Within the Cosmic Passage, space seemed stretched into thin threads, and the flow of time seemed close enough to touch.
Light coursed through the passage, rippling like liquid, swelling and contracting in turn. Stars occasionally flickered within it, like lost meteors searching for a home in the endless darkness.
As the spaceship entered the Cosmic Passage, a strange sensation washed over everyone aboard. The many geniuses inside began to feel ill.
This was because time flowed at different rates in the Prime Universe and the Primordial Universe. The collision of these two different temporal forces threw the flow of time within the Cosmic Passage into disarray.
After all, the ratio between the flow of time in the Prime Universe and the Primordial Universe was 1:3.28.
The hundred years of comprehension time granted to the thousand of them amounted to just over thirty years in the Primordial Universe.
The disordered flow of time made many people feel unwell. Quite a few swayed unsteadily, while some even fell to the floor, their faces pale and tears streaming from their eyes.
Feng Hui felt the discomfort too. Though his head throbbed repeatedly, he could just barely remain standing; he simply couldn't see a thing.
Just as Feng Hui was struggling, the Half Jade Pendant in his sea of consciousness suddenly shone again.
Under its radiance, he seemed to stop feeling the discomfort caused by the disordered flow of time.
At the same time, he seemed to sense something strange.
Feng Hui calmed himself and closed his eyes, focusing on his surroundings. Before long, he sensed a peculiar force of law nearby.
This force of law was extremely strange, divided into two different oscillations that intertwined and collided with each other.
One of the oscillations was vast and mighty, moving at a relatively rapid pace. The other was pure and flawless, yet comparatively weaker, and moved more slowly.
These two utterly different oscillations intertwined and collided within the Cosmic Passage. They clashed fiercely, yet seemed to reach a delicate balance under some higher order of rules.
In this strange realm woven from the two flows of time, the universe's deepest secrets seemed to lie hidden, awaiting discovery and understanding by someone destined to find them.
"Could this be... the power of the Time Origin Law?"
Feng Hui wondered to himself.
"Of these two temporal oscillations, the powerful, faster one should come from the Prime Universe, while the weaker, slower one should come from the Primordial Universe."
The disordered flow of time in the Cosmic Passage seemed to have triggered a reaction from the Half Jade Pendant in Feng Hui's sea of consciousness. Its light seemed to slowly transform his body, helping him adapt to the chaos in the flow of time.
During this process, his affinity for the Time Law seemed to increase rapidly as well.
Previously, he had comprehended the Wood Primordial Law and its superior law, the Law of Space, and had little talent for the Time Law.
Now, although he had never studied the Time Origin Law before, at that very moment the Time Law seemed incomparably clear and wondrous to him.
Feng Hui focused on comprehending it. The Time Law grew clearer and clearer, and his level of understanding steadily deepened. He soon crossed the threshold of the Time Law, and in the end, its clarity surpassed that of every other law he had ever comprehended.
Suddenly, the light from the Jade Pendant vanished, and Feng Hui emerged from his state of sudden enlightenment.
"We've entered the Primordial Universe."
Black Armor Silver Horn Venerable said with a smile.
"The Primordial Universe?"
"We've finally arrived."
The many geniuses who had collapsed to the floor, their faces pale, hurriedly got back up.
"It's a shame we were only in the Cosmic Passage for five or six minutes. It would've been even better if we'd had more time."
Feng Hui sensed the Half Jade Pendant in his sea of consciousness, which had once again gone motionless, and felt somewhat helpless.
Even now, he still didn't know what the Jade Pendant was. Aside from allowing the thoughts and memories of his two clones in the Prime Universe and the Eastern Emperor Holy Land Universe to be perfectly linked, it had only stirred today, when the flow of time became disordered inside the Cosmic Passage.
At all other times, no matter what he tried, the Jade Pendant had ignored him completely and given no response.
Of course, despite that, Feng Hui knew he had struck it lucky this time.
In just five or six minutes inside the Cosmic Passage, his comprehension of the Time Origin Law had already surpassed his previous level of mastery in the Wood Primordial Law and the Law of Space.
It was true: three years of hard cultivation could not compare to a single moment of "sudden enlightenment."
He had saved himself an immeasurable amount of effort.
More importantly, the light emitted by the Jade Pendant had greatly improved his affinity for the Time Law.
Now, Feng Hui's talent for the Time Law was even greater than his talent for the Wood Primordial Law and the Law of Space.
One had to remember that Feng Hui's human clone had already been one of the top few hundred law-comprehension geniuses across the entire Human Race, having risen through the Genius War. His Eastern Emperor Clan clone in the Eastern Emperor Holy Land Universe also had extraordinary talent for the Law of Space.
The talents of these two bodies combined, especially with the Eastern Emperor Clan clone's exceptional talent and superior Eastern Emperor Clan bloodline, had already made Feng Hui's talent for the Law of Space greater than Guge's, the top genius of this year's Genius War. It was extraordinary by any measure.
And now, his talent for the Time Law had become even greater than his talent for the Law of Space!
This was a tremendous boon, one that could shape the direction of his cultivation for years to come!
"You may call me Ice Universe Venerable."
After entering the Primordial Universe, Black Armor Silver Horn Venerable addressed the thousand geniuses.
"You'll reach Chaos City shortly."
"Chaos City is where those who enter the Primordial Universe to study and cultivate live. I was the one who escorted you here, and in the future, I'll command you at headquarters as well. I hope to see all of you still alive thirty years from now."
Feng Hui felt a chill in his heart.
He knew that Chaos City wasn't completely safe. Hunting Chaos Beasts to obtain Chaos True Spirits, for example, could cost someone their life.
In the vast and boundless, unfathomable universe, every inch of space held the unknown and the miraculous. Yet danger lurked everywhere, and unpredictable challenges and risks abounded.
To dwell within it was like sailing a tiny boat across a boundless ocean. Every decision and every step forward required reverence for the unknown; one could never afford to slack off or lower one's guard.
The path of the strong allowed no carelessness. That was an essential quality for anyone who hoped to reach the peak.
"All right, we've arrived. Remember, once you enter Chaos City, follow the instructions of the Chaos City Reception Envoy."
The castle-shaped palace spaceship carrying Feng Hui and the others slowly came to a halt above an ancient city.
Boom!
The doors opened, and all one thousand geniuses flew out of the spaceship.
Then the palace-shaped spaceship shot skyward, becoming a dazzling streak of light that cut across the sky like a meteor. It left a brilliant trail behind before quickly disappearing into the distant horizon.
Hovering in midair, Feng Hui gazed down at the ancient, majestic city below, his heart full of emotion.
As a sacred cultivation ground of the Human Race, this city stood silently in the Primordial Universe. It had nurtured and witnessed generation after generation of human powerhouses, silently revealing the marks of time and the weight of history.
Chaos City—I've come!
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