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Long Shiya swore continuously in his heart.
Sometimes, Su Wen really wasn't a good person.
He gave away great treasures so casually, but couldn't he at least pick a better time?
I was just about to propose taking him on as my disciple. Now that you've given this kid such a treasure right in front of me, how am I supposed to take him as a disciple later?
What am I supposed to give as a meeting gift?
Su Wen naturally didn't care about these issues. After handing the item to Zhou Weiqing, he turned his gaze to Xue Aotian.
"Lord Xue, I wonder if you could arrange a place for me to cultivate in seclusion? I was fortunate enough to gain some insights just now."
Xue Aotian gave Su Wen a deep, searching look.
This fellow had actually gained insights.
Xue Aotian had also been moved by the process of the Saint Energy's birth earlier, but his comprehension wasn't particularly deep, and it was far from the point where he needed a secluded meditation to digest it.
Yet Su Wen seemed to have understood a great deal, to the point of wanting to enter seclusion right here on the Snow God Mountain.
"I will arrange it for you."
Xue Aotian handed over his usual personal seclusion grounds to Su Wen.
Only after Su Wen left did Long Shiya find it appropriate to speak up, bringing up the matter of apprenticeship with Zhou Weiqing.
"Saint Energy..."
The Heavenly Book manifested in Su Wen's hand. As he visualized the world descending and merging into the Heavenly Book, a ripple of Saint Energy's aura emanated outward.
He circulated the Heavenly Energy within his body, merging it with this aura. Within his Heavenly Energy, the four Great Saint Attributes constantly attuned and harmonized.
As time passed, the Heavenly Energy before him began to gradually transform. However, it didn't change into a silver-white Saint Energy.
A faint golden light began to surface during his Heavenly Energy's transformation. Soon, the gold grew increasingly rich, ultimately turning into a brilliant golden Heavenly Energy.
"This should count as Saint Energy too, right?" Su Wen wondered, unsure if this golden energy he had condensed could be considered Saint Energy.
But looking at the core essence of the power, it belonged to the exact same level as the silver-white Saint Energy that Zhou Weiqing and Tian'er had fused together.
"Golden Saint Energy. So this is my Saint Energy."
Did the color of Saint Energy differ for different Heavenly Jewel Masters?
Or was there some other underlying reason?
Su Wen was rather curious.
However, he quickly cast these curious thoughts aside and focused entirely on his cultivation.
The Heavenly Energy inside his body transformed entirely, bit by bit, until his body was flooded with golden Saint Energy.
Just from the transformation of Heavenly Energy into Saint Energy alone, Su Wen felt his strength multiply significantly. His perception of the rules between heaven and earth became even more vivid and tangible.
Furthermore, after the Heavenly Energy transformed into Saint Energy, its volume shrank drastically. Su Wen felt that if he continued to cultivate his Saint Energy back to the quantity he previously possessed at the First Jewel of Heavenly Dao Energy, his strength would surge massively once again.
"The transformation into Saint Energy has directly shattered some of my bottlenecks. My realm should progress rapidly in a short period of time."
Su Wen did not emerge from his seclusion, choosing instead to continue his cultivation on the highest peak of the Snow God Mountain.
The entire Snow God Mountain was situated at the extreme north of the continent. This extraordinarily high peak gathered the vast majority of the world's power from the northern parts of the continent. Not only was the worldly yuan qi incredibly dense, but it was also naturally closer to the rules.
The Heavenly Jewel Island yielded a wealth of materials required by Consolidating Equipment Masters to create Consolidating Equipment Scrolls, whereas the Snow God Mountain was more in harmony with heaven and earth, making it ideal for cultivation.
Su Wen's perception extended along with the world, using his Saint Dao Energy as a bridge to sense the rules of heaven and earth. His understanding of these rules grew increasingly profound.
"These so-called rules don't seem to be complete."
This was a distinct feeling Su Wen experienced during his comprehension process. He discovered that there were still many flaws and deficiencies within the rules of the Peerless Mainland.
For instance, regarding the development of different attributes, Su Wen couldn't sense any content related to the directions he excelled at from within these rules.
Back on the Douluo Continent, Su Wen's development of various attributes relied purely on his own imagination, and his studies had been incredibly vast. After arriving here, he hadn't paid any special attention to insights in this regard.
By using his Saint Dao Energy to deeply comprehend the rules, Su Wen cross-referenced his past understandings to ensure there were no errors or omissions in his previous concepts. It was during this process that he made his discovery.
The development of the numerous attributes he had perceived on the Douluo Continent could not be felt within these rules at all--there wasn't even anything similar.
At first, Su Wen thought his comprehension of the rules was simply superficial, and that he might have just happened to miss that specific portion.
But as time went on and Su Wen comprehended the rules more frequently and extensively, he had to admit that these aspects of content truly did not exist within these rules to begin with!
"And yet, I should still be able to use them."
Su Wen utilized elemental energy based on his past comprehensions and found that there were no issues whatsoever.
This was also the reason why he hadn't noticed this anomaly before.
"Even without projecting the embryonic form of the 'Dao' that I comprehended within my visualized world, and purely using the cultivation of Saint Energy to unearth these directions, it can still be achieved!"
Su Wen even reverted a portion of his Saint Energy back to its initial Heavenly Energy state, using Heavenly Energy to develop techniques in directions that the elemental rules did not encompass.
"In that case, it's not that the rules don't possess it, but rather that these rules aren't the true rules!"
The laws governing heaven and earth certainly existed, but these specific rules did not fully encompass all of those laws.
This single session of cultivation lasted for a whole year.
For an entire year, Su Wen went from initially discovering the flaws in the rules to verifying them over and over again, testing them step by step. After undergoing the baptism of time, he finally found the answer.
"Rules are born from people!"
Because people cultivated, the rules would gradually become perfected.
These rules were neither the source code for the operation of heaven and earth, nor were they some sort of foundation. Instead, they were more like a materialization of the world's power--a manifestation shaped under the influence of human will and intent, thereby allowing Heavenly Jewel Masters to more easily sense and mobilize the power of heaven and earth.
"My initial concept wasn't wrong."
There was no such thing as absolute rules in this world.
The so-called rules were merely something that gradually derived because the concept itself existed.
This was exactly how the Heavenly Jewel Dimension operated. All the powerhouses believed in the existence of the Heavenly Dao and the existence of rules, summarizing the laws of the world's power into "rules." Ultimately, this belief gradually evolved into the rules of this specific dimension.
And this allowed Su Wen to truly experience the power of human intent.
"The power of faith seems to operate in a similar manner."
During the later stages of his seclusion, Su Wen continued to deeply perceive the rules, rapidly absorbing the laws of worldly power that had already materialized in this world.
Even though his concept was proven correct, he still absorbed as much knowledge of these naturally derived rules as possible, given that he could.
Since there was such a convenient format to gain insights, he naturally had to seize the opportunity.
While comprehending the rules, he was also verifying them with his Saint Dao Energy. At the same time, the power of faith that constantly gathered from across the continent became his experimental material, used to validate his insights.
"Time to leave."
Su Wen opened his eyes.
On his wrists, a jewel materialized on each side.
One was a red jade, while the other was an alexandrite cat's eye that blended every single luster imaginable except for the glow of the Life Attribute. It was truly terrifying.
"Eleven pairs of Heavenly Jewels. I have reached the Heavenly Emperor tier as well."