Chapter 3963: Complex Truths

The Fire God’s Axiom was not specifically about any fires. Had that been the case, things would’ve been difficult for Alex from the start. It could not be about Yang, nor about anything else Alex had no trouble doing throughout the previous contests within the duel.

Meaning, the only thing he had struggled with had to be directly related to the Axiom.

So, the Fire God’s Axiom had to do directly with the Sun. That made things much easier for Alex as he knew where to look when trying to gauge the aura and the Axiom. Easier though it may be, it still wasn’t simple.

He was trying to learn the personal truth and Dao of a man he had only talked briefly with once before today. That made things exceptionally difficult. So, Alex had to rely on his own comprehension of Fire and Yang to try and understand what was happening with the Axiom.

What was so wrong about his own Sun that it could not form, while the Fire God’s Sun could?

The answer didn’t come immediately. But as hours passed for him, he began to gain hints and pieces of the truth through the Axiom as he dug into the truth that pressed upon him while he tried to form a sun around him.

As Alex slowly transformed the properties of the tiny sun in his own hand, the effects of the Axiom gave him those truths.

Over time, those truths slowly pieced together to form a bigger and more complex truth. The complexity meant that he hadn’t reached it yet. Most Axioms were simple.

Only Pills that can be consumed by mortals are proper pills, was his Axiom.

All living beings have Intent, was Bladedance’s Axiom.

Sea beasts are faster than land beasts in water, was the Black Tortoise Matriarch’s Axiom.

Each one was simple to understand, so the Fire God’s Axiom had to be something just as simple as well. And so, Alex continued searching for it.

Over the next dozens of hours, Alex searched the aura for answers, to find what it was that made the Fire God’s Sun the proper Sun instead of his own.

He saw the powerful fire aura within the Axiom. The powerful and destructive Yang. At first he thought it had something to do with the specific combinations of them, but that didn’t turn out to be the case.

There was no limitation on the type of fire Alex used. Neither was there a limitation on the type of Yang. So why had his Sun destabilized?

Alex had to continue searching for it.

While hours passed for him on the inside, outside, only minutes had passed. A total of forty minutes had gone by since Alex had started. He had been given only an hour, so only twenty more minutes remained. During those twenty minutes, he would not only have to get out of his meditation but also finish the contest.

If not, he would have failed by default.

The Fire God waited with no look of care. He could hardly imagine that Alex could do anything to understand his Axiom. Simple as it may be, not even the other Gods knew his Axiom, as he had never said it out loud. At best, they understood it by feeling and nothing more.

As such, these people couldn’t even help Alex whether they wanted to or not.

Not to mention, if Alex did end up understanding his Axiom enough to be governed by its rules, victory would still be his, for the peak of what Alex could do would still entirely belong to him. With his Axiom, he was the sky that everyone reached for, the ceiling for the Sun that was to be created.

Their best was him. As such, he could not lose.

And with his Sun obviously being much more powerful with aura alone, it was hard to say that others could even tie with him.

Victory was all but his already.

He continued watching Alex for another five minutes, during which the sun he had created inside of the time dilation began growing bigger and bigger, until it was the size of the person himself.

Even though Alex was his opponent, Ashmaker couldn’t help but give a begrudging look of respect toward his talent. To be able to learn it so soon was no doubt an incredible feat.

Of course, he would not say it out loud.

’There’s fifteen more minutes,’ Ashmaker thought. ’He might actually end up learning it by the end. But it will be close. Very close.’

Just then, the Sun in Alex’s hands collapsed, and he opened his eyes.

Ashmaker watched with some amount of confusion and surprise as Alex slowly stood up from his seat.

’Is he done? It didn’t look like he was.’

The Sky God quickly rose from her seat and teleported directly onto the stage once again.

"If you are done, I will ask the both of you to prepare your suns."

The Fire God gave no words and simply created his sun once again. The blindingly powerful sun appeared next to him in the very next moment, nearly five times larger than the man himself, powerful to the point where more of the stage began melting once again, pooling into bright red lava, which no one could see due to the bright sun itself.

The Sky God turned from the Fire God and toward Alex.

"Now, prepare yours."

Alex didn’t do so immediately. He looked at the Sun directly, feeling the aura that he got from the sun and how much of the Axiom he had understood.

Truth was, he hadn’t fully comprehended the Axiom, at least not to its last details. However, at some point, he had realized that if he were to do exactly as the Fire God’s Axiom demanded of him, then he would never be able to defeat him.

At best, he would be his equal.

That would not work for him in the slightest. Now that he had come this far, he was going to risk it all to win, or lose trying. There could be no in between.

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