Steady as a Spark, Fierce as a Wave

In Karl's understanding, the Saint Realm can be broadly divided into two levels. The first is from the Early Saint Realm to the Mid Saint Realm, a stage where one cultivates the Momentum of Heaven and Earth. The second level spans from the Peak Saint Realm to the Saint Realm Limit, a stage where one cultivates the laws of the universe.

Early Saint Realm, Mid Saint Realm, Peak Saint Realm, Saint Realm Limit.

This is the division of power among the Saint Realm, and among the peak experts on the continent, the vast majority are at the Peak Saint Realm stage, with only a rare few able to reach the Saint Realm Limit.

The reason for this is simply that experts at the Peak Saint Realm have already grasped the power of the Elemental Laws. Even if it is only the merest fraction, it is enough to instantly unleash power far exceeding that of the Mid Saint Realm. A newly ascended Peak Saint Realm expert is enough to kill a Mid Saint Realm master who has mastered the Momentum of Heaven and Earth to perfection in a single blow.

Only by comprehending the power of the laws can one be considered to have stepped onto the ladder leading toward becoming a God.

However, the laws are ethereal; even a tiny sliver possesses explosive power far beyond ordinary imagination. Naturally, comprehending such great power is incredibly difficult.

From the Early Saint Realm to the Mid Saint Realm, one cultivates the Momentum of Heaven and Earth. Becoming a Saint is already extremely difficult, and cultivating the Momentum of Heaven and Earth within the Saint Realm is even harder. Saints from humble backgrounds may spend hundreds or even thousands of years stuck in the Early Saint Realm.

Saint Realm experts from major powers are different; they possess ancient traditions and abundant experience, which has allowed them to create unique skills corresponding to various attributes.

Cultivating these unique skills is, in essence, cultivating one's own Momentum of Heaven and Earth. Once a skill is mastered, there is a slim chance to comprehend one's own power of the laws from within it.

This power of the laws, which is not yet sufficient to support a Saint Realm expert in crossing into the God Realm, is known as a Mystery.

The noise and bustle in the City Lord's Mansion began to subside as the nobles started to disperse.

Behind the City Lord's Mansion lay the residence belonging to the Taros Family.

A family is a family, and a territory is a territory.

Karl Taros stood silently by a stone table in the backyard, looking up at the moon in the sky, his mind filled with a thousand thoughts.

Unique skills are ultimate techniques created by at least a Peak Saint Realm expert, condensing everything they have learned in their lifetime. These not only contain the changes of the Momentum of Heaven and Earth but also the power of the Mystery contained within the skill. They are rare tickets on the Yulan Continent that can point directly to the Peak Saint Realm.

The Holy Alliance, the Dark Alliance, the O'Brien Empire, and the Yulan Empire—why are these four the peak powers of the Yulan Continent? It is precisely because they possess sufficiently complete traditions within their ranks.

Karl glanced at the Mall. Although there were many items inside, it was clear that he did not see any such ultimate techniques.

He sighed slightly. Since those techniques were not in the Level 2 Mall, Karl believed they would not appear even if he reached Level 3.

Perhaps in the system's view, it had already provided all the necessary conditions for the path of cultivation. Is your aptitude insufficient? As long as you can reach your own limit, the system will initiate automatic cultivation. Unless you are a lone wolf, as long as you have a family or a territory, there is always a way to play that suits you. With either one, you can gain a boost in cultivation speed, and breaking through your limits becomes a natural progression.

To break through from Level 6 to Level 7, as long as you have blood relatives, you can break through smoothly by spending some time. This kind of automatic idling is enough to cultivate up to the peak of a Level 9 Warrior.

As for what to do after reaching the peak of Level 9, Karl's experience provided the answer: either your physical talent is lacking but your comprehension is excellent, allowing you to rely on your own understanding of the Momentum of Heaven and Earth, or, like Karl, your physical talent is poor and your comprehension is mediocre, leaving you no choice but to purchase Attribute Seeds from the system to unlock the Momentum of Heaven and Earth.

As for the system Mall not selling unique skills, that is because the ultimate goal of cultivating such skills is to fully comprehend the Momentum of Heaven and Earth, thereby seeking that sliver of a chance to cross into the Peak Saint Realm.

The system is very straightforward: since cultivating a unique skill is for the purpose of cultivating the Momentum of Heaven and Earth, with the hope of comprehending a Mystery upon mastery, the system's automatic cultivation is sufficient to reach the perfection of the Momentum of Heaven and Earth. Beyond that, there is no need to toil over comprehension; one simply needs to purchase a Mystery Seed to be directly escorted to the Peak Saint Realm.

As for whether Karl can fully utilize the Momentum of Heaven and Earth once he has mastered it, that is the host's business, not something the system can interfere with.

After all, such people are not uncommon on the Yulan Continent. Two people might comprehend the same Mystery with almost the same progress, yet one might be able to integrate the Mystery into every single strike and move, while another can only integrate it into their strongest ultimate technique. The difference in skill is immediately apparent.

Karl felt very satisfied now. His system was not limited to a single use during idling; as long as he had enough points, he could idle however he wanted. Currently, there were only two things that could be idled.

The first was his Battle Qi cultivation, and the second was the comprehension of the Momentum of Heaven and Earth.

Because these were improvements brought about by the system, his foundation was extremely solid. However, because Karl's own talent was average, it was difficult for him to exert the full power of such a solid foundation. It was as if the system had provided Karl with an adult's body, but Karl could only exert the strength of a youth.

"The path of cultivation must be pursued gradually."

Consuming 1,000 points daily, the system could automatically idle for an entire day, bringing Karl a small increase in Battle Qi. Now that he was no longer worried about points, Karl simply activated both idling cultivations, consuming 2,000 points daily. In this way, both his Battle Qi and his Momentum of Heaven and Earth could make progress every day.

For Saint Realm cultivation, at least as far as Karl knew, the progress required for Battle Qi and the Momentum of Heaven and Earth from the Early Saint Realm to the Mid Saint Realm was only 10,000 units. Converted, it wouldn't even take thirty years. Even if Karl had lived a life of patching things together in the first few years due to a lack of points, this would only delay him by a few more years.

When Karl was still a Level 6 Warrior, that was when his Golden Finger truly activated. From a hundred-year-old Level 6 Warrior to a two-hundred-year-old Level 9 Warrior, he had waited for over a hundred years; it wasn't as if he hadn't waited before. Moreover, he had now crossed into the Saint Realm and possessed an almost eternal life.

In the Material Plane, Saint Realm experts and God Level powerhouses are rare and generally do not care for ruling. Under various factors, this means that as long as there is no invasion from another plane, the Saint Realm experts of the Yulan Continent have long lives and live very securely.

Under the leadership of Karl and his deep foundation, Spark City began to develop steadily. At the same time, the situation in the Anlan Kingdom began to decline.

A Grand Duke who controlled an entire province chose to split directly from the Anlan Kingdom and establish his own Principality.

Since someone had already taken the first step, Karl believed that the current Anlan Kingdom would likely find it difficult to survive this crisis.