Wizard, I have a game board.

Chapter 285 "On What Right?"

“This time I discovered eleven basic time runes, no,” Lor answered truthfully, and was about to talk about the properties when Blood interrupted him.

"Eleven?"

Xue immediately comforted him, saying, "Actually, this is normal, you don't need to be discouraged."

"As you've probably noticed, the effects of the Time River Scroll diminish over time, requiring a long period of accumulation to achieve satisfactory results."

"According to the agreement, I will extend the opening time of the Trial Grounds for another 550 years and reduce the Law Value required to purchase the Time River Scroll by 110,000. Do you have any questions for me to answer this time?"

Eight hundred years and eleven basic time runes are a bit fewer than expected.

However, compared to other geniuses of the same era who embarked on the path of time, he was still far ahead of the competition.

One can only say that the chosen one truly deserves to be called the chosen one.

"Um," Lor asked cautiously, "Manager, does the agreement still stand, that comprehending a rudimentary form of the Time Law can extend the trial grounds' opening time by five hundred years and reduce the Law Value required to purchase the Time River Scroll by 100,000?"

"Of course it counts." Blood nodded subconsciously, then realized what he meant and his eyes widened: "Could it be that the reason you comprehended fewer basic runes this time is because you comprehended the rudimentary form of a law?"

Good grief, it turns out it comforted me too early.

What this guy was trying to say wasn't "not ideal," but rather "just okay."

“Yes, that’s right.” Lor felt relieved and quickly said, “In addition to the eleven basic time runes, I have also comprehended two rudimentary forms of time laws in the past eight hundred years, namely the rudimentary form of the time disorder law and the rudimentary form of the time acceleration law.”

In the end, he sighed with a hint of regret.

If the player could descend for twenty years, he would definitely be able to create three prototypes of the laws of time this time.

"Two prototypes of the laws of time, eleven true essences of the laws of time, eight hundred years." Blood looked at Lor with a regretful expression, wanting to doubt that it had misheard, but it knew that it was impossible for it to have misheard.

Furthermore, the spirit of the dream did not give it any feedback, which means that Lor was not lying.

But when these words are combined, they seem completely unfamiliar no matter how you try to understand them.

At first, it thought it was well prepared, but it never imagined that any preparation could be broken.

More importantly, the little guy seemed quite dissatisfied with having grasped the rudiments of the two time laws.

Is it the animal that's gone mad, or is the world going mad?

For a moment, the hall fell into a long silence.

After a long while, seeing no reaction from the blood, Lor tentatively asked, "Manager, would you like me to demonstrate?"

When he first met Blood, he wanted to demonstrate all the time runes he had mastered, but Blood stopped him before he could finish.

In the two subsequent assessments, he wasn't asked to demonstrate, so he assumed he wouldn't be asked to this time either.

But the current situation seems to be somewhat different from what he imagined.

Could it be that the rudimentary form of the laws of time is different from the basic runes of time, and must be truly revealed before it can be revealed?
"No, no need."

Blood was brought back to his senses by Lor. He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the shock surging in his heart, and waved his paw: "Since you have also comprehended the rudiments of two time laws, then according to the agreement, I will extend the opening time of the trial grounds for another thousand years and subsidize you with two hundred thousand law values ​​to purchase the River of Time."

"With the addition of the Time-based runes, I will extend the opening time of the Trial Grounds by 1,550 years and subsidize you with 310,000 Law Values ​​for purchasing the Time River Scroll. Is that alright?"

“No problem, thank you, manager.” Lor bowed.

"Hey, don't be so polite." Blood waved his claws, grinned, and said cheerfully, "I'm just doing what the agreement says."

The more he looked at Lor, the more satisfied he became. With his talent and hard work, plus the Overlord's plan, if he couldn't become a ninth-tier, then no one could.

No matter how difficult the path of the Time faction is, it cannot stop the joint cultivation of a transcendent treasure and three quasi-transcendent beings!
At that moment, it truly saw hope of escaping its cage.

“Yes,” Lor replied, then said, “Manager, I have another question to ask you.”

"Ask away, ask anything. I won't hide anything I can tell you." Blood nodded nonchalantly.

"Can you tell me the connection between time acceleration, time deceleration, and time standing still?"

Lor voiced his doubts about the time runes: "If time slowing down to its extreme is time stopping, then there seems to be no need to specifically try to understand time stopping."

"But I always feel that there is another connection between them, and if I can fully understand them, perhaps a different change will occur."

"Based on the above two points, I have been hesitant about whether to try to comprehend the rudiments of the law of time stagnation."

There is almost no discussion about the laws of time in the list of information exchanged between civilizations.

All the comments he received were things like "a powerful figure from the Time Faction has appeared somewhere," which were of no help to him whatsoever.

Aside from that, the highest level of existence he could access was blood, so he could only ask this person.

“All of it. Oh right, your civilization’s cultivation system has limitations.” Blood subconsciously wanted Lor to comprehend everything.

After all, given this little guy's talent, it wouldn't be difficult for him to comprehend several more.

However, he quickly remembered the limitations of Lor's cultivation system, and after thinking it over again and again, he slowly said, "In the very distant past, I heard about something."

“Back then, a great being of the Time faction wanted to take on disciples. To become its disciple, there were three basic conditions.”

"The first is the sixth level and below, the second is mastering the rudiments of the three time laws: time acceleration, time stagnation, and time deceleration, and the third is not being completely enslaved."

"As long as all three conditions are met, you can compete for the opportunity to become that disciple."

"This news caused quite a stir, since even I knew about it."

"Unfortunately, the only one here who could barely give you some guidance is dead. No other living being is qualified. As for what to do, it depends on your own choice."

Finally, it looked up at the sky, its gaze seemingly piercing through the dreamlike space of the giant tree reaching for the sky, passing through the second world, and seeing a miniature river of time connected end to end.

Well, if that guy were still alive, the first thing he'd probably do would be kill Lor.

Guidance?

nonexistent!

"Is that so? That's a real shame." Lor nodded thoughtfully, then bowed again and said, "Thank you for your explanation. I think I know what to do now."

The fact that Blood used the word 'great' when referring to the Time Faction being who wanted to take on a disciple is enough to demonstrate the power of that being.

Since even that person believes that the rudiments of the three time laws—time acceleration, time stoppage, and time deceleration—should be mastered, then constructing them all is surely the right thing to do.

It's a pity that the only person here who could give him some guidance is dead; otherwise, he could have better understood the benefits of mastering the rudiments of these three laws. Then again, someone Xue emphasized must have been at least a ninth-tier Time Faction expert, right?

They can actually die?
This world is indeed dangerous; it seems he will have to be extra careful from now on.

All possible contingency plans must be prepared thoroughly, without the slightest carelessness.

"Haha, it's nothing, I'm glad I could help you, no need to be so polite." Blood chuckled and waved his paw. "Besides this, is there anything else you want to ask?"

Now it is incredibly patient with Lor, and it will not hesitate to answer any questions it can.

"Administrator, if we perform a cross-space relocation of the entire plane group, will it damage the origin of the plane group?" Lor didn't hold back and immediately asked another question that had been on his mind for a long time.

The answer to this question can be found in the list of civilization information exchanges: moving a plane individually will sever the connection between the plane and the original source of the plane group, while moving the entire plane group is said to have little effect.

But which of those answers is more reliable than the one spoken by a blood relative?

This matter is of great importance and he cannot afford to be careless in the slightest.

“As long as you don’t make more than ten space jumps in a short period of time, there won’t be much of an impact.” Blood shook his head, looking at Lor with a rather strange expression. “You don’t necessarily want to relocate the dimensional cluster, do you? Let me make this clear first, I can’t grant you dimensional crossing permissions right now. That has been taken over by the Dream Spirit.”

"Don't worry." Having received a definite answer, Lor breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "I plan to find an opportunity to inscribe the space after the trial grounds open, just to have a backup plan."

His spatial inscription will not only be able to hide it from Xue, but it will probably also be able to hide it from all the beings in the Second World who are paying attention to the trial, since this thing will be broadcast live.

Therefore, there is no need to hide it now. Speaking out will allow Xue to take a look and see if his plan is suitable.

"Well, I must say, you have a good idea. This does indeed make it possible to monopolize all the law values."

Xue smiled faintly and said, "But you forgot one thing. There is a person in the sea at position 758 who has quite remarkable expertise in space. He is the leader of the Lingkong Civilization."

"It is currently waiting outside your plane cluster for the trial grounds to open so that its two daughters can go in and gain some experience."

Do you think it will watch you run off with its two daughters?

Within its territory, there are very few seventh- or eighth-order spatial beings.

If it were another plane sea, Lor's plan might actually succeed, since the trial grounds can only be participated in by beings from one plane sea, and beings from other plane seas are prohibited from interfering.

Unfortunately, there happened to be a civilization in the dimensional sea where Lor was located that primarily used a spatial system.

Trying to escape under the noses of beings in the eighth-order space is simply a pipe dream.

"You misunderstood."

Lor quickly waved his hand and explained, "My goal is to avoid facing other large and super-large civilizations after the trial grounds are over. After all, it's uncertain whether my civilization will even have a seventh-ring wizard by then."

"It would be too dangerous to directly confront those large and super-large civilizations."

"As for the Law Value, we can give it to the Lingkong Civilization in exchange for the Lingkong Civilization leader's right to observe."

Do you think I have a chance of succeeding by doing this?

Since he could log into the Second World normally, he naturally couldn't be unaware of the situation outside the Wizarding Dimensions.

In response, the small council had already discussed and come up with some solutions.

The one that received the most support was naturally the one he proposed.

While laws are important to him, civilization is always the most important thing.

As long as civilization is preserved, he can move forward with ease; the larger the territory of civilization and the more geniuses there are, the faster and more steadily he can progress.

Expanding territory is still a long way off; preserving civilization is his most important goal.

"If you can subdue the other civilizations entering the trial grounds, you might actually succeed, provided you're willing to give up those law points that are within your grasp." After pondering for a moment, Blood finally gave a fair answer.

"Thank you for your answer, I have no more questions now," Lor said contentedly.

“Alright, I look forward to seeing you again in 1,550 years.” Blood waved his claws, teleporting Lor out of this space. Then he turned to look at the void beside him and said, word by word, “Eight hundred years, eleven true essences of the laws of time, and two prototypes of the laws of time.”

A crystal-clear butterfly appeared beside it and said softly, "You've overlooked one thing. The first question he asked you was whether you need to comprehend the rudiments of the three time laws: time acceleration, time deceleration, and time stop."

"Does this mean that he has already made some progress on the prototypes of the other two laws?"

Butterfly paused at this point, then shook her head and said, "No, that's not right. Judging from his expression at the time, it seemed like he was absolutely certain."

After the words were spoken, the silkworm and the butterfly stared at each other in silence, and the hall remained quiet for a long time.

After a long while, Xue sighed, "If he had been born in that era and had not been chosen by the Transcendent Treasure, he might have been able to become a disciple of that Transcendent."

Those who transcend must not interfere with the growth of those chosen; this is the ironclad rule of the treasure of transcendence.

Therefore, being chosen by the Transcendent Treasure means that the chosen person loses the opportunity to become the Transcendent's disciple.

Your assumption is incorrect.

Butterfly retorted, "The fact that he was able to achieve this level must have been due to the crucial role played by the Transcendent Treasure."

"To separate him from the transcendent treasure is a cognitive error."

"Hey, I was just making a hypothetical assumption." Blood was somewhat speechless. "On another note, that kid really has some ideas. He actually plans to bribe the Lingkong Civilization in exchange for the opportunity to leave the sea at position 758."

"Won't his actions interfere with your plans?"

All it knew was that the butterfly had already begun arranging the cultivation plan, but unfortunately, the butterfly controlled all the details and hadn't told it anything.

It made it very itchy, but it was helpless.

“No.” Butterfly shook her head. “He can’t leave the crystal domain anyway. At most, they’ll just have to find a different manager to handle things.”

"Ok?"

His bloodshot eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted, "Why? I discovered Lor first, so why should other managers reap the rewards?"

"Anyone who dares to pick my peaches will be punished severely!"

"Why are you so agitated?" The butterfly's antennae swayed gently, looking somewhat helpless. "I mean, my plan is to have a different manager handling things, but you will continue to work with Lor as usual."

"Oh, I see." Xue Cancan smiled, finally relieved.

(End of this chapter)