In an unnamed valley, beside a secluded lake, the silver-haired girl Echidna had somehow become quite familiar with Luo Ao.
"So Betty showed you such favoritism that day because of you." Only after talking with Echidna did Luo Ao learn why the Planar Overseer Betty had suddenly appeared that day.
It turned out that she had wanted to befriend Echidna, a "divine beast."
After all, divine beasts possessed astonishing talent. They naturally became Lowgods upon reaching adulthood. One could well imagine how formidable that talent was.
Moreover, after becoming deities, divine beasts would awaken an innate divine ability. Those of certain rare, special divine beasts in particular were often bizarre and powerful, some even defying all reason.
"If Miss Betty had known how incredible your talent was, she would certainly have treated you even more courteously back then." Perhaps because Betty had indeed treated her rather well, Echidna made a point of explaining on her behalf.
As Echidna explained, the dragons of the Forest of Dragons indeed had little to do with Betty. Half her reason for acting that way that day had been amusement, and the other half had been entirely because of Echidna's presence.
If she had known beforehand that Luo Ao had undergone soul mutation, she would certainly have regarded him in a different light as well. After all, the talent and potential of someone with a mutated soul far surpassed those of most divine beasts.
But Luo Ao's strength had now surpassed hers. It was already too late for her to try to befriend him.
For some time afterward, Echidna remained in the unnamed valley with Luo Ao. Echidna showed no intention of leaving on her own, and Luo Ao did not drive her away.
Rumble~~~
Water plunged swiftly down a waterfall dozens of meters high, pounding into a deep pool and sending countless sprays flying. The water in the pool flowed slowly along a narrow river.
At the end of that river lay a tranquil lake, with an elegant wooden house at its center.
Before the wooden house, a black-haired young man in loose robes held his arms in a circle, performing a strange set of fist techniques in a manner seemingly slow but actually fast.
Although this set of fist techniques served no other purpose, it allowed Luo Ao to calm his mind and more easily bring his spirit into harmony with nature.
Mr. Luo Ao's way of cultivating is so unusual.
Watching Luo Ao's cultivation method, so different from anyone else's, Echidna found herself quite unable to make heads or tails of it.
Over these past days, she had asked Luo Ao many questions about cultivation and had benefited considerably.
Luo Ao knew only a smattering about the Edicts of Fate and had offered no substantive suggestions. As for the Water Law, however, although Luo Ao was only a Lowgod in it, he could suggest quite a few useful paths for cultivation.
What a pity. Reaching mastery in the Water Law's Water Body Technique is even harder than I imagined. I've already become a deity through the Edicts of Destruction, yet I still haven't mastered the Water Body Technique.
Luo Ao knew that the profound mystery of the Water Body Technique was one of only two low-level profound mysteries within the Water Law. Its difficulty was not particularly high.
However, his talent for the Water Law was clearly far inferior to his talent for the Fire Law. Never mind fusing profound mysteries-even mastering this single profound mystery was no easy matter.
Forget it. Cultivation calls for both tension and relaxation. Since I've hit a bottleneck, I might as well go out for a walk. Luo Ao soon stopped insisting on continuing his secluded cultivation deep in the mountains and instead decided to go out for a change of mood. Perhaps a chance stirring of his spirit would naturally break through this bottleneck?
Besides, the Boya Continent was indeed vast. He could take this opportunity to continue traveling across it.
Once he broke through to God in the Water Law as well, he planned to consider going to the Infernal Realm. After all, his progress while cultivating in a material plane was still too slow.
Moreover, once he broke through in the Water Law, his strength would rise again. Even going to the Infernal Realm would no longer be quite so dangerous.
The Tesuoyi Mountains, the Karsi Mountains, the Paduo Kingdom, the Feiti Empire, the Prussian Empire, the Lava Forest,
the Dawn Forest...
At the speed of Deity Level experts, they experienced the vastly different natural scenery of the continent's various regions in a very short time.
One day, when the two of them reached a small kingdom, they happened to learn of something novel.
"When did a Temple of Life appear on this continent?" When Echidna accompanied Luo Ao to a kingdom called Xierdiluoke, she happened to hear legends of a "God of Life."
This quickly caught their attention.
After all, only ten or twenty years had passed since Aogemate's death, and they had sensed no new fluctuations of the Natural Laws. Where, then, had this "God of Life" come from?
"Mr. Luo Ao, just what sort of 'miracles' do you think this 'God of Life' performed to make so many inhabitants turn away from the embrace of their 'Guardian God of Boya'?" Echidna was also very curious about this "God of Life" who had suddenly appeared.
Before this, no one on the Boya Continent had ever heard of such a deity.
"There are very few true deities on the Boya Continent today. Although this person is revered as the 'God of Life,' he may not truly be a 'deity.'" According to what Luo Ao had heard earlier, this Weiersi, the God of Life, was merely adept at certain methods involving the Life Law.
However, even Saint-level experts were very rare on the continent now. It was not impossible for ordinary mortals encountering such a person to mistake him for a Deity Level being.
After all, to ordinary people, Saint-level experts and Deity Level experts alike were beings capable of "destroying heaven and earth."
"The Life Law?" Both were among the Four Edicts. She wondered which was stronger: this person's Life Law or the Edicts of Fate she had comprehended.
"An expert in the Life Law..." A gleam flashed through Luo Ao's eyes as well. His main purpose in coming this time was to investigate this "God of Life." Inexplicably, an ominous premonition suddenly rose in his heart.
Just what is going to happen?
Luo Ao's expression remained calm, revealing no emotional fluctuations. What he was thinking, however, no one could know.
The Forest of Nature.
"Hm?" Sensing two unfamiliar divine senses suddenly appear, Weiersi's expression changed at once.
One of them seemed rather immature, probably belonging to a mere Lowgod, and was nothing to fear. The strength of the other divine sense, however, was somewhat astonishing. Even he felt frightened by it.
A Highgod?
To think I would encounter a Highgod so soon after getting out of that damned place. Hopefully, this Highgod isn't someone who slaughters by nature.
Since the other party had already discovered him and had arrived near the Forest of Nature, Weiersi did not rashly flee, lest he displease this expert.
"This fellow is actually a God?" After his divine sense spread into the depths of the Forest of Nature, Luo Ao soon discovered an elegant, handsome elven man. What caught his attention was that the man's aura clearly marked him as a God!
Although his strength meant he had no need to concern himself with a God who had suddenly appeared, the implications behind this discovery shook Luo Ao.
"I hope things aren't what I think they are." Luo Ao's expression abruptly darkened. Beside him, Echidna naturally noticed the change in him at once.
Knowing better, however, she did not choose to disturb Luo Ao at this moment.
Soon, the two entered a dreamlike forest with exceedingly pleasant surroundings.
The aura of nature was very rich in this forest.
Deep within the forest, before a refined wooden house surrounded by all manner of exquisite flowers, plants, and trees, a handsome elven man with slender, pointed ears stood at the entrance, gazing into the distance as though awaiting Luo Ao and Echidna's arrival.