Swallowing the Stars: Shocking! The Giant Axe Wants to Become My Apprentice

Chapter 168 Three Years in Chaos City! Preparations for Breaking Through to Immortality Are Complete

Chapter 168 Thirty Years in Chaos City! Preparations are complete before breaking through to Immortality!

"Berlan, how are you feeling?"

Soon, at the entrance of Berlan Manor, Wuka, Longyun, Aichen, and Qianshui all rushed over to ask questions.

Berlan welcomed everyone into the hall, a hint of astonishment appearing on his usually indifferent face: "Beyond imagination! I now understand why they could comprehend the laws so quickly!"

Berlan's words immediately made everyone's mouths water. Uka quickly asked, "Berlan, tell us quickly, how did you feel about the guidance from the 'Saint Master'?"

The rather lively Ai Chen also asked curiously, "Is it really that miraculous?"

Berlan's tone was indifferent, but a hint of curiosity lingered in his eyes: "Beyond my expectations, no wonder the apprentices have progressed so quickly..."

"Could you be more specific?" Ai Chen's eyes shone with curiosity.

"As the apprentice said, he went into too much detail—"

Berlan paused for a moment, then said, "For us, in some ways it is indeed more effective than the Chaos Monument!"

"The Chaos Stele is holistic and systematic—"

"The Chaos Monument is a diagram through which the Creator conveyed their understanding of the fundamental laws to us. It is open to everyone. No matter how correct or simple their explanations are, if you try to comprehend them, you may not be able to grasp what you want or what is most suitable for your current stage. Moreover, the laws themselves are like an insurmountable chasm for us—"

"But Teacher Zhou is different. He uses common sense that we can understand to convey meaning, making it easy for me to understand the implications he is trying to express."

Bolan talked a lot. He was a very simple person and had no interest in anything except cultivation. But when it came to cultivation, he was quite talkative.

Seeing that the usually indifferent Berlan had spoken so enthusiastically, Uka and the others felt an unprecedented sense of anticipation.

As Bolan talked more and more, he felt like he was being "brainwashed" and became more and more convinced of Zhou Ze.

On the other side, as Bolan's inner world changed, Zhou Ze's comprehension increased, and after reaching a certain level, he suddenly felt a roar in his brain.

"This feels like the cheat code has been upgraded again?" A hint of joy appeared on Zhou Ze's face: "I knew that with Bolan's level of comprehension, even if it wasn't fully stacked, the system shouldn't have been silent for so long—"

"The last upgrade not only fixed my comprehension, effectively doubling it, but also allowed each sub-consciousness to separately comprehend the laws without my comprehension decreasing. I wonder what new features this upgrade will bring?"

Zhou Ze's thoughts moved with lightning speed, and the instant the system upgraded, he suddenly understood the changes brought about by the upgrade, his eyes filled with immense joy.

"Hoo—" Zhou Ze took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"That reduces the pressure on me a lot—" Zhou Ze smiled slightly, "Little Luo Feng is nothing to me."

The further upgrade of the cheat software filled Zhou Ze with hope for the future.

This upgrade includes two changes:

The first thing is that Zhou Ze's psychic power amplitude talent has been greatly enhanced again, and a certain limiting threshold has been removed, allowing him to break through the cosmic limit of 100 times the psychic power amplitude even without secret techniques.

The second item is overclocking! As the name suggests, it increases the speed of comprehension by consuming a large amount of energy, with a maximum bonus of 10 times.

"Both of these new features are great, especially the second one. With enough energy, each of my nearly one hundred secondary consciousness windows can enjoy a 10x boost!"

"While it may not be a 1000-fold increase in magnitude, it still far exceeds my current rate of comprehension."

Zhou Ze immediately tried the overclocking mode, and he immediately felt a cosmic storm raging in his heart, with nearly 100 secondary consciousness windows, and his comprehension speed increased by 10 times at the same time.

At the same time, he felt the primal power of his inner world burning wildly. At this rate of consumption, he felt that all his energy would not last more than a day.

One day is far too short—even for an apprentice-level cultivator, a single period of seclusion can last for several months, or even several years.

"I never thought I'd become a money-devouring beast one day," Zhou Ze thought with a slight smile, carefully calculating.

"But it seems alright for now. Of course, if the cheat is upgraded again in the future, the upper limit of the overclocking state's comprehension speed increases, or the comprehension increases significantly, then the energy consumption may continue to multiply! But for now..."

Zhou Ze doesn't really care about this little bit of energy consumption. One Hunyuan unit can buy about one trillion cosmic coins, which is enough to keep him overclocking for who knows how long.

Not to mention that he has more than 10,000 Chaos Units and over 100,000 points!

"Let's apply for some first—"

Zhou Ze purchased directly using Hunyuan units and applied for transportation through the backend.

In the days that followed, Zhou Ze would give guidance to Luo Feng and the others, as well as all members of the Primordial Secret Realm, every now and then. Sometimes he would also go to the "Master Teachers" to select a few Realm Lords to fill the quota, so that all the secondary consciousness windows could receive the insights of Realm Lord level experts as much as possible.

These hundred or so World Lords can all enter the origin of the universe through the power of the world, and their clarity of the laws is far superior to that of those who have not yet reached the level of World Lord.

When the clarity of these rules is at its maximum, the competition usually comes down to who has the highest level of comprehension, and Zhou Ze's appearance fills that gap.

In some ways, these realm lords' understanding of the laws was far faster than Zhou Ze's own. Under these circumstances, Zhou Ze dared not maximize their comprehension.

If you max it out, something really bad will happen!!!

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, the young geniuses who entered the initial universe for the first time in this year's Genius Battle have been in Chaos City for nearly thirty years.

Zhou Ze sat cross-legged on the rooftop, comprehending the laws of water. In less than thirty years, he hadn't even had much time to comprehend them himself, but by relying on the comprehension of those realm lords, he had almost fully grasped the entire Law of Water.

"Now I've fulfilled all the prerequisites for immortality; all that's left is to break open the orange!"

For the past twenty years, Zhou Ze has been refining his skills in other areas, and of course, he has spent most of his time comprehending the essence of the laws of space and time.

Now, several years ago, he had already comprehended the essence of the 108 mysteries of the laws of time and space.

This is just the most basic part. The most complex part of the "Cosmic Chaos Monument" requires not only to comprehend the laws of time and space at the same time, but also to combine the two together.

This made Zhou Ze's scalp tingle, but he was mentally prepared. Otherwise, if the "Cosmic Chaos Monument" was simply about cultivating the two superior laws separately, then there would be no need for this Chaos Monument. Any universe master could do that.

"This 'Cosmic Chaos Monument' wasn't even prepared for the geniuses of the Genius Battle—"

Emerging from the secret chamber of the Chaos Stele, Zhou Ze couldn't help but inwardly complain.

The laws of time or space alone are thousands or even tens of thousands of times more difficult than the laws of space, and to comprehend even one of them is hundreds of millions of times more difficult.

There are countless immortals in the entire human universe, but there are probably only about a thousand cosmic venerables, and that's after accumulating over an unknown number of epochs.

"This thing is meaningless even to the vast majority of immortals, or even all immortals. Only a Venerable One is qualified to comprehend it!"

Zhou Ze frowned. If he didn't need to guide others, he wouldn't have chosen the "Cosmic Chaos Monument".

In some ways, he was too lazy to even break through the higher laws; he went straight to breaking through to immortality first, just to secure his lifespan. With infinite lifespan, he could then slowly comprehend other laws.

"We're about to leave Chaos City—"

Zhou Ze walked slowly toward his house. Thirty years was too long for him. He was only about a hundred years old in his entire life, and he had spent a third of his life in Chaos City.

Upon arriving at his residence of the past thirty years, the system detected Zhou Ze's arrival and the door opened automatically. Zhou Ze strode into the lobby and plopped down in a seat.

After glancing at the familiar floor, ceiling, tables, and other decorations, Zhou Ze went to the rooftop, gazing in the direction of Chaos City, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye. When I arrived, I was just a minor star level, but now I am only one step away from immortality—"

Thinking of this, Zhou Ze felt uneasy. Why couldn't he enter the origin of the primordial universe after breaking through to the realm master level? Did he really think it was because he was in the initial universe?

But do the life forms in those miniature universes in the cosmic sea have to come to the primordial universe if they want to break through to immortality?

Or perhaps the initial universe was the primordial one. Because the primordial one was suppressed, the initial universe did not complete its evolution and could not help cultivators become immortal.

Zhou Ze sighed. Anyway, he would understand what would happen once he left the initial universe.