After some time, Xiang Yu’s Transcendent Dao Body finally entered the fourth level.
He received the usual benefits - increased base physical strength and body optimizations for all types of combat. He also gained greater resistance to Heavenly Dao restrictions.
His body cultivation had now reached the eighty-fourth layer. He had broken through twice during the Tribulation realm breakthrough and another two times after the Transcendent Dao Body breakthrough.
His current base physical strength was also quite high, making his combined physical strength even more insane.
But he wasn’t done yet.
A few minutes later, his Transcendent Dao Body entered the fifth realm, increasing his base physical strength even more while optimizing his body once again. His resistance to Heavenly Dao restrictions improved further, and his body refining advanced by another two layers.
This pattern repeated again when it reached the sixth layer a while later.
When the Transcendent Dao Body finally entered the seventh layer, his base physical power increased greatly and he received even more optimizations. He felt as though his physical body had evolved completely.
His regeneration increased dramatically, and his soul regeneration finally caught up to his body’s instantaneous healing. He also gained some resistance to Heavenly Dao phenomena. He didn’t completely understand this new ability but assumed it was an advanced form of Heavenly Dao restriction.
His body was now at the ninetieth layer of body refining.
He was beginning to feel his strength going wild once again. This was probably because of all the increases in his base power being amplified multiple times over by the refining process.
At the same time, he felt his War God Body suddenly begin to upgrade.
He had almost forgotten about this. Since he had acquired the Three Thousand Laws, he also received the Law of Combat, meaning the War God Body had to catch up just like his Transcendent Dao Body.
He quickly checked his system to see if this would happen with his Stellar Constellation Physique as well. If it really did, he truly might ascend. Sadly, it seemed that wasn’t happening.
"So that’s not part of the Three Thousand Laws?" he wondered aloud.
After some thought, he came up with an explanation.
The Three Thousand Laws weren’t really three thousand - there were practically unlimited numbers of them. The three thousand were just the basic laws from which others were born.
Like from Yin-Yang, the ten elements are born. From Order, Fate is born. They were just the fundamental concepts, and there were many others.
If he wanted to recreate all these concepts, it would probably take trillions of times the energy he currently had. If he wanted to upgrade the Stellar Constellation Physique, he could either figure out the concept it represented or just follow the traditional path.
Besides, it was already upgrading quite fast as is. In fact, it was about to get even faster as all the recent upgrades contributed greatly to its advancement due to energy optimizations, recovery, enhancement, and everything else.
Actually, he had already restored all the stars he had burned before and made even more. He currently had ten thousand stars.
He was surprised by this number and quickly checked the system.
His mind had actually advanced to the Immortal realm without him noticing.
Due to the strain on his mind from the formation of the genuine world, his mind was pushed beyond its limits and advanced. The pain had been so intense, but he was obsessed with the experience from the pain, so he didn’t even bother to check where it was coming from.
He just thought of it as more experience.
...
After the mind upgrade to immortal grade, his imaginary space in the spiritual sea had expanded from a hundred million miles across to a hundred billion miles across.
He estimated this to be about the size of a few solar systems - it was really insane. With this new distance, he could fit even more stars, but he had decided to settle for the ten thousand, opting for size rather than numbers.
As he was thinking about this, his War God Body finished its breakthrough.
It granted him boosts to his base physical strength and engraved all sorts of advanced combat styles into his muscle memory. At the moment, he was at the ninety-first layer of body refining. The sun had already been up for a few hours now, and he was still not done.
This day was really going to be the day he ascends.
He decided to first spend his energy that had been restored to upgrade his laws.
When he created the Three Thousand Laws, though they gave little experience because they were just being created at the smallest level, when all the experience was combined, it was nothing to scoff at. He looked at his Absolute Source Law.
[Absolute Source Law: Integration (10,000/1,000,000,000)]
He had already entered the Integration realm in the law.
He couldn’t even believe what was happening.
Just a few hours earlier, he was only in the Awakening realm.
He calculated how much energy it would take to get all the Three Thousand Laws to the Integration stage. If he could do that, then he would probably jump straight to Manifestation.
But after calculating, he estimated that even after burning all ten thousand stars, he might not necessarily be able to manage it. As the realms increased, the required energy increased too. Just creating the three thousand to Awakening realm had taken about sixty stars. For Resonance it would take even more, and for Integration, it wasn’t even comparable.
He decided to advance his combat laws first since he only had the energy to advance ten laws. He didn’t want to burn stars at the moment as something huge was coming. Besides, burning stars was taking his Stellar Physique so far back that he wanted to avoid that.
For the ten, he picked Void, Gravity, Space, Time, Creation, Chaos, Strength, Speed, Defense, and Combat. He advanced all of them to the Integration stage.
[Absolute Source Law: Integration (16,000,000/1,000,000,000)]
He looked at the experience. It was great, but he had barely made a dent in the total amount.
He really needed to upgrade the entire Three Thousand Laws to Integration to even have a chance of entering the Manifestation stage.
As he was thinking about this, he felt his bodies begin to move once again.
It was the Chaos Body and War God Body - they were upgrading to level eight. It was just like he had theorized before. Level eight corresponded to Integration. Since the Laws of Chaos and Combat had entered Integration, the bodies were beginning to catch up.