When Luo Feng came over, the black-robed stele guardian, who had been sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, opened them as well. He had only one eye, giving him a rather strange appearance.
"Junior is the newly advanced Nine Regions Domain Lord, Galaxy. Greetings, Senior." Luo Feng looked at the black-robed old man before him. He had one eye, one nose, and one mouth, but no ears. His dark cyan skin was covered in wrinkles, and his appearance did not fit human aesthetics at all. Luo Feng even felt that he was somewhat ugly.
The stele guardian's single eye looked Luo Feng over. His voice sounded somewhat strange as he said, "Newly advanced Canglan Domain Lord, Galaxy. I have your records here. There just happens to be no one inside now. Go in. Remember, you have only ten thousand eras. Study it well!"
As he spoke, the stele guardian casually pointed into the void. A hazy passage appeared directly in front of Luo Feng. It was the entrance to the Primal Chaos Stele.
"Thank you, Senior." After bowing, Luo Feng turned and walked toward the passage.
As Luo Feng entered, the hazy passage and Luo Feng both vanished from the outside world's view.
Luo Feng felt the stars shift and the world turn. When he could see clearly again, the scene before him had changed completely. He found himself in a vast space.
It was an empty, clean space. Its surroundings were all made of stone walls—the inner walls of the Primal Chaos Stele.
Luo Feng focused on his surroundings and could not help being stunned.
The inner walls of the Primal Chaos Stele formed an incomparably huge continuous painting. Every part of the walls was covered by it. In the mural, the closer something was to the bottom, the clearer it became. The higher it went, the more blurred it was. Luo Feng could not even see or sense the contents above, as if the bottom represented the foundation. Only after understanding the bottom would one be qualified to look upward.
In the higher section, there were only faint traces containing fluctuations of time, which Luo Feng seemed barely able to sense.
"Law manifested outwardly?" Luo Feng shifted his gaze to the lower portion of the mural and simply focused on what he could see clearly.
At the bottom of the stone wall, endless golden-red secret patterns covered the surface. Each secret pattern was like a tiny spark, a minuscule unit. Yet when countless secret patterns overlapped, Luo Feng felt as though he were seeing blazing flames burning wildly. Countless sparks had formed a vast sea of fire.
This was clearly the Law of Fire.
It was just like the Fire Origin Luo Feng had observed in the Origin Sea of the Primal Universe. What he saw was the outward manifestation of the Law of Fire. Even without comprehending the Law of Fire, he could easily understand it at a glance. For a mural to manifest laws outwardly required extremely high comprehension and attainment. Such a method was truly terrifying.
Comprehending laws here would probably be nearly as fast as comprehending them in the Origin Sea of the Primal Universe.
"The methods of You Mountain God King are indeed formidable."
Luo Feng shifted his gaze to the right. Adjacent to the Law of Fire was a dark-golden "earth pattern." Each secret pattern was like a tiny grain of soil. Countless grains of soil gathered together to form a vast, thick land. Farther to the right, he could see the Law of Metal shining with golden light above the land. Within the secret-pattern painting of the Law of Metal were incomparably sharp swords and sword flashes shooting into the sky, long spears and spear shadows, arrows released from their strings, and mountains of blades and blade flashes. This was the outward manifestation of the Law of Metal.
The Law of Metal was sharp and unyielding.
Farther to the right, sword flashes became mist and rain, spear shadows became mist and torrential rain, and blade flashes resembled mist and flowing water.
The drizzle gradually changed, from threads of rain to raindrops, then torrential rain, and finally surging rivers, great rivers, and seas.
The secret-pattern diagram of the Law of Water consisted of countless secret patterns resembling threads of rain, forming this enormous world of rainwater. To the right of that world, the rain gradually grew lighter. Under the sprinkling of the misty drizzle, the rainwater was like a spring of life, nourishing all living things. Countless plants filled with the aura of life grew luxuriantly, from tiny green shoots and grass to towering trees.
The Law of Wood was completely manifested through green shoots, grass, trees, and other forms of life. Every green shoot and every leaf was entirely carved from secret patterns. Each stroke and line was clear and distinct. A single glance revealed its true essence.
Farther to the right of the Law of Wood, withered yellow blades of grass, leaves, and trees ignited scattered sparks. Every flickering flame was a secret-pattern diagram. Countless sparks burned into a great fire, forming an incomparably enormous Flame World—a sea of fire.
This was the end.
Fire generated earth, earth generated metal, metal generated water, water generated wood, and wood generated fire once more. Fire, earth, metal, water, and wood had formed a cycle. Luo Feng's gaze returned to its starting point, circling from the fire in the painting and returning to the fire.
Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—the five laws were connected to one another. Wood generated fire, fire generated earth, earth generated metal, metal generated water, and water ultimately generated wood, forming a perfect cycle among metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
Apart from the five laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, the entire painting's cycle also contained the outward manifestation of time everywhere, as well as the outward manifestation of space. Within each painting corresponding to a law, it seemed that fierce winds blew and thunder and lightning struck. Light, meanwhile, pierced through the entire painting, filling every place with radiance.
The secret patterns of the Ten Great Fundamental Laws formed a painting of laws. Every law pointed directly to its essence.
Besides the outward manifestation of the Ten Great Fundamental Laws, the painting also contained the paths of fusion between them. However, the secret patterns representing law fusion were even more obscure, complex, and profound. How fire generated earth represented the fusion of the laws of fire and earth. How earth generated metal represented the fusion of the laws of metal and earth.
The Ten Great Fundamental Laws were completely manifested outwardly, so they could be understood at a glance. But the secret patterns of fusion, even though Luo Feng felt a vague stir in his heart, were difficult for him to comprehend in such a short time.
The Five-Element Fundamental Laws formed a cycle and then fused with the other five fundamental laws. This was already the experience of Saint Transformation. The principles were easy to understand, but actually fusing and comprehending them was much more difficult.
Now that he had seen such a cycle, Luo Feng felt as if he had opened the gate to the world.
"Formidable!" Luo Feng was completely enthralled.
He had already fully comprehended the Ten Great Fundamental Laws. What he had to do now was integrate and fuse them.
The Primal Chaos Stele and the Primordial Boundary Tablet reflected one another. Under the ten-thousandfold acceleration in the Inheritance Space, Luo Feng's Divine Power Avatar constantly experimented with methods of fusion.
The Primal Chaos Stele was different from the Primordial Boundary Tablet. The Primal Chaos Stele used secret patterns to form a painting. It contained the outward manifestation of the Ten Great Fundamental Laws and the mysteries of their fusion. Its overall purpose was to guide one in fusing them into the Chaos Law. The Primordial Boundary Tablet, however, had been transformed from the Chaos Law. It itself represented the Chaos Law. It contained only the result—the answer—but not the process.
Even so, the two complemented each other. One contained the process but temporarily lacked the result, while the other contained the result and could in turn verify the process.
However, even so, comprehending the Fusion Law was not as simple as comprehending ordinary laws.
With ten-thousandfold time acceleration, Luo Feng had to spend a great deal of time understanding every point of fusion. Some took a year, some a hundred years, and some even took a hundred thousand years, a million years, or ten million years.
Once he understood something, the path ahead was smooth. Whenever he reached a bottleneck, he would sink into a prolonged standstill.
In this state, Luo Feng did not sense the passage of time at all. All he wanted was to experience the beauty of this great fusion to the greatest extent possible, then fuse even more laws.
Time passed imperceptibly.
Before each of Luo Feng's entries into the Primal Chaos Stele, he had already been able to attempt fusing four of the Five-Element Fundamental Laws, though he had only grasped their superficial aspects. Nine thousand eras after he entered the Primal Chaos Stele—equivalent to ninety million eras in the Inheritance Space—Luo Feng finally managed to perfectly fuse the four fundamental laws of metal, wood, water, and earth. Only the Law of Fire remained.
After fusing four laws, Luo Feng naturally had confidence in incorporating the fifth, the Law of Fire.
Wood generated fire, and fire generated earth.
Luo Feng completely followed the Primal Chaos Stele's line of thought, analyzing and then fusing the laws. Jie Fanzi's approach was clearly wrong. Water and fire could indeed be fused, but that was ultimately not the Great Dao.
Among the Ten Great Laws, some generated and countered one another, yet were also perfectly integrated as one, ultimately becoming chaos. The mysteries within were boundless.
Luo Feng continued trying to fuse the Law of Fire. Before he realized it, the final thousand eras had also passed.
"Humanity's Galaxy, time is up. You should come out now." The stele guardian's voice entered Luo Feng's mind.
Awakened by the voice, Luo Feng could only helplessly stop his comprehension.
"I'm still far from it." Luo Feng shook his head, then followed the guidance toward the exit and left the Primal Chaos Stele.
In the ten thousand eras within the Primal Chaos Stele—actually equivalent to one hundred million eras—Luo Feng had completely fused the fundamental laws of metal, wood, water, and earth among the Five-Element Fundamental Laws. He had also tried to fuse a trace of the Law of Fire, but he was still far from complete fusion. This final Law of Fire not only had to complement the Law of Wood, but also the Law of Earth. At the same time, it could not disrupt the balance established by the original four laws. The difficulty naturally increased tremendously.
The closer one came to the end of the fusion, the greater the difficulty became.
One had to understand that Luo Feng already had the answer and only needed to verify the process, yet the difficulty was still so great. It went without saying how difficult it was for others.
"If you gave me another trillion eras, I should be able to achieve perfect fusion with the Primal Chaos Stele as a reference. Unfortunately, without the Primal Chaos Stele, I would probably need more than ten thousand times as long." Luo Feng felt somewhat helpless, but there was nothing he could do. After taking one last look at the Primal Chaos Stele, he could only leave for now.
There were still many thoughts from the Primal Chaos Stele that needed time to organize, so Luo Feng chose to return first to the residence arranged by the Nine Regions Palace. He did not hurry to challenge the Nine Dragons Tower.
Within the Five Dust Traveling Palace, Saint Lord Wuchen immediately learned that Luo Feng had come out of the Primal Chaos Stele.
"Since Galaxy was able to come out of the Primal Chaos Stele, it seems he is not a spy from an enemy country." Saint Lord Wuchen smiled. A newly advanced Domain Lord's qualification to comprehend the Primal Chaos Stele was actually a test to determine whether he was an enemy-country spy. As long as one entered the Primal Chaos Stele, with You Mountain God King's methods, it was naturally easy to detect and identify them. If they were an enemy-country spy, they would likely die without a doubt.
Knowing that Luo Feng was not a spy, Saint Lord Wuchen was quite happy and even began to look forward to what would happen.
"He just came out of the Primal Chaos Stele and immediately entered seclusion. It seems he gained something. I hope he can bring me a pleasant surprise when he challenges the Nine Dragons Tower."