Chapter 2: Devouring the Cosmos, The First Divine Technique.

In the year 2040 AD, also known as the old era 2040, when scientists from Hua Nation discovered Primordial Force, they were shocked to detect that the entire Earth was actually a Primordial Force planet.

Whether it was rivers, oceans, minerals, or tall buildings, cars, airplanes, even things like soil, dead leaves, or dry grass, they were all rich in Primordial Force.

Even a piece of excrement could very likely be a grade 8 High-grade Yuan Stone with Primordial Force content exceeding 90%.

Based on the purity of the contained Primordial Force, Yuan Stones were divided into 9 grades. Each higher grade had Primordial Force that was significantly purer than the previous grade.

Everything on the entire Earth was made of Yuan Stone. Even the most Primordial Force-deficient objects were at least grade 1 Yuan Stones, such as grains of sand and soil.

This was a huge treasure trove. Unfortunately, humans could not utilize it yet. The cultivation techniques on Earth at that time were too low-level. They couldn’t absorb the Primordial Force inside Yuan Stones; they could only absorb the Primordial Force flowing in the air.

Even so, Earth’s Primordial Warriors absorbed it with great difficulty. After absorbing a certain amount of Primordial Force, they had to stop and carefully purify it. Otherwise, the impurities within would harm the Primordial Warriors’ bodies.

It wasn’t until New Era Year 64 that humans discovered a way to utilize Yuan Stones. The entire Earth went crazy because of this. Countless powerful individuals desperately moved rocks, coal, radioactive elements… from Earth into their homes, then transported them to the Moon for storage. They planned to enjoy them later, turning these Yuan Stones into their own strength.

The entire Earth was almost hollowed out because of this and became uninhabitable. All the people on Earth moved to the Moon and Mars.

In New Era Year 65, the first technique capable of devouring and absorbing Yuan Stones unexpectedly appeared on Earth. It was “Devouring the Cosmos,” and it was also Earth’s first Divine Grade technique.

Now, Jiang Xincheng had returned 60 years in the past with “Devouring the Cosmos.” Yuan Stones, which were useless to others, became an incomparably huge treasure in Jiang Xincheng’s eyes.

In the library, Jiang Xincheng greedily looked at the textbook in front of him, feeling an urge to put it in his mouth.

This was a grade 2 Yuan Stone. It contained vast amounts of Primordial Force, extremely pure, emitting strong Primordial Force fluctuations. How could one not be envious?

Unfortunately, he was only a Muscle Training Realm martial artist. He could only devour and absorb grade 1 Yuan Stones. The Primordial Force inside grade 2 Yuan Stones was too pure; Jiang Xincheng simply couldn’t digest it. So, he could only stare at the textbook in front of him and swallow his saliva.

Martial artists who cultivated Primordial Force were called Primordial Warriors. Primordial Warriors were divided into nine major realms.

Muscle Training Realm, Tendon Training Realm, Bone Training Realm, Cloud Condensation Realm, Rain Transformation Realm, Stream Formation Realm, River Realm, Celestial Human Realm, and the strongest, Deity and Demon Realm.

Each major realm was further divided into three minor stages: early, middle, and late stages. Altogether, there were nine major realms and twenty-seven minor stages. Each major and minor realm respectively displayed different phenomena.

Jiang Xincheng spent five years and had now cultivated to the peak of the early stage of the Muscle Training Realm. He was among the slowest cultivators in the university.

Logically, with Jiang Xincheng’s above-average cultivation talent, spending five years shouldn’t have resulted in only reaching this level, but that was the reality.

In his previous life, Jiang Xincheng was cowardly and afraid of trouble during these five years. He didn’t dare to compete with other students for cultivation spots with dense Primordial Force.

He also had to spend more than half of each day working part-time to earn tuition, living expenses, and money for his sister’s schooling. The remaining small portion of time was needed for studying. He had almost no time for cultivation. Being able to reach this level was already quite good.

But the most important reason was that Jiang Xincheng at that time didn’t place much importance on Primordial Force cultivation. He didn’t like fighting and killing, so he wasn’t diligent in his cultivation, resulting in extremely slow progress in Primordial Force.

But Jiang Xincheng, who had lived a second life, now realized how foolish he had been back then. He had wasted too much time and done too many meaningless things. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have lived so miserably later on.

This world was one where the strong were respected. Without sufficient strength, how could one protect the people around them?

Since he was reborn, how could Jiang Xincheng possibly repeat his past mistakes?

Jiang Xincheng greedily hugged a large pile of books and returned to his dorm. The dorm was empty; his roommates had all gone to the academy’s training room to cultivate Primordial Force.

After putting the books away, Jiang Xincheng quickly went outside, grabbed a handful of soil, put it in his pocket, and brought it back to the dorm. He carefully got into his bed, pinched a small piece of soil, and put it into his mouth with longing.

This handful of soil consisted of grade 1 Yuan Stones, containing extremely rich Primordial Force, enough for Jiang Xincheng to absorb for a while.

The soil didn’t taste very good. But feeling the considerable amount of Primordial Force within the soil and smelling the unique fragrance of Primordial Force, Jiang Xincheng felt his heart was intoxicated.

It was so delicious, so fragrant. Such a large handful of fragrant soil Yuan Stones—sixty years later, you wouldn’t be able to eat them even if you wanted to. But sixty years ago, they were thrown everywhere. People on Earth now were truly too wasteful.

The stomach’s digestive ability was extremely strong, especially when digesting Yuan Stones. This was stated in the general principles of “Devouring the Cosmos.”

Therefore, to devour Yuan Stones and absorb the Primordial Force within at the fastest speed, the best method was to fully utilize the stomach’s digestive ability.

The Devouring Vortex cultivated by “Devouring the Cosmos” was located in the human stomach. The Practitioner needed to eat the Yuan Stones or other items they wanted to devour into their stomach. Only then could they devour and digest the Primordial Force inside at the fastest speed.

“Devouring the Cosmos” was divided into nine layers. Each successful layer added one more Devouring Vortex in the stomach. The speed of devouring and digesting Yuan Stones would greatly increase accordingly, and they could devour and digest higher-grade Yuan Stones.

After mastering the first layer of “Devouring the Cosmos,” one could devour and digest grade 1 Yuan Stones and corresponding treasures. After mastering the second layer, one could devour and digest grade 2 Yuan Stones and corresponding treasures… and so on. As long as one mastered the ninth layer of “Devouring the Cosmos,” even if their strength was only at the Muscle Training Realm, they could devour and digest grade 9 Yuan Stones.

But ordinary Primordial Warriors, even if they could absorb Yuan Stones, could only absorb Yuan Stones of the corresponding grade. For example, a Muscle Training Realm Primordial Warrior could only absorb corresponding grade 1 Yuan Stones. A Tendon Training Realm Primordial Warrior could only absorb grade 2 Yuan Stones and those of lower grades.

If they absorbed Yuan Stones exceeding their own level, the lightest consequence was bodily harm from the pure Primordial Force inside, while the worst was exploding and dying.

“Devouring the Cosmos,” however, gave Jiang Xincheng the possibility to devour and digest Yuan Stones beyond his level. Just based on this point alone, “Devouring the Cosmos” could be ranked among the Heavenly Rank Techniques.

Additionally, after cultivating “Devouring the Cosmos,” the Primordial Force in the Primordial Warrior’s Dantian would be twice as abundant as that of Primordial Warriors of the same level. This secured “Devouring the Cosmos” a place among the Divine Grade Top-Level techniques.

As the soil Yuan Stones entered his stomach, Jiang Xincheng operated “Devouring the Cosmos.” A small vortex slowly appeared in his stomach.

The first layer of “Devouring the Cosmos” was very simple. With Jiang Xincheng’s roughly seventy years of cultivation experience and comprehension, he fully understood it after reading it a few times.

So, after just a few attempts, Jiang Xincheng condensed a Devouring Vortex the size of a grain of rice in his stomach. This meant Jiang Xincheng had reached the introductory level of “Devouring the Cosmos.”

As the soil Yuan Stones fell into the Devouring Vortex, strands of pure Primordial Force were rapidly broken down by the Devouring Vortex and surged into Jiang Xincheng’s Meridians.

Over ninety percent of the Primordial Force followed the Meridians and integrated into Jiang Xincheng’s muscles all over his body, tempering his muscles. Only about ten percent entered his Dantian, but this was normal.

As the name suggested, the focus of cultivation for Muscle Training Realm Primordial Warriors was “Flesh-Tempering”—tempering the muscles and consolidating the foundation. That’s why the first major realm for Primordial Warriors was called the Muscle Training Realm.

In the early stage of the Muscle Training Realm, muscles were full and responses were agile. Jiang Xincheng was now at the peak of this stage.

Feeling the Primordial Force surging into his body, the speed of absorbing Primordial Force was at least a hundred times faster than before. A look of intoxication crossed Jiang Xincheng’s face. He pinched another piece of soil and put it into his mouth.

What others found incredibly unpalatable soil was, to Jiang Xincheng, a supreme delicacy. It contained so much Primordial Force.

Piece after piece of soil continuously fell into Jiang Xincheng’s mouth, causing his muscles throughout his body to improve at an astonishing speed. The mist of Primordial Force stored in his Dantian also grew thicker.

After all the soil Yuan Stones in his pocket had been eaten by Jiang Xincheng, he suddenly felt his whole body shake.

He clearly felt blocks of muscles appearing from within his body. On his abdomen, eight symmetrical abs were arranged together.

Within his body, it seemed as if an inexhaustible strength emerged, surging powerfully, like water and tides.

Mid-stage Muscle Training Realm, eight-pack abs, surging strength.

In just half a day, Jiang Xincheng broke through a bottleneck that had taken over a year to break in his previous life, stepping into a new realm.

Since he had already stepped into a completely new realm, with his current strength, it was just the right time to cultivate that incredibly miraculous Primordial Force Origin Force Combat Skill.