The divine light of heaven and earth lingered. Redding raised his deep-blue flexible sword and slashed fiercely at the pillar of light. Dense Water Element divine power condensed into a ribbon in the air.
The seemingly gentle divine power carried immense force, crashing heavily into the barrier of divine light.
Struck by Redding's attack, the divine light did not budge. The divine power instantly dissipated, as though the attack had never existed.
Redding's seemingly weightless attack drew the disdain of the surrounding God Level experts.
With the Profound Mystery of Roundness at its core, Redding had fused five profound mysteries of the laws. A full-force strike from him was powerful enough to shatter mountains and split seas.
But to outsiders, Redding's technique looked like a feeble strike, perhaps even less imposing than those of most Highgods who had fused two profound mysteries.
Seeing that Redding's attack had failed, Laius, Leiyuan, and the others instantly grew interested. A dark-gold staff and a blade wrapped in Wind Divine Power struck the pillar of light one after another...
The pillar of light took all their attacks without exception. Whether elemental laws or profound mysteries of the edicts, material attacks or soul attacks, anything that struck the pillar vanished in an instant.
After several fruitless attempts, Laius and the others promptly lost interest. If they could not break the pillar of light, what use was the heaven and earth wonder inside, no matter how good it was?
Nearby, an Earth Elemental System Highgod came up to them and said with a smile, "Friends, there's no need to waste your strength. No attack can break through this divine light."
Hearing the Earth Element Highgod's words, Redding turned and asked with a smile, "How do you know this divine light can't be broken?"
At Redding's question, the Earth Element Highgod's eyes darted about, and he replied in a low voice, "Over the past century, there have been plenty of Highgods like you who refused to believe it. Nearly every God Level expert who's just arrived tries more than a dozen times."
As he spoke, the Earth Element Highgod raised a hand and pointed at a God Level expert in the distance. "See him? That fellow slashes at the pillar a thousand times every day. He's kept it up for thirty years without fail. I'd advise you not to waste your strength. When the time comes, the pillar will open on its own."
Hearing this, Redding and the others exchanged glances. Smiling, Redding asked, "How do you know it'll open when the time comes?"
The Earth Element Highgod evidently loved showing off. Shaking his head, he said, "Thirty years ago, a Highgod deduced from the brightness of the divine light that, although its strength hadn't visibly diminished, it was actually draining away constantly."
"That Highgod spent five years proving that the pillar really was weakening. Given enough time, it'll naturally dissipate."
Hearing this, Laius, standing to the side, asked, "Then when will the pillar disappear?"
The smile on the Earth Element Highgod's face grew wider. "You'll have to ask the fellow who worked it out. I don't know."
At that point, Nemo, who had been silent all along, could not help asking, "If that's the case, why are you telling us something so important?"
The Earth Element Highgod chuckled. "With so many people here, word is bound to spread. I might as well tell you first and make a few friends. If a fight really breaks out when the pillar disappears, we can cooperate, can't we?"
With that, the Earth Element Highgod waved to two people in the distance and flew toward them. They were evidently his group.
After the Earth Element Highgod left, everyone present turned to Redding.
"What do we do, big brother?" Laius was the first to speak. Over the tens of thousands of years, the Four Divine Beasts' little group had become an appendage to Redding. Whether the matter was big or small, the others almost always let Redding decide first.
Zijing and her husband, standing on the other side, also turned to Redding at the same time.
Though they did not know why Redding was so keen on heaven and earth wonders, they knew he was the strongest, and he must have had his reasons.
Under their gazes, Redding rubbed his chin and pondered for a few seconds. "Let's wait. This heaven and earth wonder has drawn so much attention; it might be something extremely precious. We can afford to wait."
Once Redding had made up his mind, the others said no more. They agreed to leave one person on watch while the rest set up barriers and comprehended the profound mysteries of the laws, rotating every hundred years.
Time passed unnoticed in cultivation. In the blink of an eye, a thousand years had gone by.
To these Highgod experts, a thousand years was almost an instant. It was not even enough time to find a point of compatibility for Fusion Profound Mysteries.
Redding was one of the God Level experts who had failed to find a point of compatibility between the profound mysteries they cultivated.
Having already completely fused five profound mysteries, Redding had thought that, no matter how slow his progress was, he should gradually be able to find a point of compatibility with the final profound mystery.
In reality, after a thousand years, Redding still had no clue.
The five profound mysteries were fused in a tight fit. Trying to fuse the final one with them was like holding a fragment before a completed puzzle: no matter how hard Redding tried, he could not force the fragment into place.
Unable to figure it out, Redding simply came out of seclusion and took over the watch from Laius, letting him cultivate.
Over the thousand years, more and more God Level experts had gathered around them, their numbers now exceeding a thousand.
Black Tortoise Bowen, who had been comprehending profound mysteries in the Amethyst Mountains, also received the message they had left and came to join them before the pillar of light.
The number of God Level experts continued to grow, and the pillar of light grew ever dimmer, but it still easily resisted their attacks.
Several years after Redding took over from Laius, the divine light that countless God Level experts had been unable to break finally exhausted its last glimmer.
Click!
A crisp sound rang out in the air, and the dim pillar of light vanished completely.
A level stone platform was revealed within the pillar.
Two translucent, diamond-shaped crystals floated above the platform, each radiating a dark-purple light.
Even from a great distance, Redding could sense the powerful auras radiating from the crystals, ancient yet sharp. The pressure they exuded was like two spears thrusting straight into the sky, as though bent on destroying heaven and earth.
Sensing the auras of the two crystals, Redding's pupils abruptly contracted.
Could those be Sovereign Sparks?
Sovereign Sparks!
At the thought of those words, Redding's breathing instantly quickened.
There were only seventy-seven Sovereign Sparks in all of heaven and earth. Refining one would allow a person to become a lofty Sovereign.
To be honest, Redding had no confidence that he could obtain Sovereign Sparks.
Of the seventy-seven Sovereign Sparks in heaven and earth, obtaining one would not be difficult for the four siblings given their strength. Yet for the four of them to use their Fusion Innate Divine Ability, they needed four Divine Sparks of the same rank: earth, fire, water, and wind.
After years of experimentation and with Leijia's assistance in their research, the four siblings had successfully developed their Fusion Innate Divine Ability.
But the Fusion Innate Divine Ability also had enormous restrictions.
First, all four had to be at the same level of strength. If one of them was a Highgod, the other three also had to be Highgods.
If they were Sovereigns, their Sovereign Sparks had to be of the same rank.
Second, they had to use the four elements of earth, fire, water, and wind simultaneously. In other words, to use the Innate Divine Ability as Sovereigns, the four siblings also had to obtain Sovereign Sparks of those four elements.
Third, using the Fusion Innate Divine Ability required all four to manifest their Saint Domain True Bodies.
With all these restrictions, Redding felt that luck had played a very large part in allowing the four siblings to bring their Fusion Innate Divine Ability together in their previous lives.