Swallowing the Stars: Time Simulation

Chapter 257 Amazing Progress

[At 232 years old, you are focused on cultivation in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom when you suddenly receive a mission from a virtual company at the Domain Lord stage.]

During the mission, you befriended a peak-level Immortal King from a human subordinate race, and at his invitation, you visited his hometown.

[In the homeland of that human-subordinate race, you were challenged by a peerless genius who was also a ninth-level Domain Lord. You used every means at your disposal and finally defeated him.]

[This subordinate race possesses a sacred artifact comparable to the Chaos Monument. You were fortunate enough to be permitted to study it for a month, which significantly improved your not-so-profound understanding of the Law of Metal.]

[After completing your comprehension, you received a precious gift from this subordinate race, allowing you to choose any secret manual from their ancestral heritage site.]

You have obtained an extremely valuable secret manual at the other party's ancestral land.

[Having gained a great deal, you are about to leave the other person's hometown when you receive a very warm and hospitable invitation from an immortal, inviting you to explore their hometown thoroughly.]

Ultimately, you decided to linger a little longer, and then, guided by the extremely hospitable immortal, you began your journey to various wondrous places in their homeland. In one of these places stood a strange statue that bore a striking resemblance to the ancient behemoth projection you encountered in the Bloodlust World.

[According to that hospitable immortal, many powerful humans meditate near that statue. You were very curious and decided to begin your own cultivation there as well.]

[At 272 years old, two hundred years have passed since you left Chaos City. You have finally comprehended a new essence of space. To date, you have comprehended 18 of the 72 most difficult essences of the laws of space.]

[This year, a new round of cosmic-level qualification battles began at the Virtual Universe Company. Due to your breakthrough, one member of the Primal Secret Realm's cosmic-level team was missing. Ultimately, your fellow genius, Bolan, also entered the Primal Secret Realm.]

[Your wife, Qianshui, also successfully passed the sixth level of the Bridge to Heaven over the past hundred years and finally returned safely to the Primordial Secret Realm.]

[At 301 years old, over a hundred years have passed since you broke through to the Domain Lord level.]

Having spent decades in the homeland of that subordinate race, and having gained no insight from the mysterious statue, you decide to return to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.

Just as you were bidding farewell to that hospitable immortal, an unexpected event occurred. The opponent instantly self-destructed, unleashing a powerful burst of immortal divine power that instantly obliterated you, and severely injured your guard leader.

Meanwhile, on a desolate, lifeless planet in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, your Yan God Clan avatar once again gave birth to your human body on Earth.

At age 302, you encounter your bodyguard leader again in reality. He apologizes to you, and although you forgive him, you never truly trust him again.

Meanwhile, your teacher, Marquis Jin Guang, also heard about your assassination attempt by the alien race. He then returned directly from the extraterrestrial battlefield, determined to protect you.

The arrival of Jin Guanghou deeply moved you. In the days that followed, you got along very well with the three giants of the Qianwu branch of the Virtual Universe Company, and they began to help Jin Guanghou's forces as much as possible within the rules.

[At age 316, your friend Luo Feng conquered the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge, becoming a peerless genius second only to you.]

Luo Feng, having passed the ninth level of the Bridge to Heaven, also broke through to the Domain Lord level. During his mission, he became a special envoy for a neighboring universe kingdom.

[At 750 years old, more than six hundred years have passed since you left Chaos City.]

This year, the latest round of the domain lord-level qualification battle at Virtual Universe Company has finally begun.

Since Luo Feng conquered the ninth level of the Bridge to Heaven, neither of you has attempted it again for hundreds of years. Therefore, many are speculating about who is the more talented individual in this qualifying round.

[Because you and Luo Feng broke through one after the other, the original secret realm's domain lord-level members, which originally numbered only ten, now number twelve.]

[You won eight out of the eleven qualifying battles at the Domain Lord level, successfully remaining in the Primal Realm.]

[What's truly astonishing is that your friend Luo Feng, who has already gone to the Initial Universe to cultivate, actually crushed 11 Primordial Realm Lords, including yourself, with absolute power.]

During your battle, your friend Luo Feng, to show his respect for you, actually used the final move of the Divine Weapon—'Even the Immortal Can Be Confronted'! This power astonished everyone watching the fight.

After the qualifying battle, Luo Feng attempted to cross the Bridge of Heaven again, and incredibly, he cleared the thirteenth level in one go. This rate of progress even surpassed that of all the Domain Lord-level geniuses in human history.

After successfully crossing the Heavenly Bridge, Luo Feng smoothly became a disciple of the Chaos City Lord, the head of the Virtual Universe Company.

[Because you frequently spar with Luo Feng, you know that he follows the same path of analyzing the essence of laws as you. Therefore, his astonishing progress is completely incomprehensible to you. After all, hundreds of years have passed, and you are still a little short of passing the eleventh level of the Bridge to Heaven, while Luo Feng, who was once far behind you, has directly comprehended all the essence of the laws of space and has 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! However, Nine Swords Venerable also tells you that while you lag behind him in understanding the laws, your advantage lies in your physical strength, so there's no need to use your weakness against his strength.]

[At 821 years old, your wife Qianshui also broke through to the Domain Lord level. While on a mission dispatched by the Virtual Universe Company, she chose the Qianwu Universe Kingdom and came to your hometown.]

[Under the immense pressure from Luo Feng, you have been diligently cultivating, and finally, in this year, you have comprehended 27 of the 72 most profound essences of the laws of space, and successfully passed the eleventh level of the Bridge to Heaven.]

[At 942 years old, time has slipped by unnoticed, and you remain at the ninth level of Domain Lord.]

Nearly nine hundred years have passed since you participated in the Genius Battle. Most of the geniuses from your cohort have perished, and only 427 remain alive. Even among the geniuses who made it into the top twenty, one has fallen.

This year, your wife Qianshui became pregnant. This news made you extremely happy, after all, the stronger you are, the more difficult it is to have children.

Three years later, your first child was successfully born in your home planet Earth.

[At age 1218, more than two hundred years have passed since your child was born.]

[During this year, your child, who had already been absorbed by the Virtual Universe Company, finally gained the qualification to go to the Initial Universe for cultivation.]

Meanwhile, having attained the qualification to cultivate in the Initial Universe at the Domain Lord stage, you decide to accompany your child to the Initial Universe. Unfortunately, your wife, Qianshui, is still relatively weak and not yet suitable for secluded cultivation in the Initial Universe.

After you traveled to the initial universe, your wife, Qianshui, stayed in your hometown for ten years before heading to her own home planet, the "mysterious place" of Augustus, to cultivate in seclusion.

[At age 2142, time has passed, and you have now spent nearly nine hundred years cultivating in the primordial universe.]

Over the course of nearly a thousand years, you have diligently cultivated your skills and finally comprehended 52 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 tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge, while Luo Feng, a genius who has long surpassed you, remains in seclusion within Chaos City, cultivating in isolation.

[Simulation ended...]

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

The experience in the simulator alone is enough to show the role of clones.

In this simulation, the mission Yang Wu received in the early stages should be the one involving cooperation with the Golden Horn Clan.

It can be said that Yang Wu perfectly replicated Luo Feng's experience during that period.

Unlike Luo Feng's experience in the original story, the genius who challenged Yang Wu was likely the top genius of the Golden Horn Clan at the Domain Lord level. More importantly, the guard leader, Field, who protected Yang Wu, was clearly less dedicated than Luo Feng's junior disciple, and his strength was also somewhat lacking.

That's why Yang Wu's human body was killed by the immortal controlled by the Zerg through self-destruction. Of course, the possibility that the Zerg sent an even more powerful immortal cannot be ruled out.

Fortunately, Yang Wu already possessed the ability to create clones, successfully surviving the assassination attempt. However, his ability to create clones was undoubtedly exposed as a result.

Of course, aside from that, Yang Wu was extremely satisfied with this simulation experience.

First, Yang Wu quickly broke through to the Domain Lord stage in the simulator. Although he did not break through to the World Lord stage until the end, his cultivation speed increased significantly.

With the help of various treasures, Yang Wu has comprehended 35 new spatial essences in two thousand years, a speed that far surpasses the previous simulations.

Furthermore, Yang Wu was deeply moved by Qian Shui and Jin Guanghou's experiences in the simulator.

In order to protect Yang Wu, who was assassinated, Jin Guanghou specially returned to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom from the battlefield outside the region.

Qian Shui, having cultivated for less than a thousand years, broke through to the Domain Lord stage. At that time, she probably hadn't even passed the seventh level of the Heavenly Bridge. With such strength, she would likely have been relegated to the Heavenly Secret Realm during the Domain Lord qualification battle.

Another point is that in both simulations, Yang Wu and Qian Shui's children successfully joined the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company, which is enough to demonstrate the extraordinary nature of Yang Wu's descendants.

This news made Yang Wu very happy, and he was really looking forward to the arrival of the child.

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

[First, his martial arts cultivation at age 2142.]

[Part Two: Martial Arts Insights at Age 2142.]

[Part Three: Simulated Life Experiences.]

Soon, the reward option appeared on the simulator.

Faced with these three familiar options, Yang Wu did not hesitate at all and directly chose the martial arts enlightenment from reward two.

"I choose reward two!"

The moment Yang Wu made his choice, countless insights began to surface in his mind.

The Law of Fire, the Law of Metal, the Law of Space...

Various secret techniques, various combat skills...

Countless insights into martial arts flooded into Yang Wu's mind, then merged with his previous insights, ultimately allowing him to fully accept and master them.

Once Yang Wu had absorbed all the insights, he finally realized just how amazing his gains were.

In addition to having comprehended 88 out of the 108 spatial essences in terms of spatial laws, Yang Wu has also made astonishing progress in other areas.

Yang Wu has already cultivated the body-amplifying secret technique "Nine Refinements of Flame Crystal Body" to the second level. Once unleashed, his strength can reach four times its original level.

Yang Wu also fully mastered the movement technique "Nine Steps to Heaven," which greatly enhanced his burst speed and ability to change direction instantly.

Of course, Yang Wu's greatest gain from this simulation was his understanding of the Law of Metal.

Yang Wu's enlightenment at the Golden Horn Clan's sacred monument also allowed him to reach the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge in terms of the Law of Metal.

While such strength is insignificant compared to Yang Wu's two great laws of fire and space, it still reaches the level of several top geniuses in the Primordial Secret Realm.

More importantly, Yang Wu knew that in the later stages, he needed to master the laws of fusion and ultimately strive towards the laws of chaos.

Therefore, it is best to master all ten laws at the very beginning.

Before breaking through to immortality, it's best to have all eight lower-level laws recognized by the fundamental law. This way, when he tries to comprehend these laws later, it will be much easier.

This was arguably the most unexpected gain he made during this simulation experience.

"If the next simulation goes smoothly, I should be able to comprehend all 108 essential aspects of the laws of space, right?" Yang Wu thought to himself, reflecting on all the gains he had made from the simulator.

After a short rest, Yang Wu started a new simulation.

However, this simulation did not encounter a cautious and steady personality, so Yang Wu ultimately chose the brave personality.

Soon, all the simulation experiences appeared on the simulator panel in front of Yang Wu.

However, the new simulation produced many unexpected results.

In the early stages of the simulation, due to Yang Wu's different personality choices, he wasted a lot of time in the cosmic-level secret realm mission.

Of course, Yang Wu broke through to the Domain Lord level at the same time, but because he had experienced the previous simulation, his talent became even more amazing in the eyes of others.

Therefore, after the first assassination attempt failed, the Zerg quickly organized a second one.

In Yang Wu's view, this second assassination attempt was likely carried out by an immortal who was skilled in soul control.

Yang Wu possessed an extremely strong will and an extraordinary state of mind, and ultimately, his second assassination attempt also failed.

(End of this chapter)