"The Main Hall?"
Lord Qilan pressed down on the group of Universe Venerables below him, channeling sufficient divine power into the passage. Finally, the complete pathway revealed itself.
This white jade staircase contained exactly two hundred steps, constructed from the same material as the hall itself, hardness comparable to an Arcana, nearly impossible to destroy.
Lord Qilan shrank his divine body and ascended the stairs, quickly arriving at a grand hall.
[This is the Heavenly Flowing Main Hall. Please wait here for the two side halls to open, after which you can enter the final treasure chamber.]
Text inscribed on the wall conveyed its meaning instantly.
"Wait?"
Lord Qilan wasn't in a hurry.
This concerned a top-tier palace-type Arcana, after all. Even as a third-tier Universe Master, obtaining such a treasure proved difficult under normal circumstances. Now that he had the opportunity, he could afford to wait patiently.
He didn't believe Lord Youhou possessed the ability to compete with him. After all, Lord Qilan's massive divine body far surpassed Lord Youhou's. In terms of raw strength, Lord Qilan held a subtle but significant advantage. No matter how one analyzed it, victory should belong to him.
Furthermore, the Northern Frontier Alliance still had Lord Baizhu present. Even if the human race fielded Star Sea Venerable, so what? Lord Baizhu could completely suppress him, creating space for Lord Qilan to battle Lord Youhou. Ultimately, this Arcana would still belong to the Northern Frontier Alliance.
"I wonder how long the wait will be?"
Lord Qilan settled in the center of the main hall, closing his eyes to rest.
"Boom!"
A violent explosion rang out, and the entire hall trembled slightly.
One hundred twenty-eight Golden-Scaled Beasts at the Universe Overlord level materialized!
Han Jue suspected the power unleashed by their combined attack wasn't some kind of secret technique, these beasts had only acquired Universe Overlord-level techniques after receiving inheritances in the Universe Ocean.
Instead, Han Jue believed the devastating power of their coordinated assault must have borrowed from something else.
For example, the power of this temple itself.
Capable of birthing the Heavenly Flowing Sail, a top-tier flying palace-type Arcana, this temple's foundation was probably extraordinary. It might even be able to guide these Golden-Scaled Beasts to unleash attacks comparable to a fourth-tier Universe Master.
One should know that a fourth-tier Universe Master represented someone who had created the strongest secret technique among Universe Masters, a truly formidable existence.
"Star Sea Venerable!"
Lord Baizhu's angry voice echoed in the boundless void, but Han Jue's thought suppressed it instantly.
His treasured bamboo house had been blasted with cracks by that single attack! If struck again, this Arcana would probably shatter completely.
Ordinary Arcana were simply too fragile before powerful Universe Masters. Fortunately, this was a palace-type treasure, its defensive capabilities a full tier higher than other types. If it had been any other ordinary Arcana, a battle between first or second-tier Universe Masters would have torn it apart already.
Whoosh!
The strangely shaped bamboo stick instantly appeared in Lord Baizhu's hand. He was going to fight Han Jue to the death, clearly, Han Jue had no intention of letting him leave here alive.
"Heavenly Prison!"
With a thought, Han Jue's Stellar Domain immediately exerted pressure on Lord Baizhu. Then Heavenly Prison, in single-target suppression mode, pinned Lord Baizhu within its silver prison!
Heavenly Prison was an Arcana capable of suppressing even a fourth-tier Universe Master. Lord Baizhu was merely a second-tier Universe Master, restraining him posed no challenge whatsoever.
The one hundred twenty-eight Golden-Scaled Beasts weren't yet dead. With another thought, Han Jue instantly shifted the target of his Stellar Domain, controlling the beasts as well.
Although their combined attack proved quite terrifying, once their coordination was interrupted, they became nothing more than a bunch of weaklings, easily crushed.
Worried about killing them prematurely and triggering the next wave, Han Jue moved directly to the next stage, merely using the Boundless Void and Stellar Domain to bind them without inflicting actual harm. Instead, he turned to examine Lord Baizhu.
Whoosh!
The Five-Evolution Wilderness Sword appeared in his hand.
Han Jue gently stroked the blade, looking at Lord Baizhu with interest.
Lord Baizhu's divine body was smaller than Han Jue's original form, less than ten thousand kilometers in size. His true form belonged to a creature similar to a stick insect, called the Steel Bamboo Clan.
Trapped in Heavenly Prison, Lord Baizhu had no chance to resist, his face ashen with despair.
"The ultimate secret technique of the Universe Master level is still difficult to create," Han Jue murmured to himself.
Those tens of thousands of years of travel had only allowed Han Jue to perfect the Five Evolutions Sword Qi and create the secret technique 'Wind and Thunder Radiance', but he couldn't yet create the ultimate secret technique of a Universe Master.
Even with the Arcana 'Primordial Universe Model' and his innate secret technique 'Chaos Evolution,' Han Jue couldn't make further progress in this area.
Tens of thousands of years was still too short for the Universe Master level.
In the original story, Luo Feng could enter the miniature universe of the Starry Sky Beast Ancestor and spend one hundred eighty million years comprehending laws and creating secret techniques. Han Jue didn't have that condition, unless he sought out the Giant Axe Creator.
Without corresponding conditions, he could only work harder to cultivate!
"Chaos Evolution!"
The five lower-level primordial laws that Han Jue had comprehended merged with each other through this innate secret technique, their power increasing exponentially.
Whoosh!
"Five Evolutions... Sword Qi!"
With the help of Chaos Evolution, Han Jue directly burned a massive amount of divine power, nearly eighty percent of it, to condense this secret technique.
The combination of the five fundamental laws proved far more powerful than any secret technique Han Jue had created himself, already reaching the threshold of the strongest secret technique of a Universe Master!
"Third tier!"
Lord Baizhu's eyes widened in shock.
At the same time, realization struck him, he had to get this news out!
"Quick! Faster!"
Lord Baizhu grew frantic.
His divine power avatar, left behind in the clan, had found a Universe Venerable of the Steel Bamboo Clan and was about to transmit the message when the Five-Evolution Sword Qi had already fallen!
"Boom!!"
Boundless power erupted in that sword strike. Han Jue groaned, the backlash from using this technique seriously injuring his own divine body. Fortunately, his Star Stream Sea clone in the divine kingdom replenished his power, and his divine energy instantly returned to one hundred percent.
This single sword strike directly annihilated more than forty percent of Lord Baizhu's divine body!
This was because Han Jue wasn't yet familiar with this technique and had missed slightly. If Han Jue were more skilled, one sword could probably erase about sixty percent of Lord Baizhu's divine body.
Seeing Han Jue expend a great deal of divine power only to recover instantly and prepare to unleash another sword strike, Lord Baizhu was filled with utter despair.
"Human Star Sea, third-tier combat power!" Lord Baizhu's divine power avatar within the clan managed to utter only these words before vanishing completely.
"Ancestor!" the Steel Bamboo Clan's Cosmic Venerable exclaimed in grief.
The Ancestor had fallen!
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