After saying that, Kakqi flew directly toward the horizon.
The bandit leader instinctively caught the Divine Sparks Kakqi had thrown over. By the time he came to his senses, Kakqi had already vanished.
The other bandits also let out slight sighs of relief.
Then, the bandits could not help growing excited as they all looked at the Divine Sparks in their leader's hand. To them, this was an enormous fortune.
The bandit leader put away the Divine Sparks and said, "Let's go back first!"
With that, the bandit leader led the other powerful warriors swiftly back to the tribe.
Qingya Plane.
Lota looked toward the horizon, his expression unchanged. Yet beneath his dark eyes, a streak of golden light flashed and vanished.
"Leiding. Have you already grown impatient?"
There was no fluctuation in his tone.
Yet as Lota spoke, Qingya Plane somehow instantly shifted from hot summer into late autumn.
In the blink of an eye, plants withered and frost spread everywhere.
The living beings of Qingya Plane had no idea what was happening.
However, this strange phenomenon made every living being feel a tremor rise from the depths of their hearts. One after another, they knelt and prayed to the gods.
Other than mortals, even the remaining God level experts of Qingya Plane felt a shudder that came from their souls.
All the gods spread out their Spiritual Sense, yet they discovered nothing at all. It was as though this change was simply a transformation of Heaven and Earth itself.
Beyond Qingya Plane, this peculiar change
also appeared within Gobada Plane Prison.
The environment of Gobada Plane Prison had no seasonal changes. It remained gray and gloomy all year round.
The weakest beings imprisoned in the Plane Prison were all at the Saint Domain level. They possessed nearly infinite lifespans. In all their years in the Plane Prison, they had never seen it undergo a change resembling "spring and autumn."
Within Gobada Plane Prison, regions where plants grew would remain lush all year long, while barren regions would remain barren forever.
Yet just now, vegetation within the Plane Prison withered and frost suddenly surged forth.
Even in the Northwest Desert, so dry and scorching that every breath carried a burning sensation, the temperature plummeted in an instant. A layer of frost silently formed across the exposed rocks.
The beings living in the desert region were all stunned by the sudden sight before them.
What was going on?
This completely defied everything they knew about the Northwest Desert.
Inside a cave mansion built within a solitary barren mountain, Zacharias Leilin suddenly opened his eyes and stared around in astonishment. He had abruptly sensed an unusual chill.
As for Burgess and Xius, they too woke from their cultivation at once.
"What is this?"
Burgess was the first to speak.
Then Burgess touched the white frost on his clothes, his expression turning strange. "Frost?"
Xius also examined the inside of the cave mansion, his brows tightly furrowed. "It really is frost."
Both men looked at Leilin. Though they had cultivated here for nearly twenty years, they were still only at the Saint Domain level, still some distance away from the legendary God level.
Leilin's expression had also grown solemn. He had no idea what had happened, so he said directly, "I'll go outside and take a look."
With that, Leilin flew straight out of the cave mansion.
Ever since Morit had guided him, he had found this solitary mountain and entered secluded cultivation here. Over twenty years had passed, and though he had made some progress, it was far slower than he had expected.
Fusing Profound Mysteries was much more difficult than he had imagined.
If he had merely been comprehending Profound Mysteries as before, he was confident that he would have already comprehended the Fire Element among the second Fire Element Law Profound Mysteries.
However, ever since learning about Profound Mystery Fusion—especially after personally witnessing Morit use a fusion technique of the Fire Element and the Scorching Profound Mystery—he had pursued the perfect fusion of those two Profound Mysteries.
Even now, he was always just one step away from perfectly fusing them. That final point was like an insurmountable chasm to him.
In truth, Leilin himself did not know that in less than twenty years, comprehending the Fire Element while also fusing the Scorching Profound Mystery and the Fire Element—and coming within a hair's breadth of perfect fusion—was an utterly terrifying cultivation speed. Even across the Divine Planes and countless Material Planes, among innumerable living beings over countless years, such people were exceedingly rare.
One had to know that reaching the Middle God level within one hundred years was already considered the mark of a genius. And that referred only to comprehending Profound Mysteries to become a Middle God, not carrying out Profound Mystery Fusion.
Any genius at Leilin's level, or even slightly inferior to him, who successfully grew into a powerful expert would at minimum reach the realm of a Peak Asura who had fused six Profound Mysteries and was only one final step away.
Looking across the Divine Planes, how many such people were there?
"Third Brother."
Seeing Leilin leave, Xius and Burgess did not linger either. They hurriedly followed after him.
Soon, the three stood outside the solitary mountain.
As they looked at the sight before them, all three were shaken to the core.
The Northwest Desert, once so scorching that bizarre waves of heat would occasionally rise from it, now seemed draped in a layer of white crystal. Frost covered the entire Northwest Desert!
"This..."
Burgess's eyes widened, and for a moment, he did not know what to say.
Even a High God expert of the Water Element probably could not accomplish this, right?
"Third Brother."
Burgess murmured under his breath and instinctively looked toward Leilin.
But Leilin's appearance made him swallow his words.
Leilin's eyes were tightly shut. Faint Fire Element energy flowed around his body, so distinct that even the two of them could clearly see it.
"Move farther away."
Xius also noticed Leilin's change and hurriedly retreated with Burgess.
Then the two vigilantly watched their surroundings.
Yet inwardly, both were deeply moved. Third Brother's appearance clearly meant that he had once again entered the legendary State of Enlightenment.
They were considered geniuses in Qingya Plane as well; otherwise, they could not have reached the Saint Domain. But compared to Third Brother, they felt they could not even be called geniuses.
They truly could not understand why seeing this scene before them had caused Third Brother to enter a State of Enlightenment.
Wasn't Third Brother cultivating the Fire Element Law? They could not understand.
Leilin had completely shut out all outside distractions. The only thing left in his mind was the current scene of the Northwest Desert.
The scorching Northwest Desert was now cold enough to form frost. Yet he could clearly sense how many heat waves surged beneath that frost.
It was as though, in the very next instant, those heat waves could burst into the sky.
Yet no matter how violently the heat waves surged, beneath the frost, they had become calm.
So this is scorching...
Hahaha!
Wrong. I was wrong! No wonder I had never been able to completely fuse the Fire Element and the Scorching Profound Mystery!
So that was it!
Scorching is also temperature. Why should temperature only rise and never fall? Isn't this frost also part of temperature?
Changes between heat and cold are the Scorching Profound Mystery, and also the essence of the Fire Element.
The Fire Element can unleash terrifyingly high temperatures, but it should also be able to draw all temperature back into itself! It can even draw in the temperatures around it.
This is the true Fire Element!
The Heaven and Earth Rule descended with a roar!
Leilin's body floated into the air beyond his control.
Seeing the Heaven and Earth Rule descend, Xius and Burgess almost felt numb inside.
Third Brother had become a Middle God just like that?
The Heaven and Earth Rule came quickly and left just as quickly.
Leilin landed and opened his eyes. Having reached the Middle God level, his mood improved greatly, and a smile appeared in his eyes.
"Big brother, second brother."
Leilin looked at Xius and Burgess, who had stood guard for him, and felt even happier.
"Third Brother, you've become a Middle God?"
Burgess looked at Leilin, not knowing what to say. He was happy, yet he also felt a powerless sense of being left far behind.
The Third Brother who had always followed behind them had now become the one sheltering them.
Leilin nodded with a smile. "That's right. After coming outside, I suddenly gained some insight."
Although Xius and Burgess had previously listened to Morit's explanations, they were ultimately only at the Saint Domain and understood the Profound Mysteries of the God level only vaguely. They had no idea just how great Leilin's recent advancement had been.
It could even be said that the difference was like Heaven and Earth.
When he had reached the Middle God level just now, he had completely fused the Fire Element and the Scorching Profound Mystery. Moreover, at the moment those two Profound Mysteries completely fused, he had actually sensed the third Profound Mystery of the Fire Element Law—the Explosion Profound Mystery.
Although he could feel that the further he progressed, the more difficult it would become to comprehend and fuse Profound Mysteries, he was still confident that he could comprehend and fuse the Explosion Profound Mystery.
"Third Brother, you truly are the Number One Genius of Qingya Plane!"
Xius smiled and sighed.
"Haha."
Leilin merely smiled and did not deny it.
He truly had that confidence now.
"By the way, Third Brother, now that you're a Middle God, do you know why the surroundings have changed like this?"
Xius had clearly grown accustomed to Leilin's genius and was not overly shocked.
Burgess also looked at Leilin. He was obviously extremely curious about the sudden frost in the Northwest Desert, because it was simply too strange. Although they had not been here long, they had already gained a basic understanding of the Northwest Desert.
This place had not changed in the slightest for countless years.
Forget frost—even the temperature had gradually risen, and it had never rained.
Hearing Xius's words, Leilin's expression grew much more serious. He looked at the frost in the distance and shook his head. "This frost is very unusual. It covers all the heat waves beneath the desert, yet those heat waves cannot fuse with the frost at all."
As he spoke, Leilin moved his divine power, and some frost rose from the ground and landed in his hand.
But the frost in his hand slowly melted under his body heat, just like ordinary frost.
Xius and Burgess saw this as well, and for a moment, neither could understand it.
The heat waves were far hotter than body temperature. Body temperature could melt the frost normally, yet the heat waves could not? What was going on?
Leilin continued looking at the frost in the distance. Under his Spiritual Sense, every change in the frost appeared in his mind.
The frost was slowly melting, but he could be certain that this melting had nothing to do with the heat waves beneath the desert.
It was like...
It was like the frost that appeared in Qingya Plane during late autumn, slowly melting as the sun rose.
But there was no sun here.
The frost still melted at the same pace and rhythm as late autumn frost.
And when he picked up the frost, it was just like picking up frost in late autumn. He could not sense anything unusual about it at all.
Even Leilin found the situation rather strange.
For a moment, Leilin developed a sense of reverence toward Gobada Plane Prison. Perhaps this Plane Prison was even more mysterious than he had imagined.
Qingya Plane.
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