Chapter 184: Rank 1 Transcendent

[Merging... 100%]

[Merging complete.]

[Your Universal Rank has changed to Rank 1 Transcendent]

[Your body has transcended]

[Gained 30 Strength, 30 Endurance]

[Your mind has transcended]

[Gained 5 Intelligence]

[By reaching Transcendence, you unlocked the knowledge about Source Energy Types and Mortal Pathways]

[You haven't reached the end of your Mortal Pathways yet. Transcendent Pathway has been temporarily locked]

When I regained my five senses I found myself standing still at the same Field of Transcendence, wildly absorbing the surrounding Source Energy passively. This was probably a bonus for becoming a Transcendence. I didn't need to do anything, the Source Energy would be absorbed completely in a matter of minutes.

The dark sky and the volcanoes were now cleared. The place was now back to the same plains and clear sky as if what happened earlier was just a lie.

My clothes were back on me as well as the items I have on my person. The Willful Sword was still held in my hand. Upon looking closely, it was the same sword that tempered itself using the lightning dragons. It became stronger and sharper than it was before.

And that gave me the confirmation that what happened was real. I went through three arduous Transcendent Trials.

The first one was the opening of the Door of Transcendence and entering it to prove my Transcendent Strength. Though I cheated on it it's still counted as a pass

The second one was the four stages of casting off of my Mortal Husk, the Wind Trial, the Flame Trial, the Frost Trial and lastly the Lightning Tribulation which completely destroyed my Mortal Body before reconstructing it into a Transcendent Body.

The third one was supposed to be me experiencing a life that was a lot different than I have now from changing one choice. However, due to my Adaptability, I passed it easily which gave me the Transcendent Mind.

From the series of notifications, what caught my attention was the knowledge I unlocked.

This was according to what that old man in the Mansion Ruins said. Upon reaching Transcendence we will become exposed to more information.

Source Energy Types, this is a new knowledge that I never thought of before. It talked about the five main Source Energy Types and the importance of World's Will.

1. System Type - It's the type of Source Energy which involves Systems. For example the World Energy. But not every System Type Source Energies has the same restriction as the World Energy, it depends on what the World's Will wanted.

2. Physique Type - the type of Source Energy which involves the enhancement and cultivation of one's Physique rather than putting everything into a System and have it guide the owner. The best example was the Brute Energy or the Combat Energy that I encountered from the Transcendent Mind Trial.

3. Spirit Type - the type of Source Energy which could be said as the opposite of Physique Type, instead of one's Physique, it enhances one's inner energy and cultivates it to strengthen the Body. Which led to this type of Source Energy to unearth someone's inner Transformation. Spirit Energy was the best example of this

4. Psyche Type - the type of Source Energy that cultivates the power of one's mind or brain. This type of energy will awaken an ability that will become the foundation of their strength. The best example was Psyche Energy and Meta Energy.

5. Elemental Type - the type of Source Energy which made use of elements. This one often involves the cultivation of a certain element. Sometimes a person would be restricted to one type of elemental affinity but oftentimes there was no such restriction. I haven't encountered this type of Source Energy before but it's possible that a Magic World or Elemental World which involves wizards or elementals.

The World's Will could be said to be the highest authority for every Source Energy. There were active and passive World's Will but every world has its own World's Will. Only by exceeding the limitation of that world would one will be able to escape the grasp of the World's Will. Like being a Transcendent. That confirmed my guess.

Below the Source Energy Types are the Pathways. Which for now only included two. The Mortal Pathway and Transcendent Pathway.

The Mortal Pathway only involves one type of Source Energy. Each of my four pathways is the example. Normally a person can only cultivate one type of Source Energy but because of my Adaptability, it allowed me to cultivate four types. If I encounter a Source Energy belonging to the Elemental Type, I will also be able to cultivate it.

However, if I encounter a Source Energy belonging to the same type, for example, the Anzean's almost identical Source Energy from the Meta Energy. Even if I go to their Source World, I won't be able to get benefits from their Source Energy, it will only be treated the same as my Meta Energy.

That's why we were able to use their techs. The World of Meta and the World of Anzeans have the same Source Energy Type.

Also, they were divided by the Level of Source Energies. That's why my Psyche Energy isn't clashing against the Meta Energy even if they fall under the same type of Source Energy. It has to be an equal level for them to influence one another.

As for what type of Source Energy the Dark Energy falls under I still don't know yet. But this begs the question of what will happen to the Mortal World they assimilated? Or their plan to take over the Earth's World's Will?

Right now, I only have knowledge about Level 1 Source Energies. I needed to adapt to a Level 2 Source Energy to know more.

After Mortal Pathway is the Transcendent Pathway. To start in this path, one needed to finish their Mortal Pathway first. Since I haven't finished that yet, the information about it is still locked.

From all this, I gathered that the 30 Otherworlds which summoned the heroes could be grouped by these Source Energy Types. And I only lack the Elemental Type to complete all five types of Source Energy.

I don't know if lucky or intentional, the first four worlds that I stepped into were all from different types of Source Energy. Then it's safe to assume that the 5th world will be an Elemental Type to complete all five. But what will happen upon completing them?

Haa… it's still a mystery.

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[As a Transcendent, a skill will be derived from your ability that will be passed down to everyone connected to you.]

[Generating Derived Skill.]

[Enhanced Adaptability: A simple enhancement derived from a Transcendent's ability which was shared to those connected to you. Unlock the ability to adapt two more Source Energy Types, Acquired Flux Energy State(Limited)]

The series of notifications continued after and now it talked about the derived ability that will be passed down to my Companions.

Through that Enhance Adaptability, they can now cultivate two more Source Energy Types and also have the Flux Energy State(Limited) to regulate the three. I don't know what 'Limited' means. Maybe I'll ask them after leaving this space.

But to adapt to two more Source Energy Types, they needed to step foot to another world which contained a different Source Energy Type than what they currently have.

Ah. I could finally take them away from their world, right? In the first place, it's possible to leave their world. The only problem was that like the Anzeans, they needed to travel through space. The existence of portals made world-traveling easier. We'll just have to try when another portal back to Earth appears, I'll take Nysia with me.

However, we have to resolve what's happening in this world first.

Am I really a Transcendent now? Apart from the stats that I gained from having Transcendent Body and Transcendent Mind, there's nothing else.

Ah. It's probably because I haven't finished my Mortal Pathway yet. I should expect something after finishing it.

After reorganizing the information that I acquired, I focused on my surroundings again.

My body was still hungrily absorbing the surrounding Source Energy. Now that I turned my focus on it, it's not just my passive absorption, the surrounding Source Energy is all supposed to be absorbed by me. This is probably one of the benefits of becoming a Transcendent given by this space.

Due to that, I sat down and started to actively absorb everything.

50%

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100%

[Ding!]

[Advanced to Transformed Spirit]

[Current Connection: 3 Rivers]

[Advanced to 3rd Stage Saint Realm]

[Support Expert System has leveled up to 3]

[Advanced to Gold-rank Tier 3]

30 minutes later. A series of notifications rang out indicating my breakthrough.

However, there are still more energies to be absorbed! I ignored the notifications and continued to actively absorb the remaining Source Energy.

Looking at how dense it is, I determined that it was still enough for another breakthrough.

Focusing on actively absorbing it again, as if a black hole, my body swallowed everything around me.

10%

30%

50%

70%

100%

[Ding!]

[Advanced to Transformed Spirit]

[Current Connection: 4 Rivers]

[Advanced to 4th Stage Saint Realm]

[Support Expert System has leveled up to 4]

[Advanced to Gold-rank Tier 2]

After another two hours, another series of notifications rang out again and as soon as that happened, I completed my absorption of the surrounding Energy.

And from the Necklace, the Orb of Ailment and Orb of Reinforcement appeared and floated in front of me.

The Orbs are more eager than me to make my 3rd and 4th Halo Skills.