Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 443 Gene Breakthrough! Perfection of the Sitting Meditation Technique

Chapter 443 Gene Breakthrough! Perfection of the Sitting Meditation Technique

Once everything was on track, Chen Yuan began the longest period of seclusion in his life.

Each of the several clones performed its own duties, and their will, laws, secret patterns, genes, and the Great Dao increased almost daily. As time passed, Chen Yuan felt that he was becoming stronger in all aspects.

At first, Chen Yuan would share the gains from his clone once a year, but as his cultivation deepened, it became difficult to feel any significant progress in just one year.

So he increased the sharing interval from one year to ten years, and then to once a century for sharing the harvest.

In this situation, he has become oblivious to the passage of time in the outside world.

Before we knew it, a thousand years had passed.

Inside the cultivation space of the Tomb Ship, Chen Yuan's true form was disassembling a strange, bluish-black metal.

Indeed, he has now analyzed the genetic essence of all life in the primordial universe and shifted his research focus from "life forms" to the study of the essence of matter.

Now, a thousand years later, Chen Yuan wouldn't dare say he understands 100% of the matter born in the primordial universe, but he at least understands the structure of more than 80% of the matter, including the factors that make up life.

With the support of such a massive amount of information, Chen Yuan has begun to transform himself, adjusting his life structure diagram time and time again.

"Hmm, the structure of this metal is quite interesting."

Under the gaze of the Primordial Eye, the essence of the strange metal before him was instantly revealed. As Chen Yuan studied its composition, his gaze suddenly paused, and he was deeply moved.

"This combination—yes, that's exactly the path I've been searching for!"

Chen Yuan's eyes shone, and he was slightly excited: "Haha, after studying it painstakingly for billions of years and failing countless combinations, I never expected that the answer would appear in an ordinary material."

This bluish-black metal isn't of a high grade; it can only have some effect on a Universe Venerable.

But within these seemingly ordinary materials lies the answer Chen Yuan had been searching for for many years!

"Ink Trace Azure Gold, ha, whether I can break through the shackles this time depends entirely on you."

Chen Yuan carefully examined the metal in front of him, and in an instant, hundreds of thousands of combinations flashed through his mind. He knew clearly that the structure he envisioned was hidden among these combinations.

"Only a few hundred thousand kinds, let's do it!"

For Chen Yuan, who had failed countless times, this number of trials was nothing at all.

"break down!"

Chen Yuan stretched out a hand and skillfully decomposed it into the most basic divine power. Then, according to one of the combinations he had just rehearsed, he began to modify his own life structure.

A moment later, a shout rang out: "Reorganize!"

The next second, with a loud bang, Chen Yuan's right hand exploded, turning into countless fragments of divine power. Then, under the influence of the perfect gene, these divine powers were recombined into their original form.

Chen Yuan's expression was very calm. Having failed countless times, he was already used to such small scenes.

"It seems this structure won't work either, so let's move on to the next one."

Without hesitation, he disassembled his right hand again and began his second attempt.

"Decompose!" "Recombine!" "Decompose!" "Recombine!"

Amid a series of explosions, Chen Yuan's right hand continuously cycled between disintegration and recombination.

Fortunately, his body was entirely composed of divine power, so there were no physical weaknesses. The explosion caused by the faulty structure was not enough to harm anyone, which is why Chen Yuan was able to persist so many times.

As time passed, hundreds of years went by in the blink of an eye (speed up time), and Chen Yuan's right hand exploded more than 180,000 times.

Fortunately, hard work pays off. When Chen Yuan completed a completely new structure and reassembled the arm, the expected explosion did not occur this time.

"It's done!"

A hint of joy flashed in Chen Yuan's eyes: "The structure is very stable, and even the instinct of perfect genes cannot be shaken."

This was his first success after billions of years of research. Previous life structures were completely unable to break the limitations of perfect genes, which is why adverse reactions occurred and caused an explosion.

But this time, nothing happened at all.

This means that the situation has reversed, and now it's the turn of perfect genes that can't shake the new structure of life!

"Excellent, a new structure has been created. Let me see the current gene maximization—"

Chen Yuan carefully sensed the divine power in his right hand and quickly exclaimed with delight, "Fifteen thousand times! It has indeed surpassed the limit of perfection!"

This was the most crucial step, signifying that his research on divine power had completed its transformation from zero to one.

"Once we break through the original limits, the road ahead, though not exactly smooth, will at least be visible."

Whether there is a road ahead is very important.

A road is both a means of passage and a guide.

Only by paving the way can Chen Yuan have the right to move forward, instead of being confined to the same place.

"Moreover, I feel that after breaking my limit this time, my potential is not limited to this."

Chen Yuan blinked: "The life structure of my combination this time is actually quite rough and simple, and not perfect."

After all, this combination is just one of hundreds of thousands of structures that flashed through my mind in an instant; it's at most a rough draft that still needs further refinement.

"Therefore, 15,000 times the genetic potential is not my current limit."

"Once I perfect the current structural diagram, my genetic level can be further enhanced, reaching at least 18,000 times, or even higher!"

As for the true limits of this structure, we can only know after it is completed.

So Chen Yuan didn't think too much about it and decided to focus on securing the existing benefits first.

"Divine power, disintegrate!"

The next second, Chen Yuan's entire body completely decomposed into basic divine power. After he finished modifying the basic life structure diagram, this divine power was recombined and transformed into his original form.

"Haha, 15,000 times the genetic level!"

Chen Yuan laughed loudly. At this moment, the height of his divine body was significantly smaller than before. This was because the total amount of his divine power remained the same, but the quality had increased by 1.5 times, which naturally led to his divine power becoming less abundant.

However, he is not lacking in divine power. You should know that the Dark Sea clone has now grown to a diameter of 6 light-years, and its divine power is practically inexhaustible!

With a thought, a torrent of divine power surged out from the optimized space and poured into his slightly depleted divine body, quickly replenishing his divine power to 100%.

"Sure enough, after breaking through the limits at the genetic level, I can easily break through to the True God level with a single thought and make the God Kingdom evolve into a miniature universe."

Just as the optimization space was activated, he sensed the restless activity of the divine kingdom. It seemed that as long as he gave the order, the divine kingdom would immediately evolve into a small universe.

Of course, Chen Yuan wasn't stupid. With his current genetic multiplier, even if he broke through to True God, the boost to his strength would be no different from that of True Gods who followed the Law path. He wouldn't act rashly for the sake of it.

Besides, if he wanted to break through by following the path of laws, he could have done it long ago, so why bother to painstakingly study divine power?

Shaking his head, Chen Yuan suppressed his impulse. There was still a long way to go before the key plot points in the original story, and he had plenty of time.

"Let's continue our research and perfect the life structure diagram to its current limit first."

Soon, Chen Yuan immersed himself in the study of divine power again.

As time continued to move forward, after the life structure broke through its original limits, Chen Yuan's research entered a period of rapid improvement. After all, his main goal was to improve the existing life structure, rather than to develop new structural diagrams.

In just one hundred years (outside of time), his genes increased a thousandfold, reaching a level of 1.6 times.

And in the time that followed, Chen Yuan continued to push the limits of his genes at this rate, for one hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years—

Finally, after Chen Yuan had been in seclusion for five hundred years, his existing life structure diagram was finally perfected to the extreme, and the gene level was also stuck at the point of 19999 times.

"I've hit another bottleneck."

Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. For the past five hundred years, he had been single-mindedly focused on the life structure diagram, and had not even had time to share information with his clones. This was why he was able to raise the genetic level to its limit in such a short time.

He wasn't surprised by this bottleneck.

To be honest, once you reach this level of genetic understanding, you'll encounter various difficulties and bottlenecks with each subsequent advancement.

If he doesn't encounter any major breakthroughs in the future, such as this adjustment to the structure of life, then he can only overcome each difficulty one by one and gradually improve his genetic level.

"The next goal is to continue studying the remaining primordial cosmic matter. After that, we can move on to the cosmic sea matter, and then to the life materials of the true gods."

He had collected quite a bit of this material back then, and over the years, he had also acquired a lot more through the channels of the Primordial Tower in the Cosmic Sea.

However, unlike those primordial true gods of the universe, Chen Yuan did not exchange the true god life of the cosmic sea for it using supreme treasures, but instead converted it into a portion of the Great Dao Source currency.

The main reason is that for life forms in the Cosmic Sea, supreme treasures are not such an essential need, and the value of the Cosmic Sea True God is not as great as that of the Primal Cosmic True God to Chen Yuan.

Because the true gods of the primordial universe and Chen Yuan belonged to the same batch of life forms and were most similar in origin, their life structure diagrams were more helpful to Chen Yuan.

That's why Chen Yuan was willing to spend a lot of money to acquire these people's life materials.

Of course, he didn't lose out either.

These true gods whose materials he acquired each contributed a large amount of their physical materials, leaving no detail overlooked. All of these materials combined were barely enough to piece together a new body.

Therefore, although these true gods obtained the most powerful treasures, each of them lost more than 80% of their divine power. Just restoring this divine power would require a large number of treasures.

Aside from these primordial cosmic true gods, Chen Yuan didn't make such exaggerated demands on the true gods of the cosmic sea; he only bought some unimportant materials such as scales, fur, and blood.

After all, although the life forms in the Cosmic Sea were also born from the primordial universe, they did not belong to the same reincarnation era as Chen Yuan; they belonged to the previous and the batch before that.

Simply put, the power of the "Great Dao of Life" used by the primordial universe in nurturing different batches of life was not entirely the same.

These subtle differences also lead to significant variations in the basic life structure of beings from different reincarnation eras, making them less attractive to Chen Yuan than the primordial true gods of the universe who share the same origin as him.

Of course, those who can become true gods all have some merit in their life genes. Chen Yuan collected this material in order to make connections and gain insights, but that will have to wait until he finishes studying the true gods of the original universe.

After making the plan, Chen Yuan did not rush to start the research. Instead, he removed the mental barrier and connected the thoughts and memories of his several clones.

"Five hundred years is not a short time. Let me see how the other clones have fared."

Chen Yuan closed his eyes to receive the message: "The Abyss Whale clone is progressing smoothly. It has completed the research on the fusion of lower-level laws and is currently working on the fusion of different laws — well, never mind it for now, just keep working hard."

"The progress of the virtual universe consciousness is also quite good. It has mastered 30% of the essence of the Void-level secret runes, and the grade of the [Universe in the Palm] has also been improved. It can be considered a mid-stage Void-level secret technique."

"With my full support, the diameter of the Dark Sea Avatar has reached 7.5 light-years, making it a colossal creature."

"However, the Nether Sea clone, like the original, is a flesh-and-blood life form, so the original's perfected life structure diagram is also applicable to this clone."

Chen Yuan quickly decided, "Therefore, the Nether Sea clone will temporarily halt its expansion and focus on upgrading its genetic level to its current limit."

"Although this will temporarily shrink the diameter of the divine sea, the total amount of divine power remains unchanged. Even if it is used as a power bank, the efficiency will be higher than it is now, and it can continue to expand."

After arranging the cultivation tasks for his Youhai clone, Chen Yuan focused his attention on the last clone.

"As for the Soul Devouring Beast clone, its willpower has been tempered—hmm."

Chen Yuan suddenly let out a soft exclamation, his expression somewhat surprised: "The Soul-Devouring Beast is tempering its will in front of the black-patterned stone pillar, while also cultivating its primordial spirit sword intent and the meditation technique."

"I never imagined that in just 1,500 years, I would have mastered both of these techniques?"

Yes, after so many years of tempering, the Soul Devouring Beast clone's willpower has successfully reached the peak of the Void True God level, and the Sitting Meditation Technique has also been perfected.

As for the Primordial Spirit Sword Intent, needless to say, he began cultivating the final chapter hundreds of years ago, and with the acceleration of hundreds of thousands of times, this secret technique was naturally completed smoothly.

After Chen Yuan's main body removed the mental barrier, since all the clones shared the same consciousness, the willpower honed by the Soul Devouring Beasts quickly transformed into the main body's realm, allowing Chen Yuan's mental will to reach the Void Level Perfection in an instant.

"Such a powerful will, is this the peak of the Void level?"

After the transformation of his will ended, Chen Yuan was somewhat surprised, as this will was much stronger than he had imagined.

In theory, this increase in willpower should be at most ten times what it is now, but in reality, the improvement has reached a hundredfold!

"Wait, my mental consciousness system seems to be a little different."

Chen Yuan's heart stirred, and he finally discovered the clue: "The mental system has undergone some changes, which has increased the strength of will tenfold on the original basis."

"In other words, my mental fortitude is now a hundred times stronger than someone without a system! As for my willpower defense, it's a thousand times stronger than someone at the same level!"

The original effect of his "Hundred Refinements System" was ten times the strength of will and a hundred times the defensive ability, but now these attributes have been increased by another ten times.

This makes his willpower at the peak of the Void level comparable to that of the early stage of the Eternal level, and his defensive power even reaches the mid-stage of the Eternal level.

"The reason why my mental system changed was due to the influence of the perfected practice of sitting in oblivion."

Chen Yuan has discovered the root cause of these changes.

Okay, ask the system.

[Due to the perfection of the Sitting Meditation Technique, the structure of the primordial spirit body has changed, and its strength has increased tenfold.]

"I never imagined that this spiritual cultivation method would have such hidden benefits after it was perfected."

Chen Yuan lamented that if he hadn't stumbled upon the "Hundred Refinements System" by accident, then the changes brought about by the perfection of the Sitting Meditation Method would have been the first spiritual system he encountered.

"Moreover, most importantly, the changes brought about by the sitting meditation method do not conflict with the mental system I discovered myself; in fact, they are multiplicative."

If it were simply a matter of adding up, then his willpower would be twenty times stronger, not directly increased to one hundred times.

"According to the explanation given after the system's detection, the system brought about by the Sitting in Oblivion Method is quite special, and it will have this relationship with any other system."

Chen Yuan's eyes brightened: "This means that even if I improve and optimize the Hundred Refinements system in the future, the new system I obtain will still be able to enjoy the tenfold improvement brought by the Sitting Meditation Method."

"Even with this current superposition—it's enough to make my level of will comparable to that of an eternal true god."

"In other words, I can start cultivating the Eternal Chapter of the Primordial Spirit Sword Intent ahead of schedule!"

Surprise!

With an eternal level of mental willpower, coupled with a similar level of willpower secret technique, it's as if no life in the entire universe can withstand his willpower attack, not even world beasts.

Oh, except for the ultimate Beast King, which requires a Chaos-level will to defeat.

"In that case, let the Soul Devouring Beast clone return first. Anyway, we can still cultivate the secret art of will within the Tomb Ship, and the flow of time is even faster."

Although with his current willpower, he could already venture into areas with even higher time flow rates, it was unnecessary, because the maximum acceleration that the Tomb Ship could withstand was ten million times.

Even if he sailed the Tomb Ship into a deeper area, he would still have to reduce the enhancement of the cultivation space again to keep the overall acceleration of ten million times unchanged.

Even so, the ship wouldn't save a single bit of energy, so he was too lazy to move it anymore; it was fine as it was.

"Unfortunately, my meditation state has reached perfection, but I cannot find an opportunity to break through it for the time being."

Looking back on his past breakthroughs, he was either deeply moved or faced a life-or-death crisis, which shows that his cultivation of mental will has not been smooth sailing.

"Never mind, let's leave it at that for now. If I can't think of anything, I won't think about it. I'll just focus on doing what I need to do first."

Chen Yuan shook his head, deciding to let things take their course.

After recalling the Soul-Devouring Beast clone, he once again activated his mental shield and continued his seclusion.