In Zhang Dong's estate in the Virtual Universe.
Whoosh!
A bald man in black quietly appeared. The Giant Axe Meeting had temporarily adjourned, and the many Universe Masters had decided to first find a Special Lifeform for Zhang Dong to possess. They would discuss what came next later.
"Teacher." Zhang Dong bowed.
The Dark Lord raised his right hand slightly, and a gentle force lifted Zhang Dong back up. His eyes were filled with boundless admiration. "You really are full of surprises. You've already passed the Domain Lord Level Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain. When will you try the Realm Lord Level?"
He had originally planned to give Zhang Dong guidance every so many years.
But Zhang Dong was progressing so quickly that the Dark Lord had to change his training plan.
"It was just a fortuitous coincidence, Teacher. I entered the Chaos Heaven Mirror of the Feather Slaughter Clan and studied its mysteries," Zhang Dong said modestly. "If I'd relied on my own comprehension, it would probably have taken me at least another hundred years."
"The Chaos Heaven Mirror?" The Dark Lord had never heard of it. He sent out a sliver of consciousness to look up information and only then learned what it was.
But wasn't it just an ordinary cultivation treasure? The mysteries of the space inside the mirror were no different from those of a Chaos Stele.
To the Dark Lord, treasures on the level of a Chaos Stele were indeed quite ordinary.
"Your comprehension is still the key." The Dark Lord got to the point. "The clan held a meeting and decided to find a Special Lifeform for you to possess."
Even geniuses who appeared once every tens of millions or hundreds of millions of eras would never receive this kind of treatment.
Special Lifeforms were exceedingly rare, and whether one could possess them came down to luck.
Even when it came to a suitable Golden-Horned Beast, the clan wouldn't go out of its way to find one for someone to possess. And this time, the Universe Masters themselves would be looking. Who else could command that kind of influence?
The three Peak Cosmic Overlords of humanity had all possessed Special Lifeforms with high gene multipliers through fortuitous coincidences of their own.
"A Special Lifeform?" Zhang Dong didn't care much about his gene multiplier while he was still weak. What mattered more to him was cultivating a Perfect Divine Body by the time he became a True Deity.
The advantage of the so-called large divine bodies on the Origin Continent lay in their Perfect Divine Bodies. Even the next best thing, the Infinite Divine Body, wouldn't do.
After Emperor Locust reached the Billion Holy Realms, his divine body had no advantage at all.
A Perfect Divine Body, however, came with many properties of the Material Origin Great Dao. That was the real cheat ability.
"Yes. But though the universe is vast and full of secret realms, finding a Special Lifeform with a high gene multiplier is incredibly difficult." The Dark Lord smiled. "With so many Universe Masters helping, it shouldn't be a problem."
The efficiency of Universe Masters exploring secret realms was nothing like that of Venerables or overlords.
Their Control of Space-Time covered an immense area, and their Teleportation could span incredible distances. With a little time, they could explore vast stretches of core regions.
"Teacher, isn't this too much trouble?" Zhang Dong asked, still bewildered. "Why do so many Universe Masters have to go looking for one for me?"
Wouldn't it be enough to possess a Golden-Horned Beast or another lifeform capable of creating clones? There was no need to insist on a high gene multiplier.
Once he reached the Universe Master level, he could improve his genes then. Even without a method like the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex, it wouldn't be difficult for a Universe Master to increase their gene multiplier.
Otherwise, given humanity's gene multiplier, its Universe Masters should be weak. But human Universe Masters weren't weak, even when they hadn't possessed Special Lifeforms.
"We've already discussed it at the meeting. There's no need to say more." The Dark Lord's reasoning differed from Zhang Dong's.
A Universe Master could increase their gene multiplier.
But a Special Lifeform with a naturally high multiplier would still end up with a higher multiplier than an ordinary human after both improved theirs.
With Zhang Dong's talent, becoming a Universe Venerable was all but certain. Given enough time, he was overwhelmingly likely to become a Universe Master. The Primordial Universe wasn't like the Tianyu Universe or the Boundary Heart Continent, where time and the will of the heart imposed limits.
If one's will wasn't strong enough, one would collapse after living for just a few hundred billion years.
Once he possessed a Special Lifeform and became a Universe Master, his high comprehension and accumulated experience would likely let him reach the third or fourth tier. With so many clones, he would become a terrifying deterrent to others.
If he could attain the strength of the Dark Lord or the Chaos City Lord, it would be tremendously important to the entire clan.
"Enough talk. Don't worry about the Special Lifeform. I just watched the recording of your trial at the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain. The Combat Secret Technique you created is decent, and your comprehension of the Time Law is strong. What about space? Are you having any trouble?"
The Dark Lord asked.
His main reason for returning to the Primordial Universe was to search for Special Lifeforms. He also wanted to guide Zhang Dong.
Zhang Dong studied the Universe Chaos Stele and cultivated both time and space. He could now use Inanimate Stillness with the Time Law, so his understanding of space should be lagging behind.
There was no way his comprehension of the Time Law had improved over the past decade while his understanding of space had stayed exactly where it was.
No one in this world could be that monstrously talented.
"Teacher, I haven't put much effort into space yet, so I've made no progress." Zhang Dong thought for a moment, then said, "I'd like you to demonstrate the entire Space Law for me."
The Chaos Stele conveyed artistic conception. How much one comprehended depended on oneself.
It was already a profoundly mysterious painting. If a cultivator with poor talent looked at the Raindrop Diagram or the cosmic diagrams, they wouldn't understand a thing.
They might even think they were abstract paintings and fail to see anything in them at all.
"Demonstrate the entire law?" This was the first time the Dark Lord had heard such a request.
Even if he demonstrated the entire Space Law, would Zhang Dong really be able to understand it?
The Dao and the laws were like solving a math problem. Even if the correct answer was laid out before you, along with every step used to reach it, most people still couldn't grasp it. They could only find it mysterious.
The laws were countless times more complicated than math problems, so everyone had to start with the basics.
"Yes. Just demonstrate the whole thing once so I can get a general sense of it," Zhang Dong replied. "Then I'd especially like you to focus on Dead Object Teleportation. I need to see that a few more times."
He could also study how to merge dead objects into space fluctuations by observing them in a micro-particle state.
The complete Space Law and Dead Object Teleportation could both be demonstrated in the Virtual Universe. It simulated reality perfectly, including every law.
The next moment, the Dark Lord began demonstrating the complete Space Law.
It was an infinitely vast universe. In his hands, space was divided into layers, each one's structure laid out with perfect clarity.
The Dark Lord demonstrated and explained how to teleport, how to use Space Seal, and how Space Strangle worked.
Zhang Dong used microscopic techniques to watch the dead object's micro-particles merge into space and reappear in a distant place.
"Micro-particles have to merge into space fluctuations to allow Teleportation." Zhang Dong watched, utterly absorbed. To see the Dark Lord demonstrate the complete Space Law was an opportunity most people could never hope to get.
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