A Century

"This is going to be troublesome..."

After finishing Xia's memories, a bitter smile appeared on Luoluobai Muye's face.

Xia's background was actually from the royal family of a mid-level cosmic civilization called "Usol" under the Wild Peak Universe Kingdom. Although she was a distant branch, her biological brother happened to be a "Giant Axe Warrior" at the ninth stage of the Domain Lord Rank.

Xia had idolized this brother since she was a child, which was why she followed in his footsteps, also wanting to earn the title of Giant Axe Warrior.

In her memories, the siblings were very close. Her brother had tried his best to dissuade her from participating in the death matches, but unfortunately, Xia was headstrong and insisted on joining. After she signed up and completed her first death match, she showed off to her brother, and he had told her that if she were killed in a death match, he would definitely avenge her!

"And who are the nine hundred-plus wronged souls you killed supposed to seek revenge from?" Luoluobai Muye was left speechless.

In a death match, one side must die in every bout, and there were even cases of mutual destruction. If everyone sought revenge, which person who earned the title of "Giant Axe Warrior" didn't have a mountain of blood debts on their hands?

Fortunately, he was safe at least until he completed a thousand death matches.

He hadn't known this originally, but the information was present in Xia's memories.

When her brother promised to avenge her, his exact words were that if the person who killed Xia could survive a thousand victories—that meant he was safe until he completed those thousand wins.

"At worst, I'll just change my name and run far away when the time comes. The entire Universe Kingdom is so vast, let's see where you'll find me..." Luoluobai Muye calculated in his heart, "If you really do find me, maybe my strength will already be greater than yours by then!"

He stopped worrying about things beyond his control. After having Xiao Si "purify" Xia's memories, he was just about to choose to merge them when Bastian came knocking.

"You performed well this time," the smile on Bastian's face was one percent more "sincere" than before. He tossed over a Consciousness Sensor, "I know you've always wanted more training time in the Virtual Universe. This is a new anonymous Consciousness Sensor, and it contains one hundred years of time..."

Luoluobai Muye reached out and caught it, his mind racing, yet he couldn't guess why this stingy "fat pig" was being so generous this time.

"Cultivate well," Bastian wanted to reach out and pat his shoulder, but realized that with his own physique, doing so was a bit difficult—unless he jumped, but that would look extremely bizarre, so he turned to stroke his own antennae instead.

"You will gain your freedom once you win seventy-five more matches..." Bastian squinted at him, the antennae on his forehead turning slightly red, his tone so gentle it made one feel sorry for him, "Have you thought about your plans after gaining your freedom?"

"...I haven't thought about it." Luoluobai Muye didn't know the purpose of this question, so he could only show a look of confusion.

"It doesn't matter, there is still plenty of time, think about it slowly..." Bastian lowered his hand, "Although there are only seventy-five matches left, I'm afraid it will take several decades. If opponents are hard to find, a hundred years is also possible..."

Perhaps Bastian himself couldn't stand this awkward way of chatting, so he left behind another "Cultivate well" and turned to leave.

Watching his back, Luoluobai Muye finally began to grasp the meaning behind it.

"He must have come to probe me..." he thought to himself, "He mentioned the word 'freedom' several times. Either he wants to disturb my state of mind so I die in the next death match—the closer one gets to freedom, the more distracting thoughts naturally arise—or he is testing whether I have thought about taking revenge after gaining my freedom..."

If it came to revenge, he had indeed thought about it, but he would never act on impulse; he would act according to his capabilities.

Although Luoluobai Muye had suffered a great deal under Bastian, and the cruel training and screening were still fresh in his memory, the object of his deepest hatred was that Domain Lord.

Just because of a personal grudge with a Planet Lord, he not only killed the Planet Lord but, out of spite, sold the entire planet to slave traders, and all of his relatives had died during the capture process.

As for Bastian, he only ranked third on the list of hatred. Ranking second were the instructors of the training camp; of course, there was more than one instructor, and the ranking was not in any particular order.

In Luoluobai Muye's heart, that Domain Lord was on his must-kill list. As long as he had sufficient strength, he would definitely go find this Domain Lord—

Not killing him would be a disservice to the incredibly heavy memories in his mind!

As for those instructors and Bastian and the others, it would depend on fate. If he ran into them, he would kill them; if he never saw them again, then it meant their lives were not meant to end.

However, this probe by Bastian made Luoluobai Muye somewhat vigilant. But at this moment, he was the fish and they were the knife; his life and death were in the hands of others, so no matter how many thoughts he had, they were just reflections in the water.

"Everything still depends on strength. If I were a Domain Lord Rank now, I wouldn't need to worry about that disgusting chip..."

After the last death match, following nearly two years of cultivation, he was very close to the sixth stage of the Universe Rank. Coupled with the three months of cultivation on the return trip, he was ready to break through at any time.

He put away the Consciousness Sensor and, instead of rushing into the Virtual Universe, sat cross-legged to cultivate.

Perhaps due to the urgency of wanting to increase his strength, this cultivation session allowed him to break through to the sixth stage of the Universe Rank as naturally as water flowing.

During the three months of the return trip, besides cultivating, he had also been constantly familiarizing himself with the Lightning Law, though he couldn't experiment to his heart's content because the cabin was too small.

After successfully breaking through, he was in a great mood and began to merge Xia's cultivation memories.

It took Xia less than eight hundred years from birth to cultivate to the fifth stage of the Universe Rank. Even with the use of many treasures to accelerate cultivation, the speed was considered extremely fast, which showed her excellent talent.

This time, Luoluobai Muye slowed the merging speed significantly, sometimes even ten times slower, so by the time he finished merging, nearly two months had passed.

Xia's understanding of the Lightning Law was much deeper than his. After the merger, his own understanding of the Lightning Law took a great leap forward.

Under the guidance of the law, his Lightning Domain broke through to the seventh layer in one go, far ahead of the light, wind, and water domains.

He connected his consciousness to the sensor and entered the Virtual Universe.

First, he tested his current combat power. Facing an opponent who hadn't stepped into the threshold of the laws, even if the opponent was at the ninth layer of a domain, he could easily defeat them.

Previously, he had completely integrated his fifth-layer Light Domain into his Wind-Thunder Domain, but the difficulty of integrating the Water Domain was simply too great, requiring a significant increase in time.

Fortunately, now that he had a hundred years, he kept his main consciousness in the Virtual Universe, simulating all kinds of opponents and attempting to integrate the Water Domain as well.

Once he gained some insight, he would experiment with it in reality.

More than a year later, the Lightning Domain was the first to reach the ninth layer, the light and wind domains also reached the seventh layer, and the Water Domain was finally integrated by one layer.

After integrating one layer of the Water Domain, his mixed domain changed from being nearly transparent to having a faint green tint, and the secret patterns within the domain were far more complex than those of a single domain.

Time passed continuously. Every few months or about a year, the Giant Axe Arena would arrange a death match. The opponents chosen were almost all between seven hundred and eight hundred wins, and among them, a few had strength comparable to Luoluobai Muye before he had stepped into the threshold of the laws.

But none of them could break through during the battle like he did, showing that breaking through in the heat of battle was still a low-probability event.

It was a complete, crushing victory.

One death match after another continued. As the hundred-year time limit of the anonymous Consciousness Sensor was about to run out, Luoluobai Muye had unknowingly achieved 999 consecutive victories!