Luo Feng gently clicked once and exchanged for the secret manual ‘Dripping Blood’.
“Transaction successful!”
“640 points deducted. Remaining balance: 360 points.”
“Please wait. Someone will deliver the secret manual shortly.”
A string of prompts appeared on the screen.
Unlike purchasing weapons or Life Fruits, which had to be delivered in reality, secret techniques could be obtained directly in the Virtual Universe! After all, secret techniques were a form of knowledge transmission. Since the Virtual Universe was 100% simulated, it was the most effective, fastest and safest channel for transmitting knowledge.
Delivering them in the real universe would require verifying the recipient’s identity.
But the Virtual Universe was entirely under the supervision of the ‘Virtual Universe System’. The secret technique was being sold by the Virtual Universe System itself, so naturally the delivery was completely secure.
“There’s an incoming call,” Babata called out.
“Answer it.”
With a thought from Luo Feng, a screen appeared in front of him. A beautiful woman appeared on the screen. She was Madam Fusi, a World Lord responsible for handling various affairs in the Absolute Beginning Area of Yuxiang Mountain.
Madam Fusi smiled and said, “Your Highness Luo Feng, we have just received the secret manual that was delivered. Your Highness Luo Feng needs to come and receive it.”
“Alright, I’ll be there.”
Luo Feng smiled.
It really was fast!
If it had been delivered in reality, the journey through the universe alone would have taken an extremely long time.
…
Whoosh!
Luo Feng flew out of his manor. Standing on the Dark Cloud Shuttle, he transformed into a streak of light and rapidly flew towards the building at the entrance of the Absolute Beginning Area.
In the blink of an eye, he had arrived.
Luo Feng immediately saw World Lord Madam Fusi standing beside the entrance to the Absolute Beginning Area, looking up and waiting for him.
Luo Feng dived down.
“Your Highness Luo Feng.”
Madam Fusi smiled as she greeted him.
“Madam Fusi, where is it?”
Luo Feng looked around.
“Please wait.”
Madam Fusi looked towards the building beside them. At that moment, a maid came running out carrying a silver briefcase in her hands. She respectfully handed it to Madam Fusi.
“Your Highness Luo Feng, this is the secret manual that our Absolute Beginning Area has just received. It is the one you purchased.”
Madam Fusi handed it over.
“Thank you.”
Luo Feng took it with great anticipation.
Indeed.
Secret techniques were extremely important. During this period, he had truly experienced this for himself.
Previously, he had the inheritance of the Yun Mo Planet and the inheritance of the Golden Horned Beast, so he had never needed to worry about secret techniques.
But when studying the ‘Nine Universe Chaos Stele’, neither the Yun Mo Planet inheritance nor the memories inherited from the Golden Horned Beast could help him.
What a pity that he had used up all his points at the beginning. During these more than eight months of studying the first sword technique, he had barely grasped a tiny fraction of it.
“Points are extremely precious, and earning them is difficult. The points given to us at the beginning were meant to help us establish a solid foundation. Babata, it was really foolish of you to trick me into buying a secret technique back then.”
Luo Feng flew high above the Absolute Beginning Area. On his way back, he spoke to Babata sitting on his shoulder, sounding rather disgruntled.
“You can’t blame me!”
Babata’s little face looked completely innocent.
“How was I supposed to know what Chaos City was like? I only knew one principle. The earlier you spent points to purchase secret techniques, the earlier you could increase your strength.”
“Stop making excuses.”
“After learning my lesson this time, if I obtain something precious whose value is unclear in the future, I absolutely cannot use it casually. Good steel must be used where it matters most! The points given to us at the beginning were meant to establish a foundation, yet I directly bought a set of ‘Nether Shadow Secret Manual’ for the Mosha Clan doppelganger.”
Luo Feng shook his head.
Fortunately, he had passed the first level earlier. Moreover, because he was a newcomer entering Chaos City for the first time, he received ten times the normal points for challenging the Heavenly Bridge during his thirty years in Chaos City. That was how he had obtained 1,000 points.
Otherwise!
If he had not been a newcomer, the first level would only have awarded 100 points, the second level 200 points, the third level 400 points, and so on.
It was obvious how difficult it was to obtain points!
Sitting in front of his desk, Luo Feng placed the notebook computer to one side and put the silver briefcase on the desk.
With a click, he opened the briefcase.
“Wow!”
Luo Feng’s eyes lit up.
The inside of the briefcase was packed with densely arranged books with black covers. Every book had the golden Universal Language words ‘Nine Universe’ and ‘Dripping Blood’ written on it, along with a number.
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3…
All the way to Volume 110!
“There are actually 110 volumes.”
Luo Feng was somewhat amazed.
Various cultivation secret techniques were inherently profound, so describing them in writing naturally required an enormous amount of text.
Back when Luo Feng studied the ‘Soul Imprint’ secret manual, even the basic preparations before cultivating the Soul Imprint had filled an entire first volume.
In his inherited memories, many of the Golden Horned Beast’s various secret techniques, when converted into Universal Language, contained tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of words.
“‘Dripping Blood’ is merely a foundational secret manual, yet there are 110 volumes.”
Luo Feng was extremely excited. He immediately picked up the first volume from the top.
In the centre of the black cover were the two most conspicuous golden words, ‘Nine Universe’. Beside them were the slightly smaller words ‘Dripping Blood’, while the name ‘Lian Luo’ appeared at the lower left.
Luo Feng opened the secret manual and immediately began reading.
“An Introduction to the ‘Nine Universe Chaos Stele’?”
“Insights into the Origin Law of Space?”
“Cultivation of ‘Dripping Blood’?”
Luo Feng glanced through the table of contents and was surprised to discover that the first secret manual, which contained several hundred thousand words, did not explain the 108 sets of sword techniques.
Instead, its author, ‘Lian Luo’, described his own understanding of the Nine Universe Chaos Stele and the Origin Law of Space, as well as some information about cultivating the secret technique he had created, ‘Dripping Blood’.
Overall speaking, this first volume of ‘Dripping Blood’ was essentially the general outline of the entire secret manual!
“Understanding his thoughts and understanding his path of cultivation will make studying the 108 sword techniques much more effective.”
Luo Feng began burying his head in the book and reading.
The Origin Law of Universal Space was profound and vast.
Completely studying and comprehending it was almost impossible.
Just consider the unimaginably enormous number of humans spread across countless planets. Generation after generation was born, grew and died. Generation after generation of cycles continued for a thousand years, ten thousand years, ten million years…
They had experienced billions of years of cycles.
Only after an incomparably vast region of stars had gone through all those ages could a Universe Country Lord finally be born!
To become a Universe Country Lord, one had to be a Time Venerable or Space Venerable.
From this, it was clear just how difficult it was to thoroughly study and completely comprehend the Origin Law of Space!
The ‘Nine Universe Chaos Stele’ was a supreme cultivation path that could allow someone to become a ‘Space Venerable’!
The ‘Nine Universe Chaos Stele’ was profound and unfathomable. Its corresponding Heavenly Bridge had a total of 27 levels.
Simply reaching the realm of the 21st level was enough to become a ‘Space Venerable’ and a Universe Country Lord!
And the Nine Universe Chaos Stele ultimately reached the 27th level. If someone truly comprehended the entire Nine Universe Chaos Stele, they would genuinely stand at the pinnacle among the countless races of the vast universe.
The Nine Universe Chaos Stele had a total of nine pictures!
According to the description in the first volume of ‘Dripping Blood’, once someone comprehended seven pictures, they could become a Space Venerable and a Universe Country Lord!
The first picture was the ‘Raindrop Picture’, the second was the ‘Drizzle Picture’, and the third was the ‘Heavy Rain Picture’.
These three pictures involved progressively deeper and more detailed research into the Origin Law of Space.
It was like some computer programming languages on Earth. They could be extraordinarily complicated, but if you analysed them down to their most fundamental essence…
They were simply binary code consisting of 0 and 1.
The essence was extremely simple, binary!
Take Chinese, for example. Chinese characters were complicated, but they were ultimately just square-shaped characters composed of various strokes, such as left-falling and horizontal strokes. Those strokes were the most fundamental elements.
English was the same. No matter how complicated it became, if you analysed it down to the deepest level, it was ultimately just composed of letters such as a, b, c and d.
The same principle applied!
Although the Origin Laws of the universe were incomparably profound, some of their most fundamental and essential aspects were still very simple.
The first to third pictures were about analysing the Origin Laws of the universe.
They decomposed them into a total of 108 different mysteries.
If Chinese was composed of various basic strokes, and English was composed of various letters, then the Origin Laws of the universe were composed of 108 fundamental mysteries.
These mysteries were continuously combined in countless complex ways, ultimately forming a vast and complete Law.
The first three pictures involved analysing things down to their deepest essence.
The fourth picture was the ‘Star Picture’.
The fifth picture was the ‘Star System Picture’.
The sixth picture was the ‘Galaxy Picture’.
Regardless of whether it was binary code, individual strokes, or simple letters such as a, b, c and so on, merely knowing these basic elements would not allow someone to create enormous computer programming languages or a fantastical online world.
Likewise, knowing a few strokes would not allow someone to create countless Chinese characters and produce the civilisation of China that could make people’s hearts tremble.
Nor could someone create the vast system of English simply by knowing those letters.
To use the most basic elements to form an enormous and incomparably rich online world, Chinese world or English world…
One needed countless combinations, countless grammatical rules and so on.
The same principle applied!
The 108 mysteries were the 108 most fundamental elements left after the Origin Laws of the universe had been dissected into countless fragments.
The first to third pictures were a process of dissection!
The fourth to sixth pictures were a process of combining them into a system!
These fundamental elements had to be continuously combined, expanded, perfected and extended, until they ultimately formed the perfect Origin Law of Universal Space.
The seventh picture, that extraordinarily strange beast, represented the most complete Origin Law of Universal Space.
Once the first seven pictures were comprehended, one could become a ‘Space Venerable’ and a Universe Country Lord!
“So that’s the principle.”
“I understand now.”
After reading the first two sections of the first volume, ‘An Introduction to the Nine Universe Chaos Stele’ and ‘Insights into the Origin Law of Space’, Luo Feng could not help becoming excited.
“Ordinary experts comprehend the Laws and cultivate as though they were learning English, directly learning how to write individual English words. Today they learn some words, tomorrow they learn some more, and as their knowledge accumulates, their strength gradually increases. But learning without a systematic method is ultimately complicated and inefficient!”
“First analyse, then combine.”
“It is like learning the most basic letters first, then learning various grammatical rules, and only afterwards systematically learning words, forming sentences and so on.”
Luo Feng smiled.
The principle was simple.
But the Origin Laws of the universe were billions of times more complicated than Chinese or computer programming languages.
The soul of an Immortal expert could calculate at a speed no slower than that of intelligent life, yet many people still could not break through to become Venerables even after billions of years!
That was because it was simply too complicated.
After all, this was the Origin Law of Universal Space, encompassing an incomparably vast scope.
Binary code could form an online world.
These 108 mysteries could be understood as a 108-based system. Just how terrifying would the Origin Law of the universe formed through their combination be?
Moreover, each of the 108 mysteries was itself tens of millions of times more vast and complicated than the entirety of Chinese, English or a computer programming language.
And the Laws were even more profound.