Rise of the Invincible Upgrade System

Chapter 278: The Eternal Heart, Lifespan of Two Realms

Creak~

The light-gate slowly opened.

"This is..."

Qin Mu showed a surprised expression.

"A God’s Kingdom!"

Howling Moon casually pushed, and the divine kingdom world fully unfolded before Qin Mu’s eyes.

A field of lush, dark blue, unnamed flowers, rolling like waves under the gentle breeze, resembling a sea of flowers.

Looking closely.

In the sea of flowers, there was an animal with two feet stomping on the ground, mouse ears, a cat face, and walking upright, chasing something...

In the distance, on the horizon, a moon hung in the sky.

Hmm~

It couldn’t really be called a moon, because its size was truly enormous, occupying a full third of the sky.

It looked as if it was merely suspended a few thousand meters in the sky.

Against the moonlight, a magnificent palace was faintly visible... "A God’s Kingdom is the Foundation of every God."

Howling Moon slowly began.

"In a God’s Kingdom, a God possesses supreme authority, and the Universe’s rules do not fully apply here."

"As a home-ground battle, the advantage is very obvious."

"So you must remember, never casually step into an enemy’s God’s Kingdom; the dangers within are simply unfathomable."

Qin Mu raised an eyebrow: "Isn’t that invincible?"

Howling Moon chuckled.

"How could there be invincibility~"

"I said, a God’s Kingdom is the Foundation. If the enemy is too strong, and even the restrictive rules cannot suppress them, then one might face the destruction of their God’s Kingdom, a fall from the God Realm, and instant demise~"

Hmm.

Hearing this, Qin Mu understood why Howling Moon had opened his God’s Kingdom.

"Spirit Treasures cannot be exposed in the Universe, so this God’s Kingdom must already be considered outside the independent Universe, right?"

"Yes, and not entirely so," Howling Moon continued: "Among all things in Heaven and Earth, what can truly escape the Universe? A God’s Kingdom merely detaches from the star-realm, a bubble floating in a higher-dimensional world."

"You don’t need to understand these things for now."

As he spoke.

Howling Moon closed the God’s Kingdom gate, forming a crescent moon seal with his hands before his chest, slowly pulling them apart.

In the blink of an eye.

Wafts of misty Qi, carrying faint white light, emerged within it.

All light is dazzling.

It’s just that people are used to normal light and don’t feel it.

The white light before him was extremely gentle, even so gentle that it seemed to defy the basic rules of light.

Even with Qin Mu’s five senses fully open, he couldn’t feel even a single speck of light hitting his eyes.

It wasn’t light!

Qin Mu was certain that what he saw was not light.

"This is... the Light of the Soul!"

Qin Mu himself didn’t understand, but the Azure Profound Sword Art contained this knowledge.

The Soul.

It is a very special existence in the Universe.

Its rules are not outwardly apparent, cannot be perceived, and are difficult to research and comprehend.

Hidden so deeply, yet it can cover billions of races and all living beings in the Universe.

With a Soul, it is called a living being; otherwise, it can only be called a Life form.

Although the Soul has no clear rules, it can be utilized to a certain extent through Cultivation, and even strengthened through Cultivation.

For example, Soul enslavement is a form of Soul utilization.

As for Cultivation Techniques that strengthen the Soul, the Dragon Clan has True Dragon Soul Suppression, and the Heavenly Sword Sect has the Sword Soul Absolute Array... And the Spirit Treasure before him actually belonged to the Soul-type!

That light penetrated everything, spreading in the Soul dimension, directly manifesting deep within the Souls of all living beings... "The heart of eternity!"

"Even among many Spirit Treasures, it is a very special one."

Howling Moon took a deep breath, transmitting his Divine Sense:

"It can guard your True Soul, protecting you from Possession by powerhouses, including those in the God King Realm."

"More importantly, once fully refined, your Soul can be entrusted to it, ignoring the Lifespan limit, allowing your Soul to Transmit through the Calamity of World Destruction and live a second jie yuan."

Live a second jie yuan?

"What does that mean!?"

Qin Mu genuinely didn’t understand this.

"If one doesn’t become a God, isn’t the three-million-year Lifespan the limit?"

"And during the time of World Destruction, regardless of Lifespan, aren’t all who are not Gods destined to perish?"

Heh.

Howling Moon smiled faintly: "This is the value of a Spirit Treasure!"

"Without becoming a God, the Physical Body’s Lifespan indeed has a limit."

"But your Soul, under the protection of the heart of eternity, can remain immortal. Even as the jie yuan changes, and the star-realm is destroyed and reborn, the heart of eternity can carry you through the calamity and reach a new jie yuan."

Hiss?

Qin Mu was completely stunned:

"This... could this be the legendary..."

"Eternal Life!"

Similar to Ao Mengmeng’s Divine Soul state, even if the Physical Body is destroyed, she can still live, as long as a new Physical Body is created. To be able to Transmit through the great calamity of star-realm destruction, truly like a God, possessing unlimited Lifespan.

Howling Moon shook his head slightly upon hearing this: "As I just said, only a second jie yuan."

"The heart of eternity can at most ensure you survive this current star-realm calamity. When the next star-realm calamity descends, even the heart of eternity will be destroyed with it."

"Therefore..."

Howling Moon looked at Qin Mu with a solemn expression: "You must successfully become a God within two jie yuan!"

"This is the God King’s greatest help to you."

"The All-Element Domain, how difficult the bottleneck to becoming a God is, there’s no trace of it even in the Arena’s data, but judging from the experience of the Six Domains Across Heaven."

"Thirty million years is far from enough..."

God King Ten Thousand Moons, precisely because she possessed the heart of eternity, dared to let Qin Mu try.

If he couldn’t become a God in thirty million years, then she would give him an extra jie yuan, billions of years!

If it still didn’t work.

Then it could only be said that the Universe’s restrictions made it impossible... "Hmm..."

Qin Mu nodded secretly, not because he was worried about not being able to become a God, but because he felt that God King Ten Thousand Moons had indeed considered a great deal.

For a Genius, time is the most precious thing.

Ordinary people, due to limited talent, often choose only one path, a clear path explored by predecessors, following the routine and Cultivating steadily.

Genius, learning everything quickly, would therefore choose more, more difficult, and even unprecedented paths.

The time required for this is definitely not just a few tens of millions of years.

Two jie yuan of Lifespan was God King Ten Thousand Moons’s greatest support for him.

"Ha, she really treats me as her teacher."

Qin Mu felt a strange urge to laugh in his heart.

He had never thought of taking a master, but Ten Thousand Moons truly cultivated him as if he were her Personal Disciple.

A treasure like the heart of eternity, one should know its value just by thinking about it.

A full two jie yuan of Lifespan! What did that mean?

A God!

Even an idiot, with two jie yuan of Lifespan, over a hundred billion years of Cultivation, should have become a God, right?

This was almost a direct path to the God Realm, an admission ticket to the God world, an immortal protective talisman.

Who wouldn’t covet such a treasure?

Even Gods were no exception.

Qin Mu had taken advantage countless times, but only this time, he felt deep down that he had taken too much advantage...

"It doesn’t matter~"

The knot in his heart had just formed, then instantly dissolved.

Qin Mu laughed heartily in his mind: "I’ll just return her a better Spirit Treasure in a while~ Why worry?"

Thinking of this.

Qin Mu, using his Soul as his will, slowly enveloped the heart of eternity.

The next instant.

The heart of eternity slipped and burrowed deep into his Soul.

"I... I haven’t finished speaking yet!"

Howling Moon was stunned when he saw this:

"Treasures have spirits, and not everyone can control them."

"You, you still have to read the God King’s Cultivation Technique first, before you can slowly learn to control it..."

What a pity.

No matter how loud Howling Moon shouted, Qin Mu could no longer hear him.

At this moment.

Deep within Qin Mu’s Soul, it was as if a scorching star had burrowed in, constantly releasing its terrifying energy.

For Qin Mu’s weak Soul, it was simply a disaster.

"Holy crap!"

"What the hell is going on?!"

Qin Mu had only been quick-witted for a moment, never expecting that bringing the treasure in would cause such an explosive situation.

The Soul light emanating from the heart of eternity looked incredibly gentle from the outside, but after it settled in his Soul, it was terrifying enough to incinerate everything!

"Qin Mu, what... what exactly are you doing!?"

Ao Mengmeng was so scared that she jumped out.

"This Princess... This Princess only left you alone for a moment, how could you directly take in the Spirit Treasure?"

Ao Mengmeng’s mindset collapsed.

She thought, with Howling Moon there, he would surely arrange for Qin Mu to retrieve the Spirit Treasure, right?

But what happened?

Completely unprepared... "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and think of something!" Qin Mu said, speechless, urging her on.

Pfft!

Ao Mengmeng almost died on the spot:

"This Princess is also in Soul form right now, just maintaining consciousness to speak in this space is already a bit unbearable. You want This Princess to go over and think of a solution, aren’t you asking This Princess to die~"

"Master, I’m calling you Master now~"

"Please let Mengmeng go~"

Waaah~!!!

As a remnant Soul, Ao Mengmeng was practically fearless, except for Soul-related things.

That heart of eternity had not acknowledged a master.

It was rampaging wildly in Qin Mu’s Soul. If she went over in her current state, she wouldn’t last a second and would instantly perish.

You know.

The demise of the Soul is not the demise of the Physical Body.

No matter how many Clones you have, they all die at the same time, utterly useless.

"Where is your brain?!"

Qin Mu endured the earth-shattering burning sensation in his Soul and rebuked: "Use your brain!"

"Don’t you have any way to retrieve this kind of Spirit Treasure?"

To be honest.

If Qin Mu’s body could move, he wouldn’t want to waste words with Ao Mengmeng and would just go and study Ten Thousand Moons God King’s Cultivation Technique.

Unfortunately, with his Soul restricted, he truly couldn’t move anything except his consciousness.

Luckily.

Ao Mengmeng still resided in his consciousness, so he could still talk a bit.

"Think of a way~?"

Awoo awoo~