All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 50 Retreating to AdvanceZhou Zheng was stuck on the 341st step, his brows furrowed.

The trouble he encountered was different from other challengers.

For most deities, the greatest difficulty in climbing lay in analyzing complex and profound composite Laws.

But Zhou Zheng’s Bottleneck lay in his lack of elemental manipulation methods—the Elementary elemental Laws contained within his Divine Domain were too thin!

The wind and water attributes were sufficient, thanks to the Water Vein, wind formations, and corresponding beast herds.

But other elemental Laws—even though he had temporarily added many Daos using elemental gems—were still at a stage that was completely insufficient!

Therefore, facing the three-element Law lock dominated by the violent ”Thunder” element before him, the almost negligible foundation of Thunder elemental Laws within his Divine Domain was simply not enough to allow him to freely invoke and weave the thin threads of Thunder-type Laws needed to break the lock!

It is hard to cook without rice.

The All-Knowing Eye could see the structure of the lock clearly, but he was powerless to condense the ”key” to open it.

Just when he was at his wit’s end, a thought flashed through his mind like lightning—didn’t every Law lock he broke previously provide a sliver of the corresponding elemental Law as a reward, which merged into and strengthened his Divine Domain?

A startling idea took shape in his heart.

Under the incredulous gaze of countless watching deities, the wind and water dual-attribute projection in the water mirror did not continue to attempt the ascent; instead, he turned around resolutely and walked back down the way he came!

”What is he doing?”

”Has he given up? Why is he walking back?”

”Even if he were to give up, he should have been passively teleported out. What’s the point of retreating voluntarily?”

Whispers arose once again, filled with confusion and bewilderment.

The reward mechanism of the rainbow staircase only looked at the highest climbing record; repeatedly passing lower levels would not grant additional rewards.

In the eyes of the gods, this behavior was completely futile and a waste of time.

Zhou Zheng turned a deaf ear to all of this. He retreated to the first step, and then, set foot on the path of climbing once again!

But this time, he did not choose the relatively familiar water element steps he had walked before, but started from the wind element steps!

The All-Knowing Eye opened once again! Analyzing these Elementary Law locks of single elements was incredibly easy for him.

His speed was astonishing, and he rushed upward almost without stopping.

After reaching the 111th level and obtaining all the basic Law rewards for this route, he retreated to the starting point again and turned to choose a completely new climbing route!

Thus, under the increasingly stunned gaze of the gods in the square, Zhou Zheng’s figure was like a tireless phantom, repeatedly shuttling through the lower levels of the rainbow staircase.

Ascend! Retreat! Ascend again! Retreat again!

Like a diligent worker bee, he greedily collected every piece of the most basic and pure elemental Law fragments, frantically compensating for the Innate deficiencies in the foundation of his Divine Domain’s Laws!

When Zhou Zheng climbed to the 111th level for the last time along the crimson steps representing the ”Fire” element and broke the last single fire-type Law lock, a sudden change occurred!

Seven Law threads of different colors, originating from seven different climbing routes—

Red (Fire), Orange (Earth), Yellow (Metal), Green (Wood), Cyan (Wind), Blue (Water), Purple (Thunder)!

As if receiving an invisible summons, they suddenly resonated and shone together within his Divine Thought core!

A long-sealed memory fragment, spanning endless time and space, surged into his consciousness like a burst dam...