"White."

The fusion looked on in horror as a white ball of energy was floating above John's finger. But John didn't launch it at them to their confusion.

"You spare us?"

"Huh? Nah. I just thought it was a shame."

"Shame?"

"Your naming is trash. You make an attack that awesome called 'white'. The fuck did your ancestors work for? White... white... so stupid."

"..."

John was playing with this dangerous ball of energy in his hands as if he had found a new toy.

The fusion didn't know how to react.

The ball of energy vanished!

John appeared in an instant behind them and sent out a punch sending them flying. They were confused. They couldn't help but think:

"What is this monster planning? What is his goal?"

In reality. John didn't want the fight to end. But as he looked at them. He noticed their fighting spirit had vanished when he copied their technique.

They didn't even defend themselves against a very weak attack...

They got up off the ground and floated in confusion.

John coughed...

"Fine! I'll win! Jeez."

"But I'll be making some changes."

"Negative spiritual energy"

A red ball of energy appeared above John's finger.

"Neutral spiritual energy."

A green ball of energy appeared.

"Positive spiritual energy."

A blue ball of energy appeared.

"You fools rely too heavily on laws. I suppose a true immortal is basically a rank 7. While I may appear to be a rank 0. I don't exactly meet the standards."

"Not only that. Your naming sucks."

"Let me show you a real attack."

John pointed his finger towards them.

"Final Destination: Primordial Fusion: DEATH."

"Primary focus. Annihilation!"

The white ball of energy was glitching unlike what happened when they used the attack. John didn't simply copy their technique. He remade it with new flavor. His mind was cooking up new ways of using spiritual energy even as he spoke with them. He felt he was on the verge of grasping something insane.

The glitched attack hit them and they were completely destroyed.

John watched them get destroyed with boredom.

"I've become too strong."

But he laughed.

"Even nerfing myself... I just surpass the restrictions. I must be the most powerful rank 0 in existence. I transcend laws. I transcend concepts."

"It is time that I've left this universe. But first... my prize."

"Du! Stop standing there like an idiot. You barely helped me in the fight at all. It is almost as if I brought dead weight with me."

"...I'm not strong enough."

"Actually. I was joking. I brought you with me because of the trace of origin in your soul."

"Trace?"

"Basically I brought you just in case I needed a buff. It turns out it was the correct decision."

"Do you still want to follow me?"

Du kneeled.

"Good."

"You have potential."

"I think we killed the main guardians of the 'heavens'. Now it is time to collect the yin and yang..."

John looked off into the distance.

John felt the presence of more true immortals through the waves in spiritual energy.

"How many of them are there?"

Soon flashes of lightning and flashes of light appeared as John was completely surrounded.

Du was right beside John. He spoke:

"I'm probably going to die!"

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"Meh... become immortal then."

"Not everyone is like you!"

John looked at the true immortals surrounding him.

"Hmm... there are a few hundred. I'll allow you all to fuse... resist to your best ability."

"Fusion is a legendary technique..."

"We don't need it. You merely got luck-"

"Shut up."

"You know, you guys haven't been using spiritual energy to its full potential. Do you think I only grasped annihilation?"

"What do you mean?"

Soon the true immortals facial expressions showed anxiety.

"If you reverse it. You can create something far more terrifying."

"You guys see spiritual energy as the catalyst for techniques. Qi condensation, foundation establishment, core formation, nascent soul, spirit severing, true immortal. You think you are at the peak. But you can just barely grasp the most basic functions."

"For example. That fusion tried to erase my existence using mere 'laws'. The audacity! You know what makes me angry. Weakness! You are all disappointments. As your creator. I feel shame."

"But I shall be merciful."

"Mer-?"

The true immortal's soul who spoke flew out of his body and appeared in John's hand.

"Did I say you could talk? Respect your elders!"

The soul shattered!

The other true immortals felt as if their lives were in the hand of this 'abomination'. He casually took the soul of one of them without any of them noticing. The speed and sheer ability itself.

It was impossible! How did he become so strong!?

"Where was I? Oh yea. Discipline."

"You took some laws with contradictions and cooked up a crappy attack. While effective. It lacks the perfect umph."

"Inventing techniques? I can do it too."

John snapped his fingers as spiritual energy started to circulate around him like a tornado.

The true immortals looked on in horror.

"I can't feel the spiritual energy... is this his technique?"

"No... it isn't a sealing technique. Whatever he is casting. It is on a whole other level."

"Is he a god?"

"He is using so much spiritual energy. The entire environment..."

"The complexity and energy requirements alone... this is a level beyond legendary techniques!"

"Impossible."

The crowd totally forgot John just casually killed one of them. They were instead focused on what he was doing. Some felt 'enlightened' merely from seeing 'it'.

John then said something.

"I can make colors."

"???"

A magenta line appeared. Then a yellow line connected to it.

Then a line with a color that couldn't be described.

It formed a two dimensional triangle.

John began to shake. As if what he was doing was taking an entirely different level of mental power.

"Collapsed Negative Spiritual Energy."

A yellow line appeared. Then a cyan line appeared.

Then a line with that same mysterious color appeared.

A separate triangle began to form.

"Collapsed Neutral Spiritual Energy."

A cyan line appeared. Then a magenta line connected.

The another mysterious line.

"Collapsed Positive Spiritual Energy."

The three triangles then overlapped.

"Spiritual energy exist in all three states. There is no positive or negative or neutral. It is all an illusion."

"It is a single thing."

John spread out his hands as he gazed at the sky.

The cyclone of spiritual energy then began to follow a pattern.

John took in a deep breath as it began to get sucked into his body.

The triangle was made of three mysterious colors.

Then another triangle appeared.

Then another.

Soon. There was a few hundred all around John.

"What the fuck is he doing!?"

"One becomes two, two becomes three... and three becomes ten thousand things."

As he spoke.

The triangles became a square.

Another line had mysteriously appeared!

Then a pentagon.

Then a hexagon.

Then a heptagon. An octagon, a nanogan. A decagon.

John still had his palms facing the sky. He was looking off into who knows where.

"I've grasped it! Spiritual energy doesn't have three states. It has..."

The decagon became a circle! It was glitching from being a mere circle. It then became a sphere!

It wasn't white though...

It was pure black.

"Infinite states."

There wasn't just one. John had condensed hundreds of these black balls of energy.

The ecstasy faded from John's eyes as if he had just lost something important to him.

He spoke a few words in a whisper:

"Final Destination: Primordial Fusion: Life."

"Primary focus. Creation..."

John flicked his fingers as the balls of energy flew to each person. They couldn't dodge it. Even teleporting away yielded no results.

So what exactly did this move do? They had no idea! But it scared the absolute shit out of them.

But receiving the attack was inevitable. It couldn't be stopped or blocked or dodged.

John heard the screams of each true immortal as they were transformed into a living formation! John was treating their existence like positive spiritual energy. Except instead of creating matter.

He was creating an upgraded version of spiritual energy.

One with his vision. One with infinite states. What he did was a little evil as he found out a little cheat while getting destroyed by 'white'.

Branding spiritual energy with his intent is quite overpowered. But at a certain level of fighting. Even his thinking isn't enough.

So how does he surpass himself?

He was creating an almost 'quantum computer' using the consciousness and 'laws' of the true immortals. Instead of 'wasting' them like what would of happened with 'annihilation'. He was using them as materials for his experiment.

Doing this meant that they would be branded eternally on the spiritual level to John's new spiritual energy. They wouldn't know death.

It would be hell for an eternity.

This was John's version of 'discipline'.

He didn't kill them. He just put them in a state where they would wish they were dead. Their memories were wiped. Their personalities changed. But their consciousness would be the processing power for John.

They would follow his every whim.

For they had become 'infinite state spiritual energy'.

Soon the remains of them had completely vanished.

"You know. It is quite interesting that white is interpreted as death. And black as life. I am quite used to it being the reverse."

"But I am the one that named and created a new function."

John was completely covered in this new type of spiritual energy.

"Now I really need the infinite energy generator. This shit is precious!"

John wouldn't know where he would get the opportunity to assimilate so many true immortals again. If he could get his hands on the energy generator for the universe. He would literally have an infinite amount of infinite type spiritual energy.

So John didn't dare waste this spiritual energy.

He felt as if he had been transformed. His body hadn't changed much. It was instead his comprehension of spiritual energy. It had reached an entirely mystical level.

It was almost a burden on the universes very laws itself with how freely John could manipulate spiritual energy now.

If we were to compare him to himself when he fought Baohu. He was around a power level of 100. But now he was around a power level of 10,000.

His growth in such a short time frame can be contributed to two main things.

The buff he used 'adversity'. From it being a fundamental ability of his origin. It is naturally powerful.

The second thing his growth could be contributed to was him basically creating a consumption type ability. Something he never really had before.

He essentially turned 'laws'. Things that he looked down upon. Into raw power.

But they weren't a 'part of him'.

Instead of greedily absorbing power for powers sake.

John created an entirely new energy system.

He quite literally constructed the foundation of his powers from the corpses of his enemies.

Du had an expression of shock. Even when he felt like he had grasped John's abilities. It seemed as if it was merely the tip of the iceberg.

John waved his hands and a portal opened up. Huge amounts of spiritual energy were coming out of this portal! But the portal remained completely stable.

"I thought portals were unstable near it?"

"Not anymore. The 'leap' of my spiritual energy has gotten quite the 'upgrade'. It is no longer thin when compared to even the closest area of the generator. I can forcefully create the gaps."

"Time to..."

John laughed.

"Steal the 'heavens'."