Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 46 The Road Ahead

The transformation process of the Azure Dragon clone lasted about five minutes.

The Azure Dragon clone, originally a thousand meters long, suddenly grew to ten thousand meters. Its once bright blue scales turned dark blue, and its texture changed from that of a beautiful gemstone to that of heavy metal.

"My inner world, which has just broken through to the planetary level, now feels a bit crowded."

In a lake 10 kilometers in diameter, the Azure Dragon's clone coiled and swam, its two-colored patterns shimmering faintly.

"So, this is the fluctuation of the laws of space."

Shen Mu's consciousness, through his Azure Dragon clone, sensed the background color that filled the universe and starry sky—a vast and magnificent fluctuation.

"A myriad of lines!"

The Azure Dragon clone trembled, and in the next instant, two Azure Dragons appeared on the surface of the water!

In the blink of an eye, the figures of the two azure dragons blurred and transformed into five azure dragons soaring in the clouds.

"In this world, the difference in talent is indeed the most cruel thing."

Shen Mu let out a long breath. His previous understanding of the fundamental laws of space was basically zero, and he could not detect any fluctuations in space.

Now that the Azure Dragon clone possesses the talent of a Law's Chosen One, it almost instinctively stirred up spatial fluctuations and unleashed its illusionary form.

The so-called spatial illusion is the ability to distort space so that one's body or attack can appear in two or more locations at the same time.

This is the most terrifying aspect of illusions: all illusions are essentially just one body, all of which are the original body, and therefore all of them can launch attacks.

"Let me try the legendary teleportation."

With a thought, the dark silver runes covering the entire body of the Azure Dragon of the East Sea suddenly shone brightly, making the dragon's figure appear slightly illusory.

In that instant, Shen Mu's consciousness, through the Azure Dragon clone, was able to clearly perceive any subtle changes and fluctuations in the surrounding space.

hum!

The spatial runes on the Azure Dragon of the East Sea rippled, coinciding with the spatial fluctuations 3 kilometers below the water's surface.

Swish!

The Azure Dragon clone vanished from the water's surface and then appeared out of thin air at the bottom of the tranquil lake.

"It felt like the entire space was under my control."

As the Azure Dragon of the East Sea moved, the entire space rippled subtly, as if echoing the Azure Dragon itself.

Huh, huh, huh!

The next instant, the Azure Dragon of the East Sea began to roam in space, its figure teleporting repeatedly through the fluctuations of space.

A moment later, Shen Mu felt a wave of fatigue wash over him. Using the teleportation technique at the Hengxing level was quite taxing.

In just that short time, Shen Mu teleported hundreds or even thousands of times, but the distance he teleported was only about 3 kilometers, which is currently the limit that Shen Mu can reach.

……

Outside, Shen Mu opened his eyes.

"Switching suddenly to Earthling perception is actually a bit disorienting."

Unlike the Azure Dragon of the East Sea, who seemed to control spatial fluctuations, the Earthling himself couldn't even perceive them. This feeling was as uncomfortable as being bound by some kind of shackle.

"Our current goal is to cross the threshold of the fundamental laws of space as soon as possible!"

With the added advantage of the Azure Dragon clone, it's only a matter of time before he crosses the threshold of spatial laws.

With less than five years until the Genius Battle, Shen Mu is quite confident in his comprehension and may have a chance to break through to the Hundred Streams level before the Genius Battle ends.

Of course, this is only hopeful; it's an ambitious goal, and achieving it will be very difficult.

Don't look down on the Hundred Lines Flow. In the original novel, Luo Feng mastered the Hundred Lines Flow after he had been cultivating in seclusion in Chaos City for ten years.

Leaving aside the enhancements to comprehension of the laws from studying the Chaos Stele and explaining the secrets of space, the mere 10-fold increase in the clarity of the laws alone means that 10 years of secluded cultivation in Chaos City yields progress greater than a hundred years of cultivation in the outside world.

"If I had a teacher to guide me, I might have a chance to compete for first place in the Genius Battle."

Bolan was able to create thousands of illusionary bodies, which, within the Ten Thousand Threads Flow Secret Technique, was equivalent to the mastery of the Hundred Threads Flow.

The time was still too short. Although the original work did not mention how old Bolan was when he participated in the Genius Battle, for the Hengxing star level, several hundred years old is still considered a child.

Currently, Shen Mu has two channels to become an apprentice.

One option is to join the Virtual Universe Company. With Shen Mu's talent, becoming an apprentice to one of the three peak-level Marquis-level experts at the Qianwu branch of the Virtual Universe Company wouldn't be a problem.

There's even a chance they might catch the attention of some powerful figures within the virtual universe company and become their disciples.

At most, this is the treatment one can receive when comprehending the laws of space at the Hengxing level. It would be very difficult to become an apprentice of someone at the level of Zhenyan King.

Another way is to visit the Qianwu Secret Realm.

"With my talent, even if I don't become an apprentice of the King of Qianwu Kingdom, receiving guidance is definitely not a problem."

Generally speaking, the Venerable One is very strict in accepting disciples. In the original work, among the geniuses of the same generation, only Bo Lan and Rong Jun had a chance to become the Venerable One's disciples at the beginning.

Needless to say, Bolan is a prodigy who emerged from the tens of thousands of genius battles and is regarded as a genius with the potential to become a Venerable.

Rong Jun was able to become a disciple of the Universe Venerable because of his special bloodline and great potential.

Shen Mu is a down-to-earth person who never places his hopes on unrealistic things, so he doesn't expect to become the master of the Qianwu Kingdom.

But the situation is different now. With the Genius Battle approaching, a genius of the Hengxing level with exceptional talent has suddenly emerged. There is always hope if he can receive guidance from the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom.

After all, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom is different from other cosmic venerables; he's poor!

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom is probably desperate for money, even eyeing the rewards for nurturing young geniuses. If Shen Mu shows the potential to become number one in the genius competition, receiving guidance is still very possible.

"First, go online and check how to join the Qianwu Secret Realm."

With a thought, Shen Mu connected a wisp of consciousness to the virtual universe network.

The results came out quickly: there was only one way to join the Qianwu Secret Realm, and that was to receive an invitation from the immortal deities within it.

"Looks like we'll have to make a big splash."

"Now that I've broken through to the Hengxing level, relying solely on a single fundamental law of water, while still excellent, it's not quite amazing!"

Just as Shen Mu was deep in thought, Babata's figure suddenly appeared.

It has been following Luo Feng these past few days, after all, Luo Feng is going through a life-or-death ordeal and needs its great Babata to guide him.

"Holy crap!"

"Shen Mu, you've broken through to the Hengxing level!"

Babata's voice was filled with shock. With Earthlings' trashy bloodline, how could they break through to the Hengxing level without going through life-and-death trials to stimulate cell and gene evolution?

It should be noted that Shen Mu directly upgraded from the fourth level of the Planetary level to the ninth level of the Planetary level, and then broke through to the Constant level after being stuck at the ninth level for a few months.

"Babata, don't get excited. There's another good news I haven't told you yet, because I'm afraid it will scare you."

Babata looked at Shen Mu suspiciously: "Has your mastery of the fundamental laws improved?"

Shen Mu smiled gently and said, "Come on, I'll show you in the virtual space."

……

The virtual space is a large mechanical factory.

Inside the factory, countless mechanical traps were already prepared. At a glance, the entire factory resembled a honeycomb, densely packed. Flying through this factory, one could easily encounter the traps.

Shen Mu's figure drew a strange arc in mid-air, precise and decisive, easily dodging traps and mechanisms in an extremely flexible and agile manner, and catching the red balls flying through the air.

"Shen Mu, did you secretly adjust the mechanism's settings? Only with mastery of the One-Line Flow technique can you achieve a perfect clear!"

Babata shouted and yelled, completely bewildered as to why Shen Mu's movement technique had suddenly improved so much. After all, Shen Mu had only been learning the Myriad Threads Flow technique for a mere two months.

"No, I just sensed the fluctuations of the fundamental laws of space. I should be close to truly mastering them."

Babata froze for a moment, then let out a scream, and its entire AI started dancing excitedly as if it had been infected with a virus.

(End of this chapter)