Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 206 Accumulated Changes, The End of the Laws

To be honest, even without inheriting the legacy of Duan Donghe, his decades of accumulation have brought about earth-shattering changes.

When the main body went to the tomb ship where the inheritance of the Broken East River was located, he left an energy avatar in the space of the black-patterned stone pillar, so that it could carry the Time Palace to continue its cultivation.

This is the fundamental reason why he was able to maintain a cultivation efficiency of 300 million times after that.

With the Tomb Ship, his time acceleration limit can break through a new limit!

The time acceleration method in the Tomb Ship's inheritance space is significantly more advanced and reasonable than the Time Palace given by the Chaos City Lord, and the pressure of ultra-high-multiplier time acceleration will be greatly reduced.

In the original work, after Luo Feng possessed the will of a Void True God, he flew into the space of the Black Pattern Stone Pillar on the Tomb Ship and approached the depths of the stone pillar. In the outside space, he achieved a time acceleration of 500,000 times, which, combined with the 20 times time acceleration in the inheritance space, resulted in a time acceleration of 10 million times.

Luo Feng stopped at a time acceleration of tens of millions of times because he was worried that the energy of the inheritance space would be quickly exhausted. It doesn't mean that he couldn't continue to improve.

According to Hunzhen's estimation, if the energy reserves of the Tomb Ship are squeezed to the limit within a decade, it is possible to increase the time limit by a factor of a hundred million.

This efficiency is a thousand times higher than before!

That's three hundred billion times the cultivation efficiency!

Previously, Hunzhen cultivated for a thousand years, which is roughly equivalent to one twenty-five thousandth of a cycle of reincarnation.

This means that if one can maintain a time acceleration of one hundred million times and cultivate for 25,000 years, it is equivalent to others cultivating for one cycle of reincarnation without time acceleration!

At this point, however, the time acceleration becomes somewhat irrelevant.

Hunzhen's current strength far surpasses that of the strongest beings in other universes, and there is no one chasing after him.

Moreover, the simulations we are conducting now are all about consciousness possession, which is equivalent to Hunzhen cultivating on his own.

Hunzhen's temperament and will are now completely different from before, allowing him to stay in the Black Pattern Stone Pillar space for a long time to cultivate in seclusion, just like Lord Beichi Star.

But... he still has a sense of time.

He asked himself if he could maintain a full cycle of meditation for one lifetime without any problem.

But if this continues, what about two cycles of reincarnation, three cycles of reincarnation, ten cycles of reincarnation... or even hundreds or thousands of cycles of reincarnation?

For so long, you've just been sitting in one place?

Just thinking about it in his mind made his scalp tingle.

With his ability to simulate reality, his time is ultimately different from others.

As simulations evolve into consciousness-attached simulations, this difference becomes increasingly apparent.

However, that is something that will happen in the distant future.

There is joy in the laws themselves; the insights gained from studying the laws are like the feelings of philosophers in a past life as they explored the truth.

Especially now that Hunzhen has not yet fully digested the Chaos Evolution Era and the inheritance of Duan Donghe, he feels no fatigue in the process of absorbing knowledge like a sponge, but only a thirst for knowledge.

Like humans who have drunk sea salt water, the more they drink, the thirstier they become.

It's like finding a novel you love during work hours, getting so engrossed in it that you wish you could stretch one day into two, and feeling like time is flying by. How could you complain about how long it takes?

Therefore, in these decades of his life, he has been immersed in cultivation every time he simulates a practice, finding it not boring but rather enjoyable.

And in the decades following his exposure to the evolution of chaos, his improvement was also immense.

Although it is not as the First True God and the Mountain-Sitting Guest thought, that his realm has reached the level of breaking through to True God, that is, the realm of Void True God, it is not far off.

Just as he had initially predicted, the first few times he came into contact with the chaotic evolution were indeed the most effective and yielded the most insights. However, although the effect was greatly weakened after the next few hundred thousand times, it did not gradually decrease with the number of times he came into contact with it.

Or, like the opportunities presented by those Chaos Monuments and Inheritance Sites, observing the evolution of chaos also involves accumulation. If one's own understanding of the laws is insufficient, the effect of comprehending the evolution of chaos will be greatly weakened.

Without new insights into the laws themselves, it is difficult to generate new inspiration no matter how much one observes opportunities to comprehend these laws.

However, the Chaos Evolution is ultimately an opportunity that points directly to the laws of chaos, while the Chaos Stele and the Land of Inheritance are, in comparison, worthless.

In this way, his strongest secret technique has already reached the peak of the ninth rank and is at the threshold of the tenth rank. With just a few more times of comprehension, a flash of inspiration will surely allow him to break through to the tenth rank.

With the blessing of the Omniscient Vision, reaching the true eleventh level is as easy as taking candy from a baby.

Even at this level, the ability to ignore the shielding of the original cosmic will has not weakened, which is entirely within Hunzhen's expectations.

However, Hunzhen's improvement speed is too fast, especially during this period, his strength has improved significantly with each simulation.

Unlike the original ancestor, who remained at one realm for a long time, he would study methods to limit power and use low-level treasures to unleash his full strength.

With the Time-Shattering Demon Blade's grade, Hunzhen possesses the vision of the eleventh rank and can easily unleash the power of the ninth rank. With some effort, reaching the tenth rank is not difficult.

However, he lacked the strength to unleash an eleventh-tier strike with the Time-Scarring Demon Blade.

Under the suppression of the primordial cosmic will, the divine power of all true gods was suppressed a hundredfold. Therefore, the true power of a true god must be elevated two levels above its current level.

Therefore, in theory, the eleventh and twelfth orders are still at the level of true gods, while the thirteenth order is the true level of the void true god.

However, the twelfth level of a true god is like the sixth level of a cosmic lord. The twelfth level means that one has the potential to break through to the Void True God realm. As for the thirteenth level of a true god, it is almost legendary and can only be achieved by extremely talented geniuses.

The ultimate treasure is actually the top-level treasure at the level of the Lord of the Universe. No matter how much the user studies it in a targeted manner like the Primordial Ancestor, they probably cannot unleash the power of a Void True God through it.

After all, it's just a weapon used by a minor universe master!

However, if one only crosses one major level and is used by the true god, it is still barely acceptable.

However, the higher the level, the more difficult it is to unleash power approaching the level of a true god of the void.

With Hunzhen's current level, unleashing tenth-tier power using a top-tier treasure is roughly the limit.

Most importantly, this "ability" is basically not very useful.

Hunzhen's progress is rapid, and his combat power has already reached an exceptional level in the Cosmic Sea, so there is no need to deliberately hone this ability.

In any case, even if the Time-Shattering Demon Blade is not upgraded to the level of the strongest treasure, as his understanding of the laws improves, his control over power will naturally increase. When his strongest secret technique reaches the eleventh level, and he uses the Omniscient Vision, it will not be a problem for him to unleash the power of the eleventh level with the Time-Shattering Demon Blade, which is at the peak level of the treasure.

Therefore, "how to enhance" his strength is no longer his concern at this stage.

He cares about the path of rules, about potential, and about the future.

Over the decades, besides comprehending the evolution of chaos, his greatest gain was the experience of reconstructing the universe's structure hundreds of thousands of times.

Having reconstructed miniature universes hundreds of thousands of times, Hunzhen can confidently say that his experience in constructing miniature universes is absolutely unparalleled in the entire universe, except for the God-King disguised as Zuoshanke. Even the two Holy Land Ancestors would be no match for him.

The Mountain-Sitting Guest reincarnated in the Cosmic Sea in his quest for revenge, creating numerous miniature universes, but none could compare to his hundreds of thousands of reincarnations. However, the experience and knowledge gained are incomparable.

Given the perspective of the Mountain-Sitting God King, even if he only established a small universe a few times, his experience points would probably be higher than his.

Hunzhen also proved through practice that a more perfect design can indeed make the small universe more perfect. Taking him at different times as an example, when his understanding of the laws was similar, the more perfect universe structure broke through to the True God level. The difference in strength between the two peaks could be several times.

However, when comparing a normally formed miniature universe with a miniature universe with a perfect universe structure, the difference in strength is only 20% to 30%.

Because it is only a simulation, it has a real-world basis. With hundreds of thousands of attempts, Hunzhen has even tried some extremely radical cosmological architectures and experienced the failure of cosmic collapse.

But no matter which time, his miniature universe failed to break through the bottleneck of the true god's miniature universe having a diameter of one hundred million light-years.

In the original work, Luo Feng was the only one who broke the 100 million light-year limit.

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With extraordinary talent like the progenitor, whose genius surpassed that of others, he was still only a small universe with a diameter of one hundred million light-years.

Based on his own experience and the cases in the original work, Hunzhen came to a powerful conclusion: whether the universe's structure is perfect or not determines whether a true god's future path will be smooth, while the depth of the foundation determines the difference in the essence of the microcosm.

Luo Feng's path to becoming a true god through the perfect divine power route is a small universe with a diameter of one billion light-years. In the Hunzhen conception, once the limit of the law route is broken, it should also be able to break through to a diameter of one billion light-years in one fell swoop.

To reiterate, the path of laws and the path of divine power are clearly two well-rounded paths that correspond to each other, and there is no reason to favor one over the other.

It's not about pursuing some unfounded fairness, but because the Three Thousand Dimensions Universe is a lower-level world of the Origin Continent, while the Origin Continent is a complete source world. It was also watched by an old monster like Yuan, a Lord of Chaos, who left behind his legacy. It's impossible for it to have left behind such a flawed "setting".

However, even though the Mountain Guest clearly had a very high level of understanding of the laws and could become a true god through the path of the laws, he was still just a true god through the most ordinary path of the laws.

Although there is the debuff of the original cosmic will limiting him, according to the original description, the Mountain-Sitting Guest does not follow the path of divine power. Even if he breaks through to the True God level by comprehending the laws of the laws at the level of a God-King, he may not be able to break through the shackles of a small universe of one hundred million light-years.

From this perspective, even a God-King level being four levels above a True God in terms of understanding of laws seems unable to gain an advantage on the path of divine power. Otherwise, there would be no reason for the Mountain-Sitting Guest to consider a breakthrough via the path of divine power as his most perfect breakthrough.

Unless, the experience of the Mountain-Sitting Guest at the God-King level can only be perfectly utilized on the path of divine power. On the path of laws, no matter how high his understanding of laws is, it is useless and cannot compare to the path of divine power.

To be honest, after realizing this more than 10,000 years ago, Hunzhen's ideas did waver.

What a joke! Even a God-King level expert like the Mountain-Sitting Guest couldn't break through the shackles of his understanding of the laws!

It's hard to say whether he'll have the level of enlightenment of a Chaos Ruler by the end of this cycle of reincarnation.

Wouldn't that be walking down a dead end?

But as time went by, Hunzhen finally became steadfast in his Daoist heart.

To this day...

If one seeks power, he has already reached the pinnacle of the cosmic sea.

He was confident that even if he entered the Origin Continent, he would not be inferior to those top geniuses of his "peer".

Even if you can't be the absolute "number one", you are definitely above tens of thousands of people.

If the ultimate goal was to pursue power, he has already achieved it.

At this point, what he was pursuing had become a pure belief.

He did not believe that perfection could not be achieved by breaking through the path of laws.

He didn't believe that one couldn't become the strongest by breaking through the laws of nature!

He longed to see if, at the end of those laws, there was a landscape that rivaled perfect divine power.

The legacy of the Broken East River is the key to unlocking the door to truth.

After breaking the shield of the primordial cosmic will through the omniscient vision, he had obtained the information he wanted.

The truth about the path of law...

Why are true gods who achieve godhood through the path of laws mostly far weaker than those who achieve godhood through the path of divine power?

Why is it that in one cycle of the universe, if someone has walked a path, later generations cannot walk it?

These questions all lead to one answer.

This is because the so-called rule of law is a shortcut.

It is by stealing the authority of the laws of the universe and using the power of the primordial universe to become a true god.

Once power has been stolen, no one else can steal it again.

The difficulty increases dramatically when following a path similar to, but not entirely identical to, that of those who came before. It's like a cake with only so much space; if you only get half, more than half may have already been taken by others. If you only get half left, you'll naturally suffer from "malnutrition."

Similar limitations exist on the Origin Continent, except that the source of its rules and authority is not the primordial universe, but the "Great Source." It's like having a much larger, more layered cake, which the Origin Continent can afford even if it has more True Gods. It can even allow some who steal and overlap authority to break through to True Godhood.

Moreover, just as the primordial universe undergoes cycles of reincarnation, the Great Origin also restarts every "Great Evolutionary Era." This is a process of filtering out "redundancy" on the Origin Continent, similar to the process of the primordial universe's destruction.

The reason why the true gods of the laws are weak is simple: stolen power is ultimately inferior to one's own. The path of divine power, the foundation for breakthrough lies in life itself, not in external things. The difference between the two is like the difference between "becoming a god through incense offerings" and "becoming an immortal through cultivation" in the mythology of the previous life of Hunzhen.

But just as Hunzhen Conjecture suggested, there are also geniuses on the Law route who can rival the true gods of the top-tier divine power route.

Strictly speaking, the path of law followed by these prodigies is the true orthodox path of law.

Its difficulty is no less than that of becoming a true god through divine power.

(End of this chapter)