Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

Mysterious cave entrance.

“This little worm has been guarding this cave all along—there must be something valuable inside!”

What astonished the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor was that from the back view of the cave entrance, the cave appeared nonexistent;

only from the front could it be seen.

Regarding this point, the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor wasn’t particularly surprised—it simply meant there was a special space behind it. In this unique spatial-temporal dimension, the emergence of such a secret realm space was quite normal.

“Let’s go in and take a look!”

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor was both skilled and bold. In his view, since the little gatekeeping worm could safely guard this place, the dangers inside obviously weren’t too great. With his superior strength, entering would be even less dangerous.

Thus, without a second thought, the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor naturally stepped into the cave.

The moment the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor completely entered the cave, the cave instantly transformed into a mirror, falling into Su Yuan’s hand.

Inside the Tear of Eternity, the teardrop that was the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor continued autonomously flying toward two star systems.

By now, Su Yuan could completely control the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor. After entering the Tear of Eternity, he had become part of the Tear itself. Su Yuan could even immediately extract the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor’s power for his own use.

However, Su Yuan wasn’t in a hurry to act. He sensed that preserving the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor’s autonomous control ability might bring unexpected benefits.

Like right now.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor flew to where the Fate Compass was located. When he saw the object emitting powerful supreme treasure aura, he was instantly delighted.

“Indeed, it’s something valuable!”

After observing for a moment, the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor began attempting to refine this supreme treasure.

However, with just one vibration from the Fate Compass, he was violently shaken and sent flying.

Lower-level spatial-temporal power appeared somewhat weak when facing destiny force.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor then came to another star system, where he saw a puppet body. However, he didn’t realize it was a puppet, instead thinking it was a powerful humanoid life form in slumber.

When he sensed the life pressure that surpassed him by an entire level, he immediately restrained his aura, not daring to disturb that life form, and quietly moved farther away.

“Strange, this secret realm is so peculiar. Why does everything here feel like stars spinning around!”

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor carefully observed, and after some time, his eyes widened in astonishment.

He finally discovered the wonder of this place—everything here could transform into stars. Even he himself had now become a star! And by making other objects orbit around him like stars, he could continuously enhance his own power!

Without hesitation, he began experimenting. He avoided provoking the two large star systems and instead found other planetary teardrops to orbit around him.

After exploring around, he attracted numerous planetary-level teardrops to revolve around him.

Using spatial and temporal techniques, this was quite simple to accomplish.

Then, strands of power began integrating into his body, and his strength actually started slowly increasing.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor was ecstatic: “This feels similar to devouring treasure pearl essence, though the effect is somewhat weaker. If I could add more items to orbit around me, wouldn’t the effect become even stronger?”

He was incredibly thrilled.

This secret realm could also serve as the core territory for his race, nurturing the power of his people.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor immediately planned to leave this secret realm to bring in his past collections and his entire race.

However, when he reached the place where he had entered the secret realm, he couldn’t find the exit no matter how hard he tried. Even with his spatial-temporal abilities, he couldn’t detect the slightest trace of it.

At this moment, the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor suddenly realized the severity of the situation!

“A trap! This is a trap!”

the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor exclaimed in horror.

Suddenly, a deep, resonant voice exploded in his ears: “Little worm, I am the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign who roams freely through the chaotic realms of the God Realm Sea. You have entered my supreme treasure. Now I give you two choices: either become nourishment for my other treasures, or become my pet. What is your decision?”

Su Yuan’s voice was filled with overwhelming pressure that made the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor tremble with fear.

Simultaneously, from between the two distant star systems, that slumbering life form seemed to have awakened, also releasing a massive pressure that enveloped him. On the other side, the Fate Compass emitted mysterious destiny force, firmly locking onto him.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor was dumbfounded.

He immediately employed spatial-temporal dao arts, attempting to escape this realm.

But this was inside the Tear of Eternity! How could a mere half-step Hunyuan Tai Chi Realm being possibly break free?

After repeated failed attempts, the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor’s heart sank into despair.

Suddenly.

The entire Tear of Eternity shook violently as another massive stellar body materialized out of nowhere, transforming into a gigantic teardrop.

It was a dazzling treasure pearl, emitting powerful fluctuations of time and space.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor’s eyes nearly burst from their sockets—that was his supreme treasure, actually stolen by that person!

He wanted to charge over, but an supreme power firmly restrained him. He could even sense that the power binding him contained energy that originally belonged to him.

This meant he could never break free from this control, because whenever he grew stronger by one measure, this binding force would only become correspondingly stronger!

Then Su Yuan manipulated his body to approach the spatial-temporal supreme treasure, making him orbit around it.

Strands of power were extracted from the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor’s body, directly merging into the spatial-temporal supreme treasure. This allowed the spatial-temporal supreme treasure to gradually replenish its deficiencies, restoring itself toward a mid-grade Innate Supreme Treasure.

“This…” The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor drooped his long horn, realizing that Su Yuan hadn’t been joking.

Just one breath later.

Two Spatial-Temporal Horned Worms at the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal level were also captured and brought inside. They similarly transformed into planets, accompanying the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor, joining him in restoring the spatial-temporal supreme treasure.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor stared wide-eyed, but before he could utter a single curse word…

Around him, numerous Spatial-Temporal Horned Worms appeared.

They looked confused, seemingly puzzled about how they arrived here. Then, uncontrollably, they began orbiting either the spatial-temporal supreme treasure or the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor himself.

The number of Spatial-Temporal Horned Worms quickly exceeded hundreds of thousands—almost the entire race had been captured in one sweep!

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor fell silent. With circumstances overwhelming the worms, he reluctantly said: “I… I am willing to become your pet!”