Chapter 478: Minor Perfection of the Laws

Thirty days passed in a flash, and City Sent had completely transformed. Not only were the damaged houses repaired, but even the city walls looked brand new. Its infrastructure and transportation far surpassed those of any other city.
This was all thanks to Ye Feng, who used his privileges in the Void Realm to purchase a large number of construction robots. The strength of these robots lay not only in their construction speed but also in their planning capabilities and innovation. They could automatically design buildings and even handle urban planning.
In just thirty days, City Sent had become a highly modern city.
During this time, Ye Feng left everything in the hands of Qingwen and delved into the Refinement Realm.
In fact, there are no months in the Divine Realm—each year has 1,000 days, with each day equivalent to 100 hours on Earth. Thus, thirty days is roughly equivalent to over 340 years on Earth.
During this period, Ye Feng’s cultivation reached the peak of Emperor God by the fifth year he entered the Refinement Realm. He originally intended to continue cultivating until reaching the peak of Ancestor God, but was stopped by Long Tian in time.
“In the Sacred Realm, mastery of the laws is what truly matters, and the best time to achieve mastery is at the peak of Emperor God. This is because understanding the laws before reaching the Ancestor God level grants a blessing from the Divine Realm’s essence. Those who fail to understand the laws will not receive such a blessing. Upon formal promotion, another blessing from the Sacred Realm’s essence is bestowed. The extent of these blessings depends on the strength of our understanding of the laws. In fact, without understanding the laws, even those at the Ancestor God level cannot ascend to the Sacred rank. When you injured Golden Wing, I saw from the city walls that he escaped death by using the speed law of wind. Otherwise, at such close range, he would surely have perished.” Long Tian, with memories from his past life, was well-versed in the laws, so he began studying them earlier than Ye Feng.
Through Long Tian’s guidance, Ye Feng finally found the right direction for cultivation. He then began new attempts.
Among the laws, the easiest to understand are those of the basic elements: wind, fire, thunder, water, earth, light, and darkness. Among these, the laws of light and darkness are the most difficult to grasp, while the other five are of similar difficulty.
Ye Feng already had three of these five elements—water, fire, and thunder—accumulated within his body. So he decided to start by understanding these three basic elements.

In Ye Feng’s view, among the elemental powers within him, fire had the greatest destructive power, and what he lacked the most at the moment was attack strength, so he decided to start with fire. Ye Feng summoned the flames within him; their power stemmed from an extreme attribute substance—the Heart of Molten Fire. There were many such extreme attribute substances of the same type, with seven or eight alone in the Divine Realm. Each of these substances had unique properties, just like how people differ with their own personalities. The Heart of Molten Fire had a very distinct personality: melting. The law of melting was something that many master craftsmen and alchemists longed for, but for Ye Feng, it wasn’t very useful. He had originally thought that the fire-related laws could greatly enhance his attack strength, only to find that the Heart of Molten Fire contained only the law of melting. The moment he touched the law within it, a red flame penetrated his forehead. Immediately afterward, the Martial Canon opened again, displaying vivid scenes in his mind, drawing him completely into them. Those scenes continued for nine days before finally transforming into nine murals etched in a void-like space. Ye Feng examined them one by one. On those murals were precisely the law patterns he had been repeatedly recombining and deducing in his mind. On the first mural were nine combinations of fire-related law patterns. As Ye Feng’s mental energy delved into them, darkness enveloped him, and he found himself in another place. A palm-sized black stone floated in front of him, with a flame of molten fire beneath it. In an instant, Ye Feng knew what to do, as a line of text appeared in his mind: “Use the nine seals you just saw to melt the black stone. If successful, you will gain recognition of the first-level law.” Ye Feng frantically formed the seals. In just a short while, he created hundreds of combinations of the nine seals, yet the black stone only shrank slightly. “What’s going on?” Ye Feng frowned and accelerated the formation of the seals even more. After nearly ten days of rearranging the nine seals nearly a million times, the black stone finally disappeared. He also left that strange space, as a peculiar fire-red ripple entered his body. After hesitating for a moment, he turned to the second mural.

This time, the black stone was twice as large, and as many as eighteen different sealing techniques were required. Ye Feng once again spent thirty days painstakingly practicing these techniques, performing tens of millions of repetitions before he was able to leave.

When it came to the third mural, Ye Feng finally focused entirely on practicing the techniques. In just twenty days, he created millions of different sealing techniques and was released.

Reflecting on the differences between the attempts, Ye Feng realized that the longer time taken in the first two attempts was due to his slower speed in creating the techniques and interruptions in between. This time, he started practicing immediately upon entering, without any interruptions, and each sequence was different from before, allowing him to be released quickly. With these thoughts, he moved on to the fourth mural.

It still took only thirty days, further confirming his hypothesis.

The fifth mural took fifty-eight days.

The sixth mural took seventy-nine days.

The seventh mural took one hundred twenty days.

The eighth mural took two hundred and thirty days.

For the ninth mural, which required eighty-one sealing techniques, Ye Feng spent some time there and was imprisoned for over a decade before being released. By then, he had finally reached the ninth level of his Refinement Law.

When the red ripples from the ninth mural merged into Ye Feng’s body, a message entered his mind: “The basic Refinement Law has reached perfection.”

Ye Feng’s mental energy was also expelled from the martial arts scripture.

“It took so long just for one Refinement Law… I must learn offensive laws sooner…” Ye Feng frowned, deeply aware of the urgency of time.

For the second element, Ye Feng chose lightning, as he believed that laws related to lightning would have an attack power comparable to those of fire. Moreover, the lightning energy within him originated from heavenly lightning, making it extremely powerful.

As expected, his lightning contained two laws: Destruction and Speed.

Excited, Ye Feng chose the Destruction Law and it took him a full hundred years to reach a minor perfection in it. This was because the Destruction Law was the most difficult among the lightning-based laws, requiring the most time to master.

After that, he spent another twenty years to reach minor perfection in the Speed Law.

Finally, he spent another hundred years to reach minor perfection in his water-based Sealing Law, which was also the most difficult among water-based laws to cultivate.

It took him over two hundred years to reach a state of minor perfection in three different attributes and four laws—a feat that others could only dream of. It already takes a genius hundreds of thousands of years to reach minor perfection in just one law. Yet Ye Feng knew that his rapid progress in law cultivation was closely related to his mastery of the law secret patterns. Since he was familiar with all the secret patterns of these laws, he knew that if he wished, he could easily cultivate any law to a state of minor perfection.

In the following hundred-odd years, Ye Feng focused his cultivation on advanced techniques derived from law cultivation. These techniques were all created by experts who had mastered similar laws. Among them were the “Hundred Forges Vajra Body” derived from the Law of Refinement, the “Heaven-Shattering Fingers” derived from the Law of Destruction, the “Thunderous Movement Style” derived from the Law of Speed, and the “Iceheart Art” derived from the Law of Sealing.

After over a hundred years, Ye Feng finally mastered the third finger of the “Heaven-Shattering Fingers,” while he had only reached the first level in the other techniques. But for now, it was sufficient for him. He had finally stepped out of the Refinement Realm…