Chapter 81: Early Void Refining Realm

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OOOM!

The crimson-colored energies inside the Heaven Exploding Cave Abode eventually died down, but not before bombarding the stalwart figure of Azmodeus once more, causing a bit of blood to spit out of his mouth.

However, all blood loss was regenerated faster than it could be drained, so he effectively came out of his breakthrough without a scratch on his body.

Furthermore, he had already visited the Void Realm with his Nascent Soul and Essence Soul, so he didn't need to worry about that part of the breakthrough process either.

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The Soul Transformation and Void-Refining Realms.

7. Soul Transformation Realm:

During this stage, you will need to evolve your Nascent Soul from a 'non-corporeal' state to a 'corporeal' state. This is one of the prerequisites you need to fulfill before you can break through to the Soul Transformation Realm.

Once you have reached such a point that you can take your Nascent Soul out of your body and move it around remotely, you have reached the Early Soul Transformation Realm.

To progress through the stages of the Soul Transformation Realm, you will need to condense your 'cultivation base', 'Core', 'Dantian', and 'Nascent Soul - now an intermittent 'Essence Soul''

The Nascent Soul and Essence Soul are two different things, but also one and the same. You can think of the 'Essence Soul' as another 'layer' of the 'Nascent Soul'. It lays atop the Nascent Soul like a thin filament—almost like an outer layer of clothing—clothing that you can take outside of your body.

Here are the progression marks to advance through the Soul Transformation Realm →

Early Soul Transformation Realm - 'Infant Development Phase'

Middle Soul Transformation Realm - 'Child Development Phase'

Late Soul Transformation Realm - 'Teenage Development Phase'

Peak Soul Transformation Realm - 'Adult Development Phase'

Half-Step Void Refining Realm - 'Absolute Adult Development Phase'

The 'Development Phases' relate to the development of the 2nd 'layer' that sits atop the Nascent Soul, otherwise known as the 'Essence Soul'. These development phases also relate to the development of the 'Nascent Soul' as well.

He originally wanted to try comprehending the Void Law, but there was a reason that all cultivators only needed to discern its existence instead of comprehending it in order to breakthrough...

Even with his Absolute Peak-Heaven Rank Cultivation Talent, it would take him thousands upon thousands of years to begin understanding even the most basic aspect of the Void Law.

And it was this fact that immediately steered him away from the Void Law and instead brought him to the more basic mortal world laws, such as the Fire Law, Water Law, Chemical Law, Hydrogen Law, Aerospace Law, etc...

It took a few seconds for him to decide which one he wanted to start with, but once he did, he started comprehending the profundities of his chosen law right away!

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After a few minutes, Azmodeus had officially begun his journey down the comprehension of laws, as he felt around for the essence of the 'Sword Law'.

And after feeling something pervade the air around him at all times, he latched onto that feeling and started seeing the world in an entirely different light!

Instead of various colors and material objects, all he saw were the 'swords' that were part of every aspect of existence.

It was hard to describe, but it was like the essence of the sword wasn't only limited to swords and was capable of enveloping everything in existence.

Of course, this was all relevant to the law itself and not the 'reality' of it all.

Laws were extremely abstruse and complex topics that were nearly impossible to describe in words and even harder to begin comprehending from scratch.

This was one of the main reasons that those with insufficient talent in the Void Refining Realm ultimately gave up on the idea of comprehending laws altogether, instead focusing on their cultivation base progression.

And this was a viable option used by the majority of Void Refining Cultivators. After all, it wasn't a requirement that you needed to understand laws in order to improve your cultivation inside the Void Refining Realm.

Of course, if one did successfully comprehend laws, then their combat power would be leaps and bounds above what those who ignored the subject altogether possessed.

But in the end, not many had the sufficient degree of talent to accomplish such a thing...

And even if they did have the talent necessary, the likelihood of them impeding the development of their own cultivation in order to increase their combat power by marginal amounts was unlikely.

But, like everything in life, there were always going to be exceptions...

And one of those exceptions just so happened to be a certain freak with a dragon woman and Ice Goddess fawning over him, all while smothering their bountiful bodies on his...

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