Chapter 185 – The Primordial Thunder God!
In the middle of the first year after his return, Luo Feng brought the Nine Tribulations Codex to Jiang Zhe.
Because it contained Yanshen clan script, combined with fragments of Earth's ancient history he'd heard, Luo Feng guessed this was a legacy left by that powerful being. So he came to discuss how to handle it with Jiang Zhe.
If the silver-robed soul body had been on Earth, Jiang Zhe would have certainly tried using the Restart innate secret technique to see if it could restore the damaged Soul Crystal and return it to the state that contained the Nine Tribulations Codex.
A bit of a pity, but not enough to cause regret.
After all, he already had three clones with perfect life gene levels. He had little need for the Nine Tribulations Codex.
He was mainly interested in comparing it with the Blueprint of Life, hoping to glean some new insights.
In the future, when he embarked on the path of divine power, these two codices could both serve as "life structure diagrams," adding to his store of knowledge in advance.
Jiang Zhe only gave the metal plate a brief glance before handing it back to Luo Feng, letting him take it to cultivate on his own.
Time passed swiftly.
It was now June of the year 2290 on the Hanxia calendar.
At the Jiang family estate, within Jiang Zhe's small courtyard.
He had transformed the study, carving out a little chamber only about the size of a bathroom.
Then Orianna, the Domain Lord, used spatial techniques on the doorway to create a vast internal world the size of a stadium, arranged in the style of an ancient library.
Jiang Zhe placed all the secret techniques he had collected over the years inside.
Except for those bought from the Virtual Universe Company—those could not be spread.
He also placed the more than 6,000 original sin-type innate secret techniques obtained from the Seraph, enriching the Jiang clan's foundation in soul cultivation.
While outsiders whose will did not resonate with Original Sin couldn't truly cultivate them, simply studying the rule patterns would still yield great rewards.
It would serve as valuable reference when future clan geniuses at the Domain Lord level sought to create new techniques.
Secret Codex Hall.
In the nearly 10,000-square-meter first-floor hall, at its center sat a workbench radiating a strong technological aura.
It was precisely the one from the mechanical race's undying spatial bracelet.
Jiang Zhe had dismantled it and installed it here, for the Jiang clan's members to comprehend the mysteries of lightning and time.
At this moment, Lei Lei was wearing an apron, holding a soldering torch, painstakingly sketching circuit patterns.
In the corner of the hall, Jiang Zhe and Qiao Lin were snuggled together—though in truth, they were studying the laws of fire.
Who said romance couldn't be combined with learning?
Suddenly, Jiang Zhe's expression froze. He halted his explanation of the profound truths of the fire law.
"Dear, I just perfected my domain a while back, and now you want me to grasp the law itself… but it's so hard. I can't even see the beginning of it…"
White-haired Qiao Lin clung to him, seizing the chance to act spoiled.
"That's perfectly normal. We Earthlings have poor innate talent, so our perception of laws is fuzzy. It takes certain methods to make up for it; otherwise, it's hard to grow strong enough for your mindset and talent to truly shine later."
Jiang Zhe held her close, gently consoling her.
He wasn't some wooden block who didn't understand affection.
Don't be fooled by how he spent these years cultivating. In the Abyss World, when training with the Dormant Dragon Technique, the dream protagonists were far from idle—after all, they represented desires, especially lust. The six-armed snake demon, embodiment of lust, was the wildest of all.
With the Dormant Dragon Technique, it was truly—"In dreams, anything is possible."
While comforting Qiao Lin, Jiang Zhe simultaneously turned his attention inward, sensing the changes within his Primordial Core.
Just moments ago—
The core had violently shuddered, as if on the verge of breaking apart.
The soul crystal and source force crystal inside were also thrown into turmoil by a strange, special connection.
But Jiang Zhe felt no fear. Instead, he clicked his tongue inwardly in satisfaction:
"Tsk… finally, I've comprehended the law of lightning."
In his inner world, two clones had spent years studying the Thunder God Diagram, finally helping his true body master the lightning law.
In truth, with his talent for lightning, he could have understood it long ago.
But he had to consider the hardness of his Primordial Core. He didn't dare rush.
If he comprehended a lower law too early, the tremors caused by connecting to the ocean of lightning's origin law could shatter his core, prematurely releasing his inner world and forcing him into the undying realm.
That was an irreversible step.
It would squander all his early advantages, turning him into a washed-up genius with greatly reduced potential.
In the Dormant Dragon Technique's dream realm, unless one was born undying, why did every protagonist stop at Domain Lord, refusing to advance?
Because it was influenced by Jiang Zhe's own subconscious!
Until his inner world reached a trillion kilometers in diameter, comprehending lightning law in the dream realm would bring countless harms and no benefits to his real self.
"A single breakthrough… finally no more suppressing it. Feels good!"
"You two, keep assisting the silver-robed soul body. Help him comprehend the earth law."
"As for Silverrobe… he's now met the minimum standard to cultivate Primordial Evolution. Forget about your shabby earth law for a moment—hurry and look at the supreme rule's bestowed secret technique."
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhe's heart thumped.
More than two hundred years!
Being able to see it but not use it—such torture.
Primordial Evolution was the unknown-grade secret art bestowed upon his silver-robed soul by the Supreme Rule when it was born.
It was a fundamental method to raise life levels.
Not for reckless fighting, but to help the silver-robed soul open up a Primordial Universe!
As everyone knew, the primordial universe and the beast of calamity were natural opposites—one wielding the origin of life, the other the origin of destruction.
You could say this was a supreme codex for cultivating the Law of Life, and it wouldn't be wrong.
In addition, the Second Soul Technique mentioned:
Once the second soul was nurtured, its cultivation would rapidly progress for a time, depending on the energy contained within the vessel.
Until it exhausted the vessel's reserves.
So why was the silver-robed soul's power so pathetic despite using a god crystal as its vessel?
Because nearly all the essential energy in the god crystal had been seized by the Supreme Rule to forge the chaotic universe within his life crystal core, laying the groundwork for cultivating Primordial Evolution.
Otherwise—how could he open a primordial universe out of thin air? Where would the energy come from?
Starry Void – Outside the Silent Wind Belt, within a hollowed-out desolate planet…
In a colossal underground palace thousands of kilometers tall—
The silver-robed Jiang Zhe sat cross-legged, cultivating. Two giant metal books lay untouched before him.
Deep within the palace, a gigantic blue-furred gorilla-like beast nearly a thousand kilometers tall sat coiled, idly toying with a bead-sized object—which was in fact an incense burner over a dozen kilometers wide.
Receiving the true body's command, the silver-robed Jiang Zhe opened his eyes, a faint ghostly purple lightning flashing across them.
He calmly suppressed the many natural visions that came with mastering a law.
Casting a glance at the hulking beast, his eyes lingered on that incense burner.
"A treasure? Could it be a true treasure?"
"Old man would definitely covet it—he loves these furnace-like objects. That Xuan De Furnace from before the Great Nirvana is still his prized possession."
His eyes lit up with eager anticipation, calculating his current strength relative to this Desolation Beast.
When they first met, he had been a fourth-level Domain Lord with perfect genetic life, roughly 157 times the power of an ordinary Domain Lord, while she was a ninth-level Domain Lord peak, estimated at 10 times Domain Lord power.
A difference of over 16 times in base combat strength.
At that time, his understanding of laws was garbage. If they'd fought, he'd have been smashed back to his revival point.
But now? He was a peak ninth-level Domain Lord, boasting 10,000 times Domain Lord power—at the King level of base combat strength! With Marquis-level law comprehension!
A little Domain Lord peak Desolation Beast… could she survive even a slap from him now?
Two centuries ago, her voice still echoed—
"Great one, I, Puring, have lived half a life without meeting a true master. If you do not spurn me, I wish to pledge myself—"
Deep in the palace, sensing his sharp gaze, the Desolation Beast opened her eyes.
"…Do you need something?"
"Ah? No, no, just admiring your magnificent… er, feminine grace."
"Scram!"
She knew this damn silver-robed guy never spoke anything decent.
"Focus on cultivating. If you can't sit still, I'll take you to find a few sparring partners right now."
"Wait, boss, let's wait a bit more!" Silver-robed Jiang Zhe hastily refused.
Primordial Evolution hadn't even begun, and he was still waiting for Thunder and Aegis to be delivered. He wasn't going anywhere.
Closing his eyes, he recalled the profound contents of Primordial Evolution.
The Desolation Beast eyed him for a moment before withdrawing her gaze. Though that stare earlier was unsettling, she didn't think he'd be ungrateful enough to try and kill her.
"He really seemed to want this treasure…"
She fiddled with the incense burner nervously, putting it away—afraid it might tempt a thief.
It was a rare, bizarre, and powerful soul-assisting treasure, emitting an invisible, colorless, odorless smoke that bewildered the soul and greatly boosted illusion success rates.
Though merely a heavy treasure, its value was measured in supreme treasure points in the clan treasury. It was personally gifted to her by the mighty Clan Chief.
Following the guidance of Revelation—
When she first saw this Qiuhe Beast, she naturally tried to enslave him with this very treasure.
Result?
Utterly ineffective.
He had no soul to control.
Only after the genius competition did she adjust her attitude.
"Little Uncle Master, even if you love this treasure, I can't give it to you."
The Desolation Beast—Mó Líng—felt uneasy.
She had tried acting spoiled with her teacher, the Sovereign of Phantom Dreams, but then learned of Little Uncle Master's terrifying record.
If his true body were here, even if she stepped into undying, she knew there was a fair chance of being slaughtered. Let alone now, when she was only at Domain Lord level.
This mysterious being so closely tied to Little Uncle Master… his true strength was hard to judge, but that look in his eyes told her he probably already far outclassed her.
Mó Líng was already considering coming clean.
How had she recognized Jiang Zhe?
When the silver-robed soul body stepped off the ship at the wormhole, he hadn't hidden his face. She'd been invisible and trailing behind, seeing everything.
Then, when Jiang Zhe's true body used the Beast God's Hand to seize the top spot in the genius competition, she'd basically confirmed it.
For certain selfish reasons—and out of respect for Jiang Zhe—she never reported the silver-robed soul's existence to her clan.
"The treasures of the Silent Wind Belt… could I add yet another clone?"
Mó Líng sighed, her eyes flickering with faint hope.
She had already comprehended the mystery of time stop, yet still delayed breaking through to undying, all for the clues to nurturing a third clone hidden in the Silent Wind Belt.
Within her body's life core, inside a world billions of kilometers wide…
On a vast prairie—
Sat a woman who looked human but whose skin was like flawless jade.
Beside her lay a massive beast nearly a hundred kilometers long, with a pair of green jade horns atop its lion-like, snow-white body.
If Jiang Zhe were here, he would immediately recognize it.
A Bai Ze—a mystical beast from the first Earth civilization, the Shanhai World.
At this moment, intricate jade runes danced across Bai Ze's body as it activated its innate secret technique—
Revelation.
Very soon, the human woman—Mó Líng's true body—opened her eyes, having received new guidance from the Primordial Universe's origin will.
"Still the Silent Wind Prison?"
She gently rubbed her furrowed brows.
"We all know there are secrets in there. According to clan records, it's existed since the Silent Wind Belt formed—suspected to be the death site of a Sovereign, though no divine body was ever found. Countless King-level warriors of the human race have explored it over countless epochs, yet never uncovered anything."
"I'll have to discuss it with Little Uncle Master—see if he wants to explore it himself."
"But truly strange… why does the Primordial Universe's origin will insist only Little Uncle Master can enter the Silent Wind Belt? Even high-tier palace-type supreme treasures can't withstand the strange winds inside—they'd be ground into dust…"
Outside, the Desolation Beast's vacant eyes regained focus. She glanced at the silver-robed Jiang Zhe, then closed her eyes to continue cultivating.
Meanwhile, the silver-robed Jiang Zhe was oblivious to the beast's thoughts.
After reading through Primordial Evolution for perhaps the hundredth time, he sank his consciousness into his life crystal core, examining the egg-like chaotic universe inside.
It was still in an unopened state.
His next task was to pour in his comprehension of the law of lightning, completing the opening of a Thunder Universe!
"Begin."
As his understanding of the lightning law flowed in, the chaotic, roiling currents within his inner universe froze.
It was the calm before the storm. Something tremendous was about to be born within this vast chaotic cosmos.
Time flew by—
"Lightning."
"This… is lightning!"
He murmured inwardly, imprinting all his comprehension of the lightning law upon the "chaotic egg."
Boom!
Rumble rumble—
Thunder roared within the chaotic flows, making the entire unopened universe quake.
A faint arc of purple electricity flared up, bringing the first glimmer of light to the chaotic universe.
Rumble—rumble—
Zzz—zz—
The thunder grew louder.
Arcs of dark purple lightning shot out in countless streams, seeping into the chaotic currents and racing through the cosmos, turning it into a terrifying sea of thunder.
Feeling the moment had come, the silver-robed Jiang Zhe softly called out—
"Primordial Thunder God—if not now, then when?!"
The thunder sea instantly went berserk.
A towering figure cloaked in lightning rose from the thunder sea, head reaching the heavens, feet splitting the earth, dividing clear and turbid, using its body as a spine to prop up a new world.
"The moment is here—"
"Open the heavens!"
That figure of creation—
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