Standing above the Heaven's Laws
Despite possessing that strange feeling, he couldn't do anything about it. Not now… He will look out for this when Knowledge is active.
Jean looked around and just realized something… He doesn't have anything to do now…
"I guess I'll just try to learn the rest…" Jean sat down and crossed his legs, before taking a deep breath.
The first three stages of the Frozen End Divine Arts were just to lay one's foundations, which Jean already did so. Right now he reached the 4th stage, Tree of Frozen End.
Now he will just need to lay his roots on the profound art, and then leave.
[1 week later]
[7:50]
[12/12/1997]
[K: "Knowledge"]
Jean woke up from his sleep in the Frozen End Divine Hall. He put away his blanket and stretched his body.
If anyone would be here, they would spit blood from seeing one of the sacred grounds of the Frozen Cloud Asgard created from the founder herself turning into a bedroom for a NEET.
There was a small bed, a handmade oven to cook food with his phoenix flames… Jean was already treating it like his own bedroom…
"Good morning…"
There was no answer… "Hmm, she must be still sleeping…" He was obviously talking about Jasmine.
After putting away one thing, he passed to the other thing. He first created some ice before melting it with his flames, then he splashed his face.
With the water, he cleaned his face…
...With the water generated from a profound art that was feared everywhere, and unknowingly originated from a middle star realm in the Realm of the Gods, and melt down with the phoenix flames… How much did the honor followed after those two things fall down?
After he completely woke up, Jean stood up and took out some bread and eggs for breakfast.
Why… Jean, what the fuck? You aren't supposed to treat this sacred place as if it was a 3-star hotel room…
Stop! Don't use legendary flames to cook a fucking egg!
...If the Phoenix and the founder of the Frozen Cloud Asgard would have heard of this, they would go cry in a corner…
…
After filling up his belly, Jean's gaze turned serious and faced the wall with the profound formula activated with the light of the Frozen End Divine Arts.
As soon as the words appeared, Knowledge activated, turning Jean's black eyes into two azure lights.
"Starting collecting data:
Foundation of Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon.
Error: Missing Ice Phoenix Bloodline
Solution: Evil God's Water Seed.
Re-Starting collecting data…
1st Simulation: Success…
Checking for errors: 10. Correcting…
1st simulation, success.
2nd simulation, success.
3rd simulation, success.
Starting collecting data:
4th Stage of Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon.
1st simulation: Success…
Checking for errors: 21. Correcting…
1st simulation, success.
2nd simulation, success.
3rd simulation, success.
Starting collecting data:
5th Stage of Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon.
1st simulation: Failure…
2nd simulation: Failure…
3rd… 4th… 38th… 120th simulation: Success…
Checking for errors: 401. Correcting…
1st simulation, success.
2nd simulation, success.
3rd simulation, success.
Starting collecting data:
6th Stage of Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon.
1st simulation: Failure…
2nd simulation: Failure…
3rd… 4th…
Error: Insufficient Profound Energy
Turning off Knowledge…"
Jean's eyes lost their azure glow and regained consciousness. He looked at his hand with an hint of amazement.
"Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon… So that's why I felt something missing, I need the bloodline of the Ice Phoenix to use the Profound art's full potential…"
He glanced at his left hand and called out. "Hey Jasmine."
Some seconds passed before he received a reply. "Yes?"
"Do you know where I can find the Ice Phoenix's bloodline?"
"..." There was some surprise on Jasmine's expression before she mysteriously answered. "The place where you can find it is currently out of your range… No, it will be too far from your range even for the next years, unless by some miracles… Anyway, you can't reach that place, why?"
"The Frozen End Divine Arts is the Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon in disguise, and I need the Ice Phoenix blood to use it at its full potential."
"...Say sike right now."
Jean summoned the Tree of Frozen End on one palm. "The one who wrote the profound formula is a person from a place called Snow Song Realm, and is named Mu Bingyun…"
His eyes started to glow once more with an azure flow, and his mouth moved alone. "The Snow Song Realm is a middle star realm of the Realm of the Gods…"
Jean blinked, and stood silent for a dozen of seconds, realizing something. "Jasmine, you…"
"...I come from the Realm of the Gods, now that I think about it, you said that you wanted to be the strongest person existing, right? If you really want that, I suggest you to stay here and never go on the Realm of the Gods, that place will be hell for someone full of treasures like you…"
While Jasmine was talking, Jean listened to her. But he completely ignored the second part of her speech.
When she finished, she glanced at the profound formula and chuckled. "...I don't know if you have a heaven-defying luck or what. You have the Phoenix Blood, Dragon God Blood, Evil God's veins, Rage God's profound art, the Heavenly Star Wolf's Hell Tome… Not to talk about your watch and the Demon King, Nahemah. Now you found the Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon…
I am starting to have fear about what would you get when you enter the Tyrant Profound Realm… Or what would you get when you reach the Divine Way…"
"...I'll not ask anything then, at least not now." Jean shook his head, surprising Jasmine.
"Huh? I thought you would ask about the strong people there, or at least the great realms known there…"
"Right now that doesn't have anything to do with me, even if I am the strongest in the Profound Sky Continent, I am still an Emperor Profound Practitioner, I still have a long way to reach the Divine Way."
Jean extended both of his palms forward and smirked. "So, it is better for me to think about the present…"
The phoenix's flames appeared in his right palm, and the tree of frozen end appeared on his left palm.
"...Jean? What are you doing?" Jasmine asked with an ominous feeling growing inside her.
"Fusing them."
"Pfft! You WHAT?!" She yelled in shock, and looked as the phoenix flames and the ice tree slowly approached towards each other.
"Stop! Are you insane?! You are actually trying to integrate Ice Phoenix's Ice and Phoenix's Flames together through Evil God Seeds' power? These completely conflicting energy can only reject and cancel each other out, and will never have the possibility to fuse together!
Suppressing one another, complementing one another, engendering one another… these are the most basic natural laws of primordial chaos. Doing this, is simply trying to defy the natural laws, defying the way of heavens! How could that possibly succeed?!"
Jean thought about it and found the most appropriate answer to her question, his eyes glowed with an azure light for a third time and his face turned extremely serious.
"Jasmine, how many times have you seen weird things since we met?"
"What do you mean?"
"You saw my powers, right? Fear can generate immense terror, Glutton can devour anything, Miracle will let me live in any situation and get stronger, Visionary permits me to create anything my mind is thinking.
...I'll tell you something no one should know, about the Almighty. The Almighty has 3 core powers, not just 1. You already saw the first power and a part of the second.
The first core power is that I can absorb anything I want, and gain its properties, like with Xiao Luocheng, when I absorbed his cultivation real.
The second core is that any ability and power I recognize will never harm me. If one uses… I don't know, instant death abilities... as long as I recognize them, then they will never harm me in any way.
I'll let you guess the third core power."
Jasmine immediately replied. "See the future."
"Wrong. Manipulate the future."
As soon as he finished to speak, Jasmine closed her mouth in extreme shock.
"Why do you think the Grand Asgard Mistress accepted my request even if it was taboo sharing profound arts to outsiders? It is because I transformed the previous future into one where she accepted my request.
This is how I broke Xiao Luocheng's Tiger Soul Sword in an instant, I turned that future into one where the blade would break on my hands. This is why it is called Almighty, it has the power to do things that shouldn't be possible."
"..." She couldn't come up with a proper answer.
"Then, do you remember the year where I was trapped? How many people can create that many dolls at the Sovereign Profound Realm? They should be more than a billion."
Jasmine hesitated and answered. "A Divine Master should-"
"I'll change my question then… How many people can stop the time around me and create a pocket dimension from nothing?"
"...The Creation God that created the Eternal Heaven Pearl…"
"...How many people can resurrect someone over and over again, for an undetermined amount of time, without any consequences? How many people can seal you inside the Sky Poison Pearl? Not to talk about see through it and finding you? How many people can be so mysterious that not even reality is able to show their original body and appear as a glitch in the existence?!"
"...No one…"
"Exactly! If they can do such law-breaking things, why I, who possess the profound veins of the person who stood over Heaven and manipulated the elements like they were part of him, can't do anything?!"
Jasmine stood silent, and just noticed something weird. As Jean finished to speak, the flame on his left palm and the ice on his right palm already disappeared, replaced from a sky blue flame.
Jean moved the palm holding that ice flame up, gazing at it. "That's why, if I want to make that person talk, if I want to be the strongest person ever existed. Then I should be the one to make the laws, not follow them…"
He closed his palm, and the ice flame spread out, making small holes in the bluestone ground.
"...Just like it should be…"