Cultivation

"Smack!"

Before long, Luo Zhe was back home on the third floor. He went into his room, closed the door, and locked it.

To compare the difference in time flow between the two spaces, Luo Zhe took two phones and opened the timer function on both. He set them to 00:00 and started them at the same time, then placed one on the bed and held the other in his hand.

He calmed his mind and gathered his thoughts. After a brief moment of preparation, he once again used the mysterious suction from his dantian to enter the mysterious space within it.

With a soft whoosh, Luo Zhe's body suddenly vanished from the room. About ten minutes later, his figure appeared again.

Luo Zhe glanced at the timer on the phone in his hand. An hour and forty minutes had passed. Then he went to the bed and checked the other phone. Only ten minutes had passed on it!

Luo Zhe couldn't help but look delighted.

The flow of time really was different between the two spaces!

What's more, time in the mysterious space passed at ten times the rate of time in the real world!

Ten times the time, and the mysterious space was also filled with vast amounts of cosmic energy. He could cultivate there without feeling tired. It was practically a cultivation cheat!

At first, Luo Zhe had only had a chance to touch the threshold of War God Level, though he'd been confident he could reach it. But now, after confirming the heaven-defying effects of this mysterious space, he was absolutely sure that one day he would become a world-class powerhouse on par with Hong and Thor!

"Ha... haha... hahahaha..."

Lying on the bed and imagining the wonderful future in which he could punch old Hong and kick Thor, Luo Zhe couldn't help laughing out loud.

He had to admit, this really was a happy dilemma!

In the stairwell, Aunt Xiao had just finished hanging up the laundry and was coming downstairs. Hearing the laughter from Luo Zhe's room, she couldn't help looking suspicious.

What's gotten into Luo Zhe today? Has he practiced so much he's damaged his brain? I'll have to give him a good talking-to over dinner tonight!

Luo Zhe had no idea that Aunt Xiao had already decided to invite him over for dinner that evening and give him a lecture while she was at it.

Luo Zhe suddenly remembered something and stopped laughing. He sat up on the bed.

"Although this mysterious space is hidden somewhere in my dantian, I can't call it 'Dantian Space.' That sounds so lame. I might as well call it the 'Dimensional Space.'"

A dimension was a measure of extent or dimensionality.

In physics and philosophy, it referred to the number of independent coordinates in space-time.

According to Einstein's theory, our universe was made up of time and space. The space-time we lived in had four dimensions: three spatial axes and one time axis.

In physics, time was the fourth dimension. Unlike the three spatial dimensions, the time dimension was an imaginary axis. There was only one, and it could move in only one direction.

The appearance of the Dimensional Space suggested that beyond the dimensions invisible to our eyes and consciousness, there were not only other unseen spatial dimensions, but also other unseen temporal dimensions.

Luo Zhe had chosen the name Dimensional Space because deep down, he had a vague feeling that this space's functions went beyond that!

If the Dimensional Space could continue to grow and change, Luo Zhe believed that one day it would develop into another macrocosmic universe!

Late at night.

Although the outside world was already blanketed with stars, the Dimensional Space seemed to have no day or night. It remained the same hazy gray-white as ever. Beyond the indistinct barrier, there seemed to be an eternal light that shone upon the space without ever changing.

Sitting cross-legged at the very center of the Dimensional Space, Luo Zhe maintained the Five Hearts Towards Heaven posture, his eyes tightly shut. As his chest rose and fell, his inner breath shifted with it.

Within the deep structure of space, Luo Zhe's consciousness reached out through the five points of contact, ceaselessly drawing in the cosmic energy drifting around him.

The ceaseless flow of cosmic energy nourished every one of the countless thirsty cells throughout Luo Zhe's body. It was like a dried-up riverbed receiving fresh water once more; the thirsty cells in his body were like fish out of water, greedily gulping down the cosmic energy.

As the cosmic energy entered his cells, it was quickly absorbed by the mitochondria within them, releasing a strange energy in turn. The cells absorbed this energy throughout their various parts, and the entire cell immediately began to undergo earth-shattering changes. The DNA blueprint also shifted subtly, and the cells began to divide, splitting in two.

Time passed second by second...

Luo Zhe's body kept changing. His skin, muscles, and bones, as well as every cell deep within him—even his genes themselves—were all changing in subtle ways. These changes were the evolution of life, an optimization of its genes!

The essence of cultivation was the evolution of a living being. Every major breakthrough marked a qualitative leap in its genes!

Unbeknownst to Luo Zhe as he cultivated, tiny, barely perceptible specks of golden light mixed in with the cosmic energy he absorbed. They were drawn throughout his body as the energy flowed, and as he cultivated his Genetic Origin Energy, they were gradually refined into the depths of his body.

As these special substances entered his body, his cells began to undergo astonishing changes.

It was like growing a diamond under temperatures of 2,300°C and pressures of fifteen to eighteen atmospheres. A tiny natural diamond served as the seed, surrounded by molten metal under intense heat, with graphite above the metal solution. In this environment, the carbon atoms in the graphite passed through the metal atoms in orderly lines toward the diamond, forming a new diamond.

The gene chains stored in the cell nuclei began to break apart, segment by segment. Then, under the influence of the special substances, they began to optimize and recombine, forming new gene chains.

The moment his gene chains began to fragment, Luo Zhe's body first looked like that of a patient who had gone without food for three days and nights. His skin sagged limply against his body, and he seemed to be little more than a skeleton. Then he looked as if someone were inflating him with a pump. He swelled like a hydrogen balloon, seemingly about to burst from overinflation.

But once the new gene chains had formed, the cells throughout his body burst with fresh vitality. As his bones groaned in a long series of creaks, Luo Zhe grew two centimeters taller, and his physique quickly returned to its peak condition.

Yet even though such astonishing changes had taken place in his body, Luo Zhe continued to hold the Five Hearts Towards Heaven cultivation posture, motionless, as if nothing had happened.

What was more, the rate at which the cosmic energy in his body was refined into Genetic Origin Energy kept accelerating!

If Luo Zhe's cultivation speed had originally been 1, then as the special substances entered his body and the gene chains in his cells recombined, it gradually rose to 5. And as more and more of the special substances accumulated in his cells, Luo Zhe's cultivation speed continued to increase.