After staying on Miluo Island for a month, Sadius took his wife and sons and left the island together.
A year later, the little girl from the Bula clan could already speak fluently. Sadius also learned that she possessed her own true name from her inherited lineage.
The little one was named Eunice, and she displayed extraordinary talent in both the Water Elemental Laws and the Fire Elemental Laws.
However, Eunice was still too young. Sadius did not yet allow her to perform the Bula clan's secret art to split her body into two separate entities.
Day by day, time passed. To relieve young Eunice's boredom, Sadius would occasionally stop at some islands in the Starry Mist Sea, allowing her to meet more people.
Because of this, their group's flying pace was much slower.
At Sadius' suggestion, Linley and Rosso would also challenge some small-scale bandit groups. Over these years, they had made significant progress.
Especially Linley—by now, he had already merged the Profound Mysteries of Fast and Profound Mysteries of Slow of the Wind Elemental Laws to an entry-level fusion.
As for the Earth Elemental Laws, the Profound Mysteries of the Pulsing of the World and Profound Mysteries of Gravitational Space were also, under Sadius' guidance, partially comprehended and merged at an entry-level stage, though not yet fully mastered.
His displayed talent was even better than in the original story.
Sadius himself also gained many new insights during this period.
The Amethyst Space born from the fusion of four different Profound Mysteries had finally reached completion. Coupled with his fused divine power, this technique was something even Shura-level experts would find hard to withstand. Especially when combined with amethyst thorns that had been nurtured by Sadius' fused divine power—without a Sovereign Artifact specialized in material defense, most Shuras would fall within it.
Regarding the Destruction Edicts, his achievements were not as great as with the Earth Elemental Laws, but he had already merged the Essence of the Way of War with the Sword of Slaughter and Destruction and the Power of Destruction, completing a three-way fusion. The Essence of the Way of Combat also found points of resonance with other mysteries. A four-way fusion of the Destruction Edicts was just around the corner.
For the Darkness Elemental Laws, Sadius had now completed a three-way fusion of the Profound Mysteries of Dark Element, Profound Mysteries of Devouring, and Profound Mysteries of Evil, and had fully mastered the Shadow Doppelgänger Technique. The last two profound mysteries had been comprehended more than halfway but had not yet found a point of resonance. This path would likely make Darkness his earliest chance at achieving Highgod status.
As for Radius' Water Elemental Laws, the Profound Mysteries of Water Element and the Profound Mysteries of the Water Body had already found a resonance point, and he was painstakingly working to merge them. The other mysteries had made little progress so far.
Regarding the Fusion of Heterogeneous Profound Mysteries, the Apocalyptic Sword Intent was approaching perfection. Sadius had always wanted to merge the Profound Mysteries of Water Element or Water Body into it, but had yet to find any point of resonance. He knew well that fusing four heterogeneous mysteries was even harder than merging six of the same element. Achieving it was exceedingly difficult—though it would grant yet another reward of willpower when completed.
The Profound Mysteries of the Pulsing of the World of the Earth Element and the Profound Mysteries of Devouring of the Darkness Element had found a resonance point, developing into a type of control-oriented ultimate technique. However, it still required long-term cultivation to reach completion.
As for the Profound Mysteries of the Earth Element fused with the Profound Mysteries of the Power of Destruction, that had now been fully completed. Sadius was currently attempting to merge the Profound Mysteries of the Dark Element with them separately, seeking to create a new heterogeneous three-way fusion, to see what kind of effect the most fundamental mysteries of three systems would have after merging.
Sadius' harvest over this period was not small, but to take another step forward would still require a long time.
He wasn't in a rush. After all, he had only transmigrated into the Panlong Universe a mere few hundred years ago, yet he was already a Great Perfection-level expert of the Panlong Universe.
What he needed now was to have all his divine clones reach Highgod level, and then seek out a Sovereign Spark.
Beirut still had two lower Sovereign Sparks—one of Water and one of Earth. If Sadius wanted to obtain them all, he would have to reveal to Beirut that Radius was actually just one of his identities.
As long as Beirut learned that he was a four-element soul mutation, he would definitely hand over those two Sovereign Sparks without hesitation.
But what about the Destruction Edicts and Darkness Laws?
Would he have to find an opportunity to kill two lower Sovereigns?
Sadius hesitated. He was not a four-element soul mutation of Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth—so even if he refined four upper Sovereign Sparks, he would still not transcend.
Could those four lower Sovereign Sparks be enough to beat Orloff?
Orloff possessed a complete set of Sovereign artifacts, was himself at Great Perfection, had a Sovereign clone, had obtained the willpower reward for ten consecutive victories on the Planar Battlefield, and finally even developed the ultimate technique surpassing Reincarnation.
In that state, aside from the transcendent Linley, there was already no one left who could defeat Orloff.
Sadius stopped thinking about these random possibilities.
Orloff was an old good-natured man. As long as others didn't kill Augusta, he wouldn't care too much. That guy's heart was focused entirely on breaking through the universe itself.
If Sadius became a Sovereign, as long as he defeated Augusta and allowed Beirut's Sovereign clone to roam freely in the Divine Plane, that would already count as helping Beirut.
That same year, Eunice finally made her decision.
She split her body into two—one body cultivating the Fire Elemental Laws, the other body cultivating the Water Elemental Laws.
"Eunice, why not try concentrating all positive, advantageous traits for cultivation into one avatar, and put the other traits into the other avatar?"
"But I like cultivating the Water Laws, and I also like cultivating the Fire Laws. The two Laws must be separated into two avatars." Eunice sighed.
This indeed wasn't easy to resolve.
Even Orloff had split all his evil thoughts and desires into Augusta, while he himself madly trained and researched, which was why he became the strongest Sovereign of the Panlong Universe.
Augusta, relying on the massive faith support of his Sovereign Spark, never reached the Great Perfection realm even up to his death.
"In my opinion, if you split your talent evenly, the chances of reaching the peak of divinity in the future will be exceedingly slim."
In the end, Eunice still made her choice: she concentrated more positive advantages into the avatar cultivating the Water Laws, while the other traits were concentrated into the avatar cultivating the Fire Laws.
Although the advantages were focused on the Water avatar, it didn't mean the Fire avatar's talent would be poor.
In terms of raw talent, they were almost evenly matched; it was just that the Water avatar would be calmer and more focused in cultivation, without the distracting thoughts troubling her mind.
Eunice completed the split in her own room.
When the door opened, two girls walked out—one with blue hair, one with red hair.
"Father, two mothers, two brothers, I want to go cultivate," the blue-haired Eunice said quietly, gently.
"What's the point of cultivation? Father, I want Rosso and Linley to take me out to fight bandits!" the red-haired Eunice said eagerly, showing a strong desire for battle.
Sadius agreed to let the blue-haired Eunice go into peaceful cultivation.
As for the red-haired Eunice, Sadius told Linley and Rosso to take good care of her. If she wanted to fight bandits with them, she would first need to become a deity.
"It's just becoming a deity, right? No need for secluded training. I don't even need half a year—I can become a God!" the red-haired Eunice said disdainfully.
Before splitting, Eunice had already been close to becoming a deity in both the Fire and Water Laws.
For a super-race like the Bula clan, generally upon reaching adulthood, they could become Gods—no different from Divine Beasts, just lacking innate divine abilities.
Sadius was also curious—if the blue-haired and red-haired Eunice remained separated long-term, just how big would their personality differences eventually become?
A few months later, the blue-haired Eunice was the first to become a deity, comprehending the Profound Mysteries of Softness of the Water Elemental Laws.
Then the red-haired Eunice also spent some time and comprehended the Profound Mysteries of Explosion of the Fire Elemental Laws.
The two divine avatars comprehended top-tier profound mysteries, which showed just how astonishing her innate talent truly was.