In the real world, Xiang Yu sat in deep meditation.
He was trying to use the absolute source concept from his system reset combined with the absolute end concept that his soul was submerged in to see if he could trigger a breakthrough in his absolute source law.
In the spiritual sea, Xiang Yu’s soul had ventured far deep into the absolute end concept.
He felt as though his soul was falling apart, but he persisted. He thought to himself that with every breakthrough, he needed to go even deeper into the end so he could take full advantage of the breakthrough.
At that moment, the reset was already happening. Lots of energy was pouring into his soul, forcing it to breakthrough while being destroyed constantly by the absolute end. Just like before with the bloodline battle, the soul continuously got destroyed and regenerated, all of this boosting its power even more.
This process continued until slowly, he began getting used to the destruction and the energy pouring in was beginning to settle. It seemed he had reached the limit of this reset. He smiled - it was a success.
His soul suddenly exploded in energy. The energy wave instantly established void on the absolute end. The energy wave spread and established void in an area of about a million miles radius.
Xiang Yu looked at the system screen before him:
[Soul: Ancient (500,000/5,000,000)]
Just like before, he had skipped a level.
His soul had finally caught up to his qi cultivation after being behind for so long.
He thought of the levels of the soul above adult stage - elder, ancient, transcendence, and perfect. These corresponded to the realms from Void Traversing to Mahayana. Though it wasn’t exactly true to say this, as soul cultivation was a thing of its own, just like body cultivation.
One just needed the mind level to house the soul.
Speaking of, above this was immortal, celestial, and finally eternal. Xiang Yu thought to himself that he needed to raise his mind level quickly if he wanted to keep using his trick of skipping soul realms.
Otherwise, his spiritual sea might not be able to handle it.
He then closed the system and looked around him. He waved his hand, layering space, time and chaos in the established void. He thought to himself that the entire genuine space was now around two million miles across.
Before, he was expanding genuine space at around a thousand miles an hour, but now, he could expand it at around a hundred thousand miles an hour. At this rate, his mind should be able to be easily pushed to the limit and advance to immortal level.
This should buy him some time to upgrade the soul and expand it even more, causing the mind to also advance.
"Looks like it’ll be a long time before I have to worry about the soul catching up," he thought.
...
In the real world, Xiang Yu had a strained expression.
After some time, he slowly opened his eyes. He had a confused expression. He then sighed. His plan had failed.
He had planned to clash his absolute source concept with the one in the system to get some exp, but it seemed he had failed to account for something huge. The absolute source in the system and the one he had were in completely different realms. The one he had was a law and the system was a source level concept. He didn’t even stand a chance and almost got his law devoured.
"It seems I can’t exploit the system like this," he thought.
Even so, it wasn’t a complete loss. His expression brightened as he looked at his absolute source law in his system:
[Absolute Source Law: Awakening (1,500,000/10,000,000)]
Instead of trying to exploit the system, if he worked hard like a normal person and tried to understand it as god intended, he really might’ve doubled it again. Too bad he had spent most of the time trying to exploit it than actually studying.
Well, he had learned his lesson. Next time, he would pay more attention.
The system worked under the original absolute source concept that was at the source level, so if he studied it, even just a little glimpse could improve his law by insane levels. It was just that his enlightenment was simply too low to understand anything.
When looking at the original source level concept, he felt like a no-brain primate. He couldn’t even compare the difference. Even when using the enlightenment chance from his truth seeker profession, he still felt lost.
He let out a long sigh. Well, he’d get there eventually, he thought.
He decided that now that his mastery of absolute source had increased, he should try creating laws to see his limit.
Currently, if he counted with the normal law standard, he had about three percent law mastery in absolute source and about half a percent mastery in creation law. He decided not to waste this chance bringing creation to three percent but do another law instead.
This time, he chose void. After all, it was the best damage dealer he had, alongside gravity of course, but he decided to take it a step at a time.
He felt the void concept being remade inside him. As he watched the reaction, he made sure to absorb everything he was seeing without missing a thing. In just a few seconds, he felt it click into place.
[Void Law: Awakening (1,550,000/10,000,000)]
It was really just as he had thought - he was able to bring laws to the level of his absolute source law. It had even added a few points, meaning it had advanced a little as he created a law with it.
He felt his body, and he wasn’t even tired. He felt he could do another one. He instantly chose gravity.
Just like before, he paid close attention, watching as the gravity law was slowly remade from scratch, only stopping at the point:
[Gravity Law: Awakening (1,750,000/10,000,000)]
He was surprised by this. It had advanced even further ahead.
It was then that he realized what was going on. As it was making the void law, although it was advancing, it wasn’t by much. It only managed to have a huge boost in experience after completely creating the law, by which time the law was already completed and thus couldn’t get the benefits.
But now that he had created a new one, this new one got all the benefits from the earlier advancement.
"Wait, does that mean...it advanced again?" He quickly summoned his system.
[Absolute Source Law: Awakening (2,000,000/10,000,000)]