The two members of the God Clan accompanying Ryan exchanged a glance and could not help but smile wryly.

They had been assigned by the Elders Council to bring a suspicious necromancy scholar back to the God Realm for questioning.

But as it stood, the mission did not seem so easy to complete.

At least Ryan appeared completely uninterested.

Ryan asked, "Hey, what did you two call me over for?"

"Ahem, Ryan, the Elders Council assigned us a mission. We need to locate a necromancy martial artist who might be connected to recent anomalies in the Netherworld. The elders ordered that he must be captured. We learned he just entered the cultivation area."

"Understood."

Ryan withdrew his gaze from the prism and said, "No force is allowed inside the cultivation area. Even if you find him, it won’t help. It’s better if you send someone inside to keep an eye on him. If you can persuade him to come back to the God Realm, that’s ideal. If not, just keep watching him and report to me once he exits."

"But..."

Ryan cut them off without giving them a chance to speak, turning his back. "Enough. I have cultivation plans to attend to and no time to waste here. Wait until he comes out, then find me at the Cultivation Tower."

The two God Clan members could only watch helplessly as Ryan left.

Nearby, Gideon was also staring intently at the cultivation area.

He wanted nothing more than to tear Fang Heng to pieces.

Unfortunately, Fang Heng had entered the trial area, and once he was inside, he never came out, leaving Gideon powerless.

"Do you think hiding inside will save you from a fight?"

Gideon snorted coldly.

"We’ll see how long you can hide!"

...

Three days later.

In a state of cultivation, Fang Heng opened his eyes again, a streak of elite light appearing in his gaze.

As his academic abilities improved, the penalties for studying multiple disciplines in the late stage increased, and the energy points required to level up grew substantially.

Thus, the time spent in the late stage exceeded what he had anticipated.

But he finally completed it.

Fang Heng opened his game personal log to check the details of his academic levels.

[Character: Fang Heng.]

[Current mastered disciplines: 15.]

[Necromancy—Super-God level—Level: 42+140 (extra foundation levels).]

[Sacred Study—Super-God level—Level: 4+140 (extra foundation levels).]

[Hell Studies—Super-God level—Level: 38+140 (extra foundation levels).]

[Origin Power (special discipline)—God-level—Breaking Limit.]

[Natural Science—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Occult—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Spatial Science—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Alchemy—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Sealing Art—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Mysticism—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Elemental Science—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Psychic—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Prayer/Curse Studies—God-level—Level: MAX.]

[Summoning—Master level—Level: 22.]

[Astrology—Master level—Level: 17.]

Among all the disciplines he had mastered, summoning and astrology were not maxed because the cultivation area did not allow absorption of the corresponding energy.

Although not extremely rare disciplines, summoning and astrology could not be improved through direct energy infusion to gain experience, so they could not be leveled up in that way.

Fang Heng continued checking the game information.

Each discipline that reached God-level max provided an additional 5% all-attribute bonus from the Titan bloodline skill.

Combined with the attribute bonuses from the disciplines themselves, the total predicted increase in all attributes was about 70%.

His combat strength would not exactly double, but it would increase by roughly fifty percent.

For an ordinary person, increasing combat strength by fifty percent in just three days was terrifying.

Still, Fang Heng felt it was not enough.

The attribute increase alone had not reached its limit.

To achieve further explosive growth, he would need to leverage the power of the game itself.

Finding the remaining two game orbs was the correct path.

But how to locate them?

He had no direction.

Fang Heng felt a bit helpless, thinking he might have been too greedy.

He decided to take it step by step and first level up the last two academic skills.

The cultivation area on the Dimensional Emperor Island charged based on time, so he had gained a huge advantage. Leveling up the skills to full cost him less than ten thousand dimensional crystals.

Fang Heng suddenly had a strange feeling—he suspected the Dimensional Emperor had opened the Martial Apex Tournament as a form of charity.

The Dimensional Emperor was too generous to martial artists.

He still had many dimensional crystals left.

Since summoning and astrology could not gain experience through direct energy absorption, he decided to seek one-on-one guidance from a teacher for cultivation.

The Martial Apex Tournament participants were top-tier, so the instructors provided would likely be excellent as well.

Fang Heng pondered, examining the two remaining unmaxed skills in his skill panel, when he suddenly had an idea, raising his eyebrows.

Astrology.

He wondered if astrology could help him locate information related to the remaining two orbs.

Astrology was largely about combining information to deduce present and future events.

Predicting the future was extremely difficult, with a low accuracy rate—5% success was considered very lucky.

But if enough information was available and the caster’s ability was high, the success rate could reach 30% for predicting current events.

It was worth trying.

First, he would max out astrology.

Fang Heng’s mind stirred as he vanished from the cultivation space.

...

In the cultivation area.

A white-robed elder saw Fang Heng return and nodded slightly, praising him: "I heard about your cultivation. You’ve done very well. I have guarded here for so many years and have never seen anyone cultivate as fast as you."

What impressed the elder most was that Fang Heng had not focused on a single discipline.

Judging by the prism’s high responsiveness, he had absorbed an immense amount of energy from multiple disciplines in just three days.

This meant Fang Heng had cultivated multiple disciplines simultaneously, each reaching a very high level.

Such talent was truly remarkable.

"You flatter me, senior," Fang Heng said, clasping his fists. "I wish to apply for one-on-one guided cultivation."

"Very well, follow me."

The elder led Fang Heng out of the cultivation area, along a pathway, into another cultivation section on the left.

In this cultivation area, teleportation magic arrays were arranged in a circle.

At a glance, there were over fifty magic arrays. More than ten glowed faintly, indicating they were occupied.

Unlike before, a plaque stood in front of each array, listing the disciplines the instructor could teach.

Fang Heng stepped forward and quickly scanned the plaques in front of the magic arrays.

Roughly observing, each instructor could teach at least three disciplines.