It worked!
The joy Su Ming felt inside at this moment was imaginable.
"In other words, what the Douluo 2 side lacked wasn't of the Spirit Cores, but Gold Force."
Using Gold Force to replace metal, using this power to replace tangible matter, imitating Battle Armor to build a so-called External World.
Suppressing his inner excitement, Su Ming began carefully sensing the subtle details of his External World.
"Actually, that's not entirely right either. Sorting out the three Spirit Cores is still useful. My current External World is too chaotic."
Su Ming sensed that the External World was operating on its own, its power gradually being assimilated by the external world's laws.
Assimilation wasn't quite right either; it should be combed.
It was like a Spirit Master: after Spirit Power leaves the body, without the Spirit Master's control, it gradually loses some characteristics and ultimately returns to the world.
Su Ming's current External World was like this.
Without Su Ming's support, this External World would gradually be subsumed into the world, ultimately assimilated by the outside.
This was hardly an External World; it was merely a more complex domain.
"Maintaining the External World's structure with Spirit Power consumes too much. It's far less efficient than using a Spirit Core to govern it."
Su Ming tried to attach the External World to a Spirit Core, integrating the operation of his internal Spirit Power with the circulation of Gold Force within the External World. Sure enough, he found the strain suddenly decreased.
"Ha, it really needs to form a cycle. Only then can it truly stabilize."
One Spirit Core was completely insufficient to maintain the External World's operation.
This point was beyond doubt, because Su Ming had tested it. He had done his best to make one of his Spirit Cores resonate with the External World, yet maintaining the External World from being teased by the external world's rules still required considerable focus.
"Should I disperse it?"
Su Ming looked at the External World he had spent days building, hesitated briefly, and then released it.
Building an External World requires extreme caution. What he had just done was essentially experimentation; he had not yet perfectly combed his own power.
There was no need to forcefully maintain this first External World.
"I will certainly need three Spirit Cores as well. But if I wait until after establishing the three cores and foundation to start building the External World, who knows how much time it will take."
His gaze flickered as Su Ming made a decision.
"First, tease out the abilities of this body. Then immediately begin building the Douluo 1 External World."
He would need to constantly expend effort to maintain this External World.
Although this would affect his state, it wouldn't be too much of a burden.
In this Douluo 1 era, he could develop safely and steadily.
On the other hand, his Douluo 3 body couldn't do this. In that era, the Abyssal Sage King didn't face direct pressure from the Douluo God Realm and was much bolder.
[Douluo 2]
"So the problem lies with Gold Force."
Su Ming thought briefly, wanting to try. But when he went to act, he paused, then chuckled ruefully.
Currently, he didn't have Gold Force yet.
Here in Douluo 2, he hadn't yet undergone Abyssal Heaven Refinement, so naturally, he hadn't cultivated Gold Force.
Smiling wryly and shaking his head, he didn't make a move.
"First, sorting out the relationships between the three Spirit Cores. After sorting them out, there'll be plenty of time for Heaven Refinement."
[Douluo 3]
In both the Douluo 1 and Douluo 3 eras, he needed to reshape his Spirit Ring configurations. But to reserve some focus for the Douluo 2 side to monitor the outside world, the two Su Mings were taking turns.
The Douluo 1 Spirit Ring adjustments were complete; now it was the Douluo 3 Su Ming's turn.
Blood God Legion.
Su Ming gathered all the Limit Douluos.
This included the Limit Douluos stationed at the front line, who participated via real-time projections through Spirit Communication Devices.
"Everyone, I'm going to self-destruct again. Let's discuss how to maximize the benefits."
Su Ming's words left the assembled Limit Douluos at a loss.
What was going on?
Self-destruct again?
Mu Ye frowned, staring at his disciple, a hint of displeasure in his eyes.
"The current situation doesn't require this. We can hold the line."
Even if he could revive, surely there was some cost to revival, right?
Mu Ye didn't want his disciple to casually self-destruct.
After all, the process of revival was exposed for everyone to see. Perhaps they, as Limit Douluos, couldn't see any issues, but what if the Abyssal Sage King could snoop to the secrets?
If the essence was spied, and the Abyssal Sage King acted to interrupt the revival, wouldn't he have died for nothing?
"Su... Tower Master, is there something amiss?"
Leng Yaoju spoke up.
Su Ming had many titles now. When she spoke, she momentarily didn't know what to call him, ultimately defaulting to the title from the Spirit Transmission Pagoda.
"Yes, Guild Master. Self-destruction is a last resort. Even if you can revive, the Abyssal Sage King on the other side isn't easy to deal with. If he grasps your weakness, even if he can't interrupt your revival, just breaking through your faith suppression to prevent you from perfectly fusing your original power during revival would cause your strength to drop."
The title 'Guild Master' apparently came from someone from Shrek Academy. The speaker was Long Yueyue.
Her words were sincere.
Ever since Su Ming had reversed Shrek Academy's faith foundation and set things right, Shrek Academy had truly begun to care about him.
'Setting things right' happened in Douluo 3, so Long Yueyue and others had genuinely experienced the baptism of Su Ming's words about pioneering. They realized how ridiculous their previous ideas had been.
In Douluo 2, on the other hand, Su Ming simply held a certain status, so Yan Shaozhe and others were still like subordinates under Tang San's command.
"Hall Master, I also think so," Guan Yue said.
"Indeed," Cao Dezhi added with a wry smile.
Su Ming wasn't the Tang Sect Sect Master, so he couldn't call him that either.
Yu Guanzhi sighed emotionally.
He was certainly the most sharp-witted, also realizing the issue in the latter part of Long Yueyue's words. He even found himself considering that direction, knowing that such a situation might not necessarily come from the Abyssal Sage King on the other side discovering something—it could also come from a traitor on Douluo Star's side.
As for why someone would target Su Ming, it was naturally because Su Ming's power was too great, oppressing everyone and weighing on their minds.
He sighed emotionally because he hadn't expected that the crucial piece of advice would come from Long Yueyue.
He glanced at Chen Xinjie, noticing that Chen Xinjie's projection showed no expression, as if he had no thoughts on what was being said.
He then looked at the old angel and the little angel, observing the Limit Douluos from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and other sects.
He wondered if any of these Limit Douluos had such thoughts.
"Yu Guanzhi, what do you think?"
Hearing himself called out, Yu Guanzhi's heart skipped a beat. He didn't dare hesitate and directly said, "I naturally support it."
Hearing this, Mu Ye and the others glared at him angrily, as if questioning his meaning.
Yu Guanzhi, however, wasn't guilty. His support was genuinely from the heart.
Thinking of ways to harm Su Ming was one thing; having the motive was another.
His support for Su Ming wasn't because he wanted to harm him but because he felt this was an opportunity to advance the battlefront.
"Not that I intend to pry, but from what I know, Hall Master Su's self-destruction can even force the Abyssal Sage King to avoid it. With proper coordination, if we can lure the Monarchs on the Abyssal front line to a certain distance from the Hall Master, use the self-destruction to severely injure them, and then have all of us Limit Douluos charge and attack at the same time, it should be enough to push the battlefront further."
As he spoke, Yu Guanzhi had an air of pointing Jiangshan, spreading out a map of the Abyssal channel, pointing and gesturing as he simulated the process he described.
He also held the position of Deputy Hall Master of the War God Hall, so he addressed Su Ming as Hall Master.
Even those who had just glared at Yu Guanzhi began to seriously consider his words.
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