Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 131 Comprehending the Eight Lower-Level Laws

Suburbs of Changshan City.

This place belongs to the "remote mountainous area" of the new era Earth, without any glamorous and technologically advanced suspended buildings.

Most of the residents here are apprentices, with only about one-tenth being planetary-level martial artists.

Although it's ordinary, it's very peaceful.

……

In a corner of the suburbs, there is a very ordinary teahouse and bookstore.

In this new era, enjoying tea and reading are the most popular leisure activities for martial artists, because after experiencing the compulsory martial arts education of the new era, everyone knows the importance of mindset.

The teahouse and bookstore were not large, and most of the time there were no customers.

After all, there aren't many martial artists in the suburbs, and ordinary people spend their leisure time practicing martial arts. Only those who become planetary-level martial artists pursue state of mind and artistic conception.

At the counter, the young couple who own the business sat together, reading an ancient book in a quiet and leisurely atmosphere.

The warm moment didn't last long before it was shattered by a shout.

"Dad, Mom, I'm home!"

A crisp cheer came from outside the store, and then a little girl of about seven or eight years old rushed in.

"Mom, I passed the martial arts assessment today! I'm the youngest planetary-level martial artist in our city!"

At the counter, the young, beautiful woman's gentle smile transformed into an expression of doting affection: "Little Mingyue is so amazing!"

Shen Mu, standing to the side, didn't even look up, his gaze remaining fixed on the book in his hand: "With your talent, even without cultivation, you could naturally advance to the planetary level by the age of ten."

Shen Mingyue, who was originally cheerful, suddenly looked unhappy and started whimpering.

"Mom, look at him!"

Faced with the accusations from the little tattletale, Tang Yongqing raised her hand and punched Shen Mu, who was standing next to her: "Mom will avenge you."

"Hmph, Mom's still the best to me!"

Shen Mu shook his head helplessly. If the little guy had really worked hard to cultivate, he wouldn't have taken eight years to advance to the planetary level.

As his own daughter, how could Shen Mu not take care of her? Even before she was born, her bloodline had already evolved to the level of a Domain Lord.

Even without cultivation, a Domain Lord-level bloodline can evolve to the peak of the Domain Lord level in ten thousand years of natural growth.

In fact, Shen Mu could use even higher-level treasures to directly promote the innate evolution of his daughter's genes.

Shen Mu simply didn't want his daughter to have too high innate qualities, lest she develop a personality like the Nightmare Candle King.

Therefore, Shen Mu also took the opportunity to play the trick of becoming an ordinary person with Tang Yongqing, integrating into Earth's civilization as an ordinary person.

"Mom, please guide me in my cultivation today. I don't need Dad to teach me!"

The little girl tugged at Tang Yongqing's clothes and acted coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, Mom will do whatever you want." Tang Yongqing felt her heart melt as she watched her elfin little daughter act coquettishly.

A moment later, the mother and daughter flew to the depths of the Taihang Mountains, where monsters still roam.

However, monsters no longer hold their former status; they are now just ordinary small animals in the natural environment.

Boom!

The mountains trembled for a few breaths before falling silent.

Looking at her mother's incredible power, Shen Mingyue asked in shock, "Mom, are you really just a Grandmaster at the Constant Star level?"

Tang Yongqing replied without changing her expression, "Would your mother lie to you?"

"But... this is clearly not right."

Shen Mingyue looked at the Hengxing protected animal that her mother had slapped to death with a suspicious expression.

She had long suspected that her parents were not ordinary martial artists, because she had seen powerful figures at the level of councilors visiting them.

Among them is the renowned Star Goddess Luo Xu, who is the youngest councilor-level powerhouse in the human race and is rumored to be the daughter of Luo Feng, one of the four heroes.

Today, Earth's powerful figures at the level of councilors are all cosmic-level figures.

……

At the counter, Shen Mu's gaze transcended the limitations of time and space, landing on the mother and daughter.

"In a few decades, once Little Moon's personality is established, there will be no need to hide it anymore."

Shen Mu felt that his attempt to emulate the mythical process of refining one's mind and transforming oneself into a mortal was not very effective.

However, it was through the Illusionary Sea that Shen Mu honed his mind over the years, allowing him to forge his own path in life.

"To truly achieve a state of detachment and purity requires the accumulation of time."

Shen Mu described his spiritual realm as "a heart like crystal." Reaching the pinnacle of this realm, one can truly achieve single-mindedness and eternal Daoist conviction.

At that time, one will be able to achieve a state of complete detachment and purity of mind, with one's will fully controlling one's emotions and eliminating all distracting thoughts.

Once one can completely control their emotions, the evolution path of the Flame God Clan clone will no longer have any bottlenecks.

"Take your time."

With a thought, Shen Mu reconnected his will to the virtual universe and entered the Illusionary Sea Plane, using the endless illusions to temper his mind.

Time flies by in these ordinary days.

Mr. and Mrs. Shen watched their daughter learn and grow.

One year, ten years... In the blink of an eye, a century has passed in a flash.

Shen Mingyue also successfully broke through to the Hengxing level, becoming one of the youngest Hengxing Grandmasters since the era of the Four Heroes.

As Shen Mingyue grew up, even though Shen Mu and his wife concealed their identities, Shen Mingyue still noticed some clues.

To be able to receive a respectful audience from so many cosmic-level councilors, and to have the surname Shen... it seems that only one person in the entire Earth civilization meets this condition.

On this day, in the virtual universe, in the Rain Mountain dimension.

"My teacher also asked me to start creating my own secret techniques, but I have no clue what to do," Luo Feng sighed.

Shen Mu and Luo Feng sat facing each other beside a lake formed by a waterfall.

The two brothers had not spoken for hundreds of years, and Luo Feng talked a lot about things on the battlefield outside the domain.

Shen Mu noticed that Luo Feng seemed troubled, but it didn't seem to be because of his cultivation.

"You've run into trouble?" Shen Mu said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng no longer concealed anything and said with a slight headache, "It seems that Xiao Xu'er is in love."

When Luo Xu was born, her four brothers were preparing for the upcoming battle of geniuses.

Now, after many years, Luo Xu has become one of the top geniuses in the Qianwu Secret Realm.

Having experienced the baptism of cosmic civilizations and witnessed countless geniuses of her generation, if Luo Xu is in a relationship, it is very likely that she is serious.

"Isn't this great? I can hold my grandson now," Shen Mu said with a smile.

Luo Feng rolled his eyes and said, "Put yourself in Xiaomingyue's shoes and you'll know how I feel."

Shen Mu fell silent upon hearing this.

Seeing Shen Mu engrossed in the story, Luo Feng gloated and said, "You have a daughter too, sooner or later you'll have one too."

No, I can't hide my identity anymore. I have to let Xiaomingyue know how outstanding her father is.

We can't let just any random blond guy from the universe steal my precious daughter away.

"We'll talk later. I'm going to check on Xiaomingyue first."

……

Earth, Changshan City.

"Mom and Dad, why are you acting so strangely today?"

Shen Mingyue wore a magnificent Star River Three-Element Battle Armor and carried a third-tier psychic weapon, the Arc Blade Disc, making her look extremely heroic and dashing.

In the teahouse bathed in warm yellow light, Shen Mu looked at Shen Mingyue seriously: "Are you showing any signs of early romance?"

"???"

"Dad, I'm a hundred years old. Isn't the term 'puppy love' inappropriate?"

Shen Mu snorted and said, "You have the bloodline of a Domain Lord, you're of legal age, dating now is considered puppy love!"

Shen Mingyue's eyes lit up. She sat down next to Tang Yongqing and said, "Mom, you two are finally going to tell your precious daughter the truth, right?"

Tang Yongqing immediately shifted the blame, saying, "This was all your father's idea. He was afraid you'd develop a princess-like personality."

As he spoke, Shen Mu's mind stirred, and an invisible fluctuation of his soul subsided.

This is a special kind of soul-based secret technique that can influence the perception of others, thereby concealing one's identity.

Although his appearance remains unchanged, as long as others' spiritual attainments are lower than Shen Mu's, they will not recognize Shen Mu's true identity.

Even when comparing it to Shen Mu's image, it feels like they are completely different people.

"I really am the Princess of Jiuzhou. What a miserable life I've been living all these years."

Shen Mingyue looked incredulous, tears welling in her eyes, and looked at Tang Yongqing with a tearful expression: "Mom, you have to make it up to me."

A cold smile appeared on Tang Yongqing's face as she said, "Keep pretending."

Seeing that she couldn't fool her parents, Shen Mingyue changed her approach and said, "Mom, I want to control the divine weapon, and also..."

Upon hearing this, Tang Yongqing took out the World Lord-level peak Moyun Vine and the Rift God Weapon, one of the nine divine weapons controlled by the World Lord, which she had prepared for her daughter long ago.

Over the years, Shen Mingyue's cultivation has been guided by Tang Yongqing, so she has been comprehending the essence of wind.

"I can give you the divine weapon, but you don't even have the Wind Domain right now, so it's impossible for you to truly activate the Divine Weapon."

"I'll understand domains and laws sooner or later." Shen Mingyue was very happy to have gotten what she wanted.

Seeing that her daughter readily accepted the identity of the Princess of Jiuzhou, Tang Yongqing also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Dad, can you tell me about your experiences at the Virtual Universe Company?"

Shen Mingyue's previous understanding of Shen Mu was limited to what she learned from textbooks.

After thinking for a moment, Shen Mu began to tell Shen Mingyue about the vastness of the universe, so that his precious daughter could broaden her horizons.

Knowing what level geniuses in the universe must be at will save me from being seduced by some cosmic charlatan later.

With Shen Mu no longer concealing his identity, the training of Shen Mingyue was truly put on the agenda.

This century has given Shen Mingyue a childhood with her parents by her side.

Next, they need to nurture her properly. Shen Mu plans to send Shen Mingyue into the Qianwu Secret Realm to cultivate.

Shen Mingyue's talent is not low, and with the support of various treasures and resources, although it is difficult to comprehend the laws at the Hengxing level, it is not a big problem for her to step into the ninth level.

In order to guide Shen Mingyue, Shen Mu also began to comprehend the mysteries of the Law of Wind.

Time passed day by day in this process.

……

Another century has passed in the blink of an eye.

Above Earth, a powerful pressure of the Law of Wind swept across the planet, and azure Law patterns and strange phenomena spread throughout the entire planet and the surrounding space.

However, this magnificent phenomenon lasted only a moment before Shen Mu directly concealed it.

In a century, he has grasped the fundamental laws of wind; his speed is not bad.

At this point, Shen Mu had comprehended two of the eight lower-level fundamental laws: water and wind.

"Now I finally understand the true value of Dad's title as the number one genius in the universe." Shen Mingyue stared blankly at her father.

Previously, Shen Mu's mastery of the Wind Origin Law was similar to his mother's, belonging to the beginner level.

However, in just a hundred years, in order to teach his fool, his father directly comprehended the entire fundamental law of wind.

That's absolutely outrageous.

Beside Shen Mingyue, Tang Yongqing stroked her daughter's hair and said with a smile, "Don't compare yourself to your father, or all the geniuses of the entire human race will be ashamed and commit suicide."

Hearing Tang Yongqing's words of comfort, Shen Mingyue nodded slightly.

As a Domain Lord-level bloodline, one can vaguely sense the fluctuations of laws even at the third or fourth level of the Domain Realm.

Now that she has reached the seventh level of the Domain Realm, her perception of the fundamental laws is much stronger than that of a ninth-level Realm cultivator of ordinary bloodline. There is no reason why she should not comprehend the laws.

"Mom, I'm going into seclusion, the kind where I won't leave until I cross the threshold of the fundamental laws!"

"Okay, Mom supports you."

……

When Shen Mu emerged from seclusion, he discovered that his youngest daughter had begun her own seclusion.

"You really gave Xiaomingyue a shock this time." Tang Yongqing said with a smile as she walked to Shen Mu's side.

Shen Mu nodded slightly and said, "That's good too. As long as they know to strive for improvement, that's good."

As he spoke, a world ring appeared in Shen Mu's palm with a flash of light.

Inside the World Ring are three special blue fruits, each with a dazzling blue pattern reflected on it.

This is the Wind Spirit Fruit, a fruit that only grows in the Black Hole Secret Realm of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance. It takes a full nine thousand epochs from flowering to bearing fruit.

As for the effect, it naturally greatly enhances the talent of the Law of Wind.

Of course, the effect is best when taking the first pill; the effect will be greatly reduced starting from the second pill.

After taking three pills, there will be almost no more improvement effect, and Shen Mingyue's Law Talent will be upgraded to the darling level.

In other words, one only needs one realm to sense the fundamental laws, and the sensing of the fundamental laws in nine realms will be extremely clear and obvious.

"After Mingyue emerges from seclusion, give her these three spiritual fruits."

Tang Yongqing's eyes sparkled as she softly said, "Why don't you, as the father, step forward yourself?"

Shen Mu smiled and said, "I'm going into seclusion as well."

"Of the eight lower-level fundamental laws, I have already comprehended two of them."

"Why not just thoroughly comprehend the remaining six fundamental laws?"

"The secret technique I plan to create next will be one that encompasses the ten fundamental laws."

Tang Yongqing now knows how difficult it is to comprehend the laws, and she was quite moved when she heard her husband speak in such a relaxed tone as if he had fully grasped the original laws.

……

Subsequently, Shen Mu also began his seclusion.

After 109 years of seclusion, he comprehended the fundamental laws of fire.

After 241 years of seclusion, he comprehended the fundamental principles of metal.

After 374 years of seclusion, he comprehended the fundamental laws of wood.

……

After 793 years of seclusion, he comprehended the final fundamental law of light.

At this point, all eight lower-level fundamental laws had been fully comprehended.

However, Shen Mu was unsure whether his current understanding of the laws constituted a true cosmic venerable-level mastery of the laws.

After all, comprehending a complete superior fundamental law is a qualitative change.

Is the speed at which this law is comprehended too fast? I feel it's actually alright. After all, it only takes five hundred years to comprehend the highest-level law changes. This is the comprehension of a king-level being. Even if one's talent is not as good as that of the spacetime law, a mere complete lower-level law should be comprehended in a hundred years.

(End of this chapter)