Judging by color alone, this unknown soul power formed by fusing Five Elements soul power with space soul power looked similar to light-attribute soul power.
But Chu Chengzhou clearly sensed the difference. Light-attribute soul power carried a bright aura, whereas this unknown fused soul power gave the sense that it could create all things.
In terms of tier, this white soul power born of fusion ranked above the Four Symbols and the Five Elements.
That was only natural. After all, this white soul power was fused from Five Elements soul power and the high-end space soul power, so its tier would of course be above the Five Elements.
After thinking it over, Chu Chengzhou took wind, thunder, light, darkness, and time soul power in turn and fused each with this white soul power of unknown attribute.
As expected, the fusion succeeded, but there was no change in the laws tab of the attribute panel.
"Ah, how annoying."
With a helpless sigh, the clueless Chu Chengzhou lay back on the recliner and recalled the novels from his previous life that mentioned the word chaos, wondering if they might offer a reference.
Though the worlds differ and the elements that combine into chaos may not be the same, in many worlds earth, water, fire, and wind fuse into chaos. It was not without reference value.
As he flipped through one wild novel after another in his mind, suddenly Chu Chengzhou thought of a red-haired patriarch whose later years were doomed, and of a heaven-defying physique he described: the Chaotic Body.
The Chaotic Body could evolve all things and also destroy all things. It was a physique favored by heaven and earth.
At once, Chu Chengzhou raised his right hand. A trace of the white, unknown-attribute soul power fused from the Five Elements and space rose at the tip of his index finger.
If this wisp of white soul power that seemed able to create all things was the power of law, then would it not be able to evolve all things?
"To evolve all things is Great Creation. To destroy all things is Great Destruction. I have Creation now, so where is Destruction?"
Gazing at that wisp of soul power at his right fingertip that he had named Creation, a spark flashed in Chu Chengzhou's mind. He thought of the eleven basic elements. Excluding the six attributes that could double-fuse into Creation—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and space—there remained wind, thunder, light, darkness, and time.
With that in mind, his left fingertip brought forth a trace each of wind, thunder, light, darkness, and time soul power, then fused them together, forming a wisp of soul power where cyan, purple, white, black, and gray intertwined.
"No, no, it should be like this."
Seeing the five-colored interweave after fusing the five types, Chu Chengzhou realized his mistake. He first dispersed the five-fold fusion at his fingertip, then once more released a trace each of wind, thunder, light, darkness, and time soul power.
Next, wind, thunder, light, and darkness fused, turning into a wisp of black-purple soul power.
At the same time, following the progress bar for the law he had named Creation: [Creation (0.1%)], another line of [??? (0.1%)] appeared.
But this black-purple four-fold fused soul power was not his goal. On the basis of the black-purple soul power formed by the fusion of wind, thunder, light, and darkness, Chu Chengzhou again fused in a trace of time soul power.
In an instant, the black-purple unknown soul power and the gray time soul power blended, turning into a wisp of black soul power that radiated an aura of destruction.
As expected, the laws tab on the attribute panel showed another [??? (0.1%)].
"Just as I thought."
Looking at the two unknown law progress bars that had appeared one after the other in the laws tab, Chu Chengzhou could not help but smile.
Chaos evolves all things and can also destroy all things. It contains two opposing properties, one Creation, one Destruction.
There are eleven basic elements. Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth fuse into the Five Elements. The Five Elements fuse with space to become Creation.
So what of the unknown Destruction?
He did not know what wind, thunder, light, and darkness would form when fused, but he was certain that this four-fold fusion could correspond to the Five Elements. On the basis of this four-fold fusion, if one then blended in time, nine times out of ten it would form one of the two great properties of chaos: Destruction.
In the next moment, the Creation soul power at his right fingertip fused with the Destruction soul power at his left fingertip.
At once, black and white soul power collided and intertwined, then turned into a wisp of hazy azure soul power that carried the intent to evolve all things and also to destroy all things.
At the same time, on the AFK bar of the attribute panel, another [??? (0.1%)] appeared.
"Hahaha, thank you, red-haired patriarch."
Chu Chengzhou laughed, as happy as a child of one hundred and sixty-plus jin. With a turn of thought, he renamed it and placed it in the tenth AFK slot that had opened up after completing the Element Fusion secret method.
"Oh, still one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight days?"
Staring at [Chaos (0.1%)] in the AFK bar for three seconds, Chu Chengzhou spoke in mild surprise.
It was somewhat unexpected. The chaos law seed, formed by repeatedly fusing the eleven basic elements, required the same AFK leveling time to fill the law progress bar as the fused laws like Four Symbols, Five Elements, and space-time, only twice as long as a single basic element law.
Chu Chengzhou: time until ascending to the Chaos God Position, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight days.
Excited, Chu Chengzhou turned his gaze to the AFK bar on the attribute panel. After a moment's thought, he placed his self-created claw technique, which he had removed while AFK leveling the skill for battle armor crafting, into the ninth AFK slot that had opened up after Flower Bloom in an Instant leveled up.
The six soul bones he had arranged for his little sister took up six AFK slots. Battle armor crafting took one. The chaos law took one. Distraction Control and the claw technique took two. That neatly filled all ten AFK slots.
He looked up at the night. Seeing that dawn was only a few hours away, the excited Chu Chengzhou had no intention of returning to make up sleep. He took to the air from Heaven Dou City and flew toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
Chu Chengzhou: staying up late to cultivate? Stay up late to become a god.
The moon set and the sun rose. Near noon, when Chu Chengzhou returned to his own residence, the original three major soul cores in his body (Four Symbols, space, and time) had already been replaced by a chaos soul core in the lower dantian of his abdomen, chaos and blood-and-qi attribute soul cores in the middle dantian at his chest, and chaos and spiritual attribute soul cores in the upper dantian between his brows, still condensed by means of the Yin-Yang Complementary Method.
Four Symbols, space, and time could not compare with high-end chaos.
Having grasped the power of chaos, his own "components" naturally had to be upgraded.
Back in the study, Chu Chengzhou took up brush and paper and wrote down the gold-grade secret method Creation Hammer, as well as the battle armor crafting method he currently mastered for Thousand Refinements.
Afterward, Chu Chengzhou went to the small courtyard beside the training grounds and sought out Ma Jieke, who was continuing to optimize the soul tool array for Thousand Refinements battle armor compatibility.