A Territory! And of the Chaos Element! William was ecstatic.
While he hadn't used the Chaos Element much, he had to admit that it was incredibly strong in battle. Having fought the Element during his upgrades, William was learning a lot about how he should be using the Element.
If I find a Cultivator that takes pride in his Elements, I can turn it against him in an instant! I can only imagine how surprised Supreme Left would have been if his own Fire Element burned him!
William looked at his age, which was only 364 years out of the total 1200 years of lifespan. Given that the previous upgrade only took nine years of his life, William assumed the final upgrade wouldn't be so dangerous, right?
Either way he would have to upgrade it eventually, and raising the Seal Element to X-Rank beforehand might be suicide.
If I can Ascend these Elements too... No, I'll think about that later.
William didn't wait for his Elements to recover, since he didn't want to waste time standing still. He would have liked to test out the Chaos Territory, but waiting over a day just to do so was boring, to say the least.
System, it's time for the X-Rank Chaos upgrade.
-500000 PP
Ouch, that hurt. William winced as half a million Potential Points were lost in one go.
The System upgrade started immediately, and a surprised Chaos figure returned barely moments after dissipating. Its confusion was quickly replaced by anger when it noticed that the person responsible for its appearance was once again the insufferable William.
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William was too focused on the Elements rampaging inside his body to read the Chaos figure's lips, but he could imagine it had ordered the Elements to attack. He did his best to guard against the consecutive Chaos Spells, tilting left and right to avoid taking any direct hits.
The Plant Element sent a thick vine to wrap around his left leg, while the Earth Element reinforced the vine to make it unbreakable in a short time. Ice joined in, covering the Earth with a secondary layer while the Wind Element channeled all its energy into pulling the vine towards William's right side.
The combined efforts of all four Domains focused into a single Spell allowed the Elements to finally pull William's leg out from under him, forcing him to fall to the ground. What more, the short fall was enough to rip open three layers of space, forcing Tribulation Clouds to appear overhead once more.
On William's end, he looked at the Chaos figure seriously. His body was covered in minor wounds that the Recovery Talent was healing one at a time, while the Chaos figure was returning William's solemn stare.
It had failed to attract the attention of the Heavens to dispose of this person, and his body was too strong for it to cause any serious damage, even with its Territory actively suppressing him. The Chaos Element gritted its teeth, calling upon the one Element it despised the most.
William suddenly felt weird, as if he was undergoing the Hard Body Talent merging again. His own figure seemed to reject him, trying to separate his Soul, Body, and Mana respectively. The feeling was very faint, but it was enough for William's forehead to fill with beads of sweat.
He used his Soul Strength to pull his Soul back towards his body, fighting against some unknown Mana that was calm in the most dangerous type of way. Emotions overwhelmed William's entire being, describing the nature of William's unknown opponent word by word.
"Refined. Noble. Elegant."
"Sequence. Structure. Series."
"Harmony. Containment. Peace."
"Law. Discipline. Calm. Control."
"Ritual. Ceremony. Sacrament. Service."
The words sped up and multiplied. Tens of times, hundreds of times. Thousands of times.
They rang out in his head, clouding his mind and distracting his thoughts. Separating what was real and fake like the Illusion Element, but also separating what was the past, present, and future like the Time Element.
"Class. Level. Rank. Grade. Position. Arbitration.
Judgement. Decision."
...
"Order." William and the Chaos figure said out loud in unison.