Within a secluded region of Behan's post, several kilometers away from the walls of the Beyond Realm, floated a vast continent several kilometers wide. Lush vegetation covered its surface, while an old wooden house stood quietly at its center.
Inside the house, Solanky sat cross-legged with both of his bodies immersed in comprehending the inheritances left behind by Bragon and Behan.
His main body focused on Bragon's inheritance, while his Black God clone studied the intelligence concerning their mission and the surrounding situation.
His main body began with the inheritance contained within the third statue.
It was an amplification technique known as the Barbarian God Amplification.
The technique utilized laws, concepts, world formations, and seals to forcibly amplify the user's strength, allowing them to temporarily fight at a level far beyond their normal cultivation.
However, such power came at an enormous price.
The technique could only be maintained for a short period, and it consumed massive quantities of essence and energy. Furthermore, once activated, it would influence the user's battle instincts, turning them into something akin to a battle maniac.
For a being with an extraordinary lifeform level like Solanky, the amount of energy consumed could spike intermittently during battle. At certain moments, the technique could cause his strength to surge several times beyond its ordinary level.
But the price was equally terrifying.
Once the technique ended, a substantial portion of his essence and energy reserves would be depleted, leaving him considerably weakened.
The requirements for cultivating the technique were equally stringent.
A being had to at least possess the status of a specialized lifeform to cultivate the Barbarian God Amplification.
When practiced to perfection, the technique allowed the user to temporarily contend with an opponent an entire major level above themselves.
However, prolonging the battle could result in an extremely severe backlash.
At the end of the technique, as much as ninety percent of the user's will could be depleted.
For beings without specialized world cores attached to their internal worlds, the technique was even more dangerous. Such specialized world cores could generally only be found among beings who had reached the Ancestor level.
For a specialized lifeform beneath the Ancestor level, mastering the Barbarian God Amplification meant that they could temporarily contend with calamitous lifeforms.
A calamitous lifeform could match a source-defying lifeform in terms of pure physical strength.
Likewise, a source-defying lifeform utilizing the Barbarian God Amplification could temporarily contend with a being who had recently broken through to the Ancestor or true peak-turn level.
Solanky possessed an enormous world formation and countless laws and concepts within his body. With such a foundation, he immediately began practicing the technique.
He dedicated forty percent of his essence and energy reserves toward cultivating it.
Two years passed.
For two entire years, Solanky continuously practiced the Barbarian God Amplification, repeatedly refining and correcting every aspect of the technique.
Eventually, he perfected it.
The moment he activated the technique, the countless laws, world formations, energies, and essences within his body began merging together.
They flowed through his world veins like an enormous river of power.
World veins were unique to beings at the Entity level and above. They existed to carry the enormous quantities of energy and spiritual essence necessary to sustain the physical existence of such powerful beings.
The world veins carried blood, but this blood was fundamentally different from the blood of ordinary beings.
The blood flowing through a powerful being's world contained the total essence and energy of that being.
Even a single drop of blood, if stored in a secure location with all of its karma severed and erased from the main body, could gradually absorb the energies of the outside world.
Over time, that drop of blood could accumulate sufficient energy to produce a new body.
Although the new body would initially be slightly weaker than the original, it could absorb external energies and information to gradually develop toward its optimal form.
Solanky slowly stood.
His white hair extended until it was twice its original length, wildly billowing in the wind.
His eyes transformed into a terrifying crimson red.
A heavy pressure erupted from his body, causing the surrounding space to tremble.
Countless golden and crimson engravings crawled across the surface of his body, constantly shifting as though they possessed a life of their own.
With a thought, Solanky summoned the puppet.
He deliberately suppressed the puppet's power output until it was equivalent to the second peak-life of the first turn.
The puppet stood several kilometers away.
Solanky moved.
In less than two seconds, he appeared directly before the puppet and threw a simple punch.
There were no fancy movements.
No profound technique.
Only pure physical strength amplified by the Barbarian God Amplification.
BOOM!
The surrounding space shattered instantly, transforming into chaotic energy flows.
The puppet was blasted backward, taking several dozen steps before stabilizing itself.
Yet there was not even a visible mark on its skin.
Solanky did not stop.
He launched another punch.
Then another.
And another.
His fists repeatedly collided with the puppet's body, each impact causing the surrounding space to collapse and distort.
However, as the battle continued, the golden and crimson engravings covering Solanky's body began fading one after another.
His crimson eyes also gradually dimmed.
Thirty minutes later, the Barbarian God Amplification finally wore off.
The chaotic space surrounding them slowly began healing.
A profound sense of exhaustion immediately washed over Solanky.
Forty percent of his essence and energy reserves had been depleted.
He sat down and began recovering.
Fortunately, he had already refined a large number of transcendent pills using the transcendent grasses of eternity and other high-quality herbs.
After consuming several of them, his depleted energy rapidly recovered.
Within a short period, he had recovered approximately half of what he had lost.
Meanwhile, because Solanky's will had been continuously controlling the Ancestor-level puppet, the puppet had gradually developed a consciousness of its own.
This consciousness was completely different from its original consciousness, which had already been erased.
The new consciousness had been engineered and created by Solanky himself.
Although it possessed its own independent thoughts, it remained completely under Solanky's control.
Solanky looked toward the puppet.
"How strong were my attacks just now? Compared to a living Ancestor in the first turn, how would you measure my strength?"
The puppet did not hesitate.
"Compared to a first-turn being in their early peak-life, your strength is approximately eighty-five percent comparable to theirs. You could give such an opponent a difficult battle."
"But compared to a being of the same level in their mid-peak-life, you are only approximately thirty-five percent comparable to them."
"As for a first-turn being in their late peak-life, you stand no chance against them with the Barbarian God Amplification alone."
"If you possessed an extremely powerful weapon or technique, your chances of defeating such an opponent would rise to approximately fifteen percent."
"However, even then, escaping would be your wisest choice. If such a situation occurred, you should flee while I handle the opponent."
Solanky nodded thoughtfully.
The information was useful.
His eyes soon shifted toward the inheritance left behind by Behan.
He rose into the space above the continent and began forming a series of complicated seals with both hands.
Unlike the Barbarian God Amplification, which could be transferred to another body once one body had comprehended it, this technique required both of Solanky's bodies to participate in its cultivation.
The technique was called the Heaven and Earth Tribulation.
The Heaven and Earth Tribulation drew upon the essence and energy of the surrounding world to amplify the laws unique to its user.
However, its true terror came from its ability to incorporate the source-defying flames and Nine Lightning Tribulations into the formation.
Using them, the technique could create terrifying killing arrays within the skies, upon the earth, or even within the empty void of space.
Its power was sufficient to kill any half-step peak-turn being and seriously injure a first-turn being in their early peak-life.
Even more frightening was the fact that the formation did not require the caster to remain in the location where it had been established.
Once the formation had been integrated into the laws of a particular world or region of space, it could remain hidden until activated.
This made the technique extremely difficult to detect and evade.
The formations were constructed using the world formations created from the lightning of the Nine Lightning Tribulations and the source-defying flames.
Both of Solanky's bodies began forming seals at astonishing speed.
Then, simultaneously, they pointed in opposite directions.
His main body, the source-defying Solanky, pointed downward.
His Black God clone pointed upward.
The instant they made the gestures, countless formations and restrictions surged toward the locations they had indicated.
They rapidly imprinted themselves into the surrounding world.
The Black God Solanky lowered his hand.
At almost the exact same moment, his main body lifted his hand.
The world around them suddenly changed.
The original landscape disappeared and was replaced by a vast mountain range stretching for several hundred kilometers.
Dark, heavy clouds covered the heavens.
Within those clouds, countless bolts of lightning flashed.
RIIIP! RUMBLE!
A terrifying streak of lightning tore through the dark clouds and descended toward the mountains below.
As it descended, the earth trembled violently.
The mountain range shook.
Flames erupted from beneath the earth.
The sight was terrifying.
The initial burst of energy contained within the formation was already powerful enough to instantly kill a half-step peak-turn being and seriously injure an Ancestor-level being who possessed neither protective barriers nor defensive treasures.
Solanky carefully studied the technique.
He soon realized that the formation only needed to be established in this manner once.
After becoming familiar with its structure, he would no longer need to go through the troublesome process of forming countless seals every time he wished to activate it.
In the future, he could simply utter a single word or make a simple gesture to trigger the formation.
Solanky waved his hand.
The entire world of formations created by the Heaven and Earth Tribulation disintegrated.
The mountain range vanished.
The dark clouds disappeared.
The lightning faded.
The continent returned to its original appearance.
Solanky took a single step.
His figure instantly appeared at the center of the continent.
He stood silently for a moment before looking into the distant void.
Approximately one million kilometers away was a planet.
That planet had been invaded by weaker malevolent fiend beings beneath the half-step peak-turn level.
Solanky looked at it calmly.
Then he spoke a single word.
"Heavenly Tribulation."
At that instant, the clouds within the planet's atmosphere darkened.
RUMBLE!
Lightning instantly enveloped the entire sky.
Solanky remained standing one million kilometers away.
He merely pointed downward.
The moment his finger descended, several terrifying bolts of lightning tore through the planet's atmosphere.
They descended upon the malevolent fiend beings.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
One after another, the fiend beings were annihilated.
In one region of the planet, a young man stood protectively in front of his little sister.
His arms were stretched outward as he defiantly faced the fiend commander before him.
The young man was only at the mid-stage Entity level.
The fiend commander, however, had reached the Saint Venerable Transcendent Entity level.
The disparity between them was enormous.
The commander moved.
His hand reached toward the young man in a simple grabbing motion.
The young man gritted his teeth but refused to retreat.
However, before the commander could even reach within a meter of him, a bolt of lightning descended from the heavens.
Within the lightning burned terrifying flames.
BOOM!
The fiend commander was completely annihilated.
There was nothing left.
Not even his powerful treasures survived.
Everything was erased as though the commander had never existed in the first place.
The young man stared blankly at the dissipating lightning.
Shock filled his eyes.
He looked toward the heavens.
After a moment, he clasped his hands together and bowed deeply toward the sky.
Across the entire planet, the remaining fiend beings were similarly eliminated.
Solanky then teleported.
His figure appeared outside the planet.
He calmly formed several seals with his hands.
A protective barrier began forming around the entire planet.
He could have ignored the inhabitants.
After all, their lives had nothing directly to do with him.
But Solanky had already realized that the strongest being on the planet was most likely that young man.
At best, the young man's innate potential would allow him to eventually reach the peak Entity level.
There was almost no possibility of him surpassing that realm.
Yet the malevolent fiends had exploited beings like him, treating the inhabitants of the planet as nothing more than farms from which they could extract resources and cultivate their own mediocre talents.
Solanky could not accept such exploitation.
Therefore, he decided to protect the planet.
At least from now on, those beings would have the opportunity to determine their own fate.