"So that's how it is. The Wind Laws can actually be used in such a manner."
In a wilderness area within the Wind Divine Plane, Locke watched Teresia's battle ahead of him. Using Mirror Flower, Water Moon to record his application of the Wind Laws, he analyzed the Wind Laws from the perspective of a Paragon.
At present, Locke simply lacked Wind elemental affinity. Otherwise, his attainments in the Wind Laws would not be inferior to those of ordinary Gods.
After observing Teresia during this period of time, even Locke had to admit that Teresia truly was a genius.
After more than five trillion years had passed, the fusion of Laws Profound Mysteries was no longer a secret within the Seven Divine Planes and Four Higher Planes.
As long as one joined organizations such as the Fiend Castle, Fiend Castle of the Netherworld, Fate Castle, or Life Castle in the various planes, one could obtain information regarding the fusion of Laws Profound Mysteries free of charge.
The God stage was the easiest stage for fusing Laws Profound Mysteries.
However, the difficulty of fusion was hundreds or even thousands of times greater than merely comprehending individual Profound Mysteries.
To comprehend Laws Profound Mysteries, soul strength was indispensable.
For a God to advance to Highgod, one had to fully comprehend every Profound Mystery of a particular Law.
Yet, once one completely comprehended one Profound Mystery, one's affinity toward the remaining Profound Mysteries would greatly decrease.
Thus, an ordinary God might require ten thousand years to comprehend a third Profound Mystery, one hundred thousand years for the fourth, and perhaps a million years each for the fifth and sixth.
Therefore, every God who learned about Laws fusion faced two choices.
Should they walk the path of fusing Laws Profound Mysteries, or should they follow the normal route of advancement?
Unfortunately, many beings who managed to reach the God stage had yet to experience the harshness of reality and had no clear understanding of their own abilities.
Those Gods who chose the path of fusion might spend millions of years without finding a point of compatibility between Profound Mysteries.
And after millions of years, their innate spirituality would gradually be extinguished, making it increasingly difficult even to comprehend new Profound Mysteries. In the end, they would stagnate at the God stage, forever unable to glimpse the realm of Highgods.
Meanwhile, those who had chosen the normal route might have already fully comprehended one set of Laws and advanced to Highgod.
At that point, those who had once fancied themselves geniuses and insisted on the path of fusion would instead become mediocrities...
In short, anyone capable of fusing more than three Laws Profound Mysteries while still a God was a genius among geniuses. Upon becoming a Highgod, they would possess Six-Star Fiend-level power.
As for someone like Teresia, who had already completely fused six Wind Laws Profound Mysteries while still a God and whose strength was comparable to someone who had fused four Profound Mysteries of other Laws—
Such individuals weren't nonexistent, but they were indeed rare.
Locke could also sense that among the nine Wind Laws Profound Mysteries, only one remained incompletely comprehended.
It wasn't that Teresia couldn't fully comprehend that final Profound Mystery.
Rather, he possessed greater ambitions.
He wanted to push Laws fusion to its limit while still a God, then only break through to Highgod once he encountered an insurmountable bottleneck.
After advancing in cultivation and undergoing the baptism of the Laws, there would be a period during which one's soul possessed the highest affinity toward the Laws.
During that stage, cultivation efficiency was extraordinarily high.
Perhaps Teresia intended to take advantage of that breakthrough state to assault the Paragon realm.
Within the Wind Divine Plane, although Teresia currently possessed only Six-Star Fiend-level strength, everyone knew that if he wished, he could become a Highgod at any moment and advance to the level of a Seven-Star Fiend.
The realm of a Prefect, which countless people yearned for, was something Teresia could reach with only a bit more effort.
What everyone truly wanted to know was whether Teresia could become the second Paragon Highgod after Dunnington.
Of course, while some people hoped for Teresia's growth, there were naturally others who did not wish for an invincible Paragon Highgod to appear above their heads.
To Deities, the deterrence of a Paragon was far greater than that of Sovereigns.
No matter how powerful Sovereigns were, because of status, identity, and the Sovereign Pact, so long as Deities did not offend a Sovereign, Sovereigns were merely lofty existences worthy of worship.
Paragons, however, had no such restrictions.
If they wanted to kill you, they could do so at any time. There wasn't even a place where you could flee.
Even if you sought refuge beneath a Sovereign's protection, if the Paragon refused to give face to that Sovereign and killed you in front of them, the Sovereign would not offend a Paragon on your behalf.
The incident involving Figueroa of the Locke Army was still spoken of throughout the Seven Divine Planes and Four Higher Planes.
It was only because Dunnington had retired into seclusion in the Chaotic Sea of the Infernal Realm and rarely appeared afterward.
Otherwise, if Dunnington merely raised his arm and called out, there would be no fewer experts willing to follow him than those willing to follow Sovereigns.
Such was the prestige of an invincible Paragon.
Under such circumstances, some experts who had bet on Teresia becoming a Paragon would provide him with whatever assistance they could and establish a favorable relationship.
Meanwhile, those who wished to prevent Teresia from becoming a Paragon would send powerful subordinates to attack and harass him.
Given Teresia's current Six-Star Fiend strength, most of those attacking him were Six-Star Fiends, though there were occasionally Seven-Star Fiends as well.
Through these attacks, Teresia's power was displayed to perfection.
Among Six-Star Fiends, none could match him.
Even against Seven-Star Fiends, Teresia could hold out for a short time.
Of course, this was because those Seven-Star Fiends had no intention of truly killing him.
They all knew that Teresia could advance to Highgod whenever he wished and immediately reach their level.
Thus, killing Teresia was practically impossible.
They—and the masterminds behind them—also knew that Seven-Star Fiends stood little chance of killing Teresia.
But that had never been their objective.
Their goal was to force Teresia to become a Highgod, thereby increasing the difficulty of achieving the Paragon realm and lowering the probability of his success.
As long as Teresia failed to become a Paragon, then at most he would only reach their current level and pose no real threat to them.
Even if a Sovereign later took a liking to him, made him a Sovereign Emissary, and bestowed a Sovereign artifact upon him, there would still be people on their side capable of matching him.
As long as Teresia failed to become a Paragon, they would consider themselves victorious.
Naturally, Teresia understood their intentions.
However, he was actually extremely grateful to those attacking him.
Coincidentally, after cultivating in seclusion for a long period, his comprehension of the Laws had begun to stagnate.
If things continued this way, Teresia felt that only by advancing to Highgod would he be able to continue fusing Wind Laws Profound Mysteries.
Yet these attackers, while creating danger for him, also allowed inspiration regarding Laws fusion to continuously burst forth.
Thus, over this period of time, an unspoken understanding seemed to have formed between Teresia and his attackers.
Teresia would not enter cities and would freely allow the attackers to strike.
One side wished to force the other to break through, while the other wished to use them as whetstones...
It was truly like Pan Jinlian meeting Ximen Qing—an instant match made in heaven.
Under such circumstances, although Teresia remained constantly in danger, he gained some progress each time, escaped from the encirclements, and gradually became stronger.
Even Locke, who followed behind him, couldn't help but praise Teresia's rate of improvement.
At the same time, this gradual growth also allowed Locke to gain a deeper understanding of the Wind Laws.
Once he finally gathered the complete Wind Paragon Laws, he would undoubtedly be able to use them to access even more Spatial Laws in the shortest amount of time.
However, on this particular day, when Locke sensed the identity of the enemies appearing before Teresia, he found his eyebrows twitching uncontrollably several times.
Because the ones who had appeared beside Teresia this time were none other than Locke's son, Loran, and Loran's mount, Little Black.
...
"So, you're the genius Teresia who's been making the greatest waves in the Wind Divine Plane lately?"
Seated cross-legged atop Little Black—whose body had expanded to ten meters in size—Loran blocked Teresia's path and curiously examined him.
By now, more than five hundred thousand years had passed since Loran's birth.
The child who had once looked like a six- or seven-year-old had grown considerably and now appeared to be around ten years old.
During these five hundred thousand years, Loran's Water divine clone had completely fused five Laws Profound Mysteries and reached the level of a Prefect.
After feeling that his Water divine clone had reached a bottleneck, Loran had cultivated a Death divine clone and, through Locke's secret intervention, had become a dual-element soul mutant of Water and Death.
At present, his Death divine clone had also reached the Highgod level and was wandering throughout the Netherworld.
Precisely because of this, Locke's original body had failed to notice that the little rascal had secretly sent his Water divine clone out of the Netherworld and into the Wind Divine Plane.
Had Locke's Water divine clone not happened to be here and discovered Loran, Locke might still have remained unaware that this brat had pulled off a maneuver of openly repairing the plank road while secretly crossing at Chencang.
Indeed, after paying respects to his parents in the Frostsnow Plane, Locke and Lilia had returned to the Necropolis and allowed Loran to roam freely throughout the Netherworld.
(End of Chapter)
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