Zhou Ze's sword strike left every expert watching the battle stunned. To Masters of the Universe, it merely felt terrifyingly powerful, but as for just how terrifying, it could only be said to far surpass ordinary Universe Strongest Ones.
But to Universe Strongest Ones, that strike had completely exceeded the limits of a Universe Strongest One. If they took such a blow head-on, they might very well perish.
Of course, none of them believed it was Zhou Ze's own strength. They believed it was a protective method inherited through his legacy.
This was perfectly normal. Forget them—even Zhou Ze himself had never expected that after comprehending one essence of the Water Law and reaching the fifth tier, he would advance by leaps and bounds.
Even though he was in the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar space and his other clones were not here to benefit from the accelerated flow of time, once he activated Overclocking, his comprehension directly increased ten thousandfold, and his rate of insight increased ten thousandfold as well.
With such comprehension and insight speed, coupled with time flowing tens of thousands of times faster, he naturally reached the peak of the tenth tier without any bottlenecks. His innate comprehension had already stood at the peak of the Primordial Universe; after increasing it another ten thousandfold, who knew what level it had reached?
He had merely remained stuck at the aspect of creating something from nothing. Once he came into contact with secret patterns like those of the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar, he was instantly inspired and broke through.
After that, the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth tiers posed no bottlenecks whatsoever for Zhou Ze. They were all built upon the foundations laid before, making them countless times faster than normal comprehension of Secret Arts.
Within the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar