"Old Ancestor! Young Master Qing Yu... is bidding on a Golden Thread Centipede shell! The price... has already exceeded 10 mixed elements! And it's still rising! This... this is truly too..."
On the other end of the virtual communication, World Master Qing Ming fell into a longer silence.
'This kid! I told you to use family resources to improve your strength, not to spend so lavishly!'
A moment later, thinking about the current situation of the clan, a look of do-or-die determination appeared on his aged face:
"I'll transfer another 15 mixed element units to your account. Let Qing Yu make his own decision!" He then sent an email to Qing Yu.
"Qing Yu! I won't ask what you're buying the Golden Thread Centipede shell for. If it helps you, then buy it!"
At this moment, the price jumped to 10.6 mixed element units!
Qing Yu's eyes blazed with light! With the 15 mixed element units transferred by World Master Qing Ming, Qing Yu, under the almost stunned gaze of Deacon Qing Yan, firmly and powerfully tapped his finger on the bid input area:
12 mixed element units!
This price was generally the limit for a World Master, and the increase immediately slowed down, but it still didn't stop, until it rose to over 14 mixed element units.
"14 mixed element units... any higher isn't worth it... it's just the very last shell..."
One by one, the participants shook their heads. If it were the first piece, it would definitely be worth the price, but the last shell also meant that the origin law secret patterns were relatively sparse, making it harder to comprehend the mysteries of time based on it.
"15 mixed element units." Qing Yu seized the opportunity and entered the price again.
After a few seconds, the price on the token remained unchanged.
"15 mixed element units... are there any higher bids... countdown ten seconds, 10... 9..., ...1! Sold!"
Qing Yu also breathed a sigh of relief. If anyone else had bid higher, he probably would have found it difficult to compete.
This auction, 8 mixed elements for the Tribulation Divine Weapon, plus 15 mixed elements for this Golden Thread Centipede shell, a total of 23 mixed element units! He had almost spent all the funds the Qinglin Clan could currently mobilize!
This wealth was enough to make many World Lord Rank powerhouses gasp in awe.
Deacon Qing Yan's face was pale, his lips trembling, and his voice was a little shaky.
"Young Master Qing Yu... this... do you still want to buy other things?"
"There's nothing else to buy. I'll trouble the deacon with the subsequent delivery matters. I'll go back to cultivate first."
Deacon Qing Yan nodded numbly, saying no more.
Ten days later, in the Qinglin Clan's secret land, a private cultivation chamber.
The heavy alloy door slid open silently, and two guards with stable auras respectfully brought in two boxes made of special alloy, with energy sealing patterns flowing on their surfaces.
"Young Master Qing Yu, the items you bid on have been delivered." The guards bowed and quickly withdrew.
Qing Yu's gaze immediately locked onto the two boxes.
He first walked to the larger box, his fingertip tracing the cold alloy surface, and his mental power activated the opening command. The sealing patterns receded like ripples, and the lid silently sprang open.
Buzz—!
An indescribable sharpness, heaviness, and a strange fluctuation instantly permeated the entire cultivation chamber.
It was precisely the "Qiankun Ninefold Tribulation"!
"Tribulation Divine Weapon!" Qing Yu silently recited its name, his eyes burning. The Tribulation Divine Weapon, like the Yan Divine Weapon, has a total of nine layers!
They are: Chaotic Dance Threads, Weaving Sky Net, Time Imprint Cocoon, Sky Blade Wheel, Thousand Entanglement Domain, Upstream Flow, Myriad Tribulations Tide, Time-Space Shuttle, and immortal Can Also Be an Enemy!
Each name represents a terrifying form, integrating space-time and directly pointing to immortal.
However, Qing Yu only touched it and did not attempt to display the Tribulation Divine Weapon. As the most mysterious and powerful divine weapon among the nine great divine weapons, the Tribulation Divine Weapon has extremely high requirements for its user.
One must have at least one of the Time Law or Space Law step into the law threshold to be qualified to attempt to cultivate the first layer, "Chaotic Dance Threads."
To truly master the first layer and exert its power of space-time integration, one needs to have a preliminary understanding of both higher laws!
Qing Yu suppressed the tremor in his heart and gently closed the box containing the Tribulation Divine Weapon. He turned to the other, smaller box.
When this box was opened, only a palm-sized, irregularly shaped shell fragment lay quietly inside.
Its base was a deep dark silver, as if it had solidified the dark backdrop of the universe.
And on that dark silver surface, delicate, profound, and seemingly living golden threads were slowly flowing, winding, and interweaving with an indescribable rhythm!
This was the Time Origin Law Secret Pattern!
Qing Yu's breathing unconsciously lightened. He carefully lifted the shell fragment with his mental power, placing it in his palm, and examined it closely.
Qing Yu sat cross-legged in the center of the cultivation chamber, immersing his entire mind into the shell fragment in his palm.
His mental power "flowed" along a winding golden thread, and a wondrous sensation arose. When his mental power "flowed with the current," it was as if he was riding an invisible accelerating torrent. His mental perception suddenly became extremely acute and swift, and his thoughts turned several times faster;
And when he tried to "go against the current" or encountered complex nodes where the golden threads converged or turned, his mental power felt as if it had fallen into a viscous mire, becoming sluggish and heavy.
"Fast... slow... flowing... stagnant... superposition... separation..."
Qing Yu's mind was completely immersed in this peculiar "time sensation."
The power of the nine layers of the Time Domain naturally permeated his surroundings, but in front of these subtle and profound Time Law secret patterns, Qing Yu for the first time clearly felt the "clumsiness" of his own domain.
Time, in silent comprehension, quietly flowed for nearly two years. On this day, the cultivation chamber was as silent as ever.
"Buzz—!"
It was not a physical sound, but an invisible barrier instantly pierced through!
"Time Law... initiation!" Qing Yu slowly opened his eyes, a sense of understanding a more essential cosmic rule filling his heart.
From the peak of the ninth layer of the domain to the initiation of the Time Law, this barrier, like a chasm, was finally successfully crossed by him after nearly two years!
Speaking of which, his ability to reach the ninth layer of both Space and Time, these two higher laws, at the Stellar Level, was itself an extremely rare, even counter-intuitive, feat.
Initially, when his Golden Finger had just awakened, he, like most other people, instinctively wanted to start with the "lower laws" that were easier to get into.
Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light... these laws are relatively concrete and easier to perceive and understand, serving as a bridge to touch the core rules of the universe, which is the path of most geniuses.
However, what he never expected was that in terms of law affinity, his best affinities were with the two higher laws: Space and Time.
Without lower laws as a springboard, he directly comprehended the domains of the two higher laws!
This special situation, it could be said, naturally reduced some barriers on his path to becoming a super existence—a Universe Master!