novelTele Chapter 92 The Road Ahead!
Chapter 92 The Road Ahead!
On the edge of the Arctic ice sheet, in a sparse coniferous forest.
Lin Yun fell from the air, staggered a few steps, and slowly sat down, leaning against a thick pine tree.
His body had reached its limit. Although Feng Sha and Di Sha were dead, Lin Yun's injuries had not disappeared with their deaths. The wounds left by dozens of dimensional slashes were still throbbing, and although the fracture in his left arm had mostly healed under the power of the spirit of plants, he still couldn't exert any strength. His dragon form had long since automatically deactivated, and the skin exposed after the scales fell off was covered with hideous scars.
"I can't fly anymore." Lin Yun leaned against the tree trunk, panting heavily.
His mental energy was almost depleted, and his soul power was nearly exhausted. If he encountered any more danger, he wouldn't even have the strength to run away.
Lin Yun took out another spirit of grass and wood from his spatial ring and swallowed it. The warm energy flowed into his body, slowly replenishing his depleted mental energy and fighting spirit.
The forest was quiet, with only the rustling of pine needles in the wind. Sunlight filtered through the sparse canopy, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Lin Yun closed his eyes, sensing the changes within his body—his mental energy was slowly recovering, his wounds were gradually healing, and his fatigue was slowly fading.
He needs rest. Not just for a day or two, but enough time for his body to fully recover.
Two days later.
Lin Yun opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
His body had recovered to about 70-80%, and his mental energy had been largely replenished. Although some minor injuries hadn't fully healed, they no longer affected his mobility. He stood up, stretched his limbs, and his bones cracked slightly.
"It's time to take stock of our spoils." Lin Yun took out two silver-gray rings from his spatial ring.
Those were the spatial rings of the Wind Fiend and the Earth Fiend. After their deaths, the spiritual imprints on the rings dissipated, leaving them ownerless. Lin Yun probed them with his spiritual power, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
Big.
too big.
The internal space of each of these two spatial rings was several times larger than the one he had snatched from the HR Alliance warriors. Each ring measured several thousand meters in length, width, and height, with a total volume comparable to a small city. The Wind Fiend and Earth Fiend, having lived for five thousand years, had accumulated all their wealth within them.
Gold coins were piled up like mountains, roughly estimated to be at least several hundred million. Monster cores, ranging from level seven to the peak of the Saint Realm, filled several large boxes, with dozens of peak Saint Realm cores alone. Various magical materials, rare ores, medicinal herbs… a dazzling array, countless in number. Lin Yun couldn't even name some of the materials, but judging from the magical energy emanating from them, they were all rare treasures.
But what truly moved Lin Yun was not these things.
Within Feng Sha's spatial ring, there was a separate area containing dozens of secret manuals. Lin Yun probed into them with his spiritual power, flipping through them one by one.
"The Ultimate Wind: Dimensional Slash"—a book detailing Feng Sha's lifelong insights into the mysteries of dimensions, meticulously documenting each stage from beginner to expert. The book includes not only written descriptions but also hand-drawn diagrams of battle qi circulation by Feng Sha himself, along with his reflections at different stages. Lin Yun quickly flipped through a few pages and felt his understanding of the mysteries of dimensions had deepened considerably.
"The End of the Earth: Immovable as a Mountain"—Di Sha's insights into the earth-based laws of "earth's pulse" and "the profound mysteries of power" are also extremely detailed. The book records in detail how he synchronized himself with the pulse of the earth, how he used the earth's force against him in battle, and how he concentrated his power into a single point to unleash several times its original strength.
"These two manuals... are priceless," Lin Yun murmured.
On the Jade Orchid Continent, Saint-level powerhouses rarely write down their insights into secret manuals for posterity. It's not that they're unwilling, but rather that the understanding of the laws is too profound and difficult to express clearly in words. The fact that Wind Fiend and Earth Fiend could do so demonstrates that their understanding of the laws has reached an extremely high level. Five thousand years of accumulation have not been in vain.
"Unfortunately, they ran into me." Lin Yun's lips curled up slightly.
He sorted through everything in the two spatial rings and then stored them in his own. Gold coins, crystal cores, materials, secret manuals... everything was categorized and arranged neatly. Just sorting these things took him a full hour.
"Five thousand years of accumulation, all of it has benefited me," Lin Yun exclaimed.
But he knew that these material possessions were not the greatest gain from this trip.
The greatest gain is the fusion of laws.
Lin Yun stood up, walked to a clearing in the woods, and sat down cross-legged.
The clearing in the coniferous forest wasn't large, surrounded by tall pine trees whose canopies blocked most of the sky, leaving only a small patch of azure overhead. Sunlight filtered through the gaps, casting golden dappled patterns on the pine-needle-covered ground. The air was filled with the sweet scent of pine resin, mingled with the aroma of earth and decaying leaves.
Lin Yun closed his eyes, replaying every detail of his final battle with the Wind Fiend and the Earth Fiend in his mind.
The laws of light—the mysteries of refraction.
The Wind Element Law – The Mysterious Art of Cloning.
The profound mysteries of two different laws were forcibly merged together through a secret method, generating a power far exceeding that of a single mystery. It felt like mixing two different colors to create a completely new and unprecedented hue.
He raised his right hand, and a white light condensed in his palm. That was the profound mystery of the refraction of the light element—the light danced in his palm, refracting into countless tiny points of light. Then, he condensed a cyan wind blade, the profound mystery of the clone technique of the wind element—the wind blade split into several in the air, each one as real as a physical object.
"Integration".
Lin Yun slowly brought the two forces closer together.
The instant the white light and the blue light came into contact, a powerful repulsive force surged from between them, repelling his hand. Lin Yun was not discouraged and continued to try. Once, twice, three times... He adjusted the output ratio of the two forces, searching for that balance point.
Finally, on the seventeenth attempt, the white and blue light no longer repelled each other, but began to merge. The two colors mixed together, becoming a strange bluish-white light, neither entirely light nor entirely wind, but something in between.
"go."
Lin Yun waved his hand lightly, and a bluish-white light shot out, striking a pine tree in the distance. There was no loud noise, no explosion, but a fist-sized hole appeared in the pine tree trunk, its edges as smooth as a mirror. The wooden structure around the hole showed no cracks, as if a piece had been carved out of thin air.
"Penetrating power... even stronger than Dimensional Slash." A hint of excitement flashed in Lin Yun's eyes.
This was only a preliminary fusion, far from the power he displayed in battle. But at least, he had grasped the basics.
"Why am I able to do it?" Lin Yun asked himself.
In the world of Panlong, the profound fusion of different laws can only be achieved by those with mutated souls. An ordinary person's soul cannot simultaneously bear the power of two different laws. However, Lin Yun's soul, having accumulated power through three lifetimes and been tempered by the small cauldron, is far stronger and more special than that of an ordinary person.
"Perhaps... my soul is mutated?" Lin Yun thought to himself.
"Perhaps it's because of the Earth's soul? The Mountain Dweller!" A sudden thought flashed through Lin Yun's mind.
In the Swallowed Star universe, Earth was transformed by the powerful Mountain-Sitting Guest, and its soul was unique. Could this be the reason?
But he wasn't sure; soul mutation was an extremely rare phenomenon, one that even powerful beings who had lived for tens of thousands of years might not have witnessed. He was certain of one thing—he could do what others couldn't.
"The fusion of light refraction and wind clone technique is just the first step." Lin Yun opened his eyes, his eyes sparkling with excitement.
Since he can fuse these two profound mysteries, he can fuse others as well. Light and wind, lightning and fire, earth and water... different laws are intricately connected. As long as he finds that connection point, he can fuse them.
"Not only that," an even bolder idea surged in Lin Yun's mind, "not just the fusion of two profound mysteries... three, four, five... even all of them!"
He took a deep breath and began to calculate silently in his mind.
The seven systems of laws each contain several profound mysteries.
The six types of earth-based elements are: Earth Element, Earth Movement Technique, Profound Power, Earth Pulse, Gravity Space, and Life Force.
The six types of fire are: Fire Element, Fire Body Technique, Explosion Mystery, Fire Movement Technique, Soul Attack, and Scorching Heat.
The six types of water-based techniques are: Water Element, Water Body Technique, Ice Sharpness Mystery, Mist Illusion Mystery, Softness Mystery, and Water Movement Technique.
Nine types of wind: Wind Element, Wind Walk, Clone Technique, Speed Secrets (Fast, Slow), Sound Secrets (Sound Waves, Vocals), Dimension, Wind Space.
The six types of lightning are: Lightning Element, Lightning Speed, Lightning Resonance, Lightning Punishment, Lightning Explosion, and Lightning Magnetic Mystery.
The six types of light are: Light Element, Light Refraction, Intimidation, Purification, Healing, and Speed of Light.
The six types of Darkness are: Dark Element, Shadow Clone Technique, Evil, Devour, Stealth, and Corruption.
There are a total of forty-five mysterious things.
Throughout the history of the Yulan Continent, no one has ever been able to fully comprehend all the mysteries of a single law, let alone the mysteries of different laws. Even those exceptionally talented Saint-level experts only comprehended one or two mysteries of a particular law system, and by mastering one of them to its extreme, they could become Lower Gods.
Fane cultivates the "Profound Mystery of Punishment" of the Lightning Laws. Mastering a single profound mystery to its peak grants invincibility within the Holy Domain. The same applies to Hise, Desli, Tulilei, and others—they may have comprehended one or two profound mysteries within the same law, but they have not integrated them.
"What if... I could comprehend all forty-five profound mysteries and then integrate them all?"
Lin Yun's heart started racing.
Within the Panlong Universe—the profound fusion of the same laws multiplies its power tenfold with each additional law fused. The fusion of six profound laws signifies Great Perfection. The fusion of five profound laws elevates one to the Asura or Commander level!
The profound fusion of different laws is countless times more powerful than the fusion of the same law.
Generally speaking.
The profound fusion of two different laws has the same power as the profound fusion of three of the same laws.
The profound fusion of three different laws has the same power as the profound fusion of five of the same laws.
The profound fusion of four different laws is equivalent to the fusion of seven of the same laws—that is, ten times the level of Great Perfection!
Five, six, seven, eight... all the way up to forty-five.
Lin Yun dared not think any further. The number was too large, beyond his imagination. He tried to roughly estimate it in his mind—if all the profound mysteries of the forty-five different laws were fused together, the power would be ten to the power of forty times that of a Great Perfection.
10 to the power of 40.
That's an astronomical figure. The power of the supreme god is overwhelming before the Great Perfection, but the Great Perfection is not even dust before the 10th to 40th power.
"If I could really do that... my strength would probably be even more terrifying than that of the Supreme God," Lin Yun murmured.
But he quickly calmed down.
That's only a theoretical possibility. In reality, fusing the mysteries of two different laws is already incredibly difficult, let alone three or four. Even for soul mutants, the types of mysteries they can fuse are limited. Olivia fused the laws of light and darkness, and Linley fused the laws of earth, fire, water, and wind—but that's all.
"You have to take things one step at a time," Lin Yun told himself.
What he can do now is to solidify the fusion of the mysteries of light refraction and wind clone techniques, and then try to add a third mystery to it. For example, the speed of light in the light system, or the dimensional mystery in the wind system.
Lin Yun closed his eyes again, immersing his consciousness into the ocean of laws.
He constructed a virtual space in his mind. Within this space, fragments of two laws floated—the refraction of light and the clone technique of wind. He slowly pulled them closer, allowing them to touch, merge, and fuse.
This process requires extremely precise control. The slightest misstep could cause the two forces to explode out of control, backfiring on his spirit. Sweat beaded on Lin Yun's forehead, but his mental strength remained stable, calm and unperturbed.
After an unknown amount of time, the two fragments finally merged completely, forming a brand new fragment that emitted a bluish-white light.
"It's done." Lin Yun opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
He placed the fused fragment deep within his consciousness and then began to attempt to incorporate a third profound mystery—the speed of light from the light system.
The speed of light is a profound mystery concerning speed within the laws of light. It and the mystery of refraction both belong to the light system, so theoretically, their fusion should be easier than inter-system fusion. However, Lin Yun quickly discovered that this was not the case.
Although the speed of light and the mysteries of refraction both belong to the light system, their essences differ. One pursues ultimate speed, while the other pursues the bending of light. To merge the two requires finding a balance between speed and illusion.
Lin Yun tried countless times. He pulled the fragments of the speed of light closer to the fused fragments, and the two exploded the moment they touched, making his consciousness buzz.
"No way." Lin Yun shook his head. "The speed is too fast; the refraction rhythm can't keep up."
"No rush." Lin Yun stood up and stretched his stiff body. "I have plenty of time."
The earlier you start fusing profound mysteries, the easier it is. In the four supreme planes, many geniuses start fusing profound mysteries when they are still weak, because once they reach the level of a high god, it will be much more difficult to fusing profound mysteries!
He looked up at the southern horizon, already having a plan in mind.
His trip to the Arctic ice fields yielded tremendous gains. He made significant progress in the seven elements of profound mystery, achieved a breakthrough in the rules of death, and gained an initial understanding of law fusion—all of which required time to digest and absorb.
"Let's find a place to cultivate first," Lin Yun decided.
He needed to transform all the gains from this trip to the ice plains into his own strength in an absolutely quiet environment. He had to study the manuals one by one, comprehend the mysteries layer by layer, and refine the integration process time and time again.
"It will take at least a year," Lin Yun estimated.
A year is enough time for him to digest all the secret manuals left by the Wind Fiend and the Earth Fiend, and enough time for him to raise his strength to the next level.
"Then... we'll return to the Kingdom of Fenlai."
Lin Yun took a deep breath, transformed into a streak of light, and flew towards the southwest.