In the laboratory within the Origin World of his Divine Kingdom.
Dongguan continued organizing the data, recalling what he had just observed with the Secret Pattern Eye while also carrying out some inscriptions in his Mental Space.
Within his Mental Space, strange Secret Pattern symbols flitted across the Soul Sphere. Viewed as a whole, there were three.
Chaos, Space-Time, and Zerg. These were three soul traits, but all were incomplete, while the "Formless" trait was the Soul Sphere itself. Within it was also a certain soul trait he had possessed back on Earth,
one related to the True Explanation of Comprehension.
Of the five soul traits in total, the chaos trait had been obtained in the Initial Universe. It was extremely rudimentary, related to the Chaos Flow, to energy, and to the incomplete Secret Art patterns he had fished out of the Universe Origin when obtaining his Innate Secret Technique. It was highly incomplete.
The Space-Time trait had been inscribed when his soul was wounded by the laws before he broke through to Immortal because his consciousness lacked sufficient capacity. It faintly resonated with the Law Universe and that trace of the Space-Time Fusion Law.
The Zerg trait had actually appeared when he cultivated the Formless Soul-Refining Secret Manual to the fourth layer and began cultivating the fifth layer as well. It had simply remained hidden all along. Only after he viewed Lord Formless's past and compared it against a true Formless Soul had he extracted it.
Although it was an "impurity," this innate Zerg trait could actually increase computational power, particularly the ability to multitask.
Even though cultivation placed greater importance on comprehension, this increase in computational power could speed up certain accumulative tasks, especially analyzing Secret Arts and techniques.
In a sense, the Machine Race should have possessed