Chapter 496: Middle B-Grade
The powers of life, death, time, and space swam calmly through the air. They turned around each other, entwining and disengaging, forming and deforming. Where Life and Death met, they yearned to unite. The same happened for Time and Space. However, if Time met Life, or any other combination, they simply swam unhindered as if not even noticing each other.
Jack sat in the center of these four swimming ribbons. His breathing was even, his eyes closed despite the many shapes and colors manifesting around him. He was considering his Daos, marching on the slow path of unifying them. Every question he solved birthed three more. Yet, he was advancing.
His cultivation was still progressing nicely. In his inner world, energy still erupted from the portal to the Green Dragon Realm, slowly but surely saturating him. From the steady black hole, the portal to the Black Hole World, laws rippled out, subtly enhancing his own.
Both in quantity and quality, his inner world was progressing. His Daos were advancing. His already formidable power was growing fiercer by the day. He yearned to let it out.
A knock on the door snapped him out of his reverie. The swimming colors collapsed, folding into themselves before disappearing. The magic hid away. Jack opened his eyes.
Another knock on the door. “Bro,” a voice called from outside.
“Coming,” he replied. As he stood, gazing at the chairs and desk of solid wood outfitting his office, his heart was already filled with trepidation. Brock wouldn’t interrupt his cultivation for no reason. Had something happened?
He walked to the door and opened it. Brock, who’d been about to knock again, knocked on Jack’s forehead instead. “Oh,” he said. “Hey, bro. Come. We have a guest.”
“Lead the way,” Jack replied, still smiling. The two crossed the empty mansion rooms—they’d been offered house staff but declined—to arrive at the main living room. There, sitting on a fluffy chair, was the Arch Priestess, wearing her signature white robes which covered everything but her eyes and feet.