After King Zhenyan and King Luo Zhen left, Juaxe looked at Xu Yan and asked: "When will they become the masters of the universe?"

"At least hundreds of thousands of years. If you don't work hard, it will take even longer." Xu Yan shook his head and said: "Obtaining the 'fate' of the Lord of the Universe only means that their promotion to the Lord of the Universe will be better than others."

It's easy, but not inevitable. Even if it can be done, it will take a lot of time. There is no need for the tribe to put too much energy on them, just let nature take its course."

If you can get promoted just by "stealing lives", then why bother practicing hard? Just go and plunder other people's lives.

Although Xu Yan used some means of 'karma' to ensure that King Zhenyan and King Luo Zhen would most likely be able to fully realize their potential by plundering and merging fates.

But this must also be based on the premise that they work hard enough to ensure a relatively high probability of being promoted to the Lord of the Universe.

In the final analysis, destiny is only a supplement, not a necessity.

The real value of this thing is not to improve people's potential or upper limit, but to some special places in the 'path of cause and effect'.

For example, using the means of causality to directly kill the main body and other clones through the clones is essentially a 'death-killing style'.

If you destroy his destiny, no matter how far apart the other party's body is, you will naturally be unable to continue living.

There are also some other special methods.

But generally speaking, the most valuable thing to Xu Yan about the 'path of cause and effect' is still the two points of 'taking lives' and 'decapitating lives'.

The former can quickly increase the foundation of the human race, while the latter can directly enhance the deterrent power when facing the Lord of the Universe who has multiple clones.

The difficulty of soul enslavement and soul killing is always higher than directly killing a clone.

And with the method of 'killing life', as long as Xu Yan has the ability to kill a clone of any strong man, he can kill his body and other clones at the same time through the connection between fate and cause and effect.

Of course, there is no way to crack this trick.

Whether it is to obtain more fate, or to use the 'Void Way' clone, etc., it can be easily resolved.

But Xu Yan believes that at least in the universe sea, the deterrent effect of this move is still very strong.

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Giant Ax didn't ask too many questions, he just understood the situation and left quickly.

Xu Yan is not in a hurry to go to Chaos City to practice, but is trying to create a secret method with the 'Tao of Cause and Effect' as the core.

There are two directions in creating the secret method.

The first is ‘death-killing’, which means directly killing the enemy’s fate.

You can directly kill the enemy without destroying the divine body or soul, or even kill the main body and clone together.

The second is to 'determine the effect and find the cause'. First determine the 'effect' of an enemy's death, and then find the corresponding 'cause'.

If one can successfully create and perfect this move, as long as the strength is not so strong that Xu Yan cannot determine the 'result', he will definitely not be able to escape the outcome of being killed by Xu Yan.

Of course, this is also related to the strength gap between the two sides.

If a god king comes, even one who does not understand the methods of cause and effect, no matter what method Xu Yan uses, he will not be able to find the 'effect' of the other party's death, and naturally he will not be able to find the corresponding 'cause'.

Generally speaking, the weaker the enemy, the easier it is to determine the 'result'.

With Xu Yan's current achievements in the path of cause and effect, the opponent's strength cannot be at least stronger than Xu Yan's, so that he can determine the opponent's 'result' relatively easily in the battle.

Of course, if there is enough time to plan the layout, the opponent whose strength is slightly stronger than Xu Yan may also be determined to die by Xu Yan.

But this requires a lot of time and is more difficult to operate.

For example, based on Xu Yan's current understanding of the 'path of cause and effect', if he wanted to determine the 'result' of the death of the strongest man in the universe, it would take at least millions of epochs to plan, and he might not be able to succeed.

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There are too many surprises that may disrupt or even directly break Xu Yan's plan.

If you have that kind of time and energy, it would be more cost-effective to improve your own strength.

But even if it is only used for fighting, the method of 'determining the result and finding the cause' can still play a very important role.

Without this means, Xu Yan could only kill an opponent two levels weaker than himself, that is, the fourth-level Lord of the Universe.

The fifth-level Lord of the Universe has the ability to support Xu Yan for a long time until the opponent's support arrives to save him.

But by relying on 'determining the result and finding the cause', Xu Yan can directly determine the 'result' for the death of a fifth-level universe lord, so that the opponent's support cannot arrive in time due to various accidents, or the opponent is unable to arrive in time due to various accidents.

speed up death, etc.

No matter what, once the 'result' is decided, without equal means to counter it, the other party's death is doomed.

Even the Master of the Universe, the True God, etc., who are at the sixth level of strength, as long as they are a little weaker than Xu Yan, they will have the opportunity to kill them directly using the method of 'determining the result and finding the cause'.

Developing a secret method of this level is naturally quite difficult.

However, with the assistance of the virtual universe and reverse chaos space, it is just a matter of how much time and resources it takes.

Xu Yan was immersed in the development of secret techniques, and the war in the outside world was still going on.

Because the Lord of Meng Yu and the Lord of Black Wall were captured, and there were some disputes among the three tribes because of this incident, the war barely calmed down.

After Xu Yan stripped away the destiny of the Lord of the Prison and the Lord of the Black Wall, Juaxe, at Xu Yan's suggestion, deliberately delayed the exchange of hostages, so that the Machine Tribe and the Zerg Tribe would not dare to act rashly.

A captured Master of the Universe will not cause them to give up their plans against mankind, but it is inevitable to have concerns about their actions.

For a time, the pace of the war gradually slowed down.

However, it has not stopped completely, it is still continuing.

The First Outer Territory Battlefield has become the main battle zone. A large number of immortal kings and universe lords are fighting each other here. The Lord of the Universe will occasionally end up personally.

But there is no such thing as a large number of universe masters gathering for raids.

Before thinking of a way to deal with Xu Yan's 'Purple Flame', the alliance of the three tribes did not dare to easily let the Lord of the Universe confront Xu Yan.

Especially a large number of Masters of the Universe.

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It took nearly a thousand years for Xu Yan's divine body to fully recover.

The treasures collected by the Chaos City Lord have all been put in place. After all the recharges were completed, the balance on the system reached 123,000 treasure points.

Considering that the battle situation has stabilized, Xu Yan said hello to Giant Ax and went to Chaos City to practice.

Between continuing to comprehend the 'Burning' channel or turning to other branches, Xu Yan hesitated for a while and chose to comprehend the 'Destroying' channel which was more in line with the 'path of cause and effect'.

Although Xu Yan did not feel how closely the line of 'annihilation' fit with the 'path of cause and effect', judging from the prompts on the previous [Inheritance] interface, it was obvious that in the system's judgment, the 'path of cause and effect' was the most suitable.

Fusion with the lineage of 'annihilation'.

In order to speed up efficiency, Xu Yan did not bother saving treasure points, and directly started the enlightenment of the 'Lord of Chaos' level. The cost of the lowest level was as high as 10,000 treasure points per year.

The total of 120,000 treasure points is only enough to sustain enlightenment for just 12 years.

But there are advantages to being expensive.

At a hundred times the cost, although the efficiency of enlightenment is not as high as a hundred times, it is still close to ninety times.

In total, spending a little more treasure points can save thousands of years of time in Chaos City. When converted into the time of the original universe, it is equivalent to saving more than 30,000 years, which is still very cost-effective.

After 12 years of enlightenment, Xu Yan invested four years in the lineage of ‘annihilation’.

The remaining eight years were equally divided among the other eight meridians, each of which took one year to comprehend.

Twelve years later, Xu Yan's understanding of the 'Mie' pulse has reached 36.8%, the 'Burn' pulse has reached 29.7%, and the other seven pulses are all around 9%, with a slight fluctuation, but not too much.

In addition, the 'path of cause and effect' has also initially merged with the 'annihilation' channel, which can be considered a good start.

As the understanding of the ‘destruction’ channel deepens, the progress of the integration will naturally increase.

In the process of understanding the rules, Xu Yan would naturally have a lot of inspiration for creating and improving secret methods in his mind.

However, Xu Yan would not waste his precious "Enlightenment" time to study these inspirations in depth. He would just write them down, put them aside for the time being, and concentrate on understanding the rules.

Now that the study of the rules is over, it is naturally time to dig out these inspirations from the depths of memory again.

It has to be said that without the blessing of the [Sudden Enlightenment] state, Xu Yan could clearly feel that his thinking speed was much slower, and his consciousness felt even more sluggish.

——This is not to say that Xu Yan’s understanding is poor, but that compared with the state under the blessing of [Enlightenment], it is not on the same level at all.

But if you just study the secret method and don't pursue the extreme level of the secret method too much, there won't be much difference. It will just take more time.

In fact, with Xu Yan's current understanding of the law, not to mention comparing with the God King, he at least has a chance to create a secret method at the level of 'Lord of Chaos'.

Perhaps with the basic quality of the Immortal level, it is impossible to display this level of secret method, or even if it is barely used, the power will not be truly comparable to the power of the Chaos Lord.

At most, it is equivalent to the level of the 'Eternal True God' or even the 'True God of the Void'.

After all, there is a huge difference in basic quality.

But in fact, without the blessing of the [Sudden Enlightenment] state, it would be impossible for Xu Yan to create even the 'Eternal True God' level secret method, let alone the 'Lord of Chaos' level secret method.

This is the suppression of the supreme rules of the cosmic sea.

Apart from the [Epiphany] of the krypton gold system, Xu Yan has not found any way to get rid of this suppression.

But the supreme rule only does not allow the emergence of laws that exceed the ‘true god’s limit’ in the cosmic sea.

As for the secret method level, whether the secret method at the Void True God level is allowed, Xu Yan is not sure yet, but at least the secret method at the 'Tenth Level True God' level is allowed by the supreme rules.

With Xu Yan's basic quality and tenth-level secret technique, it is definitely impossible to exert tenth-level attack power.
To be continued...