Roger could sense that the mysterious energy produced by the Jade Disc was greater than last time, and it seemed even purer!
As this mysterious energy coursed through him, Roger could feel his soul undergoing a profound transformation, inside and out. His entire consciousness sank into an indescribably wonderful state.
This pleasure was different from Mia doing everything in her power to please him with wholehearted devotion.
It was true bliss from the depths of his soul.
An unknown amount of time passed.
When the energy from the Jade Disc stopped flowing into him.
Roger opened his eyes. "As expected of the Fortune Jade Disc. It really feels as though it can seize the creative power of heaven and earth. And I seem to have awakened an affinity for another element..."
At that moment.
In Roger's perception, the water law, which he had previously been unable to sense at all, was now clearly reflected in the mind of his original body.
"Could it be that every time the Jade Disc evolves, I awaken a new affinity for a law?"
He recalled how the Jade Disc's last transformation had given him the aptitude to cultivate the laws of wind.
This time, it had given him the aptitude to cultivate the water law as well.
Roger could not help drawing that connection.
"I hope this Jade Disc can awaken my affinities for all four elements-earth, fire, water, and wind."
When he first transmigrated, Roger had occasionally worried about having an affinity only for the death edict.
But now.
He already possessed half of the four elemental affinities for earth, fire, water, and wind. Perhaps two more evolutions of the Jade Disc would complete the set.
"The Jade Disc's first qualitative transformation came after ten years of nourishment with divine power and soul power. This one took a hundred years. Should the next one take a thousand?"
Roger made that deduction based on the previous pattern.
"If that really is the pattern, then there are still nine hundred years until the Jade Disc's next qualitative transformation. I can't waste that time."
Roger gathered his thoughts.
His death clone continued deducing and comprehending the death edict.
His wind clone resumed studying the mysteries of dimension, which he had only recently begun to grasp.
His original body continued supplying the Jade Disc with divine power and soul power as usual, while devoting half his attention to comprehending the water law.
What Roger lacked right now was precisely physical defense, so this new affinity for the water law had come at the perfect time.
Within the ocean of laws.
Roger's consciousness roamed through the endless laws.
This qualitative transformation of the Jade Disc had once again greatly enhanced Roger's comprehension.
Those minor bottlenecks that had troubled him before now required only a little deduction to overcome.
Roger became deeply immersed in that feeling of smooth, unimpeded progress.
His cultivation of the laws of wind proceeded smoothly.
The same was true of the death edict!
For the bottlenecks that had previously held him back, vast amounts of inspiration now surfaced in Roger's mind every second, only to be swiftly worked through and verified.
Two and a half years later.
Roger fully comprehended soul defense and the material branch, one after the other.
At the same time, he also gained an initial grasp of the most mysterious soul space branch!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Within his soul ocean.
Roger's death clone gazed at the illusory space he had condensed before him.
From the outside, this space was merely a sphere formed from intertwined gray, translucent threads.
It was roughly one centimeter in diameter...
Although it looked tiny.
When Roger extended his consciousness into it.
Boom!
It was as though Roger had entered another realm of space and time.
Here.
There was no light, no matter.
There was not even a concept of time or space.
Everything within sight was a hazy gray.
It seemed utterly lifeless, with nothing special about it.
"So this is the most mysterious and hardest-to-comprehend soul space branch of the death edict..."
Roger extended his full perception and soon sensed the exact dimensions of this space:
"A thousand meters in length, width, and height, though its size doesn't seem to mean anything."
Roger swept through it with his perception and also tried bringing objects from the outside world into it.
But just as Charles's cultivation notes had stated.
This soul space was like an illusory existence. Physical objects from the outside world could not enter it.
Only soul-related objects such as Soul Seeds could be stored here.
Whoosh...
With a thought from Roger.
The two Soul Seeds that had been nurtured in his soul ocean all this time appeared here.
Looking at the two Soul Seeds, which no longer required a continuous supply of soul power to sustain them, Roger had discovered his first use for this soul space.
It was also the least remarkable use recorded in Charles's cultivation notes.
"Experts in the death edict have another famous signature technique: soul poison. Almost all Highgods who cultivate the death edict can refine soul poison and sell it."
Roger continued recalling the further information on soul space that Charles had left behind.
"Once you cross the threshold of the soul space branch and create an immaterial space within your soul ocean, that space will continuously produce a peculiar substance called Mind Gray Mist. This substance is not poisonous in its original form, but you only need to extract it and then 'infuse' it with your insights into soul attacks to obtain soul poison. You can then bring it out of this space and into the physical world."
Following his senses, Roger indeed found a spot within this space that was emitting gray mist.
This gray mist was precisely what shrouded the entire space in gray.
"Tsk, how miraculous. This Mind Gray Mist, whose origin is unknown, can actually be combined with other branches to create soul poison."
Roger immediately gathered some gray mist, compressing it while infusing it with his understanding of soul attacks.
Sure enough.
When he compressed the gray mist into liquid.
Roger obtained a drop of soul poison.
His consciousness withdrew from the space.
Inside the secluded chamber.
Roger opened his eyes, and a drop of gray liquid appeared in his palm.
"This soul poison really is peculiar. Coat a weapon with it, and all you need to do is cut someone. The poison will immediately turn into a soul attack and strike the enemy's soul ocean. If their soul defense is a little weak, a single slash can finish them off."
Taking out his Divine Sword, Roger smeared it along the blade.
He went out into the courtyard outside the secluded chamber.
Roger found Mia watering the flowers.
Over the years, aside from cultivating, Mia had spent her time tending flowers and plants.
"Mia, go fetch a few Sanctuary Magical Beasts. I want to test a move I've just comprehended."
Seeing Roger emerge after several years in seclusion, Mia's eyes lit up. "Yes, Master."
Mia was highly efficient and soon brought back three Sanctuary Black Dragons.
Roger wasted no words. He released a faint trace of his aura, pinning the three Sanctuary Black Dragons in place and leaving them unable to move.
Shhk...
Roger swung his sword without using divine power or employing any edict.
He simply thrust the sword into a black dragon.
The moment the soul poison coating the blade touched the black dragon's flesh.
Boom!
Countless illusory javelins instantly charged toward the black dragon's soul.
The black dragon was only at the Sanctuary level. Before the poison Roger had created, its soul defense was no different from air.
After effortlessly tearing through the black dragon's soul defense, the illusory javelins seemed to possess intelligence of their own. They headed straight for its soul core and easily annihilated it.
Thud!
With its soul dispersed, the black dragon's corpse crashed to the ground.
Roger approached the other two Sanctuary Black Dragons and delivered two successive thrusts.
Just as before.
These two black dragons were also utterly helpless. The soul poison coating the sword pierced their souls directly, killing them.
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