After observing for a long while and confirming there were no further disturbances, Roger extended a strand of soul power toward the Jade Disc.
Boom!
Suddenly.
A surge of mysterious energy, far denser than before, flowed along that strand of soul power into Roger's soul core and began transforming his soul once again.
Roger felt as though he had entered a dream, his entire being floating among the clouds.
His soul entered a wondrous state of comfort.
An unknown amount of time passed.
When the Jade Disc Fragment stopped transmitting mysterious energy.
Roger awoke from his dream.
"Th-this... my comprehension has improved so much!"
He only had to focus briefly on contemplating the death edict before countless inspirations flooded in, filling him with astonishment and delight.
He immediately devoted all his attention to comprehending it.
Several days later.
Humm-!
The familiar laws of heaven and earth descended.
Roger's Death God Divine Clone floated into the air beyond his control.
The Godhead inside his head also emerged, beginning a slow transformation enveloped in the laws of heaven and earth.
Hiss, hiss, hiss...
A moment later.
The Godhead finished transforming.
This also meant Roger had finally comprehended the Soul Refining branch in its entirety and broken through to become a Midgod!
"Ah... breaking through really does make a difference. My divine power is ten times purer, and my soul instantly transformed and became ten times stronger!"
Inside the secluded chamber.
Roger's Death God Divine Clone quietly felt the changes within him.
"Most importantly, I can keep strengthening my soul with soul essence again."
After he broke through to become a Midgod, the bottleneck limiting his soul's growth disappeared.
Roger could clearly sense that both his original body and his Death God Divine Clone could continue growing stronger.
Whoosh...
His Divine Clone merged into his original body.
Their souls, which shared the same origin, began transforming and strengthening one another.
However, this process was somewhat slow. It would take several years for his original body's soul to reach roughly the same strength as his Death Midgod Divine Clone's.
After checking his original body's soul, Roger stopped paying attention to it.
He turned his attention to sensing the world around him.
After the Jade Disc finished transforming his soul.
Roger vaguely sensed that, besides another enormous improvement in his comprehension, he seemed to have undergone some other changes.
Now that he had successfully broken through his bottleneck, he could study them properly.
Boom!
His consciousness merged with the surrounding world.
Roger immediately noticed a difference.
Within his consciousness, he actually sensed the Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries!
Not wind essence.
But the true Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries within the laws of wind!
"Could the Jade Disc grant me other cultivation talents? Or raise talents that were originally far too weak to a level where I can cultivate them?"
After thoroughly confirming that this was no illusion, Roger speculated happily.
In the Coiling Dragon World.
A person's talent was determined from birth.
For the vast majority of people, their greatest talent usually lay in only one set of laws or edicts.
Very few could achieve great heights in two sets of laws or edicts.
Most had one strongest Divine Clone accompanied by a weak Divine Clone.
Those with more than three Divine Clones were rare.
Those with four Divine Clones were exceedingly rare throughout the Netherworld or the Infernal Realm.
The original novel had explicitly stated this.
Roger remembered it very clearly.
Thus, when Roger initially discovered that he only had talent for the death edict and could not comprehend any other laws or edicts, he had not found it strange at all.
After all, as long as his achievements in the death edict were high enough, he would still be a powerhouse, capable of roaming freely across the various planes.
Weak Divine Clones offered little beyond a few extra lives and were of no use in battle.
Of course.
If he had talent for other laws or edicts, spending some time and effort to create additional Divine Clones was perfectly reasonable...
After all, no one would turn down a few extra lives.
Roger was naturally no exception.
And most importantly.
In the Coiling Dragon World, possessing Divine Clones of earth, fire, water, and wind was the most basic requirement for transcendence.
Although he would also need a four-element soul mutation and Sovereign Sparks of those four elements.
Those were matters to consider later. Without even those four Divine Clones, everything else was naturally empty talk.
With that thought.
Roger immediately devoted half of his original body's soul consciousness to contemplating the Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries he had just grasped, while the other half continued drawing in divine power for the Jade Disc Fragment to absorb.
Judging by what had happened this time.
Continuing to nourish the Jade Disc Fragment with divine power and soul power was absolutely necessary.
After receiving nourishment from his purer Midgod divine power and stronger soul power.
The Jade Disc Fragment indeed began growing again, though by an extremely tiny amount.
This put Roger at ease.
After his recent period of arduous cultivation.
Roger knew full well that, with his original cultivation talent, becoming a true powerhouse.
Might be very difficult...
But with the Jade Disc, things were different.
As long as the Jade Disc kept growing and evolving, his comprehension could keep improving, and his soul could keep transforming.
It could even awaken more cultivation talents in Roger.
For instance, this time it had granted Roger talent for the laws of wind.
Suppressing his excitement.
Roger took out the soul essence he had saved over the years.
A full fifty crystal balls filled with soul essence!
Over those several years.
The Fire Rhino Tribe had scoured the surrounding area for millions of miles, gathering Sanctuaries as though possessed.
This had also given Roger a constant supply of Sanctuary Souls to refine over the years.
Although his soul had previously reached its limit, he could continue using soul essence once he broke through.
Naturally, Roger had stored away all the soul essence he could not use for the time being.
Now it was time to put it to use.
"This is a perfect chance to test the fully mastered Soul Refining branch and see what a Soul Gold Bead is like."
With a thought, Roger extended his gray divine power, drawing on his comprehension of the edict to pull the soul essence out of the crystal balls.
Then, using his tenfold-stronger soul in accordance with the laws he had comprehended, he compressed and condensed the soul essence of thirty thousand Sanctuary Souls.
Hiss, hiss, hiss...
Under Roger's control, the vast quantity of soul essence kept swirling and gathering together.
There was none of his previous awkwardness.
Instead, the process was exceptionally smooth and natural.
Two and a half hours later.
When the final strand of soul essence merged perfectly into the glittering golden bead.
Roger knew.
He had finally refined his very first Soul Gold Bead!
"Whew..."
"Let's see how effective this Soul Gold Bead is."
After carefully examining the thumb-sized Soul Gold Bead for a while, Roger swallowed it in one gulp!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
The moment the Soul Gold Bead entered his mouth.
It transformed into incredibly concentrated soul essence and rushed straight into the mind of Roger's Death God Divine Clone.
"Ah... that feels so good..."
At that moment, Roger's soul felt as though it were soaking in a hot spring. Along with the warmth, his soul was growing stronger at a visibly noticeable rate.
In just a few seconds.
Roger completely absorbed the entire Soul Gold Bead.
"Not bad. Condensing soul essence into a golden bead really does make it more effective at strengthening the soul."
Roger could clearly sense that his soul had grown twenty percent stronger!
In other words.
In theory, just five beads would double the strength of his newly transformed soul! Just fifty would make his Death God Divine Clone's soul ten times stronger!
"No wonder Hagson has been collecting Sanctuary Souls like a madman all these years."
As Roger experienced the substantial increase in the speed of his thoughts and yet another surge in how quickly he could contemplate and comprehend the edict, he could readily understand Hagson's actions.
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