Chapter 45: Zhou Yu Within the Cosmic Secret Realm

Boom!

A massive flood of memories merged into Zhou Yu's mind; the simulated Zhou Yu, after breaking through Immortal and spending countless years, never gave Zhou Yu another chance to choose, so this memory rushed in all at once.

Fortunately, though the memory is huge, Zhou Yu can still digest it.

"This experience can be considered smooth sailing."

Zhou Yu carefully comprehended the simulated his life's memories; although he was tragically annihilated at birth with both parents dead, the subsequent opportunities were truly defying fate.

The mysterious lotus and the possession‑stealing special life Seven-Star Vine directly laid the foundation for becoming a Cosmic Sovereign, meaning that barring accidents, there is a considerable chance to achieve it.

Thus, over the ensuing long years, this avatar never encountered any more fate‑defying opportunities, yet eventually mastered the Temporal Law.

"Hmm, Temporal Law."

Zhou Yu sighed; at this moment he truly grasped the law. Had it not been for his Divine Body and Divine Realm being primarily forged with the Spatial Law, he might already have smoothly become a Temporal Sovereign.

Of course, as long as Zhou Yu is willing to reconstruct his Divine Body and Divine Realm with the Temporal Law, breaking through would naturally be easy.

"But if my breakthrough, my becoming a Temporal Sovereign, were exposed now, it would likely drive the alien races mad," Zhou Yu understood.

The aura of a Spatial Sovereign differs from that of a Temporal Sovereign; he has always displayed mastery of the Spatial Law, even creating a pinnacle secret technique with it, and then suddenly becoming a Temporal Sovereign—what does that imply?

Clearly, Zhou Yu has a considerable chance to comprehend both great laws and become the Lord of the Universe!

If so, unless Zhou Yu hides forever in the deepest core of the human realm, the alien races will surely spare no cost to annihilate him completely.

Although Zhou Yu is confident he can master the Spatial Law, how long it will take remains unknown, and he does not wish to stay hidden forever.

"When I have mastered the Spatial Law, that will be the time for transformation," Zhou Yu said no more.

At that moment Zhou Yu waved his hand, and the stone tablet bearing a certain secret technique that the Chaos City Lord had given him appeared ahead.

"Now, comprehending this tablet will be much easier."

Zhou Yu focused his spirit on the three illustrations on the tablet—the Star Chart, the Starry Sky Diagram, and the Giant Diagram. He still found the Starry Sky and Giant diagrams somewhat unfathomable, but the Star Chart instantly revealed many subtleties to him.

In Zhou Yu's eyes, the Star Chart contained 108 base points, each invoking time and space to form a unique domain.

"The greatest mystery lies in the coordination of these 108 base points. If the 108 points act separately, the law's intricacy amounts to 108 units, but when they cooperate uniquely, the intricacy soars to 1,080,000 units," Zhou Yu felt an indescribable wonder and unintentionally became immersed.

Elsewhere.

In a mysterious secret realm of the primordial universe.

Zhou Yu also sensed his newly acquired avatar; the towering vines swayed slightly in the mist, easily whipping up gusts of terrifying storm.

"Endless years of accumulation have already fully replenished the Divine Power of the Seven-Star Vine's Divine Body, exceeding ten‑million‑kilometer‑scale Sovereign‑level Divine Power—truly astounding," Zhou Yu marveled.

It has been at least tens of millions of years since the Seven-Star Vine broke through to become a Cosmic Sovereign; during those eons the avatar was merely in an 'idle' state, yet naturally absorbed power, allowing the Divine Body, which hadn't been fully replenished at breakthrough, to truly reach its peak.

Divine Power is precious; Zhou Yu's ordinary human avatar, only two meters tall, burns just 0.5% of its Divine Body each time, handling it cautiously for fear that over‑burning would be troublesome to restore.

Now the Seven-Star Vine avatar's ten‑million‑kilometer‑scale Divine Body absorbs in a few breaths more power than the total of Zhou Yu's ordinary human avatar.

Of course, according to the primordial universe's assessment, the Seven-Star Vine avatar and Zhou Yu's ordinary human avatar are two distinct entities; their Divine Power cannot complement each other.

The Seven-Star Vine avatar can only supply Divine Power to the seven gourd avatars it has spawned.

"The Seven-Star Vine avatar's impressive aspect is its Divine Body; its current front‑line strength isn't great, perhaps comparable to a high‑level Sovereign," Zhou Yu understood.

Although the Seven-Star Vine avatar's genetic tier reaches a thousandfold, the secret techniques it masters are very ordinary, and crucially its Divine Power amplitude is also modest, only a few times.

The "Kongguang Divine General" inheritance received by Zhou Yu's ordinary human avatar cannot affect the Seven-Star Vine avatar.

This is why the "Wuqi Sovereign" in the simulation was killed by Immortal.

A native Sovereign, whose genetic tier, Divine Power amplitude, and secret techniques were all lacking, being slain out of rank is quite normal.

In a typical peak clan, the phrase 'Sealed King invincible' can match a Cosmic Sovereign; the counterpart is precisely such a Cosmic Sovereign.

"Secret techniques can create; my ordinary human avatar follows the 'Path of the Matrix', so the Seven-Star Vine avatar follows the 'Path of Space‑Time'!" Zhou Yu thought.

Although a secret technique grasped by one avatar can be used by the other, Zhou Yu tries to avoid revealing the relationship between the two avatars.

"As for Divine Power amplitude, the ordinary human avatar can exchange at the Virtual Universe Company for a suitable Divine Power amplitude technique to cultivate. Given the Seven-Star Vine avatar's exaggerated Divine Body and Divine Power, elevating the Divine Power amplitude technique to a higher level is not difficult," Zhou Yu contemplated.

Generally, the stronger the Divine Body, the easier it is to cultivate the Divine Power amplitude technique, just as with the "Kongguang Divine General" inheritance: Immortal reaches the third stage only in rare cases, whereas Cosmic Sovereigns reach the third stage in greater numbers.

Moreover, the Seven-Star Vine avatar's Divine Body is far stronger than that of a typical Cosmic Sovereign.

Some skill‑oriented Divine Power amplitude techniques that Immortal finds hard to master can be easily cultivated by Sovereigns up to the initial stages; letting the Seven-Star Vine avatar train them makes it even simpler.

Not to mention, Zhou Yu now inherits this avatar, unlike his simulated self; he possesses the "Cultivation Genius" boost to all talents and the effect of "Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence," making the cultivation of a Divine Power amplitude technique even easier.

While Zhou Yu was planning the future of his Seven-Star Vine avatar, a figure also appeared near the misty marsh where the avatar dwells.

"Hmm?" Zhou Yu sensed the figure, and his mind instantly shifted.

One of the seven gourds produced by the Seven-Star Vine cracked open, and a hundred‑meter‑tall silhouette flew out.

It was the gourd avatar of the Seven-Star Vine.

The avatar took a step and arrived beyond the misty marsh.

The figure saw Zhou Yu appear and a hint of joy flashed on his face.

"Master," the figure quickly bowed.

"Wuhai," Zhou Yu looked at the figure; its aura was strong, roughly at the Sealed King Immortal level.

He is the second strongest human of this secret realm, born over countless years, and the sole Sealed King Immortal.

The secret realm's humans have slightly more potential than the Divine Realm humans; becoming a Sealed King Immortal is exceedingly rare.

He reached this point because his innate talent is exceptional, and secondly he became Zhou Yu's disciple early, receiving much assistance.

"What happened?" Zhou Yu asked.

Regarding the billions of years after the simulation's completion, he has no corresponding memories, only a rough idea of what occurred.

After breaking through to become a Cosmic Sovereign, he passed the human clan leader position to Wuhai, then returned to the misty marsh; outwardly he was in seclusion, but in fact he was idling, and has remained so until now!

Zhou Yu understood that if nothing were amiss, this disciple would certainly not come to disturb him.

"Master, the clan's scouts outside reported that Lord Haoshan seemed to have fought a major battle with some entity, and shortly after left the old stronghold, unknown where," Wuhai immediately voiced his intention.

Zhou Yu frowned slightly at the words.

Haoshan Jun, also a special being, whose true form is a towering mountain peak, was encountered by the simulated Haoshan Jun while exploring the secret realm; at that time Haoshan Jun was only at the Immortal tier, later he also became a Universe Venerable.

In this cosmic secret realm, Universe Venerable‑level beings are still very few, each one worth noting; the human race now occupies the Endless Continent, a light‑year‑scale land, which can be regarded as a super‑race in this realm, so they naturally pay special attention to those powerful existences.

"Haoshan Jun's temper is notoriously bad, but his strength is great—who would provoke him? Or perhaps an outsider?" Zhou Yu mused.

A cosmic secret realm, once born, may be discovered quickly, or it may remain hidden for ages.

This particular cosmic secret realm has never been exposed.

Within a cosmic secret realm, various obstacles exist; generally Immortals find it hard to accelerate to light speed, so entering the Dark Universe is extremely difficult.

If one does not enter the Dark Universe, a cosmic secret realm may span millions or even hundreds of millions of light‑years; disregarding the dangers along the way, merely flying would require millions to hundreds of millions of years to exit, making it hard for its inhabitants to leave.

In fact, even if they leave, if the realm itself is so remote that no other life can be found in the vast starry void, they will eventually have to return.

The Universe Venerables born from this realm can all enter the Dark Universe; some of them have certainly gone out, but given that this realm has never been exposed, they likely gained little after leaving.

In short, Zhou Yu is certain that for a long time this realm remained hidden; otherwise it wouldn't have stayed so tranquil.

But past concealment doesn't mean perpetual concealment.

This cosmic secret realm is actually enormous, likely over ten million light‑years in diameter; such a realm standing in the cosmos might someday be entered by an outsider by chance.

Zhou Yu suspects an outsider because, up to now, only a handful of beings in this realm can compare with Haoshan Jun; even those who could match him would not provoke him.

Haoshan Jun, being a mountain, loves sleeping above all; who could be provoked by sleeping?

The key is that Haoshan Jun has vanished; the one too lazy to even move has left his old lair?

"If it's an outsider, the realm will soon become lively," Zhou Yu thought, realizing this is not a good sign.

As long as outsiders increase, the human race occupying the two continents will become very conspicuous; trouble will inevitably follow.

"Wu Hai, send more scouts to gather information during this period, and inform me of any developments," Zhou Yu said, looking at his disciple.

"Yes, Master."

Wu Hai nodded in agreement; he didn't have as many thoughts as Zhou Yu, and he was full of confidence in his master.

He believes that as long as Zhou Yu is present, the human race fears no danger.

(End of Chapter)