Sihe day of Land Milianna’s wedding, five months seemed to pass in the blink of ahere were no major is that took pce, with all the ti’s major forces seeming to have goo hibernation.

  Still, this didn’t e as much of a surprise. With the opening of the Necropolis of the Gods fast approag, everyone was without a doubt doing all they could to prepare in advance, and Ad his group were no exception.

  Although he opped training hard, after learning that in the a ruins was a treasure that could heal his master’s dantian, he began to train like a madman, only ever stopping to eat and sleep.

  Still, because his prehension of both the ws and cepts of fire were ridiculously high for his level, his progress when fog on prehension had slowed siderably.

  It was only after his master temporarily returned from Beirut’s side to visit him and Arianna that he was told something that not only he but even Arianna had no idea of.

  Acc to Beirut, although it was true that the earlier one began prehending the profundities of the various ws, the smoother and easier one would find it ter on, there was only so mue could aplish at each stage.

  This was because the souls of mortals, saints, and even lower-level deities had their limits.

  If oo think of the soul as a puter and one’s prehension as data, then the prehension of profound mysteries was a seriously rge amount of data that took up rge amounts of the memory that was your soul.

  Typically, a peak mortal would at most be able to prehend a single, plete profound mystery. The average mid-stage saint would usually be able to prehend the fusion of two profound mysteries or three separate mysteries. Even the average Full God would only be able to prehend the fusion of four profound mysteries.

  Demi-Gods weren’t included in the expnation because, unlike mortals and saints whose realms could be split down into various sub-realms, deities were no longer cultivated by abs energy into their bodies.

  As soon as their prehension reached a certain level, one would automatically break through, and for Demi-Gods, as soon as they had either prehewo separate profound mysteries or the fusion of at least two mysteries, they would break through to the Full God realm.

  Ordinarily, if oo go down this path, they would have started as a mortal or, at most, a saint. And sihe average saint was capable of fusing two profound mysteries before running out of memory, upon breaking through, they would automatically skip the Demi-God realm and break straight into the Full God realm.

  Still, it wasn’t impossible for Demi-Gods to go down this path if, like Cesar, they hadn’t known about it until it was too te. But even so, they would have to either stop at the bottleneck for the pletion of their sed profound mystery or the bottleneck for their fusion of two mysteries.

  Either way, Demi-Gods could, at most, prehend the fusion of three mysteries.

  One reached their limits, uhey were able to find some way to improve the power of their soul drastically, it would be impossible to improve their prehension any further. But there were exceptions to the rule. Like Ace, Amira, and even Kong, there were those with unique bloodlines or unique bodies whose souls were especially powerful for their realm who could prehend more at an early stage, but even they had their limits.

  It was then that Aiden expihat even though Ace’s soul was equivalent to a warrior prime saint and therefore should be able to prehend the fusion of two profound mysteries, his prehension of the ws of fire didhere.

  During his enlighte, when he first ehe pocket dimension, Ace had not only fused the mysteries of the essence of fire and explosion, but he had also begun to fuse the profound mystery of explosion with the mysteries of fme-body a, respectively.

  It was clear that whilst his affinity to the ws of fire had surpassed the exceptional grade, his affinity to the profound mystery of explosion individually was unpretedly high, allowing him to easily fuse it with other ws.

  Acc to Aiden, his prehension of the profound mysteries likely brought him to near his limits, but it was his prehension of the ‘cept of fire’ that had likely pushed him to his limits.

  This caused Ace to ge focus. From that moment, instead to further his prehension of the ws of fire, he focused on raising his realm, something he had purposefully been ing, simply allowing it tress in a natural but slow manner as time went on.

  After only one month, Ace broke through to the te stages of the sixth rank as both a warrior and mage. Two months after that, he achieved another breakthrough, reag the peak of the sixth rank, at which point he discovered something truly strange.

  Before his a, he had to focus on eadividual path tress, but since awakening, it felt like both paths were slowly merging. By training ihe other seemed tress – albeit at a fra of the pace. Still, it did allow him to increase his training speed signifitly. What was more impressive was that with each breakthrough, the fusion of both paths seemed to beuch more thh.

  Whether it was Arianna or Aideher of them had heard of such a thing. her had Beirut, but he did mention it sounded like he was being more and more like a magical beast and less of a human.

  Magical beasts didn’t have two paths to cultivate; they merely cultivated the energy of their beast core, which could be used to create spell-like attacks simir to a mage or streheir bodies like the battle qi of a warrior.

  He had never heard of a human being able to traverse this path, but after versing with Aiden, he guessed it had something to do with the uniqueness of Ace’s bloodline and his being tinuously healed by the power of Milianna’s Edict of Life.

  The Edict of Life wasn’t simply known for its ability to ‘heal’ wounds. If that were really the case, it wouldn’t be much better than the healing aspects of the w of light. No, the Edict of Life was capable of both healing and nurturing.

  Beirut guessed that with Ace being in a a and his body naturally trying to restore itself to its best state whilst also being aided by the nurturing aspect of the Edict of Life, it allowed Ace’s body to begin something of an evolution.

  Hearing that, Ace couldn’t help but feel a strong sense of excitement and anticipation rise up within him. Unfortunately, aside from cultivating, there was nothing he could do to speed up the process, and as he wasn’t willing to skimp out on his prehension, who knew how long it would take before this evolution was pleted?

  After reag the peak of the sixth rank, Ace wasted no time once again utilising his master’s teique to once again [Imposing Devourment], but havi his lesson after overdoing it st time, Ace immediately stopped after breaking through to the early stage of the seventh rank.

  Upon doing so, he was immediately shocked and delighted to discover that not only had the fusion of his warrior and mage paths gotten closer once again, but the quality of his bloodline seemed to have improved as well.

  Every time he broke through a major realm, Ace always found that the potential of both his [Armament Hak and [Observation Hak had increased, giving him room for improvement, but this time, his [Observation Hak and, by extension, the power of his soul, improved to its limits without him needing to do anything, allowing him to spread his [Observation] over 8 km in its unpressed form, and 80 meters when pressed. Right now, the power of his soul had faintly surpassed that of a prime saint mage.

  As for his [Armament Hak, as a rank six warrior, Ace was able to coat all of his body at once, but if he were to use it on his on, he would o sacrifice the coating of part of his body. He always khat it would be when he was a rank seven that he would be able to coat both his body and on at the same time, but what he hadn’t expected was that, although he could choose still to coat individual parts of his body when coating it all at the same time, he, like Amira, Linley, and the other desdants of the four supreme warriors, his warrior cultivation would increase by aire realm.

  Despite only being at the early stages of the seventh rank, when using his [Armament Hak, his warrior cultivation jumped straight to the eighth rank. And because he still hadn’t begun cultivating any form of his battle-qi, his body’s natural potential was further improved, making him equal to the average magical beast in the same realm.

  Still, the thing Ace was most excited about was the improvement of his soul. Although it wasn’t by a heaven-defying amount, it still meant he was able to tinue increasing his prehension of the ws of fire.

  If, during his fight with Linley, his power only barely matched that of a peak saint, now he could be sidered fully entrenched within that sub-realm.

  Overall, Ace felt more fident than ever about his uping adventure in the Necropolis of the Gods.

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