GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2363: United As One.

It took them more than two hours to absorb the energy spring, not the one hour they initially estimated. It took them this much time because the root of the energy spring was difficult to absorb.

The root was more difficult to absorb than expected because they had the divine flesh of four pathways in their body, not just the divine flesh of just the pathway of undying. The extra divine flesh caused some resistance to the absorption.

But they finally absorbed it. When they did, all the divine flesh of the pathway of undying in their bodies began to glow.

There was also the presence of a seed in their soul space. This seed was the product of the fusion of the roots of the energy spring and the core of the spring of life.

The seed had a core and many roots attached to it. The roots spread out and attached themselves to all six divine flesh of the pathway of undying, thereby creating a connection between all of them.

Instead of the divine flesh being separate and acting on their own, they can now work together. This indicated they were ready to advance to rank 7.

At least they finally have the permission of their divine flesh and the conditions needed to advance. As for success in the attempt, that was another matter entirely.

But Legion was confident as they took the box containing the rank 7 divine flesh from the slave that brought it over.

They opened the box and also opened their mouth. Then they poured the content of the box into their mouth.

The divine flesh in the box was a silver liquid mass. It flowed from the box like mercury and onto their face.

When it fell on their face, it covered up their entire face. But then it gathered itself and entered their mouth of its volition.

The silver liquid divine flesh slid down their throat and sank into their flesh. It penetrated their flesh so much that it passed the body-soul barrier to enter their soul space.

It arrived above the space above Legion-1, Legion-2, and Legion-3 since they were in charge of the pathway of undying. It fused with the glowing seed above them and pushed down on their three souls.

As the divine flesh pushed down on their souls, the three divine flesh of rank 4, rank 5, and rank 6 that used to be above their souls were knocked out of the soul space and into their bodies.

This was where the second part of advancing to rank 7 began. It was also the most difficult part of advancing.

Anyone who has met the advancement requirement won’t have a problem knocking the three divine flesh into their bodies. But the fusion of the three divine flesh into their bodies is what has caused the death of so many people.

The three divine flesh added to the previous three in the body and began changing the body again. For legends to survive this process, they must have a mastery of at least 50% of all six divine abilities of that pathway.

Achieving 50% mastery in six divine abilities in 200 years of life span is a tough order for many people. Many epic beings grow old and die trying to achieve it.

The difficulty of achieving this minimum requirement is why many people would rather give up early on and enjoy their power and extra life span as epic godclads instead of wasting what time they have striving for something they will most likely fail to achieve.

Only ambitious people with access to a lot of energy or water or talented people with innate talents that match the pathway get to meet this advancement and advance to the legendary realm.

Legion is ambitious. They have access to a lot of energy and water and have a perfect talent. So they have the right to advance to the legendary realm.

This right is unchanging even though they haven’t achieved 50% mastery in all six of their divine abilities. This lack of minimum mastery only meant that the process was more painful and took more time for them. It isn’t something they couldn’t handle.

The people outside the barrier didn’t know that they were already in the process of breaking through. But they didn’t need to see it happening to suspect that it is happening.

After all, they have already seen Legion in the energy spring and already come to the conclusion that their goal was to advance to the legendary rank. So they wouldn’t be surprised at all that Legion was advancing right before them.

It was a good thing that they didn’t witness the process because it wasn’t for the faint-hearted. Any being that wasn’t an epic god clad with the divine flesh in their bodies to help them resist would have died for witnessing the process.

Even epic godclads would have felt the spiritual impact, and it would have been strong enough to knock out the weak ones because Legion had a lot of spiritual energy in their body.

The large amount of spiritual energy in their body caused a lot of spiritual impact during the transformation. In fact, some of the spiritual energy ejected out of their bodies like steam from a pressurized pot and caused wind to stir within the barrier.

To be fair, it seemed that Legion’s body was being cooked. They were not in boiling water, but their body was being tempered by their own spiritual energy and an explosion of energy water from the rooting seed that they had formed after absorbing the energy spring and the spring of life.

Part of the reason why their advancement process was so violent was that the rooting seed was finally growing throughout their body. The second part was that there were nine other divine flesh in their body that was resisting the change.

Fortunately, their innate talent came to their rescue and calmed down the situation. Thanks to the adaptation ability, their body was able to adapt and accommodate the changes without breaking down.