"I have already reached the Paragon realm in both the Water and Fire Elemental Laws. Now... it's time to begin my own unique 'path'."
Although Luo Ao has not yet cultivated the Edicts of Destruction to Paragon, he does not intend to focus his energy on this aspect for the time being.
Achieving the Paragon of two systems is already so difficult; even with his special soul, achieving the Paragon of three systems would be incredibly difficult.
Moreover, even if he reaches the Paragon realm in Edicts of Destruction, so what? It won't improve his overall strength at all.
With that kind of energy, you'd be better off planning to create a Sovereign Spark.
"However, if my conjecture comes true, even if I can't transcend directly like ' Linley,' I will enter a completely new realm..." This completely new realm is beyond the reach of normal cultivators, but he, an 'unconventional' cultivator, is not among them.
The so-called 'unconventional' actually refers to Soul Mutation!
For this 'new realm' that exists only in Luo Ao's conjecture, Soul Mutation is the most crucial and necessary condition!
Long ago, Luo Ao had been secretly observing the achievements of almost all the Soul Mutation in the various Divine Plane.
It's worth mentioning that among these Soul Mutation, the strongest in terms of overall strength are not all of those Three-Element Soul Mutator.
After counting all Seven Divine Planes and four Higher Plane, the number of known powerful beings with Three-element Soul Mutation is barely five: Aiken of the Infernal Realm, Arnold of the Earth Divine Plane, and Kaqi of the Dark God Plane...
Among these five, some are indeed very powerful. For example, Arnold, a veteran Soul Mutation expert, can be considered a 'quasi-invincible' powerhouse below the Paragon High-God.
While Aiken and Kaqi are far stronger than ordinary Asura Prefect in terms of overall strength, they can only suppress their opponents by relying on the amplification of ' Fused Divine Power '. Once their opponents react in time and use the Sovereign’s Might to fight, offsetting their advantage in 'divine power', their advantage will be directly wiped out, and they can only threaten their opponents by 'protracted war'.
Ultimately, it's because their Profound Mysteries of the Laws wasn't sufficiently integrated.
After all, even if the three different Profound Mysteries are fused, it is only a fusion of five Profound Mysteries that are equal to one set of Laws. In terms of the strength of the Profound Mysteries, they are not much different from normal Asura.
"However, among the Soul Mutation, there will always be some geniuses." Luo Ao sighed inwardly, while also thinking again of his first Sovereign's Emissary — Liermons!
It was because of his contact with Liermons that Luo Ao developed this 'crazy idea' long ago.
That battle in the Eternal Night Prefecture of the Hell Plane was undoubtedly Liermons's claim to fame.
Prior to this, Liermons ' strength was actually far less exaggerated than claimed. For a long time, he maintained his strength at the 'normal Asura ' level only thanks to the extra boost from his Fused Divine Power.
However, once his opponent uses the Sovereign’s Might, his situation takes a sharp turn for the worse!
In his battle with Fafnir, he initially suppressed Fafnir by relying on his mastery of the Edicts of Destruction and the amplification of Fused Divine Power.
However, when both sides used the Sovereign’s Might, the advantage of 'divine power' was wiped out, and it was Liermons was instantly on the verge of despair!
If he hadn't been lucky enough to survive, he would have been the one who died back then!
However, even now, many people still have many doubts about that battle.
The biggest question is—what level has Liermons actually reached?
Before his breakthrough, he was practically defenseless; anyone with eyes could see that his mastery of the Laws was far from that of Asura. Even if Liermons had broken through to the Asura realm at the very moment of his death, his strength would at most have reached a level comparable to Fafnir.
But what actually happened? Liermons, after breaking through, instantly killed Fafnir!
First, he used his bare fists to knock away his opponent's Divine Artifact, and then he killed Fafnir with just two casual moves!
That effortless ease was almost like a powerful Asura fighting against an ordinary Seven-Star Fiend!
The gap between the two has clearly widened to a significant level!
"Even among the Sovereign, I doubt all of them fully understand why Liermons became so strong after his breakthrough."
Of course, nobody's a fool.
Anyone who had seriously watched that battle could have noticed the 'abnormality' in Liermons.
Even if some powerful individuals didn't understand the specific reasons, they could guess that it was probably related to Liermons's identity as a ' Soul Mutation '.
After all, Liermons was just an ordinary Human Race; the only special thing about him was his ' Soul Mutation '.
In reality, the reason is quite simple --
At the moment of imminent death, Liermons successfully fused the " Profound Mystery of Explosion " and Profound Mysteries "Profound Mystery of Soul Attack " from the Elemental Laws of Fire with the " Path of Destruction," which was comparable to the fusion of two profound Profound Mysteries, and achieved a perfect fusion!
The Elemental Laws of Fire incorporate two profound Profound Mysteries;
The Edicts of Destruction are also incorporated into Path of Destruction comparable to the fusion of two Profound Mysteries levels;
The final result is—comparable to the six profound Profound Mysteries of the same system!
However, these 'six types' cannot be granted the Willpower.
But his Profound Mysteries strength, which is ten times stronger than that of an ordinary ' Asura ', is enough for him to easily kill Fafnir!
"It was after that battle that Liermons truly became one of the top super-strong individuals in the Hell Plane, and was even hailed as the number one person below the Sovereign of the Muja Continent." Some people outside might still be somewhat unconvinced by this title, but Luo Ao knew that Liermons was indeed qualified for it.
In the entire Infernal Realm, apart from the true Paragon High-God Dunnington, probably no one could suppress Liermons. Even Aiken, with his Three-element Soul Mutation, was far inferior to him!
"However, this Profound Mysteries method of fusion also has significant drawbacks..."
First, it's difficult.
Just like the difficulty of fusing two different Profound Mysteries, although it is lower than the fusion of three Profound Mysteries of the same Laws, it is still much more difficult than the normal fusion of two Profound Mysteries.
While Liermons's method of fusion is much simpler than true ' Paragon,' it still far exceeds the normal difficulty of Asura.
Secondly, the 'gap period' in strength was too long.
Normally, the difference in strength between reaching the Profound Mysteries bottleneck and breaking through the bottleneck is only two or three times.
Even with the fusion of different Profound Mysteries, the difference between reaching a bottleneck and breaking through a bottleneck is only about tenfold.
Liermons's Profound Mysteries fusion method, which is equivalent to 'two-to-two fusion,' provides almost no increase in strength before the breakthrough.
If we only consider the different kinds of Laws, before his breakthrough, he always maintained a level of 'comparable to the fusion of three profound Profound Mysteries of the same system', but after the breakthrough, he stepped into a level of 'comparable to the fusion of six Profound Mysteries of the same system' in one fell swoop. The leap in strength was simply too huge!
Therefore, before Liermons's Fusion Law breakthrough, he could only rely on his single Path of Destruction to fight his enemies!
"The key lies in maintaining 'balance'."
It is not difficult to reach this conclusion.
Just like when God and Lowgod are fused, the Fused Divine Power is actually not as good as the single God.
The same principle applies to the fusion of different Profound Mysteries; it must be either 1+1 or 2+2. If it is 2+1, the intensity of the Profound Mysteries will not only not increase, but will actually decrease!
In fact, other Soul Mutation have tried Liermons's cultivation method. However, maintaining that balanced relationship at the 'two-to-two fusion' stage is simply too difficult!
Only a handful of people, such as Arnold and Liermons, truly succeeded.
"Normal fusion of different Profound Mysteries, whether it's two, three, or even four systems, involves fusing only one of the Profound Mysteries from each system. Maintaining a 'balanced relationship' is easy. Trying to emulate Liermons is indeed difficult." Of course, this difficulty is relative; at least Luo Ao is confident in completing the 'two-by-two fusion' step.
However, if it's just a simple 'two-in-one' fusion, it won't improve his strength at all.
"At the very least, it has to be an unprecedented 'three-in-three integration' for it to make sense to me."
The fusion of 1+1 different Profound Mysteries is comparable in strength to the fusion of 3 of the same element;
The fusion of two different types of Profound Mysteries is comparable in strength to the fusion of six types of the same element.
It's not hard to guess that the combined power of 3+3 heterogeneous Profound Mysteries fusions will be comparable to the combined power of 9 homogeneous fusions!
However, such a Profound Mysteries fusion method is merely a theoretical 'conjecture'. Although it has been proposed by many Soul Mutation, no one has ever actually accomplished it.
According to Luo Ao's estimation, this difficulty would far exceed that of achieving the Paragon!
In theory, if we continue down this path of integration, 3+3 is not the end!
There's also 4+4, Profound Mysteries profound power might rival the fusion of 12 profound Profound Mysteries of the same system... 5+5, Profound Mysteries power might rival the fusion of 15 profound Profound Mysteries of the same system... and finally, the ultimate 6+6, Profound Mysteries power might rival the fusion of 18 profound Profound Mysteries of the same system, and could potentially produce an unprecedented upheaval!
"Although I didn't seriously deduce it before, theoretically even with 3+3, it's almost impossible for anyone to achieve it... However, once a Soul Mutation completes the feat of achieving the Paragon of two systems, the situation will be different!" This was actually one of the reasons why Luo Ao was so eager to achieve the Dual-Element Paragon before.
Why is it difficult to achieve the Profound Mysteries fusion of different elements, such as 2+2 and 3+3?
Because of balance!
The Profound Mysteries is that you can't directly fuse four or six together at once. You have to fuse the first three perfectly before you can fuse the fourth.
Furthermore, the fusion methods of different Profound Mysteries beyond 2+2 must go through an unstable fusion process similar to 2+1, which naturally increases the difficulty infinitely!
However, once someone reaches the Paragon of both systems, the situation changes!
Why?
Because of the Paragon, one has already comprehended a Laws to the level of 'completeness' and 'perfection'!
In other words, a Paragon expert can be described as either someone who has integrated six Profound Mysteries, or someone who has integrated all the Profound Mysteries into a 'whole'.
"Both Laws are Paragon, both are a whole... When they merge with each other, they naturally achieve a perfect balance, just like the original Soul Mutation, each taking the first Profound Mysteries and fusing them together..."
Obviously, doing this is much easier than doing 2+2, but the final result... could be a leap to the top, directly reaching the ultimate state of '6+6'!
"That being said, these are all just my speculations for now. After all, I should be the only Dual-Element Paragon with Soul Mutation in the Coiling Dragon World so far... If there are other possibilities in the Coiling Dragon World, perhaps this is one of them."
Luo Ao was unsure if this approach would succeed.
If it can be achieved, will it be possible to transcend it?
Regardless, this is a completely new direction for cultivation! It's full of unknown challenges!
The Fire Divine Plane, the Sea of Blazing Sun.
"Whoosh~~" The endless, deep yellow seawater rippled. The Sea of Blazing Sun is the first ocean in the Fire Divine Plane. It is vast in area, and in the depths of the ocean, there are numerous islands like stars.
At this moment, two figures are locked in fierce combat above the ocean, causing space to shatter intermittently.
"Sizzle~~"
A gigantic, illusory black spider phantom, thousands of meters long, appeared behind a stunningly beautiful woman in a black dress. The black spider mark between her eyebrows suddenly lit up, and instantly, streaks of strange black spider silk shot through the air, heading towards the powerful blue-faced tiger-man opposite her.
Divine Ability - Spiderweb Heavenly Prison!
"Roar!" The powerful blue-faced tiger-man roared angrily. He was skilled in the Wind Law, and countless dense blue wind blades instantly appeared in front of him.
"Puff puff puff puff--"
The cyan wind blades shot out like a storm, trying to sever the opponent's strange 'spider silk'. However, those 'spider silk' were too tough. Even with his amazing physical attacks, he could not completely sever those spider silk. In the end, he was still tightly bound by these incredibly tough spider silk, like prey trapped in a spider web.
" Angela, I never expected you to have this trick up your sleeve! You've been hiding it all!" The blue-faced tiger-man hadn't expected his opponent to be a divine beast with such incredible talent and Divine Ability.
He cultivates the Wind Law, specializing in physical attacks and speed. However, once locked onto by the opponent's Divine Ability, he couldn't dodge the attack no matter what, and now he's like a fish on a chopping board, completely at their mercy!
"Die!" The woman in the black dress didn't hesitate at all. She snorted coldly and suddenly swung out the Nether Spike in her hand.
Her Divine Ability can only 'bind' her opponent for a short time, but it is possible to use this opportunity to seriously injure or even kill her opponent.
After all, the opponent cultivates the Wind Law, so their defensive methods are probably quite ordinary, and it would be difficult for them to withstand her fatal blow.
"Whoosh~~" Space tore open once again.
But just then...
"Whoosh!" A green phantom flew out from the spatial rift, heading straight towards the blue-faced tiger-man. The blue-faced tiger-man was shocked. "Something flew out of the spatial rift! Something, and it hasn't been damaged even in the Spatial Turbulence?"
Not only the blue-faced tiger-man, but the beautiful woman in the black dress also looked over in astonishment. It was a green longsword nearly 1.5 meters long, with a flower-shaped hilt and vine-like patterns on it...
"Sizzle!"
The green longsword merely made a casual 'slash', yet the tough spider web that had rendered even the Green-Faced Tiger helpless was instantly cut through!
The blue-faced tiger-man almost instinctively gripped the green longsword, then used it to block the black-dressed beauty's killing move!
He might have a hard time withstanding the attack while standing still, but if given the opportunity to counter-attack, he was confident he could completely block the opponent's attacks.
"Boom!"
The black-dressed beauty's Nether Spike struck the green longsword. Even though the tiger-man expert didn't have time to claim the treasure as his own, the green longsword's sharpness alone was enough to shatter the black-dressed beauty's spiked Divine Artifact into pieces!
" Sovereign Artifact!"
Both the beautiful woman in the black dress and the blue-faced tiger-man's expressions changed!
One had a gloomy expression, while the other was beaming with excitement.
They were only at the level of ordinary Seven-Star Firelighter, far from the level of a Palace Master, but they had heard of the terrifying power of the Sovereign Artifact!
"To survive the Spatial Turbulence without damage, this green longsword must be extraordinary. It's probably a true Sovereign Artifact!" Thinking this, the tiger -Human Race expert felt a surge of excitement and immediately dripped his blood to bind it to his master!
Only Sovereign Artifact have been recognized by their master can unleash their full power!
"Tick-tock..."
Unfortunately, his blood couldn't penetrate it at all.