Chapter 144: The Golden Age, An Era of Emerging Powerhouses
That wisp of divine sense belonging to the Gu Yuena, carrying Wang Qiuer, vanished like a stone dropped into a lake. After passing through the spatial gate into the Dragon Valley Small World, it left only a faint ripple in space before completely disappearing from the perception of the Douluo Plane. The plane's core returned to its profound silence, with only the gentle pulse of the Primordial Sea and the low hum of the Golden Ancient Tree refining the Abyss's remains forming an eternal background.
The river of time in the Douluo Plane did not stagnate due to the departure or concealment of any individual. Instead, it flowed on with an even more steady and powerful rhythm.
Under the macro-level regulation of Lei Chen, the Plane Master, and nourished by the plane's own increasingly vast foundation—forged from devouring the Abyss and reforging God Positions—the entire plane entered a period of vigorous development that could be called a Golden Age.
The energy of heaven and earth grew denser, and the manifestation of laws became clearer. For the cultivators within, this was undoubtedly a blessing not seen in a thousand years.
During this relatively peaceful period, the strength of the plane's top powerhouses almost all saw significant improvements, to a greater or lesser degree.
The first to undergo a qualitative transformation were the three Limit Douluo who had long stood at the pinnacle of the mortal realm for years—Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, this body-refining holy land evolved from the site where the Fire Dragon King and the Ice Dragon King fell, had now become a cradle for Super Douluo to impact higher realms.
Several years had passed since Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui received the optimized and perfected version of The Innate Secret Method from Lei Chen back then.
Over these years, they had poured almost all their heart and soul into this profound technique that pointed directly to the great path of the Divine Body. Utilizing the unique environment at the confluence of the two polar springs—where ice and fire tempered each other in an endless cycle—they continuously honed their physical bodies.
The process was by no means smooth sailing. Although The Innate Secret Method had been optimized, its essence was still to defy the heavens. Every step required vast resources and endless effort. The pain, bottlenecks, and monotony experienced during this time could only be deeply understood by those who went through it.
Fortunately, perseverance paid off. After years of relentless, unwavering cultivation, on a seemingly ordinary day, three earth-shaking, majestic auras erupted in succession from the core area of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
The first to complete the breakthrough was Mu En. Seated at the confluence of the ice and fire springs, his body suddenly erupted with a dazzling golden radiance. The light was not blinding but filled with a sense of warmth and sanctity, like a rising morning sun.
His originally slightly hunched figure straightened within the golden light. His flesh and bones took on a crystalline, translucent quality, with faint golden divine patterns flowing beneath his skin. An aura of pressure far surpassing that of a Level 99 Limit Douluo spread out, carrying a hint of indestructibility and immortality—the Divine Body was complete!
He had officially stepped into the Demigod realm, his life level undergoing a qualitative leap.
Immediately after, from where Long Xiaoyao was, profound darkness surged like a tide, only to be replaced in the next moment by an extremely restrained, blazing draconic majesty. At the instant his Divine Body was forged, his Darkness Holy Dragon Martial Soul seemed to undergo a nirvana, becoming even more profound and noble.
Ye Xishui's breakthrough was accompanied by shrill soul shrieks and the strange spectacle of intertwined ice and fire energy. After undergoing the tempering of ice and fire, her death god demon puppet Martial Soul now emitted an aura of lifelessness that, oddly enough, carried an indescribable sense of solemnity and order, no longer as chaotic and violent as before.
These three powerhouses who had stood at the continent's apex for many years, almost one after the other, successfully cultivated The Innate Secret Method to its great perfection, forging their own Divine Bodies and stepping together into the Demigod level!
This meant that the greatest chasm between the mortal and the divine had been crossed by them. From now on, it would only be a matter of time to accumulate Soul Power step by step, deepen their comprehension of laws, break through the level 100 bottleneck, and ascend to the Divine Realm.
Years of arduous cultivation had finally borne fruit. Even with their temperaments, they couldn't help but feel their hearts surge with emotion, filled with unprecedented confidence for the path ahead.
And just as these three top human powerhouses broke through, the ranks of divine-level powerhouses within the plane also welcomed new members.
Looking back to the life-and-death war against the Abyss Plane, after the initial victory, Lei Chen had rewarded merit, bestowing upon the four Demigod-level powerhouses who participated in the battle at that time—Xue Di, Du Busi, Di Tian, and Kong Deming—each a sphere of incredibly pure energy. The energy contained within these spheres was sufficient, once fully refined by a Demigod, to steadily push their cultivation to the level of 105 or even 106.
Among them, the Body Sect's leader, Du Busi, relying on that sphere of energy, had long since taken the lead in breaking through, becoming a divine-level powerhouse.
During this period, the other three energy spheres were also successively refined and absorbed by their owners or designated recipients.
First was the sphere in Xue Di's possession. Because she possessed heaven-and-earth rarities like the Ten Thousand Years of Mysterious Ice Marrow and the heart of the ice god, after refining these treasures, her cultivation had soared all the way, directly stepping into the realm of a First-level God.
That energy sphere, priceless to a Demigod, had minimal effect on Xue Di, now a First-level God. Therefore, adhering to the principle of not wasting it, Xue Di bestowed it upon Bing Di, who had always followed her closely and was as close as a sister.
Bing Di's true form was the top-tier ice-attribute Soul Beast, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. Her cultivation foundation was originally extremely profound, having reached a level of over 500,000 years. Upon receiving the energy sphere bestowed by Xue Di—which contained refined and purified abyssal primordial energy—she immediately chose to enter seclusion.
The vast energy within the sphere surged like a bursting dam, scouring her meridians, tempering her Scorpion Empress body, and propelling her cultivation to soar at an unprecedented, frenzied rate.
600,000 years, 700,000 years, 800,000 years... The barriers of these thresholds were like non-existent walls under the impact of such pure and immense energy.
Finally, after an icy, soul-freezing, emerald-green light pillar shot into the sky from the core of the Far North Land, Bing Di successfully emerged from seclusion!
Her aura had undergone a world-shaking change. To her originally noble and aloof temperament was added an ancientness and majesty belonging to a million-year Soul Beast. With every movement, she could command the ice elemental power of heaven and earth as if it were an extension of her own limbs.
She, the Second Heavenly King of the Extreme North Land, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, Bing Di, had now officially joined the ranks of million-year Soul Beasts, becoming an undisputed top existence within the Soul Beast system of the Douluo Plane!
And besides Bing Di, another Soul Beast—Di Tian—naturally also broke through to the million-year level after refining the energy sphere bestowed by Lei Chen. Moreover, because Di Tian's own cultivation was far higher than Bing Di's to begin with, he was much stronger than Bing Di after his breakthrough.
It must be understood that after a Soul Beast breaks through to the million-year level, all their previous accumulation erupts instantly, causing their cultivation to increase significantly upon stepping into the divine rank. Bing Di and Di Tian were naturally no exception.
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