Three years quickly passed in Chaos City.
During this period, many things happened.
All the geniuses from this generation's Cosmic Genius Battle substantially improved their comprehension of the laws.
Every genius from the Primal Secret Region passed the first level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge within the first year of arriving in Chaos City.
The geniuses of the Heaven and Earth Secret Region and the End-Times Secret Region, including Luo Fan's ten avatars and Lei Shen, also passed the first level of the bridge.
Hong arrived in Chaos City at the beginning of the second year, and only then did he pass the first level.
However, by the end of the third year, he had already passed the second level.
After all, the Illusory Universe Chaos Stele suited him extremely well.
Bolan passed the third level just eight months after arriving in Chaos City.
Luo Feng took two years to pass the third level.
Just like in the original story, he directly apprenticed under True Yan King.
Bolan had been provoked by Luo Fan, so from the start he chose a path with space origin laws as the main focus and time origin laws as secondary.
This allowed him to be accepted as a disciple by an elementary Universe Venerable.
Luo Fan, however, did not challenge the Sky-Piercing Bridge at all during these three years.
Still, his strength improved tremendously.
In three years, he fully comprehended the eleventh space law essence.
As for the water origin law essences, he comprehended twenty-seven of them.
Passing the fifth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge was no problem for him now.
He had completely understood the first diagram of the Ice Peak Sky-Piercing Bridge.
As for the sixth level, he was still not fully confident.
Today he came out of seclusion for one reason.
Grandor had previously prepared some nutrient solutions suitable for his mechanical-race clone.
And now, that mechanical-race clone was finally about to break through to the Domain Lord level.
Luo Fan still felt the speed was somewhat unsatisfying. If not for the mechanical clone's massive size, it would have broken through long ago.
As for the space worm clone, it was even slower.
He had sent the space worm avatar into spatial layers to devour large amounts of spatial fragments.
Even so, the current space worm clone was only at Universe Level Eight, approaching Level Nine.
The body of a space worm was simply too enormous. To prepare nutrient solutions for it would require the equivalent resources of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people.
Even for Grandor, that burden was tremendous.
...
In the cultivation chamber of the F9-class mechanical-race spaceship awarded by the system, inside the Law Source Secret Region—
At this moment, a massive nutrient pod sat in the chamber.
Inside was a shimmering metallic liquid.
Yes, the primary components of this nutrient solution were metals.
The pod slowly opened.
The mechanical-race clone stepped out.
He sat cross-legged immediately and created a task.
[Task: Mechanical-race clone breaks through to Domain Lord level. Reward: Comprehension +2,000,000, Luck +10,000,000, F9-class robot manufacturing method]
Luo Fan did not hesitate and began the breakthrough.
In the next instant, inside the body of the mechanical clone, a unique space appeared.
This was a space that originally did not exist.
It only began forming after the Evolution Heart fused with a mechanical puppet body and gained control from an intelligent lifeform.
This space was slowly generated because the Evolution Heart had merged into the mechanical body.
Thus, this space was called the Evolution Space.
In truth, the Evolution Space was similar to an origin core.
At this moment, within the Evolution Space of the mechanical clone, a spiral galaxy shone brilliantly.
This was the mark of the Universe Level.
At the center of the spiral galaxy was a massive black hole, and on the eight spiral arms were eight smaller black holes.
Now, the spiral galaxy began undergoing a shocking transformation—
"Rumble…"
The devouring power of the central black hole and the eight black holes soared. The surrounding stars were swallowed frantically.
The central black hole grew larger and larger, eventually pulling the eight small black holes toward it.
Devouring.
The central black hole devoured everything it could, growing endlessly. Soon, all eight small black holes were swallowed as well.
...
Moments later.
The entire spiral galaxy disappeared, leaving only one colossal black hole.
"Boom…"
Suddenly, the colossal black hole collapsed inward.
The entire dark region rapidly shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This collapse was terrifying. In the blink of an eye, the black hole completely vanished.
At the position where the black hole had been, a gray sphere appeared.
Pop.
The gray sphere shed a layer of gray shell like a snake shedding its skin. That spherical gray shell continually expanded, growing larger and larger.
This gray sphere was the life core of Luo Fan's mechanical-race clone.
A moment later, the life core slowly merged with the Evolution Space.
When the merging was complete, Luo Fan heard the sound of task completion.
On the system panel, the mechanical clone's realm updated to Domain Lord Level One (0.01%).
He did not claim the reward immediately.
His comprehension, after these past years of tasks, had already reached over nine million.
Once he claimed the reward, his comprehension would break ten million.
At that time, he would very likely gain an opportunity for enlightenment.
Luo Fan planned to use that opportunity to comprehend the Chaos Stele.
Because he had recorded the diagrams, he had only entered the meditation chamber twice in the past three years.
He still had two more opportunities left.
After making his decision, Luo Fan jumped off the rooftop of the building he had been sitting on.
He immediately flew toward the City Lord's Mansion.
Soon, he arrived.
He made his way, familiar with the route, into the depths of the mansion, toward the corridor of the meditation chambers.
On both sides of the corridor stood dozens of bronze doors.
Every door had an old man standing before it, all identical in appearance.
Luo Fan flew to the bronze door marked with the characters "Ice Peak."
He bowed respectfully to the old man beside it, Kandri.
"Greetings, Lord Kandri."
The kind-faced elder smiled warmly.
"Luo Fan, here to comprehend the Ice Peak Chaos Stele?"
"You lucky child, no one is inside right now. Go on in."
Luo Fan said nothing more. He bowed again and flew straight in.
Upon entering the chamber, he walked directly to the second diagram of the Ice Peak Chaos Stele.
At that moment, Luo Fan claimed the task reward.
His comprehension instantly exceeded ten million.
A refreshing sensation flowed into his mind.
The Ice Peak Chaos Stele before him seemed to change.
Previously, when he tried to comprehend the second diagram, it felt like reading a college-level mathematics textbook.
But now, it felt like reading a junior-high mathematics book.
Perhaps not as simple as an elementary school textbook, but the difficulty had significantly decreased.
In an instant, countless insights surged into his mind.
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