Looking merely at the color revealed, the unknown soul power formed by fusing Five Elements soul power with space soul power appeared similar to light attribute soul power.
But Chu Chengzhou clearly sensed the difference between them. Light attribute soul power gave off a bright, radiant aura, while this unknown fused soul power evoked a feeling as though it could create and transform all things.
In terms of grade hierarchy, this fused white soul power stood above both Four Symbols and Five Elements.
This was only natural—after all, this white soul power was formed by fusing the Five Elements soul power with the prestigious space soul power, so its grade naturally surpassed Five Elements.
After some thought, Chu Chengzhou again attempted to fuse wind, lightning, light, darkness, and time five elemental soul powers one by one with this unknown white attribute soul power.
Unsurprisingly, the fusions succeeded—but the Laws section of the attribute panel showed no changes.
"Ah~, so frustrating!"
Sighing helplessly, Chu Chengzhou with no clear direction lay back on his reclining chair, recalling novels from his previous life that contained the term "Chaos." Perhaps he could find some reference there.
Though worlds differed, and elements that could fuse into Chaos weren't necessarily identical—many worlds considered earth-water-fire-wind fusion as Chaos—there still might be some reference value.
Recalling one brain-expanding novel after another from his past life, Chu Chengzhou suddenly remembered an almighty physique described by a certain red-haired ancestor whose later years were inevitably ominous: the Chaos Physique.
Chaos Physique—able to evolve all things, yet also capable of annihilating all things—a physique favored by heaven and earth...
Immediately, Chu Chengzhou raised his right hand. A thread of white unknown attribute soul power—fused from Five Elements and space—appeared at his index fingertip.
If this thread of white soul power that seemed to create all things was the power of law—couldn't it evolve all things?
"Evolving all things is Great Creation; annihilating all things is Great Destruction. Now I have Creation—but where is Destruction?"
Gazing at the thread of soul power he had named "Creation" glowing at his right fingertip, Chu Chengzhou suddenly had an epiphany. He considered the remaining basic elemental attributes out of the eleven: wind, lightning, light, darkness, and time—after excluding metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and space which could secondarily fuse into Creation.
Thinking this way, threads of wind, lightning, light, darkness, and time five elemental soul powers appeared at his left fingertip, then fused together to form a soul power interwoven with cyan, purple, white, black, and gray radiance.
"No, no—this isn't right..."
Seeing the five-element fused soul power display five-colored interweaving, Chu Chengzhou realized his mistake. He first dissipated the five-element fused soul power at his fingertip, then again released separate threads of wind, lightning, light, darkness, and time five elemental soul powers.
Next, wind, lightning, light, and darkness four elemental soul powers fused—transforming into a black-purple soul power.
Simultaneously, following the law progress bar he had named Creation: [Creation (0.1%)], another [??? (0.1%)] appeared.
But this black-purple four-element fused soul power wasn't his final goal. On the foundation of this black-purple soul power fused from wind, lightning, light, and darkness, Chu Chengzhou again fused a thread of time soul power.
Instantly, the black-purple unknown soul power merged with the gray time soul power, transforming into a black soul power radiating annihilation energy.
Unsurprisingly, another [??? (0.1%)] appeared in the Laws section of the attribute panel.
"Just as I thought!"
Watching the two unknown law progress bars appear sequentially in the Laws section, a smile couldn't help but form at the corners of Chu Chengzhou's mouth.
Chaos evolves all things, yet can annihilate all things—possessing two opposite characteristics: one is Creation, the other is Destruction.
Eleven basic elemental attributes—metal, wood, water, fire, earth fuse into Five Elements; Five Elements fusing with space becomes Creation.
Then what about the unknown Destruction?
He didn't know what wind, lightning, light, and darkness four-element fusion could become—but he was certain this four-element fused soul power could match Five Elements. And on this four-element fusion foundation, fusing time again would likely create one of Chaos's two characteristics: Destruction!
The next moment, the Creation soul power at his right fingertip fused with the Destruction soul power at his left fingertip.
Instantly, black and white soul powers collided and intertwined, transforming into a cyan-hued soul power that radiated the meaning of both evolving all things and annihilating all things.
At the same time, another [??? (0.1%)] appeared in the AFKing section of the attribute panel.
"Hahaha—thank you, red-haired ancestor!"
Chu Chengzhou laughed, delighting like a child weighing over one hundred sixty jin. With a thought, he renamed it while placing it into the tenth AFKing slot that had been freed after the Element Fusion secret technique's completion.
"Oh~, still one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight days?"
Gazing at the [Chaos (0.1%)] in the AFKing section for three seconds, Chu Chengzhou couldn't help but say with some surprise.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the Chaos Law seed formed through multiple fusions of eleven basic elemental attributes required the same time to fill the law progress bar through AFKing upgrades as the Four Symbols, Five Elements, space-time and other fusion laws—only double that of single basic elemental laws.
Chu Chengzhou: Only one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight days until ascending to the Chaos God position!
Amid his excitement, Chu Chengzhou's gaze turned to the AFKing section of the attribute panel. After some thought, he placed the self-created claw technique—previously removed when upgrading the Battle Armor Manufacturing skill—into the ninth AFKing slot freed after Instant Bloom's upgrade.
The six soul bones he had arranged for his sisters occupied six AFKing slots; Battle Armor Manufacturing occupied one slot; Chaos Law occupied one slot; Heart Separation Control and claw technique occupied two slots—perfectly filling all ten AFKing slots.
Lifting his head to glance at the night sky, seeing dawn was only a few hours away, the excited Chu Chengzhou had no intention of returning to sleep. He flew through the air, leaving Tian Dou City and heading toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
Chu Chengzhou: Staying up to cultivate immortality? Staying up to become a god!
The moon set, the sun rose. Nearing noon, when Chu Chengzhou returned to his residence, the original Four Symbols, space, and time three major soul cores in his body had already been replaced by: a Chaos soul core in his lower dantian at the abdomen; a Chaos and blood-energy attribute soul core in his middle dantian at the chest; and a Chaos and spiritual attribute soul core in his upper dantian at the forehead—still condensed through the yin-yang complementary method.
How could Four Symbols, space, and time compare to the prestigious Chaos?
Having mastered Chaos power, his own "accessories" naturally needed upgrading to better ones.
Returning to his study in the residence, Chu Chengzhou took pen and paper, writing down the gold-grade Creation Hammer secret technique and the current thousand-refined battle armor manufacturing methods he had mastered.
Then, Chu Chengzhou headed to the small courtyard beside the training ground, seeking out Ma Jake—who was continuing to optimize the soul guidance arrays compatible with thousand-refined battle armor.
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