Within the Black Book space, the power of time permeated everywhere. There was no sun, moon, or stars; no mountains or rivers, just an endless expanse of white.
Other than Wang Chen, there was nothing at all. This absolute silence was enough to drive an ordinary person insane.
Yet it was precisely this utter stillness that allowed Wang Chen to completely immerse himself in cultivation.
In these three days, Wang Chen first used soul contracts to bring the high-level officials of the Sun Moon Empire under his control.
He then installed a puppet emperor on the throne and seized full authority over the Sun Moon Empire.
After that, he strengthened the Wang family in one big wave: helping Wang Yan and the Great Elder break through to Titled Douluo, taking some top-grade rare metals from the Sun Moon Empire's imperial treasury, and crafting several peak-level 9 soul tools to bolster the Wang family's foundation.
Wang Chen also dismantled the high-energy compression array soul tool that had been located in the imperial palace and relocated it to the Wang family residence.
With a high-energy compression array soul tool protecting them, the Wang family was now absolutely safe.
Moreover, all of the Sun Moon Empire's level-9 soul engineers were under Wang Chen's control. Even if the remaining small fry tried to take revenge on the Wang family while he was away, they would simply be courting death.
Having eliminated all future worries, Wang Chen issued orders for the entire Sun Moon Empire, from top to bottom, to prepare everything needed for war in preparation for the unification war one month later.
War could not be started just like that; it required massive preparations.
Things like provisions, armies, materials, technical personnel, soul tools, reserve officials… and so on.
The reason for preparing so much was naturally for governance. If he only wanted to defeat the original three empires of the Douluo continent, with Wang Chen's current strength, he could wipe out all of their top experts and destroy their imperial rule in a single hour.
But doing so would only plunge the three empires into chaos and local unrest, making effective rule impossible.
There is a saying: conquering the land is easy; holding the land is hard; governing the land is even harder.
To achieve a true, solid rule, it was necessary to station troops in every region, dispatch civil officials for administration, maintain public order, collect taxes, and so on.
Only in this way could the original three empires be considered truly conquered.
And to truly fuse the citizens of the Sun Moon Empire, Star Luo Empire, Dou Ling Empire, and Heaven Dou Empire into one, various policies still needed to be implemented.
Things like political education, cross-migration, intermarriage between citizens of the four empires, civilian soul tool technology entering every household…
After two generations—once the middle-aged and older generations passed away and the new generation grew up—the former four empires of Douluo would become history.
As for whether rebellions would occur? In this feudal era on the Douluo continent, ordinary commoners did not care who ruled over them. They only cared whether they could eat their fill and dress warmly.
The ones who would truly rebel were the royal families, great nobles, and sects that had lost their power.
Compared to the entire continent, the number of such people was merely a drop in the ocean. If they obediently accepted the new rule, fine; if they refused to listen, every single one would be killed.
After handling all these major and minor matters, Wang Chen entered the Black Book and began cultivating.
The Black Book space could accelerate the flow of time. The more spiritual power poured in, the faster time flowed.
With Wang Chen's god-level spiritual power, he could accelerate the time flow around his body up to a thousand times. However, a thousandfold acceleration consumed too much; it would quickly drain his spiritual power.
For daily cultivation, the optimal ratio was fifty times acceleration; at that rate, the consumption and recovery of spiritual power remained balanced.
What Wang Chen cultivated inside the Black Book was naturally not soul power, but comprehension of laws.
Spiritual thought spread from the center of Wang Chen's brow, continuously pouring into the Black Book space.
The flow of time within the Black Book space began to speed up. The originally calm power of time started flowing rapidly, as if an invisible force was pushing the wheel of time to spin at high speed.
Seeing this, a deep blue, magnificent vertical eye opened at Wang Chen's brow. Powerful spiritual thought extended from it.
Through the external soul bone Evil Eye of the Evil Emperor Beast, Wang Chen carefully sensed the changes in the flow of time, devoting his entire mind to comprehending the laws of time.
Yes—Wang Chen was comprehending the laws of time.
The reason he dared to comprehend the powerful and difficult-to-grasp laws of time was that the conditions were simply too perfect. First was the environment of the Black Book space.
The entire place was filled with the power of time. When Wang Chen accelerated time, the changes in the power of time within the Black Book space were clearly displayed before him.
It was practically like having a teacher personally explaining the mysteries of time to him.
Moreover, Wang Chen possessed the external soul bone Evil Eye from the Evil Emperor Beast, which contained the power of space-time.
With the help of this Evil Eye, Wang Chen could better perceive the flow of temporal power. Comprehending the laws of time became twice as effective with half the effort.
Furthermore, the Black Book had a function that consumed spiritual power to increase comprehension.
With such excellent conditions, how could Wang Chen not comprehend the laws of time?
Powerful laws were difficult to comprehend, but their ceiling was high, and their might was great. Weaker laws were easier to comprehend, but their ceiling was low and their power weak.
One must know that the laws of time were among the most top-tier laws, far stronger than ordinary laws.
Even if a weak law were completely mastered and thoroughly understood, it would still be far inferior to comprehending just one percent of the laws of time.
Take the God Realm as an example: could the Destruction Laws of the Destruction God King and the Life Laws of the Goddess of Life be compared to the laws mastered by second-class gods?
The gap between a God King and a second-class god was like heaven and earth; they were simply incomparable.
Therefore, under such superior conditions, Wang Chen naturally wanted to strive to comprehend the highest-tier laws of time.
As long as he could fully master the laws of time, even in the God Realm, Wang Chen would be in a league of his own.
Conversely, if he took the easy route and used a weak law to create his own god position, after ascending to the God Realm, he would only be able to serve as a subordinate to the God Kings.
It was even possible that, in the future struggle between the Destruction God King and Tang San, he would directly become cannon fodder and die in a God Realm war.
Wang Chen naturally would not allow himself to comprehend a weak law. With the Black Book as his golden finger, he had great confidence in successfully comprehending the laws of time!
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While Wang Chen was comprehending laws,
The Holy Spirit Cult that had arrived in the Star Luo Empire pushed forward all the way from the border fortresses until they reached the Star Luo Empire's capital, Star Luo City.
In the capital of the Star Luo Empire, the Holy Spirit Cult fell into an ambush set by the Shrek coalition army.
Both sides erupted into a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering battle here.
The Shrek coalition army was powerful and numerous.
In order to eliminate the anti-human evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Cult, Shrek Academy had united with the royal families of the original three empires, the Body Sect, the Mysterious Underworld Sect, the Haotian Clan, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, and many other top sects.
Just the number of Super Douluo experts exceeded thirty, while Titled Douluo numbered more than a hundred.
Even the Holy Spirit Cult, which had the two Limit Douluo, Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, overseeing it, fell into bitter fighting against such numbers.
At this moment, Star Luo City was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke; the sky was overcast and gloomy.
Less than a third of Star Luo City's walls remained.
Blood flowed like rivers throughout the vast city; severed limbs, broken organs, and the corpses of countless powerhouses lay everywhere.
In the center of Star Luo City,
Xuan Zi, who had transformed into the Taotie Divine Bull, was sent flying by a single punch from Long Xiaoyao and crashed heavily into the ground…
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