Primordial Spirit Qi

Inside a newly dug cave, Declan beamed, "When I was escaping with you before, I sensed a relatively weak aura around. I didn't expect it to be a fat sheep! This Ice Snow Lion must have just been thrown in."

Barn looked at the Spiked Iron Armored Dragon before him, its ferocious face filled with simple joy—for the two of them in the Gobada plane, today's harvest was quite substantial.

During a magical beast's breakthrough, both its size and internal energy would gradually increase. Even an eighth-level magical beast, after breaking through to the Saint domain, its flesh and blood would be enough for one person and one dragon to eat for three years. What's more, inside the Ice Snow Lion's stomach, they found a spatial pendant containing the corpses of thousands of humans!

"Killing so many people just to be imprisoned in Gobada—compared to that, we only killed a Pope of Light. Isn't it normal for people to die during sparring between Saint domains!" Declan said indignantly, looking at the human corpses in the spatial pendant.

Barn naturally knew the reason. The plane warden was Hodan, who had appeared in the original work, the one hostile to the Four Divine Beast families. He clearly feared Belut's deterrence and didn't dare to kill Barn directly, so he found an excuse to throw him into Gobada.

Declan looked at the corpses in the spatial pendant, drool dripping from his mouth. But thinking Barn was also human, he said, "I'll go to the next cave. This Ice Snow Lion is yours."

Looking at the Spiked Iron Armored Dragon, which waddled happily, Barn let out a wry smile.

Back then, Declan was a proud Spiked Iron Armored Dragon and a genius of his clan, comprehending the Law of Darkness at level nine. After meeting Barn, who was also level nine in his human form, the two fought for years, spurring each other on, and both made rapid progress in their comprehension of laws.

Finally, after both broke through to the Saint domain, they signed an equal contract out of mutual admiration.

However, the world of Gobada was truly cruel. Decades of starvation had made the proud Spiked Iron Armored Dragon openly emotional, turning the once arrogant genius tiger-striped warrior into someone scrambling for food.

Barn casually ate a piece of raw meat, then stored the Ice Snow Lion's corpse in his spatial ring.

With the immediate crisis resolved, it was time to consider future plans.

Actually, their strength wasn't at the very bottom in Gobada. Barn's comprehensive strength was definitely at the Saint domain's limit; Declan, skilled in burrowing, stealth, tracking, and detection, combined with his racial talent, was only one tier weaker than the Saint domain's limit.

And in this Gobada, there were even some Saints who had only just touched the surface of laws.

The elemental concentration in the Gobada plane was too thin, making comprehending laws a hundred times more difficult than in material planes. Moreover, Saints had to exert all their effort just to survive, let alone spend energy cultivating. Only those at the God level and above, relying on divine power to escape the constraints of food, had the leisure to improve their comprehension of laws.

This led many Saints, after being exiled to Gobada, to focus all their energy on struggling to survive. Unless they had a clear epiphany, they wouldn't expend precious mental energy on comprehending laws.

It was normal to make no progress for centuries.

As for the Saints who escaped Gobada in the original work, their immense power was due to the weak spatial point itself having a strong binding force. Even if the sealing array was destroyed, one needed Saint domain limit strength to escape. Those who fled were either Saint domain limit experts or Gods.

But Barn wouldn't be satisfied with this. He needed to break through to the God level. Only by reaching the God level would he have the ability to travel freely in Gobada and have a chance to find the "door of escape" that would appear in his destiny.

Barn began to test his talents.

Destiny Talent was Barn's former talent. After the remnant soul was completely fused by the current Barn, he did indeed possess Destiny Talent. But this was ultimately not his own talent. As a soul that had transmigrated, Barn should have his own talent.

A golden leaf appeared in his hand. This was a leaf from the Tree of Life, a tool the former Barn had collected in the Jade Orchid Empire to test life magic talent.

A drop of blood fell onto the leaf, and there was no reaction—no life magic talent.

Next was a crystal ball swirling with gray dust. For talent in necromancy, a pure soul was merely an outward appearance; the specific talent level still needed to be tested with carefully crafted tools.

One hand was placed on the crystal ball, which remained dim—no necromancy talent.

Barn nervously took out a transparent crystal ball, a tool for testing the seven elemental magics.

After taking several deep breaths, Barn placed his hand on the crystal ball, and a dazzling blue light illuminated the cave—water affinity, super!

Barn put away the tools one by one. "Phew, thankfully. I thought I was a talentless muggle!"

Next was developing his water talent. Thanks to Barn having collected all the magic cultivation methods he could find, he now had a complete set of water magic books. Moreover, he now had the magic crystal of the recently acquired Ice Snow Lion, which was more than enough for him to cultivate water magic to a certain height.

Holding the magic crystal core of the Ice Snow Lion, Barn entered a meditative state. Ice-blue water magic power surged from the magic crystal core, converging at Barn's chest. (In the original work, battle qi and magic power were stored in the dantian. Feeling some conflict, let's change the magic user's magic power storage to the chest.)

In reality, Barn's mental power was not weak. Before entering the Gobada plane, he was already an eighth-level mage. After more than a hundred years of tempering, coupled with the changes brought by his transmigrated soul, he had long reached the level of a ninth-level mage.

With the enhancement of his powerful mental power, Barn took only one year to completely refine the Ice Snow Lion's magic crystal core. Even with some loss, the water magic power in his body had already reached the level of a ninth-level Great Archmage.

But he didn't stop there. He continued to meditate for long hours every day. When he was hungry, he ate some of the Ice Snow Lion's flesh and blood. The flesh and blood of water-elemental beasts also contained immense water magic power, which Barn continuously digested and then absorbed into his heart using his powerful mental power.

Until his heart was filled with magic power, and the liquid magic power had been compressed to its limit.

Four years later.

Barn opened his eyes. A massive change was occurring deep within his soul. In his mind, the ocean of mental power was roaring, and the seven-colored soul crystal was trembling.

"Finally about to break through to Saint Archmage," Barn was filled with surprise at this moment.

"Rumble~~" The mental power was constantly transforming, and the range covered by the mental power ocean was shrinking. However, the mental power itself had improved. Most importantly—the appearance of the soul crystal had actually begun to slowly transform.

The quantity of mental power had reduced to about one-tenth of its original amount. However, the mental power had become much purer and more flexible to control.

The process of cultivation was also a process of elevating life's level. The fundamental of life was the soul! As life's level increased, the soul itself would naturally transform. The "Saint Archmage" realm cultivated mental power. Upon reaching the Saint Archmage realm, the soul would also transform to a new level.

The transformation was slow.

While waiting, Barn began to try learning various water-elemental magics according to the magic books. A month later—

"Success!" Barn carefully examined his soul. In his mind, above the ocean of mental power, which had become dozens of times purer, floated a spear radiating seven-colored light.

"My soul has become spear-shaped?" Barn was also surprised. "Does this mean I also have the talent for destruction?"

Having read the original work, Barn naturally knew what this meant. The talent for destruction could not be tested by external forces but could be judged by the soul's form. He wasn't sure if this was the former Barn's talent or a talent brought by his own soul.

But talent was talent; whether he could comprehend the rules of destruction still depended on fate.

What puzzled Barn was that a gray aura was also floating around his soul.

"What is this?" Barn had never read about such details in the original work. He tried to touch the gray aura with his mental power, only to discover in horror that his mental power was strangely merging into it, and the gray aura grew a bit larger.

Without warning or any sensation, it was as if his mental power naturally belonged to that gray mist.

"Gray? In the original work, what powers were gray?" Barn racked his brain. "Death divine power? Not at all like it. Some kind of talent? The White Tiger Bloodline doesn't have such a talent. Or a supreme god's artifact? But this mist has no substance."

Suddenly, he thought of a possibility—Primordial Chaos Qi!