Hearing Ash's question, Elysia's voice brightened.
[Three options, Master—each viable with your essence:
Create your own power system from scratch—forge a path unbound by Reality. Use Conceptual Sight and Unnamed Essence to define new stages. This path offers a slow start, but limitless ceiling...
Alter the current one into your image. This path will allow you to exist inside the same power system, while also providing limitless potential.
Stop using a power system entirely—reject ranks, Laws, stages. Exist as pure will—desires manifest directly, reality bends without framework.]
Ash's smile grew—slow, sharp.
"Interesting… however, what if I do something a tad bit different?" he said as he began to think of an aspect of himself that he rarely used… for himself.
He smiled at the nonsense he was about to attempt.
"What if I found a way to keep moving forward on the path of cultivation without any limits, all while staying within the power system? We wouldn't be changing it… but breaking through it entirely."
Elysia understood him perfectly, her voice echoing in his mind as she analyzed the plan he was conjuring.
[Master… that's just absurd,] she said, amusement and awe mixing in her tone. [Mixing creation, alteration, and rejection? It's genius in its madness. But yes—it aligns perfectly with your nature.]
Ash floated cross-legged, the room's ambient mana swirling around him as he closed his eyes.
The Unnamed Essence stirred within—primal, formless, the "is-ness" that predated all. He channeled it alongside the essence of Original Desire—not a talent, but the core of Desire itself: infinite craving, boundless will.
...The Desire to stand where measurement, comparison, and hierarchy cease to have meaning.
He wove in Inevitability, turning the wish into absolute truth.
HUMMMM!!!!
Reality bent as his inner universe began to churn and slightly expand...
Then in the next heartbeat he was done.... and the end result?
Well, He was no longer bound by traditional steps or restrictions.
Now, he could copy ranks from those with 95%+ affection for him, whether they were bonded or not. This opened the gates for many things while also allowing him to essentially instantly step into the next rank without the need of cultivating.
After copying one's rank, he would acquire copies of their abilities for that rank.
For example, if he were to copy a Stellar Sovereign, he wouldn't need to create his own personal Stellar Law. Instead, their Law will appear in a blank state inside of his Inner Universe, allowing him to easily overwrite the Law into his image.
And the most absurd thing of it all?
It was that he didn't have a limit on how many Laws or concepts he could copy. After achieving the rank, he could continue to copy Stellar Laws or whatever it maybe until he felt like moving upward in ranks.
This was unconventional as he could now branch out even further from normality. If he ever reached a point to where the power system ceased... then the path would adapt to his desires.
The only slight restriction was that he couldn't skip ranks.
He would have to go in sequential order, meaning he couldn't jump from Calamity to Void Emperor. Although his power wouldn't stop becoming more dense, purer and stronger as he copied others of the same ranks, he would still have to follow the power system in some way.
Now, he sat floating in the air with a smile. Without opening his eyes he spoke to Elysia.
"Now, copy Elara's rank... Haha, this is truly insane."
[Master.... no... it is you, that's truly insane.] Elysia said before copying Elara's rank
Her Peak Stellar Sovereign rank copied instantly.
HUMMMMM!!!!
In that moment his power exploded through, as he stepped past the Calamity barriers right into the Peak of Stellar Sovereign. As he felt the power elevating his entire being, he felt a seed forming inside of his inner universe... and it was the blank copy of Elara's Stellar Law.
Not just that.... he still had his nine Calamity Laws still waiting on fusion.
Ash opened his eyes, smile widening
"Haha, fuck! This is what you call being OP, my lovely nexus~"
Elysia's voice rang with excitement.
[Master… congratulations... You are one step closer to achieving our goal.]
[Path to Omnipotence - 1.00%]
"Alright, not much time had passed... And truth be told I'm not nearly strong enough to contend with those fuckers... yet." He said as he cracked his neck.
"Now, tell me what exactly these Stellar Laws are and how do they work?"
[Stellar Laws are the next self-created conceptual power. These are like Calamity Laws on steroids, which is why the vast majority of cultivators will only have one of them. They are able to affect reality on a wide scale... sometimes at the strongest being able to affect entire star systems and Galaxies.
Stellar Laws have four stages... which normally coincides with Early, Mid, Late, Peak but in your case each one will boost to the fourth stage. The Laws are true edicts and unless you have a Law that can counter, then you will be toasted.]
Hearing this Ash nodded he then got to work.
Ash projected himself inside his inner universe while his physical body remained cross-legged in the training realm, eyes closed in deep meditation.
His consciousness manifested as an avatar amid the rose-gold dawn skies, the vast cosmos humming in welcome—stars twinkling, nebulae swirling, Primordia Haven's supercontinent pulsing below like a living heart.
The blank seed from Elara's copied rank floated before him—a glowing orb of pure potential.
Ash focused his will—no essences, no external forces, just pure intent shaping reality.
First, the defensive law.
He invoked a passive edict that made his presence completely unreadable—immune to system scans, eye-based abilities, divinations, or any form of conceptual probing. To make it even sharper, he layered in the Law of Paradox to bend truth and the Law of Silence to mute all detection.
Stellar Law: Veil of Eternal Obscurity.
The seed unfurled—the orb splitting apart, the law weaving into him like an unseen shroud. His avatar's presence vanished entirely, leaving only a hollow where reality once lingered.
The power took root—quiet, unshakable.
"Now the offense," Ash murmured, smile sharp.
He called forth his nine Calamity Laws—powerful orbs swirling around him: Edict of Origin Blood, Abundant Creation Weave, Gravitational Ash, Primavus Eternal Cycle, Edict of Unwritten Existence, Primordial Inevitability, and three others throbbing with blended essence. With sheer will, he commanded them to merge, pure intent driving the fusion.
Stellar Law: Dominion of Inevitable Eclipse.
His attacks became inevitable over his mana sense range—reality bending to ensure strikes landed, enemies' fates eclipsed, no escape from the dominion's grasp. Nine laws harmonized into one overwhelming force—offensive supremacy.
The orbs merged—exploding in rose-pink brilliance, the new law surging through him like a cosmic tide.
His avatar trembled—power flooding, inner universe expanding as galaxies stabilized under the dominion.
Ash opened his physical eyes in the realm—body surging with new power, smile widening.
"Feels good."
[Just ridiculous....] Elysia muttered.
"Heh, this is just the beginning of our path isn't it my dear~"