Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 101: Comprehending the Most Complex Mystery in One Year

More than half a month later, Shen Mu's spaceship took off from the Wulong Starfield and returned to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.

"The trip went relatively smoothly; at least nothing went wrong."

Inside the spaceship's control room, Shen Mu casually lay on the sofa, flipping his right hand to take out a small world ring.

Inside this world ring is the 'high-grade junk' containing the 1000 million Chaos Units that Shen Mu purchased.

Generally speaking, the garbage transported to the Wulong Starfield is divided into three levels before processing: ordinary, medium, and high.

If trash is sent from a regular battlefield, it's usually pure trash. These battlefields are generally where realm lords and domain lords fight, and even immortal gods are considered elites.

Secondly, there are the trash sent from the medium-level battlefield. The weakest of those who can make it in the medium-level battlefield are immortal gods, and only those who are enfeoffed as marquises can barely be considered experts. There are even immortal kings who have appeared.

As for the final high-level battlefield, it is an area similar to the 'Star Tower', where any powerhouse below the King level can only become cannon fodder.

"Tuanzi, this World Ring is yours to handle. Convert anything of value into money and use it for the development of Earth's civilization."

Generally speaking, buying "high-grade junk" directly will at least not result in a loss.

Because in the eyes of those powerful kings, D-grade and E-grade metals are probably considered trash, and they wouldn't even bother to collect them. Some wealthy and powerful individuals might not even bother with F-grade metals.

The same principle applies to other types of treasures, so you need permissions to purchase 'high-grade junk'.

"Yes, Master."

Shen Mu nodded slightly, then said, "First, return to Tianyue Star to bring my guards, then go straight home."

"Back to Earth!"

……

More than seven months later.

Near the asteroid belt of the solar system, ripples of space spread out, and then a triangular spaceship covered with starlight patterns emerged.

In the control room, Shen Mu also saw that familiar starry sky through the outdoor simulation: a blazing star surrounded by planets that kept rotating.

"Master, is this your hometown?"

Tuanzi's curious voice rang out. He was an auxiliary intelligent life form that Shen Mu had purchased after entering the Virtual Universe Company, and this was his first time coming to Earth.

Shen Mu looked down into the distance, where a blue planet was orbiting in the void.

"Um."

A faint smile graced Shen Mu's face, but a complex expression flickered in his clear eyes.

More than two hundred years ago, having just awakened his memories of his past life, he was racking his brains trying to figure out how to reach a higher realm and how to rise in the universe.

Two hundred years later, everything has changed. Now, Shen Mu no longer needs to rely on anyone; he only needs to forge his own path step by step.

Moments later, the spacecraft reached Mars orbit.

Mars had already been terraformed over a hundred years ago, becoming a habitable planet very similar to Earth.

For humankind in the universe, transforming a planet into a habitable planet is not too difficult, and Mars is the easiest planet in the solar system to be transformed.

However, most forces will not choose to modify life-bearing planets, mainly because there is no need for it, as life-bearing planets are the most abundant thing in this universe.

Transforming an ordinary planet into a habitable one costs less than purchasing a planet that already has indigenous life.

Shen Mu smiled and said, "Back during the Genius Battle, I spent a long time cultivating on Mars, and it was here that I comprehended the profound mysteries of the two spatial essences."

At that time, the desolate, fiery red land had been covered by blue and green hues, and various floating cities could be vaguely seen dotting the entire planet.

Besides Mars, Venus, on the other side of Earth, has also been transformed into a habitable planet.

Countless spaceships flew back and forth between the three planets, creating a scene reminiscent of bustling traffic.

"Yulun, thank you for putting the guards into the World Ring. After two hundred years, I don't want to cause any trouble when I come home again. A peaceful and quiet life is just fine."

"Alright, Your Highness, rest assured." Yu Lun nodded slightly.

A moment later, Shen Mu and Yu Lun flew out of the spaceship's hatch, and then the entire spaceship was concealed under Tuanzi's control.

The next instant, the two transformed into a streak of light and disappeared into Earth's atmosphere.

……

Evening, Earth, Kyoto.

Today's Kyoto is very large, having been expanded once again from the original Kyoto base city, and its area is about half the size of Hebei Province before its rebirth.

Perhaps because the Lunar New Year has just passed, the streets are still adorned with red lanterns of all sizes and various bright red decorations.

Two hundred years have passed, and Earth's civilization has entered the interstellar age, but that culture and heritage have still been preserved.

At this time, in the suburbs of this metropolis, there is a manor surrounded by mountains on three sides and beside a lake.

Inside the manor, a couple appears to be facing off.

"Awen, you've only just broken through to the cosmic level; you can't possibly be my match."

Shen Gang looked at Chen Wen with a helpless expression.

Chen Wen snorted coldly: "You just wait. When our son comes back, I'll definitely tell him that your dad, at his age, is starting to mess around with women!"

Shen Gang was immediately exasperated and couldn't help but complain, "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. When did I say anything reckless?"

Back in the virtual training world, he was under the influence of the other party's illusion, which is why he acted... well, you know.

"Hey, when did Dad suddenly find a second spring in his life?"

A familiar voice rang out, causing Shen Gang and Chen Wen to pause in surprise.

Then Shen Mu's figure seemed to appear out of thin air in front of the two of them.

"son!"

Chen Wen's voice was very excited, and her eyes were a little red.

Shen Gang took a deep breath, trying to maintain a calm expression, but his voice still trembled slightly as he said, "Don't be as unreasonable as your mother!"

"Old man, when have I ever been unreasonable!" Chen Wen glared at Shen Gang with her eyes wide open.

Then Chen Wen looked at Shen Mu again, took his hand and said, "You didn't even tell me you were coming back, so Mom didn't know."

Shen Mu smiled and said, "I'll probably stay for a while this time."

Shen Mu's journey back to Earth was top secret; apart from the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom, his special minister, and his guards, only they knew about it.

Furthermore, to prevent leaks, Shen Mu's guards, including Yu Lun, have temporarily had their access to the virtual universe network restricted.

To outsiders, Shen Mu has now returned to the Qianwu Secret Realm and is cultivating alongside the Qianwu King.

"Xiao Qing is still at the research institute. I'll inform her right away."

Chen Wen quickly spoke up, saying that Tang Yongqing was currently leading the research and development of the E-grade beverage Enlightenment Tea at the research institute, which would be the first precious beverage aimed at the Realm Lord level that Kyushu Company would launch in the future.

Suddenly, Chen Wen's expression changed, and she said, "Didn't you say you'd let me hold your grandson? You lied to your mother, didn't you?"

Shen Mu chuckled awkwardly. He had only been going through the motions at the time; he didn't want to have a bunch of parasites in his descendants.

Even having a son similar to the Nightmare King is better than having a bunch of good-for-nothing descendants who only know how to bully the weak.

"You and Luo Feng are just useless. At least Luo Feng has a daughter."

"Look at your eldest brother's family, it's several generations long."

Hong was already a grandfather two hundred years ago, and he had a daughter named Guang, who was a little older than Shen Mu.

After grumbling for a bit, Chen Wen sighed and said, "Mom has a narrow perspective and doesn't understand many principles. She's just venting; just listen and don't take it to heart."

Chen Wen and her husband vaguely sensed that Shen Mu had not left any offspring, as if he was worried about something, but they did not ask any further questions.

A short while later, a streak of light flashed by and landed in front of Shen Mu.

Tang Yongqing, dressed in a white lab coat, was revealed. At present, Tang Yongqing is still at the sixth level of the Hengxing stage, and her progress is much slower than that of Chen Wen and her husband.

"I'm back." Shen Mu smiled and opened his arms.

Tang Yongqing opened her mouth, her voice trembling slightly: "It's good that you... are back."

Late at night, in the bedroom.

Shen Mu felt Tang Yongqing's suppressed longing for two hundred years, burning and intense.

After a long while, the bedroom finally quieted down.

Suddenly, Shen Mu's voice rang out.

"Sister Yongqing, when you missed me all these years... did you play with these little toys?"

With Shen Mu's current level of cultivation, he only needs to scan with his mental power to reveal many hidden little cuties.

As expected of new-era technology, it looks like ordinary clothing at first glance, but it hides a high level of technological sophistication.

"Stop...stop talking."

Tang Yongqing felt that the impression of her intellectual and gentle nature that she had left on Shen Mu over the years had been completely shattered.

"Don't move, let me study it..." Shen Mu easily suppressed Tang Yongqing.

Shen Mu's curious voice rang out: "What are these rings? Are they a keepsake you're planning to give me?"

These are a pair of rings of different sizes. The inner rings are covered with special patterns, not some kind of pattern of laws. They feel a bit rough to the touch, but they don't feel prickly.

These rings appear to be a set, and they are made of relatively precious mother-of-silver.

Flowing Silver Mother and Flowing Silver are a series of special liquid metals. The most common Flowing Silver is Grade C metal, Flowing Silver Essence is Grade D metal, and then comes the highest grade, Flowing Silver Mother.

The Silver Guardian, crafted from Flowing Silver Mother, can withstand attacks from World Lord-level powerhouses, and because it is made of pure metal, its value is comparable to entry-level E-grade alloy.

Shen Mu could tell the material of the rings, but he didn't understand some of the technological principles behind them, so he couldn't understand their function.

Seeing that Tang Yongqing did not reply, Shen Mu used his ancestral spear technique.

"That's not a ring..."

Faced with a situation she could not resist, Tang Yongqing let out a shameful groan, and then told Shen Mu how to play with the little ring.

"I see. Let me see."

"No, that's too embarrassing..."

Silent all night.

……

On the morning of the third day.

When Chen Wen and her husband entered the restaurant, they finally saw their son and daughter-in-law.

Chen Wen suppressed a laugh and said, "Tsk tsk, Amu, how old are you? Still sleeping in?"

Shen Mu chuckled and said, "Mom, eat your meal and try my cooking."

Tang Yongqing, her cheeks flushed, her eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses seemed to shimmer with tears as she ate her porridge in small bites, not daring to speak.

Seeing this, Chen Wen stopped teasing the couple and went about her own business after finishing her meal.

Chen Wen is now the dean of the Federal Martial Arts University, and she is very busy with official duties every day. This is during the Spring Festival holiday. On weekdays, she is nowhere to be seen.

As for his father, Shen Gang, it was similar. He was in charge of the martial arts department of Kyushu Corporation, responsible for selecting outstanding young talents from all over the world to build the elite martial arts force of the Earth Federation.

Seeing this, Tang Yongqing quickly finished her porridge and said, "The research institute has other things to do, I have to go there right away."

Shen Mu reached out and hugged Tang Yongqing: "Take two days off, I want to be carefree for a couple of days."

Having died and been reborn twice, Shen Mu has always kept himself in a state of high tension, especially in this life.

Since awakening his memories of his past life, he has not dared to relax in the slightest. Thanks to Shen Mu's strong mentality and will, an ordinary person would probably have given up long ago.

Tang Yongqing, like a startled rabbit, quickly jumped out of Shen Mu's arms: "No, no, I'm still very busy."

As she spoke, Tang Yongqing vanished from the spot in a flash.

At the sixth level of the Eternal Star realm, one can run very fast!

Shen Mu watched with a smile as Tang Yongqing's figure disappeared into the horizon, then calmly raised his right hand.

At this moment, Shen Mu was wearing a silver ring on his ring finger, which was the slightly larger of the pair of silver mother-of-pearl rings.

hum!

A wisp of spiritual energy surged from the ring, and the authentication was successful.

Shen Mu gently stroked the intricate patterns on the ring, and the patterns immediately turned into liquid and began to move.

Seeing this, Shen Mu flashed and appeared on the piano next to the living room. He casually began to play a soothing and relaxing piece, as if testing the piano.

The liquid patterns on the ring moved with Shen Mu's fingertips, as if echoing the drumbeats of the music.

Just a dozen seconds later, a streak of light flew back and landed in front of Shen Mu.

"You...you're bullying your sister, aren't you?"

Tang Yongqing looked at Shen Mu with a slightly trembling voice, her eyes shimmering with tears, her breath slightly ragged, and her feet in high heels slightly tiptoeing.

Shen Mu chuckled as he played the piano: "No, it's a little ring that Sister Yongqing gave me. I need to study it carefully."

As he spoke, Shen Mu changed the piece he was playing to a famous piece from before Nirvana, called Flight of the Bumblebee.

Just as Tang Yongqing was about to rebuke Shen Mu, she suddenly trembled, her long legs tensed up, and then began to tremble slightly uncontrollably.

"I'll go ask for leave right now, don't play anymore."

Shen Mu smiled and pulled Tang Yongqing into his arms, whispering, "Don't talk, just enjoy the music."

"Um……"

Tang Yongqing gave a soft "hmm," her fingers gripping Shen Mu's clothes tightly until her fingertips turned slightly white.

A moment later, Tang Yongqing closed her eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses and collapsed completely into Shen Mu's arms, her legs tightly intertwined, her soft body trembling with the rise and fall of the music.

……

A few days later, Tang Yongqing returned to her normal work and life, and Shen Mu also resumed his cultivation.

In the days that followed, Shen Mu did not try to hide the news of his return, and many old friends came to visit him.

Currently, the network on Earth is still independent. Apart from a select few, no one can connect to the virtual universe network, so there is no need to worry about leaks.

Shen Mu met with old friends, including his friends from the martial arts team before he awakened his memories, as well as Chu Qiang, Zhao Ruo, and others from his training camp days.

In addition, Shen Mu also met with Jia Yi, Liu He and others. Now, with the help of sufficient resources, they have also successively entered the first level of the Hengxing Star Realm.

On Earth today, there are very few beings of cosmic scale, only the families of Shen Mu and Luo Feng.

There are only about ten Heng-level experts, while the number of Planetary-level experts exceeds five thousand.

Two hundred years ago, all the war god-level powerhouses who did not perish by accident broke through to the planetary level.

……

Time flows by like water, constantly passing by.

In this peaceful life, year after year passed.

In the blink of an eye, fifty years have passed since Shen Mu returned to Earth.

On the villa's rooftop, Shen Mu, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting faint silver light.

"These 72 most difficult spatial essences are indeed hard to comprehend."

The 108 essential mysteries of the fundamental laws of space can be divided into the first 9, the middle 27, and the last 72, according to their complexity.

The simplest of them are the first nine. Shen Mu comprehended the first nine within a year of his Azure Dragon clone entering the Domain Lord realm.

Then there are the 27 types in the middle, which require more than 10 times the time to comprehend compared to the first 9. Finally, before the end of the thirty years in Chaos City, Shen Mu comprehended them all.

Finally, there are the seventy-two most difficult ones. It takes a hundred times longer to comprehend these seventy-two ones than the previous 36 ones!

Fortunately, now that he has entered the realm master level, Shen Mu's talent for laws and the speed of his soul thinking have increased dramatically, which has enabled him to continue to comprehend the essence of one of the most complex laws every year.

This speed is already astonishing. Even the famous Lian Luo spent three thousand years cultivating in Chaos City before he could comprehend the essence of all the laws. In the original story, Luo Feng also took several hundred years to comprehend them.

In terms of talent in spatial laws, Shen Mu is about the same as Luo Feng during his time as a realm master in the original work. However, Shen Mu's thinking speed is several times faster than that of people at the same realm. In addition, with the blessing of the Pure Heart realm, his comprehension is also higher.

Strictly speaking, there is no hierarchy among the three levels of mindset; they simply have different focuses.

The second level of mind, the innocent heart, is extremely pure. Compared to the first level, which is like a knife, it is closer to the operation of the laws of the universe and has a greater advantage in comprehending the laws.

"I have finally grasped the essence of the 87th law and will continue my seclusion."

Shen Mu barely used his time to comprehend the laws during the cosmic-level cultivation mission, so he naturally had to make up for it all at once now.

His consciousness sank into his inner world, entering the body of the Azure Dragon of the East Sea, observing the small piece of Star Tear Gold engraving before him.

Just as Shen Mu was once again immersed in it, Tuanzi's voice rang in Shen Mu's ears.

"Master, Master, an email has arrived from the Virtual Universe Company."

"Your domain lord-level points task has finally been assigned!"

The bus has started moving, beep beep beep!

(End of this chapter)