The Road Ahead

The Azure Dragon Avatar's transformation process lasted approximately five minutes.

The Azure Dragon Avatar, originally a thousand meters long, directly surged to ten thousand meters. Its once bright cyan scales turned dark cyan, and its texture transformed from magnificent gemstone to heavy metal.

"My inner world, which just broke through to Planet-Level, actually feels a bit crowded now."

Within the ten-kilometer-diameter lake, the Azure Dragon Avatar coiled and swam, the two-colored patterns on its body shimmering faintly.

"So, this is the fluctuation of the spatial laws."

Shen Mu's consciousness, through the Azure Dragon Avatar, perceived the background color filling the universe, a boundless and magnificent fluctuation.

"Myriad Threads Stream!"

The Azure Dragon Avatar shuddered, and in the next instant, two Azure Dragons appeared above the water!

In the blink of an eye, the figures of the two Azure Dragons blurred, transforming into five Azure Dragons soaring in the clouds.

"In this world, the difference in talent is truly the most cruel."

Shen Mu exhaled a long breath. Previously, his Insight into the spatial origin laws was basically zero, and he couldn't even detect the fluctuations of space.

Now, with the Azure Dragon Avatar possessing the talent of a law's darling, it almost instinctively evoked the fluctuations of space, and displayed a doppelganger.

The so-called Spatial Doppelganger is to distort space, allowing one's body or attack to appear in two or more locations simultaneously.

This is the most terrifying aspect of the doppelganger: all doppelgangers are essentially just one body, all are the original, and therefore all can attack.

"Let me try the legendary Teleportation."

Shen Mu's mind stirred, and the dark silver secret patterns covering the East Sea Azure Dragon's body suddenly shone brightly, the entire dragon's figure becoming slightly illusory.

In that instant, Shen Mu's consciousness, through the Azure Dragon Avatar, could clearly perceive any subtle changes and fluctuations in the surrounding space.

Buzz!

The spatial secret patterns on the East Sea Azure Dragon emitted fluctuations, overlapping with the spatial fluctuation coordinates three kilometers below the water's surface.

Whoosh!

The Azure Dragon Avatar directly disappeared from the water's surface, and then appeared out of thin air at the bottom of the quiet lake.

"This feeling, as if the entire space is under my control."

As the East Sea Azure Dragon moved, the entire space subtly fluctuated, as if echoing the East Sea Azure Dragon itself.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

In the next instant, the East Sea Azure Dragon began to roam in space, its figure Teleporting time and time again through the fluctuations of space.

After a moment, Shen Mu felt a sense of fatigue coming over him. Using Teleportation secret techniques at the Star-Level consumes a considerable amount of energy.

But in just this short time, Shen Mu had Teleported hundreds or even thousands of times, although the Teleportation distance was only about three kilometers. This is currently the limit that Shen Mu can achieve.

Outside, Shen Mu opened his eyes.

"Suddenly switching back to the perception of an Earthling, it's actually a bit uncomfortable."

Unlike the feeling of controlling spatial fluctuations with the East Sea Azure Dragon, the Earthling body can't even detect spatial fluctuations. This feeling is as uncomfortable as having some kind of shackle on his body.

"The current goal is to cross the threshold of the spatial origin laws as soon as possible!"

With the talent of the Azure Dragon Avatar, crossing the threshold of the spatial laws is only a matter of time.

Now, with less than five years until the genius competition, Shen Mu is still confident in his Insight. Perhaps there is hope to break through to the Myriad Threads Stream level before the end of the genius competition.

Of course, this is only hope, a lofty goal, and it will be difficult to achieve.

Don't look down on Myriad Threads Stream. In the original story, it was after Luo Feng entered Chaos City for ten years of intensive cultivation that he mastered Myriad Threads Stream.

Not to mention the blessing of comprehending the Chaos Monument and explaining the secret methods of space for the comprehension of the laws. Just the 10x increase in law clarity makes the progress of 10 years of intensive cultivation in Chaos City better than a hundred years of cultivation outside.

"If I had a teacher to guide me, I might have a chance to compete for first place in the genius competition."

Bolan can display thousands of doppelgangers, which, in the Myriad Threads Stream secret technique, is equivalent to the Great Accomplishment of Hundred Threads Stream.

Time is still too short. Although the original story doesn't mention Bolan's age when he participated in the genius competition, for a Star-Level, several hundred years old is considered a child.

Currently, Shen Mu has two channels to seek a teacher.

One is to join the Virtual Universe Company internally. With Shen Mu's talent, it's not a problem to become a disciple of the three Marquis-Level peak experts in the Qianwu branch of the Virtual Universe Company.

There is even hope of being noticed by some King-Level powerhouses in the Virtual Universe Company and becoming their disciple.

A Star-Level comprehending the spatial laws, this is the most they can expect. It is very difficult to become a disciple of someone like King Zhen Yan.

The other channel is to join Qianwu Secret Realm.

"With my talent, even if I don't become a disciple of Lord Qianwu, getting guidance is definitely not a problem."

Generally speaking, Venerables are very strict in accepting disciples. In the original story, in Luo Feng's genius competition, only Bolan and Rong Jun initially had hope of becoming disciples of a Venerable.

Bolan goes without saying, a monster that appears once every ten thousand genius competitions, and is regarded as a genius who has hope of achieving Venerable.

Rong Jun was able to become a disciple of a Universe Venerable because his bloodline was special and his potential was also very great.

Shen Mu is a down-to-earth person and never places his hopes on illusory things, so he doesn't expect to become a disciple of Lord Qianwu.

But the situation was different now. With the Genius Battle approaching, the sudden emergence of a Star-Level genius with exceptional talent meant there was hope of receiving guidance from Lord Qianwu.

After all, Lord Qianwu was different from other Universe Venerables; he was poor!

Lord Qianwu was probably desperate for money, even eyeing the rewards for nurturing young talents for the Genius Battle. As long as Shen Mu showed the potential to compete for first place in the Genius Battle, there was a good chance of receiving guidance.

"First, I'll check online how to join Qianwu Secret Realm."

With a thought, Shen Mu connected a wisp of consciousness to the Virtual Universe Network.

The results came quickly. There was only one way to join Qianwu Secret Realm: to receive an invitation from an undying god within Qianwu Secret Realm.

"Looks like I still need to make a big splash."

"Now that I've broken through to Star-Level, relying solely on the Water Origin Law, while still excellent, isn't impressive enough!"

Just as Shen Mu was pondering, Babata's figure suddenly appeared.

It had been following Luo Feng these past few days. After all, Luo Feng was undergoing life-and-death training and needed its, the great Babata's, guidance.

"Holy crap!"

"Shen Mu, you broke through to Star-Level!"

Babata's voice was incredibly shocked. With the Earthlings' trash bloodline, how could he break through to Star-Level without going through life-and-death trials to stimulate cell and gene evolution?

It was important to know that Shen Mu had directly strengthened from Planet-Level Tier 4 to Planet-Level Tier 9, and then was stuck at Tier 9 for only a few months before breaking through to Star-Level.

"Babata, don't get excited. I have more good news I haven't told you yet, because I was afraid of scaring you."

Babata eyed Shen Mu suspiciously. "Your understanding of the Origin Law has improved?"

Shen Mu smiled lightly and said, "Come on, I'll show you in the virtual space."

Virtual space: a large mechanical factory.

Inside the factory, dense arrays of various mechanical traps were already in place. At a glance, the entire factory resembled a honeycomb, densely packed. Flying within this factory, one could easily trigger a mechanism.

Shen Mu's figure traced a strange arc in mid-air, precise and decisive, dodging traps and mechanisms with extreme agility and dexterity, and snatching red balls flying through the air.

"Shen Mu, did you secretly adjust the data of the mechanisms? Only someone who has mastered Myriad Threads Stream can perfectly complete this!"

Babata shouted, completely unable to understand why Shen Mu's movement technique had suddenly improved so much. It was important to know that Shen Mu had only started learning Myriad Threads Stream for a short two months.

"Not really. I just sensed the fluctuations of the Space Origin Law. I shouldn't be far from truly grasping it."

Babata froze for a moment, then let out a shriek. Its entire intelligence seemed to have caught a virus as it danced with excitement.