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"As expected of someone who broke through to the Dou Di realm using a pill—his foundation is unstable, and there is residual Dou Qi within his body."
Qian Renhan looked down upon the Douqi Continent. To his surprise, the continent was flat, composed of five gigantic plates joined together and wrapped in an invisible spatial membrane. Reaching the continent's edge led to a boundless void. However, entering this void didn't mean one left the continent; rather, they would remain beneath the spatial membrane, either circling endlessly or being teleported to another part of the void.
Under the laws of the Douqi Continent, not even Zhukun's mastery over space could reveal this truth. He would simply believe that the void was endless.
"So that's the Great Thousand World?"
Qian Renhan looked up at the endless void. After reaching the Dou Di realm, he could perceive a more powerful plane beyond the spatial membrane of the Douqi Continent. However, the passage leading to that mysterious plane was blocked by a mysterious force—the master of which was even stronger than his current self.
"Then I'll just have to be a little more forceful."
He extended his hand, and a blood-red sword brimming with a boundless murderous aura and bloodlust fell into his grasp. He slowly rose into the air like a crimson comet as waves of world-destroying energy continuously gathered into the blood sword.
"Father, what is Qian Renhan doing?" Zi Yan asked in surprise.
"I don't know," Zhukun shook his head. He was not a Dou Di, so he could not perceive the plane above the Douqi Continent.
Thick clouds suddenly surged across the clear sky. For tens of thousands of kilometers, the heavens darkened in an instant as the clouds turned a deep, blood-red. Nearly all lifeforms in the Central Plains looked up in terror at the rising crimson comet. From it, they felt an extremely terrifying fluctuation of energy.
A beam of blood-red light shot into the sky and transformed into a colossal, ten-thousand-zhang blood sword. The sky over the Douqi Continent turned almost entirely crimson. All living beings who looked upon the sword felt a chill run down their spines. The aura of death rushed toward them, as if a blade was pressed against their throats, ready to claim their lives at any moment.
Whoosh!
The blood-red sword slashed down, unleashing a ten-thousand-zhang sword aura. The pupils of every living being shrank as they stared, trembling, at the void. There, a blood-red sword scar stretched to an invisible horizon, as if the entire sky of the Douqi Continent had been split in two.
"What is that?"
Zhukun, Gu Yuan, and Hun Tiandi were all shocked. Within the blood-red gash, they saw specks of brilliant, colorful energy scattering down onto the Douqi Continent. They had seen this energy before—it was the same radiant light that Qian Renhan had emitted when his strength surged after consuming the embryonic Emperor Pill.
"Could it be…?"
A thought struck Zhukun, and his face lit up with wild joy.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Across the Central Plains, countless powerful auras erupted into the sky. This energy came from Yao Chen of the Falling Star Pavilion, Qing Xianzi of the Flower Sect, and Xuan Kongzi of the Pill Tower. They had done nothing, yet their internal auras surged uncontrollably, pushing them into the One-Star Dou Sheng realm.
The pupils of Zhukun, Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan contracted. They could feel the cultivation bottlenecks that had imprisoned them for centuries finally loosening. The Dou Di realm was now within their grasp.
"Zi Yan, your father must enter seclusion. The affairs of the Ancient Void Dragon tribe are in your hands."
Zhukun was trembling so violently with excitement that his words came out slurred. After this brief instruction to Zi Yan, he rushed off to begin his closed-door cultivation.
Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi also departed for seclusion without a moment's delay.
"The influx of Origin Qi has raised the Douqi Continent's planar level. Breakthroughs have become easier."
Qian Renhan observed the continent, its collective power having risen by an entire tier. Glancing at the retreating figures of Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan, he smirked. "Grow stronger quickly, my dear supplements."
With those words, a massive mountain range tens of thousands of meters tall rose from the ground. Carrying the Blood Lotus, Qian Renhan sat cross-legged atop it. He was positioned at the point where the influx of Origin Qi from the Great Thousand World was most concentrated, directly beneath the tear he had ripped in the continent's barrier. He, too, began to cultivate in seclusion to stabilize his own unsteady realm—a result of his pill-induced breakthrough—and to strive for an even higher level of power.
"Teacher, what just happened? How did you suddenly break through?" Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen, his face filled with confusion.
Yao Chen, having just broken through to the Dou Sheng realm, allowed a trace of joy to flash in his eyes before his expression turned grave—far more so than ever before. "Xiao Yanzi," he said, "if I'm not mistaken, Qian Renhan will not be the only Dou Di on this continent for long. You must quickly bring everyone you care about to the Falling Star Pavilion. The Central Plains—and possibly the entire continent—is about to become a battlefield. I will head to the Pill Tower at once. Feng Xian, you must quickly get in touch with the Flower Sect and have them gather here as well. Any delay, and it will be too late!"
Hearing this, Xiao Yan realized the gravity of the situation. A war between Dou Di was about to begin.
According to Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er, a battle between peak Nine-Star Dou Shengs was enough to affect all of Central Plains. The Void Swallowing Flame, when it was merely an early-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng, possessed the power to devour the ancient clans occupying a territory the size of half the Central Plains. If this truly becomes a war between Dou Di, the battlefield might encompass the entire Douqi Continent.
"Cai Lin!" Xiao Yan suddenly looked at Queen Medusa. As a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, Cai Lin had originally been a Half-Saint. After the continent's planar upgrade, she had broken through to become a One-Star Dou Sheng. Xiao Yan himself had reached the Half-Saint realm after his hundred-life reincarnation in the Bodhi Ancient Tree and later broke through to Dou Sheng by seizing the opportunities left behind by the declining ancient clans, especially the Yan Clan.
The two nodded to each other, tore through the void, and headed for the Jia Ma Empire to bring the Snake-Person Tribe and the Miteer Family to safety. Xiao Xiao was left in the care of the Little Fairy Doctor.
A few months later, a group of uninvited guests arrived on the Douqi Continent. The strongest among them was an Eight-Star Dou Sheng, while the weakest were merely Dou Huangs and even Dou Wangs. One of the Dou Huangs was surprisingly close with a six-winged, Six-Star Dou Sheng.
This group was, of course, the Qian Family that had ascended from the God Realm, including the six great consecrators and several First- and Second-Class Gods.
Qian Renhan had said upon his arrival that the God Realm should be considered an outside entity. The plane above the Douluo World was not supposed to be the God Realm; upon reaching level 100, one should ascend to the Douqi Continent. The God Realm was, in reality, a foreign entity, a parasite—not a true plane of existence.
However, precisely because it was a foreign parasite, Qian Renhan's breakthrough to Dou Di allowed the members of the Qian Family still in the God Realm to receive a bloodline enhancement. Had they remained in the Douluo World, separated by a planar barrier, they would have gained nothing.
For the God Realm, a Creator God—equivalent to a Three or Four-Star Dou Zun—was its limit. If a Dou Sheng were to enter and exert even a fraction of their power, the entire realm would shatter. Thus, after rescuing the God of Destruction and crushing the temporal turbulence, the God Realm was returned to his care, and the entire Angel Clan ascended.
Witnessing this unimaginable display of power, some of the First- and Second-Class Gods from the God Realm begged to ascend with them. These were the ones who were now at the Dou Huang and Dou Wang level.
The Dou Huang was Bo Saixi, and the Six-Star Dou Sheng was, naturally, Qian Daoliu. He currently wore a frustrated expression; his son, Qian Xunji, who was once much weaker than him, had transformed into a Seven-Star Dou Sheng, far surpassing him.
With a Dou Di bloodline, the closer the relation, the greater the benefits received. The one with the closest bloodline to Qian Renhan was Qian Renxue, followed by Qian Xunji, and then Qian Daoliu.
The closer one was to the Dou Di, the more their own bloodline would stir. Guided by this pull and by Qian Renhan, who served as a beacon, the Qian Family did not ascend to the Martial Universe or any other plane of a similar level, but instead arrived on the Douqi Continent.
(End of Chapter)