"System... could I forgo drawing an advance on an overall increase in cultivation and instead draw an advance on... complete comprehension and mastery of Teleportation, one of the three profound mysteries of the Space Law?"
In the universe, comprehending a single profound mystery of a higher law to its utmost brought an enormous leap in strength, enough to place a cultivator firmly at the High King level.
Moreover, complete mastery of a particular profound mystery brought one's attainments in that field to an extremely high level, allowing the use of immensely powerful specialized secret techniques.
For example, complete mastery of the Teleportation mystery granted mobility and evasive abilities far beyond those of one's peers, making survival much easier; complete mastery of the Strangulation mystery made one's offensive power extraordinarily terrifying.
Of course, the drawback was a potential lack of ways to respond in other areas.
The other way to become a High King expert was to study all three profound mysteries of the Space Law simultaneously.
When the combined depth of comprehension of those three mysteries brought one's overall strength to a certain threshold, one could likewise be classified as a High King.
This provided a solid foundation and a relatively balanced array of abilities, but lacked an ultimate means of settling a fight in a single decisive blow!
What Hu Yanbo proposed now was precisely the first path, choosing the Teleportation mystery that best suited his current circumstances!
Light rippled across the panel in his mind, and the assessment passed. The light on the panel shifted faintly, and a moment later, its text changed:
[Available advance: Space Law mystery-Teleportation (complete mastery)] [Repayment condition: Survive a life-and-death battle!] [Draw the advance?] [Yes/No]
Delight flared in Hu Yanbo's eyes!
It worked!
"That's the one!" He did not hesitate.
"Draw an advance on the Teleportation mystery!"
[Yes]!
Hum!
This time, what poured into Hu Yanbo's soul was not an endless ocean of comprehensive information on the laws, but an incomparably vast torrent of insight that was exceptionally pure, intensely focused, and devoted solely to the Teleportation branch of the law!
His aura became more restrained and fluid, as though he had established a deeper connection with the surrounding space, allowing him to merge into it and escape far away in an instant at any time!
Countless secrets of sensing spatial fluctuations more precisely, constructing spatial passages more quickly, making longer and more accurate coordinate jumps, and even flickering like a ghost over extremely short distances in battle... after fully mastering Teleportation, he gained further understanding of them through his teacher Yuan Huang's Abyssal Seal.
"Wonderful!" Hu Yanbo felt the changes, elated.
"With complete mastery of the Teleportation mystery, whether I'm traveling, coming to someone's rescue, or retreating after encountering a powerful enemy, my mobility and ability to survive will undergo a qualitative leap!"
Not only had his strength arrived in exactly the form he needed most!
His cultivation had not fallen behind, either!
After drawing the advance on Teleportation, Hu Yanbo did not pause for a moment. With a thought, he made a World Ring float before him.
One rare treasure after another, each radiating vast, pure energy, streamed out of it and hovered inside the cabin, bathing the entire lounge in a dazzling array of colors.
Divine power was the foundation of an Immortal God, the source that drove the might of every law.
In essence, it was also the energy of the universe origin laws.
When Immortal Gods broke through a major cultivation realm, the origin laws descended and poured immense quantities of divine power into them, completing the first qualitative transformation and elevation of their divine bodies.
Over the long years that followed, further strengthening their divine bodies and accumulating more divine power required painstaking effort, slowly absorbing energy from the universe and converting it through the cores of their divine bodies into immortal divine power unique to themselves.
This process was extraordinarily slow, but to immortals with eternal lifespans, time was the least valuable thing of all.
Yet time was precisely what Hu Yanbo lacked most at that moment!
Thus, without hesitation, he chose a shortcut that the universe's experts would never use-devouring and absorbing rare treasures containing pure origin energy!
Vast quantities of energy surged madly into his divine body like countless rivers pouring into the sea.
His body seemed like a bottomless pit, exerting a powerful suction that rapidly drained priceless treasures of their energy, reducing them to dust.
Fortunately, Hu Yanbo's divine body had not been damaged. He was merely replenishing the basic divine power of his newly advanced High King divine body, bringing it to the fullest state of its current level as quickly as possible.
Thus, although the rare treasures he consumed were worth a considerable sum, totaling several hundred million Hunyuan Units-only half the wealth of an Initial King-the expense remained within what Hu Yanbo could accept.
If his soul had been damaged or his divine body annihilated and needed to be rebuilt, the resources required would have been ten or even several dozen times what he was using now!
As the immense quantities of energy poured in, Hu Yanbo's aura grew increasingly solid and weighty at a visibly rapid pace.
Several hours later, when the final rare treasure turned to ash, Hu Yanbo slowly opened his eyes. Divine radiance shone brilliantly within them, and the divine power coursing around him surged mightily. His High King divine body had reached its ideal state!
"My divine body is fully replenished, and my comprehension of the laws has advanced..." He felt the power racing through him and the Teleportation mystery that obeyed him as naturally as his own limbs, almost instinctively. "I've... never been in better condition!"
Hu Yanbo abruptly rose and stepped out of the lounge cabin.
"Master! Perfect timing!" Babata's voice immediately rang out.
"We've reached the outer region of the Nether God Secret Realm. The turbulent energy belt around its entrance is just ahead!"
Shortly after those words, the previously silent starry sky ahead began to twist and fill with strange colors, visible through the enormous viewport in the control room.
Countless tides of eerily colored energy flowed wildly through the void like raging rivers. Farther away, an immense vortex slowly rotated, emanating a heart-pounding devouring force.
That was the entrance to the Nether God Secret Realm!
In a relatively stable region near that dangerous entrance, a blood-red triangular spaceship hovered silently-the Yunmo Star Ship.
Hu Yanbo looked at his ship and nodded slightly.
The coordinates he had previously reached through Divine Kingdom Teleportation were still several hundred thousand light-years from the actual entrance to the Nether God Secret Realm.
That was precisely why, despite having just fully comprehended the Teleportation mystery, he had not chosen to travel through repeated teleportation.
Even after fully comprehending the Teleportation mystery, a King Rank expert's effective range of spatial perception in any single attempt remained extremely limited.
Generally, when extending spatial perception as far as possible in a particular direction, the range was only around one light-year.
This meant that teleporting over an immense distance required countless cycles of sensing, jumping, and sensing again, consuming enormous amounts of mental energy and divine power while remaining far less efficient than traveling through the Dark Universe.
It was outstanding for evasive maneuvers in battle or short-distance assaults, but for interstellar journeys spanning several hundred thousand light-years, it was far less efficient and more taxing than taking a spaceship through the Dark Universe.
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