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Breaking through to the fifth stage of Saint Heavenly Energy brought a slight stir of emotion to Su Wen's heart.
When converted to the soul power of the Douluo Continent, the fifth stage of Saint Heavenly Energy could already be considered at the level of a Hyper Douluo.
Previously, when he had just begun cultivating Heavenly Energy, Su Wen could only unleash the strength of an early-stage Heavenly Emperor--equivalent to the fifth stage of Heavenly Energy--by relying on the Visualization of Heaven and Earth. Now, however, he had reached this realm through his own diligent cultivation.
Furthermore, his Heavenly Energy had transformed into Saint Energy.
Golden Saint Energy!
At the same time, by practicing the Heavenly Jewel Change cultivation technique, he had fully developed all the acupoints throughout his body, rendering his entire physical form clear and flawless.
It could be said that even if he left the Heavenly Jewel plane and returned to the Douluo Continent, the physical cultivation Su Wen achieved would remain entirely intact.
Not only could the miniature dantian spaces opened within each of his acupoints store more soul power, but his meridians had also become clear and flawless under the baptism of Saint Energy. His entire flesh and blood had been thoroughly tempered, meaning his body now possessed the peak aptitude required to cultivate any power system.
Back when he had no Heavenly Energy cultivation at all, he already possessed the strength of an early-stage Heavenly Emperor. Now that he had truly broken through to the early-stage Heavenly Emperor realm, his actual power would only be greater.
His comprehension was vastly superior. Even without the assistance of Saint Energy, he could unleash the peak strength of a Heavenly Emperor simply by utilizing the Visualization of Heaven and Earth to mobilize the natural energy of the world.
Through his cultivation of Heavenly Energy, the greatest gain he achieved was his comprehension of heaven and earth--or to put it another way, his method of mobilizing the world's energy.
Precisely because the mobilization of natural energy had become much smoother, the role his Visualization of Heaven and Earth played in actual combat became far more pronounced, and the combat power it actualized grew significantly stronger.
One could even say that if he fought solely using the Visualization of Heaven and Earth, he could keep fighting indefinitely as long as his mental strength was not depleted.
Moreover, fighting with the Visualization of Heaven and Earth did not rely directly on mental strength as its core. Mental strength was merely responsible for sustaining the manifestation; it did not even need to provide the energy required to run the Visualization of Heaven and Earth, as that could be fully substituted by the primal energy of the universe.
Coupled with Su Wen's mastery of the Six Ultimates Heavenly Dao Array, calling himself a perpetual motion machine was no exaggeration. Of course, it wasn't a perpetual motion machine in the strict, narrow sense; he still needed to consume the energy of the external world to sustain his eternal combat state.
If he deployed his Saint Heavenly Energy, Su Wen's power would only be greater, allowing him to easily reach the Heavenly God tier. After all, he mastered the Ring Exploding Secret Technique. Even though this wasn't the Douluo Continent and there were no soul rings to explode, he still possessed Physical Jewels and Elemental Jewels. Besides, this was originally a burst-type secret technique, the essence of which was exploding one's own stored energy to unleash a massive burst of power.
Over the past two years, Su Wen had also developed similar explosive methods, such as the Jewel Exploding Secret Technique and the Acupoint Exploding Secret Technique.
Naturally, the most successful one remained the World-Destroying Secret Technique.
Its essence also involved exploding his own power, but this portion of power did not come from Su Wen's Heavenly Jewels or acupoints. Instead, it detonated the natural energy of heaven and earth at the exact moment he held control over it.
For instance, while in the state of the Six Ultimates Heavenly Dao Array, Su Wen could detonate the heaven and earth within the entire space of the formation.
However, this was still purely theoretical.
Su Wen had not yet perfected this secret technique to an exceptionally profound stage. Currently, he only possessed the initial trigger for the technique. As for exactly how much natural energy he could detonate to empower himself, that still depended on his own body's capacity to endure the strain.
Yet, even so, it was incredibly terrifying.
With his fourth-stage Saint Heavenly Energy combined with the Visualization of Heaven and Earth, and further augmented by the World-Destroying Secret Technique, Su Wen could unleash power at the tenth or even eleventh stage of Heavenly Energy without issue. If he factored in the six pieces of his Consolidated Equipment Set that he had already crafted, he could barely stabilize his power at the peak level of the eleventh stage of Heavenly Energy.
During his year of cultivation on the Snow God Mountain, Su Wen had engaged in three grand battles with Xue Aotian during the final month. Each battle helped Su Wen identify his own shortcomings and perfect the numerous secret techniques he had developed. Unfortunately, his progress in refining the World-Destroying Secret Technique had stalled; he hadn't made much headway in the actual techniques regarding the detonation itself, though he had perfected more methods to enhance his body's endurance.
Of course, Xue Aotian had fought Su Wen using the strength of the twelfth stage of Heavenly Energy without donning any Consolidated Equipment.
Because of the Saint Energy, Su Wen had managed to fight him to a standstill on equal terms.
Now that Su Wen had broken through to the fifth stage of Saint Heavenly Energy and reached the Heavenly Emperor level, he was confident that an unarmored Xue Aotian would definitely no longer be a match for him.
As for if they both wore their Consolidated Equipment Sets...
At this moment, Su Wen's Consolidated Equipment Set was still incomplete.
"Counting my six pieces of equipment, I can suppress Xue Aotian. But even without counting the Consolidated Equipment, I should still be able to fight him to a draw."
It had taken Su Wen two whole years just to finish crafting his six pieces of equipment. The time required to complete a Consolidated Equipment Set consisting of at least ten pieces would definitely not be short.
The crafting of a Consolidated Equipment Set became increasingly difficult the further along it progressed. Given Su Wen's current immense strength and sufficient realm, he didn't face any issues regarding a lack of Heavenly Energy, making the creation of the Consolidated Scrolls relatively easy. However, his Consolidated Equipment had to be designed and perfected by himself from scratch, which also demanded a significant amount of time and energy.
"Now, the part of the Consolidated Equipment Set with the Heavenly Book as the primary core is complete. Next will be the other section, which is the armor."
Indeed, despite having already crafted a six-piece set, Su Wen had not yet begun making any part of his full-body armor.
Consolidated Equipment Sets were generally forged in the configuration of a full suit of armor accompanied by weapons. Yet, Su Wen had already created six pieces without touching the armor components.
This was completely unheard of in the entire field of Consolidated Equipment Masters.
And yet, he had actually done it.
The Heavenly Book, the Heavenly Jewel, the Heavenly Primal Pen, the Heavenly Annihilation Divine Mill, and the Heaven-Earth Seal.
These were five of the pieces from the Consolidated Equipment designed by Su Wen.
Among them, the Heavenly Book served as the core, carrying everything else.
The Heavenly Jewel equipment fused with the Physical Jewels and Elemental Jewels he cultivated as a Heavenly Jewel Master to suppress all things. In the future, as Su Wen returned to the Douluo Planet, it would completely merge with the Heavenly Jewels he cultivated there, perhaps transforming into a set of twenty-four Heavenly Jewels.
The Heavenly Primal Pen assisted Su Wen in organizing his comprehensions, while simultaneously mobilizing his own power as well as the external energy of heaven and earth.
The Heavenly Annihilation Divine Mill obliterated all things. It would serve as the energy conversion core for Su Wen's future world, devouring all external forces, grinding them down, and turning them into ink to merge into the Heavenly Primal Pen to sketch the blueprint of his world.
As for the final piece, the Heaven-Earth Seal, it was also used by Su Wen to organize his own insights.
Rather than calling it a seal stamp, it was more like a mass of incompletely set ink that constantly shifted through myriad imprints, carrying Su Wen's comprehensions within it.
Su Wen intended to transform everything he had learned into unique characters to explain the laws of heaven and earth. This Heaven-Earth Seal was used to evolve these characters, and its constantly shifting forms were themselves individual heavenly runes.
This five-piece set was prepared by Su Wen to open up a true world of his own in the future, sufficient to sustain the basic operations of a world.
Aside from this five-piece set, there was one more piece of equipment: the Heavenly Eye, a piece of Consolidated Equipment Su Wen had forged by fusing his own Phantom Illusion Eyeballs.
The Heavenly Eye served as the gateway to the entire world, responsible for connecting that world with himself. It would also serve as the bridge connecting Su Wen's future six-piece armor set to this five-piece world set.
Through this, he intended to achieve a twelve-piece Legendary Tier Consolidated Equipment Set!