Chapter 274: Tale of the Strongest Fool (1)

Chapter 274: Tale of the Strongest Fool (1)

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{A/N: I know this isn't the correct background from the wiki... but the thought that Dragon God had a clan and stuff and grew to power by practice felt... too generic.

And this lore down Below will have hints of warlock of the magus world and Reverend Insanity. Reverend Insanity has actually described the law and dao of fiction quite completely so I really like it.}

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"Origin of cultivation, huh... In the purest sense, humans and beasts are alike in that the two sides are living creatures that desire growth in some form. However, at the beginning of time, there was only one creature."

The voice of the Lady in the Lake turned melancholic as Ja Sun lay on his side to view a reflection taking over the Emerald Lake.

A beast emerged from the reflection of the lake. The beast looked perfectly similar to a dragon but its rhombus scales were glimmering with nine colors that enchanted the dark space itself as if the beast was the constellation around which the planets should revolve.

"The Creature had no name until it gave itself one. A Dragon. Upon which its entire lineage was named and thus crowned the first living being as their God.

The Dragon God. Within the first creation brewed the powers of creation and destruction. Life and Decay. Stranded in the universe, it began to seek other creations. While the first living being to be formed by the universe, the Dragon God soon found various other creatures naturally formed by the planets through trillion of years of evolution.

However, the Dragon God found no kin for he was too strong. Too Noble... and too unique."

"Thus, using its powers, the Dragon God created the first of his lineage that would be regarded as kings. They were considered his children. All of them gained an attribute of the Dragon God and worshipped him.

The first and most elusive of all was the Jade Dragon King who inherited the attribute of time and commanded the flow of the river of time to his whims yet kept itself hidden most of the time.

The second and the strongest of the descendants was the Light Dragon King who manipulated spectrum of light that others couldn't even fathom.

The third and the most loyal of them was the Dark Dragon King who was the opposite of the second son. The very being of the Dark Dragon King threatened to destabilize space. Di Tian is the direct descendant of the Dark Dragon King and is known as the Golden-Eye Black Dragon King.

Then came the most frivolous twins The Water Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King. One wielded cold as a blade and the other loved spitting waves of energy.

The Sixth was Taotie who gained the attribute of Earth but due to the nature of their surroundings that placed it at a distinct disadvantage, Taotie grew in appetite and accepted the law of devouring.

The Seventh was the Wind Dragon King, his voice as pleasant as bells and kept the Dragon God in company with its pleasant nature and intuitive ballads.

At this point, the Dragon God wanted to settle and delegated the task to its eighth creation, the White Dragon King, the darling of the spatial attribute, who, alongside the Jade Dragon King isolated and carved a working galaxy and formed a world to settle in.

Yet, at this point, the Dragon God and its descendants realized that their very existence was too overbearing on the planets they had adopted. For this, the Dragon God formed the Mountain Dragon King.

Although not as impressive as others, the Mountain Dragon King surpassed even the Dragon God in its size. Its body was perfectly capable of housing its siblings and thus, the Mountain Dragon King and its descendants turned to landmasses to support the growth of the Dragon Lineage.

Impressed by the Mountain Dragon King's benevolence, the Dragon God considered it the most impressive of all its descendants."

While the Lady in the Lake told the tale, she also made the pictures move within the reflection of the Lake so that Ja Sun could see all of it.

"Years passed as the Dragon Race began to develop. Unlike their ancestor, the Dragon Kings could not just create their descendants, so, they sought earthly beings.

By now, they had come to realize while heaven itself made them the strongest, the beings developed over the years from various cellular beings on a planet are not the same. Mating with such beings after taking their forms hardly ever provided any descendants as much as it did provide death. So, the Dragon Kings developed their own sectors of lands where the growth of the living beings would take a necessary direction to allow them to birth the next generation of dragons.

And thus, the Dragon Race began to prosper. The Dragons could most naturally manipulate the elements but their mates were weak. With foresight, the Dragon God knew that the future generation would grow stronger but it came with a method to achieve that growth through the manipulation of natural energy known as spirit energy.

The idea was to reach one's limits as early as possible so that they may break their shackles without completely exhausting their life and that is the beginning of cultivation." Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

The Lady of the Lake understood Ja Sun's desire to know the details and thus shared them. The basic concepts. The Soul Origin, and the growth by eating valuable materials. This was everything Ja Sun already knew but it was contained around beasts. Until now, there wasn't any mention of humans and at this point, she inquired, "What do you understand about the law?"

"Nothing," Ja Sun replied without any pretenses, his gaze saturated with greed and hunger, "But... I want to know all."

But... there is something even above this complete picture of nature."

There was a hint of mischief in her tone as she continued, "The realm of Great Grandmaster means that one has fully realized nature's law on a particular concept or element. What this element can be shaped as, its effects, its communication with other laws, its potential, to a Great Grandmaster, such things are clear.

But nature is limited. While there is a law of everything in this world, it needs innovation. And a being who can innovate past the already vast painting of a particular law is known as the Supreme Grandmaster."

"A... Supreme Grandmaster..." Ja Sun hummed thoughtfully, "So, if I consider a particular law, say, Law of Light a 100 points worth of comprehension, there is something beyond that 100?"

"There are many things beyond a horizon. If you one cannot see it, it only means they aren't entitled to do so just yet," She replied.

Giving Ja Sun enough time to digest these revelations, she continued, "But as you have already experienced even after reaching the pinnacle of cultivation that is allowed to you, just mastering a single shard of this grand puzzle means that you are probably at the top. However, the Dragon Kings and the Dragon God were the beings of law. Even Di Tian is a Grandmaster in the Law of Darkness and Space. He has a base. But the Dragon Kings... they were Great Grandmasters with the perfect compilation of this grand painting and the Dragon God, the creator of these Kings, was a Supreme Grandmaster with multiple laws.

So, it is clear that the hopes for growing increasingly stronger lie in understanding these laws. For this, the Dragon God finally made a method for all the beasts.

Spirit Energy.

Spirit Energy, in its truest form, is also a law. In fact, this is a law that you and Ja Yin are capable of understanding due to your bloodlines.

However, this law is too pure and has the potential to adopt the properties of almost all the other laws. Thus, under Dragon God's methods, his isolated world that spanned across the deepest space, the spirit energy became available to every beast.

These beasts would start by using the Spirit Energy to strengthen themselves and communicate with attributes they have affinities with. These beasts began to have long lives due to the blessings of the Dragon God so that they can grow stronger for the Dragon Kings and produce an even richer generation of descendants.

It was during this time Dragon God came across the first civilization of humans and brought them to his realm. However, humans had biology different from the beasts. Despite the Dragon God's interests and blessings, the humans couldn't surpass certain biological limits such as their expected life and even the Dragon Kings soon lost interest in them, allowing the humans to grow at their own pace under the threat of the increasingly growing population of beasts.

But this didn't stop here.

With enough draconic descendants, the various kings brought in other interesting species spread far and wide in this universe. Their realm grew and grew. Cultivation prospering with a few spirit beasts getting stronger to the point of building their own fragments of the law and entering the ranks of the divine beasts... until he came along."

The kindness in the voice of the Lady of the Lake dropped to a negative as her chilly tone even made goosebumps spread across Ja Sun's furry body.

She spat coldly.

"Until the Evil Sage entered the realm."

The image on the lake shifted from the divine dragons to a sickly pale woman with a thin stature and a head full of greasy dark brown hair. Her cheeks were sunken and her eyes feverish as if she would fall down at any second.

"The Evil Sage?"

Ja Sun repeated softly as the Lady of the Lake grew silent.

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A/N: Hey guys, I hope I didn't bore you. There is still another chapter for the lore planned. And if you have any questions about the law, feel free to ask me. It's a bit different from what you may find in another novels or fanfics but I think I did a solid job by working on the Reverend Insanity's description of the dao and giving the example of painting and puzzles... at least, I hope so, lol.

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