At that moment, Lin Lei's true body and his three divine clones regained consciousness simultaneously. Lin Lei's first thought was, "What happened to me? I'm not dead?" The long thirty-four years of unconsciousness had, in truth, felt like only a second to Lin Lei's true body and the three divine clones.
But in the next instant, Lin Lei communicated with his fire system divine clone and realized he had actually been unconscious for a full thirty-four years.
"Where am I?" Lin Lei looked around and sat straight up.
As he sat up, he finally felt the changes within himself!
"Huh? What's going on?" Lin Lei clearly sensed the fluctuations of space around him. Even outside in the hall, Qing Huo, Lei Hong, Lei Sijing, and Bei Bei all perceived it instantly. This feeling of absolute control gave Lin Lei a sense of controlling others' destinies.
Like an emperor, absolute control.
"Lin Lei!"
"Boss!"
A chorus of surprised cheers erupted. The commotion from Lin Lei sitting up alerted the four outside, who almost simultaneously rushed into the stone chamber. Lin Lei looked at the four before him—Lei Sijing, Lei Hong, and Qing Huo's joy and relief, and Bei Bei's excitement, whose eyes even glistened with tears.
"Boss." Bei Bei immediately gave Lin Lei a hug.
"Haha, Bei Bei, don't cry. You're acting like a child." Lin Lei got up, stepped off the stone bed, and stood with a smile.
Bei Bei wiped away his tears with a sniff and said with a humph, "Boss, it's all your fault! You were unconscious for a whole thirty-four years. Tell me, isn't that scary?"
"Why was I unconscious for thirty-four years?" Lin Lei was very puzzled.
Qing Huo beside him smiled. "Lin Lei, thirty-four years ago, you took the full force of Magnus's attack. Luckily, the Soul Stone helped preserve your life. But who would have thought that during your coma, your soul began to mutate, and the Soul Stone's energy was quickly exhausted. We were all worried you wouldn't make it. But you survived."
"Soul mutation!" Lin Lei was startled. "Me?"
"Yes, you! Why don't you check it out and see what's happened?" Qing Huo urged with a smile. "Some changes can't be seen just from the outside. Only you can sense them."
"That's right, Boss, look and see what your soul has become like now," Bei Bei said expectantly. "You're the first one to have four divine clones and also undergo a soul mutation!"
"Four divine clones and a soul mutation? What will that be like?" Lei Sijing looked at Lin Lei with burning eyes.
"I have four divine clones, and my soul mutated?"
Lin Lei couldn't believe it himself, but he closed his eyes and carefully sensed his own soul!
Within the soul ocean.
The vast soul ocean shimmered with a dreamlike, seven-colored halo. The soul power surged like seawater, "whoosh~~", looking transparent and dreamlike, like colored glass. The most unique part was still the sword-shaped soul!
The sword-shaped soul hovered above the ocean.
Now, the sword-shaped soul had become transparent, with only a layer of grey halo covering its surface. It looked rather ordinary, not as dazzling as the previous seven-colored sword-shaped soul.
"What a powerful and peculiar feeling," Lin Lei murmured inwardly.
Others, like Qing Huo, even if they probed deeply into Lin Lei's soul, wouldn't discover its uniqueness. Lin Lei himself, however, could feel it.
"That feeling of control is very special," Lin Lei thought to himself.
Then Lin Lei stopped thinking further and carefully observed other aspects.
"Ah, the soul defense divine artifact!" Lin Lei was shocked to discover something. The crack in his soul defense divine artifact was repairing itself at a terrifying speed, millions of times faster than when he was a Highgod. Moreover, during the repair process, the soul defense divine artifact was truly being mended!
In the past, it was like adding a patch, not a true repair.
But now, the crack in the soul defense divine artifact was slowly shrinking.
The day the crack disappeared would be the day the soul defense divine artifact was fully repaired.
"This... how is this possible?" Lin Lei couldn't believe it.
Repairing the soul defense divine artifact was related to the soul and soul power. Lin Lei could sense that his soul had become very powerful. But being able to make the soul repair speed so astonishing still felt unbelievable. "At this rate, it will probably be fully repaired within a few years."
Lin Lei also discovered that the souls of his other three clones had also mutated.
"It's a pity my fire system divine clone's soul didn't mutate along with them. But it doesn't matter. In the future, when the fire system divine clone merges into the true body and joins these four souls, their energies will interact, and it will gradually change too." Lin Lei understood, just like his true body's soul.
Actually, his true body's soul was only the soul of his Saint-level true body.
But because the other clones' souls were with it, after the other divine clones' souls grew, since they originated from the same source, the major souls could complement each other. The true body's soul naturally became this strong. After all, the five souls were originally one.
"Soul mutation? Does that mean I can fuse four types of divine power?" Lin Lei couldn't help but try. First, he attempted to fuse the Highgod power of Earth, Wind, and Water.
Inside Lin Lei's body, the three streams of divine power surged like swimming dragons. When they touched, they were like one family, without the slightest resistance. The three Highgod powers, under Lin Lei's control, directly merged together. After the fusion, their color completely changed.
Before, they were earth-yellow, light blue-green, and blue-green. Now, once fused, they became a dark green, almost black.
The dark green divine power surged within Lin Lei's body.
"So powerful," Lin Lei thought excitedly.
At the same moment, Lin Lei also used a stream of mid-tier fire system divine power to fuse. When this fire system power touched the powerful dark green divine power, it also fused!
"Huh? The power actually became weaker?" Lin Lei could sense that after the dark green divine power fused with the mid-tier fire system divine power, it was as if its internal structure was affected, and its power had weakened somewhat. "Could it be because the fire system aspect hasn't reached Highgod level?" Lin Lei speculated.