374 The Way to Achieve Transcendence (2/2)
Awakeners needed to cultivate to improve their abilities, but they did not necessarily have to cultivate to awaken.
The very first Awakener to walk the land did not awaken because they knew how to cultivate. Cultivation methods were created after they learned of awakening.
Awakening could come naturally, or it can come forcefully. It was an innate power hidden within themselves.
Suddenly, Leon paused.
'Humans were not born with the innate ability to control the elements. Awakening made this possible, but not all humans can awaken. Only in this world, they can.'
He remembered the Destruction Laws Lumi awakened to control during battle and came up with a startling possibility.
'What if there is a fragment of Divinity in every human?'
He pondered.
As ridiculous as it sounds, it all made sense to him.
Why were the humans here able to manipulate the elements upon awakening while the denizens of the Divine Realm must toil hard and long comprehending and learning for countless years before they can do the same?
Everything fits if he said there was a fragment of Divinity in everyone.
Awakening, bloodline abilities, special physiques, and divine bodies, everything can be understood if a fragment of Divinity dwells within the souls of every being in this world.
Once this possibility cemented in his mind, he no longer found it strange that humans can awaken, nor was it a coincidence that Aria and Lynne both had special physiques that he failed to notice at first glance.
They were awakened after.
'The Divine Realm searched their whole life for the vestige of gods and the path to everlasting, but nothing was ever found except the records they left behind. As it turns out, all of it was here, in the one place they never searched, the black hole that swallows everything.'
Leon began to review the star map etched in his memory.
The small starfield was most likely formed after the age of Gods and Devils ended. How their era ended, Leon did not know.
What he did know was the Gods and Devils were supposedly born during the formation of Primal Chaos. Thus, their bodies were made entirely of Grandmist energy.
If all that Grandmist energy gathered inside the black hole en masse, it would not be strange for it to form a sub-universe the size of the starfield he was seeing on the star map.
'Is this the true secret of this world? The remains of their body formed the world, and their scattered soul fragments gave life to it? Should I call this a small starfield or the fabled God Realm everyone was looking for?'
After a moment, Leon shook his head. Everything was just inference and conjectures and needed more evidence. Even so, he was more or less convinced that this was as he had imagined.
He came across an amazing discovery, but he had strayed far from his initial purpose, which is to further his comprehension of the Nihility Law.
The answers to his path to transcendence lie within the secrets of the Black Vortex.
Despite gaining an initial understanding of the Nihility Law, why did it not form a seed of comprehension like the other laws?
Because it was the Nihility Law, the Law of Nothingness.
It cannot be seen or felt, but it was present—or perhaps not at all.
It is so profound and mysterious that even if he partly understood it, he felt like he understood nothing at all.
The Nihility Law is the most primordial law, more grand and powerful than even the Laws of Creation and Destruction.
It was the ultimate law, existing yet not existing before the beginning of time, before the appearance of Grandmist, and before the formation of Primal Chaos.
Leon cannot transcend because he wielded too many laws, none of which were powerful enough to be the governing law that rules over the other existing laws.
But if there was even a possibility of transcendence, it would lie within the Nihility Law that stands above all.
If he can reach a certain level of understanding in the Nihility Law, there might just be hope for transcendence.
He was not sure how to further his comprehension of the Nihility Law before, but the presence of Spatial Laws had pointed the way for him.
Destruction Law cannot be comprehended for the time being, but within the destruction, there was devastation, breaking, corrosion, withering, decay, and so on.
The Laws of Darkness, Death, Time, and other minor laws were present.
He needed to comprehend the Temporal Laws and use the [Hegemon of Primal Chaos] technique to merge space and time.
Whether it will give him insights into the Nihility Law or not is still a possibility, but the production of a more complete Grandmist energy is a certainty.