Death... and me

Chapter 3692: Zangeshu’s Part

Over twenty continents away, Zangeshu found himself in the middle of a bunch of ruins. All around him, several experts didn’t let any details escape their eyes, all of them looking for the same thing. Around a year ago, news of an inheritance emerging spread in the surrounding continents, and that caught the attention of many experts, most of them in the Space-Time Realm.

At the moment, Zangeshu is in the Middle Stage of the Space-Time Realm. Yes, after he surpassed the twins’ group, he reached the Space-Time Realm first. However, the twins eventually caught up to him once again.

Why? Obviously, it was the laws! Laws were, without a doubt, the hardest and most time-consuming part of the Space-Time and Divinity Realms. Comprehension during the Space-Time Realm, merging during the Divinity Realm.

You couldn’t look down on Zangeshu. Just a little bit over seven hundred years was enough for him to go from the Initial Stage to the Middle Stage. As an expert with Lightning Element Affinity, his laws were also Lightning-based.

However, would Zangeshu settle for a single law? Especially now that he has become a Formations and Blacksmithing maniac? Of course not! So, Zangeshu did what one would expect of him: the comprehension of another type of laws! Since Lightning was an extreme yang element, Zangeshu also focused on Fire Laws and Element.

It goes without saying that without that affinity, comprehending those laws would be even harder. But... he had a trump card: Roan!

During those 910 years of cultivation, there was a moment when Zangeshu asked Roan for help. He wanted Roan to concoct Laws Pills for Lightning and Fire. Roan obviously didn’t want to stop cultivating, so he got Zangeshu to do everything else and only call him when ready.

Back then, Roan used the help of another World Swallowing Cedar to research the Wood and Absorption Laws. He needed someone who had already comprehended all the sub-laws of both Wood and Absorption laws. This time it was no different. Roan made Zangeshu look for two experts who had already comprehended all sublaws of Fire and Lightning.

Zangeshu did as told. He found two Peak Stage Space-Time Realm experts and paid for their help. Zangeshu even brought them near where the twins were cultivating.

For three years, Roan put a pause in his cultivation and focused on learning about those two experts’ laws. The stronger Zangeshu was, the better it was for them as well, so it was worth the pause at least.

Both experts were more than happy to help with that research. Why? Because not only were they paid a bunch of high-level Divine Stones, they were both promised a pill for each element. It was similar to the agreement Roan had with the other World Swallowing Cedar.

Once the research into those laws was over, Roan spent another two years devising the pill recipe. It was good that Roan had a pretty well-developed Herb Garden. Most of the herbs necessary he got from there. As for the remaining ones... Well, Zangeshu had to go out and fetch them himself.𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Zangeshu was helped by the two guys, who had already received the Divine Stones payment, so they didn’t have much to lose there. They returned with the materials over those two years for Roan to work on the pill recipe. Finally, the recipe was concluded, and Roan concocted the two pills.

The Fire Laws one was named the Fire Ascension Pill.

The Lightning Laws went by Storm Sight Pill.

Each one of those experts took a pill, and soon came to understand that it was the best decision of their lives. Just like the twins’ group, it became many times easier to feel the laws in the surroundings. Those two asked if Roan could make more, but Roan explained to them that more than a single pill made absolutely no difference. In the end, Roan left with Zangeshu, and those two could do nothing but leave as well. Zangeshu never saw them again. Well, it was very unlikely they were unhappy with the results. High payment and a life-changing transformation.

Zangeshu took both the pills as well, and the Lightning Laws truly became a lot easier to comprehend. The only problem was the Fire Laws. The pill helped without a doubt. But it was still nothing compared to comprehending Lightning Laws.

So, long story short, most of the time Zangeshu took to go from the Initial Stage to the Middle Stage was used to comprehend the Fire Laws instead of the Lightning Laws. Of course, he was still in a monumentally better position than normal experts at the same level, definitely many times better than normal Fire Element Affinity experts. After all, to reach the Middle Stage in that amount of time was already ridiculously fast. Zangeshu’s Cultivation Technique, the one Roan tailored for him, also helped a lot in this regard. Roan even made a few adjustments to the technique to accommodate Zangeshu’s decision to pursue the Fire Element and Laws as well.

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Back in the ruins...

There were no Divinity Realm Experts around. That’s because the Inheritance was from an expert in the Initial Stage of the Divinity Realm himself. It didn’t seem very enticing to other experts in that same realm, so much so that the Space-Time Realm experts present were pretty much only in the Initial or Middle Stage. The two strongest ones were in the Late Stage, and no Peak Stage could be found.

Truth be told, Zangeshu didn’t have much interest in this guy’s inheritance. With the amount of Divine Stones in his hands, he was richer than several inheritances of this level, and that was just the meager amount he brought with him. You truly couldn’t look down on the fortune the twins’ group acquired in the Golden Palace. Each Spatial Ring acquired in there was likely from a top and renowned expert in his or her own Universe... and the twins’ group got hundreds!

However, there was one thing that caught Zangeshu’s attention. The name of the expert was Nobanquei, a Demon Beast of an extinct race in this Universe. His race, the Iron Vein Crawler Worm, was known for accumulating several types of Divine Metal in its body. The nurturing of the metals made them lighter, stronger, and above all, malleable.

For the other experts around, those metals didn’t seem of much importance. They wanted to Treasures, Divine Stones, and other items accumulated by this expert. In Zangeshu’s case, however, that metal was literally the only reason for him to be here.