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Chapter 132 Time Passes By, the Undead Demon Banyan Emerges

"I've already mastered the art of time stopping; there's no need to keep trying to exploit its secrets."

"As my understanding of the laws of time improved, I was naturally able to master the art of stopping time to the fullest extent."

Inside Chaos City, in a quiet courtyard, Yu Duan, who was sitting cross-legged beneath the Taichang Tree Spirit, opened his eyes.

The three profound and ultimate techniques of the Time Law.

Time Stop is the most comprehensive skill, combining both offense and defense.

Time acceleration and time deceleration are respectively geared towards attack and defense.

"In terms of attack, I can create ultimate secret techniques, which are powerful enough."

"On the contrary, in terms of defense, I am ultimately just a realm lord, without immortality, and I am far from being a true king-level immortal."

Yu Duan made a decision in an instant: to prioritize studying the changes in time slowdown.

Yu Duan's understanding of the laws of time is no longer that of a novice who had just begun to study the pause of change.

The first fifteen levels of the Time Slowing Technique can be easily mastered by studying it within Chaos City for several decades.

With the Frost Beast's innate talent, it only needs to master the Time Slowing Technique to level 18 to unleash it.

"No rush. We still need to figure out the changes in time stopping first, and finish this progress bar before we can change the changes in time slowing down."

It will take more than 1,100 years for the second clone to be born.

This time, the advance payment of the progress bar means that the comprehension time will be paused for a little over 1,300 years.

In fact, according to Yu Duan's experience, it would take about a thousand years of secluded cultivation to repay the entire 'loan'.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the progress bar will be full before the second clone is created, and you'll also be able to roughly understand the changes in time acceleration and deceleration.

"There is also the comprehension of the Chaos Stele, which can be done once every 100 years. Use up all the comprehension attempts and accelerate the comprehension speed as soon as possible."

There's no point in trying to save opportunities to comprehend the Chaos Stele, because the higher your understanding of the laws, the less noticeable the bonus from comprehending the Chaos Stele becomes.

Furthermore, once you pass through the 20th floor of the Sky Bridge, you can use points or Hunyuan units to purchase more opportunities to comprehend the Chaos Stele.

Before transmigrating, Yu Duan was unaware of this information when reading the original novel.

However, it's understandable when you think about it. Within Chaos City, there are many immortal gods stuck at the peak of the 20th level of the Sky Bridge, just one step away from comprehending the superior fundamental laws.

These immortals stuck at a bottleneck occasionally have a flash of inspiration, and the bottleneck loosens. At this time, the hope of comprehending the Chaos Stele and understanding the higher-level primordial laws will greatly increase.

The race could not possibly deny these immortal deities the opportunity to comprehend the Chaos Stele. The purpose of creating the Chaos Stele was precisely to allow people to comprehend it.

Of course, there are also restrictions on purchasing.

That means that you can only comprehend it for 7 days in each era, and it will cost 1 billion Chaos Units.

"Shh!"

Yu Duan's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

In almost a second, Yu Duan's figure appeared from his courtyard into the corridor of the Chaos Stele's secret chamber.

"Senior Kandri, it's been a long time."

Yu Duan appeared before Kandri, the guardian of the Chaos Monument.

At first, Yu Duan was thinking that if he wanted to create a main battle clone, he could consider Kandri.

After Yu Duan carefully studied Kandri's innate secret techniques, he gave up this option.

The special life form that Candri possessed was called the Thousand Star God, with a gene multiplier of 300, and there were 36 of them in the entire universe.

At the realm lord and immortal levels, hundreds of star gods can differentiate into 1000 divine incarnations possessing the full power of their original self.

At the Venerable level, they become 100 incarnations of divine power, each possessing 6% of the original's strength.

At the level of the Lord of the Universe, only 10 divine incarnations with 1% of the strength of the original can be differentiated.

Well, it's a very powerful innate secret technique, but it's far from being considered heaven-defying.

However, it is precisely because they are not too extraordinary that these thousands of star god races have been able to survive.

Otherwise, they would have been wiped out by the major powers of the primordial universe long ago.

It should be noted that even the Ancestral God Sect could not protect the eight innate beast gods, precisely because the beast gods are treasures in themselves.

"Hahaha, the last time you comprehended the Chaos Stele was more than 800 years ago. You still have 7 chances to comprehend it. Are you going to use one?"

Kandri looked at Yu Duan with a kind expression.

Yu Duan bowed slightly: "Yes, senior."

"Go, no one has been able to decipher the Myriad Universe Chaos Stele, and the secret chamber has been opened."

As soon as Kandri finished speaking, Yu Duan bowed again and then transformed into a stream of light, disappearing into the secret chamber of the Chaos Stele.

Inside the secret chamber, Yu Duan looked at the Myriad Chaos Stele before him.

The nine diagrams of the Chaos Stele, which he once thought were unfathomable, no longer held any secrets for Yu Duan in the eyes of the first five. He also completely understood the paused part of the sixth diagram.

Even with the seventh image, which represents the complete laws of time, Yu Duan has already figured out many of the mysteries of the paused parts.

Once you have a basic understanding of the seventh image on the Chaos Stele, you will be able to unleash one of the three profound and ultimate techniques of the Time Law.

Once you reach a high level of understanding, you will be able to grasp all three profound mysteries of the laws of time.

When you reach the ultimate understanding, it is the fusion of the three profound mysteries, resulting in the complete and superior fundamental law.

The difference between mastery and perfection lies only in integration; there is nothing new.

In the eyes of the immortal deities who have mastered the three great mysteries of time, there is nothing to comprehend about the changes, operations, and principles of the entire fundamental law of time; they have already grasped it all.

This is also why the complete laws of time are so difficult to grasp.

There's nothing I don't understand, so how do I comprehend it?

For many exceptionally talented geniuses and strong individuals, the fear is not having doubts, but having no doubts at all.

Even without the Book of Cause and Effect, Yu Duan would still encounter a bottleneck here.

From mastering all the changes in the laws of time to comprehending the complete laws, it has little to do with innate talent for the laws; it all depends on comprehension and luck.

With exceptional comprehension and a bit of luck, one might have a sudden flash of inspiration, grasp the three profound mysteries of time, and achieve the complete fusion of the fundamental laws of time. Alternatively, one might remain unmoved for countless eons, unable to advance further, and completely stuck at this point.

……

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

As Yu Duan left the secret chamber of the Chaos Stele, a great deal of insight into the laws of time surged within him.

It contains the mystery of time standing still, as well as the mystery of acceleration and deceleration.

Yu Duan did not deliberately seek to comprehend any profound mystery, but rather let things take their natural course, immersing himself completely in them, and letting whatever he perceived be what he understood.

Back in the courtyard, Yu Duan focused his consciousness on the virtual universe and flipped through the seventh volume of "The Principles of Space".

The seventh volume contains only 18 secret techniques, each of which is extremely profound and contains the three mysterious transformations of the fundamental law of time.

The most powerful of them all is called "Mastering Time".

As you can tell from the name, this secret technique contains the complete fundamental laws of time.

Even with Yu Duan's current understanding, it is difficult to study.

"This novel, 'Eternal Reincarnation,' is quite good. It uses the alternation of time stopping as its foundation and the alternation of acceleration and deceleration as its secondary elements to create an extremely powerful illusion of reincarnation."

Simple illusions only cause the other party to fall into a hallucination, and generally do not cause any harm.

But if the difference is too large, then it's a different story.

A venerable soul master who has mastered the complete laws of time can make immortal gods experience endless years in an illusion, or even die in the illusion, with just one illusion.

The death here is true death.

If this immortal deity believes that it is already dead, even without external force erasing its soul, its mind and thoughts will completely disappear, and its soul will naturally disintegrate.

"Based on the eternal cycle of reincarnation, and drawing upon the essence of numerous soul-related secret techniques selected for me by my teacher, the Lord of Darkness, it is not difficult to create a top-tier soul attack secret technique."

"Try it first."

Yu Duan calmed himself down, various illusion techniques surging in his mind. Combining the mysteries of light and time laws, and using the concept of reincarnation as the basic framework, he began to create a secret technique.

In just a few days, a rudimentary illusion technique, which was still considered very basic by Yu Duan, was created.

"Let's call it... 'Reincarnation'."

Yu Duan is also terrible at naming things and is too lazy to research names for secret techniques.

The terms "opening up," "moment (decisiveness)," and "reincarnation" are all concise and to the point.

Immediately, Yu Duan entered the secret space specially created by his Dark Lord teacher to see what level his illusion magic had reached.

The first opponent was instantly defeated, falling directly into an illusion.

Then he continued with the second, the third... After a short while, Yu Duan successfully killed the 100th opponent, reaching the peak level in terms of secret techniques.

"My soul origin has undergone the transformation of the Primal Spirit, which has changed my soul characteristics and can greatly amplify the effects of illusions."

"With my willpower, I have now surpassed the level of a beginner Venerable and can greatly enhance the realism of the illusion."

"The combination of the two made this illusion technique, which was so rudimentary that it could barely be considered a top-tier secret technique, dozens of times stronger."

Yu Duan showed no arrogance; he was well aware that his secret technique was far from being at the peak level.

It is entirely due to the unique origin of the soul and the strength of the will that the 'powerful brick flies' effect is formed.

"Keep going, let's see how many opponents we can defeat in the end."

About half a day later, Yu Duan was defeated by his 509th opponent.

This achievement has surpassed the opening of the sword technique.

The sword technique can only defeat the 438th opponent.

The instantaneous sword technique he created later was able to defeat the 657th opponent.

"My most powerful ability is still the Illusion Stream."

"While a soulless clone is not afraid of danger, it has castrated its strongest abilities, making it suitable only as a talent amplifier and a danger detector."

The Undead Demon Banyan has invested all its talent points into the soul aspect.

In terms of the perception of laws, it is only comparable to the highest level of ordinary life, far inferior to the Frost Sky Giant Beast, an energy-type life form.

Yu Duan's next task is to study the changes in the laws, wait for his clone to be born, and perfect the secret technique of reincarnation.

……

The eternally unchanging Chaos City is quiet and peaceful.

The silent years are passing by day by day.

Having grasped the meaning of time stopping in the 87th year, Yu Duan used the Reincarnation Technique to defeat his 600th opponent.

In the 297th year since Wutong paused, Yu Duan defeated his 700th opponent through illusion magic... In the blink of an eye, another thousand years have passed in Chaos City.

Within the inner world, the undead demonic banyan clone, which had been gestating for a full 1800 years, was finally born.

"Click..."

A crack appeared on the giant egg, followed by a shattering sound.

But this shattering sound, after spreading out, transformed into countless eerie laughs.

It is eerie and chilling, and naturally contains the effects of magical sound illusions.

In the blink of an eye, the entire giant egg suddenly exploded.

"boom!"

An endless, eerie light rippled outwards, instantly spreading over a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers.

Within that eerie light, countless ghostly figures wandered and murmured, forming a strange realm of illusion.

If anyone steps into the area covered by this illusory realm of ghostly light, it is equivalent to being attacked by a top-level illusionary technique.

(End of this chapter)