Chapter 991: Finding the Way (1/2)

Once Han Shuo's intentions were broadcast, the others who didn't treat Salas as someone worthy began to seriously consider his words. Some of them knew that their faction's might was too weak and wouldn't be able to do much within the Fringe and decided to join Salas instead.

Han Shuo spent the next few days in Celestial Pearl Pharmacy to break down the remaining impurities in the souls of the Hegemons, leaving only the cultivation insights behind and making them into a few arcane orbs for Han Jin and Andrina to deliver to Pandemonium.

Han Shuo had eliminated all the Hegemons in the previous clash, resulting in him gaining eleven arcane orbs in total, including those for Han Huo, Han Mu and Han Shui's use. Apart from those three, Akley could get one destruction arcane orb made from Tyre's soul. There was also the death arcane orb for Fanny while Emily would get Asser's dark arcane orb. As for the other destruction arcane orb from Dhaka, Isaiah's earth arcane orb, Regis's lightning arcane orb and Miller's wind arcane orb, Han Shuo would keep it for the others in his house.

Having been able to operate and expand his Goldstone Enterprise to its tremendous scale this day, Han Jin had demonstrated that his intelligence wasn't any bit inferior to Han Hao's. And since he started getting along with Andrina, he began to grow even faster, allowing Han Shuo to leave quite a lot of important matters in his hands.

Once Han Jin and Andrina left, Han Shuo remained in Hexopolis, spreading the word to those that came to the Fringe from other territories and drafting the new regulations of the city.

With Wasir and Salas's support, Han Shuo became the undisputed ruler of the Fringe. He also took inspiration from the laws of Ethereal City and the City of Shadows to draft new regulations for Hexopolis. He decided to revoke all the despotic laws of Omphalos. From now on, Hexopolis would become the new capital of the Fringe and gods would no longer have to pay to stay there. They could stay for as long as they wanted.

This clash with the godhunters had resulted in significantly lower traffic to the Fringe. Many powerful gods in the Fringe were either killed by the godhunters or had temporarily left for somewhere rural to avoid the conflict. To ensure that the Fringe quickly grew prosperous again, Han Shuo implemented quite a number of policy changes, which took him quite a number of days. When everything was back on track, Han Shuo entered seclusion to cultivate in an underground room in the pharmacy Han Tu had made.

While the fusion of six of them didn't make them more powerful than Quintessence overgods, they displayed terrifying power that was able to render Tyre and Logue helpless and unable to put up a fight. Given that, if he could fuse all thirteen of his avatars, Han Shuo believed that he might even be able to outpower Quintessence overgods.

It was a shame that six was his limit for now. Though he had wanted to test it with the seventh, he hadn't found the chance yet. Not to mention, he had tried the other seven energies once before but wasn't able to fuse any of them together, much to his dismay.

Sitting alone in the training room, he fused the six avatars of destruction, death, darkness, lightning, wind and water. The forces fused like six separate streams flowing into one larger one, giving him a new, more powerful energy. He took a deep breath and began testing out fusing the light avatar with the other six, only to find that it was repelled right after it combined.

Han Shuo wasn't in a hurry, so he gave it repeated tries and attempted to figure out the problem. Gradually, he found that a trace of dark energy was repelling the light energy. It seemed that the energy grew stronger after the fusion of the six clones, representing a significant chance that could cause the fusion to collapse.

In his many tries, he found that the dark energy pushed away the light energy right after the fusion attempt was made. As he wasn't able to figure out a workaround, he tried fusing other energies instead of light, such as fire, life, space, destiny, earth and fighting aura. He found that fire was repelled by water while life was repelled by death. While space, destiny, earth and fighting aura didn't experience any repulsion, they didn't seem to meld together well either. It almost seemed as if polar opposite energies like light and dark, death and life, and fire and water couldn't be fused no matter what.