"Tsk. No wonder Bebe managed to comprehend all six Dark-element Law Profound Mysteries and become a god so quickly."
"If I can find Saint-peak beings who have comprehended the Water Waves and Circular Softness Profound Mysteries, and strip away the soul fragments containing their insights into those two mysteries, I could probably become a Highgod within three months."
"But…"
With a single thought, Locke dispersed all the mist surrounding him.
To Locke, whether or not he became a Highgod was not important.
What truly mattered was gaining greater power—peering deeper into the mysteries of the Law Profound Mysteries, and witnessing more of the landscapes within the Coiling Dragon Universe.
If handled properly, the god realm was the stage where a being's strength could grow the fastest.
The rules of the Coiling Dragon Universe dictated that once a being completely comprehended a single Law Profound Mystery, a layer of separation would form between their soul and the heavens and earth.
Attempting to comprehend new Law Profound Mysteries in that state would cause the difficulty to increase by dozens of times.
This was precisely why so many gods were unable to advance to Highgod throughout their entire lives.
For many of them, after comprehending a second Law Profound Mystery, their potential was already exhausted.
Judging from the degree of separation between their souls and the world, they could no longer even sense the fluctuations of a third Law Profound Mystery.
Those with slightly greater talent might manage to comprehend a third, fourth, or even fifth mystery.
But even so, without fully comprehending all six Law Profound Mysteries of a single element, becoming a Highgod was impossible.
This was why, even after more than a thousand epochs, Highgods still remained the backbone of both the God Planes and the Supreme Planes.
Among a million Saints, perhaps a hundred thousand might become demigods, and ten thousand gods.
Yet among those ten thousand gods, it would be difficult for even a single Highgod to be born.
For most people, becoming a Highgod was the ultimate pursuit of their entire lives.
Some gods who had fallen into bottlenecks, unable to sense any progress after countless years, could only pin their hopes of breaking through on divine sparks—saving for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years to exchange for a Highgod godhead compatible with their element, in order to shatter shackles, they had failed to overcome for eons.
Even though a Highgod who refined a godhead was the weakest among Highgods, they were still more than ten times stronger than a god.
But for Locke, becoming a Highgod was never his dream.
Paragon—that was his true goal.
Of course, Locke understood just how difficult it was to reach Paragon.
Across the entire Coiling Dragon Universe, among countless beings, fewer than twenty had achieved Paragon in over a thousand yarn epochs.
Still, deep in his heart, Locke harbored a faint, extravagant hope—to see whether he might one day become one of the exalted Sovereigns.
At present, all seventy-seven Sovereigns were still alive.
Locke did not know how much time remained before the great conflict among the Sovereigns erupted.
But he hoped that when Sovereigns began to fall, he would already possess the strength necessary to participate in the struggle for Sovereign Sparks.
As for breaking free of the Coiling Dragon Universe and entering the Hongmeng Space?
That was a thought Locke might have had shortly after transmigrating here—but now, he had all but abandoned it.
As far as he knew, the only way to transcend the Coiling Dragon Universe was to gather Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire Sovereign clones, and to preliminarily fuse the four-element variant Law Profound Mysteries—only then could the four Sovereign powers merge into Hongmeng energy, allowing one to transcend the universe.
At present, Locke's perception of elemental laws was limited solely to the Water element.
Clearly, this body possessed affinity only with Water-element laws.
That alone extinguished any immediate hope of transcending the Panlong Universe.
Perhaps when he became strong enough in the future, such thoughts might resurface.
But for now, Locke chose to proceed step by step, following his own path.
"Let's go, Little White."
After calling out to little White, Locke resumed his journey.
Along the way, whenever insight struck him, he would stop and cultivate.
When he didn't feel like cultivating, he would simply sit atop Little White's back and let it carry him forward.
Since the one he was currently revealing was his Water-element divine clone, even when Little White charged recklessly through Hell's forests with Locke on its back, no foolish magical beasts dared to disturb him.
In Hell, once magical beasts reached the divine realm, they could transform into humanoid forms and enter human cities.
As a result, very few god-level magical beasts chose to remain in the forests.
However, among magical beasts, hierarchy was absolute. Without the bloodline of a divine beast, many magical beasts would spend their entire lives stagnating at the Saint level.
Perhaps Little White had suffered plenty of bullying in the past. While carrying Locke forward, it would occasionally take small detours—without changing the overall direction—just to parade Locke in front of certain magical beasts' lairs.
After mocking the trembling creatures hiding inside their caves, it would swagger away in triumph.
Locke had no objections to his pet's behavior.
As long as it didn't affect him, that was fine.
In this regard, Little White performed exceptionally well.
When Locke needed it, Little White would shrink its body to the smallest possible size, allowing Locke to stroke it and find amusement.
When Locke didn't need it, Little White wouldn't disturb him at all, making itself as inconspicuous as possible—fully aware of its role as a pet.
"Hahahaha! Hahahaha!"
One day, as Locke sat atop Little White, he suddenly burst into loud laughter, startling it badly.
Locke was so delighted because he had finally discovered the point of convergence between Water Body, Illusionary fog, and Ice Edge.
Even Locke himself hadn't expected that among all his Law Profound Mysteries, it wouldn't be the Water Element—his earliest Saint-peak mastery—that found a convergence point first.
Instead, it was Water Body, which he had only recently comprehended, that was the first to resonate with two other mysteries.
It had to be said—comprehending and fusing Law Profound Mysteries was truly fascinating.
For god-level experts, the fusion of Law Profound Mysteries had only two major hurdles: finding the point of convergence, and achieving completion.
Once the point of convergence was found, the fusion would steadily advance toward its limit under a god's comprehension.
The only difference lay in speed—some were faster, others slower.
As a being's understanding of Law Profound Mysteries deepened, the speed of fusion would naturally increase.
There were even those who, in a single moment of enlightenment, completed the fusion outright.
After Water Body began to fuse with Illusionary fog and Ice Edge, Locke shifted the focus of his cultivation toward finding convergence points between the Essence of water and his other three Law Profound Mysteries.
(End of Chapter)
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