Breakthrough! Mid-Level God!

Flowing Frost.

Bart clan castle.

Forbidden ground, secret chamber.

Lei Wen sat cross-legged on a bed of ice.

He had no breath.

His chest was completely still.

If not for his face, pale as a sheet of paper, he might have been mistaken for a statue.

Within the depths of his sea of consciousness,

a faintly glowing spherical divine soul floated in the void.

Around it,

dark blue motes of light danced merrily.

They were Water Elements.

The most basic, yet most fundamental source of the water element.

"Water..."

"Benefits all things without contending."

"Yet it is never confined to a single form, embracing eternity."

Lei Wen's consciousness drifted through those motes of light.

He recalled his previous life.

He recalled those theories about water.

Suddenly,

Lei Wen's eyes, sealed shut for three years, trembled slightly.

A flash of light flickered through his sea of consciousness.

The water element was not merely a material form.

It was also a medium permeating heaven and earth.

Since it was a medium,

then it could carry something.

"Condense!"

At that instant,

the blue motes of light in his sea of consciousness seemed to receive a summons and began gathering.

They no longer drifted about aimlessly.

Instead, they fused in an instant, becoming a perfect, crystalline droplet.

The Luo Ye Water Pattern contained the most basic mystery of the entire water-element laws—the [Mystery of the Water Element]!

Boom!

At that instant,

heaven and earth changed color.

An indescribably vast pressure descended upon the skies above the Bart clan castle.

Within the castle garden,

Barte Lei's knees gave way, and he dropped to the ground.

"Damn it!"

This grand duke of Jade Orchid City fell flat on the ground in a most undignified manner.

He was not the only one.

Xue, Lian Qiu, and even Xiao Bai, the Saint Domain magical beast,

were all pinned to the ground!

Luo Ye was a law of heaven and earth,

a supreme law.

No one could resist it.

"This..."

"What is going on with Luo Ye?!"

Lian Qiu's pretty face went pale as she lay on the freezing ground, unable to even move a finger.

She felt as if her soul were trembling.

It was as though a pair of emotionless eyes above were watching them.

Barte Lei struggled to lift his head.

Though he could not move, that did not stop his eyes from rolling.

He saw it.

Above the forbidden ground,

the originally violent Water Elements had become incomparably docile.

Immediately afterward,

the void tore apart.

A vast, ancient, peculiar energy poured down like a waterfall.

It crashed straight into the forbidden ground's secret chamber!

"The descent of a law of heaven and earth..."

"Master is breaking through again!"

Xiao Bai buried his head even lower, its voice trembling.

Terror rose within its heart.

How long had it been since Luo Ye?

Twelve years ago, when its master became a god, the laws of heaven and earth had descended once.

It had witnessed that event with its own eyes.

But now,

only twelve years had passed!

For an expert with an endless lifespan, what did twelve years count for?

It was not even enough for a nap!

For ordinary cultivators to become gods, who did not spend thousands or tens of thousands of years?

Even a genius would need at least several hundred years, right?

Yet its master had merely eaten and drunk, then broken through again?

How were others supposed to live?

Within the secret chamber,

Lei Wen's body slowly floated upward.

The black Lower God godhead hovering before him greedily absorbed the power bestowed by the laws of heaven and earth.

Under the infusion of that power,

the Lower God godhead began to undergo transformation.

It became even more crystalline.

The Divine Power contained within it also surged at an exponential rate,

rapidly moving toward the level of a Mid-Level God godhead.

But that was not the end.

Within Lei Wen's sea of souls,

the perfect Water Pattern representing the [Mystery of the Water Element] slowly approached another force.

It was a wisp of icy aura.

It represented the [Mystery of Ice] that Lei Wen had long since comprehended to completion!

Normally,

for two different mysteries to fuse was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

But Lei Wen had long found their mysterious point of compatibility.

During those ten years of insight,

he had fused the mysteries of the two laws to the final step.

Now,

with the [Mystery of the Water Element] complete,

the two law mysteries fused together without resistance.

Water embraced the sharpness of ice.

Ice bestowed solidity upon water.

The two intertwined and revolved.

In the end, they transformed into a deep blue stream of light, which imprinted itself deeply upon Lei Wen's spherical soul.

Compatibility...

One hundred percent!

Fusion successful!

"Awesome!"

Lei Wen roared inwardly.

The pleasure of the two layers of soul fusing was even more satisfying than swallowing ten Saint Domain dragon souls!

That feeling of complete control intoxicated Lei Wen.

This was not merely an increase in Divine Power.

It was a qualitative transformation in the use of laws.

In the past, when he used the [Mystery of Ice], it was like wielding a blunt hammer to smash people.

Now,

after fusing the [Water Element], Luo Ye had refined that blunt hammer into liquid metal.

It could be hard or soft.

It could take any form.

Its power had increased by more than tenfold!

This was the terror of fused mysteries!

According to the laws of the Star Tear world,

a Mid-Level God who fused two mysteries possessed enough strength to crush ordinary Mid-Level Gods, and could even contend against High-Level Gods who had refined their godheads!

And Lei Wen was only thirty-six years old this year!

Yet he had reached such a level.

Even in the supreme planes, he would be a dazzling existence.

After a while,

the laws of heaven and earth completed their mission.

That vast pressure receded like the tide.

It had come quickly.

It left just as quickly.

Within the castle garden,

"Huff..."

Barte Lei looked as though he had been fished out of water.

He gulped down great breaths of air.

The terrifying suppressive force vanished, and he instantly felt his body lighten, nearly collapsing.

"Just now... was that a god?"

Xue held the wall, her face deathly pale and filled with lingering fear.

It was too terrifying.

Yet it was also too fascinating.

Was this the world of gods?

"Creak!"

The great doors of the forbidden ground slowly opened with a deafening groan.

The heavy stone doors that had been sealed for three years gradually opened to both sides.

All the mist.

All the frost.

At that moment, as though they had encountered their king, vanished without a trace.

Sunlight shone once more upon the garden.

A black-haired young man clad in black robes stepped out of the darkness.

He did not walk quickly.

Yet every step he took seemed to land upon everyone's heartbeat.

His black hair hung over his shoulders, and his eyes were as deep as an abyss.

Xiao Yan looked utterly ordinary, without the slightest hint of a half-demon's aura leaking from his body.

Like the most ordinary boy next door.

Luo Ye was the most stunned of all.

How was this possible?

In her view, a frightening sharpness had bloomed in Xiao Yan's eyes.

But now—

That sharpness had vanished.

In its place was a calm surface as still as water.

Yet beneath that calm—

Lurked a raging sea capable of swallowing everything whole.

"Die!"

Lian Qiu charged at an Infernal Realm rebel attendant.

Ignoring the pressure of a god-level expert, she met him head-on.

Xiao Yan watched her distorted face as she rushed forward.

A faint smile gradually appeared on Lei Wen's previously expressionless face.

He extended a finger and gave it a light flick.

He did not even touch Lian Qiu.

Yet the water vapor in the air instantly condensed and slipped beneath Lian Qiu's feet.

Her already somewhat unsteady steps immediately became completely motionless.

"Be careful!"

"You've already reached the ninth level of Magic City, yet you're still putting on an act."