219: Chapter 219 Profound Enlightenment on the Meteor Sea, Ten Years Pass in the Blink of an Eye

Ye Qing sat upon that massive star fragment deep within the Meteor Sea for ten whole years.

During those ten years, he sat cross-legged atop that exposed, grey-black rock like a statue, completely motionless.

His body was covered in fine dust formed from the fragments of the star corpse, as if he had fused into one with the giant rock beneath him.

Only his faint, barely perceptible breathing and the occasional slight rise and fall of his chest proved that he was still a living being.

In these ten years, he did not move an inch, nor did he go searching for any Heaven And Earth Treasure.

He submerged all his focus into his Internal Space, immersing himself in the construction and perfection of his System of Law.

This was a massive and intricate project.

The first thing he needed to do was to systematically organize and categorize all the fragments of Law he had comprehended since he began to Cultivate.

The Law of Chaos, Law of Void, Five Elements Law, Yin and Yang Law, Law of Life and Death, Law of Stars, and even the miscellaneous Sword Dao Laws obtained from the Sword Ruins Secret Realm... These Law fragments were like scattered pearls, piled up chaotically deep within his Sea of Consciousness.

What he needed to do was to pick up these pearls one by one, wipe them clean, and then use the Chaos Dao as the main thread to string them together into a complete necklace.

This process was extremely taxing on his mind.

Each type of Law had its own unique properties and operating principles; to perfectly achieve Fusion of them, rather than simply piling them up, required countless calculations, deductions, and attempts.

He failed countless times and overturned the frameworks he had already built countless times.

Yet he was never discouraged; every failure made his understanding of those Laws deeper and made his Chaos Dao more perfect.

In addition to organizing the Laws, he also needed to perfect the physical architecture of his Internal Space.

He guided the dense energy within the space to condense into mountains, rivers, land, and even a miniature starry sky, according to the rules he set.

He carefully adjusted the gravitational parameters of the space, allowing the condensed mountains and rivers to stably exist within the space without collapsing due to gravitational imbalance.

He attempted to introduce the concept of the Law of Time into the space; although it was only an extremely rudimentary trace, it was already enough to cause the energy flow within the space to produce a weak, periodic change similar to metabolism.

He even began to attempt to create some of the simplest energy lifeforms, like single-celled organisms, in some of the areas where the energy was most dense within the space.

Although these lifeforms possessed no intelligence and could not even be called true life, their existence signaled that his Internal Space was taking a crucial step from a mere "space" towards a true "world".

One day, ten years later, Ye Qing's statue-like body finally moved slightly.

The thick layer of dust covering his body fell off with a rustling sound.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Deep within his eyes, it seemed as if countless stars were flickering in and out of existence, Chaos was flowing, and all things were being born and dying.

It was an indescribable depth and vastness, as if it contained a complete Universe.

He lowered his head and took a look at his palm.

His palm remained fair and slender, exactly the same as it was ten years ago.

Yet he could clearly feel that the connection between himself and this world had undergone some subtle change.

It was as if he no longer completely belonged to this world, but was independent of it, yet still had countless threads of connection to it.

He stood up and stretched his somewhat stiff muscles and bones, his entire skeleton emitting a low, rumbling sound like muffled thunder.

He looked up toward the vast Void Realm outside the Meteor Sea, a flash of realization appearing in his eyes.

"The Mahayana realm... I understand it now."