Chapter 3961: Local Heaven

It took Alex a few seconds to recollect himself after the explosion and begin wondering what had happened just now.

His very first thought was that someone else was interfering with the contest. Either it was one of Ashmaker’s subordinates, or perhaps Ashmaker himself.

However, the chances of that being true were near zero. Interfering with the opponent when the contest didn’t ask for it would not be a good look for the Fire God. More than that, the Sky God stood there as the moderator. If anyone had done something deliberately, then they would have immediately been stopped.

The fact that the Sky God remained unmoving meant that no one had done anything to him. At least, not deliberately.

"What’s wrong?" the Fire God asked. "Is the Sun God struggling to form a sun of his own? Come on. Live up to your name."

Alex frowned. The man was goading him. He definitely knew something that Alex was missing. He would have to figure it out.

The image of the sun appeared behind Alex’s head once again as he used the Sun Spirit a second time. The aura from the Spirit, fueled by his powerful Qi, quickly formed a second sun before Alex.

This time, Alex watched it closely, waiting to see if it would grow unstable or not. In the beginning, as the sun itself was no more than the size of a peanut, nothing happened. However, as it grew and took more and more the shape of the sun, something suddenly began pressing on Alex’s Spiritual sea.

It was directly attacking him.

Alex held on and tried to find the source, but he couldn’t find any. As far as he could tell, the source was all around him, like the Daos of heaven, ever-present.

’Is the heaven acting against me?’ he thought. ’Can the heaven not accept two suns at once?’

That could not have been the case, surely. And yet, the suppression truly did come from all around him, meaning it had to come from the heaven.

’Or...’

Alex’s eyes slowly widened as realization hit him just then. ’It is coming from a more... local heaven.’

As soon as the stability grew larger, Alex stopped controlling the energy and let it explode out once again. Having used his Spirit twice in a row, and taken mental damage each time, Alex could feel a throbbing pain in his mind that would take a while to settle.

For now, he had to ignore it and push further.

"What’s wrong?" the Fire God asked again. "If you can’t, then we can move on, Sun God."

Alex did not answer the Fire God immediately. Instead, he lifted his palm slowly and created a sun for the third time.

This time, however, he didn’t let it grow too much. He made it no larger than the size of a large apple and kept it floating in his palm, while feeling the mild aura of the heaven pressing on him.

Or more accurately, the mild aura of an Axiom pressing upon him.

’An Axiom relating to the sun,’ Alex thought. ’An Axiom that dictates what the sun needs to be. Anything else that tries to be a sun without following the rules of this Axiom ends up failing in the end.’

Alex looked toward the Fire God finally, staring at him with cold eyes.

Instantly, he used his own Axiom. Unlike the Fire God with his Celestial realm cultivation base, around whom the Axiom persisted for simply existing, Alex had to force out his.

He attempted to push back on the Fire God’s Axiom with his own, but sadly, that was not possible. Layering his own Axiom on top of the Fire God’s Axiom appeared possible as the two Axioms did not contradict each other. Suppressing it, however, was madness.

Even if Alex had an Axiom that contradicted the Fire God, he would still be fighting against a Celestial with his weak early Divine realm cultivation spiritual energy. Without it, he was using pure intent to fight against a Celestial, and while that may work for a split second, it would not be for much longer.

And that was with the expectation that the Fire God would not reinforce his Axiom with his own Qi. Which he most definitely would since that was what was allowing him to win right now.

"Come on, Sun God," Ashmaker called out. "Make it larger, or we can move on to the next test."

Alex could never. A Sun God who failed to make a stable sun could never be taken seriously as a God. If Alex moved on from this contest, it would all be over for him.

He might live in the end, but that would come with the loss of the Primordial energy inside of his Dantian. He could never part with it, not when his life wasn’t even on the line yet.

No, he would fight back.

For that, he needed to do one very important thing.

He needed to understand the Fire God’s Axiom.

Once he understood the rule behind the Fire God’s Axiom, he could follow that rule and would not have to worry about his sun destabilizing. If Alex did that, even the Fire God himself couldn’t use his Axiom to disrupt his sun.

That made perfect sense to Alex, so he immediately decided to do it.

"One moment, senior Ashmaker," Alex said. "I shall form my sun very soon."

Alex didn’t wait for Ashmaker’s response. He immediately brought out the cultivation platform and sat upon it, activating it. At the same time, he used his own Intent to slow down time even further, focusing entirely on the sun in his palm and the aura that surrounded it.

The Fire God’s Axiom was ever-present, so it could not be affected through time manipulation either. That allowed Alex to read into it without any problem.

’I do not have much time,’ he thought and closed his eyes. Then slowly, before the entire audience, he attempted to understand a Celestial’s Axiom.

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