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

His original body, meanwhile, was fully dedicated to deducing various ultimate techniques suitable for his current state, including those for material defense, soul defense, and soul attacks.

As for speed?

Simon smiled. Having become a god through the Profound Truth of Speed, speed was his greatest strength.

After a long period of in-depth research, Simon discovered that the Profound Mystery of Mist Illusion manifested primarily as "illusion" when it came to the soul. Through countless experiments and deductions, Simon developed his own ultimate technique for soul defense—the Wall of Illusion.

Once activated, Simon's vast soul power would follow the profound fluctuations of the Mist Illusion to form a barrier that completely enveloped his soul.

After a brief test, Simon was very satisfied with its defensive power. Ordinary Lowgods would have no hope of breaking through this defense, and even when facing an average Midgod, Simon was confident he could hold his ground. After all, Simon was a soul mutant, and the Laws of Water were nothing to sneeze at when it came to defense.

Similarly, Simon also developed an ultimate technique for soul attacks—the Phantom Spear.

It was a spear formed entirely of soul power based on the Profound Mystery of Mist Illusion. A single strike could bewilder an enemy's soul; if they couldn't resist, their soul defense would automatically dissipate, allowing the spear to naturally breach the enemy's Soul Ocean.

Even if they were lucky enough to resist, it would still serve to partially weaken the enemy's soul defense, and by then, Simon could frantically unleash the Phantom Spear with his powerful soul energy. He believed very few Lowgods could withstand that.

Regarding material defense, Simon utilized the Profound Mystery of Mist Illusion and the Profound Mystery of Water Element, which he had fused for the most part, to develop a defensive ultimate technique through fused divine power—the Ice Mist Battle Armor. Its defensive capabilities were quite outstanding.

When Simon used his Wind Element Divine Clone to unleash his ultimate technique, Sigh of the Wind, with fused divine power at full strength, the Ice Mist Battle Armor could still withstand several strikes.

If he didn't use fused divine power, he could even avoid having his defense broken entirely, which went to show the defensive capability of the Laws of Water combined with fused divine power.

The ultimate technique Sigh of the Wind, which had been under constant refinement, had seen its power steadily increase alongside the progress of fusing the Profound Mystery of Slowness and the Profound Mystery of Speed.

Now, under Simon's full-strength attack, with the attack speed amplified by the Profound Truth of Speed, he could unleash thousands of full-power strikes per second, each one capable of tearing open spatial rifts several meters long.

Of course, this was within a Material Plane.

Furthermore, during his tests, Simon always released Sigh of the Wind toward the distance; otherwise, the spatial rifts he tore open would be a huge headache for him right now.

However, if he maintained such a high frequency of attacks, the divine power stored within Simon's body would only last for a few minutes at most.

But given the neural reaction speed of god-level experts, life and death could be decided in less than a second in a one-on-one close-quarters battle. It would only be slightly dangerous if he were forced into a chaotic melee.

Well, just slightly.

The shameless part about Wind-style experts is that even if they can't beat you, they can still outrun you.

Nevertheless, Simon would not be careless. After all, the battles he would encounter in the future would be clashes between god-level experts, and everyone had their own trump cards. If he lost a divine clone due to carelessness, Simon would regret it to death.

Overall, the ultimate techniques in Simon's hands were like a "spear and shield." It just depended on whether the Wind-style spear was sharper or the Water-style shield was thicker.

Based on their current performance, the ultimate technique Sigh of the Wind, developed by fusing the Profound Mystery of Speed and the Profound Mystery of Slowness, held a slight edge.

Of course, this was also because the Wind element was too proficient in material attacks, while the Mist Illusion he had comprehended and fused for the Water element performed only average in terms of material defense.

Otherwise, it would be hard to say which of this "spear and shield" was truly stronger.

Chapter 11 Ice Wind Space

Ten more years passed. The souls of Simon's original body and his Water Element Divine Clone had long since recovered to their peak state. The longswords he carried with him had all been nurtured into Lowgod artifacts, including three Wind-Annihilation Longswords nurtured with fused divine power and three longswords nurtured with single-element divine power.

The reason he nurtured so many weapons was, firstly, that Simon had prepared one for each body, and secondly, he wanted to leave one or two behind as a foundation for his clan.

Inside the cave, Simon toyed with the cyan-blue glowing Wind-Annihilation Divine Sword in his hand while carefully reviewing the results of his cultivation over the past few decades. With the ultimate techniques he had developed, Simon was now enough to gain a foothold at the level of a Lowgod.

Even if he encountered a Midgod, as long as it wasn't someone like Linley who had "hacks," Simon was confident he could handle it.

As for a Highgod, he definitely couldn't defeat one right now. Even a Highgod who had refined a Godhead was not someone the current Simon could contend with. But Simon believed that even if a Highgod still existed in the Rayast Plane, they likely wouldn't look twice at a small fry like him.

After all, any Highgod who could live in seclusion in a Material Plane was no simple character. Even if there were any, they would likely have come from a Supreme Plane or one of the major Divine Planes, with a perspective and strength at least at the level of a Six-Star Fiend.

Such experts wouldn't care about Lowgods or Midgods.

After all, it was a consensus in the Coiling Dragon World that experts had their own "aura"—commonly known as the demeanor of an expert.

Such experts generally disdained to make a move against opponents far weaker than themselves.

Just as Simon himself would generally not make a move against Saint Realm experts now.

Judging by the environment and the number of experts currently present in the Rayast Plane, it was almost impossible for a native of a Material Plane to just hide here and cultivate to the level of a Highgod without going to a Supreme Plane.

After all, whether it was the clarity of the laws, the cultivation environment, or the number of experts and treasures, a Material Plane could not compare to a Supreme Plane.

In the Coiling Dragon World, the Supreme Planes were a heaven for the strong, though naturally, they were also a hell for the weak. Material Planes were more suitable as resting places for experts who wished to live in seclusion.

With talent as monstrous as Simon's, he was now starting to feel a bit of strain during his cultivation. In the future, if he wanted to reach the Highgod realm, it would likely be impossible without going to a Supreme Plane to broaden his horizons and experience life-and-death battles.

Previously, Simon had scoured the history of the continent, and there had been no records of a Highgod making a move in the hundreds of thousands of years prior; even the number of times Midgods had acted was very few.

This also matched Simon's speculation: experts in ordinary Material Planes were still very rare, and it was already quite difficult for a Lowgod to be born occasionally.

Simon's future plan was to at least "hide" until both his Wind and Water elements became Midgods before going to the Supreme Planes to venture out. After all, by then, both his divine power and soul would be comparable to the most ordinary Highgods, which would provide a basic guarantee of safety.

Gathering his wandering thoughts, Simon prepared to do a bit more traveling before returning to his clan to tell the clan leader and the others about his ascension to godhood, and to leave behind the divine artifacts.

Now that Simon had all kinds of ultimate techniques, he no longer had any obvious shortcomings, and there was little point in blindly cultivating in seclusion.

Afterward, Simon packed his things, exited the cave, and transformed into a blur, disappearing into the horizon.

Along the way, Simon kept his Divine Sense fully open, and the scene that flooded his mind was one of ice and snow.

Ancient, frigid winds swept across the land, and ice and snow raged across the sky.

The world was a vast expanse of white.

After flying for a distance, Simon landed on the ground, opening his heart and mind to carefully experience this rare sight.

Watching this wondrous scene where ice and snow seemed to merge with the biting wind, Simon suddenly felt a spark of realization and froze in place amidst the blizzard.

At this moment, a monstrous storm was raging within Simon's Soul Ocean.

That's right, I happen to have a water and wind dual-element Soul Mutation. Water elements can manifest as ice and snow, while wind elements can form hurricanes. Doesn't the scene before me perfectly combine the water and wind elements?

Just like that, Simon became immersed in his epiphany.

Several months later, Simon, who had been frozen into an ice sculpture by the wind and snow, finally moved.

With him as the center, pale cyan wind elements and deep blue water elements began to fluctuate violently. When the fluctuations reached their limit, the two elemental types suddenly began to collide.

However, the expected explosion did not occur; instead, these two elemental types began to fuse together as naturally as water blending with milk.

The fused elements turned a cyan-blue, and Simon was soon enveloped in a sky-filling cyan-blue radiance.

I never expected that on a whim, the Profound Mystery of Wind Element and the Profound Mystery of Water Element would actually harmonize! It seems I really need to go out more; being a shut-in truly has no future.

Simon thought happily.

Subsequently, under Simon's control, the sky-filling cyan-blue elements erupted with a boom. At the same time, 365 Cyan-Blue Fused Divine Power Threads followed a special trajectory to form a domain with a ten-mile radius centered on Simon.

Within this domain, hurricanes and blizzards formed by the cyan-blue elements danced wantonly. Countless ice blades and wind blades appeared and vanished, tearing open streaks of spatial cracks.

Back when I read the original work, I was so envious of the protagonist Linley for having the bug-like Blackstone Space. I never imagined that I, Simon, would be lucky enough to possess a similar ultimate move. Since this domain space was realized in the Icewind Canyon, let's call it the 'Ice Wind Space'.

With a wave of Simon's hand, the relatively calm Ice Wind Space instantly turned violent. The entire ten-mile radius was covered by cyan-blue ice blades and wind blades traveling at Extreme Speed, and all the mountains and snow were instantly wiped clean.

During these past few months, Simon had continuously fused the water and wind elements. As he delved deeper into the Profound Mystery of Wind Element, he discovered that these basic elemental mysteries actually contained secrets regarding Spatial Binding.

Following that, in the process of fusing the two elemental mysteries, he miraculously gained further insight into a special method of applying Spatial Binding. Once unleashed, it could exert a tremendous binding force on the space within the domain.

The strength of this binding force shocked Simon.

He roughly gauged it and realized it had completely reached the level of a Midgod Godhead Domain!

Looking at the range of destruction and the powerful binding force caused by the 'Ice Wind Space' domain, Simon was overjoyed.

This was only the initial harmonization of the water and wind elemental mysteries. As the fusion progress of these two disparate mysteries improved, and as he further developed the special application methods, the binding force of the Ice Wind Space would inevitably become even stronger.

Especially when Simon thought about how, in the future, he would comprehend the Wind Space and then fuse it with these two elemental mysteries, the binding force of the Ice Wind Space would become unimaginably great...

I have one more trump card for the future, though this 'Ice Wind Space' is still just a prototype and needs many improvements.

Everything is difficult at the start, but this most arduous first step had been successfully taken; the rest was merely a matter of patient, grinding effort.

Simon was not impatient. After all, one must eat one bite at a time, and mysteries must be comprehended bit by bit; one cannot eat hot tofu if they are in a rush.

Currently, the Profound Mystery of Wind Element in his Law of Wind was nearing completion, but it had not yet harmonized with the Profound Mystery of Slowness or the Profound Mystery of Speed. It was purely by chance that it harmonized with the water elements, leading to the development of his domain ultimate move, the 'Ice Wind Space'.

Indeed, cultivation must follow the natural order.

Dispelling the 'Ice Wind Space', Simon continued to stroll through the wind and snow.

At this moment, his heart was filled with tranquility. He, who had previously been terrified of the future, now felt not a shred of fear, thanks to the refinement of his ultimate move and his comprehension of the Ice Wind Space.

As long as he continued to cultivate, he was guaranteed at least the combat power of a Seven-Star Fiend, and with a little more effort, becoming an Asura-level figure would not be difficult.

Simon even harbored the ambition to reach the realm of Grand Perfection...

Calming the surging ambition in his heart, Simon continued walking toward the north.

Strangely, although Simon appeared to be walking very slowly, each step actually spanned several miles.

I'll go take a look at the rarely recorded Arctic Ice Plains, and then I'll return to the clan.

Just like that, Simon did not fly but spent several months walking out of the range of the Icewind Canyon. In the process, his comprehension of the Ice Wind Space grew deeper and deeper.

Finally, on an afternoon, Simon arrived at the legendary Arctic Ice Plains.

Looking as far as the eye could see, the environment here was even harsher than the Icewind Canyon; there was nothing but ice and snow.

Simon spread out his Divine Sense, and there was no sign of life for tens of thousands of miles. He continued to extend his Divine Sense, and finally, at a distance of over a hundred thousand miles, he discovered a Saint-level Ice Lion.

Other than that, Simon found no other life.

Flying into the sky, Simon unleashed his Extreme Speed.

After spending several more days, he arrived at the edge of the Arctic Ice Plains.

Along the way, Simon discovered some magical beasts living here; the lowest were at the Saint level, and he even discovered a few Ascetics.

In the deeper parts of the ice plains, the temperature was already approaching what he called absolute zero in his past life. Here, one had to be at least a peak Saint-level cultivator of the Laws of Water to survive. Simon even discovered traces of human presence here.

It seems someone once cultivated here in seclusion, but it appears to have been abandoned for a long time. Simon inspected it and found the cave empty, so he lost interest.

Finally, Simon arrived at the Plane Membrane and stared blankly at the Spatial Turbulence outside.

Simon watched for a long time and thought about many things.

In his heart, he secretly swore that in the future, he would definitely rely on his own strength to fear nothing from this Spatial Turbulence.