Chapter 113: The Road Ahead

Boom—

As if a gigantic hand that could cover Heaven and Earth fell from the sky.

Under the lock of that massive hand, Zhou Yang couldn't even manage a facial expression, let alone move.

Yet, in his eyes a silent smile emerged.

Bang!

An energy raging to the extreme erupted within him, and his whole body instantly shattered into a spray of blood and flesh.

He didn't hesitate and self‑destructed outright.

The next second, in Chiyang City billions of miles away.

Within Zhou Yang's World Ring, a crystal‑clear, jade‑like round Blood Pearl rolled, instantly transforming into the silhouette of a black‑haired youth clad in Blood Armor.

But the aura of that figure was noticeably weak, and his complexion was exceedingly pale.

Huh—

He swallowed a teal fruit brimming with massive life energy, which made his pallid face regain a hint of color.

Meanwhile outside, Zhou Yang's main body, clad in Black Armor and a black helmet, also smiled.

"Ha ha, I've secured the greatest opportunity in this world; there's no need to linger here any longer!"

He laughed loudly and shot upward; a deep‑blue, rustic sword‑shaped spacecraft materialized instantly, carrying him straight out through this world's Boundary Membrane.

In the Primordial Secret Realm of the Virtual Universe Company, within the cultivation grounds of Lord No. 135's manor on Wuchen Continent.

Zhou Yang's main body, wearing Mo Yun Teng battle armor, sat opposite the upper‑body‑bare Ancient God clone in silent meditation.

Zhou Yang's main body and the clone resonated spiritually, allowing him to clearly see in the clone's body a series of profoundly mysterious strange secret patterns continuously flashing, eventually intertwining into an exceedingly intricate three‑dimensional secret pattern image.

Within that image, each secret‑pattern line undulated, as if containing the endless true meaning of the Dao.

The moment the secret‑pattern image formed, a subtle enlightenment instantly surfaced in his mind!

"The original cultivation method of the Ancient God World—Primordial True Explanation!"

At the birth of the 36 most ancient lives in the Ancient God World, a pictorial record titled 'Primordial True Explanation' also emerged.

These 36 ancient lives comprehended the record, discovering the cultivation method of 36 Divine Treasuries, thereby establishing the cultivation system of the Ancient God World.

One could say this is the original source of the Ancient God World's cultivation methods.

Having mastered this 'Primordial True Explanation', he can directly inscribe the corresponding secret‑pattern image onto his flesh.

In other words, he no longer needs Ancient Divine Blood to awaken flesh‑bound Divine Treasuries, thereby achieving the 'Primordial Divine Body'!

Moreover, while Zhou Yang cultivates the Law Path of the primary Universe, he sensed additional things within this pictorial record.

This overwhelmingly intricate mysterious secret‑pattern record surprisingly contains a hint of the Five Elements Law Fusion Path!

Nowadays, mainstream cultivation methods that devour the Universe mostly involve cultivating Spatial Law together with any one of the Five Elements Laws, or Temporal Law combined with any of Wind, Thunder, or Light Law; mastering both laws fully grants one the title of Universe Master.

However, Zhou Yang, having read the original story, knows that after reaching the True God Realm, one must fully comprehend all Ten Fundamental Laws, fuse them into the most primal Chaos Law, and only then break through to the Chaos Sovereign Realm!

And this mysterious record titled 'Primordial True Explanation' indeed harbors a hint of the Five Elements Law Fusion; long‑term contemplation will surely greatly accelerate the future Ten Laws Fusion Path!

"This mission not only yielded an Ancient God clone comparable to World Master Level, but also secured the far more precious 'Primordial True Explanation'; this truly was a huge profit!"

Divine light glittered in Zhou Yang's gaze.

"Moreover, I may have inadvertently uncovered a path harder than the Beast God Path, yet even more powerful!"

Five Elements Fusion Path!

He pondered silently, and his long‑term cultivation plan gradually became clear in his mind.

"First, swiftly break through to World Master Level, using its affinity for Fundamental Laws to drill the Ten Fundamental Laws to their limit."

"Simultaneously, attempt to enter the Five Elements Law Fusion Path via 'Primordial True Explanation', using the Five Elements Law as a foundation, then try to fuse the other five laws to achieve the supreme Chaos Law!"

"This road will be long and arduous, but it is undeniably a clear, straight avenue to Saint Level!"

Zhou Yang gradually sorted his thoughts, and his resolve steadily hardened!

"Then the first goal is to break through World Master Level!"

Although the Ancient God clone's combat power now rivals that of World Master‑level warriors, the clone relies mainly on flesh power, and its actual Law Perception still falls short of the requirement to break through World Master Level.

"By the way, there are the Primordial Tongtian Mountains of Universe Level and Domain Lord Level; before breaking through, it's best to earn those two sets of Mission Points!"

"Then I'll spend this period both carrying out missions and fully boosting my Law Perception!"

Zhou Yang acted decisively; that same day he applied for the 'Ruins Ancient God Temple' mission assessment, submitted 36 drops of different Ancient Divine Blood, and successfully earned 100,000 Mission Points.

He then embarked on a frantic mission journey.

Members of the Primordial Secret Realm may, within a hundred years, take on no more than 15 dangerous-level cultivation missions and 3 extreme-level cultivation missions.

Now Zhou Yang's clone secret technique is complete, and especially with an Ancient God clone comparable to World Master‑level strength, his survivability has become monstrous.

Thus all the missions he took were dangerous-level starters, and he lazily began with the nearest ones without being picky.

Within the Primordial Secret Realm there are six dangerous-level missions in total.

Aside from the initially completed Ruins Ancient God Temple mission, the remaining missions consumed nearly fifteen years of Zhou Yang's time.

Mainly because Zhou Yang tasted the sweetness in the Ancient God World and wished to explore the deeper secrets of each mission world.

However, the final outcome left him greatly disappointed.

The hidden secrets in the remaining five mission worlds were either too obscure to find or entailed extreme risk.

Even with a clone comparable to World Master strength, he only luckily obtained a miraculous item called a 'Life Core' from a mission world named 'Ancient Wood Star'.

That Life Core contains an incomparably massive amount of life essence; a single Life Core can instantly restore a gravely injured Noble Prince-level immortal to peak condition!

Just this one Life Core alone is worth over a million Hunyuan Units, making it his greatest haul to date.

From six dangerous-level missions, Zhou Yang amassed 185,000 Mission Points, a powerful 'Primordial True Explanation', and a precious Life Core.

Afterward, too lazy to travel further, he directly took the extreme-level mission within the Primordial Secret Realm—Mizong Star System!

Mizong Star System is a small sector of the vast Primordial Secret Realm, roughly the size of the Milky Way.

The Mizong Star System mission is very simple: a 'Search Mission'.

Mission requirement: locate 39 Crystal Stones (see the attachment for detailed information on the Crystal Stones) and receive 500,000 points.

However, the simpler the requirement, the greater the danger explained!

The Mizong Star System, as its name suggests, is a place like a massive labyrinth, its scope comparable to the size of the Milky Way.

Even an Immortal God spending hundreds of thousands of years would probably have traversed only one corridor of the labyrinthine star system.

Zhou Yang spent nearly five years and finally gathered all 39 Crystal Stones, completing the mission.

After that, his original body hid in a safe place, and he directly spawned doppelgangers one by one to search this world's hidden secrets.

In the end, after spending a full eight years and losing over a hundred doppelgangers, he obtained, besides the Original True Explanation, another cultivation supreme treasure—a wondrous Crystal Stone the size of a fist that shone with nine‑colored divine light.

Chaos Stone! Also known as Wu Dao Stone!

Holding it can greatly increase affinity for various Fundamental Laws, dramatically accelerate Law Perception speed, and is something that Immortal strongmen covet intensely.

Many strong individuals, limited by talent, get stuck at the crucial step of breakthrough.

With the aid of a Chaos Stone, they have a far greater chance of successfully taking that step and entering a higher realm.

Therefore the value of a Chaos Stone can no longer be described in money, because no one sells them; at most they are 'rented'.

Renting a Chaos Stone for a ten‑year term costs at least a million points, equivalent to doing nothing and still earning at least 100,000 points per year!

After completing the Mizong Star System mission, Zhou Yang's confidence swelled, and he immediately took on the top‑ranked 'Purgatory Abyss' among the Extreme‑Situation level missions.

However, the opportunities within the Purgatory Abyss were exceedingly hidden; he spent over a decade, his doppelgangers dying hundreds of times, yet only uncovered a few clues.

And just as he was about to give up and not turn back, a miraculous change occurred.

Decades of contemplation, empowered by Meteor Tear and an extremely perverted powerful soul, elevated his perception of the spatial Fundamental Law to a brand‑new height.

At a certain moment, an immeasurably vast Law aura thundered down.

(End of Chapter)