A thousand yearster…


    In the Shadowcrest Castle Laboratory, Maximus and his wives were busy tinkering with various materials.


    Each had their own roles, from extracting, condensing, heating, and fusion.


    Standing in front of a giant transparent ss, Maximus carefully poured the materials ording to the deductions made by the Seal of Truth.


    As soon as the liquid changed colors, Maximus'' body tensed, expecting a sessful result.


    Once the liquid turned transparent, he hurriedly used the Seal of Truth to confirm if the liquid solution was a sess.


    Upon receiving a positive answer, Maximus'' eyes lit up, and heughed out loud.


    "Complete! The tier 9 liquid solution is finallyplete!"


    Maximus'' excitement caused amotion as his wives gathered around him.


    "Is this the finished product? It doesn''t seem like much!" Hazel remarked.


    "No, it''s not that simple. I can see that this liquid contains immense essence ofw," Lilith murmured, her eyes gleaming.


    "That''s right. If you feel it carefully, there''s a pressure, like a condensed bomb waiting to explode," Skye muttered, sensing danger.


    "No need to investigate further. I''ve already confirmed it. We''ve sessfully created a tier 9 liquid solution!" Maximus dered, hugging his wives in celebration.


    Hundreds of years ago, while he was deep in research, his wives had barged into hisboratory.


    Bored at the Etherium Academy, they decided to help him with his work.


    Although mostcked specialized knowledge in the field, they were still powerful apex sovereigns.


    With the help of his wives, Maximus had sessfully created a tiered-down potion in just a thousand years.


    "Should we sell this? If it''s truly sessful, we''d be rich!" Denice muttered excitedly.


    Such a concentrated essence ofw could mass produce tier 9 powerhouses.


    Even if one didn''t master the essence ofw, the energy alone would be enough to turn anyone into an immortal.


    "No, we can''t sell it yet. It''s too conspicuous..." Maximus thought for a moment and decided.


    He was merely a tier 9 powerhouse, and selling such heaven-defying resources would only invite trouble.


    Furthermore, just collecting 161,803 different tier 9 materials was hassle enough, let alone obtaining a strand of causality of power.


    He didn''t even have enough for himself, let alone others.


    Moreover, the Dimensional Origin Library was already earning enough origin coins.


    Every year, it brought in over a hundred million, making his worth surpass a hundred billion origin coins in a thousand years.


    After exining his reasoning, his wives nodded in understanding.


    "Then this will be the exclusive resource of the Shadowcrest Household," Erica said happily.


    Hearing this, the others nodded in agreement. Such a heaven-defying resource should be theirs to enjoy alone.


    "Enough chit-chat! Let''s try it!" Maximus eximed, diving into the solution.


    A single dose of the tier 9 solution was asrge as a pool.


    Swimming inside, Maximus felt his body greedily devour the essence ofw.


    Watching his progress on the system panel, he calcted the efficiency of the liquid solution.


    "One to a hundred—the liquid solution didn''t deteriorate despite being tiered down!"


    The tier 10 liquid solution he had obtained from the Mechanical Alliance was made from tier 10 treasures, with the effectiveness of converting one strand of causality of power into a hundred strands.


    The tier 9 liquid solution they created, on the other hand, despite being at a lower tier, has the same efficiency.


    "It should be because I''m only at tier 9 realm," Maximus concluded.


    After a thousand years of research, he noticed that the most important part of the liquid solution is the causality of power.


    The other materials were just a base to multiply the effectiveness of the causality of power.


    Seeing how fast the solution diminished, he calcted that he should be able to absorb ten portions of the tier 9 liquid solution.


    If one tier 9 liquid potion was worth 100 strands of causality of power, and he needed over a billion to reach the peak, it would take him just under three thousand years to reach the peak of the tier 9 realm.


    Though it wasn''t as efficient as directly consuming strands of causality of power, it was still a hundred times better.


    Thinking about possessing such an amazing treasure, Maximus couldn''t help but smile.


    "Don''t hog it all to yourself—we worked onto it too!" his wives said, diving into the pool with him.


    Fortunately, the container wasrge enough for them to fit inside.


    Seeing their antics, Maximus just smiled and weed them with open arms.


    There was nothing better than bathing with your wives and growing stronger at the same time.


    Unfortunately, due to theirrge number, the potion''s effectiveness expired after just a few minutes.


    Seeing this, Maximus got up and decided to build argeke for them to swim.


    Hearing his idea, his wives immediately began extracting the essence from various tier 9 materials.


    After a few years of work, they managed to create over five million portions of the tier 9 liquid solution, depleting Maximus'' reserve of causality points.


    Looking at the enormouske that wrapped around the floating castle, they couldn''t help but smile.


    Excited to try their creation, they hurriedly dove into the pool, swimming in reverie.


    "This is awesome! I feel like I could reach the peak of tier 9 realm in just a few hundred years!"


    "Maybe we''ll even catch up to those kids and reach tier 10 realm before them!"


    "It should be possible! With our husband by our side, how could we be worse than those snotty brats?!"


    Despite a thousand years passing, Lily and the others still hadn''t advanced to the tier 10 realm.


    After Maximus created the perfect tier 9 origin manual, he gave each of them a copy, which slowed their progress significantly.


    They still needed thousands of years to reconsolidate their foundation and advance to tier 10 realm.


    As for the gap in magnitude of power, Erica and the others also began training in all 161,803 essences ofw.


    Although the Etherium realm could simte only ten thousand essences ofw, Maximus already transferred their origin to the World Tree.


    With more money than he could spend, Maximus started nurturing a World Tree on arge scale.


    Nurturing a tier 11 World Tree containing all 161,803 essences ofw only required a few billion origin fragments.


    With over a hundred billion origin coins earned by the Dimensional Origin Library, Maximus nurtured a few dozen World Trees for each of his wives and family.


    Not only did a World Tree with aplete essence ofw help them practice all thews in advance and offer protection, but it could also be used to condense tier 9 ultimate treasures.


    If there were only one World Tree, with each tier 9 ultimate treasure taking 100 years to condense, collecting the treasure needed for his tier 9 foundation would take millions of years.


    But now, with a few dozen trees, this number has decreased to just a few hundred thousand years.


    With more money, he could nurture even more World Trees.


    The only problem with their origin bound to the World Tree is that they couldn''t advance to tier 10 realm without the World Tree bing a tier 12 treasure containing all origins ofw.


    Using the Seal of Truth, Maximus deduced that it would cost him trillions of origin fragments to nurture a single tier 12 World Tree.


    As for nurturing a World Tree to the ultimate level, where it could condense its own causality of power?


    The Seal of Truth couldn''t answer—it was beyond the Aeon ne''s capabilities.


    Using the Seal of Truth, Maximus realized that the existence of a tier 12 ultimate-level World Tree was merely a legend—a creation of people''s imagination.


    Perhaps only when Maximus reached the peak of the Aeon ne could he realize this legend and make it into reality.


    Still, a tier 12 World Tree was enough. With all the origins ofw, one could advance all the way to the tier 12 realm.


    The limitation of origin only applied to the foundation realms from tier 1 to tier 10.


    Tier 11 realm was about studying the River of Law orbining 161,803 origins ofw to form a phenomenon.


    Tier 12 realm, on the other hand, involved forming a world where one was absolute.


    A tier 12 World Tree was already heaven-defying, capable of purifying and converting origin fragments into strands of causality of power.


    Such an ability could only belong to a tier 12 ultimate treasure.


    Once Maximus had enough World Trees and his physique reached tier 12, allowing him to produce unlimited origin energy, he could artificially generate as many strands of causality of power as he wanted.


    Thinking of such a future, Maximus couldn''t help but feel excited.


    Looking at his wives enjoying their swim, Maximus couldn''t resist joining them, washing away the fatigue from his thousand years of research.


    "Huh~ I wondered what is the current situation of Etherium Realm…"