Lingxi

Inside the corridor.

For the first time in three hundred years Lu Yan'an, who was engrossed in the Rhino Emperor Game, withdrew from his state of comprehension.

"This Rhino Emperor Game is truly vast. Although less than a month has passed in the outside world, I have been comprehending it for a full three hundred years here!" Lu Yan'an sighed inwardly. "Three hundred years of comprehension, and only after understanding the rules of this Rhino Emperor Game, have I barely managed to fully comprehend the first 123 formations and instantly complete their arrangement within this crystal pillar. I can't even imagine how many geniuses it would take to fully comprehend this Rhino Emperor Game within three hundred million Years!"

Only those who have actually tried to solve the Rhinoceros Rhino Emperor Game's Rhino Emperor Game can understand how demanding and exaggerated the requirements for comprehension are from the first to the last game! In fact, the higher the level of comprehension required, the stronger it becomes!

Although he had previously summarized the patterns and provided complete solutions for games 1 through 123, it was still very difficult to fully comprehend them and instantly implement a plan. Lu Yan'an only felt he had made progress after mastering the first 100 games... That progress was in both his comprehension and his ability to consider multi-dimensional structures when thinking about the plan.

Now, Lu Yan'an's standards for solving the Rhino Emperor Game are constantly being lowered. From his initial ambitious goal of solving all the Rhino Emperor Game's Formations in one go to now aiming to be stronger than City Lord Luo, his standards have been lowered considerably!

"Now that I've fully grasped the first 123 games, it's time to see how this 124th game goes." Even though he had already understood the first 123 games, Lu Yan'an still couldn't help but feel nervous. Because this 124th endgame was the first time he would truly solve a puzzle!

The solutions for the first 123 games have already been published... so there's no difficulty at all, just a matter of understanding them. From the 124th game onwards, it's no longer about understanding by looking at the solution results, but about solving the endgame, which brings a qualitative leap in difficulty!

Starting from the 124th game, Lu Yan'an began to attempt to lay out his strategy, even relying on intuition for some Basic Element he wasn't confident about. As time passed... his mind became increasingly clear, his thoughts instantly sketching out ideas from tens of thousands of dimensions, combining them, and quickly determining each Basic Element. In this process of solving the game for the first time, some of the insights he had previously gained suddenly became new experiences.

Once! Twice! Time slipped by unnoticed. Seven more days passed, and a cone-shaped three-dimensional phantom formed inside the crystal pillar, invisible to anyone outside. The three-dimensional phantom was perfect, suspended in mid-air, its divine power undiminished.

"Finally finished!" As the fluctuations of the perfect solution directly transmitted to Lu Yan'an's consciousness, he felt a surge of joy. This perfect solution also strengthened Lu Yan'an's confidence, and he began to devote himself to the Rhino Emperor Game's Formation with utmost enthusiasm!

"Continue with the 125th inning."

Time flies like an arrow; nearly 300 years of Years have passed in the blink of an eye. Within the corridor space, nearly three million years have also passed!

Lu Yan'an stood before the three-dimensional phantom of the 1001st endgame puzzle, studying it carefully. Over the past 300 years... as each endgame puzzle was solved, the time Lu Yan'an spent solving each puzzle increased steadily, becoming slower and slower, until it took him nearly 300 years to perfectly solve the 1000th puzzle.

"This 1000th game is truly a milestone..."

"That's really difficult!"

Recalling the arduous journey of solving the 1000th puzzle, Lu Yan'an couldn't help but complain, because it was just too difficult! He had already completed the perfect solution to the 999th puzzle in the 268th year, but it wasn't until the 300th year that he crossed the threshold of the 1000th puzzle! Roughly calculated, he had been stuck on the 1000th puzzle for at least 320,000 Years.

Outside the corridor.

"Lu Yan'an?! Where did this monster come from?"

The Xin Dao Ren, who was constantly observing Lu Yan'an's state of enlightenment, couldn't hold back his expression when he saw Lu Yan'an studying the three-dimensional phantom of the 1001st incomplete game! If Lu Yan'an had to rely on its hints to barely pass the previous Heart Path, there was no shortcut to comprehending the Rhino Emperor Game; he had to rely on genuine comprehension to solve it.

"His willpower has reached the Void Level, his comprehension is also exceptionally high, and judging from this, he even knows a little bit about the Secret Pattern Diagram School... But that shouldn't be right! Even if the Secret Pattern Diagram School is similar to this Rhino Emperor Game, it shouldn't be able to solve the problem this quickly."

As a being who had once reached the second level of Universe God, even though only a wisp of consciousness remained, the Xin Dao Ren had not lost its insight with the fall of its original self. It naturally understood what such a speed of problem-solving meant for a Law Venerable!

It was shocked to discover that even if Lu Yan'an in its home universe, which was full of geniuses and prodigies, his speed of comprehension would far exceed that of Law Master it had ever seen, and even ordinary True God could not match him!

"Immortal, Venerable, Universe Master, Universe Supreme Being... these four levels have completely different foundations and fundamentally different speeds of comprehension. But this monster can be stronger than most True God simply by virtue of being Law Venerable. Is this something Law Venerable can do?" The Xin Dao Ren began to sigh, "If you said it was a reincarnation of a Universe God, I could believe it!"

"As for this Secret Pattern Diagram School, it's really just superficial, better than nothing!" It watched Lu Yan'an's clumsy attempt to solve the puzzle, and could tell his progress by constructing the illusory image time and time again. Therefore, it could make the most objective evaluation of Lu Yan'an.

However, what surprised it the most was Lu Yan'an's continuous bursts of inspiration! Basically, every year or so, Lu Yan'an could easily overcome a small bottleneck, which was completely contrary to the logic of things!

Time flew by, and when Lu Yan'an reached the 1500th level of understanding, he suddenly recalled the way City Lord Luo of the original novel comprehended the Rhino Emperor Game.

"It seems that City Lord Luo is progressing in tandem with the Rhino Emperor Game by comprehending the secret techniques on the Ninth Abyss and the Black-Veined Stone Pillar, comparing and contrasting the two to advance together! Since I haven't been able to comprehend my Strongest Secret Technique Universe Master yet, I might as well take this opportunity to overcome this obstacle!" Lu Yan'an thought to himself.

Immediately, he decided to change his method of enlightenment!

For the previous 800 years, he had been engrossed in studying the Rhino Emperor Game... However, the more he studied it, the more he discovered that the Rhino Emperor Game and the secret techniques had certain similarities. Lu Yan'an had been working hard to solve the formation before and had not thought of this aspect, but now that he had remembered it... He immediately decided to spend 80% of his time studying the Rhino Emperor Game and 20% of his time studying the secret techniques in the space of the Black-Veined Stone Pillar.

Fortunately, his true form is currently within the space of this Black-Veined Stone Pillar, so comprehending the secret techniques on the Black-Veined Stone Pillar is not difficult.

"I spend 80% of my time studying the Rhino Emperor Game."

"Twenty percent of my time is spent researching secret techniques."

"Comparing them... my comprehension efficiency might be higher," Lu Yan'an thought to himself.

After using this method of comprehension, Lu Yan'an was instantly shocked! He spent 80% of his time studying the Rhino Emperor Game, 20% studying the secret techniques on the Black-Veined Stone Pillar, and occasionally honing his willpower...

Indeed! City Lord Luo's method of comprehension is truly amazing! On one hand, the secret technique and the Rhino Emperor Game do share commonalities, allowing Lu Yan'an to gain insights and continuously improve through mutual reflection. The first 1500 formations took 800 years; at a normal pace, successfully solving the 2000th formation would take ten times longer, or even longer. Yet, he has now surpassed the 2000-formation threshold in just 1500 years!

Moreover, it wasn't just a simple breakthrough of the 2000th game of the Rhino Emperor Game; the Strongest Secret Technique of the Universe Master, which had been previously blocked, was also directly comprehended!

The space of Black-Veined Stone Pillar.

Lu Yan'an, who had been sitting cross-legged, suddenly stood up, and the Supreme Treasure Morning Glow appeared in his hand without him noticing.

"So, what the Strongest Secret Technique lacks is this perfect artistic conception!" Lu Yan'an opened his eyes with a smile, a complex look flashing in his eyes. "My realm has long surpassed the level of the Strongest Secret Technique of the Universe Master, but I have always lacked guidance! Although the Law Universe has reached the level of the Strongest Secret Technique of the Universe Master, it was created with the help of the Primal Universe, and I have not gained a single bit of inspiration from it."

"Now, the Rhino Emperor Game and the secret techniques on this Black-Veined Stone Pillar have together helped me complete the last piece of the puzzle of my inspiration. It's truly a twist of fate!"

"Millions of years of accumulation, all unleashed in a single move—this Strongest Secret Technique is called 'Lingxi'!"

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