According to the system, the law had six stages of mastery.
Law Awakening, Law Resonance, Law Integration, and Law Manifestation - these were the initial stages of law mastery, with each stage containing twenty-five percent of total law mastery. Law Awakening, for example, constituted one to twenty-five percent law mastery. Resonance was twenty-six to fifty percent, and so on.
After reaching peak Manifestation, one would have one hundred percent law mastery. According to the empress, this was known as the God Realm, where one could do anything freely by mobilizing the law as if it was an extension of themselves.
After that came Law Transcendence. This was exactly what it sounded like - for someone to reach this stage, they had to transcend their law. The empress didn’t have any information on this, which made sense.
Transcending one’s law seemed almost impossible. The progression below the God Realm was all about understanding the law, so to suddenly change to transcending the law - where would one even start when law was everything they knew?
Most would try learning multiple laws.
This is what the empress said she had done. After all, two laws should be able to transcend one, right? Although she was able to overpower her law with other laws combined, she still didn’t see a path to a higher realm and thus assumed this was the limit.
"Maybe senior sister did, but I’m not too sure," the empress thought to herself. Now that she thought about it, although she was hailed as the greatest genius of the human race, how come she had never once beaten her senior sister? She sighed. Maybe she was thinking too much.
Xiang Yu’s partition watched her expression, wondering what she was thinking about.
"Anyway, about the sage," Xiang Yu’s partition began.
Back in Xiang Yu’s main body, he still held Li Yao firmly with his tentacles as he analyzed the knowledge he had received from the system.
After the Law Transcendence realm was the Law Genesis realm. This was the final realm. It wasn’t necessarily a realm related to the law, but rather an ability that came with perfecting the Law Transcendence realm. When you completely transcend a law, you become able to learn laws easily by just having a vague concept and even able to make completely new laws.
The benefit of this was that when you made a completely new law, as the law maker, you automatically transcended it.
Xiang Yu smiled widely. His absolute source was kind of similar to Law Genesis. Did this mean that if he created a law right now, he would instantly become a sage? After all, transcending a law was probably the requirement for becoming a sage.
He looked at his absolute source law and sighed. This was probably impossible.
Just the amount of energy needed to advance a domain to a law was so great - he couldn’t even begin to imagine how massive the amount required to create a law from scratch would be. Even if he spent all his energy a million times over, it might not even be close.
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After analyzing the knowledge about law progression, he moved on to the reset screen.
His body refining was increasing quite fast after discovering internal energy and establishing a core.
Surprisingly, with internal energy, he could circulate his internal energy throughout his body, stimulating it and forcing it to grow much more quickly.
Of course, the most benefits came from sparring with his wife.
Now he was at the fifty-second layer of refining - he couldn’t wait to see how strong he was in the simulation.
He looked at his mind stat with pride. It had gained double the amount from before.
As his soul grew, he was spreading more and more genuine space in the spiritual sea, causing stress on the mind which forced it to push even harder.
Before, he could expand up to a mile an hour, but now he could expand ten miles an hour.
Combined with his absolute source law that made it easier to interact with the absolute end concept, he could expand up to a thousand miles an hour. And this could scale as he got stronger too, meaning it wouldn’t be long before he could establish his first genuine star.
The current genuine space was roughly forty-five thousand miles across, barely a fraction of the ten million he wanted for establishing his genuine star. Well, with his growth rate, it wouldn’t be long before he overcame this.
His soul had reached past the halfway point and would breakthrough to the next realm in the next reset. Xiang Yu smiled. This was quite interesting, he wondered if he’d be able to skip the elder stage just like before and go right to the ancient stage.
He also had another idea he wanted to try out.
During reset, he wanted to concentrate his absolute source and time the moment of his system activating. If his theory was correct, he might be able to double his exp right after it doubles.
Well, just for the absolute source law, that is. But that was only if his theory was correct, so he tempered his excitement.
He thought to himself that if he was successful, then he could really push this absolute source law to its limits. From what he had seen, as long as he pushed the absolute source law, nothing else mattered.
For the other laws, he could just use the absolute source law to increase their mastery automatically - killing three thousand birds with one stone.
Xiang Yu looked at his spiritual root. It was advancing quite slowly.
He smiled, but this was going to end today, he thought. Today, he was going to finalize his research. With that, he was going to make it advance at a rate never before seen.
He didn’t believe it would take him over a week to get to the celestial stage. He was finally about to catch up to his junior sister in terms of talent. And he had already caught up to her in terms of power - the story was finally his.
"Hehe... hehehe... hehehehehehehe," he began chuckling to himself like a madman.
Behind him, Li Yao looked at him. "Senior brother, it’s too tight," she thought. Then her expression became even crazier than Xiang Yu’s.
"But I like it. Hahahahahahahahahahahah!"