"Where exactly am I falling short?" Loa's original body sat cross-legged in the cultivation chamber, his brow slightly furrowed.
More than two hundred years had passed since he obtained the Red Rhombus Crystal.
The threshold to the Life Law stood plainly before him, like a thin sheet of window paper he could reach out and touch, yet he simply could not push through it.
He carefully recalled the details of the original story. After Linley's four-element soul mutation, he had directly gained the power of will that only Paragons possessed, and that power of will was even stronger than an ordinary Paragon's.
Bluefire had personally acknowledged this.
So this was the fundamental reason Soul Mutation Mutants found it so difficult to cultivate the laws of other elements?
Having figured this out, Loa sighed.
"Sure enough, a four-element mutation wasn't that simple."
He rose, pushed open the cultivation chamber's door, and walked out.
The afternoon sunlight slanted over the courtyard wall, stretching the shadow of the old tree in the courtyard.
A youth stood beneath the tree reading, his figure slender, dressed in clean, plain-colored robes.
His head was lowered as he immersed himself in the world within the pages, not even noticing when Loa approached.
Loa stood beside him for a while, his gaze settling on the youth's face. On closer inspection, the shape of his face bore some resemblance to Wangcai's, with a softer jawline, while his brows and eyes were more like Selena's, especially those slightly upturned, deep-purple eyes. He was Wangcai and Selena's child, sixteen years old this year.
"Lin Zhao," Loa said.
The youth abruptly raised his head. Seeing who it was, he immediately closed his book and straightened. "Uncle."
"No need to be so formal. What are you reading?" Loa sat on the stone stool