With a laugh, Lu Yin replied, "On the other hand, I find the Voidforce Universe to be much more comfortable."
Cang Bi just smiled and made a point of not continuing the conversation. His job was to monitor Xuan Qi. Helping the young man in his investigation was nothing more than an excuse to justify the Demi-Monarch’s presence.
Lu Yin only took a brief walk before returning to his quarters. He stated that he intended to go into seclusion for a time, claiming to have obtained a bit of insight.
Obtaining insight was something that any cultivator would envy.
Flourishing crystals contained monarch essence, but unlike star crystals, flourishing crystals were simply containers for the energy and not objects formed from pure monarch essence. Because of this, Lu Yin was slightly uneasy when rolling his die.
Fortunately, he found that it was not a problem to draw monarch essence from the flourishing crystals because of his level of control over the energy.
At the moment, he had a staggering 930 million flourishing crystals, all of which he had taken from Fu Yuan.
Fu Yuan's wealth had become Lu Yin’s. As for the 10 billion flourishing crystals intended for the rainbow wall, Lu Yin had not touched any of it.
A loss of a few tens of millions of flourishing crystals would not be noticed, and Monarch Luo did not care about such an amount. However, if an obvious amount went missing, it would be a different story. There was no denying that the Three Monarchs Universe was under Monarch Luo's control.
Surrounded by hundreds of millions of flourishing crystals, Lu Yin looked up. His die appeared, and with a tap of a finger, it started to spin.
Two pips, Blackhole Disassembly. Useless. There was nothing that he needed to disassemble.
Again. Four pips: Timestop. As time froze for him, the scenery around Lu Yin shifted.
Within his Timestop Space, Lu Yin continued to focus on practicing the Cosmic Art and reciting the Origin Sutra like normal. He firmly believed that the Origin Progenitor’s Sutra would continue to bring him various benefits.
After spending nearly a year within the Timestop Space, Lu Yin's vision changed, and he reappeared in the real world, where only a single second had passed.
Again. The flick of his finger caused the die to slowly spin before coming to a halt. Once again, Lu Yin had rolled Timestop.
Of the six sides of his die, the most common roll was Pilfer, and Lu Yin always received something for that roll, though what he received could be either good or bad. However, both the most useful and the most troublesome roll for Lu Yin was Timestop.
While rolling Timestop granted him almost an entire year of extra time, there were occasions when Lu Yin did not want to practice, but he was never able to bring himself to waste such an opportunity.
With no other choice, Lu Yin once again chose to continue his training.
Perhaps he was under some kind of curse, but the less Lu Yin wanted to train, the more he was forced to do so.
His third roll was also Timestop. He had gotten the same result three times in a row now…
Each time, Lu Yin extended the duration of Timestop to nearly a year. It was important that he continue to constantly train. He could not afford to waste any opportunities.
Rolling Timestop three times in a row meant that Lu Yin had spent almost three continuous years training. After ending his third session in his Timestop Space, Lu Yin felt as though his training session had lasted a lifetime.
During the three years that he had focused on cultivating the Cosmic Art, he had successfully simulated 370,000 stars.
Mastering the sixth level of Cosmic Art meant that one had mastered 380,000 stars, and Lu Yin was only one step away from reaching perfection in the sixth level.
Despite initially not wanting to train, Lu Yin suddenly found himself hoping to roll Timestop for his fourth roll. He was eager to experience the changes in the Cosmic Art when he reached the seventh level.
The seventh level of Cosmic Art was supposed to be the pinnacle of the cultivation art. At that level, a person was no longer supposed to focus on how many stars they could simulate, but rather on simulating an entire universe!
Suppressing his excitement, Lu Yin simply rested for more than a dozen days. Only after that did he continue to roll his die, hoping to see either Timestop or Possession.
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A month later, Lu Yin opened his eyes and stood up to look past the courtyard outside his personal quarters
His seclusion was finally at an end.
He had mastered the sixth level of the Cosmic Art, simulating 380,000 stars. He was just a single step away from reaching the seventh level, but he had failed to take that final step.
He had no idea how to proceed with the seventh level of the Cosmic Art.
Despite spending nearly a year in his Timestop Space relentlessly practicing the Cosmic Art, Lu Yin had made no progress at all. He found himself unable to move beyond 380,000 stars. Forget reaching the seventh level of the Cosmic Art—he was not even able to increase the number of stars he simulated beyond 380,000 no matter how hard he tried.
Helpless, Lu Yin had been left with no option but to cultivate his other powers when he rolled Timestop, such as monarch essence. Due to this, he had become his monarch essence had reached the Retainer realm, and the continent of fatesand in his chest had considerably increased the amount of tri-colored soil, which had appeared along the banks of the river of voidforce energy. Green sprouts could be seen within this soil, which was the power of the Arboreal Realm.
The various energies within Lu Yin’s chest were each growing and improving, and it gave the system in his chest a colorful, though chaotic, appearance.
Aside from spending his time cultivating, Lu Yin had also managed to roll Possession a few times. As he had expected, it was possible to use the monarch essence stored within flourishing crystals to Possess cultivators in the Three Monarchs Universe.
He had Possessed several individuals of varying strength. One person was even a Demi-Monarch from the Mo Courtyard.
Lu Yin’s luck had not been bad at all. Of the people he had Possessed, there had been several spies. After all, people who were selected by Aeternus to become spies were typically good matches for Lu Yin’s Possession, as both he and Aeternus sought out powerful individuals with widespread influence. Possessing a spy was not purely reliant on luck.