Leon controlled his body as it gradually became insubstantial, turning into a concept itself.
The enormous Legend Clone grew transparent, slowly scattered into particles of light, and vanished from the Inner World.
At that moment, Leon's consciousness began to expand without limit.
He became part of the universe.
He could feel the movement of trillions upon trillions of stars.
He could see every planet turning.
Time, space, the mind... The workings of every rule were perfectly clear.
With a mere thought, he could move the rules of the entire universe.
He could even wield the Soul Rule at will, though he had never comprehended it before.
Leon understood. This was another kind of omnipotence.
But that omnipotence was limited, and it worked only within a Single Universe.
Even so, Leon was overjoyed.
Growing stronger was, in essence, a journey toward omniscience and omnipotence.
Some paths to power began with omniscience.
Knowledge then made omnipotence possible.
That was how comprehending the Cosmic Rules worked in the Starry Sky System.
But the Legend Clone had taken the opposite path.
He had become omnipotent first. That, in turn, would make the Cosmic Rules easier to understand and bring him closer to omniscience.
"I thought I'd need another two or three years to comprehend the remaining laws of the mind, power, and soul."
"But now I only need a few weeks—and that's without Time Acceleration—to comprehend them completely."
In Leon's Inner World, the Time Stone had maintained a thousandfold Time Acceleration all along.
The past two and a half years had meant twenty-five hundred years of cultivation for Leon.
"Good. A few more weeks, and I can break through to Immortal!"
Leon was still reveling in the prospect.
Suddenly, a consciousness reached out from a mysterious higher dimension of the universe and touched his.