Accomplished

Time trickled by, and before long, three days had passed.

The caravan under Roslet's protection had set out for the Hanmu Kingdom two days earlier.

They hadn't waited for Zhao Nan to arrive.

Roslet had considered looking for Zhao Nan, but when he remembered what Zhao Nan had said before leaving, he hadn't given it much more thought.

Once the guards had rested, they set off immediately.

Deep inside a mountain cave in the forest, Zhao Nan remained seated cross-legged, constantly pondering how to fuse the Mysteries of Wind Element and Wind Space.

Before, Zhao Nan had thought that fusing the Law's Profound Mysteries would be very easy. Having read the original story, he'd assumed he would quickly grasp all the Profound Mysteries, then fuse them, and finally reach Paragon.

But now that he was actually cultivating on his own, Zhao Nan had to admit he'd oversimplified things.

Even the Wind Element Mysteries, a lower-level Profound Mystery of the Wind Laws, had only just begun to make sense to him. It would take him a long time to understand them thoroughly.

And Wind Space was an intermediate-level Profound Mystery.

On top of that, he still had to fuse the two Profound Mysteries.

Fortunately, by sheer coincidence, the Wind Blade he had summoned had embodied the results of fusing the two Laws. Though the fusion wasn't complete, it had still pointed Zhao Nan in the right direction.

On the fourth day!

Zhao Nan summoned another Wind Blade.

He'd lost count of how many Wind Blades he'd summoned over the past few days, but this time, he could clearly sense that it was different from the previous ones.

"This Wind Blade seems more stable. It won't disappear just from a slight impact."

After using it to attack once, Zhao Nan suddenly noticed something different about this Wind Blade.

He used his soul power to summon the Wind Blade in front of him.

This time, Zhao Nan didn't use his so-called soul power to observe it. Instead, he looked at it with his naked eye again.

As Zhao Nan focused his gaze on the Wind Blade, he suddenly understood why the previous ones hadn't lasted. He also realized how to preserve this one.

As soon as he understood the Wind Blade's nature, his comprehension of both the Wind Element Mysteries and Wind Space Mysteries advanced considerably.

"So the Wind Element is about materializing things to give them offensive power.

"That should count as a physical attack.

"And Wind Space isn't actually some kind of spatial force. It's a force of restraint.

"The Wind Element can condense whatever you want, but if you want it to last—or at least keep it from shattering at the slightest touch—you need Wind Space to restrain it and stabilize the attack."

Zhao Nan held the Wind Blade in his hand and muttered to himself.

Then he wondered: if the Wind Element was a direct form of physical attack, what was its limit?

For example, in the original story, Linley's Pulse of the Earth first went from one vibration to many, then from many back to one.

What about the Wind Element?

Could it be condensed into a giant Wind Element, then reduced to a single particle of wind?

That clearly wasn't realistic!

And what about Wind Space? What was its limit?

Also, if the Wind Element was for physical attacks, which of the Wind Laws' Profound Mysteries was for soul attacks?

Zhao Nan had read the original story, so he knew that every Law had both physical and soul attacks. They simply emphasized one or the other to varying degrees.

As Zhao Nan pondered, he absentmindedly picked up the Wind Blade nearby and toyed with it.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Zhao Nan let out a surprised cry.

It wasn't for any other reason: while he'd been thinking, the Wind Element Mysteries and Wind Space Mysteries had actually begun to fuse.

Then Zhao Nan looked down and saw the Wind Blade he'd been playing with in his hand. He couldn't help but laugh.

He hadn't expected to accidentally bring about a fusion between the two Profound Mysteries.

Though it was only a sliver of fusion, there were only two hurdles to comprehending and fusing Laws: the beginning and the end. In between, Zhao Nan could grind away at it with patient effort.

If this had been a fusion of Profound Mysteries from another Law, he would have become a High God the moment he became a god.

But Zhao Nan wasn't in a hurry. He'd only just entered the Saint realm, and he was still only eighteen. Godhood was a long way off. Besides, at his current level, he was already immortal.

As Zhao Nan thought this over, he stood up.

He'd achieved his goal in cultivating here. From now on, it would just be a matter of patient effort, so he should catch up with Roslet and head for the Hanmu Kingdom.

Zhao Nan knew very well that if he wanted to embark on the Path of Transcendence, he absolutely couldn't follow Linley's path.

Linley's Path of Transcendence was far too dangerous.

For one thing, Soul Mutation was something Zhao Nan couldn't accept.

After all, even Linley had nearly failed to survive his Four-Element Soul Mutation in the original story. In the future, Zhao Nan would take on more and more disciples, and one of them might even have the talent to cultivate all the Laws.

If that happened and they underwent an eleven-element Soul Mutation, Zhao Nan didn't think he could survive it.