Chapter 188: Return to Chaos City

Xiao Yu idled at home for a month.

He gathered with the various friends from his Earth days, most of whom were still alive.

After Xiao Yu entered the Virtual Universe Company, he instructed his family to allocate certain resources to those friends, granting each of them at least planetary rank and a lifespan of at least a thousand years.

The old Xiao Family residence.

Xiao's mother, Xu Jingyi, tightly clasped her son Xiao Yu's hands, "You finally managed to come back, yet you don't even say you'll stay longer."

"Mom, when I return next time, I'll definitely stay at home for several thousand or even ten thousand years; then, please don't find me annoying," Xiao Yu patted his mother's hands.

He looked toward his father, whose eyes were moist, and the more than ten younger brothers and sisters beside him.

"Alright, you're all heads of the household now, yet you still act like children," Xiao Yu laughed.

Then Xiao Yu turned to the three Xingchen beside him and said, "For the next several thousand years, I'll be counting on you to look after the house."

Afterwards, they boarded a massive bird-shaped starship belonging to Gui Yi and entered the 'Primordial Universe' together.

The last time he followed a thousand geniuses, but now, less than eighty years later, he came together only with Gui Yi Zunzhe.

The Primordial Universe remained as before, with laws manifesting outwardly and the Origin Law fluctuating markedly.

Xiao Yu casually found a dwelling near the City Lord's mansion and moved in.

The three who had been forcibly enslaved by the system had long since changed their dispositions and were now Xiao Yu's die‑hard loyalists.

The starship hovered over Chaos City; Xiao Yu and Gui Yi Zunzhe flew out, and Gui Yi Zunzhe waved his hand to retract the vessel.

"Master, rest assured, we will definitely protect the house," Xingchen said.

Now the Heavenly God Transformation and the Wind Shadow Codex have been fully cultivated, allowing a pause.

Subsequently, Xiao Yu applied to enter Chaos City for cultivation as a core member at Domain Lord Level, receiving a 300‑year cultivation window in the Primordial Universe.

With a perfect‑gene life multiplier of 10,081 times, the resources consumed to advance from Domain Lord Tier 1 to Tier 9 are substantial.

Moreover, the second tier of the Primordial Soul must be cultivated before ascending to Realm Lord.

This is Xiao Yu's second entry into Chaos City.

He extracted a nutrient pod from the Space Ring, lay inside, and began elevating his realm.

Immediately, via Divine Kingdom teleportation, Gui Yi Zunzhe sent Xiao Yu straight to the Virtual Universe Company Headquarters.

"Hmm," Xiao Yu nodded.

Lying in the nutrient pod, Xiao Yu contemplated his trump cards: "I now possess the Viskar Star Palm Seal Illusory Shadow, the full set of Universe True Explanation, Primordial Soul, Phantom Slash, Heavenly God Transformation, Wind Shadow Codex, the Innate Secret Method 'I Am Time and Space', over 300 million Mixed Yuan Units, and more than 30 million points."

Xiao Yu's application was, of course, approved swiftly.

He clearly outlined his cultivation plan.

This time, the black‑robed man whose head was covered in blue scales did not fly over, perhaps recognizing Gui Yi Zunzhe's vessel.

What remained were the Universe True Explanation, Phantom Slash, and the Viskar Star Palm Seal Illusory Shadow.

"Junior brother, find a place to settle first; I'll go to the teacher," Gui Yi Zunzhe said with a smile.

The Soul Split of Universe True Explanation can take charge; Phantom Slash currently lacks sufficient spatial Origin comprehension and cannot be cultivated for now, leaving only the Viskar Star Palm Seal Illusory Shadow within his inner world.

The World Tree has already ascended to Realm Lord, its rate of law comprehension soaring, continuously perceiving the Universe Chaos Stele Illusion.

Only Xiao Yu's main soul has arrived.

Over the past few decades, Xiao Yu has also realized his combat skills are overly singular and is contemplating creating his own secret methods, as Realm Lords typically begin self‑creating techniques at this stage.

Secret methods are chiefly divided into research types and combat types.

Research, in this sense, uses these secret methods and auxiliary items to enhance law comprehension; the higher the comprehension, the stronger the power—law comprehension is somewhat akin to internal cultivation. Combat secret methods, on the other hand, are applications: with the same level of comprehension, differing applications can yield vastly different combat strength.

For example, Universe True Explanation and Time‑Space Essays both aid law comprehension, while Heavenly God Transformation is an auxiliary method that strengthens bodily power.

Phantom Slash and 'I Am Time and Space' are purely combat secret methods.

Of course, Universe True Explanation also contains sword and blade techniques, and the Wind Shadow Codex includes blade skill techniques as well.

Given Xiao Yu's current cultivation of various secret methods, creating his own is still somewhat difficult, so he plans to exchange for additional methods.

……

Virtual Universe.

Rain Phase Mountain, Primeval Zone, Estate No. 114.

Xiao Yu sat at his desk, opened his laptop, clicked the secret methods tab in the treasury, and selected 300 ordinary secret methods, all of which are combat types.

Confirm purchase.

Total cost: 10 million points.

That afternoon, Ai Tuoer pushed a massive cargo crate to Xiao Yu's luxurious estate; when opened, the crate revealed neatly stacked thick volumes, some as thin as 20 cm, the thickest nearly half a meter.

These 300 sets are ordinary secret methods, primarily for his reference.

As for precious combat secret methods, each set costs over a billion points.

He currently lacks sufficient points, unless he sells all his remaining divine crystals.

……

Lying in the nutrient pod, Xiao Yu's consciousness entered his internal timeline, beginning comprehension; the previous palm seal felt like breaking through the heavens.

After the artistic conception weakened to one‑tenth, Xiao Yu no longer fell into an illusion but could instead sense that realm.

Gradually, Xiao Yu sank deeper into the conception, losing track of time.

……

Since hearing Xiao Yu's words at the farewell gathering for his Domain Lord promotion, Luo Feng launched an even more aggressive campaign to seize Xue Luo Crystals; by year 70, a clone of the Demon Killing Clan slashed the World City sovereign Si Yong, yet did not depart immediately, continuing to plunder Xue Luo Crystals in the Xue Luo world.

By year 80, Luo Feng had slain 136 world sovereigns, provoking a united counter‑attack before finally leaving the Xue Luo world. Xiao Yu only learned later that Luo Feng had looted as many as 30,000 Xue Luo Crystals.

Upon leaving the Xue Luo world, Luo Feng received an audience with the Eclipse Palace Lord, who personally demonstrated nine fundamental spatial laws for him.

This greatly accelerated Luo Feng's grasp of spatial essences; he soon comprehended 45 spatial essences and began perceiving the third picture of the Nine Universe Chaos Stele—the Torrential Rain Diagram.

Returning to the Primordial Secret Realm, Luo Feng promptly submitted a cultivation task, earning 110,000 points, and, after Xiao Yu's reminder, resolved not to sell Xue Luo Crystals.

Soon, Luo Feng also received from Xiao Yu a treasure, an unnamed mid-level Spatial-type artifact.

And Hong, because the cultivation tasks he undertook were of relatively low difficulty and generally short in duration, had long ago received from Xiao Yu a mid-level Time-type artifact as a gift.

Luo Feng stayed in the Star Territory for less than a month, during which he cleared the eighth layer of Sky Bridge and caught up with Bo Lan. Then, over six months, he completed the dangerous‑level missions of the Primeval Secret Realm. Afterwards he went to Demon Mountain and received an inheritance of more than twelve years.

After entering Demon Sound Mountain, he was treacherously attacked by Mo Luo, a Universe-level elder from the Primordial Secret Realm, but he survived. After Mo Luo emerged, he instead spread rumors everywhere; Luo Feng ambushed him and also fell during a critical mission.

This incident became known to Hong and Xiao Yu; knowing the truth, Xiao Yu really wanted to cut him down with a single slash, but unfortunately Xiao Yu was in the Primordial Universe, out of reach.

He could only refute the rumors, saying, "I trust Luo Feng's character; he wouldn't do such a thing, nor would he fall so easily."

(End of Chapter)