"I could clearly sense that the elemental ocean contained endless divine power, but I could only absorb it bit by bit... This feeling is unbearable," Cao Ya said, shaking his head and sighing.
Moreover, Cao Ya once again experienced that, unlike divine avatars, once the split soul merges with the divine spark, the possibility of cultivating other elemental laws and the rules of heaven and earth is basically cut off.
At this moment, Cao Ya revealed his fire-elemental divine avatar. As he thought about it, the soul of this divine avatar tried to sense the fluctuations of the rules of death, the rules of life, or other elemental laws. However, the perception was very vague, and Cao Ya could not sense it at all.
The fluctuations of elemental laws that Cao Ya sensed before breaking through to the Saint Realm were millions of times more blurred.
It should be noted that after a cultivator advances to the Saint Realm, their soul is strengthened, making it easier to comprehend the laws and rules. Even so, the vast majority of Saint Realm cultivators remain trapped in the Saint Realm for their entire lives, unable to advance further to become gods.
It is easy to imagine how difficult it must be for someone in the Holy Realm to comprehend the rules of heaven and earth and the laws of the elements; it would be practically a pipe dream.
And this is a million times more ambiguous...
Cao Ya shook his head. A divine clone can only comprehend the corresponding laws or rules. If it tries to comprehend other laws, it is basically cutting off its own path and actively extinguishing any hope of becoming stronger.
Because while a divine avatar cannot sense other laws or rules, it can sense the laws it belongs to a thousand times more clearly than when it was not yet a god.
It's one thing to sense something clearly, but quite another to comprehend it.
The path of cultivating these elemental laws and the rules of heaven and earth becomes increasingly difficult as one progresses.
Cao Ya already possesses profound cultivation experience in the three elements of water, wind, and darkness, and his understanding of them is quite deep.
"Hmm, let's strengthen my body first."
Cao Ya clearly felt that compared with the divine body of his divine avatar, his own physical body was much weaker.
Of course, this refers to the divine bodies of the four intermediate-level gods' avatars, not the divine bodies of the three lower-level gods' avatars.
Because of the nourishment and tempering of the mid-level divine power of water, wind, and darkness, the physical body of this being has been improved quite a bit. Even if it is not as good as the divine body of a lower-level god, it is not far off.
However, how could Cao Ya refuse if he could improve further?
whoosh whoosh~~~
His fire-elemental divine avatar, controlling the wisps of divine power drawn from the elemental ocean, began to integrate them into various parts of his main body. The effects of mid-level divine power were indeed extraordinary; Cao Ya's body was slowly undergoing a transformation. His muscles, blood, skin, and internal organs were all improving and constantly approaching the level of a lower-level divine body.
However, this transformation ended in a relatively short period of time.
"Although the time was short, my body has improved to a higher level," Cao Ya murmured.
He then switched his divine avatars, and the lightning god avatar, earth god avatar, and light god avatar appeared in turn. Although these three were only lower-level divine avatars, the power of lightning, earth, and light still had a beneficial effect on his main body.
Although the mid-level divine power of the four mid-level divine avatars had already been tempered, the three lower-level divine powers, even after being tempered and transformed, only slightly improved his body by one level.
But in the end, he estimated and judged that even though his true form was at the Saint Realm, his physical body was no less than that of a lower-level god.
To be precise, Cao Ya's true form, while seemingly at the Saint Realm, is actually close to the level of a lower-level god in terms of combat power.
Simply achieving the level of a lower god through physical means is not enough.
There is still a gap in areas such as divine power and the profound mysteries of laws.
Guxu
He's at most a demigod.
Of course, in the Panlong universe, there is no such thing as a demigod, because the comprehension of the profound laws is judged by the rules of heaven and earth, and the cultivation in the divine realm is what people value.
Even in the highest and divine planes, lower and middle gods are not worth the attention of important figures; only the upper gods have a slightly higher status.
Only those extremely powerful high gods are the ones who stand at the pinnacle of the divine realm.
"Of all those versions of myself, none of them actually focused solely on cultivating the physical body and refining the skin and flesh. Even those versions of myself who practiced martial arts, after achieving some success, embarked on the path of comprehending the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. This was no longer about cultivating the physical body, but rather involved the path of laws and rules." Cao Ya said softly, hoping that a Cao Ya like that would appear in the future, specializing in cultivating the physical body, able to shatter the heavens with a flick of his finger, and crush the universe with a single step.
In the desolate mountain cave, Cao Ya continued his cultivation. His seven divine avatars and the Holy Domain Main Body were all cultivating, comprehending different elemental laws, understanding profound mysteries, or fusing profound mysteries.
The reason why some mid-level gods can rival high-level gods is that, like Cao Ya, even disregarding other Cao Yas, he is still able to do so.
This is because he had already integrated some profound mysteries at the intermediate god stage, and had begun cultivating at the advanced god stage ahead of time. Naturally, Cao Ya's combat power was not limited by intermediate god abilities, and ordinary advanced gods could not defeat him.
The most obvious example is the Water Law, which has six profound mysteries, such as the Water Element, Water Body Technique, the Mystery of Circular Softness, the Illusion of Mist, and the Sharpness of Ice. He has fully comprehended and integrated the first three. He has comprehended about 70-80% of the latter three and integrated about 40-50%. Although the first and last three mysteries have not yet been integrated with each other, his strength is still one or two minor levels higher than that of an ordinary high god.
Adkins, among the higher gods, isn't considered one of the most powerful.
Otherwise, the Gobada Plane Prison would have six kings instead of five.
Such a material plane anti-plane prison, like Qinghuo, has reached the Great Perfection realm, which is extremely rare, perhaps even unique. Cao Ya guessed that the other four kings should be upper-middle level gods.
After all, it cannot compare to the vast and boundless supreme plane and the plane of gods.
However, through arduous training, Cao Ya made great progress in his understanding of the laws of water.
Other Cao Yas also gained insights into this, such as Cao Ya's "Kunpeng Treasure Technique" from "Perfect World," Cao Ya's Water Path from "Nine Cauldrons Chronicle," and Cao Ya's "Heavenly River Orthodox Method" from "Immortal Gourd." These techniques greatly influenced Cao Ya, who made rapid progress in the water-based laws. Even though he hadn't fully grasped the three profound mysteries, he improved rapidly. Within a few years, he reached the final bottleneck. If he could break through it, he could directly surpass it and become a high-level god.
Of course, this kind of situation, where one is stuck at a bottleneck and remains untouched for billions of years without being able to break through, is commonplace in the endless planes.
Cao Ya also dared not be careless in the slightest.
Several more years passed. Although he did not enter the system space during that time, Cao Ya's progress was still quite obvious. He was only one step away from mastering the water system law.
On this day, feeling restless after a long period of quiet, he left the desolate mountain cave and wandered around the nameless wilderness.
It may be called an unnamed, desolate mountain, but that's only true for Cao Ya.
In fact, due to the great changes in the past few years, Cao Ya's achievement of creating four divine avatars shocked the world. After the news spread, this desolate mountain was hailed as "Seven Gods Mountain," referring to Cao Ya, who had achieved the astonishing feat of creating seven divine avatars.
However, Cao Ya was unaware of this matter.
Who would dare to disturb the secluded dwelling place of the gods?
The sun was shining brightly overhead, and the sky was cloudless.
Cao Ya strolled through the Seven Gods Mountain, wandering aimlessly to release his pent-up emotions, when suddenly—
He looked up in surprise and gazed south.
"Hmm? It's that guy Qinghuo..."
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