There's certain moments where the mind could trick the body and confuse the eyes, sometimes the mind makes it feel as if time is being stretched indefinitely or compressed into fleeting moments where decades go by in a blink.

What happened that day within eternal-forest was something along these lines.

From the moment it began until it ended... these elves felt like they're shackled by some sort of restraint.

It prevented them from moving or saying anything, it felt like the whole world was suddenly frozen for all of them.

However, for that human boy... it hasn't stopped at all.

First was his qi-image being revealed and its three heads kept looking towards the sky and laughing with maddened-glee!

Then that ghost-like Ashura-fiend began to shrink in size, from a few hundreds of meters until it became human-sized.

Yet the most disturbing wasn't the unnatural appearance of that qi-image or the extreme change in its height that followed right after, it was the transitioning from being immaterial into something substantial and physical.

Hell... it could be even called solid.

Yet, right before those who got to see it were able to slightly accept the facts presented right in front of their eyes, or even begin to doubt them.

That human-sized, six-armed, and three-headed Ashura-fiend fused into the boy's back!

One second it was there, the following it was gone... just like that.

Those elves kept scanning everywhere with their eyes, searching for that Ashura-fiend.

However, before any of them could find any hint about the whereabouts of that Ashura, the human boy began to experience some disturbing changes.

Much to the shock and unease of these elves.

*Pop... crack...*

The eerie sound of bones shifting and joints being dislocated could be heard quite clearly by that audience.

The kid began to gain in height, yet... the most surprising wasn't how he became much taller than an average adult.

It was Lin's upper body that drew the most attention, especially his shoulders.

The width of his shoulders was more than twice as wide as it's supposed to be!

Having shoulders so wide and broad was so disturbing yet they gave him an invincible-aura and he had an air of superiority about him.

Then two bulges appeared from the sides of his extremely thick an muscular neck, a similarity happened underneath his long and shredded arms when two more bulges appeared on each of his sides!

After another burst of glaring and blinding light, once these elves were able to see again all they saw was the great-sage being a much more refined image of that Ashura-fiend.

These handsome features on each of the three heads are clearly the mature version of Lin, clearly even the boy himself is surprised by the polar change in his physique.

The three heads kept looking at one another and the six arms kept feeling one another to confirm that this is in fact a reality!

*****

'He really manifested his hegemony! I've heard about how this kid was once struck by a bolt of tribulation-lightning during the day our holy-envoy brought him in, knowing that he's already capable of unleashing his paragon-will at such a young age... almost everyone who knew about these high-end attainments unanimously agreed that it's almost written on stone for the kid to also attain the ability of hegemon-manifestation. However, none of us thought it would happen so soon.' Zae'nor thought to himself while watching the boy open and close his six fists to experiment, 'How long has it been since the kid first revealed his paragon-will? Three months! This closed-doors disciple of Mu Jianhong is progressing at a frightening rate, I can feel jittery all-over my skin and this disquiet uncertainty when I look at this boy when he's in that form.' The elven-king was mentally preparing himself for the worst while hoping that none of that would ever come.

On the other hand, his wife was having her own "special" thoughts when she got to see the boy's mature and handsome face.

'This one is dangerous. Little-Mela wouldn't stand a chance against these chiseled jawlines and these eyes, not to mention these muscles... the muscles... oh no! I almost lost myself in these angelic...' Ela'nor had these wide and glittery pair of eyes, luckily for her those around the elven-queen were focusing on the sparring-area.

*****

"What are you still waiting for? If you don't help me fortify this spirit-formation then it wouldn't hold much longer!" Kamen'dir sent a sound-transmission to some of the elves who kept themselves hidden within the shadows ever since Lin exited the sacred-area, the elven senior seemed agitated and annoyed by the lack of assistance from his friends and having to delve-into the embarrassment of having to ask for help.

"Heh. You must've gone senile after spending all these years living under the shade." The cynicism within these words felt like daggers at the side of Kamen'dir's heart but he rolled his eyes while thinking : 'Humph. I'd like to see if any you would be able to keep operating this formation while being under the influence of that boy's paragon-will.'

The tension of this old elf soon relaxed when he sensed the addition of some pure spirit-energy into the nodes of this spirit-formation from a pair of these hidden individuals.

*****

Lin was a bit too absorbed in his own world, exploring these insane changes of his body.

It felt amazing how power kept surging wherever he attempted to make a fist, the boy was fully aware about how physically strong he always was ever since he began his pumma-training.

However, his current state was all-too special if compared to before.

Without having to rely on his soul-sense to cover every possible angel for him, these extra pair of heads allowed him to maintain an all-around look into his surroundings.

In front, behind, the flanks, up, and down... he could keep track of all these at all times.

Having two extra pair of eyes plus two extra pair of arms could really help the great-sage during a time of need!

However, before he got any more time to do more experiments a change happened that drew his immediate attention.

During the short span of time that Lin spent confirming the realism of these new pair of heads on his shoulders plus the additional four arms on his body, the platform where the strongest two of his intents were chasing one another began to buzz and become destabilized.

'This looks bad. I better do these tests later then, since I was able to calm that platform with my light-energy earlier... then I better keep at it. I managed to contain it with two hands earlier, let's see what six hands could do to that platform.' The boy thought while using all six of his hands to cover and press on the platform.

It really worked in detaining that platform however, he immediately sensed how his spirit-energy was being vacuumed towards it at a startling rate!

The great-sage immediately understood that he wouldn't be able to keep maintaining this stalemate for much longer before his dantian-space is depleted completely of all spirit-energy, he really had the urge to willingly tumble towards the ground while raising the white flag at that time.

But he wasn't completely out of solutions yet, that's why he sent one of his soul-bodies towards the dantian-space to begin attracting strands of light-energy from his surroundings.

Still, he couldn't help but release a deep sigh while at it.

Usually it would be one of his sin-siblings acting long before he does when it comes to one of these tasks, but he wouldn't exchange his current state of being full-control with anything in the world.

Lin's decision on this matter is... final.

Each and every single one of his sin-siblings has to get their own vessel, just like Lily... they need to walk their own path in life and they need to make their own choices.

However, once that soul-body entered the dantian-space and sat directly beneath the light-wings within the violet-gold barrier.

The boy almost cursed out loud when he noticed the extent of how far he's able to draw strands of light-energy.

Simply because he couldn't even attract anything beyond a sphere of nine meters with him being in the center!

'I'll be damned... what's going-on with that ability? Has it gone rogue? Is it because I'm in this mega-macho form?' The great-sage began to worry while feeling the skin on his own forehead being moisturized by all the accumulated sweat.

The reason why he's feeling helpless is because his soul-force despite being aplenty... he can't use any of it at the moment.

First is the platform which he's currently holding firmly between his six hands, ever since it appeared... his third-eyes has been open and the ability of soul-gaze has been active without halt.

That's why his soul-force is being absorbed by that platform, and that was alright before.

However, ever since his body changed... Lin gained two extra heads.

And believe it or not, on the glabella of each one of these two heads... the boy can feel the existence of a third-eye!

One of them is real and he could sense it being connected to the third-eye of his soul-body very clearly, the other one though is faintly connected to soul-world itself.

Anyway, this situation means that his soul-force is being absorbed by more than twice and half of what it's been before, and that would've been still alright with the great-sage... if it weren't for the ability of paragon-will.

Because it too has been active without pause for a while now, and it's bloody hell refusing to be deactivated despite all his attempts to force it to stop working.

When these two factors are combined, the situation with Lin's soul-force isn't really any different from the situation of his spirit-energy.

'The fuck! Despite how much I like to take it slow and be all too calm and composed and such, this time I don't feel like I should be that person,' The boy thought to himself while sensing how dangerously-low his spirit-tank is becoming, 'I'll be damned. If I can't stop it from happening? Then... don't mind me adding to the flame. I want to see how far this farce can go, I want to see what happens when I do this...'

*****

Those around Lin were still able to feel this soul-crushing pressure from his paragon-will despite standing at a far distance from him, the unique-pressure on their souls was unlike anything they've ever felt before.

Their hearts kept threatening to leap from their throats while they watched the boy, from his hegemon-manifestation there was this lethal and deadly threat hovering around their bodies and giving their spirits a feeling of similarity... only the experts among these elves were able to find the answer and make the correct comparison.

They only felt as such whenever they met the most feral and bone-deep wild and untamable-beasts.

Kamen'dir awakened from his shock when he discovered that he was already taking a step backwards apparently being intimidated by this human kid!

The senior elf bit the tip of his tongue to use pain to assist him on scattering these cowardly-emotions of fear away while thinking : 'Hiss... fright still got to me while standing two-hundred meters away from this brat, my first reaction while affected by his two abilities was to take a step back. But... I'm not even the focus of his abilities!'

The young-prince was feeling at a loss to the degree where he almost reached the edge of despair when he looked toward Lin and thought to himself : 'I was supposed to fight "That"? How am I going to win exactly when it happens? Forget having the assistance of my wind-boots and my sun-bow... even when I use my martial-spirit to full extent and all my trump-cards I still don't see myself winning that exchange.'

*****

The sun-elf was looking at the sparring-area without being really worried or anything until he noticed a red line of blood trickling from the corner of his father's mouth, the supreme-commander of all sentinels on the green-belt thought to himself : 'Old-man... he was almost overwhelmed by the brat's aura earlier, it's not really a surprise for me that he was taken by surprise since he isn't one to know how to react well in battle. But to be able to give him such a fright to the degree of almost shaving at his lifespan was never something a human junior at the age of less than seven should be able to do, this little shit is a bit too monstrous... in fact it's a bit too much to the degree where it's really irritating!'

The princess was already feeling her head spinning and struggling to scatter her dizziness away after attempting to simulate a situation within her head where she gets the win over this boy, finally she thought to herself : 'The only way it might happen is when I join-hands with Milo... that's aught to be more than enough to suppress this kid.'