The Universe Boat, Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space.
Inside an enormous rock that spun eternally, Yang Zheng sat cross-legged, still as an ancient boulder. His consciousness, however, had long since projected into an independent plane within the Virtual Universe.
Mist swirled here, and stone pillars rose one after another, each corresponding to a three-dimensional phantom.
Yang Zheng's consciousness avatar stood quietly among them, his gaze calmly fixed on the three-dimensional phantom before him. His mind worked at tremendous speed, continuously deducing, simulating, dismantling, and reconstructing within the realm of his consciousness.
Suddenly, Yang Zheng traced precise strokes before him with his fingers. Divine power flowed from his fingertips, outlining and weaving through the void.
A three-dimensional phantom of exquisite structure, so intricate it made the eyes swim, rapidly took shape under the guidance of threads of divine power, radiating stability and perfection.
"Puzzle 1,500! The first bottleneck for a Universe Master!" Yang Zheng slowly opened his eyes, his consciousness returning to the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space.
Only a little over a hundred years had passed in the outside Universe Ocean, but nearly three million years had elapsed in this region of the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space, where time acceleration was terrifyingly powerful.
Although he had not devoted his full attention to it, assigning only a sliver of his mental effort to solving the puzzles, he had broken through the Rhino Emperor Game's first bottleneck in just three million years.
Several factors had contributed to this.
His will at the true god limit had played a considerable role, along with his mastery of secret pattern diagrams, which was equivalent to the pinnacle of a Universe Master. The Rhino Emperor Game also demanded exceptional comprehension and deduction, and-
The Rhino Emperor Game... Yang Zheng murmured inwardly. The deeper his research