Chains Of Heaven

After this match, Enkidu's next match would be only on the next day. Winning both fights Enkidu was actually still perfectly able to continue to fight but as he now had some free time he went out to look for his teacher and the others.

Once he got out, however, his teacher sent him a soul message.

"Enkidu, congratulations in your victories. You make me proud as your teacher, however, there are more fights for you tomorrow and I believe you will be needing time to carefully analyze your matches and make any improvements you deem fit. As such I and your friends here, including Ji Ji and Da Ming, will sleep in a friend's house tonight while you can go to the rooms we have reserved for our stay. Train and rest well, tomorrow even more battles await you." Yun Gu said. Enkidu could not even answer as Yun Gu ignored all messages for him.

Enkidu sighed and moved along, he decided that if this is how it was he should just go and do as his teacher said, focus on learning as much as possible from his Heaven's Path books, especially the books on Earth, Wood, Water, and Metal.

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Enkidu's P.O.V.

I decide to do something a bit different this time. We have rented a small house to spend these days of the tournament, normally I would be going to my own room to study the books but I came to realize something from the fight earlier and me creating my own techniques.

Just having the books is not enough.

They may be perfect explanations about the Laws inside the profound arts I have seen, but those profound arts were still understood and learned by others. When creating the Profound Art I created, the Ars Magna: World Embrace, I had some troubles because I never tried to comprehend those Laws by myself before so using them in an actual profound art instead of just controlling the element in a more brutal manner was hard. If I continue to just depend on what is in the books and don't comprehend them myself I would be having it too easy and would have the Library of Heaven's Path as a clutch instead of a helper and guider.

From what I study in the books I need to apply and try and sense what is said in the book by myself too, only this way can I truly improve in my understanding on each of the Laws I can practice with.

I sit on the ground outside the house, I had set out a protective formation around the house, it is a pinnacle 2 star formation so it should protect me well as I focus on what I intend to do.

I lay my body without a single string of cloth in it on the floor and try and sense it using my skin, the pulse of the world I mean.

Amongst the Profound Truths in the Laws of the Earth that I have any understanding with thanks to the Heaven's Path Library there are as such:

1) Essence of Earth

2) Profound Mystery of Strength

3) Profound Mystery of World Walking

4) Profound Mystery of Throbbing Pulse of the World

There are others, not sure which ones but there are, but what I need is to make use of what I can to create an offensive finisher. My defensive physical ability is great, my ability to deal area attacks is great right now, my sealing ability is definetly top-notch, and I can probably use the spear for regular attacks if I want to, but I want to be able to have a finisher, a move to be able to create devastating damage.

Of the four Profound Mysteries of the Earth I have any understanding about the first is about controlling the ground and I created the Ars Magna: World Embrace using it. The second, the Profound Mystery of Strength, is focused in increasing the strength of something, it is an option but it seems more like support unless I really put in the effort to make use of it in another way. The third is the Profound Mystery of World Walking, it is a Profound Mystery that focuses on fusing oneself with the Earth elements around you and moving through them, using it one can possibly do something close to teleportation or escape through the earth as if it was not there.

But, my option for creating a profound art of my own making is the last Profound Mystery and actually the most complex, the Profound Mystery of Throbbing Pulse of the World. It centers in one sensing the pulse that the Earth element naturally produces. As it is normally impossible to sense it when you focus on too small a target one needs to be touching a world to do so.

One must sense and understand this vibration of the Earth, this vibration is important and despite looking weak this is the vibration that, when strong enough, can create earthquakes and is also the pulse of the world itself. I decided on trying my hand on this one to test myself, from what I could glean one's speed to sense the pulse of the world depends on one's connection and talent to the Earth element, the higher one is the faster one can sense the pulse of the world.

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How long has it been?

I don't know, it could have been minutes, could have been hours, maybe even days, but I couldn't care. I am one with the world right now, just another grain of sand in a beach.

"THRUUUMMMM"

A silent, almost unnoticeable sound reverberated through his being slowly, this sound and presence was sudden but Enkidu felt as if it belonged, as if it was something that was there from the start and he just hadn't noticed it until this point.

"Thruuuum. Thruuuum. "

From one sound Enkidu suddenly heard two, as if it was not one pulse but one followed by another very quickly and if one did not pay attention they would fail to notice the difference.

"Thruuuum. Thruuuum. Thruuuum. Thruuuum."

And so more and more Enkidu could sense the many pulses inside each great pulse of the earth.

The sound of the throbbing pulse of the world rang out louder and louder within Enkidu's consciousness. That unique rhythm had a miraculous cadence, capable of causing someone to unconsciously be subsumed within it and Enkidu was enjoying it, as if a baby hearing the heartbeats of his mother. Enkidu's body and soul were the most aligned with the Earth amongst all elements and for someone who never had a mother's love or the gentle care of another, to feel a connection like the one he was sensing with the earth as this moment, a connection as if a lost child returning home, the experience was simply impossible for others to understand.

Quietly, as Enkidu laid there in the ground, his understandings of the Profound Mystery of the Throbbing Pulse of the World increased more and more. Without Enkidu's commands, his muscles would occasionally expand or contract as they constantly vibrated, his body was memorizing the pulse of the world by itself. His soul was in bliss as it began to also share this pulse.

It was at this point that something moved close to him, he did not sense it before but now he could see a single seed for a simple weed being born underneath him. It was growing then and there, it expanded regardless of the situation and it continued to grow despite the problems in its path.

As he was sensing the Throbbing Pulse of the World at this moment he noticed that this seedling was being empowered by the pulse, as if it was the heart pulse of a living being. Not only that, as the weed sprouted and began to grow it sent vibrations of its own that compounded on the Throbbing Pulse of the World.

No, the pulse of the world was this seedling's heart pulse, and the expansion of the plant was also a part of the world's pulse. The two may seem different but they are not. One was part of the other, they were connected.

Not only that, Enkidu's 'vision' started to expand as he could hear more and more the Throbbing Pulse of the World and he more and more could see how, with each 'heartbeat' of the world the plants would grow just a tad beat more.

Slowly, without Enkidu planning on it, he began to understand another Profound Truth he was not planning to study for now, the Profound Mystery of Expansion of the Wood Profound Laws, but even more importantly, he began to understand something rarely anyone ever could understand or sense, something that only those with unnaturally high affinity for more than one element can ever try, a lucky chance that even the Gods would envy to no end as many of them were only good in a single element.

He began to fuse different Laws.

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AN:

VERY important.

Fusing different laws is only possible here if one has an unnatural talent for it. The more one law is different to another the harder it becomes, but the fusion of Laws is definetly strong. Just look at the ice flame that Yun Che can use, he takes a long a.s.s time to do so but the power is certainly much higher than what Yun Che should have any right to have.

Enkidu will be able to fuse multiple Laws in his attacks in the future, but do anyone can guess what profound art Enkidu will develop based on the union of the Pulse of the Earth and Expansion Laws? A tip, I will be basing it on a certain badass old man from anime who was way too overpowered and died like a man amongst men!