Luo Zhiyuan's Cultivation

A few days later, once Luo Zhiyuan was able to perfectly synchronize his movements with his mental state, he began his first formal cultivation session.

Inside the room, Luo Zhiyuan assumed the five-hearts-skyward posture. Although the cultivation method of Yunmo Planet did not require any specific posture, he decided to adopt this one because it felt more formal. Luo Feng stood to the side and shook his head; the little guy had his own ideas, so he let him be, preparing to crush a Muya Crystal for him.

This was Babata's plan. He said that for this first cultivation session, the more abundant the energy, the better, because the body's first conversion of genetic energy would yield the most significant results. After all, since birth, the human body had never consciously absorbed cosmic energy and had always been in a state of starvation. The first time one absorbed cosmic energy was when they absorbed the most, and it was also when strength increased the fastest.

After all, the physical lineage of Earthlings was poor, and the current environment on Earth did not have a high concentration of cosmic energy, making it difficult to cultivate and improve on one's own. When Luo Zhiyuan first began absorbing cosmic energy, crushing a single Muya Crystal would create a space of high energy density, which could assist his absorption and cultivation.

This could effectively improve his cultivation progress and reduce some bottlenecks. Furthermore, because he wasn't absorbing the Muya Crystal directly, he wouldn't accumulate excess energy in his body, allowing him to perform auxiliary cultivation again very quickly.

After all, a Muya Crystal was a treasure used for cultivation in cosmic civilizations. If an Earthling at the apprentice level 8 or 9 were to absorb one directly, they could be pushed to become a planetary-level warrior in a month. Of course, such an operation was quite wasteful; the price of one Muya Crystal in the universe could be exchanged for many planetary-level slaves. But as for using it to assist Luo Zhiyuan's cultivation, neither Luo Feng nor Babata cared about the cost at all.

Luo Feng stood by, observing little Zhiyuan's cultivation state, ready to crush the Muya Crystal at any moment.

Having calmed his mind, Luo Zhiyuan first began to sense the cosmic energy. Perhaps because he had felt it once before inside Xu Xin's body, he managed to sense the cosmic energy very smoothly this time. However, it was slightly different from before; it was no longer individual points of light, but thin threads of light. Luo Zhiyuan captured these threads into his body and began to refine them.

Luo Feng was very surprised on the side, not expecting his son to sense cosmic energy so easily. He remembered that it had taken him quite a while to sense it back then. Without dwelling on it, he quickly crushed a Muya Crystal and sprinkled it around little Zhiyuan's body. The powder of the Muya Crystal directly transformed into rich life energy, filling the room and entering his body along with the cosmic energy.

As the energy continuously poured in, a portion even entered Luo Zhiyuan's brain region. One part transformed into spiritual force, feeding back into the cells throughout his body and continuously strengthening him, while another part of the cosmic energy continuously tempered and expanded the soul space within his sea of consciousness. After about three hours, Luo Zhiyuan finally completed his first formal cultivation session.

Luo Feng had been accompanying him the whole time, though his expression was somewhat strange. He had completed his own first cultivation session in less than two hours, but this little guy had cultivated for nearly an hour longer than him. One could imagine how great the progress was; it seemed his son was truly much stronger than his old man!

As the cultivation ended, Luo Zhiyuan just wanted to stand up, but he accidentally used too much force and cracked the floor. Fortunately, he stopped his movement immediately, otherwise, his leg might have sunk right in. Luo Feng looked at the cracks on the ground, his mouth twitching unnaturally. Seeing Luo Zhiyuan frozen in place, afraid to move, he found it somewhat amusing and said, "Come on, son, your dad will take you out to move around!"

Luo Zhiyuan felt helpless; he really hadn't done it on purpose. But then again, his body kept losing control every so often—when would he finally be able to perfectly master this body!

With a mournful face, he was dragged by Luo Feng to his training ground, a gravity room modified by Babata. Luo Feng placed little Zhiyuan inside the gravity room. He didn't activate the gravity, but the material of the room was very special, so he wasn't afraid of his son causing any more damage.

"Come on, son, play a game here. You don't have to worry about breaking the floor."

Luo Zhiyuan curiously looked around the place, guessing this must be where Luo Feng trained. Wondering if there was anything special about it, he asked, "Dad, where is this?"

"This is a gravity room. Your dad trains here, and you will also train here in the future."

"A gravity room?"

"Yes, in this room, we can adjust the gravity. We progress faster when training in a high-gravity environment. I'll tell you the specific principles later. For now, just run around the red circular area in the middle, and try to run as fast as you can!"

It was Luo Zhiyuan's first time seeing a high-tech product from Swallowed Star. He curiously examined it. He slowly walked to the red area in the middle, which was about 5 meters in diameter, and crouched down to touch it. It was some kind of unknown metallic material. Strangely, it wasn't cold, but felt like it had a constant temperature. He stood up and prepared to jump to test it, but... he hit his head. He had jumped straight to the ceiling. After hitting it, he sat on the ground, rubbing his hair, looking foolish.

Luo Feng was also startled. Seeing that his son was fine, he quickly contacted Babata: "Babata, check what level my son reached after his first cultivation. How did he jump over six meters high?"

"Wait a moment. Hmm, his body is at apprentice level 4, which is quite good. Also, his spiritual force can now be projected externally; he is at apprentice level 6. Very good."

"Oh? His spiritual force can be projected? Zhiyuan, try to stay still and bring me that bottle of water next to me."

Luo Zhiyuan felt excited upon hearing this. It sounded like he could project his spiritual force. In his previous world, this would have been called a superpower. He wanted to see what it felt like.

Luo Zhiyuan turned his head to look at the bottle of water and thought: Bottle, come here!

A surge of spiritual force erupted from his mind, instantly wrapping around the bottle. It suddenly shot toward his head, scaring him into closing his eyes, raising his hands to protect his face, and shouting, "Ah, stop!"

After a long while, Luo Zhiyuan didn't feel the pain of being hit. He opened his eyes and saw the water bottle hovering steadily in front of him, motionless. He lowered his hands and carefully looked at the bottle, glancing left and right, even waving his hand around the bottle in the air. There was nothing there.

Luo Feng almost laughed out loud on the side. He was amused by his son's startled reaction and then by his curious expression after seeing the bottle hovering steadily. He nodded; the control of his spiritual force was quite good, much better than his control over his physical body. He didn't have to worry about his son hurting himself anymore.

According to Babata, some races in the universe with poor physical fitness often suffered injuries or fractures after their spiritual force awakened, all due to poor control. It seemed his son wouldn't have that problem.

Luo Zhiyuan was very excited. He now had the legendary superpower. Although he knew that in the world of Swallowed Star this wasn't much, it was different when it was his own! For nearly thirty years, he could only experience this feeling in his dreams, and now his dream had come true. He stood up excitedly, grabbed the bottle with his hand, and took a big gulp of water!

Remembering that he still needed to practice physical control, Luo Zhiyuan began to run around the red area. At first, he was slow, but after adapting, he gradually increased his speed. He also used his spiritual force to control the bottle, moving it from his left hand, over his head, to his right hand, and then from his right hand, over his head, to his left hand, having a great time.

Luo Feng nodded in approval as he watched little Zhiyuan. Although his son loved to play, he had great self-control, far better than other children his age. Sometimes he felt like this wasn't just a child, which gave him a great sense of accomplishment!

After nearly an hour of activity—during which Luo Feng had little Zhiyuan chase a ball he was controlling, but without using spiritual force—Luo Zhiyuan had basically mastered his body and would no longer have any accidental movements. Then, they spent half an hour on spiritual force practice, with Luo Zhiyuan trying to snatch the water bottle Luo Feng was controlling. Of course, he didn't succeed even once, but Luo Feng was having a good time.

At dinner that evening, a funny scene occurred. Luo Zhiyuan had become addicted to playing with his spiritual force and insisted on controlling the bowls and chopsticks to serve the whole family. Everyone watched with a smile as the tableware flew around under Luo Zhiyuan's control. However, when he went to serve Luo Feng, the bowl suddenly dropped, spilling porridge all over Luo Feng's chest, causing the whole family, except for Luo Feng, to burst into laughter.

Luo Feng hadn't expected his son to plot against him, and now that he was covered in porridge, he glared at Luo Zhiyuan to show his fatherly authority, but he was fiercely stepped on by Xu Xin.

Luo Zhiyuan wasn't afraid of Luo Feng's so-called fatherly authority. As long as it wasn't violent suppression, he kept practicing his spiritual force. For the past two days, items in the house had been floating around from time to time, making the place quite chaotic.

Luo Feng had no choice but to have Babata make a bunch of magnetic balls for Luo Zhiyuan to control and play with. These magnetic balls could be controlled individually or attracted to each other to form a single unit. To Babata, these were simple toys, and he handled it easily.

Two days later, Luo Feng prepared to let Luo Zhiyuan use a Muya Crystal to assist his cultivation again. Because his current body was at apprentice level 4 and his spiritual force was at apprentice level 6, absorbing another Muya Crystal would likely push his spiritual force to apprentice level 9. At that point, he could absorb another Muya Crystal directly, and in a month, he could break through to become a planetary-level spirit reader!

It was just that doing this would make his foundation unstable, which would have some impact on his later improvement. But since Zhiyuan was still young, he decided to improve his physical fitness first. At the very least, his safety would be higher, and he could spend time building a solid foundation later to continue improving.

This suited Luo Zhiyuan's wishes, as he was eager to increase his strength. He began to cultivate again. With the absorption of another Muya Crystal, Luo Zhiyuan's physical evolution speed increased once more, and a large amount of spiritual force surged from the depths of his mind to temper his body. At this moment, Luo Zhiyuan had a sudden inspiration: what would happen if he used Flowing Time now? Let's try!

And so, that mysterious feeling flashed through Luo Zhiyuan's heart once again. Since cultivating genetic energy didn't require any other movements, he didn't have the feeling of his mind and body being out of sync. However, the time flow only accelerated to three times, and he couldn't control it to go any faster.

At this moment, Luo Feng, who was on the side, sensed a problem. His son's speed of absorbing energy had suddenly increased significantly. If the previous energy could be considered as being slowly drawn into the body, the current energy was being poured into him. Last time, it had taken nearly three hours to finish absorbing the energy, but at the current rate, it might be finished in an hour. What was going on?

Luo Feng quickly called Babata to see if he knew what was happening. After checking, Babata trembled and shouted: "G-ghosts! Time... domain? No... it's the Law of Time! Luo Feng! Your son is a genius! An peerless genius!"

"Time domain? Law of Time? What's going on? Why don't I understand? Babata, explain clearly."

"Alright, remember the eight basic origin laws I told you about? Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, and light. These are the eight basic origin laws of the universe. But above these eight laws, there are two superior laws: the Law of Space and the Law of Time. Among them, the superior law of the five laws of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth is the Law of Space, and the superior law of wind, lightning, and light is the Law of Time."

"As for cultivation realms, they are divided into four levels, from easy to difficult: Foundation, Artistic Conception, Domain, and World. Luo Feng, your current realm is only at the Foundation level. Hong and Thunder God have both comprehended the Domain. Once the Domain is comprehended to the ninth level, the next breakthrough will become a World. With the power of a World, one can break through to become a World Lord. As for wanting to comprehend the laws, that is too difficult. Usually, one can only vaguely sense the fluctuations of the origin laws when they are at the eighth or ninth level of the Domain, and it is easier to sense the origin laws during the World Lord stage."

"In the universe, most races start their cultivation from the eight basic origin laws. Only a very few, extremely talented races or individuals start their cultivation and comprehension from the Law of Space or the Law of Time. If it's a racial talent, that's one thing, but if such an individual cultivator appears, they will be fought over and cultivated by the five major organizations and the various high-level cosmic civilizations."

"The reason seems to be that these two laws involve secrets beyond the Undying level. Your teacher only occasionally heard other Undying powerhouses mention it, but they didn't say much. It should be an extremely precious secret; even ordinary Undying might not know about it, so I don't know the specific situation either."

"But one thing I am very clear about: Luo Feng, your son is a super genius. I think it is necessary to revise his training plan. I will adjust it later, but let's ask your son how this situation came about first."

After Luo Zhiyuan finished absorbing the energy of the Muya Crystal, he felt that his body could still continue to cultivate, so he stopped Flowing Time and looked at Luo Feng, asking pitifully: "Dad, I want more Muya Crystals." Luo Feng quickly said: "Wait a moment. What just happened? How did you absorb the energy so quickly? It was three times faster than last time."

Luo Zhiyuan blinked. Had he been found out? It seemed that having the flow of time accelerated by three times, which also tripled his cultivation speed, was quite nice, but how should he explain it? He decided to just play dumb; it was normal for a child to be unable to explain things clearly anyway!

"Oh, I just, I wanted to absorb the energy faster, so I kept thinking in my heart, faster, faster, and that's just how it happened. Is something wrong?"

Luo Feng was speechless. This... asking a one-year-old child to explain the laws of time was probably too much to ask of him. He didn't even know these concepts himself, so how could he explain them clearly? Forget it, he would wait until he grew up a bit more to talk about it.

"Alright, we'll talk about this later. Why do you need more Muya Crystal? Once your body is saturated from one session, it shouldn't be able to absorb any more energy."

Luo Zhiyuan blinked again. "I know, but I'm not full yet. I can still keep going."

Luo Feng felt a headache coming on. He couldn't understand his own son anymore. Since he could still absorb energy, he decided to try again, so he gave him another Muya Crystal and watched as the energy was rapidly absorbed once more.

When Luo Zhiyuan finished absorbing the energy, he felt the spiritual energy in his mind suddenly begin to swirl frantically around a single point, followed by a tremor in his sea of consciousness, where a crystal sphere of light appeared.

The surface of the light sphere emitted a halo, magnificent and beautiful. Looking closely, the sphere was composed of a large number of pyramid-shaped transparent crystals. Then, an invisible ripple continuously radiated from the sphere. When this ripple traveled from his sea of consciousness to his body, his previously calm body instantly began to undergo drastic changes!

The bones, bone marrow, meridians, muscles, fascia, skin, and everything else within his body were undergoing an incredible transformation, and the genetic code within his body was rapidly breaking down and recombining!

Luo Zhiyuan felt as if he had returned to the state of being inside Xu Xin's womb; his entire body's sinews, bones, muscles, and internal organs were fundamentally changing! This was a change in his life level! Luo Zhiyuan knew he must have reached the Planetary level, or to be precise, a first-tier Planetary level spirit reader.

Experiencing the fluctuations of the light sphere within his sea of consciousness, he felt it rotating continuously, as if it were a planet possessing its own magnetic field. Luo Zhiyuan instinctively knew that as long as he controlled the magnetic field of the light sphere to alter the magnetic field acting upon himself, he could apply a magnetic force of a certain strength and direction, which would naturally allow him to fly freely and grant him the ability of flight!

Luo Feng watched as his son finished his cultivation and suddenly began to float, flying around the gravity chamber at will. He felt depressed, thinking that he was not the genius chosen by Yunmo Planet at all; compared to his precious son, he might as well be sent back to the furnace to be remade.

When did he break through to the Planetary level again? New Year's Day two years ago, at twenty-one years old, he had been the youngest Planetary level fighter at the time. And now, a one-year-old Planetary level? He remembered Babata saying that humans with the most peak bloodlines in the universe were born at the Planetary level during infancy. Perhaps his own kid wasn't falling behind after all. He just wondered if his future cultivation would continue to be as smooth sailing as it was now.