Chapter 245: Promotion


    The lightning phoenix entered Adam''s body, and faced the Sword Essence, which stood in it''s way. Sword lights fired out of the sword, encircling the phoenix, but the Divine Bird manoeuvred out of the encirclement and tried to rush past the sword.


    The Phoenix seemingly teleported as it flew around the sword lights,pletely avoiding them, and Adam''s eyes shined as he watched. He could feel the insights of space in the bird''s movements!


    Adam quickly had his Sword Essence corner the bird and sent countless sword lights at it, forcing it to use it''s movement technique. Like this, a stalemate started, with the Sword Essence attacking and the lightning phoenix dodging.


    An hour quickly passed, and Adam almostughed out loud as a dark purple vortex appeared in his brain. Through observing the movements of the bird, Adam had miraculously managed to understand the Essence of Space!


    The purple vortex approached the phoenix, and it suddenly found itself unable to move. Adam''s Sword Essence, which had missed everyone of it''s strikes until now, struck the bird, and shed it in half with a single sword.


    Adam''s Sword Essence didn''tck power, but it was simply unable to hit the bird no matter how many times it struck. Originally, Adam would have been forced to spend weeks if not months to continuously attack the bird to exhaust it, but thanks to his new Essence, the bird''s extraordinary movement technique was rendered useless.


    The phoenix, which had been wrecking Adam''s body and healing it continuously, dissolved into energy as it struck Adam''s centre of power. His liquid pirs of Qi had long been dissolved and turned into a semi solid sphere. With the arrival of the phoenix''s energy, the sphere finally solidified.


    The clouds in the sky disappeared, meaning Adam''s tribtion, Heaven''s Test, was over, and he had officially been promoted to Gold Rank, the Inner Core Realm.


    But as Adam thought the transformation was over, something rather shocking took ce. His Sword Essence, which had been fighting until now, as well as his Space Essence, returned to his brain, and went straight for his soul. As the three came in contact with each other, they began shining, so brightly Adam couldn''t even see anything.


    All he felt was a strange feeling in his soul. Minutes passed, and the light slowly disappeared, finally letting Adam see what happened. Much to his shock, his Sword and Space Essences had merged with his Soul!


    His Soul had his appearance, and it looked exactly like him now, after the strengthening it went through many times now. But now, it was holding a sword in it''s hand, which was exactly Adam''s Sword Essence. Moreover, slightly behind it, was the purple vortex which seemed to absorb everything that tried to get near his soul, even light.


    This was weird on so many levels Adam nked out for a few seconds. Shouldn''t only Golden Idols be able to merge their Essence with their Soul? How was he, a Gold Rank, able to do so? As far as Adam knew, this was unprecedented


    Moreover, this was different from the soul merging Golden Idols would go through. The reason the souls of beings under the Legend Rank looked exactly like them was because their soul was still neutral.


    The moment a Legend merged their Soul with their Essence, the soul would take the form of the Essence. For example, Baphomet, whose soul was an ember of Hellfire.


    But Adam''s Soul still looked identical to his real appearance, his two Essences now stood around his soul. His Sword Essence was held by his Soul, and his Space Essence stood behind it, seemingly shielding it from the outside world.


    And here was another problem, a Golden Idol should only be able to merge their soul with a single Essence, but two of Adam''s Essences had merged with his Soul.


    Although he didn''t know how nor why this happened, Adam could feel it was a good thing, for now at least.


    His body previously gave him an increased affinity to the Water and Fire Concepts, allowing him to cultivate them faster at a lesser costpared to the others. Now, he could feel a simr affinity toward Space and the Sword, which was great for him.


    While was happened was strange, Adam felt his promotion went even better than he originally thought. Another change was his domain, which had be ten times bigger. He could also feel he could, if he wanted, merge one of his Essences with his domain, but first he sent a look at his status.


    [Name: Adam Collins]


    [Rank: Gold]


    [Level: 100]


    [Race: Higher Human]


    [ss: Yin Space Sword Supreme]


    [Inner Energy: 100 Million]


    Rules: -Sovereign Sword Essence Early


    -Sovereign Space Essence Early


    -Sovereign Concept of Water Apex


    -Sovereign Concept of Fire Apex


    -Sovereign Concept of Wind Apex


    -Sovereign Concept of Spirit Apex


    -Sovereign Concept of Self Apex


    -Sovereign Concept of ughter Apex


    Domain: 10 km in radius.


    As he looked at it, his eyes quickly went on his ss, and he couldn''t help but murmur to himself ''What kind of name is that?''


    He decided to ignore it and tried to infuse his Essences into his domain.


    After a few minutes of experimentation, Adam concluded he could only infuse one of his Essences into his domain at a time. When he did so, his domain would be bigger and stronger, and it became much deadlier.


    He now understood why Legends were thought to be invincible. Adam could feel that even if a thousand Heroes and Sages were to rush at him at the same time, he would be able to one shot them all if he infused his Sword Essence in his domain.


    Using only the power of his Essence, Adam could use a B Rank Skill without using any of his Aura. If he merged it with his domain though, he could use A Rank skills within he is domain. This meant that no matter how many people entered inside his domain, he could attack them all at the same time with his skill [Chop], and the only price he would have to pay would be the Qi to maintain his domain.


    Before a Legend, other people were no different than mortals. Only the strongest Heroes who opened their domain may resist. But even they would only be able to put up a fight against Legends who had a Basic Essence at the Early Level.


    As for Adam, he was invincible for those below the Legendary Rank, including Sovereigns. Adam was a Legend in all but name, his two Essences were as strong as a Basic Essence at the Late Level, and his body was just as strong.


    Moreover, Adam had the Space and Sword Essences, meaning he had ultimate attacking power and manoeuvrability. He could now teleport like other Legends, if he did not use his domain it would cost him some Qi, but if he infused his Space Essence into his domain then he could teleport anywhere within his domain with absolutely no cost.


    Infusing an Essence into his domain turned it 5 km bigger, meaning when he infused it with his Space Concept he could teleport anywhere within 15 km. Instantly.


    Also, Adam could set space beacons wherever he wanted, and teleport to them. The cost would depend on the distance, but with his 100 Millions units of Qi, Adam could teleport from one end of Providence to the other.


    He had already set one of those beacons into the Divine Capital as he was able to ce them back when he only had a Space Concept, as they were nothing more than a personal mark in space. Only he could use it.


    Using a meagre amount of Qi, Adam appeared above the Divine Capital, and was finally ready for the next phase of his ns.