Chapter 145: The Descent of the Ten Fundamental Laws

"A wisp of the essence law of space has been picked up."
"A wisp of the essence law of gold has been picked up."
"A wisp of the essence law of time has been picked up."
"Proficiency for 'God-Slicing Strike' +100 has been picked up."
"Proficiency for 'Heaven-Rending Saber' +100 has been picked up."

Luo Yuan sat among the crowd below the dojo of Blade-Desolation King. Sitting cross-legged on a futon with his eyes closed, he appeared to be listening to the lecture, but in reality, he was using his spiritual power to pick up attributes while simultaneously splitting off a thread of consciousness to play virtual reality games. However, the terrifying sword intent and laws continuously emanating from his physical body caused everyone present to glance sideways in astonishment.

High above, Blade-Desolation King was equally amazed by Luo Yuan's formidable talent; not a single disciple under his command could compare to Luo Yuan.

After listening to lectures at Blade-Desolation King's dojo for a month, Luo Yuan went on to attend lectures at the dojos of other schools of thought governed by venerable kings—though his true purpose was still picking up attributes. The miraculous phenomena he displayed when integrating the picked-up attributes shocked all the venerated kings present. Among them, True-Eye King even went so far as to discuss comprehension of the Nine Universes Chaos Monument with Luo Yuan right on the spot, leaving True-Eye King's disciples dumbfounded.

Luo Yuan had once attempted to unleash his spiritual power freely across Chaos City in an effort to harvest various attributes on a large scale. However, he discovered that powerful restrictions were placed everywhere, and the dojos of the various schools specifically blocked spiritual probes. For this, Luo Yuan had received a warning from a Superior Being of Chaos City, forbidding him from wantonly scanning the area with his spiritual power without reason. Because of this, he obediently returned to attending lectures at the dojos of the various kings.

Yet, after living this way for half a year, Luo Yuan began to feel somewhat bored. Consequently, while continuing to attend lectures at the various dojos, he carved out time to hunt down chaos beasts and absorb chaos true spirits. Doing so not only enhanced the strength of his soul but also allowed him to pick up the essence laws dropped by these chaos beasts.

In the primordial state of the universe, the "Initial Universe" naturally birthed various bizarre creatures. These creatures possessed strange appearances and were temporarily named "chaos beasts." Each of these chaos beasts varied in strength, and all were naturally proficient in certain essence laws—some excelled in many, while others in few.

When a chaos beast was slain, it would directly decompose into a massive amount of chaos Qi and a shimmering turquoise light spot. This turquoise light spot was the very core of the chaos beast. Chaos beasts possessed no souls, only this singular point of life light, which was designated as the chaos true spirit.

One merely needed to draw the chaos true spirit into the body for it to be directly absorbed by one's soul. Following this absorption, the soul would undergo a subtle transformation, achieving a greater resonance with cosmic space.

However, absorbing chaos true spirits was only effective for beings below the immortal level, because the souls of immortal entities had already attained eternity, rendering the absorption of chaos true spirits ineffective for them.

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Across the vast wilderness one thousand kilometers away from Chaos City, Luo Yuan was currently engaged in a massive slaughter of chaos beasts. The chaos beasts located in this region near Chaos City were entirely at the universe level. To Luo Yuan, it was no different than strolling through his own backyard; universe-level chaos beasts posed zero threat to him whatsoever.

Luo Yuan directly activated his chaos domain, enclosing the chaos beasts within a radius of one hundred kilometers, followed by a rotating barrage of attacks utilizing various attributes. The notification sounds of chaos beasts dropping essence laws continuously rang in his mind. Although individual drops were modest, the accumulated total was quite impressive.

Once these chaos beasts had been thoroughly fleeced of everything they had to offer, he would swiftly send them on their way. Ultimately, these chaos beasts would dissolve into vast amounts of chaos Qi and turquoise light spots. The chaos Qi merged into Luo Yuan's chaos domain, while the green chaos true spirits integrated into his soul, after which he would relocate to another area and repeat the process.

Luo Yuan's rampant slaughter led to a sharp decline in the population of universe-level chaos beasts in this region, which also provoked protests from other prodigies. Yet Luo Yuan remained unfazed, continuing to do as he pleased. The higher-ups of Chaos City paid it no mind; after all, these chaos beasts were free-range, and once they were wiped out, another batch could simply be released into the realm.

Three months later, Luo Yuan's absorption of chaos true spirits reached saturation. The strength of his soul was now infinitely close to that of an immortal entity, and his accumulated comprehension of the ten major laws was formidable, with each having reached the peak level of a world lord. Even under his deliberate suppression, his cultivation realm had reached the ninth stage of the universe level without the use of any nutrient solutions.

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Time flowed like water, and the years rushed by like a shuttle. In the blink of an eye, Luo Yuan had spent ten years in Chaos City. On Earth, however, a profound transformation had taken place; translated into Earth time, thirty years had passed.

Luo Yuan's decade here had been quite fulfilling. His time was primarily divided into three parts: one part was spent attending lectures at the dojos of the 52 schools of thought to pick up attributes, alongside whipping chaos beasts outside Chaos City to gather various attributes. Another part involved entering the virtual universe's slaughter and decisive battle space to challenge peerless geniuses from various cosmic nations, picking up attributes along the way.

The final part was pure entertainment—dividing his consciousness to play virtual games in the virtual universe, socializing and gathering with prodigies from the various districts of Yuxiang Mountain, and discussing the meaning of life in the virtual space with Jiang Fang back on Earth. When he had idle time, he would go challenge the Tongtian Bridge. To date, he had already broken through the ninth level of the Tongtian Bridge, placing him far ahead of all the prodigies in this generation in a league of his own.

Nearly all geniuses in Yuxiang Mountain knew Luo Yuan. Whenever these prodigies funded gatherings and recreational events in the virtual universe, they would invariably invite Luo Yuan, and he would always attend, entirely devoid of the arrogance typical of the top-ranked genius. Consequently, Luo Yuan enjoyed a very favorable reputation—though in truth, Luo Yuan was simply bored, and since these people were generous spenders, he was quite happy to tag along for free.

Compared to Luo Yuan, Boran and Luo Feng appeared much more aloof. Boran disdained wasting time attending such mundane gatherings, whereas Luo Feng was relentlessly cultivating day and night to catch up to Luo Yuan's pace. Upon learning of this, Luo Yuan felt a twinge of shame; he had merely been eating, drinking, and idling away his days while picking up attributes, yet his strength kept growing unstoppably—something he simply could not help.

Luo Yuan's attribute space had already accumulated massive amounts of primal energy and spiritual force attributes, but he chose not to fuse them yet. Instead, he intended to wait until he reached his absolute limit before doing so, because once geniuses from the primal region reached the domain lord level, they would be dispatched to human cosmic nations to serve as regional governors holding massive authority, and he had no desire to be relegated quite so soon.

***

In the blink of an eye, another two years passed. Luo Yuan sat cross-legged on the rooftop of his private cultivation residence, feeling that the ten major essence laws he had gathered and integrated through attribute collection had reached a profound and mysterious realm.

Suddenly, a powerful aura erupted from Luo Yuan's body on the rooftop. Enveloped by an incomparably majestic aura of laws, ten towering pillars of light formed by magical forces of ten distinct colors suddenly projected from the sky above Chaos City down onto the rooftop where Luo Yuan resided. Countless secret runes flowed around him, blazing with brilliant radiance, and the intense fluctuations of the essence laws were enough to quicken anyone's heartbeat.

Instantly, countless ascetic cultivators within Chaos City were jolted awake by this terrifying pressure of the laws. Opening their eyes wide, they looked toward the direction of Luo Yuan's location, each of them struck dumb with astonishment.

"That is the descent of the law origins! Furthermore, it is the simultaneous descent of the ten major essence laws, and the acknowledgment of the ten major essence laws! Heavens above, am I dreaming?" Countless powerful beings were profoundly shocked.

At this very moment, even the superior beings residing within Chaos City projected their consciousness toward Luo Yuan's location.

Chaos City, the inner sanctum of the City Lord's Mansion: the "Chaos Ruins."

A solitary figure sat quietly in a cross-legged posture. He suddenly opened his eyes, and within his tranquil gaze—vast as a boundless ocean—there flickered a look of amazement and delight.

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