448: Arriving in a new world, the laws are different.

The moment he passed through the ancient passage, it felt like diving from murky stagnant water into a clear, sweet spring at its source.

A surge of pure Spiritual Qi, so dense it moved even Shen Yuanmo, rushed toward him, overbearingly pouring into his limbs and bones.

If this were in the Eastern Region, this level of Spiritual Qi alone would be enough to create a top-tier Holy Land, causing countless Sects to fight over it.

Yet here in the Central Continent Divine Land, it seemed to be merely ordinary.

What made him even more wary was the omnipresent pressure all around.

It wasn't pressure directed at his Divine Soul or Physical Body, but a sense of heaviness coming from the world itself.

The Space Law was incredibly stable, as if cast from invisible divine iron; ordinary methods of tearing through space would likely fail to even stir a ripple here.

The gravitational pull coming from beneath his feet was also dozens of times stronger than in the Eastern Region.

With a thought, Shen Yuanmo deduced that if a Golden Core Cultivator were here...

They would likely be unable to even fly through the air and would have to walk honestly on the ground.

Even for some Nascent Soul Cultivators with unstable Foundations, flying here for a long time would consume mana at an astronomical rate.

"Central Continent Divine Land..."

Shen Yuanmo uttered those four words, his voice sounding much more muffled in this stable space.

With a wave of his sleeve, he put away the chaos void boat.

Floating high in the sky, he looked out to see primitive mountain ranges stretching boundlessly.

The mountains rose and fell like an Azure Dragon lying on the ground.

Towering ancient trees blotted out the sun, each one radiating dense vitality and spiritual rhythm.

Many of these tree species were not even recorded in the ancient texts of the Eastern Region.

Occasionally, the roars of unknown giant beasts echoed from deep within the mountains and forests, the sound waves rolling forth.

However, after traveling only a hundred miles, they were neutralized by the heavy Space Law.

Everything appeared so ancient, vast, and filled with power.

Shen Yuanmo closed his eyes, and his majestic Divine Sense, comparable to a Dao Integration Late Stage expert, slowly spread out in all directions like an invisible net.

He was not as reckless as he had been in the Eastern Region.

As a newcomer, he needed to first understand the rules of the Central Continent Divine Land.

The moment his Divine Sense extended, Shen Yuanmo noticed the difference.

A subtle sense of sluggishness.

If his Divine Sense in the Eastern Region was like a fish swimming in the ocean, unobstructed...

Then here, it was like entering a sea of mercury, where every step forward had to endure pressure and restraint from all directions.

This was not due to some Formation or Restriction, but the Law of this world itself, which possessed an exclusionary and rigorous nature.

Shen Yuanmo's Divine Sense continued to probe deeper.

Soon, he discovered deeper differences.

The Laws of the Central Continent Divine Land shared the same source as the Eastern Region, yet they were fundamentally different.

They were more complete, more rigorous, and more demanding.

It was like two paintings of the same scene; the Laws of the Eastern Region were the imitation of an apprentice—similar in form but lacking spirit, with omissions and discords everywhere.

But the Laws of the Central Continent Divine Land were the masterpiece of a Grandmaster, flowing naturally and perfectly.

Every stroke and line contained the ultimate principles of the Great Dao.

Shen Yuanmo's mind stirred, and a wisp of Chaos Qi swirled around his fingertips.

He tried to activate it using his habits from the Eastern Region, manifesting a simple Wind Blade Divine Ability.

Buzz!

The Wind Blade formed, but it was only the size of a palm, and its shape was extremely unstable, flickering as if it might dissipate at any moment.

In the Eastern Region, with the same Divine Ability, a single thought from him could turn it into a hundred-zhang Heavenly Blade that could cleave mountains and rivers.

"Originaly so."

Shen Yuanmo instantly understood.

In this world with more complete Laws, wanting to mobilize the power of heaven and earth to perform Divine Abilities and Spells...

Required a level of Law comprehension more than a grade higher for the Cultivator.

One needed a deeper understanding of the Laws to leverage this heavy world.

The same consumption of mana might yield less than one-tenth the power here compared to the Eastern Region.

But conversely, once a Cultivator could adapt to and master the Laws of this realm...

Then the power of the same Divine Ability would become far greater than before due to the completeness and strength of the Laws.

This place was a Hell for the weak, but a paradise for the strong.

A long-lost heat slowly rose from the depths of Shen Yuanmo's Dao Heart.

The Eastern Region was too small.

So small that with a single thought, he could settle the world, with no rivals left.

That kind of loneliness at the top was not what he sought.

But here, this vast and heavy Central Continent Divine Land, this stage where even the Laws of heaven and earth were picky about Cultivators, truly piqued his interest.

"Interesting..."

"This is the kind of place where Cultivators of my generation should be!"

Shen Yuanmo couldn't help but show a slight smile; the previous indifference in his eyes was replaced by a light as brilliant as the stars.

"Insight into Origin, activate!"

"Perfect Deduction, activate!"

In the next instant, deep within his eyes, it was as if billions of star rivers were flowing, being born and dying.

The entire world before him was instantly decomposed and reconstructed in his eyes.

Those originally obscure and exclusionary Laws of heaven and earth transformed into clearly visible chains of runes spanning across the world.

Their trajectories, their intersection nodes, their energy fluctuations... everything was presented unreservedly in his eyes.

Simultaneously, his Chaos Dao Body let out a roar like a waking giant beast.

Every pore opened at this moment, like greedy giant mouths, frantically devouring the surrounding Laws and pure Spiritual Qi.

His body was like a sponge that had been dry for billions of years, suddenly thrown into an endless ocean.

The overbearing nature and inclusiveness of the Chaos Dao Body were displayed vividly at this moment.

It did not exclude, analyze, or seek to understand.

It simply devoured and assimilated!

It forcibly imprinted these higher-level and more complete Laws into its own Physical Body's Origin, making them a part of itself.

If it were any other Dao Integration Great Expert from the Eastern Region facing such a massive difference in Law levels...

It would likely take at least several hundred or even a thousand years of painstaking effort to barely adapt so that their strength wouldn't be affected.

It was a long and painful process of slow grinding.

However, for Shen Yuanmo...

One stick of incense.

It took only the time of a single stick of incense.

The sense of rejection that made him out of place with this world vanished without a trace.

Fifteen minutes later.

Shen Yuanmo slowly opened his eyes.

The aura on his body had perfectly merged with these primitive mountains and this heavy world.

There was no longer the slightest sluggishness or any obstacle.

It was as if he were not a newcomer, but a native being born and raised here.

He raised his hand, and a wisp of Chaos Qi swirled around his fingertips once more.

Another thought.

Swoosh—

A tiny Wind Blade, nearly transparent yet sharp to the extreme, shot out silently.

There was no grand spectacle, no astonishing energy fluctuations.

But wherever the Wind Blade passed, the incredibly solid space was easily sliced open, leaving a pitch-black rift a hundred zhang long that would not heal for a long time.

With the same consumption, the power was several times stronger than before.

"Whew..."

Shen Yuanmo let out a long breath, feeling the mana surging and flowing within him.

Along with an unprecedented sense of harmony with this world, he felt incredibly refreshed.