Looking at that Creator God imprint, Huo Yuhao's expression shifted slightly.
He now had a safety net.
He currently had three paths to godhood.
First, naturally, when his cultivation reached the quasi-divine level, he could break through using the special divine persona formed from the Creator God imprint.
Second, he could ascend to the divine realm in the form of the Undead Plane's Plane Lord.
Third, he could polish his cultivation, elevating his spiritual power, physical body, and spirit power all to divine-level equivalents, achieving an alternative path to godhood. Then, while under the Douluo Continent's suppression, he could continue accumulating foundation, eventually breaking through forcefully in one leap to the level of a second-class deity in the mortal world, completely ignoring the plane's suppression.
Among these, the second path—breaking through as a Plane Lord—had clear pros and cons. With the plane's support, within the Undead Plane his strength would naturally be formidable, with the entire Undead Plane as his backing. After breaking through to the divine level, he could continue growing stronger within the Undead Plane.
But the downside was equally obvious—outside the Undead Plane, other planes wouldn't recognize his divine status; the suppression would still apply. Unless he raised his strength to the second-class deity level within the Undead Plane, or did something similar to the Abyss Saint Lord—overlapping the two planes so he could mobilize the plane's power on the Douluo Continent and fight at full strength.
As for the third path—the alternative path to godhood, polishing his strength to overturn the previous "path-forger"—its advantage was accumulating enough foundation to gain greater benefits in the final leap, even attracting the Universal Tribulation and its fortune.
Its downside was similar to the second path: before that final leap, his cultivation on the Douluo Continent would be suppressed below the divine level.
From this, one could see how significant the special divine persona granted by the God-Imprint Throne was. With this divine persona, he had a trump card allowing him to break through to the divine level at any time, not subject to plane suppression, and even an extra life-saving measure against the Universal Tribulation.
After all, this was essentially a special divine seat. If he used it, he'd directly become a deity. The Universal Tribulation was ultimately a godhood tribulation; if its target was no longer available, it likely wouldn't strike him.
However, if he used this trump card prematurely, he'd be unable to continue accumulating foundation and would miss out on the Universal Tribulation's fortune. Therefore, Huo Yuhao preferred to first polish himself, accumulate more foundation, and then break through.
In this life, he would first climb to the peak, then supplement it with the fruits of his past life's attainment, pushing every aspect he could polish to the divine threshold, then continue to precipitate. Even the fortune that should have helped him become a deity when the Undead Plane sublimated would all be converted into foundation.
With such deep accumulation, breaking through with the help of thunder tribulation power would surely be faster than directly breaking through to the divine level and advancing step by step.
Planning his future, Huo Yuhao briefly realized his two martial souls' ninth spirit abilities and nodded in satisfaction, then shifted his attention from his Sea of Spirit back to the outside world, looking at the three artifact spirits—Eternal Angel, Holy Sacred Dragon, and King Easton.
Noticing this, the three artifact spirits exchanged glances. The Eternal Angel spoke first: "Master, allow me to introduce the God-Imprint Throne. The God-Imprint Throne is the Creator God's seat..."
She went on to describe the matters the Eternal Lord had instructed, detailing the Throne of Eternity and Creation God-Imprint for Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao listened, his face showing little surprise.
After all, he already knew about the God-Imprint Throne's origins and similar information.
However, the special usage of the divine persona that the Eternal Lord mentioned did catch Huo Yuhao's attention.
Eternal Angel: "Master, the special divine persona given by the Eternal Lord has no attribute. You can infuse it with your comprehension of any law, transforming it into a corresponding divine persona. Of course, because it comes from the Eternal Lord, the power most compatible with this special divine persona is still creation-related power."
Huo Yuhao looked thoughtful at this.
"If that's the case, condensing three divine personas would be much easier."
He planned to condense three divine personas, but doing so would certainly be very difficult.
Now, the God-Imprint Throne had solved the problem of one of those divine personas. He could directly use this special divine persona to condense a Creation Divine Persona!
After receiving this unexpected boon from the Eterna
l Angel, Huo Yuhao was in a good mood. He listened as the Eternal Angel continued: "Master, the God-Imprint Throne is currently in the starry void. When you summon it for the first time, it will cause quite a commotion."
Unlike when Long Haochen inherited it, the God-Imprint Throne's true body wasn't on the Douluo Continent but in the stars. According to the description in the God-Imprint Throne story of its descent to the Holy Demon Continent, if the Throne broke through the planar barrier to descend to the Douluo Continent, it would certainly cause a major spectacle.
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, then asked with interest, "Since it's descending from the stars, when the God-Imprint Throne comes to the Douluo Continent, will it bring some bonus items like it did on the Holy Demon Continent?"
King Easton and the Holy Sacred Dragon exchanged puzzled glances.
Bonus items? What did that mean?
Seeing their confusion, Huo Yuhao explained, "From what I know, on the Holy Demon Continent, besides the Throne of Eternity and Creation God-Imprint, there were five divine artifact-level God-Imprint Thrones. The materials used to make them were brought to the Holy Demon Continent by the Throne of Eternity and Creation God-Imprint."
When the Throne of Eternity and Creation God-Imprint arrived on the Holy Demon Continent, it was wrapped in a massive meteorite. That meteorite, composed of various metals and gemstones, split into five piles of rare materials upon arrival.
Though the experts and technicians of the Holy Demon Continent played a major role in this process, the materials brought by the Eternal Throne were clearly top-grade as well.
"So you're talking about those bonus items."
The three artifact spirits suddenly understood. The Holy Sacred Dragon shook his head. "We're not sure about that. It depends on the Eternal Lord's will. After all, the Douluo Continent and the Holy Demon Continent are different—the Eternal Lord might not do something similar."
Back then, those materials came from the stars and were extraordinary on their own. After being infused with the Throne's power, they could serve as divine artifact materials. But the reason those materials were brought to the Holy Demon Continent was the Eternal Lord's tacit approval.
Otherwise, not even materials—even divine artifacts—couldn't stick to the Throne and travel with it to the Holy Demon Continent.
Huo Yuhao nodded, not disappointed, and brought up another matter. "Can you leave the Eternal Domain with me? I need your help with something."
"Since you command, Master, we naturally obey. Besides, the Eternal Lord already had the idea of us gaining experience in the outside world," the Eternal Angel replied.
Huo Yuhao smiled. "In that case, let's go—to my Undead Plane."
With that, he opened a passage to the Undead Plane and stepped through.
The three artifact spirits exchanged glances and transformed into three streaks of light that flowed into the passage.
When they reappeared, they stood beneath the gray sky of the Undead Plane.
The Holy Sacred Dragon looked around, a hint of novelty in his eyes. "This is Master's Undead Plane? It has quite a unique atmosphere."
"The plane's power is very dense," the Eternal Angel said, closing her eyes slightly to sense. "And... there's a faint sense of ascension."
Unlike his two colleagues, King Easton looked at the Undead Plane with a somewhat strange expression.
He recalled past experiences—the time when, at Long Haochen's call, they'd worked together to purify an undead plane.
Had Huo Yuhao called them here for the same purpose?
The thought passed in a flash, and King Easton shook his head.
No, this plane was different from the undead plane on the Holy Demon Continent. This place already had signs of life—no purification was needed. Combined with the plane's sublimating aura, Huo Yuhao's goal was likely...
"I'd like you to help accelerate the plane's formation process," Huo Yuhao explained.
King Easton thought to himself, "Just as I suspected." He exchanged glances with the Eternal Angel and the Holy Sacred Dragon, and all three smiled.
As artifact spirits of the Creator God's seat, their first task after acknowledging their master was actually creating a true plane—how fitting.
Without Huo Yuhao needing to say more, they agreed and assigned their respective tasks.
King Easton spoke first: "I command the power of nature—mountains and veins, elemental cycles, and the vitality of plants—I'll handle the grooming."
The Eternal Angel followed: "I command the power of the stars—the guidance of external Stellar power and various cosmic energies—leave that to me."
The Holy Sacred Dragon spread his wings. "I command the power of life. I'll make this plane truly 'alive.'"
"Then I'll leave it to all of you," Huo Yuhao said seriously. "As the Plane Lord, I'll sort out the laws and complete the final sublimation."
With that, they said no more, each transforming into a streak of light that vanished into the plane's depths.
King Easton moved first. He hovered above the Undead Plane's geological core, his hands pressing down as natural power spread like ripples. The land, which had only scattered patches of green, began to tremble slightly. More tender green shoots broke through the soil. The mountains and veins were reorganized, and elemental cycles shifted from chaos to order.
The Eternal Angel rose to the plane's highest point, stellar power shimmering around her like an inverted river of stars. She spread her arms, and the scattered starlight and cosmic energy from the external universe, as if summoned, passed through the planar barrier and shot into the Undead Plane's sky as streaks of light. The once sparse stars in the firmament grew denser.
The Holy Sacred Dragon circled in the plane's mid-region, life power like a spring breeze sweeping across the land. The power representing soul will quietly spread, seeping into life, into the earth, bringing spirituality to the plane. The entire plane began to exude a vibrant aura.
On the other side, Huo Yuhao mobilized the plane's power, his aura rising all the way to the divine level.
Before his breakthrough, he couldn't use the plane's power to directly elevate himself to the divine level—he could only approach it infinitely. But after condensing the three yin-yang complementary soul cores, his cultivation had further improved, and he could now do so.
With his strength at the divine level, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes. Using his authority as Plane Lord, he unified the three forces within the plane and mobilized law power to begin the plane's final ascension.
The Eternal Angel, King Easton, and the Holy Sacred Dragon each represented different powers and symbols. Together, they represented a world—the world of Eternity and Creation.
Such power was clearly beneficial for the plane's ascension.
Though the Eternal Angel and the others had limited strength, the Undead Plane was just one step away. Combined with Huo Yuhao's own power, this combined force finally pushed the plane past the threshold of ascension.
The Undead Plane's sky suddenly brightened. The three forces—stellar power, natural power, and life power—guided by the web of laws, formed a pillar of light that pierced heaven and earth. The pillar rose from the plane's core, soaring into the heavens, tearing a rift in the planar barrier.
Beyond the rift lay the endless cosmic void. But this time, it wasn't an external intrusion—it was the plane's active expansion and sublimation.
The plane's boundaries expanded outward. The laws became more complete. The elemental concentration in the air surged dramatically.
BOOM—
After a soul-shaking roar, the Undead Plane completed its final metamorphosis. The sky was no longer gray but clear and bright. The earth was full of vitality. The soul fires in the undead creatures' eyes burned brighter, more spirited.
A new, complete plane had been born!
The three artifact spirits, alongside Huo Yuhao, witnessed the birth of this new plane, seeming to gain some insight, their faces showing joy.
As the Dominant and Plane Lord, Huo Yuhao was tightly enveloped by the plane's power. The Undead Plane was no longer a demiplane but a truly complete plane, and thus had the ability to give back to its Plane Lord.
This feedback from the plane gave Huo Yuhao an extraordinarily generous gift.
The infusion of the plane's origin power made Huo Yuhao emanate a sacred aura. His cultivation, which had just broken through, showed signs of rising again.
If he absorbed all this plane power, Huo Yuhao had a premonition that he could break through to the divine level in one go.
But he didn't do so. Instead, he sealed all this plane origin power.
Though this origin power was meant to be absorbed as foundation according to plan, foundation at the divine level was better saved for when he'd unified his two lifetimes' cultivation and pushed all aspects to the divine level. Absorbing it then should allow him to go further in certain areas. Using it now would be wasteful.
After all, his situation was ultimately different from Lan Xuanyu's.
Lan Xuanyu had directly become a deity at Level 70, while he still needed to continue accumulating at the Title Douluo level.
Having condensed three yin-yang complementary soul cores, his cultivation already equaled that of a Limit Douluo. If he didn't become a deity, even reaching Level 99, he'd still be a Limit Douluo in terms of spirit power—there wouldn't be a special case where Level 99 equaled Level 109.
To put it in analogy, his spirit power cultivation at the Title Douluo stage was similar to Emperor Tian's—having already reached the limit and being unable to break through, only able to continue accumulating.
In such a situation, there was no need to waste divine-level foundation on Title-level spirit power cultivation.
He currently had the origins of four quasi-divines—Chen Xinjie and three Demon Lords—as well as the Fire Dragon King's semi-divine origin. If he wanted to pursue cultivation speed, he could just refine these powers instead.
After all, this was Douluo—devouring and refining was also the great path, with no risk of qi deviation. (Tang San, Tang Wulin, Lan Xuanyu, Crimson Mother, and others gave a thumbs up.)
Having gained another piece of divine-level foundation, Huo Yuhao turned his attention to the Plane Lord's authority.
After the Undead Plane fully matured, he felt he'd gained some additional abilities as Plane Lord.
Special abilities like mobilizing life energy to nurture life, and reviving existences whose souls remained in the plane.
Revival needed no elaboration—Tang Hao had used it. As for the ability to nurture life, Huo Yuhao sensed it but had no intention of using it for now.
Just look at Lady Long Tianyang's fate.
As the Life Core of the Dragon Horse Twin Stars and a half-step God King, she was essentially the plane itself. Yet she was ultimately sealed by the super-divine experts born from her own plane. Where could she seek justice?
Huo Yuhao didn't want to learn that kind of operation, ultimately nurturing a group of high-intelligence beings on the Undead Plane who loved shouting "My fate is mine to control!" and pulling off bizarre stunts like those on the Dragon Horse Twin Stars—only to turn around and fight him.
So nurturing and cultivating intelligent life on the plane had to be done with extreme caution.
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