Chapter 3964: The Fire God’s Axiom
Chapter 3964: The Fire God’s Axiom
Alex turned toward the Sky God.
"I still have over ten minutes before the hour ends, don’t I?"
The Sky God gave a strange look. "Well, technically, you do. Are you going to continue cultivating?" she asked.
"No. I’m done with that," Alex said and looked back toward the Fire God once again. "I will have to do something else now."
"Do something else?" the Fire God asked with a single laugh in his voice. "Hah! This is the contest to prepare our suns. Or are you already giving up and wish to move on to the next one?"
Alex looked toward the crowd.
It was clear at this point that there would be no other contest after this. In their eyes, he had failed to do the one thing they could have expected him to do. As a result, Alex would have pretty much lost if he didn’t prepare his sun.
So, one way or another, he had to.
However, he could not follow the Fire God’s Axiom to make it, as that would be a loss as well. So, in the next ten minutes, he would have to try and come up with a sun in a way where it would be stable despite the Axiom.
And that in itself was a contradiction again.
Either whatever he prepared would follow the Axiom, or be destroyed because it went against it. He was boxed into those two choices and would have to go for one by the time the ten minutes came to an end.
’In that case, I’ll just have to break the box.’
Alex pointed toward the Fire God’s sun and spoke out loud for the entire audience to hear.
"That is not a sun," he said.
The Fire God paused before letting out a slight laugh. "What are you talking about? Of course this is a sun."
"No, it is not," Alex said. "It is not correct."
"Well, why don’t you show us what’s correct then? So we may be done with this," he said with a grin. Alex could of course create no Sun of his own.
Alex looked down for a moment, taking a deep breath.
"I had this thought once long before," he said suddenly. "I was no older than twenty back then."
The Fire God’s eyes narrowed slightly, wondering what Alex was talking about. Before he could ask, a pinprick of bright light appeared from Alex’s palm that quickly grew larger and larger.
Before anyone could tell, Alex had formed a sun of his own.
It was a bright sun, with powerful aura within it. It was large too, growing past Alex’s own height and becoming twice as large before stopping.
The Fire God looked at the sun with some look of surprise. The sun Alex had formed was more or less stable.
’Are you joking?’ he thought. ’He really understood my Axiom in just three quarters of an hour, enough to form his own sun?’
Alex looked at his own sun for a moment, staring deeply before saying a single sentence.
"The Sun is a ball of Fire and Yang," he said, and turned toward the Fire God. "That is the essence of your Axiom, isn’t it?"
The Fire God looked genuinely surprised. He looked toward the audience for a second before turning his gaze back at Alex.
"Congratulations! You’ve figured it out. Now, let us allow the audience to judge which one of us has the better sun."
The Sky God looked between the two and turned back.
"I will now be running a vote for you to decide which one among the two—"
"Senior, I’m not done," Alex quickly said.
The Sky God paused. She turned back around. "Are you making it bigger? Or are you making some changes?"
Alex held a look of contemplation. "A few changes will have to be made, for neither of our Suns is truly a replica of a Sun."
Newheaven didn’t know how to respond.
"Continue."
Alex nodded and turned toward the Fire God.
"Senior Ashmaker, are you an Alchemist by any chance? Or perhaps have made artifacts in the past?"
The Fire God narrowed his eyes slightly. "I have dabbled in them, but I would not call myself either."
"I see. May I explain a property of these ingredients to you?" Alex asked.
"What are you talking about? What does any of this have to do with our contest?" the Fire God asked. "Just let the audience vote."
Alex turned to the audience. "I still have ten minutes, so I would ask you all to indulge me on this. I promise, at the end of this, I will show you what a proper sun is supposed to look like."
The crowd murmured slightly, and the few Half-Gods at the front nodded.
"Go ahead. You have the ten minutes," the Golden God said, easily stopping any of the others from saying no.
"Thank you," Alex said and returned his gaze toward the Fire God. "May I explain it now?"
The Fire God shrugged, so Alex began.
"Inside of ingredients of any rank, the stronger it gets, the fewer elements it holds," he said. "A common rank ingredient will have all seven elements, in some combination. It will almost always have one or two elements in higher amount, and the others in some minuscule amount. That combination persists in all common rank ingredients."
"When you improve upon that ingredient and bring it to a higher rank, it loses an element. Now, there are six elements."
"You bring that to the Saint rank, now you have five. Bring it to the Immortal rank, and now it only has four. A Divine ingredient will only have three elements, and a Celestial rank will only ever have two."
The Fire God looked toward his subordinates, staring at Heatwave. He communicated with the Peerless Alchemist under him and found that Alex was indeed telling the truth.
"Alright, I see that you aren’t lying. What does that have to do with anything we’re doing?"
"Oh, it has to do with everything."