Eating the God Tree Fruit

He took out the God Tree, plucked the Chakra Fruit, and his main body swallowed it in one bite.

There was no particularly unusual sensation afterward. He only felt an immense energy appear within his body. This should be Chakra.

Chakra possessed a severe exclusivity. The Battle Qi he had tempered through countless trials dissolved into fuel that strengthened his Chakra, while the Magic Power he had painstakingly refined from elemental energy merged with Chakra, becoming even more potent Sage Chakra.

He had considered this long before consuming the God Tree Fruit. After all, he could not have everything; if he coveted the boost in combat power brought by the God Tree Fruit, he had to be prepared to lose some things.

He simply had not expected Magic Power to merge with Chakra into the special Sage Chakra. Thinking about it, Magic Power was formed by absorbing the elements of heaven and earth, which was not all that different from natural energy. It was no longer surprising.

This was an unexpected delight.

However, the Chakra within him far exceeded his Magic Power and was on the verge of becoming unbalanced. Richard had no choice but to absorb a massive amount of elemental power into his body to achieve an emergency balance. But this was unstable, and he needed to refine these elemental powers and merge them into Sage Chakra as soon as possible.

For the current Richard, replacing Battle Qi with Chakra made no difference. Magic Power was even simpler; ever since becoming a god, he had barely needed the spells he had learned before. Directly wielding the laws allowed him to accomplish things even more miraculous than magic.

If worse came to worst, he could borrow the Divine Power of his Divine Clone. That was far more useful than Battle Qi or Magic Power.

Then his eyes turned blood-red, several black tomoe appearing within his pupils as they directly became Nine-Tomoe Rinne-Sharingan.

A Golden Vertical Pupil even appeared on his forehead.

Massive Chakra directly formed a cloak around his body, with twelve Truth-Seeking Orbs orbiting him. Not bad—it looked rather cool.

As for the Rinnegan's ocular techniques, one was similar to the Kamui Eye, while the other was a rare time-type ability: reversing time.

The Golden Vertical Pupil possessed a divine technique—Creation Tribulation Light.

Three ocular techniques, each one an inconceivable supreme divine ability.

The first spatial ocular technique appeared similar to Obito Uchiha's Kamui Eye, but it could actually create a genuine, even growable, Small World.

The second, Temporal Reversal, could reverse as much time as Richard's strength allowed. In other words, if he were strong enough, he could even reverse an entire world by hundreds or thousands of years. Of course, that was a fantasy for the future. Right now, even reversing his own time by half an hour was difficult.

The third, Creation Tribulation Light, could be used to create all things and enlighten all living beings, or to break down all things.

Beyond that were the Rinnegan's basic abilities, such as repulsion, attraction, Tengai Shinsei, and so on.

Fortunately, swallowing the God Tree Fruit had not caused his genes to mutate him into an Otsutsuki Alien. His skin had not turned white, nor had horns grown from his forehead.

From this point on, his main body also possessed formidable combat power and was finally no longer a weakness. Even without Divine Power, without a Divine Domain, and without a Godhead, his main body was still stronger than the vast majority of Low-level Gods. Even against Mid-level Gods, they would have to fight to determine who was stronger.

As for his ability to stay alive, it would be extremely difficult for the vast majority of High-level Gods to kill him, unless they possessed some spatial-temporal talent or the ability to shatter space.

His path had actually become somewhat detached from that of the cultivators of the Coiling Dragon World. Although his combat power had not increased much, his spatial-temporal abilities gave him survival capabilities far beyond those of experts at the same level.

Aside from the increase in strength, the God Tree Fruit had also granted him seven Chakra attributes: wind, fire, water, earth, lightning, yin, and yang. In terms of the Coiling Dragon World, this meant he possessed the fire, earth, and lightning elemental attributes, all of them with the highest, supreme-grade talent.

Thus, he now had the possibility of gathering the Four-Phenomenon World-Opening Elements of earth, wind, water, and fire. The fusion of four elements was also the key to Transcendence in the Coiling Dragon World.

But Transcendence in the Coiling Dragon World was harsh. One had to possess, and could only possess, Divine Clones of the four elements—earth, wind, water, and fire. No more, no less.

Second, one had to complete a soul transformation and become a Four-Element Soul Mutant. Only then could one fuse the Profound Mysteries of different elemental laws.

Third, one needed strength at the level of a Chief God or above, and the foundational strength of the four elemental Divine Clones had to be comparable, with no imbalance. For example, if the earth-element clone refined a Lower Sovereign Spark, then the other three elements could only refine Lower Sovereign Sparks as well. They absolutely could not refine Middle Sovereign Sparks or High Sovereign Sparks, or Transcendence would still be impossible.

The conditions for Transcendence were so stringent and singular that, over countless years across the four subsidiary universes, only Linley had achieved it. Richard had no intention of gambling on the minuscule chance of becoming a Four-Element Soul Mutant. Becoming a Soul Mutant was already unimaginably difficult, and the odds of surviving a four-element soul mutation were not even one in ten thousand. He truly did not dare gamble that he could undergo soul mutation and survive.

Fortunately, he did not intend to hang himself from the Coiling Dragon cultivation system alone. If the Chat Group later offered a cultivation system that was sufficiently compatible and sufficiently advanced, he could simply switch systems without hesitation. He was not afraid of failing to achieve Transcendence; if he remained welded to the Coiling Dragon World's cultivation system, he might see no improvement for trillions of years in the later stages.

For example, his main body now already counted as cultivating the Chakra system alongside his other path.

For the next while, Richard would be busy. First, he contacted Feng Baobao and said that he wanted Divine Machine Refinement.

After learning that she did not have it, he proposed traveling to the Under One Person world. After much consideration, Xu Si had Feng Baobao agree to his travel request.

The secret of Feng Baobao's immortality was simply too tempting. He worried that once it was exposed, she would become the enemy of the entire world. At a time like this, the group members in the Chat Group became their final source of support, so they needed to build good relations with them.

Only after Xu Si had spoken with Feng Baobao in detail about the group members' words and actions, and decided that Richard was fairly well-behaved, did he finally agree.

Of course, that was because he did not know Richard had nearly destroyed the Ninja World in a parallel Ninja World. Otherwise, he definitely would not have dared let Richard go.

After Richard went over, he did not stay long. He merely obtained Divine Machine Refinement before returning to the Coiling Dragon World. He was remarkably quick; the round trip took less than a day.

Because after arriving, he had felt suppressed, and his strength had been drastically reduced. He had also sensed, vaguely, that someone was watching him—and more than one person at that. It felt as though a crowd was voyeuristically staring at him.

Sure enough, worlds involving an Eastern mythological background were never simple. Their waters ran deep.

Richard could only play it safe and did not dare mess around at all. His original plan to collect the Eight Miraculous Skills and other inheritances before coming here was completely scrapped. Once he had traded for Divine Machine Refinement, he immediately fled.

The Immortals and gods behind that world had not said he was unwelcome, but being watched constantly put enormous pressure on him. Better to forget it.

He opened the Chat Group and complained in the group.

Richard: @Sister Bao, I'm never coming to your world again. There are way too many big shots.

Lin Feng: What big shots? Isn't the power level in Under One Person pretty low? Even Zhang Zhiwei, the strongest, should not be able to take one of your hands, right?

Xia Mi: What happened?

Ye Zhen: Oh? There are experts?

Richard: The background figures—the ascended Immortals and gods. The moment I went in, I felt like a lot of people were watching me. My strength was also suppressed to less than a tenth.

Lin Feng: Hiss, the waters are that deep?

Richard: Extremely deep. @Xia Mi, be careful. I think weaker people would probably be fine going there, but the stronger you are, the more attention you attract.

Xia Mi: Then forget it. I'm not going.

Sister Bao: For real? You swear on it?

Richard: If I'm lying, I'm a dog.