Chapter 576: At Last (1/2)
”I don't understand what you mean, father,” The young Leon said with knitted brows in thought.
Heinrich Escladus smiled warmly and said, ”You don't need to understand now, but one day when you grow up, you will.”
”I still don't understand...” Leon's lips twitched as he watched the past being replayed from a distance.
Suddenly, Leon paused.
”Come to think of it, I never found out who my mother was, where she was, nor what happened to her...” Leon muttered, ”Every time I mention to father, he would also have the same distant look and change the subject...”
Leon furrowed slightly before glancing in the northern direction, ”Was his birth mother somewhere in the north?”
As Leon pondered, his younger self asked his father, ”Why do all Divine Practitioners meditate when they cultivate, father? Why don't they cultivate in their sleep or any other positions?”
”Because it's the easiest position to enter the tranquil state and focus, son. The standard meditative posture is not definite. If you can achieve it any other way, then there's no need to follow conventional means.” Heinrich Escladus explained.
”And why must Divine Practitioners enter the tranquil state to cultivate? Does it have something to do with finding the [Heart of Saint Mantra], father?” The young Leon continued to ask questions while Leon furrowed his brows.
”I don't remember any of this...” He muttered.
Heinrich Escladus paused his steps in the snow before turning his head towards Leon's direction with a profound look.
Leon froze as if his father was gazing directly at him.
At the same time, Heinrich Escladus spoke, ”The tranquil state is also called the state of emptiness and mind zero, free from all distracting thoughts. Only when we are empty of all thoughts can we feel the vastness of the world and everything within. The [Heart of Saint Mantra] can help you enter this state quicker.”
”To feel everything, you have to feel nothing? Why does this sound so contradictory?” The young Leon wore an incomprehensive look.
”It doesn't make much sense to father either, but not everything has to. The sense is what we make of the world. But in the beginning, there was nothing. It was from nothing that came everything. Nothing and everything is much closer than you think, just like two sides of a coin, son. With a flip, nothing can become everything and vice versa...”
As Heinrich Escladus explained, Leon fell into deep contemplation, ”Nothing becomes everything... Everything becomes nothing...?”
Suddenly, Leon found himself sitting on the ground, reciting the verses of the [Heart of Saint Mantra] to clear his mind and enter a tranquil and calm state. It was like he had touched upon a profound truth.
The surrounding snow world faded like a dissipating illusion before only a dark empty void remained.
The night sky was dark, and his body remained afloat in the Neutral Zone of zero gravity. His bones were still crushed, but all his bleeding have stopped.
There was no feeling in his body.
From Leon's perspective, with his senses shut, he was not floating in the zero-gravity Neutral Zone but the vast emptiness of the void.
Ka-cha!
Leon broke through his bottleneck and advanced his Nihility Law's comprehension to a higher level.
There was no worldly phenomenon signifying his breakthrough to transcendent; no change was seen, no sound was heard, not even an instinctive feeling, nothing.
He just understood in that instantaneous moment.
People would even question if a breakthrough like this could be considered Transcendence.
But regardless of any doubts that might have surfaced—if there were even any spectators in the vicinity, everything changed the moment Leon opened his eyes.
The 30-feet radius of space surrounding Leon's body was transformed into a real void.
All the air and all the elements, light and darkness, space and time itself, were warped, broken back down into their purest form of energy since the beginning of time!
Boom!
All the energy particles surged into Leon's body, and his gathering and refining speed of Grandmist Energy exploded forth by a hundredfold!
Regardless of their elements, they were all transformed into True Grandmist Energy!
True Grandmist Energy surged explosively, filling the Black Vortex Space before seeping out to nourish every part of Leon's and rebuild it.
His body's constitution quickly transitioned from the Five-Element Body into the True Grandmist Body, bypassing the pseudo stages.
Leon quietly studied the changes to his body before he sighed emotionally with incredulity, ”I did not expect the first level of the Nihility Law, the law of nothingness, to be this overbearing…”
Achieve Transcendence was a huge step, but he felt that his current accomplishment far more than just a huge step.
”I anticipated that True Grandmist Energy was something I can only refine after fusing Destruction and Creation Laws with the other laws…”
”But the Nihility Law returns all matter to their original form, True Grandmist Energy… This is something even the Temporal Law cannot reverse…”
The Law of Nothingness was truly unparalleled.