After 10 days passed in the outside, only 10 months had gone by inside Mo Shen's time domain. It was still a pause of time just for their consciousness. The main body couldn't experience the effect, so it didn't affect aging. Mo Shen was still 17 years old.
"Young lord, I'm still unable to reach that stage of entering the dao." Mo Fan said as he sighed thinking his young lord would be disappointed in him. "Sorry for disappointing your efforts."
Mo Shen patted his shoulder in a bid tocomfort him. "It's no problem. You are only a step away, especially as your mental strength has increased and you've reached the stage of being one with nature."
"Let's go back to the Undying Phoenix World to pick up Mo Feng." Mo Shen said and he opened a portal leading to the world.
Immediately they arrived at the Undying Phoenix World, Mo Feng sensed their arrival and flew to Mo Shen and perched on top of his shoulder. He had grown bigger since a month ago.
Before they left this world a month ago, Mo Shen left Mo Feng here to cultivate well, especially as the aura could stabilize and improve his cultivation.
Mo Shen was about to create a portal to the void, but he thought for a moment. "Since Mo Feng really likes this world, won't it be better if I take this world with me?"
"Haha!" Mo Fan laughed. "You're really funny young lord, how can you take this world with you?"
But Mo Fan immediately stopped laughing the moment he saw the seriousness in his lord's face. He now knew that Mo Shen wasn't just casually saying it, but was actually considering the best method to achieve that goal.
As Mo Fan thought, Mo Shen was indeed considering the best method to take this world with him. He went through the memories in his mind, looking for a way out.
"Haigh!" Mo Shen sighed as he didn't find a solution in his memories. "Those ancient people are really useless. So none of them actually found a way out of this."
"I might as well cut up a part of this mountain, since it contains such heavy spiritual energy. It can even be considered the highest rank spiritual crystal." Mo Shen said as he lamented over not being able to take the whole mountain with him.
He looked into the storage ring on his finger to check how much space it could contain.
Suddenly, a thought struck him. "Can't I turn this world into my spacial storage artifact?"
What he meant was to turn the world into an artifact like a storage ring. But the process was going to be quite difficult and challenging.
He spread his divine sense over the whole Undying Phoenix World. This world was actually quite small. At least it was small compared to other lower worlds. It was about a quarter the size of the True Martial World.
Mo Shen's divine sense spread for close to 6 hours before he finally found a path to follow.
"Every world has their world core and spirit. Fortunately for him, the spirit of this world has long dissipated due to the lack of life for a very long time." Mo Shen said.
"For me to take control of this world, I'll have to devour the world core totally, blending myself with it. And to devour the world core, I'll need to have comprehended 3 supreme daos: the Infinite Space Dao, the Dark Void Dao and the Billion Stars Dao. It's no wonder no one has ever tried it, how many people out there are able to comprehend more than 1 dao, not to talk of 3?"
"I've already comprehended the Infinite Space Dao, so i just need to comprehend the other 2."
He searched his memories to find information on the 2 daos. "To fully comprehend the Dark Void Dao, I'll have to go to the void once more."
"And then to comprehend the Billion Stars Dao, I'll also need to go to the void. But it won't be like the first where I'll just stay in one place to observe the void. I;ll need to move around the void to study and comprehend the arrangement of all the worlds in this Dao Universe realm."
"To complete that, I'll need to first comprehend the Dark Void Dao, which can help me navigate through the void quickly, otherwise I might spend hundreds of years before actually looking through all the worlds in this realm and comprehend their arrangement."
"You can stay here first." Mo Shen told Mo Feng and took Mo Fan with him out of the world into the dark void outside it.
They both sat cross-legged and started their comprehension. Mo Shen created a time domain to envelop them. Making 1 day outside to be 1 month inside the domain. That was the current limit of his domain as he was still not strong enough to handle greater time differences.
Mo Shen wanted to be done with the comprehension as soon as possible, because to comprehend the Billion Starts Dao, even if he had comprehended the Dark Void Dao, he will still need to spend at least a year in the void, comprehending the arrangement of the worlds in the realm and how they move about.
Mo Shen spread his divine sense all over the void, looking for a particular sensation. When comprehending the Dark Void Dao, there was a particular sensation that was very important. Once one finds that sensation, it won't take long to comprehend the dao.
One could say that sensation was always moving around. It was more like the void key which stabilizes the void in a particular realm. If one was lucky, they might find the sensation immediately, but if one was unlucky, they could wait for years to pass by before feeling it.
And Mo Shen, being someone who didn't believe in luck spread out his divine sense in an attempt to find that sensation. Although his divine sense couldn't go far as the void was too vast, he could still increase his range of searching.
He didn't move from his position so as not to miss that sensation. He just stayed there and waited, trying all means to get his divine sense to cover a larger area.
The void could be said to be the best place to train the divine sense because it was practically a large empty space filled with different worlds. When the divine sense passes through a large empty space and comes in contact with a space filled with life, it becomes stronger. And only the void met such condition. And the darkness of the unknown could also temper the divine sense.
Mo Shen kept on trying to stretch out his divine sense. Once it collapses first, he would put it out again. It was also a form of training. Since he was going past his time domain, it was no longer effective for him. It could only be used for Mo Fan. But Mo Shen didn't mind, he kept on putting out his divine sense.
It wasn't until a month had passed that he felt that sensation. His divine sense could already cover double what it was in the past. Immediately, he went to the source of the sensation and followed it, studying it carefully for another month.
That was when he saw her. There was a woman in the void with a long white hair like Mo Shen's. She sat cross-legged comprehending something. Mo Shen got closer to her due to his curiousity.
He never expected there to be another person like him, coming to the dark void comprehending concepts. The void was very dark, and only where there was a world that some light will be released from it. But the woman's body emitted some kind of light through her white hair, so Mo Shen was able to see her clearly, but she was wearing a veil that covered her face, and her eyes were closed.
He checked the woman's cultivation, and it was at the peak of the Empyrean realm. "I never expected there to be someone at the peak of the Empyrean realm in the Dao Universe. Could she be an old monster who had stayed here for millions of years, constantly cultivating."
The woman was now almost at the stage of entering the dao. But she seemed to be having difficulty in reaching that stage. According to her speed she would need at least 2 months to get there.
"Why do they always find it difficult to reach that stage?" Mo Shen thought as he remembered mo Fan. Then he spread the aura of the dao around his body for the woman to feel it.
The moment the woman felt the aura, her comprehension increased, and she reached the stage of entering the dao immediately.
Mo Shen left her front and hid himself in the dark void. Without emitting any light, the woman wouldn't be able to find him except she had his blue eyes.
"Good thing I reached this stage quite fast. The Dao battlefield would be opening in 3 years, so I would wait for it instead of going into seclusion to break through to the Origin Dao realm." The woman's soft, but cold voice could be heard.
"The Dao Universe main world ie really devoid of dao. I had reached the peak of Empyrean realm 50 years ago, but I couldn't even enter the dao within those 50 years. But only 2 months after entering the void, and I've already entered the dao." The woman complained. "It's time to return."
The woman then took out a black space-ship and entered it. The ship was quite large, it could fit over a thousand persons just fine. After she entered it, the ship sped off into a distance.
"The Dao Battlefield?" Mo Shen pondered as what the woman said kept ringing in his ears.
He searched through his memories for something like that. After a while, he found what he was looking for.
The Dao Battlefield was a particular world that held the Dao Battle. The world was devoid of spiritual energy, and only had dao energy. One could comprehend the dao there quickly, and there were tablets of all the daos in the world there.
All beings in the 9 Heavens who were under the age of 20,000 and had entered the dao could participate in the dao battle. It was basically a gathering of geniuses from all over the universe. It took place every 1,000 years, and one couldn't participate in it more than once.
At the time of its opening, it's aura will spread all over the 9 Heavens, shining on all those who had entered the dao, and hadn't gone there before. Then their consciousness will be pulled into the Dao Battlefield. In there, your cultivation would be useless, and your only strength was your soul strength.
One's soul strength didn't increase with their cultivation. The more powerful the soul flames were, the more the soul strength. There were usually cultivation methods to increase the soul strength, but they were usually very rare and valuable.
Mo Shen whose soul had always been powerful was quite confident. His soul could be said to have surpassed the Universe Dao realm.
The Dao Battlefield was also the perfect place to train your soul. The Dao Battle event lasted for 10 years. It was divided into 2 stages. The first 5 years were for comprehension of the dao, and the next 5 years was for bloody battles, but nobody would die in the real world if killed there. But your soul will be injured, and your cultivation will drop by at least 2 stages.
"From what that woman said, it will be in 3 years. I have to settle myself so that I can participate in it." Mo Shen said as he thought things through. "But wait a minute, doesn't that mean that woman is below 20,000 years old?"
Mo Shen was quite shocked. "I thought she was an old monster."
From what Mo Fan had explained to him, the Dao Universe was in a sharp decline, and due to its absence of dao energy, it was hard for people to cultivate. A normal genius in the Dao universe would only be able to reach the Void Immortal realm at 10,000 years of age, and reach the Empyrean realm at 30,000 years.
"It seems like a some good geniuses were born in this generation." Mo Shen thought to himself before going back to were Mo Fan was.