Divine Emperor of Death

Chapter 4958  Considerations For Essence

Obtaining desolate heavenly flames wasn't a problem since he just needed to have someone undergo tribulation and throw them karmic sin, combined with his own Will, using Enigmatic Heart Laws as though he was willing to protect them from the heavens. He was confident this would work, but it might flip the life of that person, possibly making them a passive Divergent or worse.

As for obtaining desolate heavenly wind, he could only rely on Zephya to somehow exceed some kind of limit and receive a punishment tribulation that is said to target a spirit's own attribute while possessing his Will based on a similar scheme he had thought of before. Or, he needed her to undergo her Exalt Tribulation under strenuous circumstances of possessing immense karmic burden.

Davis was willing to share nearly all secrets he knew to allow Zephya to bear such karmic burden and make her attract a Desolate Heavenly Tribulation, even possibly cause her to become a Desolate Divergent like himself. After all, she was already an Anarchic Divergent, and so was Fiora.

He was only worried that Fiora would become a Desolate Divergent like himself.

However, letting them face the Celestial Transcendent, the Sky Word Emperor, and the Twelve-Winged Seraphim Ancestor, he wasn't sure of this plan. Moreover, due to different racial traits, Zephya might face someone else entirely.

Although the prowess of these celestial entities would be low compared to his own tribulation, their comprehension of Laws cannot be underestimated. Their skill was so high that they could play with their prey.

Even he had almost died at the hands of the Twelve-Winged Seraphim Ancestor despite maintaining an edge in terms of prowess.

Regardless, he also needed Zephya to achieve a mutation once again and become a bearer of desolate heavenly wind. This will evidently make her a mutated Celestial Spirit, but regardless, he needed her to become this, or his Essence Gathering Cultivation would stagnate, never to achieve complete unity and coherence and remain unstable, becoming a liability rather than an asset.

Then he would have to discard it and use the Grand Chaos Body Art's modified version to practice the Essence Gathering Cultivation as Little Quentin does. But because the Empyrean Vessel had already unified the Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation, there were two possibilities.

He needed to either start from the scratch regarding the essence and body or just puncture the lower dantian, cause energy to leak away slowly in a controlled environment, cleanse the meridians and temper it from scratch using chaos-attributed resources while removing anything of heavenly annihilative nature and then seamlessly replace the inner world with the Grand Chaos Body Art's modified version since he had already practiced the Grand Chaos Body Art.

But how could he even think of abandoning his Essence Gathering Cultivation after suffering so much for it, even getting his body blown multiple times and causing trauma to a few of his wives?

He had come too far for this to be abandoned like this, so he had no choice but to rely on Zephya, even prepared to beg her if she wasn't willing, but she had always been willing, so it didn't make sense for him to abandon his Essence Gathering Cultivation.

Everything considered, he would have to slowly improve his Essence Gathering Cultivation rather than make haste, so he decided to delay absorbing desolate heavenly lightning.

As for the possible techniques of Enigmatic Heart Laws stored in the desolate heavenly lightning and desolate heavenly spacetime he refined from the Sky Word Emperor's remnants, he didn't know if they existed or not. He needed to absorb it first to know. He was being careful too, since it was possible that the Sky Word Emperor could have also left a literal rune bomb in the remnant desolate heavenly factors. He might've been carefree, but his loyalty and faith towards the current universe were undying and unquestionable. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sacrificed himself, much less not make an effort to revive himself using the State of Divine Possession.

If he were the Sky Word Emperor, he would also do everything to prevent a desolate calamity like him from rising, much less gift techniques.

Nonetheless, thanks to the yin from Natalya, he was only a thin line away from breaking through to the Level Two Empyrean Stage.

'Alright then… time to go find the pink rabbit…'

He had no doubt he would breakthrough once he devoured this sweet rabbit. However, even further dual cultivation with Natalya would help him achieve this. It doesn't necessarily have to be Aila, but he couldn't wait to go meet her and see her infectiously sweet smile.

He felt like a child wanting his cotton candy no matter the trouble, making him feel embarrassed.

Still, he knew he had kept her waiting for a long time, so he was determined to go to her before anyone else, like Juili and Jade, who had just become his women recently.

Davis rose to his feet and left Fiora's mansion. It was empty already, but he knew where they went, causing him to extend his soul sense.

He saw Lydia still going on a journey with nearly half the harem in order to apologize for deceiving them.

'I can't believe Lydia is really doing this… but I guess she wants to show sincerity and get them to accept her so she could move forward as soon as possible… what a decisive personality… hard to think she had been contemplating suicide to reincarnate elsewhere but failed to do it because of Arc…'

Davis inwardly sighed, thanking his fifth son once again in his heart. He could understand why Fiora would want to praise him to the heavens.

His presence had played a huge role in making Lydia stay calm yet indecisive, essentially making it easier for him to deal with this matter.

This made Davis re-understand a certain principle. Being indecisive wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Many people had escaped death thanks to being indecisive when searching for treasures. Being decisive can sometimes lead to trouble as much as being indecisive. It wasn't a matter of good or bad but a matter of yin and yang. One should remain indecisive until they shouldn't when the time is right, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.

The saying 'haste makes waste', 'slow and steady wins the race', 'look before you leap', and many other proverbs were testament to this understanding.

If Lydia had been decisive, she wouldn't have gotten the life she wished for and loved.

Davis nodded repeatedly in understanding as he made his way towards Aila, who wasn't there with Lydia, but suddenly paused mid-air, noticing Lydia make her way towards Zenova's newly built mansion.

'Eh… why Zenova? She has just become my wife. There's no need for Lydia to go earn her approval this soon, considering Zenova still needs to earn approval from every one of her sisters…'

Davis's brows twitched. Although Zenova had managed to earn approval due to her supporting Natalya, it wasn't like they had forgotten her previous actions. It only made them see her in a different, approving light, and they haven't fully accepted her yet since they needed to get to know her first.

He moved forward but in another direction.

He was worried Zenova would act harshly since she wasn't the type to have a reincarnator amidst her family and couldn't help but glide in their direction to stop anything untoward from happening.

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