Welcome Back Victorious, Your Imperial Majesty! (4K) (Continued)

Compared to that time, this bit of time now was practically negligible.

Of course, during the Soul Pearl's first transformation, his remnant soul had spent the process in a muddled sleep. What exactly had happened then, even he himself did not know.

Moreover, he had clearly already fallen at the time, and even his soul was incomplete. All the Causal Lines on the Soul Pearl had turned from bright to dim, so the fireflies available to fuel its transformation should have been quite limited...

The specific reasons were unknown.

Now, he could only attribute the difference between the Soul Pearl's two transformations to the qualitative leap from zero to one.

Rustle... rustle...

A strand of his consciousness bathed beneath the crimson radiance of the Soul Pearl's vortex.

Afterward, Tan Lin spent several years cautiously probing every aspect of the transformed Soul Pearl with his divine sense, comprehending its new wonders.

He discovered that the ranks of the Soul Pearl's wondrous effects, such as [All-Cause Vision], [All Causes Barrier], and [Reverse All Causes Barrier], had all seemingly risen by another level.

As for precisely what level they had reached, with his current cultivation, he could not begin to find their limits.

Still, he estimated that, even if he activated the Soul Pearl with his current realm, the previous situation—where several Supreme Beings from the Restricted Areas had joined forces to deduce his rough location through a trace left behind in reality—could no longer happen.

Of course, that was under circumstances where obvious traces of people or objects remained...

Without them, those Supreme Beings would have nothing to deduce from.

Time passed bit by bit.

After repeated attempts and contemplation, a discovery that shook Tan Lin's mind gradually became clear.

He could now activate the Soul Pearl and consume, in a