After obtaining an Overgod Token, Lucas and Rihanna were no longer in a hurry. At the very least, control was now in the hands of their own people!
After all this time, Lucas's Life Law and Death Edict had benefited from the Netherworld Heart's help. Thanks to using the lives in the Fusion Divine Plane to simulate the cycle of life and death, he had made some progress in directly fusing the two different laws.
After Rihanna borrowed the Netherworld Heart, Lucas discovered that the cycle of life and death in the Fusion Divine Plane had stopped.
"Alas, this can't go on."
If the cycle of life and death for the lives in this Fusion Divine Plane depended too heavily on the Netherworld Heart, it would never fulfill his purpose of using formations to simulate the workings of a world. There would then be no way to discard the laws of the Coiling Dragon World, much less fuse the energies of earth, wind, water, and fire.
Without fusing the energies of earth, wind, water, and fire, there was no way to transcend the Coiling Dragon Universe.
Lucas currently had two paths of transcendence in mind. One was to fuse earth, wind, water, and fire. The other was to fully construct his own world and let it begin growing, absorbing the black-and-yellow energy born during its growth to temper his true body until it could survive in Hongmeng space.
Neither plan had made much progress, and this was what gave Lucas a headache. Even if his three-element fusion could eventually break through the Coiling Dragon World's confinement, that would not guarantee he could transcend completely.
When Rihanna came to return the Netherworld Heart, she saw Lucas sitting in the little courtyard in the Material Plane, sighing. She asked directly, "Boss, what