Chapter 581: Impact
In the four-dimensional state, Athena “saw” a strange “flower” emerging from the Great Source. She instantly understood that this was the Law of Hope brought from the Giant Tree World—a slightly flawed and incomplete Law of Hope.
She absorbed the law, roaming the mysterious place, picking up other fragments of the Law of Hope, and bit by bit perfecting this slightly flawed Law of Hope.
Illusions bred, and it seemed as if she saw the anger and despair of the Goddess of Hope, Medira, following like a shadow.
Ace entered the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm. With almost no delay, He directly entered the interior of the Kaya World’s four-dimensional body, that mysterious place where law fragments drifted.
The four-dimensional world is incredibly bizarre. You can clearly feel something is right there, yet you don’t encounter it.
On the other side, Athena also felt it. Their Fruits of Immortality had a subtle connection. Especially in the early stages of Athena’s ascension to godhood, there would be mutual resonance. With the accumulation of years, this resonance would also slowly disappear.
“What is this? Non-overlapping on the timeline? No wonder I haven’t encountered any deities except for the time the Lady of the Night led me. It seems that unless Level 5 existences enter at the same time, it’s difficult for them to meet again in the fourth dimension.”
Ace analyzed calmly, seemingly discovering many mysteries of this world. As for communicating across timelines, it was actually possible, but a method was difficult to find immediately.
Athena maintained this strange state for a while before gathering her thoughts. Since she couldn’t discover anything, it was better not to waste time and to hurry up and finish collecting the law fragments.
She knew that the first time collecting law fragments yielded the best results.
On the other side, Ace also gave up trying to connect and turned to sensing the fragments of the Law of Comprehension. His time in the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm was also very precious. As for whether it was Nicholas or Athena who became a god, there would soon be an answer.
As long as one is a True God wanting to join the Kaya Pantheon, they would inevitably appear in the Pantheon of Gods.
Everything would be clear then.
With the aid of the Book of Records, Ace acted like an extremely powerful magnet, frantically absorbing the nearby fragments of the Law of Comprehension. And the Law of Comprehension itself could accelerate the combination of the fragments.
An unknown amount of time passed before Ace returned to the three-dimensional level. Slowly opening His eyes, He had condensed another eight and a half Laws of Comprehension. With a total of seventeen Laws of Comprehension, He was getting closer and closer to completing the law.
He had a premonition that He had already collected nearly half of the Law of Comprehension.
“Collecting law fragments, condensing a single law, forming a complete law, then penetrating the law to become an incarnation, and then digging deep into the law to become a Sovereign of Laws… Walking this entire path, if I didn’t have the assistance of the Immortal Heart Fire, a theoretical understanding of the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm, and the help of the Book of Records, it would be impossible to be this fast.
“Even if an ordinary deity spent ten thousand years, they might only just manage to condense a complete law.”
Ace sighed with deep emotion. His efficiency was not just a hundred times stronger than an ordinary deity’s; with the three factors combined, it was simply a thousand times faster. He might become the Sovereign of Dreams faster than any deity anticipated.
“A single Law of Comprehension cannot be integrated into the Law of Manifestation. This might be because there is only one foundational law. Just as it isn’t necessarily better for a deity to have a longer Divine Name; some deities even proactively bestow their laws upon other demigods.
“Only laws that can integrate into one’s own foundational law and perfect it are good laws.”
Ace knew that although His strength was decent, in the struggles among deities, there still existed the danger of falling into slumber or even having one’s Fruit of Immortality shattered.
“Fortunately, it is currently a period of armistice. I have enough time to improve myself and pick up law fragments. To a certain extent, the work I’m doing is exactly what Bayen loves to do the most.”
Ace suddenly smiled, amused by His own thought.
As for that subtle Fruit of Immortality, Ace didn’t particularly dwell on it. He waited for a period of time, and no True God joined the Pantheon of Gods, making Him wonder: “Could they have joined the allied forces of the Outer Gods and the Rebel Gods? It’s not impossible. There’s also the possibility of becoming a wild god; such existences do exist.”
In Ace’s cognition, He remembered one such existence: the God of Gourmet Food, the Crystal Dragon Paralanda.
After becoming a god, Ace also tried searching for Paralanda. Besides expressing gratitude, He also had the thought of drawing closer and gaining an ally.
But regrettably, Paralanda seemed to have concealed His whereabouts. Even with the assistance of a Law of Fate, it was very difficult for Ace to find Him.
“He is a giant dragon from another world, so He definitely has many methods I don’t understand. If He doesn’t want to be discovered, He definitely has some secret art. If I can get more Laws of Fate, perhaps I can find Him, but…”
Ace pondered for a while. He merely wanted to express gratitude and had no extremely pressing need. Since the other party didn’t want to be found, He might as well drop it for now.
Ace gradually summarized the method for cleansing detrimental states. He only needed to spend about a week to use the starlight of His over six thousand stars to cleanse His own detrimental state.
His power was very strong. The influence of over six thousand stars palpitating together was unparalleled. Ace’s accumulation had reached a bottleneck; He only needed to patiently continue collecting laws and wait for the day of a massive leap.
Taking about two trips, plus the Laws of Comprehension collected previously, Ace collected a total of forty-four Laws of Comprehension, successfully constructing the complete Law of Comprehension.
He immediately entered the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm. Relying on His familiarity with the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm—a theoretical familiarity—Ace easily penetrated the Law of Comprehension, becoming the incarnation of Comprehension, the Comprehender!
Ace sensed His domain authority. The law fragments that were hidden and invisible in the past were now all clearly visible. Even for something as difficult as Fate, He could find quite a few.
“The so-called Comprehension is actually the comprehension of laws. If this is used as a foundation, definitely very few True Gods would be willing. Even if one comprehends the properties of all law fragments and can know them just by observing, this isn’t directly acquiring the law itself.
“It still needs to be picked up, combined, and weeded out. In the present time, where most True Gods cannot construct a complete law in ten thousand years, no one wants to do this kind of thing.
“But giving it to me makes it a different story.”
Ace was like a shark entering the sea, and the law fragments were like delicious sardines. He found the most delicious one among them, ignoring the splashing blood. In just a short trip to the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm, He actually collected three Laws of Fate.
As if greatly encouraged, Ace followed up and made persistent efforts, continuing deep into the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm to pick the trajectories of fate. But when He collected the ninetieth Law of Fate, He chose to give up.
“Even with ninety Laws of Fate, I still don’t see the signs of gathering the complete Law of Fate. I haven’t even collected one-tenth of the Law of Fate. This is too futile and should be stopped in time.
“These current Laws of Fate are already enough for me to deduce many things, and fate is very wondrous.”
Ace integrated the Laws of Fate into His foundational Law of Dreams. He actually managed to continuously integrate nearly ten of them, finally failing at the eleventh.
And His Dream Realm also became incomparably bizarre and unpredictable. Under Ace’s slow experimentation, He confirmed that His Dream Realm had the dual effects of twisting fate and concealing fate.
“If I want to deepen dreams, I must first expand the breadth of dreams, which is combining more different types of laws, especially foundational laws. A dream is actually another world, a lower-dimensional world.
“Therefore, theoretically, it should be all-encompassing!”
Ace’s eyes shone brightly. His figure appeared on His own divine seat in the Pantheon of Gods. Looking at the nearly a thousand seats, He began to consciously use His Comprehension to sense.
“Copying the paths of the gods, turning them into individual laws, and integrating them into my Dream Realm—this is my path of advancement!”
In Ace’s eyes, the Pantheon of Gods was like an index. Something other deities would never do became a commonplace occurrence for Him.
For other deities, even if they collected the paths of other deities, it would be useless. A complete law possesses uniqueness. As long as a complete law has been condensed, unless you slay the god or shatter Their complete law, even if you collect enough laws, you cannot make it complete.
An incomplete law possesses no potential.
Even if a deity discovered a method similar to Ace’s of integrating other laws into their own fundamental law, they would weigh the options and choose the most advantageous and suitable one. But Ace was different; His understanding of dreams was that of a world.
If a dream is a world, then it can take in everything and be all-encompassing.
“Looking at it from the perspective of authority, creation and destruction are the most important laws of a world. The God Queen has already left. Fortunately, some fragments are lingering here.”
Ace’s eyes were bright. As the incarnation of Comprehension, He could see the big picture from small clues. Even for the tiniest trace, as long as it existed, He could grasp a thread of it. The greatest use of this authority was collecting the trajectories of laws.
If one wants to discover a corresponding law in the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm, then there should be a thread of it in the third dimension; otherwise, the difficulty of finding it would be immense.
“Then the primary target right now is to collect two Laws of Creation and conduct experiments.”
Ace’s figure slowly disappeared. Within His mental imagery world, there were now thousands more indexes regarding various paths of laws. The Kaya Pantheon wasn’t missing a single one, but Ace already possessed countless more.
Returning to His own sub-plane, Ace felt the entire sub-plane was exceptionally vital, seemingly feeling restless and eager to move.
“Are you yearning for it too? Filling in laws to perfect this dream world, filling in cognition to construct this dream world. One is the framework, and the other is the content.”
Ace took a step and walked into the Magic Sanctuary in the galactic center. This place was not yet open to wizards. To be precise, even if it were open, it could only be open to Mythical Wizards. Wizards below that rank would very likely get lost in the fourth dimension and disappear completely.
He slowly approached the High-Dimensional “Door.” However, a thought suddenly flashed through His mind. Jumping out of the third dimension so frequently must be a heavy drain on four-dimensional space. Does this count as accelerating the collapse of the fourth dimension in disguise?
If the fourth dimension truly completely collapsed, would this world enter a so-called Age of Dharma Decline, where one could never again be supernatural or manifest holiness before others?
While His thoughts were flying wildly, Ace still leaped out of the “three-dimensional paper.” Having leaped out many times, He was very familiar with it and easily “swam” to the center of the Kaya four-dimensional body. The Law of Comprehension and the Book of Records were activated simultaneously.
Two complementary information flows rippled, picking up various fragments regarding the Law of Creation from the past, present, and future within this four-dimensional space.
As a law that had birthed a Level 6 existence, it was commonly known as a Supreme Law.
The profundity of Creation far exceeded Ace’s imagination. He almost got lost in that mysterious past. As for the future, it was fundamentally impossible to step into. After going through untold hardships, He finally picked up half a Law of Creation.
In the subsequent period, Ace quickly cleansed His “detrimental state” and entered the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm again. In a month’s time, Ace combined two Laws of Creation.
At this time, He also discovered a new phenomenon. Integrating one Law of Creation into the Law of Dreams completely enhanced the creation aspect of the Law of Dreams to the limit; the second one fundamentally could not be integrated.
“Why is this? Is it like this for all of them, or is Fate the most special?”
Pondering for a moment, Ace gave up thinking. This clearly wasn’t something He could understand right now; He just needed to experiment more.
Three months later, Ace experimented with dozens of ordinary laws and the five Supreme Laws of Creation, Destruction, Reincarnation, Sun, and Bright Moon. He finally confirmed that apart from Fate, other laws could only integrate one piece.
“Although I don’t know why, this does save me a lot of effort. As for those extra laws, I’ll set them aside for now.”
Ace became even more diligent, and time flew by. The alliance of the Rebel Gods and Outer Gods made many moves on the inner side of the world. Both sides consciously controlled the struggle to the inner side of the world, avoiding the terrifying situation of shattering the world.
During this year, the biggest move by the Outer Gods and Rebel Gods was creating a Pantheon built upon the branches and trunk of the World Tree, standing in confrontation with the Pantheon of the Kaya Divine Mountain. This was almost the biggest milestone event.
The Kaya gods were furious. The Titan Main Gods even personally went there several times to confront the powerful Main Gods on the other side.
War ultimately didn’t break out. God King Kronos was still slumbering to heal His wounds. The Kaya Titan Main Gods seemed to each have their own plans. Furthermore, with the devils and demons supporting the Rebel Gods, the balance of power was not overwhelmingly in their favor.
That sanctuary was ultimately established, named the “United Pantheon.” The Outer Gods, Rebel Gods, and the Archdukes of Hell and the Abyss jointly ascended to the Pantheon. This United Pantheon had four areas, divided among the four factions.
And after the establishment of this Pantheon, the Giant Tree World, split in two halves, also abruptly accelerated, crashing into the Kaya World with a loud boom.
Even Ace, who had picked up nearly a thousand laws in the Four-Dimensional Secret Realm, was sent spinning dizzily by this three-dimensional impact. He barely managed to stabilize His state and record the last ordinary law He had just copied. Only then did He float in the four-dimensional Void Sea, “watching” the terrifying scene on the four-dimensional level.
Various timelines actually twisted in this impact! Immortal brands actually began to loosen, and even fall directly! In the four-dimensional field of vision, the half of the Giant Tree World that was larger in “volume” than Kaya and possessed more four-dimensional particles crashed into Kaya just like that, and began to slowly merge.
Watching all this, Ace quickly found a four-dimensional particle; that was the manifestation of His sub-plane on the high-dimensional level.
(Chapter finished)
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