Three years passed in the blink of an eye.
Inside the Black Book space, the flow of time had been adjusted by Wang Chen using his spiritual force to be a hundred times faster than the outside world.
During these three years, aside from occasionally going out to relax, Wang Chen spent ninety-five per cent of his time inside the Black Book space.
Thanks to the Black Book's enhancement of comprehension and the innate time-acceleration function of the Black Book space, Wang Chen's mastery of the Time Laws advanced by leaps and bounds. In just three short years, his mastery of the Time Laws skyrocketed from the original one-tenth to the current ninety-nine per cent.
At this moment, Wang Chen was only one final step away from completely mastering the Time Laws.
In the vast, pure-white void of the Black Book space, Wang Chen sat cross-legged with his eyes tightly closed. Only the Evil Eye at the centre of his forehead was fully open, radiating brilliant silver-blue light.
That light flowed like a tangible substance. Within the deep pupils of the Evil Eye, countless profound Time Runes could be seen.
These runes sometimes flowed gently like a stream, sometimes spun rapidly like a vortex, and sometimes remained completely still, as if frozen in time and space.
Each rune contained the mysteries of the Time Laws, emitting heart-palpitating fluctuations.
As the runes shimmered, a mysterious and unfathomable silver river emerged around Wang Chen's body.
Through this silver river, one could seemingly glimpse scenes of the past and the future.
Whenever the silver river flowed, time itself changed accordingly.
When the silver river flowed backwards, time reversed. When it flowed forward, time accelerated.
Against the backdrop of this long river, Wang Chen appeared like a god who controlled time—mysterious and powerful, completely beyond the imagination of mortals.
Suddenly, the silver light in Wang Chen's eyes blazed brightly. The long river instantly collapsed and transformed into a silver cocoon of light that enveloped him.
Countless Time Runes flowed across the surface of the light cocoon, profound and extraordinary. Even a God-level powerhouse would die, body and soul extinguished, just from a single glance at the Time Laws contained within those runes.
Enveloped by the light cocoon, time seemed to vanish from Wang Chen's body. Time could no longer affect his existence.
Wang Chen's consciousness fell into chaos, attaining an unprecedented tranquillity. In this state, his consciousness lost all concept of time—only the most primal perception remained.
To Wang Chen, it felt as though only an instant had passed, yet also as though tens of thousands of years had gone by.
In this profound and mysterious chaotic state, Wang Chen's comprehension of the Time Laws deepened further, and he finally took that last, crucial step.
His mastery of the Time Laws reached 100%—he had completely mastered the Time Laws!
After fully mastering the Time Laws, the silver cocoon that wrapped around Wang Chen shattered with a loud boom, turning into countless specks of Time Rune light that merged into his body and vanished.
Inside the Black Book space, Wang Chen's eyes suddenly snapped open. In the depths of his pupils, a long river seemed to flow.
Wang Chen slowly stood up, the corners of his mouth curling slightly before he threw his head back and laughed loudly.
"Hahahaha! After hundreds of years in the Black Book space, I have finally completely mastered the Time Laws!!"
Having fully mastered the Time Laws, Wang Chen felt as though he had become the master of time itself, capable of wielding the mighty power of time at will.
Moreover, after completely mastering the Time Laws, both his body and soul grew even stronger under the nourishment of the Law's power.
Wang Chen remembered that in the original story, there was also a God of Time in the God Realm. However, that God of Time in the God Realm was merely a First-Class God. Although not weak, it was somewhat unworthy of the title "God of Time."
Wang Chen estimated that the God of Time in the God Realm had not fully mastered the Time Laws, only a portion of them. Otherwise, he could not possibly be so weak.
Even so, being able to create a divine position using just a part of the Time Laws was enough to step into the ranks of First-Class Gods.
As someone who had completely mastered the Time Laws, Wang Chen's strength, even without a divine position, was no inferior to a First-Class God.
And once he used the complete Time Laws to create a divine position, that position would inevitably be a God King-level divine position, and his strength would reach the God King level.
For a moment, Wang Chen couldn't help but feel excited.
However, he quickly reined in his excitement.
Although God King-level strength was very powerful in the God Realm, it was not the absolute pinnacle.
The God Realm had a full five God King-level experts.
If Wang Chen were to create a divine position using only the Time Laws right now, even after ascending to the God Realm, he would not be able to do whatever he wanted. He would inevitably be checked and balanced by the other five God Kings.
That was not in line with Wang Chen's intentions. As the saying goes, how could a great man living between heaven and earth remain subservient to others for long?
When Wang Chen was weak, lying low was fine, but now, as the top dog of the Douluo Planet, accustomed to being unrivalled and supreme, even if he ascended to the God Realm, he wanted to be the top dog there!
Moreover, Tang San possessed dual divine positions—the Sea God and the Asura God—and his strength was considerable. Especially since he also controlled the God Realm's central hub.
If Wang Chen wanted to take revenge on Tang San for the harm he had caused him in the shadows, a mere Time God position created from the Time Laws alone would absolutely not be enough.
Wang Chen needed even greater power, such as mastering the Space Laws.
Time and Space were a pair. Individually, Time or Space was roughly on par with the laws mastered by the other God Kings—none clearly superior.
But once one mastered both the complete Time Laws and Space Laws simultaneously, it would absolutely not be a simple matter of one plus one, but a qualitative transformation.
Just like the Dragon God who simultaneously held the two great divine positions of Destruction and Creation, his strength far surpassed that of a God King, standing alone in a higher tier as a Supreme God!
Once Wang Chen mastered both the complete Time Laws and Space Laws and created Time and Space divine positions, his strength would surpass the God King level and reach the same Supreme God level as the Dragon God!
At that time, even if Tang San controlled the God Realm's central hub, killing him would be as easy as crushing an ant for Wang Chen.
For other gods, simultaneously mastering two top-tier complementary laws might be as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
But for Wang Chen, who possessed the Black Book, it was not difficult at all.
The auxiliary abilities of the Black Book were simply too powerful—whether it was increasing comprehension or the time-acceleration function inherent to the Black Book space, both were top-tier support functions.
With the Black Book at his side, Wang Chen only wanted to say one thing: no matter how difficult a law is to comprehend, in my hands, it's trash!
Black Book, let me see your limits!
Comprehension boost, time acceleration—max them out!
Thus, to become the top dog of the God Realm and pinch Tang San to death to avenge his grudge, Wang Chen continued to comprehend the Space Laws.
With the Black Book's assistance, Wang Chen completely mastered the Space Laws in less than three years.
Time Laws plus Space Laws combined into Spacetime Laws. With the power of Spacetime Laws, even without a divine position, Wang Chen could already rival a God King.
However, Wang Chen was still not satisfied and immediately continued comprehending other laws, such as the Soul Laws, Life Laws, Destruction Laws, and the elemental laws that constitute matter.
The reason he comprehended so many laws was that he discovered the energy contained on Douluo Planet was too scarce.
If he stayed on Douluo Planet and slowly accumulated the energy needed to create a divine position, it would take at least several thousand years, if not longer.
How could Wang Chen wait that long? As the saying goes, if energy is insufficient, make up for it with laws.
So what if he had no divine position? As long as he mastered enough laws and made them strong enough, he could still beat God Kings and sweep through everything invincibly!
He wanted to rely on the power of laws to achieve the Supreme God!
With the Black Book's assistance, comprehending laws was as simple as eating and drinking for Wang Chen.
This path was a broad, sunlit avenue that belonged solely to Wang Chen!
With Spacetime Laws as the foundation, elemental laws as the seed, Life and Destruction Laws as the flesh, and Soul Laws as the skin—
Wang Chen would condense a supreme Fruit of Rules!