With extreme speed, he treated the space encompassed by Mist Shadow Heavy as earth, darting through it as he pleased.
His speed had increased by more than tenfold!
"Once Mist Shadow Heavy fuses with the Earth Walking Technique Mystery, my short-legs problem can be solved too."
Hermes thought to himself.
It wouldn't completely make up for it, but that was how the Laws worked. The only alternative was to surpass his achievements in the Earth Element with the Fire Element Law someday.
That was impossible!
The Golden Mountain True Body's talent was entirely focused on the Great Earth Law. That wouldn't change just because Hermes was a transmigrator.
"Let me try this punch."
Boundless golden light took shape, instantly enveloping Hermes's fist. The power of the fusion between his strength and the Earth Element Profound Mystery surged countless times over.
"Rumble!"
He threw a brutally powerful punch, and the space in front of him shattered with a roar.
A seven-colored Spatial Turbulence suddenly surged toward his fist. He hurriedly dodged.
The Hell Plane's restorative power activated instantly. The Spatial Turbulence managed to erode only a rockery.
The face-sized hole in space vanished in the blink of an eye. The spatial stability of Hell was astonishing.
"Phew!"
Hermes let out a soft breath. Earlier, he had even seen through the Spatial Turbulence.
In that instant,
Hermes stared at the rapidly healing cracks.
He knew this was the Hell Plane's powerful ability to heal itself.
Such an ability was extremely rare even in the universe.
At any rate, Hermes had never heard of such terrifying spatial restoration in his previous life.
In most worlds, spatial damage was irreversible.
The powerful could reverse time and space to repair it, but that came at a cost.
Only the Coiling Dragon World!
Its spatial stability was incredibly high, and it could even repair itself automatically.
"Perhaps this is the secret behind how the Magic Universe, despite seemingly having a low energy level, has remained stable for more than a thousand Epochs!"
A trace of awe rose in his heart, but what he felt even more was an endless longing for the glorious road ahead.
"I mustn't underestimate it!"
"The Magic Universe is merely a Subordinate Universe that Hongmeng created on a whim to increase the stability of the Main Universe, yet it has such wonders."
"Could this be a side effect of Hongmeng creating the Four Overgods?"
In his previous life, Hermes had always suspected that the Four Overgods served a role similar to the intelligent core of a virtual universe.
No one had ever verified his suspicion.
A guess was only a guess.
"Hm, so this works too..."
Hermes stood where the spatial rift had been, sensing the elemental fluctuations drifting through the air around him.
He knew that the power behind his last punch, though formidable, was still far from its limit.
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began to channel the power within him, trying to commune more deeply with the Great Earth Law around him.
As his consciousness gradually spread farther and farther, Hermes began to feel his connection with the land growing closer.
He could almost hear the earth's heartbeat and feel the breath of every rock and grain of sand.
Hermes knew it was time to gain a deeper understanding of the Earth Walking Technique Mystery.
"If I thoroughly understand the Earth Walking Technique Mystery, it won't just help me move faster or escape!"
"For Earth Element cultivators who want to increase their speed, the Earth Walking Technique is probably the only Mystery they can use to pull off all sorts of tricks."
He opened his eyes, a determined gleam flashing within them.
Hermes threw another punch!
This time, he wasn't merely throwing a punch. It was more like a silent conversation with the earth.
Boundless golden light gathered around his fist, something the Great Earth Law shouldn't have produced. Strangely, the light also seemed to contain boundless Great Earth Law.
"Sure enough, my true body is still more suited to the Great Earth Law."
Though Hermes hadn't become a god through the Fire Element Law, he somehow knew this to be true.
As long as he wanted to, his true body's talent could merge effortlessly with the Great Earth Law, without the slightest hesitation—as if it had always been meant to.
"Hah!"
In the courtyard, Hermes suddenly let out a shout and swung his fist forward.
This time, he didn't shatter space directly. Instead, he traced ripples through Hell's space, as if he had tossed a pebble into water and sent wave after wave spreading outward.
Space remained intact, but Hermes felt an unprecedented flow of Law.
He had never felt anything like it before.
Hermes knew he seemed to have touched upon a deeper secret of the Earth Walking Technique.
"So, Earth Pulse isn't the only Mystery that can produce ripples. Is this how the Earth Walking Technique Mystery works?"
"Perhaps this is my chance to find a point of convergence between the Earth Walking Technique Mystery and the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery!"
Though Hermes hadn't even brushed against the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery, that didn't stop him from harboring such an ambition.
You had to dream. What if it came true?
Besides, this wasn't just a dream.
Hermes had the talent and potential of a Seven-star Demon.
He began trying to apply this insight to movement, his steps light as he darted across the ground.
Each step seemed to fall upon the pulse of the boundless earth.
Hermes moved faster and faster, leaving afterimages in the air.
"Boom!"
He unleashed his ultimate move, Mist Shadow Heavy.
Hermes began trying to move within the Mist Shadow Space, as if using the Earth Walking Technique to travel through the earth, unbound by the Mist Shadow Space's gravity.
"Is this... the true application of the Earth Walking Technique Mystery?"
Hermes furrowed his brows, lost in thought.
"It seems I'll need more time to explore and study it."
In the Coiling Dragon World,
the Laws seemed to dictate the paths along which beings could cultivate, yet the Laws that imposed those limits also seemed to hold infinite possibilities.
Of course, "infinite" only meant that cultivators could develop them in different ways.
They couldn't truly be infinite.
For example,
you couldn't expect to study a healing mystery from the Laws of Wind;
or discover the power of life within the Laws of Death.
That would be asking too much of Hongmeng!
But cultivators had found different ways to develop them, giving rise to all kinds of ultimate moves—some efficient, others downright bizarre.
Similar, but never the same.
The meaning of the Elemental Laws wasn't limited to unchanging comprehension and fusion.
There was boundless room for individual innovation as well.
"But I'm different!"
Hermes stopped and stood in the middle of a vast, peaceful courtyard, breathing deeply.
"I have the Golden Space!"
He knew his path had only just begun. The secrets of the Earth Walking Technique and the Golden Space still had much to reveal.
Hermes looked into the distance, his eyes alight with anticipation and determination for the glorious future ahead.
He knew that no matter how difficult the road became, he would keep moving forward until he reached his goal.
Invincible?
Or transcend Hongmeng?
Hermes didn't know. He couldn't think that far ahead yet, because the Golden Space was highly unpredictable.
What he did know was that only by reaching greater heights could he see farther, go farther, and grow stronger!
Of had become invincible, yet he had never wanted to transcend the world.
Even so, in the end, Of simply hadn't been destined for it.
Had he not run straight into Linley, the Child of Fate, or had he gotten the chance to go to the Main Universe, he would at least have had the opportunity to become an Unrivaled Heavenly Venerable.
Of had lacked neither talent nor perseverance.
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