"It was indeed a bit better, but only that much. Once you get to my home, Simon, you'll know what real taste and luxury are."
"Of course, it can't compare to Hell's super families."
Simon smiled and rubbed Fanny's little head.
Fanny narrowed her eyes blissfully.
After spending some tender time together, Simon sat cross-legged on the bed and began cultivating.
The Floating Shadow from the day had given him a strong sense of crisis. Simon could not help but wonder whether they would have any chance of surviving if they encountered such an enemy now.
The answer was: no!
They would not even have the slightest chance to escape!
Although Simon's Ice Wind Space was now highly effective in supporting combat, it was only useful for bullying Five-Star Fiends and below.
Even against a weak Six-Star Fiend like the Black Wind Bandit Group's leader, it had been insufficient. If he and Fanny had not happened to counter him perfectly, that battle would not have been so easy to win.
It was unrealistic for Simon to make another major breakthrough in Profound Mysteries within a short time.
The only way to greatly increase his strength, while also improving the strength of their little team, was to further enhance Ice Wind Space.
He needed to raise Ice Wind Space's binding power to a new level.
Fortunately, Wind Space and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element had already fused to the point of nearing completion, while the Profound Mystery of Wind Element and Water Element Essence were only one final step away from fusion.
Simon now planned to have his Wind Element Divine Clone focus entirely on advancing the fusion of Wind Space and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element, while his main body handled the fusion of Water Element Essence and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element.
There was no helping it. Simon could only put his effort into this. It was currently the fastest way for him to increase his strength in the short term.
Although the strongest bandits in Hell were generally only around the Six-Star Fiend level, who could say for sure?
If some unconventional Seven-Star Fiend decided to become a bandit and happened to run into Simon's group, then they would not even have a place to cry.
The best solution was to improve his own strength. That was the best way to solve everything.
Casting aside those chaotic thoughts, Simon quickly immersed his consciousness in the Ocean of Laws, striving to find every possible path for the fusion of Profound Mysteries.
The Ocean of Laws was simply too vast. Even with Simon's extraordinary sensitivity to Profound Mysteries, it was difficult for him to immediately find the one correct possibility among the countless possible fusions.
He could only rely on his exceptional instinct to avoid many detours.
Time passed quickly. During that period, Napote and the others had wanted several times to come chat with Simon or go shopping outside, but they held themselves back.
Because Simon had told them beforehand that he would be in seclusion for the coming period.
Napote and the others could only marvel at Simon's diligence.
"He's so talented and so hardworking. No wonder he's so much stronger than us," Hamut said with heartfelt admiration.
During this time, Fanny also politely declined Lona's invitation to go shopping.
Simon was cultivating in seclusion, and she was not comfortable leaving him alone in the hotel, so she stayed behind to stand guard for him.
Although the city was very safe and, theoretically, no one would dare act here, Fanny only felt at ease watching over him herself.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was almost time to depart.
That morning, Fanny woke Simon up, and only then did he realize.
Sure enough, cultivation knew neither day nor night.
Simon felt as though he had only just immersed himself in the Ocean of Laws, yet nearly a month had already passed.
During this period of cultivation, Simon had not succeeded in fusing Wind Space with the Profound Mystery of Wind Element as he had hoped, nor had he fused the Profound Mystery of Wind Element with Water Element Essence.
But thankfully, he had successfully pushed both pairs of Profound Mysteries to their final bottlenecks.
Simon was very pleased with that.
Perhaps one day, an insight would strike him and they would reach completion.
Then his strength would greatly increase.
Especially if Water Element Essence and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element fused successfully, Simon's strength would completely reach the Six-Star Fiend level.
This was the charm of Soul Mutation. Fusing merely two Heterogeneous Profound Mysteries could rival the power of fusing three Profound Mysteries from the same law.
And at that time, Simon's Ice Wind Space would also undergo a major improvement. With the two working together, even if he encountered a Seven-Star Fiend, he could still fight.
After everyone packed their things, they headed outside the city.
Kenchi was already waiting there. When he saw Simon's group, he let out a huge sigh of relief.
There was no helping it. He could not do without them on the road ahead.
After waiting a while longer until everyone had arrived, Kenchi released the Leopard-shaped Metal Lifeform. Once everyone boarded, they continued flying toward Lier City.
'Spatial' Properties
After entering the Metal Lifeform, Kenchi specifically partitioned off a large room for Simon and Fanny. Their treatment was immediately set apart from everyone else's.
He was completely treating Simon as a Highgod.
The others had no objections to this.
What a joke. They did not dare object.
Whether they could keep their lives on this journey depended on Simon's group.
As for Napote, Elno, and the others, Kenchi also gave them a separate room.
He had seen the previous melee very clearly. Lona, Napote, and Elno were all quite strong, while even Hamut possessed astonishing speed.
Thus, he arranged VIP treatment for them as well.
After greeting Kenchi and Tara, Simon returned to his room and resumed his secluded cultivation. Fanny, meanwhile, chatted with Lona in the main hall.
Within the vast ocean of the Law of Wind, Simon once again immersed himself in studying the Profound Mystery of Wind Element and Water Element Essence.
The more he studied these most basic elemental Profound Mysteries, the more astonished Simon became.
These seemingly ordinary elemental Profound Mysteries contained far too many possibilities.
Faced with his greatest fusion bottleneck, Simon prepared to begin once more from the fundamental elements.
At this moment, all three of Simon's bodies were completely immersed in cultivation. He did not even notice when Fanny returned to the room.
The Profound Mystery of Wind Element.
The cornerstone of the Law of Wind.
The same was true of Water Element Essence.
On the surface, Simon had already brought both Profound Mysteries to completion.
But as he fused Water Element Essence and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element to the bottleneck, Simon discovered that there were still many deeper aspects he had yet to uncover.
The first was the spatial manifestation of the Profound Mystery of Wind Element.
Although cultivating the Laws of Space was forbidden in the Coiling Dragon World, Simon discovered that the Law of Wind was actually a version of the Laws of Space weakened countless times over.
The reason was that Ice Wind Space, the Domain Ultimate Technique Simon had comprehended at the beginning, was actually the ultimate spatial manifestation of the Profound Mystery of Wind Element.
Thinking about it, this was only natural. The Profound Mystery of Wind Element filled the entire world, so it naturally possessed countless connections with space.
By manipulating these wind-elemental essences, one could naturally affect space.
But those effects were generally very weak and basically useless in battle.
It was like Gravity Space within the Earth Element. Ordinary people could only use it to affect enemies, and it was useless against even slightly stronger opponents.
But through special methods of application, people like Reisjin and Linley could greatly strengthen gravitational force and even add repulsive force, making the effect comparable to fusing one or two additional Profound Mysteries.
The Ice Wind Space Simon had comprehended followed the same principle. Through an extremely special application of the Profound Mystery of Wind Element, Simon had fortunately developed Ice Wind Space.
Note that the Profound Mystery of Wind Element here referred to the wind-elemental essence filling heaven and earth, not merely the Profound Mystery of Wind Element itself.
Then, by incorporating Water Element Essence and Wind Space upon this special application of the Profound Mystery of Wind Element, Simon could continuously increase Ice Wind Space's binding power.
But fundamentally, it still relied on the 'spatial properties' contained within the Profound Mystery of Wind Element itself.
Due to the restrictions of the Coiling Dragon World, Simon could not truly comprehend the Laws of Space, but he could cleverly make use of them through the countless-times-weakened Profound Mystery of Wind Element.
The concrete result was Ice Wind Space, whose binding power was abnormally strong.
This was very similar to the Four Divine Beasts' Combined Innate Divine Ability. They likewise had not comprehended the laws of time and space, yet through their Innate Divine Ability, they could unleash attacks containing the laws of time and space.
Simon also discovered that the Law of Wind could roughly be divided into three aspects: 'suppression,' 'Strangulation,' and 'Teleportation.'
These three aspects were all manifestations of space in different forms.
Among them, Teleportation was impossible in the Coiling Dragon World. That was a restriction of the world itself. Unless one was a Grandmist Controller, no one could accomplish it.
But when one's speed reached the ultimate limit and others could not catch one's movements at all, then in their eyes, it was little different from Teleportation. Of course, there was still an essential difference in reality.
This was merely an example illustrating one external manifestation of the Law of Wind in regard to Teleportation.
Simon believed that after reaching the Main Universe, following this path might provide an opportunity to touch upon the Teleportation aspect of the Laws of Space.
As for 'suppression,' it was easy to understand. Wind Space within the Law of Wind possessed an obvious binding and suppressive function, while the special application of the Profound Mystery of Wind Element Simon had developed was also a form of suppression.
Strangulation was likewise closely connected to Dimension and Wind Space within the Law of Wind.
All of this was enough to demonstrate the special nature of the Law of Wind. Among the seven elemental laws and four supreme laws, the Law of Wind had the closest connection to space. Next was the Laws of Destruction, which were very similar to the Law of Wind.
This law was very special. It was the only one among the four supreme laws that did not excel in the soul, and like the Law of Wind, it was exceptionally skilled in material attacks. Yet its speed was not as outstanding as the Law of Wind's.
This forced Simon to suspect that the Laws of Destruction also had an inexplicable connection with 'space.'
Because both focused on material aspects.
The difference was that the Laws of Destruction leaned more toward directly annihilating a target and making it vanish from space.
The material attacks of the Law of Wind, however, leaned toward dividing and shredding matter, without seeking to annihilate it completely.
This was why, although both specialized in material attacks, their differences remained very great.
This was also an insight Simon had gained after arriving in Hell and witnessing several Highgods who cultivated the Laws of Destruction fight.
Furthermore, Simon actually possessed the potential to cultivate the Laws of Destruction, which allowed him to confirm this guess.
After all, his Sword-shaped Soul was very special and possessed the potential to cultivate the Laws of Destruction.
But Simon currently had no plans to divide his attention toward the Laws of Destruction. After all, the water and wind laws, along with Fusion Laws, already occupied all of his energy.
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