Five years, for Li Aozi, were not just spent lying low to avoid the limelight; more importantly, his arcane energy development reached its limit during this stage.
Sensation, Contact, Mastery, Proficiency, Dominate, Sovereign, Usurpation.
Li Aozi had always been dissatisfied with these clunky and hard-to-remember levels, but ever since he talked with Liue and learned that the essence of arcane energy was actually the mandate of the cosmic operation, he had greatly changed his opinion about this system.
In fact, just by looking at the names, one could see that the development of arcane energy was essentially a process of human understanding of power.
When you first came into contact with power, you felt utterly bewildered, clearly possessing a force beyond ordinary citizens but unable to wield it, mocked by your subordinates, and at the slightest misstep, you'd be outmaneuvered (lose control) and eventually be countered by the power itself.
