Zhang Junbao was only around a month old when the Shattered Star Ring, and he didn't kill many World Lord, but he did kill four Immortal God.
Zhang Junbao gave all the spoils of war to his comrades in the Blood God Squad, and didn't even keep the spaceship.
These Alien Race World Lord and Immortal had gone through countless life-or-death battles, and had lost many of their Human Race and Machine Race powerhouses. Naturally, they had also seized quite a few spaceships in their World Ring. However, the strongest among them were only E-class spaceships. The value of an E-class spaceship was less than 10 Hunyuan Unit on average, which was very cheap, and Zhang Junbao didn't bother with it.
Inside the Void Whale Spaceship, Zhang Junbao sat leisurely on the sofa, carefully studying the secret technique that the Kumu had given him.
"This secret technique, titled ' The Withering of Wood,' is not particularly profound, but it attempts a completely new approach: merging the Law of Wood with the Time Law to create a new Law called ' Withering and Flourishing.'"
This secret technique is divided into three levels. The first level is purely the Law of Wood, suitable for cultivation at the World Lord Level. The second level, however, requires the cultivator to comprehend the Time Law. The Law of Wood is Lower Laws of Space Law, and those who cultivate the Law of Wood are generally cultivators with spatial talent. But this secret technique requires the comprehension of the Time Law; this second level alone is enough to stump 99% of cultivators.
In the universe, every life form has limited talents. Those who can comprehend the basic Law can become powerful beings. However, the Time Law and Space Law are Higher Laws. Even among World Lord, very few can truly comprehend these two Law and even cross the threshold.
Don't be fooled by the fact that many people seemed to grasp the Space Law during the Virtual Universe Company's Genius Battle; what exactly is the Genius Battle?
Those were top geniuses selected by the Virtual Universe Company from trillions upon trillions of Star Level geniuses across the entire Human Race of the universe. Even among these geniuses, only a handful are capable of comprehending the laws of Space-Time Law.
It is easy to imagine how rare it is for cultivators to truly comprehend the Space-Time Law.
Despite being a cultivator of the Law of Wood, he demanded to comprehend the Time Law. Even Bolan, a Universe Level genius who was once hailed as a genius of tens of thousands of epochs, struggled for a long time to comprehend both the Time Law and the Space Law. If he hadn't met Zhang Junbao, Bolan would have had no choice but to abandon the Time Law and focus on cultivating the Space Law.
"The second level alone is enough to eliminate 99% of cultivators. Kumu is also trapped in the first level and cannot make any progress. With his talent, if he wants to step into the second level, he can only slowly endure it."
As for the third level, the fusion of the Law of Wood and the Time Law to create a new Law ' Withering and Flourishing ' is purely a conjecture of the author of the secret technique; even he himself has not truly mastered it.
"However, the second level of this secret technique, which attempts to combine the Law of Wood with the Time Law, is quite innovative."
After cultivators have perfected the basic Law and advanced to the level of Immortal God, they will focus on cultivating one of the Space-Time Law. As for the fusion of Law, that is something that Universe Venerable need to consider when they advance to the Universe Master.
According to Senior Brother Luanshen, the fusion of Law should ideally be completed before becoming Immortal. At the very least, a point of convergence between the two Law should be found so that the fusion of Law can proceed rapidly after becoming Immortal God.
If one were to cultivate the basic Law to perfection like an ordinary cultivator, and then cultivate the Space-Time Law during the Immortal era, attempting to merge them with the basic Law, it would be possible, but the time and resources required would be immeasurable.
More importantly, the depleted potential cannot be recovered.
"This is a common understanding among the strong; ordinary cultivators have no idea about such a secret."
Luo Feng's mastery of the Path of the Beast God was achieved by fusing the Law of Metal and the Space Law during his time World Lord, thus generating the Will of the Beast God. Therefore, even after reaching the Immortal, he continued to progress rapidly.
Having a skilled teacher on the path of cultivation is especially important, as they can guide you in time. For most cultivators, the moment they step onto the Immortal God and believe they have finally become powerful beings in the universe is also the moment they are unable to enter the First Order and cut off their path to advancement.
There are countless Immortal in the universe, and many more who have been crowned King-level Immortal. However, among them, only one in ten thousand can advance to the level of Universe Venerable. Immortal God can achieve this through arduous cultivation, but Universe Venerable is a genius from the very beginning.
"According to the description in the secret technique, this ' Withering of Wood ' technique is probably only a part of the inheritance. It combines the Law of Wood with the Time Law to comprehend the Withering and Flourishing of Wood, a magical Law like the transformation of life and death. This is something that even the Universe Master of Reverse Time and Space would find difficult to achieve."
Although the Universe Master can Control of Space-Time and even Reverse Time and Space, bringing the dead back to the present, it is very difficult to maintain the time change in one place, accelerate it, or reverse it.
"Based on the conjecture of this secret method, if these two Law are successfully integrated, it will be possible to control the life and death cycle of life in a place, and even to reverse the process from the elderly to children."
The Withering and Flourishing of Wood, each year Withering and Flourishing again; wildfires cannot burn them all, the spring breeze brings them back to life!
What a remarkable Withering and Flourishing! The owner of this secret technique truly dares to dream big!
Zhang Junbao laughed loudly, " The Universe Laws are divided into Ten Great Laws, and the fusion of each Law —metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and Space Law— and wind, light, lightning, and Time Law— is already the ultimate truth of the universe. Countless powerful beings have also proven that this path is successful."
But there are always people in the world who don't like to follow the usual path and think about problems in reverse, which is why they came up with this secret method that amazed Zhang Junbao.
"Too many powerful beings in the universe are bound by traditional thinking, perhaps because the path of Law is simply too difficult. Just comprehending the laws of spacetime and the basic Law has already consumed most of their energy. Even if they have ever thought about fusing with Higher Laws, how many of them would actually dare to try?"
Before becoming Immortal God, even at the Peak World Lord, lifespan is limited. The lifespan of a human World Lord Level a normal Life Gene Level of one time is at most 1000 epochs. When the time comes, no matter how talented they are, they will die and turn into a handful of dust in the universe.
Even if countless World Lord expend their entire lives, they still struggle to reach Immortal. Under such circumstances, who would dare to risk their life to attempt a Fusion Law that could only be called 'fantasy'?
"All World Lord Level cherish their lives. Hong's first teacher, the Time World Lord, wanted to comprehend the Time Law during his World Lord period so that he could directly become Marquis Immortal when he broke through to Immortal."
I almost messed things up. Luckily, I gained some inspiration from discussing the Dao with him when he had only 20,000 years left in his lifespan. Otherwise, even the former Time World Lord would not have been able to escape the laws of the universe.
If the Kumu wants to break through this limit and become World Lord, it either needs to abandon its current secret techniques and focus on cultivating the Law of Wood, or it needs to comprehend the Time Law and use the Wood-Time Fusion Law to step into Immortal. However, such a path is probably not much easier than becoming Universe Venerable.
For someone at the World Lord Level to achieve this is as difficult as ascending to heaven!
"My path is probably not much better than that of Kumu."
I want to advance to the level of Immortal God, but I am unwilling to give up any Law. Therefore, the only way is to take the path of Law fusion.
The Chaos City Lord follows the path of fusion of the Space-Time Law, making him quite powerful, but he must abandon the basic Law. On the other hand, Senior Brother Luanshen follows the path of fusion of the eight Eight Great Fundamental Laws, similar to the Path of the Beast God. He fuses the eight basic Law with their corresponding Higher Laws, making him a combination of the Eight Beast Gods. Therefore, he was able to rival the Lord of Chaos City Lord as soon as he broke through to the level of the Lord of the Universe Master.
The True Meaning of Taiji that I want to pursue probably requires integrating the eight basic Law and then combining them with Higher Laws. It involves deriving the Four Symbols from the Bagua, then deducing Yin and Yang from the Four Symbols, and finally integrating Yin and Yang to evolve into Chaos!
The complexity of the True Meaning of Taiji is such that even Senior Brother Luanshen and Senior Brother Chaos have never heard of it, and no one has ever set foot on this path. I need to deduce the method to advance to Immortal God on my own.
"The road ahead is long and arduous, but I will persevere in my pursuit!"
Fortunately, my life so far is only a thousand years, far from even an era, and the time before I reach the limit of becoming World Lord is still far off. I have plenty of time to explore. How could I easily give up such an opportunity?
Zhang Junbao was well aware of how difficult it would be to find a path of cultivation, but he was never one to give up easily. Moreover, there were many extraordinary encounters in the universe, so there might not really be no hope.
"Master, there's email!" Feitian alerted.
"Um?"
Zhang Junbao frowned slightly, his consciousness connecting to the Virtual Universe Network. In the Outer Domain Battlefield, maintaining a connection to the Virtual Universe Network was essential most of the time to stay informed about the enemy and friendly forces within a certain radius.
Battles can break out at any time, and to gain military merit, one must constantly activate Virtual Universe Network synchronization.
This is how the system can monitor battles and determine military achievements.
"Project the information in front of me," Zhang Junbao ordered, and Feitian immediately projected a virtual screen in front of Zhang Junbao.
This is an order issued by the military system.
"Soldier Zhang Junbao, you have completed your military merit quota and are ready to retire. You now have two choices: one, continue fighting on the Outer Domain Battlefield; two, retire and leave the Outer Domain Battlefield."
Every soldier who completes a military mission will receive a message from the system.
Zhang Junbao still needed to complete the mission of earning ten trillion military merits assigned by the Virtual Universe Company, so he naturally chose to continue fighting.
Subsequently, the military system confirmed Zhang Junbao's choice and sent another email.
"After becoming a free agent, you will have the power to 'exchange treasures'. Every 100,000 military merits can be exchanged for 1 Hunyuan Unit. Since you are a member of the Virtual Universe Company, every 100,000 military merits can also be exchanged for 1 point."
..."
The email followed by a question asking if he would choose to lead an army. Zhang Junbao was going to the Central Star Core, a place where even Immortal God were in constant danger of death, and not a place that ordinary armies could go.
Even though leading an army would grant him military merit bonuses, he had no interest in being a babysitter. He'd rather use that time to kill a couple Immortal God.
"Tsk tsk, 100,000 military merits for one Hunyuan Unit? That means the military merits for killing an ordinary World Lord are only one Hunyuan Unit. Life is really cheap."
In the Outer Domain Battlefield, anyone or anything can be measured by military merit, and ordinary World Lord are the most basic unit of measurement.
"And there's also the explanation about the points system for Immortal God; most things in the Outer Domain Battlefield have clearly marked prices!"
" Immortal Army Lord are divided into two levels: Low-level Immortal Army Lord 100 million military merits, High-level Immortal Military Lord 1 billion military merits."
Of the four Immortal killed, three were Immortal Army Lord Peak with the strength to Marquis, and the other was close to High-level Immortal Military Lord.
"Even Immortal like Kongshan, who is comparable to being granted a Marquis, still gets 1 billion military merits because he doesn't have that Marquis. Sinaike, who is close to a high-level Immortal Army Lord, is still considered Low-level Immortal Army Lord and only gets 100 million military merits. This broken system is really shady." Zhang Junbao couldn't help but complain when he saw the points calculation method.
"One Low-level Immortal Army Lord, three High-level Immortal Military Lord, and four Immortal gave me a total of 3.1 billion military merits. Ten quadrillion points are indeed not so easy to earn."
As for the two Immortal Demon Race, Baituo and Yanling, although they were already Zhang Junbao's slaves and reduced to gardening tools, they were not killed, so their merits were not counted.
"Killing Early Marquis Immortal grants 10 billion military merits!"
"Kill High-level Marquis Immortal 100 billion military merits!"
"Killed Initial King Immortal 10 trillion military merits!"
"100 trillion military merits for killing a high-level Immortal High King!"
"Achieve 1000 trillion military merits by killing Peak King Immortal!"
"This points table doesn't describe the Peak King Rank or the Invincible King, probably because they think people at those levels wouldn't be able to compete in the Outer Domain Battlefield."
The Shattered Star Ring Battlefield is divided into the Central Star Core and the surrounding Shattered Star Ring Zone. Although it is in the same battlefield, it was originally a vast star field. Even traveling at the speed of light in the universe, it would take more than two months to reach it.
With a "whoosh," the Void Whale Spaceship raised its tail, gave a gentle tap, and passed through a void, flying above a piece of land debris.
"This continent is larger than most planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. What kind of extraordinary races could have been born in such a magnificent star field!"
Standing in the control room, Zhang Junbao looked down at the boundless land below and sighed, "Such a vast landmass, if it could develop peacefully for millions of years, should be able to give rise to a decent civilization."
This current evolution of civilization on Earth has only lasted for a million years. Yet, this mere million years of peace has allowed Earth to give birth to the brilliant civilization that our Earth Clan today.
"Conflicts are constant in the universe. Even the once powerful Eight Gods Clan could only detonate their home planet and disappear when faced with the Four Pinnacle Races."
"Master, your home planet Earth was spared from being discovered by extraterrestrial civilizations too early precisely because it is located in a remote region of the Milky Way Galaxy," Feitian said.
"Master, ahead lies a shattered continent near the Central Star Core, called ' Sand Halberd Island.' It is a high-level war zone before reaching the Central Star Core, home to many Marquis Immortal and even King-level Immortal."
Here, apart from the Central Star Core, all other land fragments are designated as 'islands'.
Zhang Junbao looked at a continent in the distance that was larger than the Sun. It was covered with strange rocks and traces of battles. Presumably, many powerful people used this place as a training ground before heading to the Central Star Core.
"Excellent. Let's hone our skills here. There are many King-level Immortal on the Central Star Core. Before fighting them, let's practice against the strong individuals here."