Age of Evolution#

Chapter 873: Chapter 876: Time Deceleration in Cultivation_1

A few people got off the dragon car and looked forward.

In front of them laid a chaotic planet covered with meteorites, completely unlike the regularity of a normal starry sky. Instead, they were all cluttered together, like a piece of fragmented land.

“This place looks so messy.”

“That’s just how it is. The great battle in the eye of the storm disrupted everything, especially the final space storm, which caused the energy of the constant stars to leak out. After millions of years, those constant stars have all died. Without the gravitational pull from the constant stars, things here are completely disordered.”

“Constant stars are dead? Wouldn’t they explode and form a black hole?” Chen Yuan said.

Lv Tianhua shook his head, “These constant stars belong to those that have lost all energy and die. Just like euthanasia in humans, they die quietly without causing any explosion.”

“It seems that this place is a barren land of death now, then let’s go and see, I see quite a lot of competitors.”

One streak of light after another swept forward in front of them, all martial artists entering the eye of the storm.

“Let’s go, remember, we are here to seek wealth, not to fight, try to avoid combat.”

Lv Tianhua spoke, and all of them advanced quickly, heading straight towards the broken area in front.

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Millions of kilometers away from where Lin Zhen and the others came together, a white-haired warrior was slowly advancing.

This man was dressed in white with long snow-white hair and carried a sword that seemed to be condensed from frost on his back.

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It was the Ruthless King whom Lin Zhen had seen at the auction.

He stopped in the middle of the starry sky and took out a map to study.

“Intersecting Continent…. there’s my battleground.”

The ice sword was drawn from behind him, with one stroke, space tore open!

The Ruthless King blinked and went directly into the spatial rift, and it was actually a method similar to the Luo Heavenly Escape.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared in the starry sky of the Intersecting Continent.

Looking at the arrays of continents and stacked planets stretching across the horizon, the Ruthless King squinted his eyes for a moment.

“If the Ethereal Divine Bell were here, my cultivation speed would definitely increase significantly, but it’s a pity….”

“Lin Zhen, I must get the Divine Bell back, you can’t escape.”

The Ruthless King opened the exchange panel and glanced at the two goods on it.

One is a small golden horn, called Human Clan Horn.

The other is a silver horn, called Demon Clan Horn.

The price for each horn is twenty divine stones.

This horn has no use in aiding cultivation or any lethal power. Its only function is to let the corresponding group hear the message that you publish in the eye of the storm.

It’s like the Full Screen Broadcast feature in online games where everyone can hear the broadcaster speak, similar to advertising.

The Ruthless King’s plan is simple. He first wants to collect twenty divine stones to exchange for a golden horn so that all Ground Clan martial artists can hear his broadcast.

He wants to put a bounty on Lin Zhen, offering substantial rewards. As long as he can capture Lin Zhen and take back the Ethereal Divine Bell, even if it costs hundreds or thousands of divine stones, he thinks it’s worth it.

The Ethereal Divine Bell can give him a lot of time. It’s the key to his rapid ascension to godhood.

“Lin Zhen, you wait. When I get enough divine stones, it will be your end!”

His body turned into a streak of light, and the Ruthless King flew into the Intersecting Continent.

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“Found one!”

An excited cheer came from a distance, but it wasn’t from anyone in Lin Zhen’s team.

Lv Tianhua looked up not far away with an envious expression.

“Found one here, hahaha!” Another voice came.

These sporadic shouts of excitement were like a booster, filling everyone with enthusiasm.

Lin Zhen occasionally looked at his companions, none of whom had found anything yet.

He lowered his head and used his Spiritual Power to probe down.

“Huh~!”

Lin Zhen suddenly stopped. In a pile of rubble, he noticed a piece of light shielded by mud.

This feeling was familiar to him. He had three divine stones in his hand that he’d sometimes take out to play with. Immediately, he raised his hand and emitted a gravitational force.

Whiz~!!

A divine stone flew out of the mud and directly fell into Lin Zhen’s hand.

“I got the first one!”

Lin Zhen held up one finger. From a distance, Lv Tianhua and the others cheered excitedly and even ran up to Lin Zhen’s side to take a look.

“Haha! You really found a divine stone, well done lad!”

“See, I’ve been studying the storm eye for so long that I’ve found out that divine stones would appear in this area. Even if the storm eye had opened twice before, it can’t have found all the divine stones.”

Mu En looked at the divine stone in Lin Zhen’s eyes and suddenly said: “According to our distribution rules, the discovered divine stones need to be divided equally. Shouldn’t this first divine stone go to the team leader?”

Lv Tianhua was about to modestly decline, but Mu En continued, “Captain, there is no square without rules. We agreed on the distribution of the Divine Stones long ago. Five of us, the distribution ratio is 3.2.2.2.2. Apart from you, the captain, getting three, the rest of us get two each. If you don’t take yours first, we won’t be able to take ours.”

Lv Tianhua was a bit embarrassed, considering the Divine Stones were found by Lin Zhen and he didn’t put in any effort.

On the other hand, it was Lin Zhen who urged, “Captain, you should take it, we agreed.”

“All right, I’ll accept it.”

Lv Tianhua nodded, cautiously accepted the Divine Stones, lingeringly observed them for a long time before storing them in his internal world.

“Keep going, keep searching! If we can get a hundred thousand Divine Stones before this storm ends, we’ll exchange them for the Divine Inheritance Crystal Ball!”

Everyone now had their own targets and were filled with enthusiasm.

As Lin Zhen handed over the Divine Stones, he wandered around absentmindedly while his Spiritual Power covered all the surrounding area.

“Eh! There’s another one!”

Shortly after Lin Zhen made his second discovery, he found another one from a crevice in a rock.

Another warrior of the God Realm Stage had spotted it a second later than Lin Zhen, but he was nearer to it. As he was about to snatch it, Lin Zhen lifted his hand and the gravitational pull swiftly pulled the Divine Stone into his hand.

The warrior of the God Realm Stage glared fiercely at Lin Zhen but didn’t say anything further because he was after wealth.

However, he subconsciously kept his distance from Lin Zhen. He knew he couldn’t compete with him and it would be better to steer clear.

“I’ve got a second one!”

When Lin Zhen held up two fingers, the team gathered around again and after celebrating for a while, the second Divine Stone was given to Chen Yuan.

They had expected the others would also have some gains, but strangely, after three hours, only Lin Zhen had found two.

In the fourth hour, it was still Lin Zhen who found the third Divine Stone.

Slightly embarrassed, the team handed the third Divine Stone to Arudi.

“Ha-ha! I also have a Divine Stone now. Thanks, Junior Brother Lin.”

Lin Zhen nodded without speaking and continued to search with fervor.

After an entire day, the squad gathered to tally up the day’s earnings.

That day, the squad put all effort into searching and altogether, they collected ten Divine Stones.

Out of these, Lin Zhen found five, Lv Tianhua and Chen Yuan each found two, Arudi found one, while Mu En didn’t find any.

Lin Zhen’s Spiritual Power was strong and he had gravity to aid him. His speed was unmatched, and between all four of them, they found as many as Lin Zhen did.

“Lin Zhen, well done!” Chen Yuan patted Lin Zhen’s shoulder cheerfully.

Lin Zhen weighed one of the Divine Stones in his hand and smiled, “It’s nothing; our earnings will be even greater tomorrow.”

With the ten Divine Stones distributed equally among them, the next one found would belong to Lv Tianhua.

Although all thought Lin Zhen was at a loss, they didn’t say anything, as the rules were already set.

When it was time to rest, Lin Zhen sat alone in meditation to recuperate.

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The one participating in the search was just Lin Zhen’s duplicate. His true body was in his duplicate’s inner world, devoting himself to refining the Ethereal Divine Clock.

The comprehension of double Time Deceleration gave Lin Zhen ample time to practice.

A day outside passed while he spent two inside. In these two days, he practiced Time acceleration.

A long-flowering orchid before him was in full bloom. Lin Zhen repeatedly deduced and calculated in his heart.

By his estimate, understanding triple Time Acceleration would take about 20 days.

Twenty days for him was merely ten days.

And to comprehend triple Time Deceleration, he would need about a month.

A month to him was only about fifteen days.

“Twenty-five days, after twenty-five days, I’ll have understood triple Time Deceleration. Then I’ll have even more time to practice. By then, I’ll almost be able to reach the Three Flowers Middle Stage. I shouldn’t let this tiny income of Divine Stones disrupt my practice.”

Despite calculating in his heart, his practice tempo didn’t slow down at all.

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On the first day, the squad found ten Divine Stones, twelve on the second day, eleven on the third day and ten on the fourth day.

It wasn’t easy to find too many Divine Stones in the periphery of the eyewall. Lin Zhen could only find about two a day on average.

In terms of efficiency, Lin Zhen had found the most.

No one in the team said anything about this. Now that Lin Zhen was their primary source of income, they believed it natural that they protected Lin Zhen in exchange for more Divine Stones. Chen Yuan, however, sometimes showed a guilty expression towards Lin Zhen.

“Junior Brother Lin, I had good intentions when I invited you to join this team. But now it’s you who is getting the short end of the stick. It really makes me feel guilty. How about I give you an extra Divine Stone from my earnings every day?”

Lin Zhen patted Chen Yuan’s shoulder and said, “Senior Brother Chen, you don’t need to keep worrying about this. I appreciate your concern, but I have my own plans.”

Chen Yuan nodded, but his guilt was still apparent.

In a blink of an eye, twenty days passed.

Lin Zhen now had over forty Divine Stones. Just as he was contemplating what to exchange them for, his artificial life form, Chris, actively called out to him.