Chapter 139: A Single Blade Fusing Myriad Laws

“Have you all decided which Chaos Stele you want to choose?”

The black-robed envoy walked inward from the outermost edge of the corridor, asking each genius about his selection.

At the back of the crowd, Luo Yuan remained calm. To him, it made no difference which Chaos Stele he chose. He had already decided to master all ten fundamental origin laws. Once he accomplished that, he would unquestionably become the strongest person of all.

When the black-robed envoy reached Luo Yuan, he said evenly, “I choose the Heart-Mark Chaos Stele!”

The envoy nodded. The screen on his arm instantly recorded the choice, and he continued toward the others.

After a while, Luo Feng came over and asked, “Third Brother, we’re both spiritual controllers. Why did you choose the martial artist’s blade-arts Chaos Stele?”

Luo Yuan smiled. “The Heart-Mark Chaos Stele contains ten thousand and eighty-one blade marks. Each one represents an unparalleled blade technique, embodying the ultimate expression of a particular path of blade arts. Martial combat has always been my weakness, so I chose this one.”

“It’s a pity I chose the Nine Universes Chaos Stele, the one best suited to the Godly Evolutionary Weapon. I had hoped we could choose the same school of cultivation.” Luo Feng frowned.

“It’s fine. We’ll have plenty of time to spar and exchange insights. That way, I can learn the ultimate methods of controlling the Godly Evolutionary Weapon, while you can learn the ultimate blade arts.” Luo Yuan smiled.

“Mm, that works too!” Luo Feng nodded.

In truth, he had been wavering between the Nine Universes Chaos Stele and the Heart-Mark Chaos Stele.

Luo Yuan, however, was secretly amused. He intended to master all fifty-two Chaos Steles. While everyone else needed to sit in meditation and comprehend the laws, he only had to wander around collecting law attributes. Thirty years in Chaos City would be more than enough time for him to gather them all.

Once everyone had chosen a Chaos Stele, the black-robed envoy walked to the end of the corridor and finished recording their selections. Only then did he turn around and smile.

“I have sent out your choices. Come with me.”

Luo Yuan and the other thousand people followed the black-robed envoy away from the corridor and continued deeper inside. Before long, they arrived at a vast training ground within the City Lord’s Manor.

The training ground was extraordinarily spacious, stretching for dozens of kilometers in every direction. An ordinary person on Earth would not have been able to see its far end, but Luo Yuan and the others could see everything clearly.

The thousand people gathered on the empty training ground, while the black-robed envoy stood before them.

“Of the fifty-two Chaos Stele meditation chambers, twelve are currently occupied. The remaining forty are empty.” The black-robed envoy looked at the crowd before him. “I will now announce the names of those forty Chaos Steles…”

“The Extending Mountain Chaos Stele, the Heart-Mark Chaos Stele…” The black-robed envoy rapidly listed the names of all forty Chaos Steles in one breath.

“Those who chose these forty Chaos Steles should go directly to the entrance on the far left. You will be assigned to the corresponding meditation chambers.”

The black-robed envoy pointed into the distance. At the far left end of the training ground stood an entrance nearly thirty meters high.

“You may go now.”

As soon as his voice fell, more than eight hundred geniuses transformed into streaks of light and flew toward the entrance leading to those forty Chaos Steles.

“You fourth brothers are rather unlucky. I’ll be going first. Take your time waiting here!”

With that, Luo Yuan’s body blurred and vanished from sight. In the blink of an eye, he appeared ahead of the eight hundred-odd people.

Hearing Luo Yuan’s teasing remark, Luo Feng had initially wanted to roll his eyes. But when he saw Luo Yuan’s movement, which looked almost like teleportation, he was stunned on the spot, his eyes widening in disbelief.

“My heavens! To what level has Third Brother comprehended the spatial origin law? That wasn’t teleportation just now, was it?”

The black-robed envoy beside him smiled. “It wasn’t teleportation. He merely pushed his speed to an extreme, though he is not far from true teleportation. His Highness Luo Yuan truly deserves to be the champion of this Genius Battle. His talent is indeed terrifying!”

…

In a boundless chaotic space, Luo Yuan crossed through a layer of light and arrived at his destination.

At a glance, he saw an ancient, unadorned stone stele standing in the center of the space. It was ten thousand zhang tall. The stele itself looked utterly ordinary, yet it bore ten thousand and eighty-one blade marks. Each blade mark seemed to contain an independent space, within which an unparalleled expert demonstrated a blade technique.

Some blade arts were fierce and domineering; a casual strike could cleave the void and shatter a river of stars. Others were graceful and supple, yet concealed deadly intent. Wherever the blade passed, space shattered and all things were severed. There were even powerful figures whose phantoms directly released blade energy from their hands. Wherever that energy passed, all things were annihilated and the universe fell silent…

“Wonderful! They have actually integrated the spatial origin law and other origin laws into their blade arts. The power is truly terrifying.” Luo Yuan could not help praising them aloud.

Although Luo Yuan could comprehend the techniques himself, he had only seven days. He still decided that collecting attributes through the system would be much faster.

“This Chaos Stele isn’t dropping any attribute bubbles on its own. Do I actually have to attack it?” Luo Yuan muttered as he carefully examined the stele.

Helplessly, he took a fifth-tier origin-force weapon from his storage ring: the Void-Splitting Blade.

He gripped the long blade in his right hand and swung it casually. With a single strike, he unleashed the Opening-Heaven technique.

A fierce blade radiance ten thousand meters long tore through the void and vanished. In the next instant, it suddenly appeared before the Chaos Stele and slammed viciously into the stone.

Yet the Chaos Stele remained completely unmoved. Not even the slightest mark appeared upon it.

Luo Yuan frowned at first. But a moment later, his brows relaxed, because he saw several golden attribute bubbles fall from the Chaos Stele.

He hurriedly collected them with his spiritual force.

“Collected a strand of the golden origin law.”

“Collected a strand of the spatial origin law.”

“Collected one secret technique: Star-River Single Blade.”

“Collected one secret technique: Annihilating Throwing Blades.”

“…”

“Hahaha, not bad. Not bad.” Luo Yuan smiled.

Then he began swinging the Void-Splitting Blade with all his might. In an instant, blade energy crisscrossed throughout the space, and countless streaks of blade light slashed against the Heart-Mark Chaos Stele.

As the laws, blade techniques, and their true meanings that Luo Yuan collected merged into his being, his blade arts grew stronger and stronger. By now, even when he used only the Opening-Heaven technique, a single slash would immediately transform into hundreds or even thousands of different blade techniques. Every one of them was an unparalleled blade art recorded upon the Heart-Mark Chaos Stele.

…

Within a desolate starfield, an ancient palace stood on an uninhabited planet.

Deep inside the palace, an old man suddenly opened his eyes. A terrifying aura spread outward, and endless rivers of stars seemed to flow within his gaze.

He was the guardian of the fifty-two Chaos Steles, an unparalleled supreme expert.

At this moment, however, the old man wore a strange expression as he frowned and muttered to himself, “What is that little fellow Luo Yuan doing? Everyone else is earnestly comprehending the Chaos Steles, yet he is hacking at one with a blade.

“Still, his blade technique is quite interesting. To fuse ten thousand techniques into a single blade… What a frighteningly gifted young man. Given enough time, he might truly be able to incorporate all ten thousand and eighty-one blade techniques recorded on the Heart-Mark Chaos Stele into a blade art of his own creation.

“Forget it. In any case, he cannot damage the Chaos Stele. Perhaps this is simply his unique method of cultivation. I will leave him to it.”

After speaking, the old man closed his eyes once more. His aura vanished, and he became as still as an ancient immovable rock.