Chapter 1197

Shatter the shackles—the singularity, the inner world and external space, coalescing into a divine realm, may grant immortality.

According to this cultivation method, Fang Yu's cavernous heaven could even be called a divine realm, and his realm is… immortality.

But it goes further than this: at this very moment, as Fang Yu comprehended the Nine Cosmos Chaos Stele and grasped the spatial laws of this world, integrating countless spatial laws into his body, his cavernous heaven had already become a divine realm, even possessing the flow of time and the power of creation—he might now also be called a Sovereign.

Of course, this realm is invisible to many immortals.

They still think Fang Yu is a mere child, a young prodigy.

From the dimension of time, Fang Yu's life essence seems only dozens of years old, a youthful genius among humans; according to this world's cultivation path, a cultivator with such a short lifespan could never become an immortal, let alone a Sovereign—maximum he'd be a young genius who grasped some space-time laws, perhaps a Cosmic-level or Domain Lord-level talent, naturally leading some immortal experts to wish to take Fang Yu as their disciple.

Fang Yu thought it best to decline.

So now he observes the Nine Cosmos Chaos Stele and has created 18,000 secret arts.

Of course, his own strength has genuinely increased; the beast in the seventh panel of the Nine Cosmos Chaos Stele gave Fang Yu tremendous inspiration, elevating his comprehension of spatial laws to a new level.

What is space?

Before cultivators comprehend space, everyone knows they exist within space, reside within space, yet they cannot clearly perceive it; when they begin to comprehend spatial laws, fragments of spatial law are gradually illuminated, illuminated again, until finally coalescing into a complete spatial crystal—a crystal formed from three thousand fragments, each fragment a variation of spatial law.

Now, in Fang Yu's comprehension, this crystal composed of three thousand spatial law fragments begins to move, sprouting limbs and extremities, spinning violently, flowing, surging—and each surge and transformation can generate countless secret arts.

Observing different spatial laws across different worlds is indeed a delightful experience.

Now Fang Yu thoroughly enjoys this process and never tires of it.

Time flies swiftly; seven days have passed.

When Fang Yu perceived this, he stepped forward and exited the sealed chamber.

Outside the sealed chamber, others had already waited.

"Heavens, I never expected so many great figures would value Fang Yu so highly—look, all four masters of the Nine Cosmos lineage have arrived here, seemingly intending to take Fang Yu as their disciple!"

"Indeed, that's Flame Long Wang, True Evolution King, Thousand Illusions King, Sword Radiance King—the four great masters of my Virtual Universe Corporation!"

"Flame Long Wang? That's a terrifyingly powerful figure—rumor says when he battles immortals, he transforms into a star, engulfing and killing countless immortal experts; even immortals of the Immortal King realm are not immortal before Flame Long Wang, an Immortal King."

"Sword Radiance King is also an immensely terrifying Immortal King—he once faced dozens of Immortal Kings, yet with a single sword slash, he slew them all!"

"True Evolution King and Thousand Illusions King are also extremely formidable; and those two other kings—King Long Yu and King Tong Nan—are here too. A supreme genius who draws the attention of six Immortal Kings—truly enviable. We are all talents, yet back then, to gain a teacher's instruction, we had to conquer the third level of Tianqiao; even after conquering the third level of Tianqiao, we weren't necessarily noticed by Immortal Kings, let alone taken as disciples."

Outside the city lord's mansion, many young prodigies had gathered, for here stood six Immortal King-level masters—filling many talents with intense envy and jealousy.

They naturally knew why these Immortal King-level masters had come: because the supreme genius Fang Yu, who conquered the eighth level of Tianqiao, would emerge today.

Each Immortal King-level master seemed desperate to take Fang Yu, this supreme genius, as their disciple.

This filled them with great envy.

After all, many of them still had no Immortal King-level master to guide them; some did have teachers, but only Marquis-level teachers—which for them was already quite excellent.

When had they ever received treatment like Fang Yu's?

Six Immortal King-level masters waited to take a disciple.

"Fang Yu, I am True Evolution King. I wish to ask you: how deeply have you comprehended the Nine Cosmos Chaos Stele? How many panels have you understood? Have you fully grasped the mysteries of the first panel, or have you also gained some insight into the second?"

When Fang Yu appeared, the six Immortal King-level experts exchanged glances, and finally, a master resembling an ape-man spoke.

This master was the famed True Evolution King.

As soon as his words fell, the other Immortal King-level experts turned their gazes toward him, their eyes filled with eagerness—they all desperately wanted to know the extent of Fang Yu's comprehension.

"I have gained some insights from comprehending the Nine Cosmos Chaos Stele."

Seeing the six kings gaze at him, Fang Yu smiled faintly, gestured with his hand, and a scroll appeared in the void.

"Hm? What is this?"

"A scroll? What's inside?"

"How many levels did Fang Yu comprehend? Why hand out a scroll? So strange!"

"Look, the faces of those masters have changed."

The surrounding prodigies saw Flame Long Wang, True Evolution King, Thousand Illusions King, Sword Radiance King, King Long Yu, and King Tong Nan—all six master-level beings—stare at the scroll Fang Yu sent forth, each face displaying shock, then disbelief.

Indeed, it was unbelievable—utterly unimaginable.

It seemed these six kings had encountered something in their cultivation history they simply could not comprehend.

At that moment, Flame Long Wang murmured: "You created so many secret arts in just seven days?"

"Secret arts—so many secret arts! Each secret art is a variation formed by the fusion of a law with the spatial law's origin—you created this many? A full 18,000?"

"18,000 secret arts! Even I haven't unraveled this many. Back then, that great being who created the Nine Cosmos Chaos Stele only produced 10,829 secret arts. How did you comprehend 18,000 in seven days? Did your understanding of space surpass that great being?"

Each Immortal King-level expert's eyes were filled with awe; they saw the scroll Fang Yu presented contained 18,000 secret arts—and they were utterly stunned, for that great being had compiled only 10,829 secret arts from the nine panels into the "Supreme Space-Time Secret Arts."

And now Fang Yu had created 18,000 secret arts!

More than the original creator's output!

It was simply unimaginable.

The six kings' gazes instantly fixed on Fang Yu—his genius now exceeded their wildest imagination, as if he were a spy sent by an enemy.

But if he truly were an enemy, no one would be foolish enough to send such a supreme genius as a spy.

"I was specially recruited because I not only excel in spatial law, but I have also comprehended part of temporal law."

Before the six Immortal King-level beings, Fang Yu's expression remained calm, smiling; he moved his body, and the temporal laws around him shifted—prompting the six Immortal Kings to change expression.

They felt the flow of time around them alter: one breath outside might equal hundreds of breaths for them.

"This is a difference in temporal law's flow…"

"Fang Yu, you truly can manipulate temporal law's changes—unimaginable, astonishing."

"Fang Yu, I once intended to take you as my disciple, but now I see I was deluded. From this day forward, you are Fang Yu, my peer—worthy of the title: Fang Yu King!"

True Evolution King murmured.

"Greetings, peer!"

The six Immortal King-level masters addressed Fang Yu.