Gu Yuena glanced at Huo Yuhao. "I followed your advice, Yuhao, and set up a small spacetime formation to gain insights. I've made some progress. But not much."
Her previous thinking had indeed been correct. She needed Yuhao to develop her abilities. Ahem, she was also working hard herself.
It was just that Yuhao always managed to find some wonderful angles, making her notice blind spot blind spot she had never seen before.
Although her memories of the Dragon God were incomplete, after all, her divine consciousness had shattered once when she left the Divine Realm, she still had some foundation left.
The spacetime formation came from the Dragon God's memories.
Although she could use it, she had indeed never thought to use it as a breakthrough point to comprehend the laws of time.
Of course, she also hadn't had the time.
After all, she had spent most of her time either healing or on the way to healing.
"Having some is enough."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao raised his right hand and slowly pressed his index finger to Gu Yuena's brow. "Now you should be able to comprehend it."
Gu Yuena blinked and accepted Huo Yuhao's professor.
In an instant, a strand of spiritual power gently enveloped her consciousness.
At that moment, Gu Yuena suddenly felt her hands lighten. She looked down and saw her palms becoming transparent, as if about to merge into the surrounding mist of light. A strange sense of nothingness enveloped her entire body. Not pain, but an ethereal quality transcending physical existence.
A hazy glow flowed through the void. Each wisp of light seemed to carry a forgotten era, an independent time and space.
Suddenly, an ethereal ripple silently spread out, even the dimension beyond the picture picture trembling. Gu Yuena's figure gradually faded in the river of time. No pain, no cold blade piercing her heart. Only time, like a veil, gently brushed across her existence, carrying her into eternal rest.
This was a divine skill... no, there was also Yuhao's own comprehension of time.
A hint of sweetness rippled in Gu Yuena's heart. In an instant, she sank into a profound, mysterious understanding. Her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and the light of realization, like a river of stars, flowed in her eyes.
After Gu Yuena had been comprehending for a while, Huo Yuhao said, "The Douluo Continent we are on now is a physical plane, composed of the four fundamental elements: earth, wind, fire, and water. Light, darkness, and space are born from this foundation. Time is different from them. Your understanding of the other elements is deeper than mine. You should now better understand the difference."
Gu Yuena opened her eyes and nodded gently.
"For a physical plane, earth, wind, fire, and water are the fundamental elements that build the entire world. Mastering all of them means creation, a sublimation. Light, darkness, and space are derived from these four basic elements. However, the changes involved are hard to understand and hard to utilize. Most deities cannot grasp the key. I haven't fully understood it either."
She could already rule in the elemental domain. But she could also not derive space, darkness, and light from the four elements of earth, wind, fire, and water. She could only comprehend those three elements individually, then use spatial power to balance darkness and light, creating the Light and Dark Divine Thunder.
How the four basic elements derived into those high-order elements was the most basic and most law of the universe's composition. If a deity could truly understand the key, they would grasp the true meaning of creation.
Thinking this, Gu Yuena continued, "But for living beings, the law of time has a certain difference from other attributes. It is..."
"A derivative of spiritual power!"
Gu Yuena uttered words that left Gu Ruiqiu confused.
The law of time was a derivative of spiritual power?
This was the first time she had heard that.
She could no longer understand what her Lord and Huo Yuhao were saying. Well, from the beginning, she hadn't understood much.
Gu Ruiqiu looked helplessly at Snow Empress, who was quietly listening to the two "big shots" discussing the Way, seeming to understand. She was speechless.
This feeling that only she was out of her depth... was uncomfortable.
Seeing Gu Yuena reveal the core, Huo Yuhao couldn't help smiling.
Time had both objective and subjective aspects. But when comprehending the law, it was always subjective. Whatever your cognitive cognition of the world was, you would obtain whatever understanding. Moreover, for powerful individuals, only the time perceived and controlled by oneself had meaning.
What, then, was subjective time?
It was the tick of memory, the stretch of consciousness. Only when perceived did time truly exist.
This also led to the fact that the mysteries involved time was always inseparable from spiritual power. Because this was the living being's own cognition and rewriting of time.
The Evil Emperor's relationship between Spacetime Light and spiritual power went without saying.
The Sea God's White Clouds for a Thousand Years, if one's cultivation was insufficient, when used, it would make the enemy feel, on a spiritual level, as if a thousand years had passed, causing their mind to collapse. Moreover, the Spirit Domain realm was necessary to gradually exert its power. Only at the divine level could one truly achieve a thousand years in an instant.
Besides these, there were Tang Wulin's spiritual domain, the Time Rewind Domain, and the Little Dragon God's spiritual domain, the Time Freeze Domain.
All these mysteries of time domains relied on powerful powerful spiritual power.
The so-called passage of time, for the powerful individuals of this world, was the living being's consciousness measuring the changes of the world. Essentially, it was their respective spiritual wills interfering with and redefining reality.
"Many Limit-level powerful individuals have mastered spatial power. But those who have mastered the power of time are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns."
After the two had finished their exchange, Snow Empress smiled at Huo Yuhao. "Here, you probably have the deepest understanding of the law of time."
The law of time was a derivative of spiritual power. This was something Huo Yuhao had told her when guiding her. Many powerful individuals did not even know this. How could they further comprehend it?
Huo Yuhao shook his head. "It's nothing. I was just taking advantage. If not for the Evil Emperor, I might not have had this opportunity."
At the corner of his mouth in the Sea of Spirit, the Evil Emperor lifted slightly. He nodded inwardly.
How many savage beasts on the Douluo Continent had comprehended the mystery of time?
Even Emperor Tian couldn't.
"Fine, fine, you're all very impressive." Gu Ruiqiu quipped from the side. "I'm the only one here who doesn't understand. Aren't you just making things difficult for me?"
"If you don't understand now, then remember it well." Gu Yuena cast a sharp glance. "You'll need it in the future."
Gu Ruiqiu felt a chill on the back of her neck at that glance.
Oh no. Her Lord had remembered the grudge from earlier.
Having vented, Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Yuhao, do you want me to comprehend the law of time before reaching the Spirit Domain realm?"
"Yes. We are in a state of re-cultivation. Reconstructing your spiritual domain at the Spirit Domain realm is a good opportunity. If you integrate your comprehension of the law of time into it, you can become stronger. After all, spiritual power is also an area you excel in."
Huo Yuhao paused, then smiled. "Your foundation is far stronger than ours. I have ways to help Xue'er. For you, most of the time, you can only rely on your own understanding."
"What you have given me is already a lot." Gu Yuena shook her head. "When I practice the spacetime formation later, I will teach it to you. You should gain a deeper understanding of the law of time."
Yuhao had given her a lot already. A Divine Artifact, divine skills, techniques for using spiritual power. In the past, she had never imagined that a human could help her.
Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress exchanged a glance, and finally both nodded.
"Honestly, do you guys only talk about serious business when you're together? I'm going to make dinner. Talk after you eat."
Gu Ruiqiu rolled her eyes, unable to take it anymore, and walked toward the kitchen.
Compared to them, her foundation was too shallow.
Gu Yuena glanced at her, unconcerned. She turned to Huo Yuhao, who was also getting up to head to the kitchen, and asked, "Yuhao, what are your thoughts on the divine ascension tribulation? Under the plane's suppression, without a divine seat, forcibly ascending to godhood will inevitably invite the thunder tribulation."
Besides foundation, she also wanted to help Yuhao prepare for the final leap in advance.
Generally speaking, without the refuge of a Divine Realm or a divine seat, achieving the true god level of one hundred levels would inevitably attract the thunder tribulation. It was both a calamity and an opportunity. If one passed, the sea was calm, and one could reshape their true body. If one failed, they would die.
The divine ascension tribulation was mostly an elemental tribulation or a heaven and earth tribulation. As for a cosmic tribulation, Gu Yuena did not consider it.
As the name suggested, the heaven and earth tribulation and the elemental tribulation below it were naturally descended by the plane where the ascending one was located. Its power was proportional to the strength of the one ascending.
Compared to planes that could accommodate god-level beings, the Douluo Continent's current heaven and earth energy was relatively thin. The power of the thunder tribulation should be greatly reduced. However, the plane's laws here themselves had a very strong suppression on the birth of god-level beings. Any powerful individual trying to force a breakthrough the shackles would trigger the plane's final countermeasure, punishing the one ascending in the form of the divine ascension tribulation.
That was no ordinary thunder tribulationation. It was the final blow of the plane's suppression, the Douluo Continent against "rebels." It was not an energy bombardment, but the wrath and rejection of the plane's will, fused into the heaven-punishing thunder.
If someone forcibly impacts the divine level in such an environment, the power of the divine ascension tribulation would not only fail to weaken due to the lack of energy, but would instead become even more terrifying due to the plane's laws, causing the one undergoing the tribulation to withstand a blow far beyond a normal divine tribulation.
To safely get through... would be very difficult.
However, some possessed the ability to conceal the secrets of heaven, allowing their users to evade the influence of the heavenly thunder tribulation.
Huo Yuhao's super artifact of unknown origin should have been capable of helping him achieve that.
If not, she would find a way.
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena.
When Gu Yuena had temporarily become a god, she had been struck by a seven-element alloy Heaven Forging also faced a seven-element alloy thunder tribulation, but the strength of a metal becoming a god versus a living being becoming a god was different. For Gu Yuena, who was still pretending to be a "newbie" at the time, that was probably the heaviest injury she had suffered in battle against the Abyss army and the Holy Spirit Cult.
Fighting external enemies had barely hurt her. In the end, she had been injured by her own plane. That was also outrageous.
Under Gu Yuena's strange gaze, Huo Yuhao stroked her hair.
"Then be like you. Rival him, and then surpass him!"
The Emperor-making tribulation, the divine ascension tribulation. The sense of déjà vu was growing stronger. He had quite a few advantages on his side as well.
Gu Yuena was slightly taken aback. Before she could react, Huo Yuhao had already walked toward the kitchen.
Snow Empress also stood up and followed.
"Let me help you."
"Alright."
Huo Yuhao smiled and nodded.
Gu Yuena snapped back to the present. "..."
Wait. Could Snow Empress cook?
She watched the three working harmoniously in the kitchen and vaguely understood the feeling Gu Ruiqiu had experienced earlier. The feeling of being the only one without a skill was unpleasant. She would learn later.
Snow Empress handed a plate to Huo Yuhao and said with a soft laugh, "Speaking of which, the time you set for the trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well is just right. After you return from there, it will be the Spirit-Ice Ceremony."
The Spirit-Ice Ceremony.
That was an offering proposed by the then Tower Master, Su Tong, one hundred years after the Spirit Transmission Tower's founding, to commemorate Spirit-Ice Douluo.
And as the next "Spirit Transmission," Huo Yuhao would definitely have to go to pay respects to Spirit-Ice Douluo. Even with Snow Empress's nature, thinking of this made her want to laugh.
The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched, but he said calmly, "This is the best opportunity. If Shrek Academy notices anything unusual, they will not act immediately."
Gu Ruiqiu glanced at him and muttered inwardly.
This guy was still as dark-hearted as ever.
Just as he said, who would dare to stir up trouble at the Spirit Transmission Tower's Spirit-Ice Ceremony?
Unless they wanted to be the "second Limit evil spirit master." He was making Shrek swallow their teeth.
"So this is Mingdu?"
A young man stepped off the soul-powered train. Looking at the "city of technology" before him, he was somewhat moved. "Very different from Shrek City."
This young man had extremely unique eyes. They were a dazzling golden color, while his pupils were a deep dark gold. His entire being radiated a mysterious and noble temperament, as if enveloped in light.
"Stop sighing. Our teacher has already arrived. We need to hurry to the hotel too."
Hearing this, the young man glanced at the indifferent girl walking past him and curled his lip. "So cold. Don't forget who the captain is."
"Well then, Captain Le Zhengyu, do you have any advice?" Ye Xinglan glanced at him.
(Note: The Le family had no connection to Ye Guyi. In the original, Ye Guyi was a member of Tang Sect. She had descendants, and they were most likely also members of Tang Sect. However, the Le family in the third installment of Douluo had no connection to Tang Sect.)
(Moreover, in the original, Le Zhengyu said that his clan were descendants of the Spirit Hall's lineage. They had a family precept, a grudge against the Xingluo Empire. In the second installment of Douluo, Ye Guyi had fought alongside Xingluo against the Sun Moon Empire. She did not seem to have this family precept. If she had had descendants, she would not have passed down such a family precept.)
Le Zhengyu shrugged. "No advice. I just hope you follow orders. After all, I heard that you two years ago..."
"Enough!" Ye Xinglan took a deep breath and walked away. "I understand."
"Xinglan." Xu Lizhi quickly followed.
"These two from the inner courtyard had better not cause me trouble."
Le Zhengyu raised an eyebrow, muttered to himself, and led his other classmates toward the city.
Because of what had happened two years ago, Ye Xinglan had been arranged in the outer courtyard. Xu Lizhi had also requested to follow her. But they were too young, so eventually they had been arranged in their year.
For this final exam exchange match with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, the two were also participants. Le Zhengyu was the team leader.
However, in Le Zhengyu's own opinion, he should not have been the team leader.
Although he was an outer courtyard student, he had not studied there for long. If not for his family's requirements, he should have entered the inner courtyard directly.
Not long after enrolling in Shrek Academy, he had gone to his family's closed-door training. He had only come out after his martial soul had completely awakened, which had taken a long time.
However, this exchange match had been scheduled soon after the term started. At that time, he had already been on the list. And because of his Inherited Spirit Soul, his martial soul's complete awakening had not taken too long. He was able to participate.
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