Prime Originator

Unbeknownst to his surroundings, Leon had wholly sealed off his senses from the outside world to focus on comprehending the Destruction Law.

Snippets of the scene replayed in his mind from dozens of times to hundreds of times to thousands of times. Despite the countless replays, he made zero progress in comprehending the Destruction Laws.

'A law beyond mortal understanding.'

He thought.

His soul was far stronger than any Transcendent, but it was still not enough for him to perceive the Law of Destruction.

The Law of Destruction is a supreme law that stands above any individual laws part of the cycle of five elements. Even the Laws of Life and Death cannot compare to it, let alone the Laws of Space and Time.

The Laws of Destruction and Creation were both laws infinitely close to the source of beginning born from nothingness.

Without comprehending the Laws of Space and Time, Life and Death, there were little hopes of him understanding the Destruction Law.

The [Hegemon of Primal Chaos] also required the mastery of the first three stages before the commencement of the fourth stage.

But he had not even started on the second stage of space and time, let alone begin the third stage of life and death. The fourth stage of creation and destruction was far out of his reach.

Leon began to ponder deeply as the scene continued to replay in his mind.

How can the Destruction Law help him further his comprehension of the Nihility Law when he cannot comprehend it at all?

He decided to stop the replay and enter his sea of consciousness to visit the Black Vortex for answers. After all, that was where he was enlightened to the Law of Nihility.

The laws of the five elements were weak on their own, but they produce a power much closer to the source of beginning and more than the Destruction Law when merged together.

After all, the Destruction Law cannot produce pseudo-Grandmist energy on its own. It was supreme law in breaking things down to their most universally basic building blocks.

If he is not wrong, the fusion of the Creation Law and Destruction Law will produce a far more complete Grandmist energy than the fusion of the five elements could.

That being the case, the same could also be said for the fusion of the life and death laws, and the fusion of space and time laws.

'Hm?'

Leon suddenly paused in front of his soul core.

The color of his soul core seemed to be slightly different from how he remembered it. In addition to colors brought by the merge of the Fireseed, Iceseed, Lightningseed, Metalseed, Earthseed, and Woodseed, there seems to be another color. It was the color black.

The faint laws emanating for the black patch made him doubtful. When did he have the time to comprehend another law?

"This is… Darkness Profound Law—No, this is Spatial Law!"

Leon was alarmed.

Or rather, he was pleasantly alarmed!

"But how?"

The discovery puzzled him. He quickly spun his mind for an answer before shortly arriving at term he recently learned about, Void Body.

"From Darlene?"

He became even more confused.

Darlene could not cultivate—No, that is not correct. She definitely can cultivate, just not in the darkness body cultivation methods of the Darkmoon Tribe.

The correct way to put it should be that she had not cultivated yet, because she had yet to awaken.

That brings him back to the same question, how? How else did he gain comprehension into the Spatial Law? Because he was a Divine Origin realm practitioner in his past life?

He relied on cultivation pills to swiftly reach such a level. His comprehension of Fire Laws was substantial, but his Spatial Law comprehension was mediocre at best.

From what he had observed, all his partners were already Awakeners before he benefited with them through intimate dual cultivation.

Leon felt like he was thinking too deeply that he blinded himself from the simple truth. The answer was present all along.

'Darlene's inferior complex runs quite deep. She has been ingrained with the idea that she cannot cultivate.'

Leon pondered.

An Awakener's ability is heavily reliant on their will to control their element. If Awakeners strongly believes they cannot do something, they will never be able to do it—Not because they cannot, but because they have never tried.

'Hmm… It is quite possible that Darlene may have already awakened to the spatial element but have yet to realize it.'

He figured.

Awakeners needed to cultivate to improve their abilities, but they did not necessarily have to cultivate to awaken.

The very first Awakener to walk the land did not awaken because they knew how to cultivate. Cultivation methods were created after they learned of awakening.

Awakening could come naturally, or it can come forcefully. It was an innate power hidden within themselves.

Suddenly, Leon paused.

'Humans were not born with the innate ability to control the elements. Awakening made this possible, but not all humans can awaken. Only in this world, they can.'

He remembered the Destruction Laws Lumi awakened to control during battle and came up with a startling possibility.

'What if there is a fragment of Divinity in every human?'

He pondered.

As ridiculous as it sounds, it all made sense to him.

Why were the humans here able to manipulate the elements upon awakening while the denizens of the Divine Realm must toil hard and long comprehending and learning for countless years before they can do the same?

Everything fits if he said there was a fragment of Divinity in everyone.

Awakening, bloodline abilities, special physiques, and divine bodies, everything can be understood if a fragment of Divinity dwells within the souls of every being in this world.

Once this possibility cemented in his mind, he no longer found it strange that humans can awaken, nor was it a coincidence that Aria and Lynne both had special physiques that he failed to notice at first glance.

They were awakened after.

'The Divine Realm searched their whole life for the vestige of gods and the path to everlasting, but nothing was ever found except the records they left behind. As it turns out, all of it was here, in the one place they never searched, the black hole that swallows everything.'

Leon began to review the star map etched in his memory.

The small starfield was most likely formed after the age of Gods and Devils ended. How their era ended, Leon did not know.

What he did know was the Gods and Devils were supposedly born during the formation of Primal Chaos. Thus, their bodies were made entirely of Grandmist energy.

If all that Grandmist energy gathered inside the black hole en masse, it would not be strange for it to form a sub-universe the size of the starfield he was seeing on the star map.

'Is this the true secret of this world? The remains of their body formed the world, and their scattered soul fragments gave life to it? Should I call this a small starfield or the fabled God Realm everyone was looking for?'

After a moment, Leon shook his head. Everything was just inference and conjectures and needed more evidence. Even so, he was more or less convinced that this was as he had imagined.

He came across an amazing discovery, but he had strayed far from his initial purpose, which is to further his comprehension of the Nihility Law.

The answers to his path to transcendence lie within the secrets of the Black Vortex.

Despite gaining an initial understanding of the Nihility Law, why did it not form a seed of comprehension like the other laws?

Because it was the Nihility Law, the Law of Nothingness.

It cannot be seen or felt, but it was present—or perhaps not at all.

It is so profound and mysterious that even if he partly understood it, he felt like he understood nothing at all.

The Nihility Law is the most primordial law, more grand and powerful than even the Laws of Creation and Destruction.

It was the ultimate law, existing yet not existing before the beginning of time, before the appearance of Grandmist, and before the formation of Primal Chaos.

Leon cannot transcend because he wielded too many laws, none of which were powerful enough to be the governing law that rules over the other existing laws.

But if there was even a possibility of transcendence, it would lie within the Nihility Law that stands above all.

If he can reach a certain level of understanding in the Nihility Law, there might just be hope for transcendence.

He was not sure how to further his comprehension of the Nihility Law before, but the presence of Spatial Laws had pointed the way for him.

Destruction Law cannot be comprehended for the time being, but within the destruction, there was devastation, breaking, corrosion, withering, decay, and so on.

The Laws of Darkness, Death, Time, and other minor laws were present.

He needed to comprehend the Temporal Laws and use the [Hegemon of Primal Chaos] technique to merge space and time.

Whether it will give him insights into the Nihility Law or not is still a possibility, but the production of a more complete Grandmist energy is a certainty.