Time seemed to pass by slowly.
But in the blink of an eye, half a year had already passed.
Austin concentrated on comprehending the original chaotic law of earth in the secret room.
He had no idea how many days had gone since he entered the secret room.
One day, Flora suddenly appeared in the secret room.
Sensing her presence, Austin opened his eyes and saw her standing near him.
"Miss Flora!" he called out in surprise.
"I got this Enlightenment Stone from one of my friends.
Maybe you could use it to comprehend the laws.
I'll lend it to you for a while," Flora offered.
With a wave of her long sleeve, an old gray slate appeared in front of Austin.
However, before Austin could even express his gratitude, Flora had already vanished into thin air.
"Thank you, Miss Flora!"
Austin said, both delighted and grateful.
'We just met by chance, yet Miss Flora has always been so nice to me, ' he thought to himself.
Austin furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
He didn't know why Flora would help him more than once, but he could feel that she meant him no
harm.
So he didn't try to figure out the reason Flora was so good to him.
He then turned to look at the slate she had lent him.
"This Enlightenment Stone is supposed to help one better comprehend things, right?
It's from Miss Flora after all. It must be a precious magic treasure,"
Austin murmured to himself as he carefully observed the simple slate before him.
Although he didn't know anything about Flora's strength or her background, he knew that she might be
a remarkable figure.
Besides, she was the owner of the Infinite City. That alone should explained a lot.
He cleared up his mind as he stepped in front of the Enlightenment Stone and sat on top of it.
He then closed his eyes and went into meditation. The Enlightenment Stone now began working its
magic.
Austin sensed his intelligence rising to hundreds of times greater.
He had never felt this fantastic before.
More importantly, he could now learn and digest things better.
With the Chaotic Ice Lotus, the Enlightenment Stone, and the Chaotic Heaven Body that he had all
acquired, he could comprehend the original chaotic law of earth even better.
Three months later, Austin opened his eyes as he smiled pleasantly.
"I've finally mastered the original chaotic law of earth
though I'd just entered the Rudimentary Stage.
Well, what's important is I mastered another original chaotic law,"
he muttered while gushing over his latest achievement.
"However, I feel like I could have a much better understanding of it,"
he added, seeming to wonder what to do next.
Austin decided to close his eyes again and continue to work on the original chaotic law of earth.
After that, half a year passed.
"I have entered the Intermediate Stage!"
Austin's loud and joyful voice resounded in the secret room.
It took him only six months to reached the Intermediate Stage of cultivating the original chaotic law of
earth.
"If the governing gods discovered how fast he made a progress in cultivating the original chaotic law,
they would definitely be jealous," Flora said.
She had traced Austin's progress cultivating in the original chaotic law of earth through her spiritual
sense.
In fact, Austin's cultivation speed took her by great surprise.
"I think I'll stop here for the time being.
If I continue to cultivate, I don't think I can make any more progress,"
Austin convinced himself and stood up.
'I spent over a year to cultivate in seclusion.
I've already learned a lot during that period, ' he thought, recalling his overall progress.
"Now I have mastered two original chaotic laws,"
Austin said as he grinned proudly.
Just then, Flora showed up in the secret room once again.
"Congratulations! You have mastered the original chaotic law of earth,"
Flora commended with admiration in her voice.
"Thank you!"
Austin responded quickly.
With a wave of her sleeve, Flora took back the Enlightenment Stone.
She had just lent it to Austin and didn't give it to him.
"I will now teach you a secret skill about using the law powers.
It is a forbidden technique of the ancient times, and many governing gods could only dream of
obtaining it,"
Flora told him in a low voice, looking at him with a serious expression.
She then pointed a finger towards Austin's head and put a spiritual soul message into his Soul Sea.
"You can focus on practicing that. Then, you will grow stronger once you master it."
After saying those words, Flora disappeared again.
"Thank you, Miss Flora!"
Austin looked at where Flora had just vanished, and his eyes glimmered with gratitude.
'Although she doesn't talk much and appears to be indifferent, she is really nice to me, ' he thought to
himself as he was almost getting curious about Flora's motives.
"I guess I should continue my cultivation now."
Austin shrugged and sat cross-legged once more.
He began to go through the spiritual soul message in his Soul Sea.
The secret skill Flora had imparted to him was the Overlapping Law Skill.
This technique had two functions.
First, one could apply the original chaotic law to all the martial arts skills, including the ones related to
the spiritual soul.
In other words, one could attach the original chaotic law to all kinds of martial arts skills while he
confronted the enemy, making his strike much more potent.
Moreover, in actual combat, it could catch the opponent off guard.
Second, one could mix different original chaotic laws using the Overlapping Law Skill.
It was difficult to combine different laws with different attributes.
However, the Overlapping Law Skill could enable one to do that.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been called the forbidden skill.
The combined power of different original chaotic laws was amazing.
When the original chaotic laws mixed, it would produce power several times or even dozens of times
stronger than an individual original chaotic law.
For example, Austin had already mastered the two original chaotic laws of snow and of earth.
If he used the Overlapping Law Skill to combine those two laws, he could then produce a multiplied
power.
"This skill is brilliant!"
After studying the Overlapping Law Skill several times in detail, Austin was both excited and anxious to
master it.
With no time to waste, he instantly started to practice the new skill.
Half a year later, Austin finally opened his eyes.
"I have mastered the Overlapping Law Skill!" he exclaimed as he raised his fists.
"Well, that ends my training.
I have been cultivating in seclusion for almost two years. It's time to go out."
Austin stretched out his limbs, straightened out his clothes, and walked out of the secret room.
"Our leader has finally finished his cultivation!"
The divine gods of the alliance had cultivated in seclusion as well. When they sensed that Austin had
finished his cultivation, they stopped cultivating and swarmed towards Austin.
Austin had been in seclusion for a span of two years, and so had they.
In fact, some ill-tempered divine gods had already grown impatient.
In such a turbulent time, only a few of them could focus on cultivating.
"Sir, the situation has become even worse in the Sea of Chaos,"
one of the several divine gods responsible for collecting information reported to Austin.
"What happened? Fill me in,"
Austin commanded as he looked at him with full attention.
The several divine gods shared Austin with the information they had gathered, going one after another.
"The Fallen Immortal World?
There is such a forbidden area in the Sea of Chaos?"
Austin asked, looking puzzled.
"Yes.
No one had ever heard of this place before. It suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
But it was said that the creatures in this forbidden place are incredibly strong.
Even the leader of the Beast City avoided messing with it,"
a divine god narrated as he recollected all the information.
'The Fallen Immortal World... Maybe it's just a coincidence, '
Austin pondered for a moment.
There was once a dangerous and mysterious place called the Fallen Immortal World that could be
found on the Divine Continent.
Numerous divine gods were said to have lost their lives there.
Moreover, the Fallen Immortal World was not located at a certain place. It was movable and had
traveled through different worlds.
Back then, it suddenly appeared in the East Mainland of the Divine Continent, attracting a large number
of cultivators to search it for treasures.
Austin was one of those who did.
But soon, the Fallen Immortal World mysteriously disappeared and no one ever saw it on the Divine
Continent again.
When Austin grew stronger later on, he tried to look for the Fallen Immortal World for a long time but he
didn't find it.
Unexpectedly, he was now told that a forbidden place which was also called the Fallen Immortal World
had been spotted in the Sea of Chaos.
Although he was surprised at the news, he didn't think that the Fallen Immortal World he had entered
on the Divine Continent and the Fallen Immortal World that suddenly appeared in the Sea of Chaos
were one and the same.
He concluded that maybe the two places just happened to share the same name.
After all, the Divine Continent was so insignificant compared to the Sea of Chaos.
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