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Xu Yuan's body was disintegrating.
In terms of raw power, Xu Yuan still fell short.
His spirit energy was only at 900,000, and his body was temporarily constructed, so its inherent strength wasn't very high.
The spirit nodes were the foundation of his body, and throughout the battle, he had used the spirit nodes to construct the Domain of All Things from start to finish. His stellar armor had also continuously resonated with the spirit nodes.
It could be said that throughout the entire battle, his body had been under extreme strain.
Even though his willpower had become purer due to severing ties with Jue, maintaining a virtual form was already quite an achievement. To sustain a physical form for prolonged combat, as he did earlier, was simply too taxing.
As his body collapsed, Xu Yuan became ethereal.
The Hunyuan Spear emitted faint starlight, similar to the positions of his collapsing ninety spirit nodes, stabilizing Xu Yuan's consciousness.
"If given the chance, I hope we can collaborate."
Xu Yuan's body became ethereal, but he remained calm, addressing Long Haochen.
Turning towards Xu Zhi's direction,
"Dad, it's time for me to leave. My consciousness ultimately can't be maintained any longer. Once I resolve the issues on Douluo Planet, I'll find a way to contact you."
With those words, Xu Yuan transformed into a beam of light and merged into Jue's body.
The Hunyuan Spear rapidly changed; the three previous forms reappeared.
The three forms seemed to split apart, transforming into three forces, and quickly weakened along with the evolution of the Three Lives Spiritual Furnace.
The body of the Hunyuan Spear was discarded.
Jue, who had just achieved transcendent divine artifact status, now appeared to have diminished in presence.
After undergoing a transformation, he once again lost his physical form, converting everything into the three forces of essence, energy, and spirit, returning to the form of a rune, leaving the Holy Demon Continent with Xu Yuan.
Long Haochen watched Xu Yuan disappear, frowning silently.
Could he suppress him even in such a state?
This world was indeed vast. Even the pinnacle powers of the Holy Demon Continent couldn't suppress an outsider.
An outsider who was clearly weaker in both power and condition than himself.
After a long silence, Long Haochen approached Xu Zhi.
From this battle, he had learned a lot, gained many insights, but there were also many things he didn't understand. He believed Xu Zhi could provide answers.
Douluo Planet.
Xu Yuan, who had been in deep meditation for a long time, slowly opened his eyes.
A sense of estrangement lingered in his heart.
This body made Xu Yuan feel slightly unfamiliar.
Fortunately, it came swiftly and dissipated just as quickly. Soon, he regained familiarity with his body and fully controlled it.
With the return of his consciousness, changes began.
This time, Xu Yuan bestowed essence, energy, and spirit upon Jue. Although Jue had to discard the physical form he had attained there before returning, he had achieved the essence of a transcendent divine artifact, locking in his previous state.
Upon returning, the spirit character runes transformed into three forces, beginning to intertwine.
The heavenly laws also fluctuated due to the intertwining of these three forces.
Yun Ming's figure appeared not far away.
He felt a strong fluctuation in the laws.
Immediately, Yun Ming locked his gaze onto Jue.
"Did this advance to a transcendent divine artifact?"
As Yun Ming observed, he furrowed his brow.
He noticed Jue absorbing Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit.
No.
More accurately, it wasn't absorption but devouring Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit.
Moreover, behind Xu Yuan, the shadows of the three martial souls emerged, also being devoured by Jue simultaneously.
Xu Yuan raised his hand, signaling Yun Ming not to interfere.
"This is truly the final stepâwashing away the aura of the Holy Demon Continent."
The powers of the three Spiritual Furnaces obtained from the Holy Demon Continent were retained, but without the physical form of the Spiritual Furnaces, Jue had shed the greatest restraint of the Holy Demon Continent.
The essences of the three martial souls were now all fused into Jue.
Xu Yuan genuinely transitioned his martial soul to Jue.
Yao Yao and the other four spirit souls were awakened, appearing beside Xu Yuan.
They were very puzzled.
Compared to Yun Ming, they were slowerâno, purer. Even though Xu Yuan stopped them from disrupting this process, they were still extremely anxious, especially Yao Yao, who was making indignant noises.
"Alright, if you don't want anything to happen to me, quickly set up the Five Directions Grand Array for me." Irritated, Xu Yuan grabbed Yao Yao, rubbed her spiritual body, and tossed her to her designated position in the array.
With the Five Directions Grand Array formed, Xu Yuan's state became more stable.
He allowed Jue to devour his essence, energy, and spirit, and through essence, energy, and spirit, infused the power of the two martial souls into Jue's body.
"Yao Yao, you need to cooperate. The Dream Realm space and mountain-river world must be merged into Jue."
Xu Yuan spoke, startling Yao Yao and Shanhe.
What did he mean?
"Everything on my martial soul will transition to Jue today, allowing him to truly separate from me and condense a real body. As the spirit souls of the other two martial souls, you will also transfer to Jue. But rest assured, Jue and I will still coexist."
In this situation, Jue would eventually separate from Xu Yuan but develop a deeper connection with him, even closer than before.
Before, Jue was not only Xu Yuan's bloodline martial soul, bound by a bloodline contract, but also Xu Yuan's spirit soul, bound by a mental contract. Moreover, as a martial soul, he perfectly adapted to soul power, almost in a simultaneous contract state with Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit.
Now, their relationship was no longer a simple contract but an inheritance of essence, energy, and spirit. Combined with the previous contracts, it only made their bond stronger.
Although the spirit souls didn't understand, they were obedient.
Under Xu Yuan's simple explanation, they quickly cooperated.
First were Yao Yao and Shanhe, who were the cores of Xu Yuan's Brain martial soul and Heavenly Origin Brush martial soul, respectively. Especially the two small worlds they controlled, which were paramount.
With their cooperation, the separation and fusion of the martial souls proceeded smoothly.
For the remaining two spirit souls, Huan Xing and Xing Jun, Xu Yuan also assigned them new positions, namely the positions of the Spiritual Furnaces.
On the Holy Demon Continent, Jue took the Three Lives Spiritual Furnace as his main body, fused the three Spiritual Furnaces, and achieved his true form.
Now, after washing away everything, the power of the three Spiritual Furnaces remained. The essence of the Three Lives Spiritual Furnace originating from Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit also remained, naturally preserving this fusion relationship.
Huan Xing, who mastered the art of shifting stars, naturally resonated with the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace. Integrating into the power of the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace, it transformed into a starry sky.
Xing Jun, who commanded stellar power, merged with the power of the Stellar Spiritual Furnace, transforming into a massive eye. Xu Yuan even stripped the external soul bone he obtained from merging with Xing Jun and integrated it into the eye.
Jue, on the other hand, merged into the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace, using it as the core to form an alternative fusion relationship with Huan Xing and Xing Jun.
The fusion of the three martial souls placed Jue at the core. In the form of three domains, it fused and controlled the other two martial souls that possessed two small worlds, merging with the corresponding core spirit souls.
Within the system of the three Spiritual Furnaces, Jue was one of the members, enveloping the starry sky in the form of a vortex and encasing the eye formed by Xing Jun.
At this moment, the five spirit souls, with Jue at the core, constructed an entirely new system.
The Five Directions Grand Array also exerted its power, thoroughly stabilizing the fusion of the five spirit souls.
Thus, Jue's fusion stabilized.
Meanwhile, the weakened Xu Yuan began to reclaim his essence, energy, and spirit.
Like a filter, using essence, energy, and spirit as carriers, Jue completely filtered out Xu Yuan's martial soul and spirit souls, absorbing and integrating them. Xu Yuan, in turn, obtained completely pure essence, energy, and spirit.
With the return of essence, energy, and spirit, Xu Yuan began to reshape his own power.
At this moment, he no longer had an inner world.
Yes, the inner world had also been fused into Jue along with the essences of the three martial souls, becoming Jue's true body.
With the inner world as the main body and the virtual and real small worlds as auxiliary, Jue completed a new dimensional transformation.
He hadn't condensed his origin!
Yet, he was already a transcendent divine artifact.
On Xu Yuan's side, without the three martial souls and the inner world, his presence didn't weaken at all. Instead, the pure essence, energy, and spirit returned, forming a harmonious whole, causing him to undergo a transcendence.
Yun Ming's perception was the clearest.
This was the direction he was most familiar with.
Willpower!
The fusion of essence, energy, and spirit manifested willpower.
Xu Yuan's willpower had now become powerful enough to be a force that he could control.
"Could it be that Xiao Yuan no longer cultivates martial souls or essence, energy, and spirit, but directly cultivates willpower?" Yun Ming was deeply shocked inside.
Xu Yuan closed his eyes, and the power of willpower permeated the heavens and earth, effortlessly seeming to grasp everything.
However, he wasn't satisfied yet.
Willpower was Yun Ming's path, as well as Xu Zhi's path, but it wasn't Xu Yuan's ultimate path.
The path he pioneered was "spirit."
Not the spirit energy of the Holy Demon Continent, but the spirit energy system that Xu Yuan himself created.
Under the command of willpower, essence, energy, and spirit fully merged, giving birth to that trace of spiritual power, which was spirit energy.
Without any interference from external forces.
With the birth of the first wisp of spirit energy, Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit seemed to open a floodgate, collapsing entirely and fusing together, promoting the rapid enhancement of spirit energy.
"Spirit energy lies within oneself."
Enhancing willpower and enhancing one's essence, energy, and spirit are the essence of the spirit energy path.
"The first stage is Awakening Spirit, awakening one's spirituality to thereby condense spirit energy."
"The second stage is Foundation Building, undergoing the tempering of heaven and earth's power, where spirit energy initially interacts with external heaven and earth's power."
"The third stage is Transforming Spirit, where spirit energy interacts with heaven and earth's power, deriving one's own characteristics and evolving one's own runes."
"The fourth stage is Unification, where all evolved runes form a coherent whole, evolving one's own path, bearing the origin."
Xu Yuan's spirit energy condensation was the first stage, then he directly skipped the second and third stages, evolving numerous rune structures, forming a dense sea of runes.
Around his body, the runes formed by spirit energy resembled an ocean, surrounding him.
"UnificationâI should meet the conditions for unification. It's just that the origin hasn't condensed yet. Once the origin condenses, I can truly gather all the runes, forming my own path."
This round of organization directly revised an entirely new power system. Xu Yuan's power not only didn't decrease but greatly increased, fully exchanging the ultimate power he had mastered on the Holy Demon Continent.
At this moment, he was equivalent to a half-step God King!
After finishing the organization, Xu Yuan opened his eyes and looked towards the direction of the Hunyuan Spear.
In mid-air, the Hunyuan Spear also completed its final evolution, fully condensing its spear body and completing the fusion of all powers.
Waving his hand, the Hunyuan Spear fell into his grasp.
Spirit energy flowed into the Hunyuan Spear without hindrance.
The aura of soul power emanated.
One by one, soul rings began to rise from beneath Xu Yuan's feet.
The soul rings were divided into three layers, each nested within one another, expanding outward sequentially.
Each layer belonged to the nine soul rings of a martial soul, totaling twenty-seven soul rings.
Among the twenty-seven soul rings, nine golden soul rings adorned with black-and-white patterns were particularly conspicuous.
Looking at the twenty-seven soul rings swirling around him, Xu Yuan smiled and said, "It feels a bit uncoordinated. I'll find time to upgrade all of you to god-level soul rings."
Jue was the main body. Next, helping the other four spirit souls ascend to godhood with Jue's power wouldn't be difficult.
Twenty-seven god-level soul ringsâXu Yuan himself found it somewhat absurd.
At this moment, although he had separated the martial soul system, due to his relationship with Jue, he could still freely use the martial soul's power.
As long as the Hunyuan Spear was in his hands, he was still a soul master.
After digesting all the power, Xu Yuan finally looked at the bewildered Yun Ming.
"Teacher."
"Xiao Yuan, your current presence..." In just a few short months, Yun Ming felt like he no longer recognized his disciple.
No, a few months wasn't too bad. When he sensed the disturbance and came over, Xu Yuan was still the familiar figure. But in a short while, Xu Yuan changed, seemingly becoming much stronger.
"Teacher, this is the benefit of going to other worlds." Xu Yuan smiled genuinely.
He smiled genuinely happily.
This trip to the Holy Demon Continent was indeed a great opportunity for himâa qualitative leap.
In just seven short months, even counting the three months of preparation, it was only ten months.
Ten months' time, in exchange for his strength leaping from super-divine level to half-step God King level.
This was something unimaginable to anyone in the universe.
Of course, for Xu Yuan, combat power was the standard of measurement. Before he left, the unity of essence, energy, and spirit was actually at the Main God level. Now, his spirit energy system was also a fusion of essence, energy, and spirit, so strictly speaking, he had only advanced from the Main God level to the half-step God King level.
Even so, his advancement was still incredibly exaggerated.
Yun Ming gave a bitter smile.
It wasn't as if he hadn't traveled to other worlds. Using that platform in the demonic plane, he had visited many planes and absorbed much nourishment.
But back then, his harvest wasn't as outrageous as Xu Yuan's.
However, after Xu Yuan's brief explanation, he understood the essence of Xu Yuan's advancement this time.
It was simply liberating Xu Yuan's own power.
He had overfed Jue. Previously, he was too weak to unleash Jue's power.
Now, by separating Jue, he liberated all of Jue's power. Xu Yuan, in turn, relied on Jue's power to master even stronger power.
In fact, this was what Yun Ming referred to as the harvest phase.
Xu Yuan's experiment this time provided a direction for the still nebulous operation of the harvest phase in Yun Ming's theory.
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