Even After Transmigrating into Coiling Dragon, Who Would Still Eat Soft Rice

Only after the waiting period did Simon begin to carefully inspect the Spatial Ring left behind by Elodi.

"A massive amount of high-grade Magic Crystal, the worst of which are equivalent to level-seven magic cores, with most being level eight or nine. This is a strategic resource; this haul is worth at least a hundred million gold coins," Simon sighed.

It was no wonder the Joshua Clan had gone to such lengths to seize this mine entirely. Under the sweep of Simon's vast soul power, this mine could still be excavated for at least another ten years, providing magic crystal ore worth billions of gold coins.

The Rayast Continent had also developed Magic Crystal Cannons. A projectile fired using the energy from a level-seven Magic Crystal was equivalent to a level-seven spell. Although they were single-use, they could play a significant role in secular wars where Saint Realm experts did not intervene.

Even a level-nine expert would be in great danger if they were hit by a level-seven Magic Crystal Cannon without being able to dodge in time, not to mention the existence of level-eight and level-nine cannons.

If Elodi hadn't encountered the "cheating" Simon, the Gale Empire would have seen the rise of a new family in the coming decades that would have been no less powerful than the current Herbert Family.

Moreover, given the talent Elodi had displayed and his patient, calculating personality, there was a possibility he might have stepped into a higher realm in the future.

However, all of this vanished into smoke under Simon's "Spirit Storm." But if Elodi were lucky enough to survive until he became a god after reincarnating in the Netherworld, it was still possible for him to return to the Rayast Plane in the future, though the probability was so small it could be ignored.

Continuing to inventory Elodi's gifts, Simon discovered that the only other thing of value was a book titled Secret Chronicles of Rayast Continent.

Out of boredom, Simon began to flip through it.

The book roughly recounted the major events of the Rayast Continent over the past million years.

However, from the perspective of someone who had read the original work, there was only one event in it that could truly be called a major event.

As for the imperial successions that took up most of the pages, or even the records of certain Saint Realm or Lowgod experts heading to the Supreme Plane, they were all mundane in Simon's eyes.

This major event was that the strongest person ever recorded in the history of the Rayast Continent had established the Dark Divine Court after becoming a Midgod, uprooting the Temple of Light that had previously held dominance and replacing it.

This divine court had continued to the present day, and Simon had indeed seen it; one could see the presence of this court in every slightly larger city in every empire.

Previously, Simon hadn't looked into it deeply and assumed it was just a court that worshipped the Darkness Element sovereign god, but now it seemed they were worshipping a specific individual.

And coincidentally, the name of this powerhouse was Rayast.

"Although there are many branches of the Dark Divine Court within the Gale Empire, their presence is usually not strong. Is it because Rayast also headed to the Supreme Plane? Or is he still lingering on the continent? The author of this book never made that clear."

Simon fell into deep thought.

Another point of value in this book was that the plane guardian of this plane seemed very mysterious. In the past million years, they had appeared only a handful of times, leaving behind some messages on the continent before disappearing without a trace.

"What a dereliction of duty..."

However, Simon thought about it again and realized this wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as it at least prevented many Saint Realm experts from being tricked into leaving the Material Plane, only to end up as food.

In the end, Simon summarized, "Many powerhouses have indeed been born on this continent, but after becoming invincible, many chose to head to the Supreme Plane or the various divine planes in pursuit of greater strength or excitement. There should still be god-level powerhouses on the continent, but not many. Still, I must continue to keep a low profile; after all, no matter how strong a Saint Realm expert is, they are nothing before a god-level powerhouse."

Putting the book back into his Spatial Ring, Simon continued to keep his soul power spread out to a radius of ten miles.

At this range, Simon could keep his consumption and replenishment in balance, and it was also a distance that allowed him to make sufficient responses to sudden situations.

"The waters of the Rayast Continent are still very deep. At the very least, from what I can see now, most of the most powerful empires likely have the shadows of god-level powerhouses behind them, and it's hard to say that the Dark Divine Court, which doesn't have a strong presence now, doesn't have powerhouses behind it."

Simon pondered to himself.

"My strength is still not enough. I must take advantage of the fact that the situation on the continent is still relatively stable to increase my strength as quickly as possible. Currently, I have already mastered the basics of the Profound Mystery of Wind Element, Water Element Essence, and the Profundity of Speed. It would be best to comprehend the 'Profound Mystery of Slowness' and attempt to start fusing the Profundity of Speed and the Profound Mystery of Slowness."

As someone familiar with the laws of the Coiling Dragon World, Simon certainly understood that the earlier one began fusing the profound mysteries of the laws, the better.

Just like Linley, fusing the Profundity of Speed and the Profound Mystery of Slowness into the Speed Profound Truth and then breaking through to become a god was one of the best paths for the Law of Wind.

But everyone's situation was different. Simon had not yet mastered the Profound Mystery of Slowness, so his options included trying to find the point of convergence between the Profundity of Speed and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element. Even attempting to fuse the Water Element Essence and the Profound Mystery of Wind Element was a good choice for the time being.

Immersed in his cultivation, Simon threw his heart and soul into the wind.

Subconsciously, Simon still preferred to study the Law of Wind, liking that unconstrained freedom.

"The wind is formless, gathering and dispersing as the heart wills."

"Wind elements are everywhere; the gentle wind, the violent wind, the still wind, all filling this world."

"Extremely fast wind can form hurricanes and wind blades, destroying everything."

"Extremely slow wind seems not to exist, yet it seems capable of freezing space."

"What is fast? And what is slow?"

While pondering, Simon stood up and casually practiced the insights in his heart.

A lifelike Elemental Green Python appeared in Simon's hand, its ferocious fangs and dense scales appearing as if they were real.

If he hadn't comprehended the Profound Mystery of Wind Element, Simon would have only been able to make this elemental python appear through magic, but now that he had comprehended it, he could make it manifest with a wave of his hand, and the strength it exerted was even greater.

Dispelling the elemental creature in his hand, Simon picked up the Wind-Annihilation Longsword and swung it after infusing it with Battle Qi.

It appeared that Simon was not swinging it quickly, but in reality, these were just the afterimages left by the longsword moving at high speed.

"Is this the Profundity of Speed? When it reaches the extreme, the eyes can no longer capture the trajectory, and one can only rely on spiritual sense to perceive it."

"But true speed shouldn't just be fast."

Simon shook his head, stopped swinging the longsword, and stood quietly.

He began to cast the Saint Realm forbidden spell—Dimensional Blade.

Suddenly, the wind elements in front of Simon began to fluctuate violently, and a ten-meter-long, deep-cyan giant wind blade suddenly appeared.

"Dimensional Blade, this is the first time I've cast it since becoming a Saint Magus. Now, let's see how powerful it is."

As Simon finished chanting the magic incantation, this wind blade, several times larger than a standard Dimensional Blade, whistled as it pierced toward the firmament.

Wherever the Dimensional Blade passed, the space along its path was torn asunder; spatial rifts appeared and vanished, and then this giant wind blade disappeared into the horizon.

This extraordinary Dimensional Blade consumed more than half of the wind-element magic power within Simon's body, yet Simon laughed happily.

"Haha, I was wrong, I was wrong. I had been thinking about it all wrong before. Wind certainly represents speed, but isn't extreme speed also a form of slowness?"

With his entire focus covering the Dimensional Blade, Simon clearly sensed the energy flow contained within it as well as a small trace of the laws. It seemed very fast, yet also very slow; the speed generated by combining these two distinct artistic conceptions with other unknown Profound Mysteries was actually this fast, and its power was even capable of tearing through space.

Simon closed his eyes, mobilizing all his focus to deduce and comprehend.

"Fast to the extreme? Slow to the extreme? A combination of fast and slow?"

Wind blades appeared around Simon once more. These blades were only the size of a palm, and as they flew about, some were fast to the extreme, while others seemed to be frozen in place, motionless.

After a long while, the wind blades around him dissipated.

Simon opened his eyes and laughed, "The Profound Mystery of Slowness has finally been mastered!"

Chapter 5: Compatibility, Eliminating the Threat

"This Despair Mountain Range is truly a blessed land for me. It's strange, why is it called by this name? It should clearly be called the Hope Mountain Range, haha."

Simon thought randomly in his joy.

He did not know that while this was a land of hope for him, it was a true land of despair for Elodi and his clansmen.

Having successfully mastered the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness, Simon calmed his mind and continued to cultivate.

Thousands of possibilities appeared and vanished in Simon's mind, followed by the birth of new ideas; he kept the correct ones after verification and discarded the wrong ones.

Cultivation knows no days or nights, and Simon spent half a year cultivating on the mountain peak just like this.

One day, Simon opened his eyes, "The progress of cultivation is quite fast after mastering the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness. As expected, they are just relatively elementary Profound Mysteries within the Wind Element."

After half a year of secluded cultivation, and with the deduction of his soul power—which was ten times stronger than that of a Saint Magus of the same level—Simon had gained a deeper understanding of the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness.

But his greatest gain was that during these six months, Simon had miraculously found the point of compatibility between the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness! Only half a year had passed, and it was as if the bottlenecks that hindered others for thousands or tens of thousands of years did not exist for him.

"With this talent, I'm guaranteed to reach the Seven-Star Fiend level in the future, and there's a high probability I can reach the level of a Commander. As for the legendary Grand Perfection, I dare not think about it for now..."

Simon marveled at his peerless talent.

He made up his mind that he would never need to consider the path of being a kept man in the future.

Although he was now one meter ninety tall, with a tall and straight physique, a dashing appearance, and a unique temperament that often left noble ladies unable to walk, Simon remained obsessed only with cultivation. It had been so in the past, and it would remain so in the future.

"Since I've been reborn into Coiling Dragon, who would still want to be a kept man?"

Simon felt that with the talent he was currently displaying, he could reach the peak entirely on his own...

Afterward, Simon began to fuse the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness while continuing to comprehend them.

As Simon unleashed the Speed Profound Truth he had just mastered, his movement speed and attack speed surged once again, increasing by about three times, and his attack power clearly underwent a qualitative change.

"My speed and attack power should be able to look down on all others within the Saint Realm now."

Simon thought narcissistically.

However, this was consistent with reality; after all, Simon had now fused the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness, and as a Soul Mutator, the energy he used was ten times stronger at its base.

An average peak Saint Realm expert could not survive a single move under his full-strength attack.

Subsequently, Simon also created a new ultimate move based on the fused laws—Sigh of the Wind.

A sword of extreme speed; one strike, a phantom flashes by, leaving only a sigh behind.

Feeling the power contained in the ultimate move, Simon was very satisfied.

"Sigh of the Wind is still different from the Dimensional Slash that Linley comprehended after fusing the Profound Mysteries of Speed and Slowness in the original work."

This was also normal; for the same Profound Mysteries and the same fusion path, the ultimate moves developed would vary from person to person.

Sigh of the Wind leaned more toward ethereal and untraceable speed, while each strike carried significant attack power.

The Dimensional Slash, on the other hand, was a strike of powerful destructive force that could carry a small Dimensional Blade; both had their own characteristics.

What they had in common was that both were very fast, as they were the complete high-level Profound Mystery—the 'Speed Profound Truth'—after fusion, representing the most extreme speed of the Wind Element.

Overall, Simon was very satisfied with the power of Sigh of the Wind, and as the degree of fusion increased, the attack power would continue to rise.

The scenery of Despair Peak was beautiful, and Simon would relax appropriately during his cultivation; watching beautiful scenery he had never seen before was one of his few hobbies now.

After enjoying the view, Simon continued his cultivation.

This feeling of his strength increasing at every moment made Simon intoxicated and unable to extricate himself.

Until one day, the soul power Simon had constantly radiating discovered a figure intruding.

Opening his eyes, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Simon's mouth, "Lachlan, you've finally come." He then swept toward this figure at extreme speed without a sound.

Lachlan, who had been guarding the clan, had not received news from this Magic Crystal Core mine for several months. After much deliberation, he decided to come and investigate personally. After all, this batch of ore was related to the clan's development plan for the next hundred years and could not afford any mistakes. Now, looking at the ruins before him, with Elodi's whereabouts unknown, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.