Chapter 134: Heaven and Earth, Completed

Zhou Yang's pupils glittered with divine light; at that moment, he seemed to have discovered a path that fit him perfectly!

If he could employ the Derivation method to wield the Array Space of the Stellar Transformations World, wouldn't that be equivalent to mastering a weakened form of space-time control!

The power would be how perverse!

"To truly create one's own world, one must use the Eight Basic Origin Forces as a foundation, then through specific structures, combinations, flows, and fusions, ultimately achieve perfect balance and derive an independent space and time!"

Zhou Yang began rapidly mentally deducing the feasibility of this idea, and soon he reached a decision!

"At my cultivation speed, comprehending the Wood Law and breaking through Immortal before the Realm Lord's lifespan limit is extremely easy, so there's no need to rush."

"I've already planned to perceive the Ten Fundamental Laws during the Realm Master Phase, to try the path of Law Fusion, which seems to share a similar subtlety with this Array Space method, so—"

"Why not give it a try!"

Zhou Yang's drive is immense; having made up his mind, there is naturally no reason to delay.

"First step: begin to perceive the other Eight Major Fundamental Laws and elevate them to a certain level!"

Within his inner world, ten doppelgangers swiftly sat cross-legged in a circle.

At the center of their circle, a fist-sized Nine-Colored Divine Stone hovered, radiating wisps of hazy, multicolored aura.

This is a miraculous treasure Zhou Yang obtained while executing a Universe Level cultivation mission in the Mizong Star System—a Chaos Stone, also called a Wu Dao Stone!

Under the hazy aura of the Wu Dao Stone, he clearly felt the ten doppelgangers' perception clarity of the Fundamental Laws surge dramatically!

A thought flickered in his mind, sending a strand of consciousness to communicate with the Universe Origin Land.

That level of clarity skyrocketed in a straight line!

The ten doppelgangers began individually perceiving the Ten Basic Origin Laws.

Combined with continual cultivation of the Three Souls Nine Refinements, the doppelganger souls have grown to a size comparable to a Marquis-level Immortal!

Under this multiple augmentation, each doppelganger's speed of perceiving the Fundamental Laws surged rapidly!

Even the other eight laws, aside from Wood and Void, are being perceived at a speed already comparable to the top Realm Master-level Genius!

"According to my design, to derive a technique akin to Array Space, one must at least master all the transformation methods of the basic combinations of the Eight Subordinate Laws; the amount of deduction required would be billions of times greater than simply deducing the combination methods of the Wood and Void laws!"

Zhou Yang gave a faint wry smile in his heart, realizing he truly loves to put himself through suffering.

However, now that the direction is clear, he can only press forward without looking back!

"From now on, my true self and all my doppelgangers will devote all our energy to the combination and structure of the Ten Fundamental Laws!"

After the route is clarified, the next step requires expending energy to study.

World Master Level is already the period when perceiving laws is easiest.

With the Wu Dao Stone and the boost of a powerful soul, the perception of the other Eight Major Fundamental Laws quickly crossed the threshold and accelerated at an incomprehensible speed.

A year later, the sensitivity of these eight laws had gradually risen to roughly the level of the fourth tier of the Tongtian Bridge.

At the same time, Zhou Yang had already derived 4,410 basic pairwise combination methods from these eight laws and began attempting to deduce their transformation combinations.

It is an extremely tedious process.

One should know that each basic combination method can further pair with other combination methods in twos, in groups of two or three, or three and three; the ways to transform are virtually endless!

Even with Zhou Yang's extremely perverse true soul, plus nearly a hundred doppelgangers assisting, confronting this horrifying amount of deduction still gave him a dizzying feeling.

Spending the whole day immersed in the tedious, complex deductions was an indescribable torment.

Thus, he began occasionally going out to 'air' himself.

Whenever his perception or deduction hit a bottleneck, he would leave his hidden cave to battle the Immortal Gods nearby.

First, to test the results of his perception and cultivation, and to seek inspiration for breaking the bottleneck.

Second, also to vent his pent-up frustration.

Thus, for every one or two years of perception, Zhou Yang would go out to fight once.

The number of strong individuals on the Nine Fiend Continent is countless times greater than on the Fragmented Star Belt.

The Continent he resides on, Continent, is a top-ranked Continent Fragment of the Nine Fiend Continent, so the hidden strong ones are unimaginably many.

Zhou Yang could easily find Immortal Gods one after another to battle.

Relying on his current law perception, comparable to that of an ordinary Seal King Immortal, after triggering the first layer of the Yandao Secret Manual, even the pinnacle Immortal Army Master can be slain outright!

Moreover, as his research into the Derivation method deepened, the power he unleashed gradually increased.

Zhou Yang immersed himself in a fulfilling life of cultivation, perception, and combat.

In the blink of an eye, nearly five hundred years flew by.

In those nearly five hundred years, Zhou Yang not only raised the newly perceived eight Origin Laws to a level comparable to the 15th tier of the Tongtian Bridge, but also went out to hunt and fought in over a thousand battles!

In those thousand-plus battles, he killed close to five or six hundred Army Lord-level Immortal Gods!

The reason for that number is that in the subsequent nearly three hundred years, he set his sights on Marquis-level Immortals.

Marquis-level Immortals already possess an Undying Body; Zhou Yang lacks Immortal Divine Power, and without exposing the Myriad Elephant Tower, he currently has no effective means to annihilate the opponent's Undying Body.

Therefore, in the subsequent battles, he did not seek kills but primarily used them to test his cultivation perception.

After a thousand battles, Zhou Yang's reputation spread far and wide!

Within nearly ten trillion kilometers around his base, the strong outsiders all knew that a new Marquis-level powerhouse had appeared!

This powerhouse loved killing; in two or three hundred years, he slaughtered five or six hundred Immortal strong ones, including over a hundred peak Army Lord Immortals!

Moreover, this Human Race powerhouse had extremely strong survivability.

Three Mechanical Race Marquis-level Immortals had hidden inside a World Ring belonging to an ordinary Army Lord Immortal to ambush him.

The moment the Human Race Marquis appeared, they immediately burned Immortal Divine Power to launch a deathblow against him!

They indeed succeeded; seeing no escape, the Human Race Marquis self-destructed.

However, what they didn't expect was that just half a month later, the Human Race powerhouse reappeared and launched a harassment attack on them that lasted nearly three hundred years.

At this point, everyone realized that the three Mechanical Race Immortals had slain only a doppelganger of that Human Race powerhouse.

Within a mountain cave shrouded by Immortal-level Mo Yun Vine, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on the ground, his consciousness linked via the Derivation Disk in his assistant, immersed in endless deduction.

At the same time, a thread of consciousness, through spiritual resonance, continued to observe that copy of the "Original True Explanation" atlas inside the ancient god's doppelganger.

Within this atlas lay hints of the fusion of the Five Elements' laws; continual observation provided Zhou Yang with much inspiration for his deduction and comprehension.

"Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light—eight basic laws; at the first stage, there are a total of 4,410 two‑basic‑law combinations."

"These 4,410 basic‑law combinations can undergo variation, almost allowing the deduction of virtually endless transformation methods!"

"Taking the Five Elements as the foundation, a basic spatial framework is constructed; flowing wind blows, light and shadow cycle, thunder is born, forming the basic temporal scale."

Zhou Yang continually adjusted the ways of combining these basic laws according to his conception.

Gradually, he seemed to have grasped something; the speed of his deduction began to gradually increase, steadily increasing.

At one moment, it was as if enlightenment had struck him; a sudden realization surged into his heart!

"Go!"

Only seeing him raise his hand and wave, countless miniature silver stars flew out continuously from the Derivation Disk, quickly scattering to every direction in the cavern.

Immediately thereafter, strands of World Force shot out from within his body, rapidly linking together among the silver stars.

At the same moment, Zhou Yang's consciousness stirred, quickly invoking the Fundamental Law.

Dense golden, green, blue, red, red, cyan, purple, and white secret‑pattern threads began to rapidly intertwine and link.

The power of the Five Elements cycled continuously, as if opening up a hazy space.

Flowing wind, light, and thunder lingered in this space, as if endowing it with special vitality.

Secret Technique, first layer—Qiankun, accomplished!

(End of chapter)