Chapter 506: The Law of Gravity

Jin gained control of the first layer of the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts. Naturally, the tower’s spirit had also achieved its purpose, so everyone else was sent away without any suspense—Ye Feng included.
Jin was also transported out at the same time. But with the key, he could communicate with the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts at any time. The two finally completed their mission and returned by airship.
“How was the communication with the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts?” Ye Feng asked with a smile. As a spiritual treasure, it should have remarkable capabilities.
“It’s the same as before—I can force magical beasts whose law cultivation level is three ranks higher than mine to enter a master-slave contract,” Jin said cheerfully. “But I don’t plan to form contracts with magical beasts for now. I want to retreat for a while to improve my own law cultivation level. The fourth layer should be easy to reach, but the layers beyond that might take a bit more time.”
“Is there no limit on the number?” Ye Feng was curious about this.
“Currently, up to three,” Jin replied after checking. “Before, I could force up to nine contracts, but those formed voluntarily by me don’t count.”
“Oh, then sign contracts with three first. Let three magical beasts at the sixth rank of law cultivation protect this airship, so we can focus on our cultivation,” Ye Feng suggested.
“That’s right. I almost forgot—if we all go to cultivate, no one will be here to take care of the airship,” Jin realized. “Wait a moment; a cup of tea’s time should be enough.”
Before long, three burly men appeared behind Jin—they were magical beasts at the peak of the sixth rank in law cultivation. In terms of overall strength, they were probably not much weaker than Shi Tou.
After giving instructions, Jin followed Ye Feng into the Liuluan Hall.
At that moment, inside the Liuluan Hall were Ye Feng and his two avatars, Shi Tou, the Ancient Demon Ape at the late sixth stage of law cultivation, Jiǔwěi Bái Yīyī at the peak of the ninth stage, and Jin, the weakest among them.
Ye Feng assigned each person a separate room so that their cultivation wouldn’t interfere with one another, unlike before when everyone gathered in the hall.

After regaining her nine-tail bloodline, Bai Yiyi spent time in the Liuluan Hall to strengthen her cultivation. After subduing Bai Yiyi, Ye Feng and the others stayed in the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts for nearly a month. Calculated at a rate of a thousand times faster than that of the Liuluan Hall, over 340 Earth years had passed. More than 300 years was enough time for Bai Yiyi to fully integrate the new bloodline inheritance. Her mastery of laws also improved from the late ninth level to the peak of the ninth level, with the potential to break through to the Minor Perfection stage at any time. Thus, she was striving hard to overcome this hurdle through seclusion.

Shi Tou’s cultivation had also reached a bottleneck and was unlikely to make progress in the short term, so he chose to enter seclusion as well, saying he would only emerge once his mastery of laws reached the seventh level.

Jin also opted for seclusion. According to him, improving his mastery of laws wasn’t difficult because he had been a supreme sage in his past life, with his law mastery ranking among the top in the ancient divine realm back then. Sufficient time and medicinal pills would allow for rapid improvement.

Ye Feng’s two avatars continued to practice those seemingly codex-like techniques as usual, while dedicating a small portion of their energy to cultivating laws, hoping to break through to the Perfection stage. From the information obtained in the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts earlier, Ye Feng knew that his current Perfection stage was only the first level. After inquiring with Jin, he learned that the basic elemental laws had nine levels, each divided into nine sub-levels, and his own law mastery was only at the first level of Perfection. The Perfection stage was a transitional phase between levels, and its duration varied from person to person. However, there was a theory suggesting that the longer one stayed in the Perfection stage, the stronger their law power would be after advancing to the next level, given the same level of law mastery. Ye Feng wasn’t sure if this was true or not; he preferred to break through his law level sooner.

Ye Feng’s true self took out that piece of Xi Rang and forced the energy from the black crystal within his body out. He still didn’t understand what tier this black energy belonged to, only knowing that its devouring power seemed capable of consuming everything. The black energy slowly covered the Xi Rang, but this time, the devouring process was much slower than before.

It took a full seven days to completely devour the Xi Rang. Under the influence of the black energy, the earth-yellow energy was slowly infused into his dantian, being much thicker than any other energy before. Ye Feng was overjoyed—such thickness meant the process of condensing it into a crystal would be much simplified.

However, he found that this was not the case—the viscous earth-yellow energy was even more difficult to shape than any previous energy. Ye Feng exerted all his strength and spent over thirty days before finally condensing that earth-yellow energy into a crystal.

Antennae extended from the other crystals and connected to it, while the earth-yellow crystal slowly stretched out five antennae, each connecting to one of the other five crystal cores.

“Finally, it worked!” Ye Feng sighed in relief. Fortunately, the thousand-fold time acceleration in this Flowing Palace made it tolerable for him.

He focused his mind and immersed himself in that earth-yellow crystal core. In just a moment, he sensed the existence of three laws within it: the law of gravity, the law of growth, and the law of defense.

Only then did he realize that the Xi Rang had previously been in a state of growth. Xi Rang in different growth states carried different laws. Even after being absorbed by him, the Xi Rang would continue to evolve automatically. This was different from other extremeattribute substances—once formed, to evolve further, they could only do so by devouring other extremeattribute substances of the same type. He could learn more laws from the Xi Rang in the future.

From the three existing laws, Ye Feng unhesitatingly chose the law of gravity first, as it could help him control the Heavy Mysterious Tower. Although the tower was currently classified as a pseudo-illusory treasure, at the highest level of spiritual treasure, Ye Feng, now in a semi-saintly state, could already initially control such treasures. Once the law of gravity reached the minor perfection stage, the tower’s special function could at least double the power of his law of gravity.

The reason he didn’t practice all three laws at once was that he wanted to reach the minor perfection stage of the law of gravity as soon as possible. Though his progress in mastering laws was extremely fast, he was eager to learn the law of gravity.

Fully immersing his mind, he entered another mysterious realm.

But to his confusion, this time there were only six murals, all depicting a square box, leaving him puzzled.

When he delved into the first mural, he suddenly found himself in front of a transparent box. As instructed, he input seals to control the gravity of each face. After a few attempts and mastering the effects of the seals, he began the formal test. In just the time it took to drink tea, he easily passed the first level of testing.

With the second mural, he had to control the gravity of two surfaces simultaneously. It took Ye Feng nearly ten days to master the technique, and another three days to complete the tests. The third mural required controlling the gravity of three surfaces at once, taking thirty days. The fourth mural took sixty-five days. The fifth mural took eighty-eight days. For the sixth mural, Ye Feng got stuck—since a square has only six surfaces, controlling all six at once meant dealing with three opposing surfaces, which took him a long time to regain control over. The hardest part was generating both repulsive and attractive forces across all six surfaces, something he couldn’t achieve. In previous attempts, at least one surface served as an outlet for energy release. With all six surfaces sealed, there was no outlet when applying repulsion or attraction simultaneously.

Ye Feng struggled with this problem for decades until one day he suddenly had an epiphany. “In a completely sealed space, if all six surfaces exert an attractive force at the same time and that force reaches a certain level, a vacuum state will form inside the space. If the attractive force is increased further, the space will tear open, and the energy will be absorbed by the cracks. In other words, I just need to create a space crack within that space to maintain stable attraction across all six surfaces. Conversely, when using repulsive forces simultaneously, an energy pole will form at the center. When this energy pole collapses—creating a space crack—stability can still be maintained.” Once he understood this, he immediately put it into practice.

Previously, he couldn’t maintain either of these states at all. Any imbalance would cause the entire square space to explode instantly, meaning the attempt failed. But since the tearing of the internal space didn’t affect the stability of the square space, he could maintain both states. Only then could he truly grasp the essence of gravity space.

Ye Feng was well aware that everything simulated in this space was an extreme state that couldn’t be achieved in reality. With his current level of mastery over gravity laws, he could at most amplify existing gravity by a hundred times—a strength far too weak to tear apart space.

He took a deep breath. Although he wasn’t in a physical form at the moment, it still gave him some comfort. He stepped into the sixth mural once again. With reasonable assumptions and reasoning, Ye Feng quickly simulated both states.

“The primary gravity law has reached a state of perfection.” The moment it appeared, he knew his gravity law had attained a minor state of perfection. Only then did he satisfactorily exit the Law World of Xirang.
Ye Feng checked the time and realized that mastering the first earth-based law had taken him 50 Earth years—equivalent to about four and a half days in the divine realm’s time.
He wasn’t in a hurry to practice the second law. Instead, he delved his mental energy into the Martial Canon, seeking a scripture that could complement his gravity law.
“‘Gravity Space’: Creates a spherical gravity domain. Within this domain, the gravity law is entirely controlled by the user, and everything inside is affected by it. The intensity of gravity depends on the user’s mastery of the law, while the range of gravity depends on the level of cultivation of this technique…”
“Great, this is it!” The technique recommended by the Martial Canon filled him with joy, and he quickly ingrained it in his mind.