"Leon, although reuniting the fourteen dimensions can indeed greatly enhance your root source, you should rather not spend your time on this."

Glancing at Leon, who had fallen into contemplation, the mermaid beauty vaguely guessed some of his intentions and couldn't help but blink and remind him:

"Even if you really spend many years traveling through the fourteen dimensions, you can only find these 'fragments', but you cannot piece them back together."

To achieve this, it requires not only an amount of root source but also a high quality, which even at my peak, I couldn't do."

Oh...

Leon pondered upon hearing these words, then vaguely caught onto something and curiously asked:

"If even you couldn't achieve this, then how do you know the conditions for repairing such shattered worlds? Have you seen someone do it before?"

"Uh..."

The mermaid beauty heard this and frowned, then nodded slightly with a somewhat unpleasant expression.

"It should be... Though I'm not sure if it's true or not, in my memory, Number 1 once did such a thing as bonding broken dimensions, but he only repaired two newly-fractured small dimensions, which was not as difficult as repairing the current world."

Number 1, huh...

Leon raised his brow and continued to ask:

"How did he do it?"

"It involves the level of mastery over the root source."

The mermaid beauty hesitated slightly before opening her palm to Leon, a faint shimmer of root source color gently emerged from her fair palm.

"This is what you and the third director of the Cleanup Bureau once witnessed when entering the root source realm, thereby obtaining the most primitive root source.

For True Gods and even Pillar Gods, the presence of root source color is incredibly strong. Just a touch in the hand or eye, one can directly perceive powers and even tear through truth."

Her soft palm held the root source color, gently brushing through the void, leaving behind a misty trail of color. The mermaid beauty blew away the trail left by the root source color and explained:

"But for the world as a whole, root source color is still very 'light', inherently unstable, and its changes to the world last even shorter than the powers of True Gods.

As the world continues to operate, these inherently unstable root source colors will gradually be diluted by the world's flow, and the traces they leave in the world will slowly recover, returning to their original form."

"Like fog?"

"Yes."

Seeing Leon understand at once, the mermaid beauty nodded with satisfaction, then squeezed her palm hard, turning the dense root source color covering her hand into a small droplet of iridescent liquid.

"And when your Contamination Value exceeds eighty points, understanding the meaning of the root source more profoundly, you can gradually learn how to condense the root source color, making it a more intense and concentrated root source brilliance, and with its more stable nature, root source brilliance can accomplish more.

For example, things I've done before, when the Sea Abyss Realm was on the brink of collapse, I forcibly upheld the rules drifting away from the Sea Abyss Realm, or sent you back to the past and then brought you back, maintaining the stability of time on you, these are all effects of root source brilliance."

I see...

Looking at the rainbow-colored droplet in the mermaid beauty's palm, Leon mimicked her, trying to open his palm and squeeze hard to condense root source brilliance but failed, only making the root source color in his hand more intense.

"I roughly get it."

Looking at his Contamination Value stuck at 79.9, Leon scattered the root source color in his palm, thoughtfully summarizing:

"Using water as an example, root source color is like gaseous fog, and root source brilliance is liquid water, more condensed and stable... So is there a more stable solid state above this?"

"Exactly as you think."

With a glance of appreciation at Leon, the mermaid beauty nodded and said:

"Beyond root source brilliance, you can further refine a more stable root source essence. In your terms, it's like solid ice. In this stage of the root source, its effects on the world will be semi-permanently fixed.

Number 1 once refined a small amount of root source essence to successfully bond two small realms on the verge of breaking, probably also leveraging this to gain my trust and thus the opportunity to invade the Sea Abyss Realm... Forget it, let's not talk about that."

Unable to hold back a sigh, the mermaid beauty raised her hand in a stopping gesture before Leon could speak, refusing earnestly:

"Don't ask me how to refine root source essence, I won't tell you, even if you're willing to be born with me..."

"Become a being akin to a human god? Then completely rule, extract, or even sacrifice the race you were born from? Isn't it?"

"?!!!"

So it is...

Seeing the mermaid beauty, startled by his words and looking over in shock, Leon couldn't help but close his eyes and sigh from the heart.

According to Evangelin's explanation, the root source follows humanity's ancestors all the way, bound to this human race, so the method of fully mastering the root source is probably inseparable from humanity itself.

Moreover, Evangelin cares about very few things, things she refuses to tell me, if you think about it from a direction harmful to her race and the humans she originated from, it's almost certain.

Besides, William and Evangelin as "root source remnants" have a prominent common trait... a desire to rise.

This common trait seems engrained in their genes, causing them to be unusually enthusiastic about acquiring higher status and power, yet for individuals with unrivaled strength like them, this shouldn't hold much significance.

Like the directors of the Cleanup Bureau, having mastered the power to erase a city in minutes and witnessed those broader worlds, even the most power-hungry should lose interest in this aspect.

But they who are destined to master the root source were not "set" to pursue force types, but rather have an intense interest in status and power. It's not just William as an individual, Evangelin exhibits similar traits in her race's memory.

This signifies gaining power and status in the born race is of considerable importance to them, hence this trait is commonly "retained."

Then... related to humanity, harmful to the race, needing to acquire authority and status, combining these three conditions, and thinking a bit creatively, the method of refining root source essence isn't hard to guess.

"You really dare to think... managed to guess with such flimsy conditions..."

After listening to Leon's reasoning, the mermaid beauty couldn't help but say helplessly:

"If not for some details being wrong, I'd truly believe your guide has no issues and you're just entertaining me... The method to refine root source essence is indeed similar to what you guessed, but the exact way isn't extracting or sacrificing, it's a more complete absorption."

"Absorption?!"

"It's from the existential level, directly 'devouring' the race you were born from."

Since Leon guessed to this point, hiding it seems to make little difference, the mermaid beauty sighed and explained:

"This existential level absorption wouldn't digest the flesh and soul of those 'devoured', but will gradually 'drown' the will of every individual.

Once this process is fully completed, your will slowly becomes everyone's will, your thoughts gradually become everyone's thoughts, eroding away all other possibilities.

Though you're still you, and your race is still your race, even having their own lives, emotions, and joys, yet you all aren't yourselves but rather a part of a more 'great' you."

"About root source essence... The root source is too grand, personal will even if strong is far too small compared to it, and a point can't compress a sphere, naturally it can't continue to compress root source brilliance into root source color.

But when you complete this absorption, your will is shared by more, spreading from space, and inherited by people, flowing through time toward the future.

And now, you've evolved from a point into a plane, becoming eligible to truly grasp the root source in hand, and 'compress' it while mastering it, thus refining the root source essence capable of bonding realms."