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Chapter 43 The Deeper Essence of the Laws of Time
In the Radiant Galaxy, a pale golden triangular spaceship silently floats deep in space.

Inside the training room of the spaceship, a two-meter-tall silver eye rippled with layers of dreamlike, clear light, swirling throughout the entire training room.

Yu Duan sat cross-legged in front of Yin Tong, with a virtual projection on either side of him displaying annotations for two secret texts.

"Senior King Qiongtao, which secret manual do you think I should choose as my future cultivation path?"

Yu Duan looked at the burly figure with a snake's head and a human body beside him.

King Qiongtao's ferocious snake head grinned: "If I had to choose, I would definitely choose the Nine Interpretations of Time. Although it will be ten or a hundred times slower in the early stages, the deeper one's understanding of the laws, the faster one will progress in analyzing the essence of the path."

"Your Highness's current understanding of the laws of time is still in the basic stage. Even if it is ten or a hundred times slower, it will only take tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation."

"But when you start to delve into the mysteries of the laws of time, which can take tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years to comprehend, the time saved will be more than just tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years."

Upon hearing this, Yu Duan nodded.

In fact, Yu Duan had already made a decision; he was just asking a question out of habit.

The advance payment of one's own Book of Cause and Effect is also based on one's actual speed of comprehension.

The more time saved later on, the more efficient the game will be in terms of completing the game's progress.

Furthermore, the path to analyzing the essence of laws requires far more comprehension than innate talent for understanding them.

Yu Duan's comprehension is many times stronger than his own talent for understanding laws. By taking the path of analyzing laws that values ​​comprehension more, he can relatively maximize his strengths and minimize his weaknesses.

The most difficult part of analyzing the essence of a law is not understanding it, but analyzing it.

The time required for analysis may be ten or even a hundred times that of the process of enlightenment; the exact time depends entirely on one's comprehension.

That sounds a bit abstract, so let me give you an example.

Find the circumference of a circle. If you know nothing about this, the simplest way is to trace the circle with a string.

The circumference of the circle is the length of the rope, and the whole process takes only a few minutes or even less.

This is the conventional approach to understanding the principles of perception: knowing what happens but not why it happens.

The process of analyzing the essence of the rules is like a mathematician studying the formula for the circumference of a circle, which took thousands of years.

Getting the answer isn't important. What's important is why this is the answer, and what the underlying principle is. This is what it means to analyze the essence of the law.

The examples may seem absurd, but the logic remains the same.

It is not enough to simply figure out the answer (the mystery of the law); one must also delve into the deeper logic behind the 'answer' (the essence of the law).

"In fact, the two secret manuals do not conflict. When Your Highness comprehends the fundamental law of light, he focuses on the Purification Manual, while when comprehending the fundamental law of time, he concentrates on analyzing the essence of the fundamental law."

King Qiongtao offered a kind reminder.

Upon hearing this, Yu Duan politely replied, "Thank you for your guidance, Senior King Qiongtao."

……

Virtual universe, the palace of King Qinghuan.

Seeing Yu Duan's figure reappear, a smile appeared on King Qinghuan's face: "Disciple, have you made your choice?"

Yu Duan nodded solemnly: "Teacher, I wish to pursue the path of analyzing the essence of the laws of time. Please guide me!"

"Hahaha……"

King Qinghuan laughed and said, "With your current mastery of the laws of time, you are qualified to try to comprehend the first essence of the laws of time."

"Once you master the first essence of the law of time, you will be able to master the third level of the Time Sword Technique."

"Watch closely, I'm about to demonstrate to you the first essential operation of the laws of time..."

King Qinghuan raised his hand, and dazzling starlight intertwined in his palm, transforming into wisps of crystalline threads that crisscrossed and moved and surged along a mysterious trajectory.

"The first essential principle of the laws of time is the mystery of 'motion'!"

"Time is the yardstick by which people measure the movement of all things, but time itself is also fluid and dynamic, which is the absolute foundation of all the mysteries of the laws of time."

"Your understanding of the laws of time is still at the most basic stage. In fact, the mystery you perceive is the 'movement' essence of the laws of time, but your understanding is not systematic and is very general."

"With your ability to wield the third level of the Time Sword Technique, my disciple, once you analyze and reconstruct your existing insights, you will have a certain understanding of the first essence."

"According to my estimation, during the stellar era, it will take you anywhere from a few decades to a few hundred years to reconstruct your own understanding of the laws of time and master the first essence."

"At that time, even if the progress of comprehending the laws does not improve significantly, the power of using the laws will increase tenfold, and the third level of the Time Sword will be able to reach perfection."

"Watch closely, and I will demonstrate the mystery of the first essence to you. Comprehend it carefully, and then express your doubts."

Upon hearing this, Yu Duan's expression turned solemn: "Yes, teacher."

……

In the blink of an eye, a day has passed.

Inside the palace of King Qinghuan in the virtual universe network.

"Teacher, I feel that this part of the operation is still not quite right."

"And when I tried to verify the first essential mystery by operating the power of the source of time in the 3451st way, I found that something was wrong here too..." "Right, in the third level of the Time Sword Technique, the relationship between the operation of day and night and the flow of time was mentioned. Teacher, do you think the way I used it is correct?"

"..."

Yu Duan seemed to have turned into a walking encyclopedia of questions, asking all sorts of inquiries.

The Pure Glazed Light Sword swung in his palm.

At the tip of the sword, black and white light rippled out, leaving complex traces in mid-air, stirring up the ripples and fluctuations of the power of time itself.

King Qinghuan stared at Yu Duan with a look of surprise and uncertainty.

In recent years, following the conclusion of the second Holy Land Stellar-level Student Ranking Battle, Yu Duan has sought guidance from Qinghuan King every morning on his doubts regarding movement techniques and understanding of laws.

Therefore, King Qinghuan was very clear about the level of his young disciple's comprehension.

Yu Duan may not even be aware of his own level of understanding.

To put it simply, it took An Yao, a genius ranked among the top 1 in the entire universe at the star level, several decades to go from crossing the threshold of the origin of the laws to unleashing the first level of the Sword of Time.

As for Duan, he used the Book of Cause and Effect to gain a preliminary understanding of the fundamental laws of light, barely crossing the threshold. Then, through his own research, he unleashed the first level of the Sword of Time in just two months.

This speed is comparable to Luo Feng, who is empowered by a cosmic-level golden horn behemoth.

If we disregard innate talent in the laws of nature and only consider comprehension, Yu Duan's comprehension during the Stellar level is the highest among the dozen or so disciples under the Qinghuan King.

Comprehension is not something that remains unchanged.

As one's willpower increases, one experiences more things, and one's spiritual essence (the speed of thought processing) improves, one's comprehension will be influenced.

Therefore, looking only at the stellar level, Yu Duan's comprehension was significantly stronger than that of the other disciples, but only significantly stronger, not by much.

But in just one day, King Qinghuan clearly noticed that Yu Duan's comprehension had improved a lot compared to before.

It's hard to describe; it's as if he's gained a new kind of spirituality, and often some ideas that even King Qinghuan would consider 'ingenious' pop up.

"At this rate, it may take several years or even more than a decade for my junior disciple to reconstruct and analyze the laws he has already mastered and comprehend the first kind of time essence."

After a quick mental assessment, King Qinghuan found it increasingly unbelievable.

"Disciple."

"Huh? Teacher, is there something wrong with my understanding?" Yu Duan was taken aback, and then quickly asked humbly.

King Qinghuan smiled and said, "It's nothing, your master is very satisfied. It's just that your master wants to see you try the Eighteenfold Illusionary Realm of Life and Death again."

"Yes, disciple will go and explore the illusion now."

Yu Duan then realized why Qinghuan Wang had reacted this way.

They must have noticed the changes within themselves, especially the amplification of their mindset by a childlike heart.

……

Half an hour later, Yu Duan, who had been instantly killed by the eleventh illusion, was directly teleported to the palace of the Illusion King.

The first nine levels of the Eighteenfold Illusionary Realm of Life and Death correspond to the Universe Level, Domain Lord Level, and World Lord Level, respectively.

Being able to pass the tenth illusion means that my junior disciple's willpower is comparable to that of the most ordinary immortal.

"Child, you..."

King Qinghuan hesitated for a moment, then said, "Entering the illusionary realm is too much of a burden on the mind and will. Let's leave the virtual universe and recuperate first, and continue tomorrow."

"Yes, teacher." Yu Duan nodded, then respectfully bid farewell to King Qinghuan and left the virtual universe.

After Yu Duan left, King Qinghuan directly dialed King Qiongtao's video call.

The video call was connected almost immediately after the dial-out.

"Qiong Tao, tell me, was there anything unusual about Yu Duan's return to his hometown this time? Or... did he come into contact with any special stellar-level life forms?"

Faced with King Qinghuan's questioning, King Qiongtao hurriedly replied, "Master, from the moment His Highness stepped out of the Northern Ming Holy Land, he has not left my sight for a single second."

"Furthermore, since the young prince left the holy land, the strongest people he has come into contact with, apart from myself and the guards, are only a few planetary-level little guys."

"I see."

King Qinghuan hung up the communication and then dialed Kumixiu's number.

A moment later, King Qinghuan learned from Kumixiu that Yu Duan had sat in meditation on the snow mountain peak for half a year and had experienced a sudden enlightenment.

"Sudden realization, that explains it."

King Qinghuan obtained the surveillance video of Yu Duan sitting in seclusion for half a year from Kumixiu, and the doubts in his heart were also answered.

King Qinghuan didn't ask any further questions, because there was no need to.

King Qinghuan knew that his little disciple was bound to have his own destiny.

Or rather, every genius who is born only once every long period of time will have their own unique circumstances, more or less.

(End of this chapter)