Planning

Island No. 1.

In front of Building No. 16.

The building was 110 stories tall and one kilometer long and wide. Each floor was 100 meters high.

Flame World Lord pointed to the screen by the entrance on the first floor. "Your Highnesses, please take note. Those whose names are on the screen live in this building. If you find your name, go to the person beside the screen. He's the building administrator."

Li Dui spotted his name at a glance. It was first on the list, followed by the number 16001.

Soon, 200 people separated from the main group.

"Your Highnesses, I'm the administrator of Building No. 16. My name is Luosen." The administrator had ears that drooped to his shoulders and a nose like a ball of flesh.

"The number after each of your names is your room number. The building has 110 floors, with two of you on each floor. The room numbers are arranged from top to bottom. For example, His Highness Li Dui, room 16001, lives on the 110th floor, in the room facing the entrance."

Someone asked, "Then the 200 of us only occupy the floors down to the 11th. What are the bottom ten floors for?"

Luosen answered with a friendly smile, "Those are spare rooms and living quarters for our staff."

"You can find the room corresponding to your number on your own. Once you claim it, you'll find a detailed introduction inside. Your servants are already waiting outside your residences."

"If anything is unclear or you need anything else, you can always come to me, Luosen." He finished with a professional bow.

Li Rui shot straight into the sky. A height of over ten thousand meters was nothing to someone at Universe Rank.

"Tap."

He landed on the entry platform on the 110th floor. The platform was a full three hundred meters long and wide, and decorated with flowers, tables, chairs, and other furnishings.

In front of the wide entrance, ten Universe Rank servants bowed to Li Dui in unison. "Welcome home, Your Highness."

There were seven women and three men, all with features resembling Earthlings. They had already served Li Dui for a long time in the Virtual Universe, so they knew each other well. There was no need to say much. Li Dui simply smiled and said, "Thanks for all your hard work," then went to the screen beside the door and pressed his hand against it to claim the residence.

Beyond the entrance was a reception room.

The furniture and decor had all been tailored to Li Dui's build, habits, and tastes.

Li Dui asked Dafika, the head of the servants, to take care of the daily arrangements.

He leaned back on the sofa and read the documents on the coffee table.

They contained information about the Battle Axe Secret Realm and some of its rules and regulations.

It was clear that the Giant Axe Martial Arena took a fairly aggressive approach to cultivating its geniuses. It strongly encouraged them to fight one another in person.

There was a Martial Arena on Central Island. Anyone who wanted to fight could sign up there, choosing between Self-Selected Betting Battles, Ten-Round Battles, and the most challenging Hundred-Round Battles.

A Self-Selected Betting Battle was simply a fight arranged between two people.

Ten-Round Battles.

The Martial Arena would assign opponents based on your strength.

You earned 50 points for each victory and lost 50 points for each defeat.

If you took part in a Ten-Round Battle and won more than 70 percent of your matches, you would earn an additional 500 points.

If you won more than 65 percent of your Hundred-Round Battles, you would earn 5,000 bonus points.

It sounded wonderful. In reality, winning 65 percent of a Hundred-Round Battle was almost impossible. Usually, people gave up once they couldn't hold out any longer, or the battle ended when an opponent seriously injured them.

He put down the documents. There was no rush to do anything in the Battle Axe Secret Realm. How long he stayed was entirely up to him.

If he wanted, he could enter the War Axe Secret Realm in the next Qualification Battle.

In fact, he could advance to the War Axe Secret Realm in just ten minutes, as long as he cleared Battle Axe Heavenly Mountain.

Li Dui estimated that, at Universe Rank, he would need the strength to pass the ninth or tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge to clear Battle Axe Heavenly Mountain.

Of course, that would be less worthwhile than making a high-profile run through the ninth, or even tenth, level of the Heavenly Bridge while still in Chaos City. Just think how many more points he'd earn.

Li Dui wanted to use this unremarkable place to carefully plan out his path of cultivation.

He needed to lay a solid foundation in every area. That way, even if one day the Ring was discovered by a Universe Master—or by Giant Axe Founder, the strongest of them all—and taken from him, he would still be able to get by.

Don't assume the highest-ranking experts wouldn't take things from their own people. They viewed things from a different perspective and had different concerns. Just think about Earth's situation, and you'd understand.

It wasn't impossible that a Universe Master might discover him. Chaos City Lord's lack of a reaction might simply mean he hadn't paid close attention to Li Dui, an unremarkable young genius. After all, when Li Dui had first arrived in Chaos City, Chaos City Lord had already examined everything about him thoroughly.

As for Giant Axe Founder, it was even harder to say. That great expert was no simple man.

So, for now, he would keep a low profile and avoid making a scene. He would focus on building a solid foundation. Even if the Ring was taken from him one day, he'd still have a fallback.

Of course, Li Dui wasn't too worried. Universe Masters simply wouldn't pay attention to ordinary geniuses.

Unless you revealed something extraordinary. For example, why had Luo Feng been taken as a nominal disciple by Chaos City Lord? Li Dui remembered the reason clearly.

When Luo Feng attempted to break through the thirteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge, he had used a trace of Beast God intent. That meant he had already begun to grasp the path of fusing laws.

But that alone wasn't enough.

He also had to be young.

Otherwise, with so many King Rank experts in the Ancestral God Sect pursuing the fusion of laws, why hadn't any Universe Master taken one of them as a disciple?

At the time, Luo Feng was probably only seven or eight hundred years old, and he had spent more than a century of that in Chaos City. In other words, his actual age was only a little over four hundred. To have found the path to fusing laws at that age must have made Chaos City Lord think Luo Feng had the potential to become a Top Universe Overlord one day.

Even so, Chaos City Lord gave Luo Feng a three-thousand-year task to test his talent. He would only be accepted as a personal disciple if he met the requirements within those three thousand years.

So as long as he didn't go looking for trouble, the great Universe Masters wouldn't have the time to bother with him.

Besides, at present, he wasn't even in a position to go looking for trouble. The guidance on the Hula Hoop only went as far as the law-fusion level.

"I can't keep leaving the Law of Earth unstudied just because I'm stuck here." Li Dui frowned. His Law of Earth was on the verge of being acknowledged by the Origin Law. He had already stopped studying it for some time, and he had been thinking about what to do for a long while.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed Li Dui's mind.

The Origin Law of Space and the Origin Law of Time could both be used to analyze the mysteries of their essences. Why couldn't gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and light?

Analyzing space and time could bring immense benefits. Would analyzing the lower laws really be a disadvantage?

Had anyone ever tried it?

He would have to look into that.

Still, Li Dui thought he could start experimenting. Even if he later found it useless, the most he would have wasted was some time.

"Then there are four things to do. First, improve my comprehension of the Origin Law of Space. That's the foundation."

"Second, keep analyzing the mysteries of the essence of space."

"Third, try to analyze the mysteries of the essences of the lower laws."

"Fourth, keep creating Combat Secret Techniques."

With his plan settled, Li Dui laughed to himself. Good. I'll have plenty to keep me busy now.