Twenty-Five Thousand Years Later...
After tireless work, Maximus finished integrating the Eternal Book into the Source of Knowledge.
Although he was alone, because of the advancement of his path, it was easier to integrate treasures into the Source of Knowledge.
Turning toward the churning Ocean of Knowledge, Maximus carefully felt its changes.
"The knowledge deduction has become faster."
Integrating an ultimate treasure was only like passing it from one hand to another.
His main purpose in doing so was to circumvent the limit of the Aeon Plane, which restricted an individual to possessing only three ultimate treasures.
However, from merging the Seal of Truth and the Eternal Book, it seemed that an ultimate treasure would undergo an evolution when incorporated into a source of path.
The Eternal Book's function was that the more knowledge one possessed, the stronger one's comprehension would be.
Possessing such a treasure for the first time, the time it took him to deduce new knowledge was cut in half.
Now, after integrating it into the Source of Knowledge, its ability to accelerate the deduction of new knowledge has skyrocketed.
From cutting the time in half to reducing it to a fourth, the Eternal Book boosted his knowledge deduction by four times.
Furthermore, after merging the Eternal Book, it evolved to not only rely on knowledge to become faster.
It could also draw power from the number and growth of the seeds of path he integrated into the Source of Knowledge.
The greater the number of seeds of path he integrated and the higher their growth, the faster his deductions became.
It could now also rely on the branches of the path of knowledge.
The more people walked the same path as him, the faster it would be.
It could be said that the Eternal Book could now rely on knowledge, seeds of path, and the branches of the path of knowledge.
No wonder the boost it gave him skyrocketed to four times all of a sudden. Continue reading at empire
This was already a twofold boost from its previous ability.
Even if it had evolved further when integrated into the Source of Knowledge, it wouldn't have been this powerful.
Opening the system's knowledge creation tab, Maximus thought of what to do next.
The one deducing knowledge was his system, which didn't even have a mind of its own—what could the Thoughtless Sand clear?
Fortunately, it still had some effect, especially for the members of the Order of Maxim.
The ability of the Thoughtless Sand allowed them to enter a state of concentration anytime, no matter what they were doing.
More importantly, the integration of the ultimate material eased the bottleneck that the Ocean of Knowledge was facing.
Maximus estimated that with 3–5 more ultimate materials, the Ocean of Knowledge could break through.
Pleased by this prospect, Maximus didn't stop working.
Soon, over a hundred thousand years later, after integrating another four ultimate treasures, the Ocean of Knowledge broke through as he had expected.
Breaking through 10%, the Ocean of Knowledge began to advance once again.
Feeling his power skyrocket, Maximus felt his hard work over the hundreds of thousands of years had been worth it!
"Time for rest..."
With the Ocean of Knowledge advancing, Maximus couldn't integrate anything further into it for the time being.
Taking this opportunity, Maximus went on a well-deserved rest.
He joined his family in training, checked on the progress of the Ether Devices' refurbishment, walked around the Etherium Realm, and attended to the latest matters of the Dimensional Alliance.
Soon, time passed in the blink of an eye.
Tens of thousands of years later, after the Ocean of Knowledge reached 29% and hit another bottleneck, Maximus began another tireless effort.
"Only three hundred thousand years left..."
With such a short time remaining, Maximus decided to merge a seed of the Ocean of Law for a change.
This time, with the help of his family from time to time, it took him less than a hundred thousand years to merge a seed of the Ocean of Law.
Integrating such a high-tier seed of path caused the Ocean of Knowledge to rumble.
"It has more benefits!"
To achieve the same magnitude of benefits, it would have taken five ultimate materials to compare.
Although merging a seed of law didn't bring as many benefits other than hastening the advancement of the Ocean of Knowledge, it was faster.
With over two hundred thousand years left, maybe he could break through another bottleneck after integrating two more seeds of the Ocean of Law.