Transformation

Suppressing his excitement, Qin Zhao bowed once more to King Lanchen and his fellow senior disciples, then turned into a streak of Flowing Light and flew toward the area in the southeastern corner of Thick Earth Continent known as the Thousand Fold Peaks. Space was naturally dense with folds there, making it an ideal place to cultivate Ten Thousand Line Flow. He didn't rush to comprehend the Law of Earth. Instead, he decided to use this golden opportunity to advance his understanding of the Law of Space.

As the name suggested, the Thousand Fold Peaks were a region of countless overlapping mountain ranges. Their peaks weren't simply piled atop one another in a physical sense; they were stacked in terms of space. The gaps between the mountains weren't empty voids, but twisted, folded spatial rifts. One wrong step while traveling among them could send someone thousands of miles away.

Qin Zhao chose the steepest mountain, where the surrounding spatial fluctuations were also the most violent, and opened a simple cave dwelling halfway up its slope. Wearing the Void Mark Bracer, he immediately threw himself into painstakingly cultivating Ten Thousand Line Flow.

The results of the Emperor Flow Nectar's baptism were immediate. Spatial fluctuation patterns that had once taken tremendous concentration to barely detect were now as clear as the lines on his palm. In his perception, those spatial folds were no longer dangerous obstacles, but paths he could use to travel through space.

"Condense!"

On the open ground outside his cave, Qin Zhao focused his mind. The space around him rippled faintly, and one, two, three... In the end, six solid Phantom Bodies appeared at once! Together with his original body, seven figures performed all kinds of difficult twists and turns in the limited space. They crossed paths, seeming like seven independent individuals, yet remaining connected in a mysterious way.

His Ten Thousand Line Flow proficiency soared from 18%. In less than three months, he could steadily manifest six Phantom Bodies! A year later, he had mastered nine Phantom Bodies—the Nine Line Flow! If word of this rate of progress got out, it would be enough to dumbfound the geniuses of the Noah Secret Realm.

While painstakingly cultivating Ten Thousand Line Flow, he focused primarily on the Gravity Space Profound Mystery and used the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery as a secondary method for comprehending the Law of Earth Origin. Thick Earth Continent itself was an excellent place to comprehend the Law of Earth Origin. With the aid of the Earth Source Core and the extreme affinity granted by the Emperor Flow Nectar, his understanding of the Pulse of the Earth and Gravity Space improved almost every moment.

Qin Zhao sat cross-legged atop a mountain peak, connecting his mind to the boundless Thick Earth Continent beneath him. He could "hear" the mighty, surging pulsations deep within the continent, like the heartbeat of the universe. Each beat contained endless mysteries of force transmission, material structure, and vibration frequency. [Earth Pulse Profound Mystery 99%]! Eight months after the Emperor Flow Nectar's baptism, only the last trace of resistance remained before his comprehension of the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery could suddenly click into place and reach perfection!

At the same time, he felt a violent tremor from the Earth God Clone within him, as if it were constrained by some bottleneck and missing a vital piece of the puzzle! But he suppressed the urge to resolve the problem immediately and devoted his entire mind to comprehending Gravity Space. After all, this was a critical period, and he couldn't afford to waste it.

He traveled across Thick Earth Continent, observing the exotic flowers and plants nurtured by Breathing Soil and sensing the gravitational fluctuations within those Special Lifeforms. Earth wasn't merely heavy and lifeless; it was also the foundation of gravity and the source that nurtured life. The power of nourishment hidden within the deepest earth, in the alternation of growth and decay and the cycle of life and death, gradually became clear to him.

[Gravity Space 100%]!

In the eleventh month after the Emperor Flow Nectar's baptism, he had completely mastered this final truth of gravity, which had even surpassed the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery in difficulty!

And the instant Gravity Space reached perfection, the bottleneck that had stalled the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery was also broken through! The panel immediately displayed [Earth Pulse Profound Mystery 100%]!

Boom!!!

In an instant, Qin Zhao's consciousness seemed to be seized by an irresistible force. It left his body, left all of Thick Earth Continent, and even left the plane of the Primal Universe, arriving in an incomparably vast, ancient, and heavy place of origin!

It was an endless yellow ocean—or rather, an endless expanse of thick earth. More precisely, it was the ultimate "earth" that bore all matter and power! There was no up, down, left, or right. Everywhere he looked, he saw earth-yellow currents and energy, condensed and heavy to the extreme. They flowed slowly, collided, and evolved into mountains, plains, abysses, and ley lines... It was as if the source of every law, substance, and energy related to "earth" in the entire universe lay here!

Vast! Majestic! Ancient! Awe-inspiring!

This pressure far surpassed King Lanchen's. It even surpassed the feeling Qin Zhao got from the Noah Kingdom Lord! This was the pressure of the Laws of the Universe Origin!

A tiny fragment of Qin Zhao's consciousness merged with the smallest speck of earth-yellow light, drifting with the boundless ocean of the Law of Earth Origin. He "saw" the composition and condensation of Earth Element, the origin and propagation of the Earth Pulse, and how Gravity Space had emerged from nothing to nourish all things... The various Profound Mysteries he had comprehended before were now affirmed and elevated at their very source, becoming clearer and deeper!

He understood. This was the ocean of the Law of Earth! He had earned the recognition of the Law of Earth Origin!

In the real world, an intricate earth-yellow mark appeared simultaneously between the brows of Qin Zhao's true body and his Earth God Clone. Like a miniature network of mountains and rivers, or the natural veins of the earth, it radiated a rich and pure fluctuation of the Law of Earth! This was the sign of recognition by an Origin Law!

At the same time, the system panel before his eyes flickered violently as logs and data rapidly updated:

[Congratulations! You have perfected three Profound Mysteries and successfully broken through to Midgod!]

[Achievement unlocked: Midgod!]

[Reward: Midgod Godhead transformation!]

At the very instant Qin Zhao's consciousness immersed itself in the boundless ocean of the Law of Earth, sensed the mysteries of the Origin Law's recognition, and formed an earth-yellow Law Mark between his brows—

"Hum—"

A strange rhythm, unlike the fluctuations of the Laws of the Universe Origin yet also imbued with the meaning of the Supreme Rule, suddenly descended upon Thick Earth Continent and precisely enveloped the Thousand Fold Peak where Qin Zhao was! This fluctuation did not originate from the Primal Universe. It was more ancient and restrained, carrying the majesty of a judgment and an endowment.

The system had activated!

This fluctuation drew no attention from the outside world of Thick Earth Continent, as if it were confined within the mountain. But Qin Zhao, within it—both his true body and his Earth God Clone, far away in an unknown spatial dimension—clearly felt the power of the rules, originating from the system bound to his soul.

In the virtual space—or rather, in some special realm maintained by the system—an invisible force pulled on Qin Zhao's Earth God Clone, lifting him into the air against his will. The Lowgod Divine Power flowing through him began to boil, and the earth-yellow Lowgod Godhead, tightly connected to his soul core, seemed to answer a summons as it slowly emerged from between his brows.

There was no earth-shaking elemental tide, nor the process described in the Coiling Dragon World of having to strain to draw Divine Power from an elemental sea. Under the system's incomprehensible power, the whole process was like a precision instrument carrying out a preset program: efficient and quiet.

Wrapped in the strange fluctuation of the rules, the floating Lowgod Godhead began to undergo a fundamental transformation! Its originally relatively simple internal structure of laws grew more intricate and profound at a visible pace. Like the veins of the earth, it naturally grew and extended, perfectly engraving and fusing the three perfected Profound Mysteries—Earth Element, the Pulse of the Earth, and Gravity Space—within itself. The Godhead's color changed from a somewhat plain earth-yellow to a restrained, weighty hue. As its light flowed, phantom mountains and rivers seemed to rise and vanish within it!