The Universe Ocean.
Endless Chaos Flow obscured the view in the distance.
Before a dilapidated Miniature Universe, two similar figures met each other's gaze.
Their right hands clasped, and gradually, they merged into one.
A glazed-crystal sheen gradually surfaced on the skin of the flesh-and-blood humanoid.
And within that glazed crystal, chaos seemed to flow.
He drew a wisp of Chaos Flow into his hand, absorbing and digesting it.
Soon, a flash of delight crossed the glazed-crystal humanoid's face, only for his brow to furrow again.
His aura seemed to have grown somewhat stronger, but he stopped absorbing.
"Is this the limit?" Dongguan murmured, catching another wisp of Chaos Flow and refining it in an instant.
His tightly furrowed brow slowly relaxed, but the delight did not return.
The single figure split into two again.
Each drew in Chaos Flow.
The Human Main Body refined that Chaos Flow.
The Light Lord Clone, however, first absorbed the Chaos Flow, then released it again.
Still, that Chaos Flow seemed somewhat thinner.
"10,081 times is the limit. Can it be broken?" Dongguan muttered.
He had sensed that something seemed to change in his fused state, but it was still 10,081 times.
Something seemed to be brewing toward a breakthrough, but it was not enough yet.
Yet directly absorbing it with his 10,081-times body in the fused state did not work either.
At that point, he seemed only able to absorb energy and restore divine power, without bringing about any fundamental change.
"Concentration?"
Aside from this, he discovered something else: his fundamental "digestion" of Chaos Flow seemed to have a constant rate.
If the Light Lord Clone absorbed it and evolved, his Human Main Body's rate of "digestion" would decrease.
Of course, if the Light Lord Clone continued absorbing now, its numerical improvement would