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There are several ways to shorten the time needed to absorb energy.
The first, and also the most common, is nutrient solution.
These specially formulated nutrient solutions are extremely easy to absorb.
Under normal circumstances, a newly advanced Domain Lord would need at least several hundred to over a thousand years to reach the peak of the Domain Lord level.
That is already for small-bodied lifeforms like humans, who can reach the peak in such a relatively short time.
Larger-bodied lifeforms require even longer.
However, nutrient solutions can allow a human Domain Lord to reach the peak in just a few years, or even within a single year.
This is because nutrient solutions are concocted using various precious treasures.
If treasures were consumed directly, the energy impact could be quite severe.
One would be unable to absorb everything at once, resulting in waste.
Human alchemists therefore refined these treasures into nutrient solutions.
However, the cost of nutrient solutions is extremely high.
The larger the body and the higher the genetic level of a lifeform, the more energy it requires.
The more energy required, the greater the amount of nutrient solution needed.
The size of the Space Worm clone is countless times that of a normal human.
As a result, even Luo Fan could not bear the cost of preparing nutrient solutions for the Space Worm clone.
It would be better to let the Space Worm clone devour spatial fragments on its own.
To a Space Worm, spatial fragments are also a kind of treasure.
It is just that the digestion speed is slower than absorbing nutrient solutions.
As for the energy inside the Water Spirit Pearl, it is even more precious.
This is a kind of transformed, ownerless energy.
It is even purer than the energy contained within treasures.
It can be directly absorbed and converted into one's own power.
Because of this, the Water Spirit Pearl is actually even more valuable than ordinary origin supreme treasures.
The second method is to use origin supreme treasures like the Water Spirit Pearl.
Ordinary people cannot even come into contact with such things.
Those who can are generally at least Universe Overlords.
The third method also involves using a treasure.
Or rather, it is a method used in combination with others.
That is to absorb energy in an environment with a higher time flow rate.
Although environments with accelerated time flow are not suitable for comprehending laws,
which is why many experts do not use time acceleration methods to comprehend laws,
it makes no difference when it comes to absorbing energy.
However, regions with high time flow rates are extremely difficult to find.
Especially within the Primal Universe.
Only certain secret realms possess time flow rates higher than the outside world.
But such secret realms are generally extraordinary and extremely dangerous.
Danger also represents opportunity.
Such secret realms usually contain many treasures related to the Time Origin Law.
One must know that any treasure related to a superior law is extremely valuable.
Especially those related to the Time Origin Law.
In the universe, comprehending a single superior law is enough to become a Venerable.
Yet the number of Space Venerables far exceeds that of Time Venerables.
This is because space-type treasures are relatively abundant.
The most common example is spatial fragments.
There are also World Master worlds.
These are also a form of space.
Time-type items, on the other hand, are extremely rare.
Therefore, such secret realms are not something the current Luo Fan can come into contact with.
However, there is one thing that he can access.
That is a Time House.
A Time House is a special kind of treasure.
Only experts who have mastered time acceleration can possibly create one.
Moreover, if their strength is insufficient, they must also be an artifact refiner to make it.
This results in Time Houses being extremely expensive.
Even setting aside the high price, maintaining time acceleration consumes an enormous amount of energy.
And ordinary Time Houses do not have very fast time flow rates.
They are usually within ten times.
Better ones might reach twenty to thirty times.
Any higher than that would count as a heavy treasure.
Furthermore, the stronger the lifeform that enters such a Time House, the more energy it consumes.
An ordinary human World Master staying inside for one year might consume hundreds or even thousands of Hunyuan units worth of Universe Crystals.
As a result, very few people buy them.
But Luo Fan did not care.
He had money.
And he also had the Water Spirit Pearl to provide energy.
After thinking it through, he immediately began searching the Virtual Universe treasury for treasures similar to Time Houses.
After becoming a registered disciple of the Lord of Ice Peak, his authority had increased significantly.
The items he could purchase and the information he could query had both expanded greatly.
These had all been downloaded in full by the Mechanical Race clones via subprograms.
Very quickly, he directly searched for one particular treasure.
In the next instant, a three-dimensional projection appeared before him.
Time Treasure Palace.
Function: Can adjust the time flow rate to 1 to 15 times that of the Primal Universe. Suitable for comprehending time acceleration.
Price: 60 billion points
Yes, just a palace that could accelerate time flow up to fifteen times that of the Primal Universe already cost sixty billion points.
That was equivalent to sixty billion Hunyuan units of Universe Currency.
And there was no discount.
At this price, many titled kings could not afford it.
After all, this type of time palace was generally used to comprehend the profundities of time acceleration within the Time Origin Law.
Using it purely to accelerate time was something most buyers would not do.
Those who could afford it were generally peak titled kings or even invincible titled kings.
The lifespan of immortals is practically infinite.
Spending one accelerated year inside could cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Hunyuan units worth of treasures.
Using Universe Crystals alone would not be sufficient.
They would need to use divine power crystals such as Thunder God Source Crystals or Fire God Source Crystals as energy.
Even the cheapest of these cost several million Hunyuan units.
Even titled kings could not afford such consumption.
Therefore, they would only use it occasionally to experience time acceleration and see if they could grasp that profundity.
Fortunately, although the price was high, Luo Fan still had enough money.
Of course, there were several even more expensive options.
But those cost several hundred billion points.
And the maximum acceleration was only a little over twenty times.
Thus, Luo Fan chose this Time Palace.
It was something he could afford right now.
Very soon, many of his avatars transferred the remaining funds from various channels into Luo Fan's account.
In just a single day, his account gained an additional sixty billion Hunyuan units.
He directly converted the money into points and placed the order for the Time Palace.
In an instant, sixty billion Hunyuan units were gone.
He instructed the staff to deliver it directly to his manor.
There was always an avatar stationed at his manor in the Primal Secret Realm.
Receiving goods there was the fastest.
After all, such treasures were generally only stored at the Virtual Universe Company headquarters.
And the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company was very close to the Wuchen spacetime where his manor was located.
Delivery could be completed within a single day.
Luo Fan immediately created a task.
[Task: Obtain the Time Palace. Reward: Zhouji Tower]
The Time Palace itself was not important. The real value lay in the task reward.
Upon seeing the name, Luo Fan knew it was a sure thing.
...
Soon, one day passed.
That avatar received the Time Palace delivered by a titled king immortal.
At the same time, the notification of task completion sounded in Luo Fan's mind.
Without hesitation, Luo Fan had the Space Worm clone claim the reward.
At this time, the two clones were still at the edge of the universe and had not left.
In the next instant, a "small" tower appeared before the Space Worm clone.
This tower was only about one hundred kilometers tall.
For the Space Worm clone, it truly was a small tower.
Soon, a stream of information appeared in Luo Fan's mind.
After absorbing this information, his face was filled with delight.
This tower was the Zhouji Tower.
The Zhouji Tower was a top-tier heavy treasure.
It could accelerate time flow up to one hundred times that of the Primal Universe.
Moreover, it was a palace-type heavy treasure.
Its value was comparable to that of an ordinary weapon-type supreme treasure.
Of course, accelerating time flow within the Zhouji Tower to one hundred times also required an enormous cost.
And the Zhouji Tower consumed energy at an astonishing rate.
Without hesitation, the Mechanical Race clone entered it directly.
Because it was a system reward, Luo Fan immediately succeeded in binding it.
In the next moment, the Space Worm clone began supplying energy to it.
Very quickly, the time flow inside the Zhouji Tower began to accelerate.
Two times.
Three times.
Ten times.
Twenty times.
Soon, the time flow inside the Zhouji Tower reached one hundred times.
The Space Worm clone poured energy into the Zhouji Tower as if it cost nothing.
The Mechanical Race clone performed some calculations.
Based on the energy within the Space Worm clone, even accounting for its recovery speed, it could only maintain a hundredfold time flow for about ten years.
One must know that the energy within the Space Worm clone was countless times greater than that of an ordinary immortal.
Soon, the Space Worm clone stopped supplying energy.
It then entered the tower itself.
In the next instant, the time flow rate began to increase again, quickly reaching one hundred times.
The Mechanical Race clone calculated once more.
Although the consumption had not risen to an absurd level,
with the energy inside the Space Worm clone, it could probably only be sustained for less than one year.
Of course, this one year referred to one year of the Primal Universe.
Which meant nearly a hundred years inside the Zhouji Tower.
In the end, Luo Fan decided to directly use the energy within the Water Spirit Pearl.
After all, the energy inside the Water Spirit Pearl was actually ownerless divine power.
The level of this ownerless divine power was far higher than the world power within the Space Worm clone.
At the very least, the difference in quality was enormous.
The two were like cooking oil compared to gasoline.
The ownerless divine power within the Water Spirit Pearl was enough to support consumption for a very long time.
After making his decision, Luo Fan stored the Zhouji Tower within the system space.
Then, the two clones set off on their return to Earth.
In just a few hours, the two clones returned to Earth.
After the main body once again discussed spear techniques with Fang Xueyi, he entered a spatial interlayer together with the two clones.
Only a few avatars were left behind on Earth.
After all, the spatial interlayer where the main body and the two clones resided was within the Solar System.
Thus, Luo Fan's main body and the two clones began to advance their realms at a frenzied pace.
Not only that, he also used this terrifying time flow to comprehend laws.
Although the laws that could be comprehended within the Zhouji Tower were basically limited to the Time Origin Law,
Luo Fan could still use his external avatars to observe the Ice Peak Chaos Stele or the statue of the Water-Space Beast God to comprehend the Chaos Stele and the Water-Space fusion laws.
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