Chapter 83: Transforming Body, Law Transformation (3)
The next day, the warm sunlight of Blue Star gently hit Grey as he sat cross-legged in the living room.
He slowly opened his eyes, which flickered with purple-black lightning currents.
"Success." Grey smiled as he stood up.
He had fully stabilized his law transformation. Now, he could seamlessly utilize it just like he used his sword.
Speaking of swords, Grey had also been looking for other weapon techniques, and he had already found several high-level ones.
They came directly from Young Master Zeryth, the abyssal being he had eliminated a few months back.
"His spatial ring was a treasure trove," Grey said with a sigh.
He honestly hadn’t expected much from the guy, but there was more inside than he imagined.
Among the items were the Abyssal Wall and Abyssal Convergence techniques, actual abyssal arts written in the Abyssal language. He had swiftly comprehended them and turned them into his own techniques.
And that wasn’t all. The guy even had several weapon techniques, including spear, saber, and hand-to-hand combat techniques.
Grey wanted more weapon techniques. He planned to compile all of these into one perfect technique he could use. He believed that once he mastered it, no one would be able to match him in combat. He would become invincible.
Of course, that was something for the future, after he finished compiling them.
Grey then checked his notifications. Valeria had sent him a good morning message and mentioned what happened yesterday. He quickly replied before standing up.
He had a lot of things to do today, things he had been putting off because of the High Order.
Before, he had acted cautiously, not even revealing his identity as a 2-star Formation Master to the public. After all, he was still considered a criminal in Nova City, with a bounty and a search warrant on his head. Valeria knew about it and had done her best to help him fend off people who came after him. But now, he no longer needed to be afraid.
With the Law Transformation, his strength had increased substantially. He could even use his Death Ascension Art again. There was no more need for caution.
On a side note, there had been major changes in his evolutionary path as well. He now felt several new connections emerging from the Creator Invocation, as the creator of the Nexus Evolutionary Path. A lot of people had already stepped into the path and became 1st rank evolvers.
"I’ll be paying Nova City a visit soon," Grey said with a cold smile as he called Mimi over and left the mansion.
He had now fully manifested his law and transformed using it. With the law came special abilities. He hadn’t fully explored his new, profound law abilities yet, but he understood what they did. Unfortunately, there were no live targets on which to use his newly formed abilities related to heavenly tribulation.
Hence there was only thing to do, go out and attend to other matters.
His next destination was the Formation Association.
...
Inside the main office of the Formation Association sat Old Man Werner Brown. He had a puzzled look on his face as he stared at a complex diagram in his hand.
"But how does this node connect to the other one without losing energy?" he muttered in confusion. "Was Master playing a prank on me? How can such a complex formation even work?"
He poured himself a glass of wine and took a sip. Then he checked the time, and his expression darkened. "Master will be here any moment now."
"What will he say when he finds out I still haven’t made any progress?"
Just as he said that, the door to his office opened, and someone walked in.
The newcomer was a handsome young man with long black hair tied in a ponytail. He wore casual clothes, a simple white T-shirt, a black cardigan, and short black shoes.
"Yo," Grey greeted casually as he entered the room.
If anyone had seen Grey walking in so casually, they would have been shocked. After all, whose room was this?
It belonged to an exalted 2-star Formation Master, the overseer of this entire branch. Normally, one would have to wait months just to meet him, but Grey had walked in like he owned the place.
"Master!" Old Man Werner quickly stood up with a respectful look on his face. "You’re here!"
At the same time, Mimi, who had entered with Grey, looked at Werner and waved its cute paws at him as if greeting him. "Mimi~!"
"Greetings, master’s pet," Werner said with a smile.
"I told you, old man, don’t call me master," Grey said, looking slightly annoyed. "I’m literally seventeen years old."
"But you are my master. In a master-disciple relationship, shouldn’t I call you that? It would be disrespectful not to," Werner replied sincerely.
Grey didn’t respond. He just sat down in the main chair where Werner had been sitting.
Werner Brown was an immortal cultivator. Grey had met him during his 2-star Formation Master examination. After witnessing Grey’s skills, Werner had been utterly convinced and begged to become his disciple.
At first, Grey had refused, but the old man was too persistent. He somehow even found Grey’s mansion and started visiting frequently.
In the end, Grey accepted, not because he was tired of the man’s persistence, but because he was moved by Werner’s words.
He still remembered them vividly.
"Master Grey, please teach me your ways. This humble old man has been pursuing formations since I was young. It has always been my dream to build a perfect formation, one that can completely block out the corruption fields and keep them from entering the city. When I was a child, my home city, a small third-rate city, was swallowed by a massive corruption field. Everyone died, including my parents. Only a handful of us survived.
Since that day, I swore to myself that I would find a way to eliminate the corruption fields so that no other city would suffer the same fate. Over the years, many Formation Masters have tried and failed. They could only suppress the corruption slightly, never remove it completely.
But you are different, Master Grey. You’re only seventeen, yet your understanding of formations far surpasses mine. Your Golden Ratio Cosmic Energy Conversion Diagram opened my eyes! If I study under you and receive your guidance, maybe one day I can fulfill my dream, to create a formation that can forever prevent the corruption fields from spreading inside cities."
And that was how they had officially become master and disciple.
The old man’s words had given Grey a great deal of inspiration. A formation that could completely block corruption fields, even ones created by the High Order, that was what he was now working toward.
And from that very inspiration, he had already forged a formation.