Chapter 68: Enlightenment!

Chapter 68: Enlightenment!

The silver-white serpent coiled tightly upon itself, its massive body forming a tangled mass spanning nearly a thousand kilometers. Jiang Zhe estimated—if stretched straight, its length would surpass ten thousand kilometers. By the time it matured to the peak of Domain Lord, encircling an entire planet like Earth would be effortless.

Well… forget Earth for now. Even Mars, with its mere six-thousand-kilometer diameter and twenty-thousand-kilometer circumference, seemed within reach for the Eternal Serpent’s coils. A terrifying scale!

Domain Lord! This was the true might of a Domain Lord! Synchronizing with Silver Robe Yuan Shen’s senses, feeling the serpentine body’s immense power, Jiang Zhe momentarily lost himself in awe.

Domain Lord! This was the true might of a Domain Lord!

Synchronizing with Silver Robe Yuan Shen’s senses, feeling the serpentine body’s immense power, Jiang Zhe momentarily lost himself in awe. But the moment passed quickly. He knew better than to overestimate—this was merely a Domain Lord in life essence, not combat strength. In the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, he might rank among elites, but against a Domain Lord from the Virtual Cosmos Corporation’s Doomsday Secret Realm? He’d be crushed without a doubt.

Not that it mattered. Battles weren’t the priority now. Silver Robe Yuan Shen had no fear of damaging his cultivation potential. The real goal was to comprehend a Primordial Law and begin cultivating Primordial Evolution—only then would his true path begin.

For most Realm Lords breaking through to Domain Lord… unstable foundations and weak Life Cores meant tiny Internal Worlds, making Divine Dominions strong enough to rival Laws nothing more than a fantasy. A small Internal World meant a small Divine Dominion… and one misstep led to endless mediocrity, forever capping at the True God stage.

But Silver Robe Yuan Shen defied these rules. Weak Life Core? His Life Core was essentially a Divine Core—let someone try shattering it. Tiny Internal World? His was an uncharted Chaos Universe. Why bother with the later stages of external Divine Dominions when he could keep it inside, achieving God-King-tier power in one leap?

Jiang Zhe marveled at the transformation. The "Internal World"… wait, he hadn’t actually opened one. Though the power felt similar, what should he even call it now? Universe power?

Reflecting on the breakthrough, Jiang Zhe felt a surreal disconnect. The Primordial Force Crystals formed at Domain Lord stage had directly metamorphosed into an Origin Pearl. Logically, World power should have emerged—but instead of carving a world within the Life Core, the Life Core itself had transformed.

It felt… abrupt. Snake from head to tail, as if the process had been a joke. Yet the Domain Lord stage was undeniably real. All authorities tied to Internal Worlds were now handled by his Internal Cosmos.

World Projection? He had that!

The serpent dispersed, reforming as Silver Robe Yuan Shen. With a thought, he activated it.

Boom!

The desolate Martian landscape warped, swirling with Chaos Energy Streams. A gray, oppressive field erupted around him.

Universe Projection? Jiang Zhe couldn’t gauge its strength—or want to test it against other Domain Lords or Immortals. Either outcome would expose this unique ability. Until his combat power surpassed all Realm Lords, such techniques were best kept secret. Better yet—anyone who saw it would have to die.

The Domain Lord’s most crucial ability—the resonance of consciousness into the Universe’s origin through World power? No problem there.

Silver Robe Yuan Shen focused immediately. His consciousness surged into the Universe’s origin…

The mysterious core of the Primordial Universe—its existence timeless, its secrets infinite. As Silver Robe Yuan Shen’s mind plunged into an infinitesimal grain of sand, he sensed the primal vibrations of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, time, and space with crystalline clarity.

"All-encompassing!" Jiang Zhe exclaimed, sharing the experience like piggybacking on a neighbor’s Wi-Fi.

"Anna!" he called. A flash, and he vanished—pulled into Orianna’s World Bracelet.

At the Spire Summit, Jiang Zhe stood at his workstation, soldering iron in hand, etching patterns onto blank Circuit Boards while referencing the Thunder Laws Inscription Board. Breaking through to Domain Lord required deep comprehension of lower Laws, but his path—analyzing their essence—was notoriously difficult. Without aids, progress would crawl.

Since 2054, he’d shifted tactics: grasp three to four-tenths of each mystery, then cycle through all seventy-two. Combining his Thunder Laws expertise, thirty dissected mysteries, and Silver Robe Yuan Shen’s uniqueness, he’d barely crossed the Realm Lord threshold.

But now, with access to the Primordial Laws’ origin, the path ahead was wide open.

Orianna tested each Circuit Board as Jiang Zhe completed them.

31st mystery—perfected!

32nd—perfected!

33rd—perfected!

34th—eight-tenths mastery!

He set down the soldering iron, exhaling deeply. "Building up to breakthroughs—this pace won’t last", he mused, grinning.

Switching to the Time Law Impression Plate, he began anew. But translating his insights into circuits proved chaotic. Board after board failed.

Undeterred, he persisted. Silver Robe Yuan Shen’s consciousness anchored in the Universe’s origin, acting as a signal receiver to aid his comprehension.

April 25, 2056.

Five months later, a wild-bearded, long-haired Jiang Zhe finally paused, setting down his sparking tool. Orianna fed the Circuit Board into a large, printer-like analyzer.

"Time Law—first mystery… perfected!" Her voice, steady yet tinged with joy, betrayed her excitement.

"Finally…" Jiang Zhe sighed, a rare flicker of weariness in his eyes.

A decade had passed since 2047. With only a Law Engraving Plate, superior to the Vermilion Blood Secret Canon but inferior to the Space-Time Essay, he’d unraveled the first Time Law mystery without the aid of a Primordial Universe or Chaos Stele-inspired epiphanies.

"Now, I could storm the third Heaven Bridge tier—passing’s another matter", he declared, mirroring Luo Feng’s "ten years to hone a single sword" resolve.

No boast. His near-mastery of eight other mysteries backed it. Empty after his goal’s completion, he reignited his fiery ambition.

"Master, continue?" Orianna asked.

"Not now. Let’s visit home. Didn’t make it for New Year—Grandfather Jiang’s probably furious enough to fly here himself."

"Your grandfather nearly hitched a ride with Una and Arlin when he couldn’t find a ship", Orianna giggled.

Jiang Zhe chuckled. "My fault. Should’ve left a few ships behind."

Glancing at Silver Robe Yuan Shen meditating nearby, harmonizing Earth and Space Laws, he smirked. He’d reopened their "Law Comprehension Link" just to piggyback on Universe power—minor interferences between different Laws were negligible.

Rubbing his chin, he decided: "Time to send Yuan Shen scouting. That wormhole’s situation needs checking."

Silver Robe Yuan Shen: ...

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