1733 1733. Seclusion

Noah and the Legion as a whole went silent. All the experts who had faced Heaven and Earths trap needed to cultivate and turn their experiences into part of their power. Those who had remained on that side of the Immortal Lands also had to improve. Luckily for them, the influence that flowed through those lands was the perfect fuel.

Only the weaker troops remained active inside the Legions domain. They limited themselves to patrol the regions and take care of the magical beasts that the experts had brought from outside their borders.

The Legions domain had transformed, but the magical beasts didnt care about those features. Noahs influence was a passive effect connected to the mutated laws that filled those regions, so those creatures ended up benefitting from his power without bothering to notice its marvelous features.

The same didnt apply to the cultivators and hybrids. King Elbas had followed Noah and the others during the previous mission, and he had made sure that every region featured a dispenser of ambition.

Those inscribed items were quite simple. They absorbed the leftovers of Noahs ambition and sent them toward the surface. The underground world would naturally mutate due to the roots of the blue bushes, so the air had to be the target of King Elbas tools.

Noah also cultivated. He didnt need to do much during his seclusion. He barely had projects to attend at his current level, so he could focus the entirety of his attention on his centers of power.

Instead, the other experts felt far more pressure on themselves. They had to overcome one of the greatest hurdles of their cultivation journey. They had to develop powers that could make them able to counter Heaven and Earths laws.

The process wasnt easy for them, and Noah couldnt help with it. He could rebuild experts and force them to be reborn as new existences, but that approach wouldnt work for everyone.

Fergie, Robert, and the Foolery were special situations. Fergie was nothing more than a corpse when Noah decided to transform him, while Robert belonged to Heaven and Earths system. Both experts needed a complete rebirth to gain access to the cultivation journey again.

Instead, the Foolery didnt have laws. It was a magical beast that had slowly developed a sea of consciousness after bathing in Noahs influence for a long time. The transformation couldnt hurt its true meaning because it simply didnt have one.

King Elbas and the other experts were in a far different position. They had laws built throughout countless years of struggle and training. Asking for Noahs help would only hurt their pride and make their existence crumble.

Noah would still help them if they hit a wall in their cultivation journey, but that wasnt the issue at the moment. The experts didnt have to improve. They had to develop powers that most existences didnt even consider, abilities that didnt follow the usual path.

Even Noah would have never gotten his hands on those abilities if it werent for the Devils. He didnt even know that laws capable of countering Heaven and Earth could exist in the Immortal Lands before the mission on the other side.

The other experts had to succeed in the arduous task of developing similar powers without having access to Devils. They had Noahs influence all around them, but there was a limit to how much the simple study of chaotic laws could help.

Noah experienced a peace that the Immortal Lands had rarely offered. He cultivated for years on the surface of the higher plane. His chaotic laws fended off the harmful properties of Heaven and Earths light, so his mind ended up improving faster than his other centers of power.

June often visited him, and she always brought powerful magical beasts defeated during her training. Noah couldnt show his face outside of the Legion yet, so she took care of filling part of the immense requirements of his body.

The rest of the weaker troops did the same, and even some of his underlings helped. Cultivators, hybrids, and magical beasts dropped corpses near Noah whenever they passed through his region.

Training in those conditions was perfect, but the stillness of those peaceful years inevitably forced Noah to move his attention elsewhere. He had never liked staying still, especially when it came to his battle prowess. The seclusion was benefitting his centers of power, but he had to do something to improve his overall might.

His thoughts inevitably fell on the technique found inside Sword Saints memories. The two of them had even managed to deploy a proper version of that slash inside Heaven and Earths trap, and its power had been astounding.

Noah wanted to get his hands on that power as soon as possible, but his centers of power had structural limits at their current state. They couldnt endure the massive amount of energy required by the attack and make Noah able to perform a slash at the same time.

It was something that even his incredible body couldnt overcome. Noah would lose control of some aspects of the technique whenever he focused on other features.

The mass of energy would explode if he gathered his power to perform a slash capable of piercing its surface. Something similar happened if he focused on the unstable sphere. His attack wouldnt have enough power to open a crack on the technique.

That seemed an unsolvable issue at his current level, but Noah wouldnt let go of the matter so quickly. His centers of power might not have enough energy to perform the technique, but he wasnt alone.

Coordination is the key here, Noah transmitted through his mental connection. Precision is essential. The entire technique will blow up if you fail to create the ideal crack.

How should I even know what type of crack I have to open? Night complained inside Noahs mind. I can sense that you dont know that either.

We test it with weaker versions of the attack until we learn how to do it with the intended amount of power, Noah explained. Its a long and tedious process, but you have seen the power of that technique. The reward is totally worth it.

Night couldnt oppose Noahs plan, but it didnt want to contradict him in general. It wouldnt waste the chance to improve his battle prowess. It didnt matter how tedious the process was.

Noah and Night began unique training sessions that saw the two gathering data about that technique. They spent months testing their coordination and studying how the masses of energy reacted to the Pterodactyl.

The tests inevitably led to explosions. Noah wasnt a stranger to those reactions, and his body was strong enough to endure them. He was still limiting the amount of energy condensed in his technique, so he didnt need to worry about his safety just yet.

The first positive outcomes led the duo to test the ability with more energy. The experiments became more dangerous, and Noah often found himself forced to deploy the Shadow Domain to escape the detonations.

The region ended up suffering from the procedure, but Noah didnt care. His attacks could only spread even more chaotic laws. The ground could crack and vanish, but the ambition that filled the area only intensified.