High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 335: Chapter 187: Comprehending the Star Dome Domain

He closed his eyes, allowing the ubiquitous starlight and profound aura to envelop him.

His mind settled completely. He no longer actively pursued anything, but instead tried to ”feel” and ”listen” to the voice of this starry expanse.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, news of Li Wen entering the ”Star Dome Cave” had already spread.

All of Sagefire University, and even some of the gods and demons paying attention to the matter, were guessing how long it would take for this legendary disciple to comprehend the profound Star Dome Domain.

”Senior Brother Li went in! How long do you guys think it’ll take?”

”With Senior Brother Li’s heaven-defying comprehension, I think three months will be the absolute limit!”

”Three months? You’re underestimating Senior Brother Li! I bet two months! Maybe even faster!”

”Aren’t you all being a little too optimistic? That’s the Star Dome Domain! Even a genius needs to go through the process. I’ll be conservative and say four months?”

”I don’t think one month is impossible!”

”One month... Hiss... As much as I want to believe it, that’s just too terrifying. I think three months is a more reliable guess.”

”I agree, around three months. After all, his foundation is incredibly deep. This will be a breakthrough born from his vast accumulation.”

”Well, I think you can’t judge the world of a genius by common standards. Who knows, maybe he’ll actually create a miracle?”

All sorts of discussions fermented in the training grounds, martial arts arenas, and even online.

The majority leaned toward a timeframe of two to three months. This estimate both acknowledged the difficulty of the Star Dome Domain and expressed their strong confidence in Li Wen’s talent.

Countless gazes, filled with anticipation, curiosity, and even a hint of unease, were cast toward the mountain peak shrouded in starlight.

Time began to flow silently onward.

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Inside the Star Dome Cave, time seemed to stand still.

Li Wen sat cross-legged. He didn’t rush to use [Absolute Focus], but instead tried to perceive and capture the illusory ”Star Dome Domain” in his normal state.

He emptied his mind, his consciousness slowly sinking into the cave’s unique environment.

His surroundings were not pitch-black, but flowed with a deep glimmer that seemed to contain endless fragments of shattered stars.

He could sense a certain rhythm in the space, like the orbits of stars, or the pulse of the universe at its birth.

These rhythms were extremely vague, like trying to see distant starlight through a thick sheet of frosted glass.

He could feel its presence, but he could never touch its core, let alone comprehend the principles of its composition and operation.

Half a day passed. His mind felt lost in a fog, unable to glimpse even a fraction of the ”Star Dome’s” boundary.

’It seems my normal state really isn’t up to the task.’ Li Wen understood this clearly and hesitated no longer.

With a slight shift in his thoughts, the powerful Spiritual Power granted by his level 15 Scholar class was instantly mobilized. [Absolute Focus]—activated!

BOOM!

An indescribable sense of clarity swept through his sea of consciousness.

The world in his perception suddenly changed.

The once hazy and blurry spatial rhythms now seemed to have been wiped clean of dust by an invisible hand, becoming incomparably clear.

The 150% boost to his comprehension, stacked on top of his already extremely high talent, produced a qualitative change.

Those chaotic ”rhythms” were no longer incomprehensible noise, but had transformed into countless distinct, interwoven ”star-like tracks.”

He ”saw” the flow of energy—it wasn’t a chaotic surge, but was following a kind of supremely profound trajectory.

He perceived the layers of space. It wasn’t a single plane, but an Energy Field composed of countless fine particles, constantly fluctuating with the pulse of the ”star-like tracks.”

The fundamental Law fragments that constituted the ”Star Dome Domain” appeared one by one before his powerful Primordial Spirit’s perception, like the disassembled parts of a precision instrument.

Li Wen immersed himself in it, his mind completely attached to those clear ”star-like tracks” and Law fragments.

He no longer tried to forcibly grasp or understand everything at once. Instead, like solving a complex geometry problem, he began to deduce and construct from the most basic nodes and core connections.

His mind was highly focused. The vast power of his Primordial Spirit in his sea of consciousness simulated the operation of the star-like tracks, attempting to understand the resonant frequency of the particle Energy Field and deduce the principles behind the layering of space.

This process was extremely mentally taxing, but he reveled in it. With every tiny knot he unraveled, his understanding of the Star Dome deepened.

As his comprehension deepened, a strange phenomenon began to manifest around him.

It wasn’t a world-shaking explosion of energy, but an extremely subtle change.

A gossamer-thin, almost imperceptible layer of glimmering dust seemed to coat the seated Li Wen.

This dust was not stationary; it flowed around him with extreme slowness, following some imperceptible pattern.

It would flicker occasionally, like a distant, insignificant star winking in the night sky.

They were not physical entities, but more like manifestations of a faint resonance produced by spatial particles under the pull of a certain Law.

This was precisely the phenomenon that occurred when a comprehender began to touch and understand the edge of the Star Dome Domain, a sign of the initial resonance between their own aura and the cave’s environment.

This phenomenon, so faint it was almost negligible, instantly caught the attention of Zhao Zheng and Senior Brother Zhang, who were also comprehending not far away.

Zhao Zheng was startled out of his deep state of comprehension. He turned his head in confusion.

When his gaze fell upon the ethereal stardust glimmer around Li Wen, his pupils contracted abruptly, his face filled with utter disbelief.

”Junior Brother Li... Is he... already touching the edge?” Zhao Zheng’s voice was hoarse with a shock he himself hadn’t even noticed.

The memory of when he first comprehended here flashed through his mind.

It had taken him a full fourteen days and nights, his mind struggling repeatedly in the chaos, before he finally captured that subtle sense of the boundary and produced a similar, faint phenomenon.

But Li Wen... how long had he been in here? Half a day? A full day? He had already reached the starting point that had taken Zhao Zheng nearly half a month to get to?!

This astonishment was not unique to Zhao Zheng.

Beside him, Senior Brother Zhang gasped, his mouth falling open so wide you could almost fit an egg in it.