Swallowing the Stars: Time Simulation

Chapter 238 Choice, Acknowledgment of the Fundamental Law

[At 186 years old, your friend Hong has encountered some trouble, and you are trying to find a solution. However, your friend Luo Feng has already decided to break through to the Domain Lord level. Luo Feng's behavior has puzzled many geniuses, because most geniuses stay at the Universe level for thousands of years!]

After breaking through to the Domain Lord level, Luo Feng, as a member of the Primal Secret Realm, smoothly became the Inspector Special Envoy dispatched by the Virtual Universe Company to the Qianwu branch. He wielded immense power within the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, making it naturally no problem for him to resolve Hong's troubles. Thus, you continued your secluded cultivation in the ancient god ruins of the Blood Luo World.

[At 272 years old, two hundred years after leaving Chaos City, you still haven't left the Blood Luo World, a fact that puzzles many geniuses.]

[Over the past two hundred years, through tireless efforts, you have finally comprehended the 38th essential principle of the fundamental laws of space. While this rate of progress is commendable, it pales in comparison to your previous advancements, a fact that has greatly disappointed your teacher, the Nine Swords Venerable.]

[Of course, your talent in fusing Blood Crystals has greatly surprised the Nine Swords Venerable. Because, at the age of 216, you successfully fused with the sixth Blood Crystal!]

[This year, the once-in-a-century cosmic-level qualification battle began again. Since your friend Luo Feng had already broken through to the Domain Lord level, and there were only two cosmic-level members left in the Primordial Secret Realm, Fito, who was defeated by you, needed to compete with the top three from the Primordial Secret Realm for two Primordial Secret Realm spots. Ultimately, Bolan, a genius from your year, successfully entered the Primordial Secret Realm.]

[In this qualifying battle, your wife Qianshui, with your long-term guidance, also passed the sixth level of the Bridge to Heaven and successfully returned to the Primordial Secret Realm.]

[At 720 years old, more than six hundred years have passed since you left Chaos City.]

[In the past six hundred years, of the thousand geniuses who joined the Virtual Universe Company with you, 489 have perished. Such an astonishing mortality rate is truly appalling! And you and your wife, Qian Shui, are still in the Blood Luo World, a behavior that baffles countless people.]

After more than four hundred years of secluded cultivation, you have comprehended five of the 72 most difficult essential aspects of the fundamental laws of space. Such progress can only be described as acceptable. However, your teacher, the Nine Swords Venerable, was not disappointed. Because, at the age of 357, you successfully fused with the seventh Blood Crystal, and your body still hadn't reached its limit, remaining capable of being further transformed by the malevolent energy within the ancient god's ruins.

For the past few centuries, the Primal Realm has been dominated by you, Feto, and Berlan, with many other geniuses unable to break into it.

[Rong Jun successfully passed the seventh level of the Bridge to Heaven. Immediately after passing the seventh level, he became the number one person at the cosmic level in the Primordial Secret Realm. Unfortunately, due to the suppression from you and Feto, Rong Jun was unable to enter the Primordial Secret Realm.]

In that very year, Luo Feng, who had been cultivating in seclusion within Chaos City for nearly a century, suddenly began his ascent of the Heavenly Bridge. He immediately passed the thirteenth level, astonishing everyone. In just a few hundred years, Luo Feng had actually passed the thirteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge—a rate of progress that even surpassed that of all the geniuses in human history!

[After conquering the Tongtian Bridge, your friend Luo Feng successfully became a disciple of the Chaos City Lord, the head of the Virtual Universe Company.]

[You know that Luo Feng is following the same path as you, analyzing the essence of laws. His progress is completely incomprehensible to you. After all, in over six hundred years, you've only grasped the five most profound essences of spatial laws, while Luo Feng, who was previously far behind you, has directly comprehended all 108 essences of spatial laws, and even passed the thirteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven. Such a speed of progress is truly astonishing.]

[You've found your teacher, Nine Swords Venerable. He tells you that Luo Feng's astonishing rate of progress at the Domain Lord level is unprecedented even in human history! Furthermore, Nine Swords Venerable says that if you can become a Black Warrior who has fused with ten Blood Crystals, you might still have a sliver of hope of catching up to Luo Feng in the future.]

[At age 749, your wife Qianshui is pregnant. Following the advice of your teacher, the Nine Swords Venerable, Qianshui, whose body can no longer be modified by the malevolent energy within the Ancient God Ruins, finally leaves the Blood Luo World and returns to the Primal Universe.]

[Your body was continuously being transformed by the malevolent energy, and in this year, you successfully fused with the eighth Blood Crystal.]

One year later, the Virtual Universe Company's Domain Lord-level Genius Battle begins.

[After the Domain Lord-level qualification battle concluded, Feto, the genius of the Primal Secret Realm who had been suppressed by you for hundreds of years, broke through to the Domain Lord level after passing the ninth level of the Bridge to Heaven. Subsequently, in a new round of qualification battles, Rong Jun finally broke into the Primal Secret Realm.]

[At age 752, after a three-year pregnancy, your child was finally born on Planet Augustus. Afterwards, Qianshui returned to the Primordial Realm with the child.]

[At 1218 years old, time has slipped by unnoticed, and you remain at the ninth level of the cosmic realm.]

[In the blink of an eye, over a thousand years have passed since you left Chaos City. Among the many geniuses still alive today, countless cultivation missions have already been completed, yet you remain in the Blood Luo World.]

[Within this year, you successfully fused with the ninth Blood Crystal, and your body still hasn't reached its limit, allowing it to continue being transformed by the malevolent energy within the Ancient God Ruins. This greatly surprised your teacher, the Nine Swords Venerable. He told you that after fusing with ten Blood Crystals, your strength will undergo a dramatic transformation.]

[Over the past four hundred years, through continuous cultivation, you have finally comprehended nine of the seventy-two most profound essential principles of the fundamental laws of space, successfully passing the tenth level of the Bridge to Heaven. Such an achievement is unparalleled, except for Luo Feng, who has already been accepted as a disciple by Chaos City.]

[Because the quest in the Blood Luo World can only be accepted once, your wife Qian Shui was unable to return to the Blood Luo Continent. However, you still have someone by your side—your child.]

[Your child is now over four hundred years old. More than two hundred years ago, your child was absorbed into the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company. Now, after emerging from the Initial Universe, your child has even entered the Heavenly Secret Realm in a cosmic-level qualification battle.]

[At age 2082, your wife, Qianshui, broke through to the Domain Lord level and refused the overseas mission assigned to her own universe kingdom, instead finding a way to travel to the Qianwu universe kingdom.]

[At this time, more than two thousand years have passed since you left Chaos City. In these two thousand years, your wife Qianshui and your children have all left the Blood Luo World. Only you remain in the Ancient God Ruins because you have yet to fuse the tenth Blood Luo Crystal.]

Over the past two thousand years, you have diligently cultivated your skills and have comprehended 15 of the 72 most profound spatial essences of the fundamental laws of space.

Meanwhile, the other geniuses in your cohort have also made astonishing progress. Bolan, in particular, has already passed the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge, while the most talented, Luo Feng, remains in seclusion within Chaos City.

This year, you attempted to fuse the tenth Blood Crystal again, but unfortunately, you failed once more. However, at the moment of failure, the Blood Crystal was nearly transparent, and you knew that you were about to succeed.

[Simulation ended...]

Looking at his experience in this simulation, Yang Wu was filled with many thoughts.

First, Yang Wu knew very well that all the preparations he had made before the simulation began were in vain. At the same time, Yang Wu also understood the meaning of the sentence before the simulation started: "The characters in the simulator are created by the simulator itself."

Although it is still unknown how this time simulator works, Yang Wu himself has no way to influence his experience in the simulator through advance preparation or reminders.

Of course, apart from that, Yang Wu was indeed very satisfied with his experience in this simulation.

While his comprehension of the laws may seem incredibly slow, it is actually quite astonishing.

Because Yang Wu's rate of progress is at a cosmic level!

If Yang Wu breaks through to the Realm Lord level, with the incredibly astonishing speed of understanding the laws at the Realm Lord level, it would probably only take him a few decades to comprehend these 15 essences!

His progress in comprehending the laws was already astonishing, but what pleased Yang Wu the most was his talent in fusing the Blood Crystal.

Yang Wu, familiar with the original work, knew that even within the endless territories of the human race, the number of Black Warriors was extremely rare. Otherwise, the Lord of Chaos City wouldn't have repeatedly praised Luo Feng upon learning that he had become a Black Warrior.

It should be noted that even when Luo Feng created his ultimate technique over a thousand years, the people of Chaos City only said "not bad" twice.

Moreover, even during this simulation, Qian Shui and Yang Wu's child in the simulator all left the Blood Luo World one after another, which means that their bodies had reached their limits and could no longer fuse with the Blood Luo Crystal.

But what about Yang Wu? Judging from his experience in the simulator alone, he's already extremely close to becoming a Black Warrior. It's even possible that even after becoming a Black Warrior, Yang Wu still won't reach his limit.

This is enough to prove that Yang Wu is indeed exceptionally talented in fusing Blood Crystals!

The appearance of that child also caught Yang Wu off guard.

He's never married in real life, but he has a child in the simulation. How can you explain that?

However, if Yang Wu really had a child in reality, he would definitely find a way to send Qian Shui to Earth. After all, Earth was modified by a god-king, and being born there would make it easier to improve one's mental state.

Of course, the experience in the simulator was also quite good.

The Nine Swords Venerable reminded him that Qian Shui's return to Planet Augustus must be due to the difference between extraterrestrial humans and those from the secret realm.

Humans born in the divine realm or the secret realm are not much different from humans born in the cosmic realm in the early stages, and may even be stronger, but their growth potential is much lower.

The Divine Kingdom has the largest human population, but the highest level they can cultivate to is the Realm Lord. Over countless years, extremely few humans in the Divine Kingdom have been able to successfully break through to Immortality, and all of them have had special encounters.

The human population in the Cosmic Secret Realm is also extremely large. Although they can cultivate to the Immortal stage like the humans in the Cosmic Kingdom, the probability of breaking through to the Cosmic Venerable is ridiculously low.

Only humans born and raised within the universe are not subject to this restriction.

In the vast universe, 98.2% of the cosmic beings are humans from the cosmic kingdom.

In the end, after Qian Shui broke through to the Domain Lord level, he went to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, which was definitely because of Yang Wu...

Although these experiences all took place in a simulator, they still deeply moved Yang Wu.

[The simulation has ended. You can choose one of the following rewards.]

[First, his martial arts cultivation at age 2082.]

[Part Two: Martial Arts Insights at Age 2082.]

[Part Three: Simulated Life Experiences.]

Soon, the reward option appeared on the simulator.

Faced with these three familiar options, Yang Wu hesitated.

Yang Wu's hesitation this time did not stem from not knowing which option to choose. His goal was clear: choosing the reward related to Blood Crystal fusion was the most important. As for the others, he could wait until the next simulation to choose them.

However, Yang Wu did not know whether the fused Blood Luo power belonged to martial arts cultivation or martial arts comprehension.

Logically speaking, fusing with the Blood Crystal is a change in the body and should fall under the category of martial arts cultivation.

However, if genes want to be changed, they need to drive the power of Blood Luo, which makes it seem like a kind of innate secret technique that can be categorized as a martial arts enlightenment.

After much hesitation, Yang Wu finally chose the reward of martial arts enlightenment.

Even if the Blood Luo Power belongs to martial arts cultivation, Yang Wu can still gain a lot of insights into the laws by choosing this method, and he can wait until next time to choose martial arts cultivation.

However, if Yang Wu had chosen the reward of martial arts cultivation, while the Blood Luo Power belongs to martial arts comprehension, then Yang Wu would have gained absolutely nothing from this relatively perfect simulation experience.

Therefore, Yang Wu ultimately chose the most prudent decision.

The moment Yang Wu made his choice, countless insights began to surface in his mind, and his understanding of the laws of space increased dramatically.

At the same time, an incomparably powerful aura of law enveloped the deep pit where Yang Wu was located, with crimson secret runes flowing around it, radiating light. In an instant, the entire deep pit became incredibly dazzling, and the intense fluctuations of the fire source law were even more terrifying.

Yang Wu sat cross-legged in the dwelling he had dug himself in the deep pit, silently appreciating his gains in the simulator.

Rumble!!

The surrounding space trembled continuously, and a drop of crimson water appeared out of thin air above Yang Wu's head before falling directly down.

Tick ​​tock!

The crimson water droplets fell directly onto Yang Wu's head, ignoring his physical body, and penetrated into his consciousness and dantian respectively.

The sea of ​​consciousness is the core of Yang Wu's soul; the dantian is the core of Yang Wu's power.

Sizzle!

The crimson water droplets were easily absorbed by Yang Wu's sea of ​​consciousness and dantian, causing a faint crimson tinge to appear in his sea of ​​consciousness and dantian.

At this moment, Yang Wu in reality has officially received the recognition of the fundamental law of flame!

A flame mark slowly appeared between Yang Wu's eyebrows, faintly containing a heart-palpitating fluctuation of law. This was a mark that had been recognized by the primordial law.

……

Not far above where Yang Wu was in the deep pit, Qian Shui was quietly comprehending the laws.

"Um?"

"The fundamental law of fire has descended? Has Yang Wu gained the recognition of the fundamental law of fire?"

Upon witnessing this shocking scene, Qian Shui immediately reacted.

If this were anywhere else, Qian Shui would definitely go to Yang Wu to congratulate him. But this is the most dangerous ancient god ruin in the Blood Luo World, and Qian Shui already knew about the danger here when she chatted with Yang Wu earlier.

Immediately, Qian Shui hurriedly flew downwards. Although she couldn't stay in Yang Wu's location for long with her willpower, entering for a short time was no problem.

……

Within these ancient god ruins, spanning hundreds of billions of kilometers in diameter, powerful beings abound. It is not uncommon for a cultivator to gain the recognition of the fundamental laws, resulting in various scenes of the descent of the fundamental laws.

The moment the fundamental law descended, all the cultivators near Yang Wu's cultivation location were alarmed.

Those who can gain the recognition of the fundamental laws are mostly peak existences of the ninth level of the Realm Lord. Such powerful individuals are extremely strong even in the vast Blood Luo Continent.

Therefore, almost all the cultivators who could witness the descent of the fundamental laws prepared to come here to offer their congratulations!

"With the descent of the fundamental laws, I must witness the power of such an unparalleled expert!"

"With the fundamental laws acknowledged, consciousness can roam freely across the ocean of laws—how enviable!"

……

In an instant, many cultivators began to converge on the deep pit where Yang Wu was.

(End of this chapter)