Sovereign Spark

By Ailin's understanding from his previous life, becoming a High-God within a thousand years already counted as a genius among countless planes. And he belonged to that group.

After reaching the High-God realm, Ailin did not rush back to the Brinia Plane. Instead, he focused on absorbing divine power while attempting to fuse another Profound Mystery. After reaching the High-God realm, his soul strength had increased, and the Profound Mystery fusion that had given him no clue during the Mid-level God stage found a point of compatibility in a very short time.

This also made him understand why, although many experts knew that the earlier one fused Profound Mysteries, the lower the difficulty would be later on, most people still chose to break through their realms first.

For one thing, in a situation like his, without High-God strength, he might not even be able to ensure his own safety. He could only raise his strength as quickly as possible. Compared to fusing Profound Mysteries, breaking through one's realm was relatively faster.

Furthermore, most people could only fuse a limited number of Profound Mysteries at the Mid-level God stage. Only after breaking through to the High-God realm would they have the chance to continue fusing them.

Most importantly, not everyone had the ability to fuse Profound Mysteries. For most living beings, reaching the High-God realm already meant they possessed exceptional talent.

And then there were many who simply did not know about Profound Mystery fusion.

After another thousand years, Ailin had perfectly fused the Water Element, Ice Sharpness, and Round Softness Profound Mystery among the Water Profound Mysteries.

Although he had not had the opportunity to fuse more Profound Mysteries during the Mid-level God stage, he had fused the high-level Round Softness Profound Mystery of the Water Law. Relatively speaking, it would be less difficult for him to fuse other Profound Mysteries in the future.

Having fused three Profound Mysteries, even without methods such as Innate Divine Abilities, Ailin now possessed the strength of a Six-star Demon. Even in a Divine Plane, he would count as a formidable expert.

After successfully fusing three Profound Mysteries, Ailin no longer wasted time and returned to Brinia Continent.

After returning to Brinia Continent, he immediately went to take revenge on that Death High God. Although that fellow had cultivated for several billion years, he had only barely reached the threshold of a Five-star Demon. He was no match for Ailin now.

After killing that fellow, those whom he had previously controlled with Soul Seeds naturally regained their "freedom."

Other than the Plane Guardian, the three Mid-level Gods all left the Brinia Plane after regaining their freedom. Though they were all natives of the Brinia Plane, they clearly wanted to leave this place.

Only those controlled by Soul Seeds knew just how terrifying they were. Of course, they were also worried that Ailin would use this matter as an excuse to attack them. After all, they had all participated in besieging Ailin before.

After that, apart from Ailin and the Plane Guardian, only some Low Gods remained in the Brinia Plane.

Afterward, Ailin came to his current location and continued cultivating.

Later, Ailin spent a hundred thousand years completing the full fusion of the fourth Profound Mystery. One had to know that to completely fuse a fourth Profound Mystery, it had to be fused separately with each of the other Profound Mysteries. First came the pairwise fusions, then the three-way fusions, and only then could the overall fusion be completed.

Naturally, this took even longer.

It was not until ten thousand years ago, after spending nearly a million years, that Ailin completely fused five Profound Mysteries. As for the remaining sixth Profound Mystery—the Mirror Profound Mystery—it had only barely begun its path of pairwise fusion with the others. No one knew how long it would take before it could begin overall fusion.

Because the further he progressed, even pairwise fusion became vastly more difficult than fusing two Profound Mysteries alone.

However, Ailin had also made some breakthroughs in other areas.

That was the Death Law.

When he killed that Death Rule High God, he had vaguely sensed some Death Law. However, afterward, his Main Body and Water God Avatar had worked together, focusing solely on comprehending the Water Law, so he had not put much effort into the Death Law.

It was not until ten thousand years ago, after fusing five Water Profound Mysteries, that his Main Body stopped cultivating the Water Law and began studying the Death Law. Now, nearly ten thousand years had passed, and his Death God Avatar was still one step away from breaking through to the High-God realm.

Compared to his Water God Avatar reaching the High-God realm in a thousand years, his talent in the Death Law was still somewhat lacking.

"Hmm? Why did such obvious energy fluctuations suddenly appear?"

Ailin suddenly looked toward the edge of the plane, somewhat surprised.

The reason he lived here was, first, that he would not be disturbed by others and could cultivate in peace. Second, the elemental energy here was violent, especially near the edge. The endless changes of the seawater provided him some help in comprehending the Water Law.

Cultivation was not simply a matter of sitting with one's eyes closed and training bitterly. Extraordinary natural phenomena, battles, and other circumstances could all aid cultivation.

Ailin flew directly toward the edge of the plane. The divine power barrier around the small island did not affect him in the slightest. After he left, it flickered faintly and continued keeping the seawater outside.

Clearly, the reason this small island could float here was due to Ailin's methods.

Very soon, Ailin arrived at the edge of the plane.

In the region that had originally contained only surging seawater, spatial cracks began appearing out of nowhere, and at an extremely high frequency. Each time a spatial crack appeared, it sucked in large amounts of seawater, forming wave after wave of enormous billows.

So many spatial cracks have appeared!

With a thought, Ailin's Death God Avatar transformed into his Water God Avatar. He did not get too close to the edge of the plane. Although his Water God Avatar was quite powerful, he would not casually approach spatial cracks.

If anything went wrong, he would absolutely leave this place immediately.

"Strange."

Watching the spatial cracks continuously appear, Ailin muttered to himself.

This was not the first time he had seen spatial cracks here, but normally they only appeared occasionally. He might not see one even in several years. Yet now, the cracks before him were appearing so frequently. Naturally, this made Ailin vigilant.

Through the increasingly frequent spatial cracks, Ailin could even see the multicolored Space Turbulence within.

"Whoosh—"

Just as an even larger spatial crack appeared, a grayish-white streak of light suddenly shot out from it.

Ailin had already spread out his Divine Sense and kept watch over the spatial cracks. The instant the grayish-white streak appeared, he discovered this "unexpected development."

"What is that?!"

Within Ailin's Divine Sense, the grayish-white streak contained a semi-transparent crystal. Most importantly, the crystal emitted an aura of power that made his soul tremble uncontrollably.

In an instant, it gave him a heart-pounding sense of danger.

A treasure!

That was the first thought that appeared in Ailin's mind.

Setting aside anything else, an object that could exist within Space Turbulence was itself a treasure. Not to mention the aura of power that made his mind and soul tremble.

He had no time to think further and immediately used divine power to intercept the grayish-white streak.

Although Space Turbulence was extremely powerful, the object that had emerged from it did not possess much power.

Almost instantly, Ailin took the crystal within the grayish-white streak into his hand.

And after "spitting out" that grayish-white streak, the spatial cracks that had been continuously "raging" slowly calmed down.

At that moment, Ailin had no mind to pay attention to the spatial cracks. All his attention was focused on the "semi-transparent crystal" in his hand.

It was a semi-transparent crystal similar to a divine spark, flowing with grayish-white radiance and emitting an indescribable aura of power.

"This... this is..."

Ailin's heartbeat could not help accelerating. He possessed "memories of the original novel" from his previous life, so even though he had never seen many things before, his knowledge was still far from limited. "A Sovereign Spark?!"