Robbers

Seated cross-legged inside a temporary cave dwelling, Ailin refined the finest Yan Jin Shi essence he had found and forged a breastplate, along with a Zhanmadao from his memories of his previous life.

His previous weapon had been made from a mixture of Yan Jin Shi and other materials. Compared to this Yan Jin Shi essence, it was far inferior.

"Sure enough, only in the Divine Plane can weapons of this quality be forged."

Ailin swung his Zhanmadao once and was fairly satisfied.

The Water Law was not suited for offense, but that was only relative. Since he had begun cultivating the Water Law, he had devoted immense effort to the Profound Mystery of Ice Sharpness in order to increase his attack power.

Even the five Profound Mysteries he had now fused as one had Ice Sharpness as their core.

Even when the same two Profound Mysteries were fused, different points of emphasis would lead to some differences in the final fusion.

Generally, powerful cultivators of the Water Law would use the Water Element as the core when fusing Profound Mysteries. After all, it was the most fundamental Profound Mystery of the Water Law, and using it as the core made fusing other Profound Mysteries somewhat easier.

Even if the core of the initial fusion of two Profound Mysteries was not an elemental Profound Mystery, once three or four Profound Mysteries had to be fused as a whole, the difficulty increased. In order to continue fusing Profound Mysteries, many powerful cultivators had no choice but to change their focus.

This was practically the process by which all powerful cultivators of Laws fused their Profound Mysteries.

In truth, being able to fuse four Profound Mysteries as a whole with a non-elemental Profound Mystery as the core was already the mark of an extraordinary genius, even if the core had shifted to another non-elemental Profound Mystery during the fusion of the third or fourth Profound Mystery.

Ailin was naturally the same. At the beginning, in order to increase his offensive power, he had fused the Water Element with Ice Sharpness as the core.

Later, because he had an opponent like Pavlos, he had continued using Ice Sharpness as the core when fusing three Profound Mysteries as a whole, to ensure that he could kill him.

After that, because he had always been able to find suitable points of convergence, he had continued using Ice Sharpness as the core and advanced step by step to where he was now.

In other words, his fusion of five Profound Mysteries as a whole also had Ice Sharpness as its core.

However, before fusing five Profound Mysteries as a whole, the four Profound Mysteries also had to be fused among themselves. For combinations without Ice Sharpness, he chose another Profound Mystery as the core.

The cultivation of Law Profound Mysteries was extremely cumbersome and complicated.

Ailin had traded the difficulty of fusing Profound Mysteries for greater material attack power.

As a result, although his material attacks could not compare to those of Wind Law cultivators or Destruction Rule cultivators at the same level, he would not be much weaker than cultivators of other Laws at the same level when comparing material attacks alone.

Of course, if he encountered someone with a similar approach, whose fused Profound Mysteries also had an offensive Profound Mystery as their core, that would be another matter.

However, there were not many powerful cultivators who fused Profound Mysteries as Ailin did.

To achieve what Ailin had achieved, one had to understand the differences in fusing Profound Mysteries from the very beginning and consciously use an offensive Profound Mystery as the core.

Beyond that, and most importantly, one needed sufficient talent and perseverance. Otherwise, no amount of effort would be of use, and one could only change the focus of later Profound Mystery fusions in the end.

Therefore, to reach Ailin's level, talent was what mattered most.

It was not that Ailin was arrogant. In his view, aside from those Paragon High-Gods, there definitely would not be many people capable of fusing five Profound Mysteries with a non-elemental Profound Mystery as the core like he had. Perhaps only those One Step from Paragon could manage it.

Having reached this point, Ailin had enough confidence to reach the realm of One Step from Paragon. As for becoming a Paragon, that was not something one could achieve through talent alone.

Because he was confident in his own attacks, he had chosen a weapon like the Zhanmadao, one capable of fully unleashing offensive power.

Otherwise, for powerful cultivators of the Water Law, the most suitable weapons should actually have been flexible and ever-changing weapons, such as Long Whips, nine-section whips, soft swords, and the like.

Even when choosing other weapons, most would choose gauntlets and similar weapons, which could maximize attack power while also taking advantage of bodily defense.

Of course, there was another reason: Yan Jin Shi was not suitable for forging weapons such as Long Whips. A handy Divine Weapon was not something that could be casually forged.

He placed the forged breastplate over his chest and strapped the Zhanmadao to his back. Though they had already been successfully forged, they still needed to be slowly nourished with divine power. Before that, these weapons were useless to God-level experts.

"Not having a Space Ring really is inconvenient."

Ailin moved around, trying his best to keep the Zhanmadao from affecting his movements.

Ever since killing Pavlos, he had grown accustomed to using a Space Ring. He needed to acquire some Space Rings as soon as possible, or find suitable materials to forge one.

Forging Space Rings was not difficult. Even Low Gods could do it. It was somewhat like an innate ability carried within a Godhead, but it required specific materials. Without those materials, no matter how powerful one was, one could not make a Space Ring. Otherwise, Space Rings would have become commonplace in the Material Plane long ago.

Afterward, Ailin took flight again and continued traveling south.

As he traveled, Ailin continuously spread out his Divine Sense. Aside from remaining vigilant, he also used it to determine his direction. There was no such thing as a compass in this world, so deviating from one's route was perfectly normal.

Two days later, Ailin had flown roughly two million li in total and arrived at a valley.

Of course, Ailin had not been flying at full speed. He had merely flown at a normal pace, stopping at night to cultivate and absorb divine power.

Perhaps because he was close to the Blood Spirit Tower, Ailin had not encountered any so-called robbers or tribes along those two million li. Of course, there might have been robbers or tribes living in hidden places that he had failed to discover.

As night fell, the blood-colored clouds and mist over Blood Spirit Island seemed to grow denser. Visibility was less than a hundred meters, and even Divine Sense was affected to some extent. It was exceedingly strange.

However, Ailin had no intention of stopping and prepared to continue onward.

Just as he flew over the valley, he suddenly sensed energy fluctuations within it, followed by a tremendous noise.

"Someone's fighting?"

Ailin suddenly looked down.

At that moment, several figures shot rapidly out of the blood-colored mist in the valley below.

"Robbers?"

Looking at them, Ailin made a guess.

The person at the front was clearly fleeing, while behind him were more than a dozen Mid-level Gods wielding various weapons.

"Spare me, and I'll give you my Space Ring!"

The fleeing man was a very gaunt Mid-level God with a human appearance. His face was filled with panic, and he did not dare stop at all.

"Hahaha, then remove your ownership from the Space Ring right now."

The pursuing group burst into laughter, taunting him as they spread out, clearly preparing to surround him.

"As long as you stop chasing me, I'll... Bastards!"

The gaunt human had just begun to speak when he hastily dodged a slash of blade light and could not help cursing.

"If you keep pursuing me, I'll destroy the Space Ring before I let you have it!"

The gaunt human was already growing anxious. If he could not make these people stop, he would be in danger.

"Hehe, how many Nether Stones can a mere Mid-level God like you have in his Space Ring? We... aren't after that, hehe."

At that moment, the dozen or so robbers had already begun closing in from different directions, preparing to surround and kill the gaunt human. At this rate, his possible escape routes were dwindling, and it was only a matter of time before he was caught.

The robbers no longer bothered to hide anything. They wanted his Space Ring, but compared to the Space Ring, what they wanted even more was his Godhead!

After all, how many Nether Stones could an ordinary Mid-level God possess? The truly valuable thing was the Godhead.

A Mid-level Godhead was worth ten thousand Nether Stones.