Chapter 541: Improving Skills
Jack walked into the Dao chamber of the Hall of Trials’ seventh floor. He could scarcely believe it. He’d come all the way here, to a foreign world filled with monsters, and earned the right to their top inheritances. The kind that no one in history had ever seen before.
His steps through the room were slow, reverent even. Over a hundred crystal spheres lined the shelves on the wall. Each contained insights to one or several Daos—it was a tremendous wealth of knowledge.
Of course, Jack wasn’t interested in collecting them. His own path had already been set. He only looked for crystal spheres relevant to the exact Daos he followed.
Over the years, his Dao had gone through several transformations. First, it was just the Fist. It was later enriched with several other Daos, including Power, Weakness, Indomitable Will… Those were all concepts which formed his foundation and the basis of his own, personal Dao, which he developed at the D-Grade.
Some time later, as the Daos he followed rose to new heights, they were diluted to some of the most primal and powerful concepts in existence. Space, Time, Life, Death. His spectrum of Dao had narrowed back down to four, all spearheaded by the Fist. It was these fundamental powers of the universe that he now pondered—their secrets held the path to the peak of mastery, he knew that, but they were also unbelievably difficult. Even with all his experiences, even with the many top-level inheritances he’d received from several Archons, Jack was only now scratching the surface of what was possible.
Black Hole was the combination of Space and Death—a potent force which had evolved into his killer move. He still hadn’t mastered it. Every time he used it, he put himself in as much danger as his opponent, the black hole merely a bomb he held with the business end pointed outwards. Refining his understanding of it was one of his main goals.
The other was exploring his other Dao Vision—that of a woman creating a universe. A combination of Time and Life, a power at least on par with a black hole, if not at an higher level.
Then came Entropy, which he’d only recently experienced. It was the fusion of Time and Death, similar yet different to a black hole. He knew precious little about it, but having felt its effects in his battle against Axelor, he was confident it was something inside his purview. Whether it would become a skill of its own or just an amplification of another, he had no idea.
Following the theme of his four main Daos combining into pairs, the only combination remaining was Space and Life. Jack had no idea what that could look like. A white hole, maybe—the theorized endpoint of a black hole in another universe? Or, perhaps, the white hole wasn’t a separate combination but part of the Life and Time thing the woman in the Dao Vision had going on?