Chapter 450: Billions of Years of Cultivation (Part Two)

In the 1500th year, at a time flow rate 250,000 times faster.

Within the World Ring, Xiao Yu successfully added reproduction, evolution, and death to his self‑created Secret Pattern Life.

Death was the final function Xiao Yu added to these Secret Pattern Lives.

To facilitate his research, Xiao Yu, inside the World Ring whose diameter exceeds ten light‑years, deliberately used divine power to generate continent after continent.

He let these shape‑shifting lives, whose basic structure is based on Secret Pattern, naturally evolve on those continents.

Xiao Yu added different basic instincts to the lives on each continent.

For example, on the first continent, Xiao Yu only gave these Secret Pattern Lives the instincts of eating, growing, and eternal life; after merely tens of thousands of years, all the Secret Pattern Lives on that continent were reduced to a single individual, though that individual's strength had already reached Immortal Lord King.

However, this type of cultivated‑worm life did not match Xiao Yu's expectations, so he casually eradicated it.

On the 102nd continent, that continent successfully added eating, growing, eternal life, and reproduction.

Additionally, Xiao Yu created countless plant lives on that continent, all of which could serve as food for them.

But that continent, after an initial development of one hundred thousand years, saw some Secret Pattern Lives advance, continuously cultivating to become Immortal Level.

In the subsequent billions of years, no further Immortals were produced.

"Without food and the threat of death, life lacks sufficient growth; for such life to develop better, wise beings must constantly guide it," Xiao Yu evaluated.

As his research on the derivation of Secret Pattern Lives across continents progressed, Xiao Yu gained deeper understanding and insight into life, insight that extended beyond the path of the laws.

"Life and destruction complement each other," Xiao Yu felt more profoundly.

Simultaneously, based on this realization, Xiao Yu also found more inspiration for his own life‑gene tier.

After billions of experiments, he finally raised the life‑gene tier to 60,001 times.

When Xiao Yu's Human True Body life‑gene tier rose to 60,001 times, endless divine power streamed from countless World Rings within his Divine Body.

After a long while, the basic height of Xiao Yu's Divine Body had increased to one billion kilometers, and the divine power it contained had again multiplied by one billion times.

Such a massive amount of divine power had already exhausted the divine power within a branch of the World Tree inside a World Ring.

Only then was the divine power within Xiao Yu's Human True Body Divine Body fully replenished.

……

In the 3000th year, after hundreds of millions of years of cultivation, Xiao Yu had completely comprehended the fusion of the four Fundamental Laws of time, space, thunder, and light.

At the same time, Xiao Yu sensed that a Divine Kingdom nestled within the layers of the Primordial Universe was rapidly evolving.

If he did not suppress it, he felt he could directly break through to become a True God.

Nevertheless, Xiao Yu still hoped his Divine Body would break through again, preferably after its gene tier reached one hundred thousand times before the next breakthrough.

……

The 5500th year.

Within a World Ring whose diameter exceeds one billion light‑years, continent after continent float suspended in this radiant world.

Armed with the experience of previous billions of years, Xiao Yu pushed everything to the extreme.

This time he let life evolve directly from the most basic Secret Pattern structure.

Each continent possesses endless resources, and the initial structures of the Secret Pattern Lives created on each continent differ.

After a billion years of derivation.

During those billion years, after initially setting the first structure of life, Xiao Yu intervened no further.

In the end, everything displayed on those continents is the result of natural derivation of life.

Countless continents each host myriad lives.

On these continents, the derivation of life is sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but regardless, countless varieties of life have emerged.

Most continents have given rise to intelligent life, and many of those intelligent beings have already grasped the path of cultivation.

Among them, the finest have produced Realm Lord Level cultivators.

Even those continents that never yielded intelligent life have evolved even more powerful Secret Pattern monsters, some of which have reached Immortal Lord King Level.

"Watching the evolution of countless minimal life units over billions of years feels more rewarding than studying the genetic maps of hundreds of billions of True God lives," Xiao Yu felt his gains.

Immediately, Xiao Yu conducted hundreds of millions of further experiments to verify his insight.

Although failures continued to occur, success was eventually achieved.

This time Xiao Yu stripped all Secret Patterns from his divine‑power base structure, retaining only the most basic divine power, and incorporated the Ten Fundamental Laws and all the Fusion Principles he had comprehended into his divine‑power foundation.

"Boom!"

Xiao Yu's bodily gene tier suddenly leapt from 60,001 times to 9,999 times, just one multiple shy of reaching the limit again.

His divine‑power tier reached the third level; his Divine Body became infinite.

As long as divine power is sufficient, Xiao Yu's body can grow to one light‑year, or even more.

"My World Tree's body has long exceeded a thousand light‑years in height, larger than many Divine Kingdoms of Lords of the Universe. What is its life‑gene count? I previously studied it, but found that life‑gene analysis is unsuitable for the World Tree," Xiao Yu again felt a spark of interest in the World Tree's origin.

At the same time he was reviewing the process.

This improvement can be said to relate to his many insights on the Way of Life.

Only then could he gather all the laws he had grasped, using a special structural assembly, into his divine power.

"Ha ha, by chance I feel that employing the Zi Chuangguan secret technique can reduce effort by dozens of times while boosting power by dozens," Xiao Yu sighed.

At the same time, Xiao Yu saw the tremendous strength of this Divine Body, deeming it truly born for combat.

"Perhaps, when my divine‑power gene tier is optimized to 100,000 times, this combat capability will become even stronger," Xiao Yu muttered, "Perhaps I should name this Divine Body in advance."

"Combat Body?"

"War Divine Body?"

"Both are unacceptable; the name is too vulgar."

"Then, how about calling it Sacred Body? Though it repeats a name of a Dao‑body from another cultivation world, it should still be fitting."

Xiao Yu kept pondering, and decided to name this Divine Body's basic structural form 'Sacred Body'.

……

In the 6000th year, the Primordial Universe experienced an event that made Xiao Yu feel happy: his elder brother Hong broke through Immortal to become a Universe Venerable, known as the Phantom Spear Venerable, becoming one of humanity's highest levels.

In the Primordial Universe, while celebrating for him, Xiao Yu sent a spear-type ordinary Ultimate Treasure, as well as a High-level Treasure armor, as a gift.

In the Virtual Universe, inside Hong's exclusive plane.

"Old Three, this gift is too precious; you should send more in the future." Hong said jokingly.

"Old Three, you're still generous; when I also ascend to Venerable, the Ultimate Treasure must not be missing for me; I need a blade-type weapon." Lei Shen said.

"Haha, must be." Xiao Yu was very happy; even if he became Lord of the Universe, Hong and Lei Shen could still treat him normally and often joke. (End of chapter)