Consciousness returned.
Ender did not directly teleport to the Primal Universe passage; instead, he traveled at sub-light speed aboard the 'Sun Fortress'.
Inside the Sun Fortress.
Ender sat on the throne at the end of the palace, carefully considering his recent meeting with his teacher, Ice Summit Master.
"Flowing Overlapping Mountains."
He mused, "I didn't expect that the Legacy I obtained didn't come from Tilted Peak Realm or Universe Boat."
"This Legacy is formed by the convergence of two Legacy Crystals, and both should originate from the same Legacy, thus enabling resonance."
Ender had once traced back time on Kuka Planet and also saw the Legacy Crystal from the Universe, which transformed into a meteor and fell into his Family's Encampment.
The Family elders did not intercept it, or perhaps by the time they were ready to, the Legacy Crystal had already merged into his Soul when he was just born.
"Legacy Crystal…"
Ender murmured, "When I first entered Primal Chaos City, Senior Martial Uncle Primal Chaos City Lord once probed my Soul by controlling Time-Space."
"Given that Senior Martial Uncle didn't find anything unusual, my Soul is indeed human."
"So, were my memories brought by the Legacy Crystal?"
He speculated, "If my memories were truly brought by the Legacy Crystal, then what am I?"
"An aboriginal? Or a Rebirth?"
"Upon closer thought, my memories are not only incomplete but also have some serious deviations!"
"For example, that non-existent Time-Space Fusion Dao…"
Ender thought to himself, "If I really walked that Time-Space Fusion Dao, I'm afraid I'd be heading into a dead end."
The Time-Space Fusion Dao only requires comprehending one higher Law, and then fusing it with another higher Law to a certain extent, to Breakthrough and become a Universe Master.
It seemed that this Time-Space Fusion Dao was very appealing, greatly reducing the difficulty of Breakthrough to become a Universe Master.
But from Ender's current perspective, this was an out-and-out trap!
If he truly jumped into this trap, and his thinking and Cultivate didn't change, he might not be able to Breakthrough to become a Universe Master even after the Reincarnation Era ended!
"The powerhouses of the Race and Hong Alliance are less active in Flowing Overlapping Mountains, so the map's coverage should be very limited, probably only the outermost and a very small portion of the inner areas are mapped."
Ender murmured, "To venture into Flowing Overlapping Mountains, a high-grade flying palace Arcana treasure is definitely not enough, and a Domain type Arcana Treasure also needs to be of the top tier."
In terms of attack power, he had the Xeon Arcana treasure Dragon Awakening Spear, so he naturally wasn't worried about insufficient attack power.
In terms of defense, relying on his massive Immortal Energy body volume, and the Gu Yu Ancient Tree Clone as an Immortal Energy reserve, having the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' comparable to a Pinnacle Arcana treasure armor was also sufficient.
Therefore, what Ender lacked was a top-tier flying palace Arcana treasure and a top-tier Domain type Arcana Treasure.
Of these two types of Arcana treasures, the former could help him better venture in the Universe Ocean and provide him with good life-saving ability.
The latter would enhance his suppression and binding abilities, as well as his direct combat capabilities, and also help when preventing enemies from escaping.
However, if one were to say which was more important, it was clearly the top-tier flying palace type Arcana treasure!
With this level of treasure, even a True God without a Pinnacle sealing Arcana treasure would likely not consider making a move.
But the problem was…
Whether it was a top-tier flying palace type Arcana treasure or a top-tier Domain type Arcana treasure, both were precious treasures that were priceless!
The exchange price for both in the Treasure Vault of the Race started at 2000 Arcana Treasure Points.
With Ender's identity as a Master refiner, 2000 Arcana Treasure Points were not difficult to obtain; he just needed to spend some time refining Arcana treasures.
But even if he accumulated enough contribution for the exchange, there were simply no such two types of treasures in the Treasure Vault of the Race, so he could only stare helplessly.
One must know that even Primal Chaos City Lord, a fifth-stage Universe Master, whose Clone was stationed in the Primal Secret Realm, still used the top-tier Domain type Arcana Treasure 'Thousand Treasure River'!
"Top-tier flying palace type, and top-tier Domain type Arcana treasures, are equivalent in value to Pinnacle Arcana treasure weapons and armor, extremely precious!"
Ender thought to himself, "It's not easy to acquire these two types of treasures. Even if the Race has Huge Axe Creator, a True God, they wouldn't let these two types of treasures sit idle."
Whether it was a top-tier flying palace type Arcana treasure or a top-tier Domain type Arcana treasure, both were treasures that could genuinely enhance life-saving ability and strength.
Having these two types of treasures and not having them were completely two different concepts!
"Let's take it one step at a time."
Ender sighed in his heart, "The Original Star hasn't closed yet, and the strongest Arcana treasure palace hasn't appeared. Maybe I'll have a chance to go in and seize the treasure."
With that thought, he stopped thinking so much and teleported with the palace to the Primal Universe passage.
…
Soon after.
Primal Universe, Primal Chaos City Lord's Mansion, the side hall where the Treasure Vault of the Race was located.
Boom…
As Ender entered the side hall, the ancient palace door closed, and the massive stone disk slowly opened.
A silver metal Beast, slightly larger than a palm, was in a posture of roaring to the sky. Although it still had two small horns on its head, the absence of its largest single horn made it appear somewhat unusual.
As it floated up from the cracked stone disk passage, a somewhat strange and clearly uncoordinated aura emerged.
Ender looked at the silver metal Beast, took out the last part, the spiral single horn, and threw it towards the silver metal Beast.
Buzz!
When the spiral single horn was thrown, it flew towards the silver metal Beast at a slow speed, continuously shrinking in size along the way until it fit the silver metal Beast.
Buzz!
With a soft sound, the spiral single horn returned to the silver metal Beast's forehead on its own.
Instantly!
As the final component returned to its place, the silver metal Beast seemed to come alive, emitting a violent, annihilating aura, with faint Beast roars emanating from it.
"This is the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor'…"
Ender gently beckoned, and with Immortal Energy, he drew the silver metal Beast into his hand, then covered its entire body with Immortal Energy, imprinting a life mark on each component.
After recognizing its master, a message entered his consciousness.
The Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor, a top-tier set Arcana treasure, is composed of 9 top-tier Arcana treasures, 108 high-grade Arcana treasures, and 1296 ordinary Arcana treasures, totaling 1413 Arcana treasures.
Its attack and defense capabilities are comparable to a Pinnacle Arcana treasure, and it can weaken attack power that does not exceed its upper limit of endurance to one ten-thousandth.
"With the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor', whether I'm attacking or defending, I can be considered to have a Pinnacle Arcana treasure."
Upon receiving the message, Ender immediately refined the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor', and a powerful force instantly enveloped his body.
Then, he took out some ordinary Arcana treasures of various types, all of which he offered to the Race.
These Arcana treasures included those he had collected on Original Star, as well as those he had refined after disassembling the damaged Crimson Gold Void Palace.
"It's time to return 'Crimson Radiance' to Penggong Master."
After offering the Arcana treasures to the Race, Ender turned and walked towards the palace gate.
With the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' on him, he essentially had a claw-type Pinnacle Arcana treasure, so there was naturally no need to keep 'Crimson Radiance'.
He exited the Treasure Vault of the Race and left the City Lord's Mansion.
Ender flew into the air, took out the 'Sun Fortress', and departed the Primal Universe under the respectful gazes of a multitude of Genius Immortal, and even some Universe Venerable.
It didn't take long for him to return 'Crimson Radiance' to Penggong Master.
Subsequently, he returned to the Primal Secret Realm, to his palace in the Thousand Treasure River Territory, and began to study and comprehend the secret patterns on the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor'.
... A few months later.
Primal Chaos City, Void River Master's Palace.
Ender sat on a pavilion rooftop, looking up at the Primal Universe's externalized Laws in the sky.
"The 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' not only has defensive capabilities comparable to Pinnacle Arcana treasure armor, but its attack power is also comparable to Pinnacle Arcana treasure weapons."
He lowered his head and thought to himself, "As a top-tier set Arcana treasure that combines offense and defense, composed of over a thousand Arcana treasures, it's understandable for its secret techniques to be complex."
"But the secret patterns on the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' are surprisingly complex."
"They are much more complex than the Law secret patterns of the Pinnacle Arcana treasure weapon 'Crimson Radiance'."
Ender sighed inwardly, "What's more troublesome is that the secret patterns of the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' encompass the ten great fundamental Laws, making their complexity even higher."
It was quite incredible for a top-tier set Arcana treasure's secret patterns to include the secret patterns of the ten great fundamental Laws!
However, considering that it was naturally nurtured by the Original Star, and that only two or three of its Law secret patterns needed to be comprehended to activate its full power, the complexity of its Law secret patterns was acceptable.
If other powerhouses who didn't follow the secret pattern flow were to comprehend it, they would probably only comprehend the Laws they had already understood.
For example, those who follow the Time-Space Path would comprehend one lower Law, and the two higher Laws of Time and Space.
Those who follow the Beast God Path would only need to comprehend one lower Law and one higher Law.
In their eyes, other Law secret patterns would probably just be special patterns with no meaning.
But Ender was different; he followed the secret pattern flow, understood most of the secret patterns, and could distinguish various Law secret patterns.
Moreover, he also wanted to see if comprehending all the Law secret patterns of the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' would allow its power to reach an even higher level.
"Comprehending the Law secret patterns of the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' will allow me to also gain insight into Time Law and its lower Laws."
In terms of Space-related Law comprehension, besides comprehending Wood Origin Law and Space Origin Law, he had obtained Law recognition for all four other lower Laws.
He had not yet comprehended the Time-related Laws, though he could recognize their secret patterns from previous research.
Knowing that comprehending the ten great fundamental Laws was the threshold for becoming a super powerhouse who surpassed the True God in the future, he was not averse to spending some time comprehending Laws.
Anyway, the Human Alliance did not contend for treasures in other palaces, only participating in the struggle for the strongest Arcana treasure, so he had time to comprehend Laws.
However, before that, he still needed to thoroughly comprehend the Wood and Space Law secret patterns of the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor', at least to be able to unleash the power of that Arcana treasure, in order to cope with unexpected situations.
…
After more than ten years, Ender thoroughly comprehended the Wood and Space Law secret patterns.
Due to the intertwining of various Law secret patterns, he experienced considerable interference while comprehending them, thus his comprehension speed was somewhat slow.
After thoroughly researching the Wood and Space Law secret patterns, Ender observed the Primal Universe's externalized Laws from the rooftop, comprehending Laws as he had when he was weaker.
He achieved Immortal through the Wood Origin Law, became a Universe Venerable through the Space Origin Law, and became a Universe Master through the Wood-Space Fusion Laws.
This meant his current affinity with Time Law was very low, a significant gap compared to when he was a World Master.
Therefore, he did not directly try to comprehend Time Law.
Instead, he first began to comprehend the three lower Laws of Wind, Light, and Lightning, and then used these three Laws to comprehend Time Law.
…
Time flowed by.
In a blink of an eye, six million years had passed in the Original Universe.
Ender comprehended Laws, bringing the three lower Laws of the Time system to the level of Law recognition.
At the same time, his comprehension of the complex Law secret patterns on the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor' unexpectedly gave him inspiration to create secret techniques.
For this, he also spent some time creating secret techniques, and then, while the prototype of his previous Strongest Secret Technique was still incomplete, he created another Strongest Secret Technique…
Prototype!
Although both secret techniques were prototypes, they had essential differences!
The prototype of the Strongest Secret Technique he first created was inspired by the eight Beast God diagrams demonstrated by Ancestor Yuan. Based on this, he also created the ultimate secret technique 'Eight Desolations Unite', which was a secret technique of the Wood-Space Fusion Laws.
And the prototype of the secret technique created now was inspired by his comprehension of the 'Apocalyptic Beast Visage Armor', with its core being the ten great fundamental Laws!
According to Ender's estimation, to perfect the secret technique, he would need to comprehend the three great profound truths of Time Law.
With his current comprehension of 108 fundamental essences of Time Law, comprehending the three great profound truths would be very difficult and would require a vast amount of time!
This time, he woke up from Law comprehension mainly because his Senior Brother Venerable You Mo wanted to see him.
…
Thunder Island Central Mountains summit, Ender's palace.
"Senior Brother, please sit."
Ender sat on the throne, facing Venerable You Mo, who was clad in dark red scales, with sharp blades at his joints and sharp, pointed fingers, resembling a humanoid killing machine.
Upon hearing this, Venerable You Mo nodded slightly and sat down somewhat cautiously.
Facing his Junior Brother, who had already become a Universe Master and had organized treasure-hunting operations for the Human Alliance multiple times, he felt deeply emotional.
He recalled that when he first met his Junior Brother in reality, the latter had just become Immortal.
But what he hadn't expected was that his Junior Brother would become a Universe Master in less than ten thousand years, and Breakthrough through the Beast God Path, a path unprecedented for humans.
As for him, even though he had comprehended the three great profound truths of Space Law and was only one step away from becoming a Universe Master, he remained stagnant.
Even his strength hadn't changed much!
Given the size of his Immortal Energy body and his life gene level, he was now stuck at a Bottleneck.
Further Breakthrough in strength would be very difficult!
Either he had to create a Pinnacle secret technique for a Universe Master, or he had to acquire better treasures.
The former offered some hope, but it was very difficult to achieve.
The latter was even more challenging, starting at least at 100 Arcana Treasure Points!
And all the treasures on him combined were just over 100 Arcana Treasure Points; how could he acquire better treasures?
Ender asked with a smile, "Senior Brother, why are you in such a hurry to see me?"
"While venturing in the Original Star, I encountered a treasure appearing with a commotion no less than a high-grade Arcana treasure."
Venerable You Mo whispered, "I successfully seized that treasure, but was then pursued and intercepted by multiple forces including the Northern Territory Alliance, Demon Clan Alliance, and Prison Clan Alliance…"
Ender listened quietly.
A treasure appearing with a commotion no less than a high-grade Arcana treasure was nothing to him, a fourth-stage Universe Master.
But considering his Senior Brother's nature and his teacher's advice, he felt that the treasure must be extraordinary!
"I originally intended to offer the treasure to Teacher, but Teacher said he didn't need it and suggested I offer it to…"
Venerable You Mo paused, then said, "Void River Master, you."
"What treasure?" Ender asked with some interest.
Venerable You Mo said in a deep voice, "Sky-Supporting Sword!"
"Oh?!"
Upon hearing this, Ender's eyes showed a hint of surprise!