Because there was no telling when he would fully comprehend the Time and Space Origin Laws, Xiao Yang decided to pursue both paths at once.
He would refine his Secret Arts while studying the Time and Space Origin Laws.
He would need to refine his Secret Arts eventually anyway.
Creating stronger Secret Arts and fully comprehending the Time and Space Origin Laws were both things Xiao Yang needed to do in the future.
So he saw no reason to put one before the other.
The best way to refine a Secret Art was to fight!
But King-level Immortals could no longer put Xiao Yang under much pressure, so he planned to send his avatars into different secret realms to train.
He chose secret realms frequented by Universe Venerables.
There, he might get the chance to fight a few of them and refine his Secret Arts through battle.
Several decades passed in the blink of an eye.
Xiao Yang's Nether Sea Clone had long since been born.
Over those decades, Xiao Yang appeared in secret realms across the universe.
He even crossed hands with several Venerables.
He chose only the weaker ones, though.
Each of his avatars carried one offensive Supreme Treasure and one defensive Supreme Treasure.
What was more, the defensive treasure was a suit of Heavy Treasure Armor that boosted his strength, much like the Emperor Armor.
Even so, Xiao Yang could not defeat a Venerable.
After all, anyone who had reached that level possessed Secret Arts more advanced than his.
Venerables who had only just broken through and had yet to refine their Secret Arts would not be exploring secret realms.
That meant even an Elementary Venerable could drive Xiao Yang away.
And even Elementary Venerables were not blank slates with nothing but strength ten million times