(Readers, please check the novel's notes for a comparison of the power levels and settings of the Coiling Dragon and Swallowed Star worlds.)
At the border of the Flame Meteor Empire, in the Noah Universe Kingdom.
It was a boundless, vast desert, with a blazing planet hanging high overhead, scorching the golden sand until it was searing hot. Yet in this world, which should have been unbearably hot, a heavy, earthy presence was slowly spreading, quietly overtaking the heat.
Qin Zhao stood bare-chested. Fine beads of sweat appeared on his bronze skin, but they did not evaporate in the heat. Instead, they seemed to be held in place by some force, clinging tightly to his skin.
His eyes were shut. Visible streams of earthen-yellow energy swirled around him. They did not drift aimlessly, but moved like living tentacles, continually communicating and resonating with the vast desert below on a profound level.
After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes, delight filling his gaze.
"I never expected that, though the early stages of cultivation in the Coiling Dragon World's system might not be as showy as those in the Swallowed Star World's system, they'd have their own unique advantages when it came to comprehending laws!" Qin Zhao couldn't help praising it to himself.
"It's just a shame that my original body didn't have a particularly good foundation. If I'd mastered the 128 Martial Arts Secret Techniques, I might have reached Planet Level long ago!"
The talents on the panel corresponded entirely to those of the Coiling Dragon World, and the talent levels were basically equivalent to those in the Swallowed Star World. The secret techniques section was quite straightforward: it displayed Qin Zhao's mastery of each technique in real time, with five levels ranging from lowest to highest: beginner, proficient, minor mastery, major mastery, and perfection.
As he thought this, a panel visible only to him appeared before his eyes.
[Coiling Dragon Achievement System (Special Edition · Activated)] [Name: Qin Zhao] [Talents: Earth Element (Superior) Water-style (High) Fire-style (Low) Wind-style (Intermediate) Lightning Element (Intermediate) Light-style (Low) Dark-style (Low)] [Achievements: Saint Realm, Lowgod] [Secret Techniques: 128 Martial Arts Secret Techniques (Major Mastery 97%)] [Comprehension: Earth-style Laws (Earth Element 22%)] [Items: Earth-style Godhead (God Clone formation 99%)] [Buff: None]
"According to the Coiling Dragon World's descriptions, breaking through to the divine realm and forming a God Clone means that one has comprehended one percent of the elemental laws! By the standards of the Swallowed Star World, forming a God Clone definitely means stepping across the threshold of the laws! Judging by the timing, the God Clone should be finished forming sometime today. I'll wait a little longer!"
This panel had suddenly appeared a few days earlier, when Qin Zhao had just reached Planet Level. Along with its appearance, he had also recovered the memories of his previous life! That was when he remembered that he was a transmigrator—and that he had come to the Swallowed Star World!
Despite regaining his memories and getting this cheat at just the right time, Qin Zhao wasn't particularly happy. In fact, he was utterly speechless.
"This is the Swallowed Star World. What the hell is a Coiling Dragon Achievement System doing here?"
It wasn't that the Coiling Dragon cultivation system was bad. In fact, at its peak, the Coiling Dragon World had produced a monster like Linley, the Hongmeng Controller!
But aside from the unfathomably powerful Hongmeng Controller at the very end, the other realms of the Coiling Dragon cultivation system couldn't compare to the Swallowed Star system at all, whether in terms of spectacle or combat strength.
It was like awakening a low-martial-world system in a high-martial world. It wasn't completely useless, but its use was quite limited. What was more, the cheat had started out inactive. It wasn't until Qin Zhao had formed a domain shortly before that the system, which had seemed to be dead, started working again.
[Divine Domain detected!] [Coiling Dragon Achievement System activating!]
Hearing this, Qin Zhao, who had been happy about forming a domain, froze. His gaze then fell on the panel before him.
"The system's activated?"
It had mistaken an ordinary Law Domain for a Divine Domain? Was the Coiling Dragon Achievement System really this absurd?
[Warning! Warning!] [You have unleashed a Divine Domain! Your strength far exceeds the limits of a Saint Realm powerhouse!] [The system is assessing your strength...]
Seeing those lines, Qin Zhao was completely dumbfounded.
"Didn't I come to the Swallowed Star World? By the Coiling Dragon World's standards, even a warrior at the peak of Saint Realm would probably struggle against a Planet Level 5 fighter! But I've already comprehended a domain, making me invincible among ordinary Planet Level fighters, and the system is comparing me to Saint Realm?"
And it said his strength far exceeded the limits of a Saint Realm powerhouse? Since when could an invincible Planet Level fighter even be compared to someone from Saint Realm?
[Assessment complete. Your strength meets the standard for "Lowgod"!] [Title unlocked: Saint Realm!] [Title unlocked: Lowgod!]
"Lowgod? A Planet Level Lowgod?" Seeing that the system had taken so long to reach that conclusion, Qin Zhao was speechless. "Could it be that this system thinks the Swallowed Star World is the Coiling Dragon World? Judged by the standards of the Coiling Dragon World, Planet Level powerhouses in the Swallowed Star World really do far surpass Saint Realm!"
After thinking it over, Qin Zhao more or less understood how the system worked. If it thought the Swallowed Star World was the Coiling Dragon World, then its assessment made perfect sense.
[Congratulations on consecutively unlocking the "Saint Realm" and "Lowgod" achievements. Detection complete: your overall elemental talent is relatively low.] [Reward: One Earth-style Godhead!] [Reward: All-Element Law Talent Enhancement!]
As soon as the system finished its assessment, a new panel appeared before Qin Zhao.
[Name: Qin Zhao] [Talents: Earth Element (High → Superior) Water-style (Intermediate → High) Fire-style (None → Low) Wind-style (Low → Intermediate) Lightning Element (Low → Intermediate) Light-style (None → Low) Dark-style (None → Low)] [Achievements: Saint Realm, Lowgod] [Secret Techniques: 128 Martial Arts Secret Techniques (Major Mastery 97%)] [Comprehension: Earth-style Laws (Earth Element 22%)] [Items: Earth-style Godhead (Can be separated from Earth Element talent and fused to form a God Clone)] [Buff: None]
"All-Element Law Talent Enhancement?"
Qin Zhao carefully felt the change. In that instant, something really did seem to have changed in his body—the cosmic fluctuations of the Earth Origin and Origin Law of Water had suddenly become clearer to him.
"And this Godhead—maybe it's useless in the Coiling Dragon World, but in the Swallowed Star World, it's incredibly useful!"
As everyone knew, in the Coiling Dragon World, when someone became a god independently, Heaven and Earth would naturally give birth to a Godhead based on their soul. Once the Godhead appeared, they had to choose whether to fuse it with their body or keep it outside.
If they kept it outside, Heaven and Earth would naturally create a divine body from the Godhead and split the independent god's soul in two, producing a God Clone. This gave them an extra life, and their original body could still cultivate other laws, but it came at the cost of severely damaging their soul.
Fusing the Godhead with their original body would transform that body into a divine body, but their soul would merge with the Godhead, making it impossible to pursue other paths of cultivation. Ordinarily, a soul fused with a Godhead could only sense its corresponding element, but Soul Mutants could sense other elements.
If this trait were brought to the Swallowed Star World, it would be quite similar to the characteristics of an Immortal.
Of course, the strength an Immortal could wield was completely beyond what a Lowgod could attain. Even the display of power and destructive force of an ordinary Immortal far surpassed that of a Paragon High-God!
"If I separate my Earth Element talent and fuse it with the Godhead to form an Earth-style Lowgod God Clone, then in the Swallowed Star World, I'll effectively have an 'Ultra-Weakened Version' of an Immortal God Clone!"
"Moreover, this Earth-style Lowgod God Clone can avoid interference from other Origin Laws and focus solely on cultivating the Earth Origin. It can even share its comprehension of the Earth Origin with my original body!"
"The only drawback is that my original body won't be able to cultivate the Earth Origin anymore! But if I have a God Clone, how is that even a drawback?"
The God Clone's Law Comprehension could be shared with the original body! In other words, even if forming a God Clone required his original body to give up its Earth Element talent, as long as the clone didn't die, things would be no different from before!
At that thought, Qin Zhao didn't hesitate for a moment. "System, separate my Earth Element talent and fuse it with this Earth-style Godhead. Then create an Earth-style God Clone for me!"
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