Beyond His Current Realm: Comprehension of the Laws

As the dust settled, the mountain where the Innate Gourd Vine had grown had been shorn down by several thousand zhang.

The mountain was gone, replaced by a massive crater.

Everyone stared at the scene, dumbfounded and unable to believe their eyes.

"That's incredible!"

"Did we really do this?"

Everyone gazed at the sight before them in disbelief, their hearts full of shock and confusion.

They could never have imagined that they could have such a tremendous impact on Buzhou Mountain.

After all, Buzhou Mountain was no ordinary mountain range. It had been formed from Great God Pangu's spine and bore his supreme might.

Buzhou Mountain had always been known as the Heavenly Pillar, the most important bridge connecting heaven and earth.

This wasn't the main peak of Buzhou Mountain, but merely one of its unremarkable peaks.

Even so, the terrifying change left everyone in disbelief.

Just as everyone stood there, dumbfounded, two dust-covered figures charged out of the crater.

They were caked in dust and dirt, looking utterly disheveled.

One of them gritted his teeth and cursed, "Damn it! The Innate Gourd Vine and the Innate Gourds really were destroyed! How is that possible?"

The other echoed him in grief and indignation. "Exactly! Not a single scrap is left. There were seven or eight Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures there! All our effort has gone to waste!"

Before everyone's eyes, Jieyin and Zhunti wore mournful expressions, their eyes filled with despair and resentment.

They had been full of anticipation for this treasure hunt, thinking they would at least get one or two Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to make up for the two treasures Xuan Yuan had robbed them of earlier. But now they had suffered such a devastating blow, and the pain in their hearts was beyond words.

The Western world was far inferior to the East, with scarce resources.

Every spiritual treasure was vital to them if they were to revitalize the Western world.

Now they had come away empty-handed. Their hopes and excitement instantly turned to ashes, replaced by endless disappointment and dejection.

They had thought they would reap a tremendous reward, but now all they could do was face the cruel reality.

The disappointment left them feeling utterly hopeless, as if all their efforts had been for nothing.

Donghuang Taiyi flew forward, his face full of urgency, and demanded, "Where's that brute Xuanyuan? Did you see his corpse?"

He hated Xuanyuan to the bone and wanted nothing more than to see him dead with his own eyes, to finally soothe his hatred.

Jieyin and Zhunti, however, glared at Donghuang Taiyi, sparks of anger in their eyes.

They replied coldly, "Even Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures were blasted to dust. Do you think Xuanyuan could have left a corpse behind?"

They were displeased by Donghuang Taiyi's questioning tone. Besides, after they had stolen from the Demon Clan's treasury, Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi had pursued them for hundreds of years. In the end, they had only escaped by diverting the trouble elsewhere, throwing the treasures to the Witch Clan.

In their eyes, aside from Xuanyuan, Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi were the people they hated most in the entire Eastern world.

Naturally, they had no intention of treating Donghuang Taiyi kindly.

At their words, Donghuang Taiyi was overjoyed, though he deliberately put on a grim expression and gritted his teeth. "Damn it! I wanted to tear him limb from limb. I never thought he wouldn't even leave a corpse behind!"

He didn't care about Jieyin and Zhunti's attitude. In fact, he was thrilled.

Xuanyuan was dead!

Good riddance!

Halfway up Buzhou Mountain.

An unnamed peak.

Xuanyuan, whom Jieyin, Zhunti, Donghuang Taiyi, and the others had all assumed was doomed, was leisurely reclining on his Enlightenment Chair, humming a jaunty tune. He was clearly in an excellent mood.

He recalled what had happened earlier.

The moment he put the Innate Gourd Vine into the Chaos Bead, the system's notification rang out.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, on completing the mission—'Treasures belong to those destined to find them, and I am the one destined to find them!' Reward: 1 billion Great Dao Merit and a 20-point increase to the Host's mastery of all laws."

Almost instantly, countless wondrous insights filled Xuanyuan's mind. His comprehension of the Laws of Time, Space, Destruction, Sword, and others immediately advanced by a level.

He had prepared to use some of his trump cards against the combined attacks of Sanqing, Jieyin, Zhunti, Dijun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the many other Quasi-Saint experts.

But with his deeper comprehension of the power of the Laws of Space and Time, it seemed those prepared trump cards were no longer necessary.

Before the attacks could land, Xuanyuan used the power of the Time Law to slow the flow of time by a hundredfold.

That's right, a hundredfold. Before, he could only speed up or slow down the flow of time by a factor of ten. But after completing the mission and receiving the system's reward of a 20-point increase to his mastery of the laws,

he could now alter the flow of time by a factor of a hundred.

With time slowed a hundredfold, Xuanyuan calmly used the power of the Space Law to leave his original position in an instant and appear here.

"What a bunch of idiots. They couldn't even take a look at themselves before trying to fight me for the treasure!"

Xuanyuan chuckled and opened the system panel for a look.

Host: Xuanyuan

Race: Ancestor Witch of the Witch Clan

Cultivation: Early Quasi-Saint (Evil Corpse: Early Quasi-Saint)

Root: Innate Demon God

Technique: Nine Revolutions Mysterious Origin Technique (Early Stage, Fifth Revolution)

Laws: Sword Law (50|100), Time Law (40|100), Space Law (40|100), Pill Law (40|100), Lightning Law (60|100), Destruction Law (50|100)

Treasures: Chaos Spiritual Treasure—Chaos Bead, Chaos Spiritual Treasure—Chaos Cauldron, Supreme Grade Innate Supreme Treasure—Kunwu Sword (Damaged), Supreme Grade Innate Supreme Treasure—Taiji Diagram, Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—Twelve-grade Pure World White Lotus, Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—Enlightenment Chair, Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—Southern Earthly Flame Light Banner, Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—Book of Humanity, Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—Heavenly Book, Investiture of the Gods, Spirit-Beating Whip, Innate Gourd Vine, Supreme Grade Innate Gourds (Seven), Nine Heavens Breathing Soil...

His mastery of all six laws had increased by 20 points. His highest, the Lightning Law, had already reached 60.

Normally, cultivators began comprehending the power of laws at the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and their mastery rarely exceeded five percent.

At the early Quasi-Saint stage, further comprehension of the laws generally brought mastery to between ten and twenty percent.

At the middle Quasi-Saint stage, it could reach at most forty percent.

At the late Quasi-Saint stage, it could reach sixty percent.

At the peak, it could reach eighty percent.

Because those who proved the Dao by severing their corpses had incomplete Nascent Souls, even a Quasi-Saint's mastery of the laws could reach only eighty or ninety percent at most. They could never prove the Dao through the laws and become a Saint.

Yet Xuanyuan was only an early Quasi-Saint, and he had already reached sixty percent mastery of the Lightning Law.

That was comparable to a late Quasi-Saint.

What's more, he had mastery of other laws as well, with even his lowest at forty percent.

He far surpassed the other Quasi-Saint experts.

"Not bad. My strength has improved tremendously."

Feeling his increased mastery of the laws and the rise in his strength, Xuanyuan smiled.

"Next, it's time for the Thirty-Six-Petaled Creation Green Lotus!"