"Success?"
Hearing Chu Chengzhou's shout, the pale pink Ruyi Domain spread not far away in the hall, smoothing the killing intent in her elder nephew Tang San's heart. While instructing him in music theory, Tang Yuehua turned and asked Chu Chengzhou curiously.
At the same time, Tang San also looked toward Chu Chengzhou.
"What trick is this Old Thief Chu pulling now?"
Seeing Chu Chengzhou as if waking from sudden enlightenment, Tang San felt a bit of envy and puzzlement.
Tang San did not know what exactly Chu Chengzhou had comprehended, but if he had been in sudden enlightenment for so long, he must have understood something remarkable.
Back in the morning, Chu Chengzhou's state had seemed off, as if his soul had wandered. Tang Yuehua and Tang San had both noticed.
They were not inexperienced. Knowing that Chu Chengzhou had fallen into the legendary sudden enlightenment, they had not disturbed him.
Tang Yuehua certainly would not disturb Chu Chengzhou. She wished for her little man's strength to grow stronger.
As for Tang San, though he disliked Chu Chengzhou, this "Old Thief Chu" was after all his aunt's husband. Ruining his uncle-in-law's opportunity would be bad. Breaking one of his legs in the future to vent his anger would be enough.
"Haha, of course it's, uh, what is this?"
Just as Chu Chengzhou was about to show Tang Yuehua the "Chaos soul power" formed from his fusion of four elements to thoroughly provoke his "good" nephew Tang San, he suddenly discovered that the soul power formed by fusing four elements did not seem to be the Chaos soul power he had envisioned.
What color is Chaos?
It might be colorless, or gray, or some other color. After all, Chu Chengzhou had never seen it. He was relying entirely on the wild imaginings of netizens from his previous life.
But Chu Chengzhou could swear on his dick that the color of Chaos-attribute soul power could not possibly be the interwoven yellow, blue, red, and cyan now at his fingertip.
Could it be that in the Douluo universe, earth, water, fire, and wind fused do not equal Chaos?
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Chu Chengzhou's face full of shock and surprise, Tang Yuehua walked over and asked.
"Uh, nothing much. It's just not quite what I originally expected."
Looking at the four-color interwoven fusion soul power at his fingertip, Chu Chengzhou shook his head slightly and spoke with some regret.
Though earth, water, fire, and wind did not equal Chaos, Chu Chengzhou felt regret but not real disappointment.
Chaos had not formed, but it was undeniable that after fusing four elemental soul powers, with equal quantities the burst of power would far exceed that of a single attribute.
Pointing at the wisp of four-color interwoven soul power at Chu Chengzhou's right fingertip, Tang Yuehua asked, "Is this what you were in sudden enlightenment about just now?"
"Sudden enlightenment?"
Chu Chengzhou raised a brow. This was not sudden enlightenment but using his cheat.
Still, calling it sudden enlightenment was not wrong. The process differed, but the result was the same.
"I grasped a new direction for a technique earlier, but not this. This is elemental fusion. That technique is related to elemental fusion, so they improved together."
"Elemental fusion?"
Tang Yuehua paused, not quite understanding.
"It means perfectly fusing multiple elemental-attribute soul powers, not merely using different, complementary attributes at the same time. The gap between the two is about the same as that between a Martial Soul Fusion Technique and a soul skill fusion technique."
"I see yellow, blue, red, and cyan in your soul power. So that's the fusion of earth, water, fire, and wind?"
Examining the wisp of four-element fusion soul power at Chu Chengzhou's fingertip, Tang Yuehua asked.
"Yes. In my original plan, earth, water, fire, and wind could fuse into a super-strong attribute, but the result is a bit less than ideal."
He nodded, speaking with some regret.
"Earth, water, fire, and wind fused. Is this the Four Symbols?"
Tang San pondered. He remembered that in the myths of his previous world, earth, water, fire, and wind represented the Four Symbols and were the four basic elements composing the world.
Damn it, this Old Thief Chu even wants to be an immortal?
Hmph, a toad lusting after a swan, pure delusion.
"By your reasoning, fusion soul power should be able to raise the power of your techniques?"
Tang Yuehua pressed on.
She knew much about Chu Chengzhou's strength. Besides powerful summoned beasts, he also commanded many strong self-created techniques.
Since fusion soul power could greatly boost burst strength, using fusion soul power to perform techniques would certainly produce a qualitative increase.
"Yes."
Chu Chengzhou nodded.
Beyond boosting techniques, what he valued more was fusing multi-element soul power into one powerful attribute, then using that to comprehend and master powerful laws.
Although the Douluo Star world's level was insufficient and limited a 99th-rank Limit Douluo from breaking through level 100 by ordinary means, if one could master laws, one should be able to break the world's limits, become a level-100 Spirit Master, condense a divine seat, and ascend to godhood.
After all, gods master laws, and a Spirit Master who masters laws should not be inferior to a god, especially one who grasps higher, more exalted laws.
People say laws have no hierarchy, but Chu Chengzhou knew they were graded.
It was like how, though all are human, the gap between people is often greater than the gap between a person and a dog.
Suddenly, Chu Chengzhou thought of something. The Douluo universe actually had the concept of Chaos.
In theory, the Douluo universe had a Chaos law that living beings could comprehend and master.
It seemed that a certain cheater in later generations, after becoming a god, accidentally absorbed the power of Chaos, his life-bound divine tool evolved into an ultra divine tool, and he himself advanced from a first-level main god to the rank of God King.
Seen that way, the Chaos attribute and law were far more exalted than ordinary elemental attributes and laws. Perhaps one needed fusion of all elements to transform into Chaos.
Right now he had only fused earth, water, fire, and wind, so he was naturally far from the "Chaos" of all eleven elements.
"What a pity. Looks like I can't AFK the laws."
Chu Chengzhou thought with regret.
Bear in mind, the premise for a Divine Blacksmith to forge Heavenly Forged metal was a certain comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth.
Although a Divine Blacksmith's comprehension of laws was still far from mastery, it certainly reached the rudiments of the corresponding elemental laws.
It was a pity that no laws he had comprehended appeared on the attribute panel, so he could not AFK-upgrade them.
If laws could be AFK'd, then even if his comprehension was only a trace, as long as he had a seed, no matter how hard mastering the laws was, the AFK cheat would handle it.
He had two guesses. One, his cheat was not strong enough and its cap was not high, so it could not handle something as exalted as laws.
The other, its current version was insufficient and needed another update.
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