Chapter 222: Into the Dark Land

Along with Shen Mu's breakthrough, a special rhythm, centered on Shen Mu, swept across in an instant.

Perhaps it was because Shen Mu's will had merged with the entire original universe, the strong men in the entire universe vaguely felt that there was an inexplicable "majesty" in the space and time of the universe.

"Breakthrough?" A look of joy appeared on Tang Yongqing's face.

She had long realized that her lover was practicing some very important cultivation over the years, but he had never made a real breakthrough.

With Shen Mu's talent, it took him more than 6,000 epochs to overcome this obstacle, which is enough to show how difficult this bottleneck is.

"Well, it's a breakthrough in my state of mind."

"If before, my state of mind was barely comparable to Brother Hong's 'heart embraces everything', then now my state of mind has completely surpassed Brother Hong."

To a certain extent, the heart embraces everything, which is a high state that is extremely difficult to surpass.

My former Shen Mu’s state of mind was: my heart is detached from everything, everything collapses but my heart remains forever.

Shen Mu’s state of mind now is: when gathered, he becomes the master of all things in the universe, in charge of everything; when dispersed, he becomes countless dust particles, transforming all living beings.

Moreover, for Shen Mu, the breakthrough in his mind and will allowed him to have a higher level of control over his own 'external incarnation'.

If before, Shen Mu could only perform sixth-order top secret techniques by controlling tens of thousands of "incarnations", now he can perform seventh-order top attacks.

This is a huge increase in the ability to control 'Taiyi God'.

After Shen Mu explained his own breakthrough in his state of mind, the soul glow surrounding his body retracted and his gaze fell on Tang Yongqing.

"Sister Yongqing, let's have another child." Shen Mu looked at Tang Yongqing with a smile.

Tang Yongqing was startled and asked in surprise, "You are the master of the universe now, how can you have a child?"

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to have offspring once one reaches the immortal realm, unless one has some extremely precious opportunities.

For example, the 'Prince of Manka Star' in the original novel, the only son of the Venerable Eclipse Fire, the Nightmare King, and so on, are all descendants born during the period of immortal gods.

When one reaches the level of the Lord of the Universe, this probability is almost zero, even with the blessing of special circumstances.

"The rules of the universe are limited, mainly to prevent the descendants of the strong from becoming stronger."

"We can make the child's talent more ordinary, so that we can bypass the restrictions of the universe's rules."

For others, the talents of their own offspring are undeterminable.

However, for Shen Mu, who has comprehended the origin of life, this is not a problem.

Not to mention natural reproduction, even directly creating a reproductive life group would not be a problem for Shen Mu.

As Shen Mu spoke, a hazy area spread out, completely enveloping him and Tang Yongqing, and then disappeared on the spot.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of years have passed.

"That's it. Stay away from me and go into seclusion."

Tang Yongqing's somewhat coquettish and panicked voice rang out in the small world.

"Well, just throw it away after use, right?" Shen Mu teased.

"Well, we don't need you anymore, let's go."

After successfully conceiving, Tang Yongqing wrapped herself tightly in her quilt, stretched out her tender white feet that were dotted with starlight, and kicked them away directly from Shen Mu.

Shen Mu shook his head helplessly, the golden battle robe reappeared, he raised his hand to brush Tang Yongqing's long hair, and his figure disappeared on the spot.

……

It is night, Earth.

Shen Mu, Luo Feng, Hong and Lei Shen reunited.

"Brother, you finally came out!"

Luo Feng has been staying in the world of Jin for these years, fighting and training with many true gods in the world of Jin.

Therefore, Luo Feng's progress was also significant. In addition to successfully entering the first stage of the divine power route, his secret technique realm was also close to the eighth level.

"I've gained some insight by chance. Next, I should prepare to break through to become a True God."

Shen Mu has reached a limit in terms of will, mind, understanding of the Tao, and so on.

If Shen Mu wants to become stronger in the realm of the Lord of Laws, even after another 6,000 epochs, 60,000 epochs, or even 600 million epochs, he will not be much stronger than he is now.

This sudden realization of the origin of the mind took more than six thousand epochs to settle, and with time accelerated a million times, it took a full six billion epochs.

After a long period of sedimentation, Shen Mu completely integrated the understanding of the Great Dao of the Soul and the Great Dao of the Mind, and once again perfected his unique supreme mental tribulation, successfully reaching the realm of the thirteenth level.

If he does not make a breakthrough, Shen Mu may not be able to reach the realm of the 'fourteenth level' until the end of this reincarnation era.

This is not because Shen Mu lacks talent and understanding, but the limitation of 'thinking speed'.

This can be likened to a calculator processing data.

If the hardware is not good enough, no matter how perfectly the software is optimized, it will still take an astronomical amount of time to process huge amounts of data.

Every comprehension of the Great Dao of Origin contains endless information and mysteries.

Even if Shen Mu had great talent and had no difficulty in comprehending, the speed of his comprehension would be greatly limited due to the soul strength of the Lord of the Universe.

"Breakthrough to True God? Brother, to what extent have your genes evolved now?"

As soon as Luo Feng said this, Hong and Lei Shen both looked over.

With the opening of the guidance of ancient civilizations, the route to divine power is no longer a secret. Almost all the masters of the universe know that there is such a way to break through to become a true God.

However, this path is too difficult. Even if it involves breaking through the ten thousand times genetic limitation and breaking through at the weakest level of the divine power route, its difficulty is no less than creating a top sixth-order secret method.

You know, to break through to the True God through the Law Route, you only need an ordinary sixth-level secret method. The difficulty difference between the two is hundreds or even thousands of times.

"89999 times, only one step away from breaking the times bottleneck."

Shen Mu did not hide anything. Now he did not need to hide his strength, especially when facing brothers like Luo Feng.

Of course, this step is also the most difficult one.

There is no telling how many geniuses in the Continent of Origin are stuck at this step. Even among the powerful ones in the Chaos Realm, not every person has an infinite divine body.

Although he has not yet reached the level of infinite divine body, Shen Mu's divine body is now stronger than that of an ordinary true god.

What is being talked about here is the true God who has not been suppressed in the world of Jin, and whose divine power is at least a hundred times that of the Lord of the Universe.

Generally speaking, the Lord of the Universe who breaks through the bottleneck of 3 times genes, in addition to a surge in divine power, also has a divine power strength of about 10 times that of times genes.

The second and third bottlenecks of the divine power route are the same, the strength of divine power is 10 times that of the previous realm.

Therefore, the power of the Lord of the Universe with Infinite Divine Body is thousands of times stronger than that of an ordinary Lord of the Universe, and is not much weaker than the Divine Body of the Void True God of the Law Route.

This step is not too difficult for Shen Mu, it just requires time to accumulate.

“Infinitely close to 9 times…” Luo Feng was a little envious. Now he was still far from breaking through the second bottleneck of the divine power route.

Hong on the side suddenly said: "I am also going to retreat and create a true secret method."

Shen Mu and Luo Feng were fine, but Lei Shen's reaction was the biggest: "No... why are you going to break through again?"

Lei Shen had just broken through to become the Lord of the Universe more than 5,000 epochs ago, and felt that he had barely caught up with Hong.

As a result, Hong is planning to break through to become a true god in such a short time?

This speed of progress surprised Shen Mu.

Hong explained: "Not so fast, I just found my path to true godhood. I don't know how long it will take to create a true sixth-level secret technique."

“It may not be possible to break through even after tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of epochs.”

Even so, Hong's breakthrough speed is still exaggerated.

Compared to the more than 100 million eras in the original work, it is about 10,000 times faster. The blessing of understanding and state of mind becomes more and more obvious as time goes on.

Because when one reaches the realm of the Lord of the Universe, the gap in law and talent can no longer be made.

Everyone has ten thousand times more genes, and the degree of compatibility with the laws of the universe is directly maximized. The difference lies in understanding and state of mind. Shen Mu pondered for a moment, then looked at Hong and said, "Brother Hong, you should take the divine power route to break through."

Hong was a little surprised: "I also have some understanding of the divine power route. Even if I break through with the divine power route, with my understanding, I may not be able to break through to the first stage at the end of this reincarnation era."

Although Hong's comprehension is not weak, he is different from Shen Mu and Luo Feng after all. Without the secret analysis method of the Youhai clone, the time required for the breakthrough of life genes is thousands of times that of Shen Mu and Luo Feng.

Unless you have a particularly high level of understanding, taking this route will not be worth the effort.

"I know what Brother Hong is thinking, but what I mean is that Brother Hong, you can make a breakthrough in the next reincarnation era."

"The realm of the Lord of the Universe, in the future, as long as you place your origin in my small universe, it will be eternal and there will be no restrictions."

“But if you break through to become a True God and don’t transcend within three reincarnation eras, your small universe will collapse and it will be difficult to make further progress in the future.”

"As for Brother Lei, it won't be too late for you to break through to the True God level after settling down for two or three reincarnation eras."

A big part of the reason why the ratio of Void True Gods and True Gods in the Origin Continent far exceeds that in the Universe Sea is that the Lords of Laws in the Origin Continent are not in a hurry to break through and can calm themselves down.

And if the Lord of the Universe in the Sea of ​​Universe cannot break through to become a true God before the destruction of the original universe, he will be doomed.

Unless one finds a true God and entrusts oneself to his small universe, one can barely survive.

As for wanting to break through to the realm of true god after the great destruction, that is simply wishful thinking.

Unless you rely on a small universe of a Void True God, and that Void True God is willing to divide his own cosmic origin to cultivate a small universe for you, you will not be able to break through.

Shen Mu’s next goal must be to break through the bottleneck of the third stage of the divine power route and achieve an infinite divine body.

If you simply use time to persevere, this step can be completed.

However, it is not that there is no shortcut. Luo Feng in the original book analyzed the life map of the beasts in the world and gained some insights. Then he broke through from 89999 times to times in one fell swoop.

To be honest, this inexplicable epiphany is simply exaggerated.

It was even more exaggerated than Shen Mu's inexplicable enlightenment of the great way of mind. The genetic perfection of one hundred thousand times was a feat that had never happened in the Origin Continent since ancient times.

As a result, Luo Feng directly crossed the entire third stage of the Infinite Divine Body from the limit of the second stage and achieved this level.

No matter how you look at it, it feels like a deus ex machina.

"Forget it, let's not think too much about it for now."

"The current goal is to get some blood from the world beast first."

Shen Mu wasn't sure whether he had affected the birth of the world beast, but if he put aside the factor of himself being a time traveler, it would take trillions of epochs for the world beast to be born, and it was still too early now.

Waiting for the enemy to make the first move has never been Shen Mu's habit.

……

The inner domain of Qingfeng is surrounded by waters with thousands of waves.

This area is ranked as one of the most dangerous areas in the entire Qingfeng Realm.

The countless waves could evolve into an endless world of illusions. Even a true god-level being could get lost in it, and even with a palace of the most powerful treasures, there was no guarantee of safety.

Therefore, many treasures have been unearthed in the Wanchonglang waters. These treasures are basically the treasures left behind by the ancients who died in the previous reincarnation era.

Boom!

Above the water surface, endless waves roared.

From afar, one could see a heavenly palace rippling with endless fairy light, flying rapidly close to the water surface. The terrifying speed caused the void to become turbulent and the water waves to surge.

Shen Mu's destination was the other end of the endless waves, which was also the dark place.

In the early years, there were many strong men who ventured into the Endless Wave Waters, but since they learned that the nest of the 'Boundary Beast' was bred next to the Endless Wave Waters, there are no strong men here.

Even the entire Qingfeng Realm has completely become a Jedi. These strong men do not want to be besieged by a group of world beasts that can easily suppress an eighth-level true god during their expedition.

A moment later, Shen Mu, who was riding Bai Yujing, had crossed the entire Endless Wave area.

In front of him, endless dark air was surging, emitting an ominous aura. It was the dark place.

"Beasts of the world, here I come!"

As Shen Mu’s mind moved, the vast sky palace burst into endless brilliant divine light.

The entire Baiyujing evolved into 108 worlds, and then gathered into a miniature void, smashing straight into the dark place wrapped in endless darkness.

……

The area inside the Dark Land is not small, with a diameter of more than 100 million light years. If it is too small, it cannot breed 1 billion world beasts.

At this moment, at the edge of a certain place in the dark land, the endless black fog seemed to boil.

A brilliant divine light bloomed in the darkness, and then the vast Baiyujing emerged.

"This wave... is the food in the cosmic ocean!"

Not far from where Baiyujing descended, probably billions of kilometers away.

In the swirling black fog here, there is a hideous monster that is completely black.

This monster was naked, with two one-eyed heads, one in front and one behind, and a human-like body with two hands and two feet. However, its body proportions were very strange and it looked extremely ugly.

"It's my turn to be lucky this time. The last time food from the cosmic sea broke into the ocean was nearly 70 million years ago."

"I am the only Level 2 Overlord in this area. No one else can compete with me."

"As long as I eat this cosmic sea food, I will be able to evolve to the third level faster and become one of the most powerful beasts in the world!"

The food from the cosmic sea that this second-level beast had brought into the dark land the last time was the unfortunate 'Founder of the Black Universe', which replaced the giant axe and became the nourishment for the evolution of the beast.

However, before the founder of the Black Universe, many true gods had entered the Dark Land, including King Zhenjia and three others who had defected to the World Beast.

Every time a strong man from the cosmic sea breaks into the dark land, it is a great opportunity for the world beasts.

Because the inheritance of the world beasts has told them that devouring the life and energy in the cosmic sea will greatly promote their own evolution, and the speed of evolution is even faster than devouring their own kind.

Therefore, any slightly stronger beast will choose to fight for the area on the edge of the Dark Land, so that the chance of devouring food from the Cosmic Sea will be greater.

But the beasts in the world don’t know why, but in the past sixty to seventy million years, no food from the cosmic sea has entered the dark land.

In the past, every once in a while, there would always be some reckless cosmic sea food that entered here.

"Food! Let me eat it!"

With a roar, a dark and ferocious monster appeared directly in front of Baiyujing, staring at Shen Mu in Baiyujing with excitement.

Before the beast could make a move, the huge Bai Yujing directly knocked the beast away.

Although these beasts can fight against ordinary powerful treasures, how can they withstand the holy treasure Bai Yujing?

"court death."

Shen Mu's voice rang out, and the golden battle robe around him suddenly changed, instantly transforming into a giant god with a thousand hands and eyes.

Wow!
Behind the Thousand-Armed Giant God, six pairs of dark golden wings with a wingspan of more than one light year spread out, and endless chaotic air currents hung from the wings, exuding a terrifying aura.

hum!
On the dark golden wings, four consecutive secret patterns lit up one after another.

In a moment, endless chaotic air currents spread out of thin air within tens of thousands of light years around Shen Mu.

At the edge of this chaotic airflow field, a translucent cosmic barrier emerged out of thin air.

This is the fourth level of Chaos Golden Wings, the universe is created in one thought!

The micro-universe directly crushed the second-level beast to collapse, and before the beast could react, it was greeted by the impact of the will of the 'eternal peak'.

In an instant, this second-level beast completely lost consciousness, and faced with the oppression of Shen Mu's will, it had no power to resist.

"receive!"

The micro-universe shrank rapidly, and then a 'palm universe' surging with chaotic airflow condensed in Shen Mu's palm.

In the core of the palm-held universe, an unconscious second-order beast was suspended in mid-air. The enormous pressure caused the beast’s body to twist violently, gushing out countless pitch-black blood.

(End of this chapter)