Kayden’s strength grew exponentially at this moment. His attack with Yan could now be replicated instantly, without any delay or strain on his mind. With this newfound power, Kayden had surpassed 99% of all the Ninth-Ray mages that had ever existed, his strength reaching unprecedented levels. There were only a handful of beings capable of something like this.
Kayden began solidifying and testing the parameters of his soul, knowing this would take even more time. Years passed in the blink of an eye, transforming into centuries. After millennia, he managed to resolve the issue with the path of resurrection by anchoring a piece of his soul to his body. This fragment was vital to him, and if removed, it could force him into hibernation for a long time.
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His new form granted him advantages no mortal should have. First, his body no longer mattered. Anyone wanting to kill him would need to be able to manipulate souls or cast spells capable of reaching his. The likelihood of someone possessing such abilities was nearly nonexistent. Killing Kayden’s physical body would only force him into hibernation, making him practically immortal against ordinary people and most geniuses.
Once everything was in place, Kayden began ascending to the Fifth Realm. Again, it was easy, but this time, the ease was almost ridiculous. He effortlessly defended himself from the ascension lightning bolts, which could easily strike his soul and cause significant damage. However, Kayden merely suppressed the lightning with greater force. His aura slashes were so strong they could tear space into thousands of pieces, just from the remnants of his attack.
Kayden could now unleash his maximum-strength slash three times consecutively without any difficulty. The first slash would shatter all the space around him. The second would break the containment created by the universe, something ordinarily incredibly difficult. Luckily, Kayden was using only his space manipulation path. The third slash consumed the void itself.
These three attacks were surreal. Kayden used one for the eighth bolt and another for the ninth bolt, and he still had one left. This level of power was beyond comprehension, and the worst part was that Kayden still had much more room for improvement.
Ascending to the Fifth Realm did nothing to enhance his strength. The lightning bolts no longer posed a threat to him. At this point, only Kayden could increase his power. Nothing else could improve him further.
Once again, Kayden went into seclusion to push his strength to its limits. The easiest way was to expand his sixth sense, which was also a way of increasing his existence. His spells and attacks were already perfect—billions of years of study had ensured that. There was little he could do to improve them further. Expanding his sixth sense, however, had a direct impact on his power.
The larger his reach, the more mana he could convert. Kayden spent the next thousands of years solely on this process. It was slow but constant progress. In the Fifth Realm, he managed to extend his sixth sense to a range of ten thousand kilometers. At this point, he surpassed any mortal limit. His reach was the same as it had been when he was in the Sixth Realm.
Once again, Kayden could unleash his maximum strength three times in a row. The difference was that his strength had grown exponentially. In theory, it should have increased only tenfold to maintain proportionality, but mana didn’t work that way. His power had grown to something between twenty and thirty times.
A single attack from Kayden at this point could almost split his former planet, Earth, in two. Earth had a diameter of around twelve thousand kilometers, and Kayden’s attack could reach nearly thirty thousand kilometers deep.
This was not the kind of power a mere mortal should possess. Kayden no longer stood on the same level as any other being on the planet and was likely among the most talented in the entire universe.
Ten thousand kilometers was the limit of the Fifth Realm. To go beyond it, Kayden would have to ascend. It was as if the universe imposed a barrier to prevent its inhabitants from exceeding a certain level of power.
Kayden decided to wait. He could have ascended immediately, but there was something he wanted to learn, and he also needed to seek battles to improve his strength. At this moment, he felt like a flower in a greenhouse.
His strength had grown by thousands of times, but he had yet to find worthy opponents. In a way, he was stuck with only mental battles. That’s why he needed to leave this planet as soon as possible.
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The time Han spent in isolation was extremely beneficial for him. The young man had grown both in strength and mentality. He was now in the Sixth Realm, with Nine Rays and a perfect path.
He hadn’t seen his master in thousands of years, but he still followed Kayden’s teachings diligently. Han pursued perfection in each realm and sought to strengthen his mind every day. However, he had encountered the same problem as Kayden.
Han no longer had any opponents. He had easily massacred everyone in the Seventh Realm without any difficulty, and for some reason, this seemed to be the limit of power in this world. No one could go beyond it.
Seventh-realm mages were capable of understanding a law in an incomplete form. To advance to the Eighth Realm, they needed to grasp the law fully, and in the Ninth Realm, they had to learn how to use those laws.
These seemed like simple steps, but in reality, each one was a massive hurdle. The world in which the mage lived was also highly significant, as each planet had a certain power ceiling. Breaking through that ceiling was extremely difficult.
Once the first native mage broke that ceiling, the others would find it much easier to do so. The problem was that no one had ever managed to achieve this.
Han was entirely focused on elevating his path to the level of an incomplete law, but the problem was that he was failing. He had no idea how to do it, nor could he find anyone who had succeeded before.