<h4>Chapter 1843 - 1843. Replica</h4>


    King Elbas did his best to portray a perfect replica of the images and sensations obtained from Lord Lewis, but he inevitably failed to provide a wless copy. After all, his items could only show what he had felt and seen through his senses, which modified the actual events experienced by the rank 9 expert.


    The massive empty monster and the cities in the sky didn’t suffer from that issue. They were only a matter of images, so King Elbas could create an urate replica that almost had no differences from the original. However, the process went differently when it came to the sensation connected to Lord Lewis’ breakthrough.??


    Noah could see how King Elbas had seen the event during his exposition. The expert had viewed the breakthrough to the ninth rank as the creation of higher energy that carried the core aspects of hisw. It felt like a mathematical issue that involved specific portions of his mental energy and fiery higher energy, and the exnation inevitably confused hispanions.


    Divine Demon and the others didn’t have ess to higher energy, not consciously at least. They could understand something from the exnation, but they felt lost when King Elbas made them sense his version of the process.


    "It wasn’t like that," Alexanderined after the exnation ended, and King Elbas didn’t hesitate to lend his inscribed items to the hybrid to make him try to do better than him.


    Alexander’s exnation felt even messier. The hybrid saw the creation of the new energy as a convergence of every slight aspect of hisw and innate abilities. It was a fusion meant to remove any difference and instability in the true meanings and obtain a simple core that could expressplicated understandings.


    It was impossible for experts with rtively simplews to rte to that process. Steven, Sword Saint, Robert, and Wilfred didn’t have ess to many aspects of their true meanings, so they ended up more confused than before.


    "It’s up to you to try," King Elbas snorted while ncing at Noah. "I want to see how you’ll try to remove your bias from your exnation."


    Noah scratched the side of his head while everyone turned on him. He had yet to put histest experience into words. The experts also wanted a version of the story that they could understand even with their different views of the world, so he required some time to sort his thoughts.


    "You have three centers of power, right?" Noah eventually started exining. "They have bathed in your existence for millennia already. They knew who you are better than anyone else in the world, so they can generate the state that you have to achieve in the ninth rank."


    That part of the exnation was easy, and most of the experts there already knew about that. Many of them had already heard Great Builder’s description of the ninth rank, so Noah’s words appeared as mere repetitions spoken by a weaker existence.


    Yet, Noah’s exnation didn’t end there. "You can’t elevate your centers of power on your own. Maybe you can through other paths, but Lord Lewis has shown us that you require a new form of energy capable of expressing the entirety of your existence to evolve them."


    "Isn’t that the higher energy that I mentioned already?" King Elbas snorted when he sensed that repetition.


    "Let me finish," Noah sighed. "You need to use your different energies to create an ethereal center of power capable of generating a fuel that expresses your purest form. See it as building a second sea of consciousness and fill it with everything you have."


    The second part of the exnation cleared many doubts, but it still left some dark areas that the other experts could only solve on their own.


    The other experts couldn’tpletely understand the breakthrough even when they fused the three exnations and focused on the ovepping details. Still, that was the same for Noah, King Elbas, and Alexander since they didn’t experience the actual advancement themselves. They had felt it through Lord Lewis’ senses, and the event had even happened through Heaven and Earth.


    Nheless, Noah couldn’t help but feel that the experience had been priceless. He had initially thought that it was enough for his centers of power to advance to reach the ninth rank, but that didn’t seem to be the case.


    ’An existence requires a specific center of power to be a world and produce energy,’ Noah summarized inside his mind. ’It makes sense, but I still thought the dantian would have taken care of that.’


    The process had to be different for each existence. It wouldn’t make sense for the three experts to see the same sensations in threepletely different ways. Noah’spanions had toe up with conclusions that would work with theirws and make their paths strive toward that destination.


    ’I need a fifth center of power capable of containing and generating ambition,’ Noah thought as his reasoning continued. ’Is the process natural? Will my centers of power instinctively create a new organ?’


    Noah wished to learn about those details before approaching the breakthrough, but he didn’t know how possible that d.e.s.i.r.e was. He could create an ethereal center of power right away with his current expertise, but he didn’t know whether the process would help him or would generate ws that would manifest during his advancement.


    Moreover, his control over his ambition was vague. Noah could deploy hisw at will, but it wasn’t proper energy that he could manipte. Instead, Lord Lewis had sensed it as a fuel simr to his "Breath".


    The unstable substance seemed to follow the same pattern as Lord Lewis’ energy, but Noah had never managed to make that product stable. He didn’t know if his difficulties came from his higher energy orck of understanding, but he found everything problematic anyway.


    ’I just need to put myself into the new center of power, right?’ Noah questioned himself. ’I’ve already done that with the Demonic Sword, but something feels different here.’


    The only expert who could understand his worries was King Elbas, and he didn’t hesitate to reach him into his separate area. He found the expert meditating among the dark matter when he crossed the barriers that isted him, and thetter immediately understood his problem.


    "Do you also think that the higher energy might be a problem?" King Elbas asked when he saw Noah’s expression.


    "How could I not?" Noah scoffed. "The path is personal, but we clearly steer far away from it. We might need to find Great Builder to understand how everything works."


    Great Builder’sw involved the creation of centers of power. He was bound to know more about the issue that afflicted Noah and King Elbas.


    "Normal cultivators sure have it easy," King Elbas announced while showing a faint golden glow at the center of his palm. "Imagine we had a normal path. Heaven and Earth would kill to absorb me."


    The glowing ethereal sphere in King Elbas’ palm radiated his curiosity, but that feeling was clearly weaker than the expert’s current power. It almost felt like an illusion.


    "Don’t tell me," Noah eximed as his mouth opened in surprise.


    "I managed to replicate a center of power capable of expressing the entirety of my existence," King Elbas exined, "But it’s iplete and unstable. Look! I don’t even have ess to its insides."


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    Author’s thoughts: I’m almost done with thest. It shoulde out soon.