, the next few public lectures brought surprises to Lin Yuan.

The profound background of Starry Sky University was vividly displayed by these professional instructors.

In the afternoon, in the lecture hall.

An old man with gray hair and a rich aura of life surrounding him stood on the podium.

"Many demigods' understanding of life still remains at the level of flesh, cells, and genes." The old man's voice was gentle and his articulation was clear.

"This is an extremely narrow concept."

The old man raised his hand, and a pulsing light appeared at his fingertips.

The light transformed into various forms in mid-air, sometimes turning into a flying bird, sometimes into a swimming fish, and finally turning into a stream of pure data.

"Life is essentially the transmission of pheromones and the bearing of Law."

"Flesh-and-blood life relies on carbon-based or silicon-based structures to transmit information. Elemental life relies on the frequency of energy fluctuations to carry consciousness. Even in the deepest parts of the abyss, there exist memetic life forms."

"They have no form, no energy; they are merely a concept, a thought."

"As long as their names appear in your mind, they have already begun to propagate within you."

Lin Yuan's gaze narrowed slightly, and the Heaven-Devouring Worms in his Divine Domain appeared in his mind.

The Insect Race completes its evolution by devouring foreign genes; this is actually a crude form of pheromone plundering.

If this plundering could be elevated to the memetic level, or in other words, directly extract the opponent's traits.

The old man's explanation opened a brand new door for Lin Yuan.

His understanding of life transcended mere flesh and blood, touching upon a deeper Domain of rules.

The afternoon Divine Power application class was also full of useful information.

The instructor was a middle-aged, burly man in military uniform with a strong aura of iron and blood.

"By the time you reach the fifth turn of the demigod stage, you have already formed an internal Law cycle within your bodies."

The burly man's gaze swept across the room, lingering on Lin Yuan for a moment.

"Remember, at this stage, Divine Power is no longer a simple consumable. It is a lever!"

The burly man extended a finger, and a drop of Divine Power the size of a water droplet condensed at his fingertip.

He flicked his finger. That drop of Divine Power landed on the defensive Formation on the podium.

Bang!

The entire classroom shook, and the defensive Formation, which could withstand a full-force blow from a Peak demigod, was actually shattered by this single drop of Divine Power.

"Mediocre people use ten points of Divine Power to deal ten points of damage."

"Geniuses use one point of Divine Power to leverage ten points of Law in the surrounding environment to deal one hundred points of damage."

"The significance of the internal cycle lies in making your body a perpetual motion machine-style fulcrum."

"Divine Power circulates within the body without dissipating or being lost. Every time you strike, you must borrow the momentum of this starry sky!"

Lin Yuan listened with great focus.

He even quietly began to circulate the Divine Power within his body while in his seat.

The dark gold Divine Power formed a perfect closed loop within his Meridians; he tried to probe a sliver of Divine Power outside his body to touch the loose spatial Law in the classroom.

Hum.

A slight ripple appeared in the space in front of him.

Merely by using a sliver of Divine Power, he had triggered a resonance with the surrounding Law.

A flash of realization crossed Lin Yuan's eyes.

The "Wither-Bloom · Life-Death Reversal" state he triggered in the Rubiks Cube World was precisely a form of extreme Law leverage.

Using death to assimilate himself, borrowing the underlying logic of the entire Rubiks Cube World to reshape his body.

He began to silently deduce in his mind.

How to apply this leverage principle to daily combat, further compress the release time of Divine Arts, and reduce the erosion of his sanity.

In addition to these free public lectures, there were also a large number of paid specialized courses posted on Starry Sky University's Star Net.

These courses discarded comprehensive popularization and specifically conducted in-depth analysis of a particular field.

Lin Yuan opened the star key on his wrist and browsed the course list.

The courses on the Star Net were dazzling, covering all aspects of a deity's Cultivate.

"High-Dimensional Application of Shadow Lurker and Anti-Tracking Techniques" — Price: 1500 credits. The speaker was a top-tier assassin who had once assassinated a True God.

"Violent Disassembly and Recombination of Insect Race Genetic Sequences" — Price: 3000 credits. The speaker was an academician of the Federal Academy of Biological Sciences.

"Conduction Paths of Soul Toxins Within Mechanical Life Forms" — Price: 2000 credits. A method specifically aimed at countering the Mechanical Ascension school.

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