Starlight erupted from the depths.
A vortex centered around starlight enveloped Jue's spear body.
Xu Yuan and Xu Zhi retreated far away, even leaving the seemingly bottomless fissure.
However, the vortex within the fissure continued to expand.
This vortex was very familiar to Xu Yuan—it was the spiritual pill he had cultivated.
He had cultivated the spiritual pill onto Jue's body, then fused his essence, energy, and spirit-constructed body along with the corresponding three spirit nodes into Jue's main body.
At this moment, the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace evolved.
Since it was bound by a contract with the Spiritual Furnace, Xu Yuan still felt it when he transferred all his power to Jue.
The Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace could evolve three times, but under special circumstances, it seemed to undergo this fourth evolution.
Simultaneously, the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace also underwent its fourth evolution. The catalyst for this evolution was the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace's evolution. The Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace evolved, the spiritual pill fused with the three spirit nodes, and then merged with the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace. This vortex became the main body of the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace.
The birth of this vortex caused Jue's devouring attribute to emerge and stabilized this attribute, absorbing the Holy Attraction ability related to the devouring characteristic from the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace, broadening it.
Holy Attraction no longer just attracted enemy attacks; it could also attract energy and matter.
Under the coordination of essence, energy, and spirit, the evolution of the two Spiritual Furnaces also induced the most difficult-to-evolve Stellar Spiritual Furnace to undergo its fourth evolution.
The Stellar Spiritual Furnace was originally crafted using Jue's main body.
Now, the fourth evolution naturally spawned a space identical to the one in which it was nurtured.
With this spear-shaped space as its main body, inheriting Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit, Jue quickly constructed his own essence, energy, and spirit.
At this moment, Jue was no longer a spirit soul body.
Just like this, his presence had already surpassed the past; perhaps he could already be called a transcendent divine artifact.
"Even I didn't expect this spear spirit to become a super divine artifact back then," Xu Zhi remarked.
He personally forged Jue, yet he never imagined that one day Jue would become a transcendent divine artifact.
His highest expectation for Jue back then was to become a god-level spirit soul.
Xu Yuan indeed walked a path completely unexplored by the soul master world.
Xu Zhi's gaze occasionally glanced at Xu Yuan.
In his perception, although Xu Yuan became ethereal, almost as if he didn't exist, he had become stronger.
When he first arrived in this world, he needed the stability of essence, energy, and spirit to maintain his consciousness. Now, he existed independently and maintained his form.
Just this improvement alone was immense.
Not to mention, in Xu Zhi's perception, something about Xu Yuan had changed.
A spear cry resounded.
On the vast expanse of barren land, a massive fissure split the earth in two. Within this bottomless fissure, endless starlight burst forth, attracting the continuous influx of heaven and earth energy.
Above the sky, energy gathered, thunderclouds roiled, and the heavenly calamity was in the gestation stage.
Million-year heavenly calamity.
Without mixed lightning calamity.
This time, Jue would experience this calamity filled entirely with destruction on his own.
A spear shot out from the fissure.
The dazzling starlight had dissipated.
The all-devouring vortex gradually shrank, all converging into that small spear.
On the spear, starlight flickered, accompanied by illusory mental power and blood-red vital energy. The five elements, thunder, and life forces all entwined around the spear body.
Boom!
The heavenly calamity struck.
The first bolt of lightning showed no mercy, directly striking Jue's head.
Destructive power coursed through Jue's spear body from top to bottom.
As the thunder dissipated, Jue's form changed.
Various powers seemed to dissipate, but the spear body grew more brilliant, radiating a white light.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The heavenly calamity continuously struck. The powers around Jue's spear body diminished more and more, finally, under the ninth heavenly calamity, all the various powers dissipated, leaving only the white light emitted by Jue's spear body.
The white light swept across the entire spear body, condensing into a new force, enveloping Jue's side.
White spear light burst forth, actively meeting the tenth heavenly calamity.
Spear light flashed incessantly.
Spear shadows multiplied.
At this moment, over the great fissure in the earth, a spear seemed to be battling the entire heavens. The heavenly calamity, carrying the might of heaven and earth, not only failed to obliterate the spear but was instead counterattacked by it.
Those sharp white spear lights devastated the heavenly calamity.
The heavenly calamity intensified; the range of the thunderclouds expanded further, requiring even more time to gestate the next heavenly calamity.
Each heavenly calamity was several times stronger than the previous one.
Nevertheless, even so, Jue still held the upper hand, actively attacking and defeating each heavenly calamity.
Majestic spear intent filled the heavens and earth.
From today onward, Jue separated from Xu Yuan, inheriting essence, energy, and spirit, inheriting the three spirit nodes and the spiritual pill, and reshaping himself with the aid of four Spiritual Furnaces.
Similarly, he would assist Xu Yuan in an even stronger form.
Xu Yuan watched all this, his eyes full of gratification.
"The heavenly calamity truly defies logic, adjusting according to the strength of the soul beast undergoing it. But when Jue's strength surpasses the limits of the heavenly calamity, it cannot stop him from passing through this level."
Xu Yuan knew that after the heavenly calamity, Jue would no longer be a soul beast.
He would no longer be a spirit soul.
But a new life form, inheriting the essence of many systems, inheriting a soul master's essence, energy, and spirit, combining four Spiritual Furnaces, and fusing various elemental forces.
No longer bound by the heavenly calamity, he would no longer be classified as a soul beast.
He should never have been a soul beast; it was only due to the reasons of soul master and spirit soul that he was forcibly categorized under the judgment of the heavenly calamity, becoming a 'soul beast.'
Now, having passed the calamity, if he didn't want to be a soul beast, then he wasn't a soul beast.
His main body was nurtured by the world of the Holy Demon Continent. His essence, energy, and spirit were inherited from Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit, then tempered through the heavenly calamity, no longer related to soul beasts.
"The power of the Holy Demon Continent is also a kind of restraint. When we return, I will refine his Spiritual Furnace power again."
That would be another level of progress.
Jue's power fully suppressed the heavenly calamity.
As the thunderclouds gestated a stronger heavenly calamity, Jue unleashed a spear light that pierced the heavens and earth.
The white light pierced through the heavens and earth.
The thunderclouds were forced to unleash the heavenly calamity, but upon contact, they crumbled, pierced by the spear light throughout the entire cloud.
This spear seemed to carry the power of rules, piercing through the thunderclouds and their essence, preventing the clouds from reforming.
Jue's main body, emitting white light, instantly turned pitch black, transforming into an endless vortex, devouring all the heavenly calamity's power, rapidly expanding to encompass the entire thundercloud.
The heavenly calamity dissipated.
Heaven and earth returned to tranquility.
A spear floated in mid-air, emanating an unparalleled presence.
The spear cry echoed through the heavens and earth. The spear vanished instantly, then reappeared in Xu Yuan's ethereal hand.
From the spear, Xu Yuan felt a strong affinity.
"Dad, let me adjust my state a bit more, prepare to challenge Long Haochen. After the challenge, I should be returning."
The greatest harvest of this journey was already in hand; Xu Yuan had no further needs.
Xu Zhi was startled.
He didn't expect Xu Yuan to leave so soon.
"You..."
After pausing, he still offered some advice.
"There's no need to rush your departure. Long Haochen is now a demigod, just one step away from true divinity."
"It's fine. I just want to experience his power. In my estimation, his current strength is probably half-step God King level. I also want to see the gap between my full strength and a half-step God King."
Half-step God King gap?
Xu Zhi gave a bitter smile.
As Xu Yuan's father, he easily understood Xu Yuan's meaning.
This means he wasn't planning to wait idly.
He planned to return to Douluo Planet after challenging Long Haochen, then take the initiative to attack, resolving the Abyss threat, and possibly even counterattack the Deep Red Realm.
"There's no need to rush. Even if your strength is comparable to a half-step God King, I think you'd be interested in Long Haochen's next step."
Next step?
Xu Yuan's eyes flickered.
Ascension to godhood?
Is Long Haochen ascending to godhood?
In such a world, how would he ascend to godhood?
Xu Yuan did hear that Feng Xiu was attempting to condense a divine seat, gathering his own power through the method of a divine seat.
Could it be that Long Haochen obtained Feng Xiu's method?
This point, Xu Yuan genuinely didn't know. He didn't remember whether Long Haochen ultimately ascended to godhood.
(Long Haochen lived to Divine Seal II, so he should have become the creator god of another world.)
"What is he going to do?"
"He's probably preparing to go to a ruined plane that has already been destroyed, restore it, and perform what's called creation."
Xu Zhi knew quite a bit, even knowing how Long Haochen planned to ascend to godhood.
"I won't wait. I'm not curious about how he creates the world."
Simply restoring vitality to a ruined plane, Xu Yuan didn't care about that.
Even if he could achieve this, Xu Yuan could roughly guess the source of all the power—nothing more than the power of the Eternal and Creative Divine Throne.
This power, experiencing it in battle was enough.
Xu Zhi helplessly sighed.
In that case, he would have to say goodbye to his son in advance.
He still had a lot of cultivation unfinished here and couldn't leave for the time being.
"Alright, I'll relay the message for you. When are you planning to challenge him?"
"I don't even have a body right now. I need to find a way to cultivate a new one capable of handling high-intensity battles." Xu Yuan looked down at his ethereal body.
"One month. One month later, even if my body hasn't returned to its peak, I will challenge him. Anyway, my own strength doesn't significantly affect the outcome."
Xu Zhi nodded.
He patted Xu Yuan's shoulder, leaving him to recover well.
After Xu Zhi left, Xu Yuan sat cross-legged, placing the spear on his lap.
"A pure consciousness, this state is truly peculiar."
Xu Yuan looked at Jue and smiled, "Jue, before it was you who used my essence, energy, and spirit to condense a physical body. This time, I'll borrow your power."
The spear vibrated, signaling that Xu Yuan had no issues.
Xu Yuan's consciousness merged into Jue's body.
He activated the power of the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace.
A vortex appeared in the air out of nowhere.
The vortex entered Xu Yuan's ethereal body, landing on his abdomen.
Then, the second and third vortices appeared.
They landed on Xu Yuan's chest and forehead respectively.
The three vortices stabilized Xu Yuan's spiritual body and preliminarily gathered spirit power for him.
However, these three vortices lacked the aura of essence, energy, and spirit, containing only pure spirit power.
With three spirit nodes, Xu Yuan manipulated the spirit power to circulate within his ethereal body, and swiftly, his entire body seemed to materialize.
Heaven and earth energy surged in, and the spirit power rapidly strengthened.
The fourth spirit node appeared.
Then the fifth, sixth...
Until the tenth spirit node appeared, Xu Yuan stepped into the ninth rank once again.
Afterward, the increase in Xu Yuan's spirit power began to slow down.
However, with Jue acting as an energy filter, his advancement was smooth and rapid.
Previously, Jue relied on Xu Yuan's power to condense a physical body, and Jue's power depended on Xu Yuan's power, unable to display the might of a transcendent divine artifact.
Now, Jue was completely independent, achieving the complete form of a transcendent divine artifact, while Xu Yuan's consciousness borrowed Jue's power to gather strength, so his power depended on Jue.
A transcendent divine artifact theoretically had an upper limit reaching the God King level.
Therefore, Xu Yuan, borrowing Jue's power to condense a body, could easily reach levels below the God King.
Of course, time was uncertain.
Because Jue could previously exert the limit of Xu Yuan's power to condense the spear martial soul, it was because Jue's inherent quality was sufficient. At this moment, Xu Yuan's realm was not yet at the God King level.
However, even so, his spirit power progress was visibly noticeable.
The eleventh spirit node formed without any obstacles.
Three days later, Xu Yuan condensed thirty spirit nodes.
In another ten days, he condensed seventy spirit nodes.
However, in the following half month, he only condensed twenty new spirit nodes.
Ninety spirit nodes filled his body, giving Xu Yuan an unprecedented sense of power.
"This power is much stronger than my original body."
Switching the main body, Jue and his power limit directly skyrocketed by more than one level.
Clenching his fists, Xu Yuan felt he could shatter a star with one punch.
"Let's go and witness the pinnacle power of this world."
With that, Xu Yuan performed spatial teleportation.
Demon Suppressing Pass.
Xu Yuan arrived here two days early.
He sat cross-legged on the city wall of Demon Suppressing Pass, quietly waiting for two days.
Suddenly, a spatial fluctuation emerged, and Xu Yuan opened his eyes.
He looked ahead.
Two figures, holding hands, appeared there.
A man and a woman.
One was a young man wearing luminous white armor, with a crown embedded on his head, and the other was a long-haired maiden exuding a pure and fresh aura.
The two walked out of the space as if strolling.
"So you are the real Xu Yuan?" Long Haochen looked at Xu Yuan and slowly spoke.
Xu Yuan instinctively glanced at Xu Zhi far away, revealing a resentful look.
Meeting with the question, "So you are the real Xu Yuan?" sounded strange.
"My power has reached the limit of this world. Are you sure you want to fight me with full strength?"
"Of course. Although there are some differences from what I imagined, your strength should still be at the half-step God King level. I also want to test my level."
Long Haochen frowned.
What does it mean?
There are differences?
Why does it sound like he looks down on my power?
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