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Su Wen possessed immense ambition. His goal in wanting to condense the God Seat of the God of Knowledge was not a Third-Class God; he did not even look highly upon a Second-Class God. It had to be a First-Class God at the very least, and a top-tier one among them, approaching the level of a God King, to be acceptable.
If given the opportunity, he also wanted to find a way to strike for the possibility of achieving a God King-level God Seat right upon its initial condensation.
Unfortunately, that required an incomparably massive amount of energy.
Yes, energy.
A God Seat also required energy to be constructed; otherwise, how could it produce such a distinct amplification for a god?
Just like the Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent, after breaking through from rank ninety-nine and inheriting a God Seat, they would possess the power of the corresponding level. This was the strength inherently contained within the God Seat itself.
Once a significant amount of time had passed after their ascension, they would slowly raise their own rank, and only then would the power of their true body reach the corresponding level. Meanwhile, the God Seat could still grant its blessings, taking their power a step further.
This was a God Seat.
Of course, while deities received the benefits of a God Seat, there were also downsides. That was, any advancement required raising the God Seat first.
One's own power was also restricted by the God Seat.
Therefore, some deities who raised their own power to the upper limit of their current God Seat would choose to break free from its shackles and search for a successor after making a certain amount of improvements to it.
To say it was a certain amount of improvement was actually negligible in reality. This was because everything that could be improved had already been enhanced by the efforts of the previous generations of gods, leaving behind only the toughest nuts to crack.
Only the Stone God was unique, possessing his own methods to pioneer and expand his God Seat relatively smoothly, allowing for a dual increase in strength.
The War God and his peers were also stuck at the bottleneck of a First-Class God, possessing an opportunity to break through together to the half-step God King level in the universe by relying on their God Seats.
Of course, if they could find a suitable successor before that point, they would also pass down their God Seats and then wander the universe themselves to seek the opportunity for a breakthrough.
Both paths were viable.
A God Seat, in and of itself, represented the massive energy of its corresponding rank.
The energy contained within a Second-Class God's God Seat surpassed the entire sum of energy required for an ordinary lifeform to break through to the Hyper-God level corresponding to a seatless Second-Class God.
Correspondingly, the energy of a First-Class God's God Seat also surpassed the total sum of all energy accumulated up to the half-step God King level.
As for a God King-level God Seat?
The energy required for that was even more unimaginably vast, exceeding the consumption of a lifeform cultivating all the way to a God King.
Of course, the elevation of a God Seat did not just rely on absorbing physical energy; it could also rely on the power of faith. One could expand their authority through faith, or if the essence of their authority was high enough to begin with, it would only require the accumulation of faith power.
"Ascending to the God Level presents no obstacles for me, and I already have a lead on condensing a God Seat."
But, did he really want to depend on the Douluo Divine Realm to condense his God Seat?
Su Wen wanted to try something else.
Only then would he have a chance to gather enough energy for a God King-level God Seat.
For instance, opening up his own Divine Realm.
"I should still honestly study the God Level and God Seats first. In any case, my soul power is only at rank seventy, still very far from truly needing a breakthrough."
Su Wen was in no hurry.
He continued to study this Nether Realm belonging to the Lord of the Netherworld.
A full month passed.
Su Wen finally left the Nether Realm.
Upon returning to Heavenly Jewel Island, Su Wen immediately entered secluded cultivation.
This period of seclusion lasted for half a year.
Half a year later.
Su Wen emerged from his seclusion.
His Saint Force had broken through to the twelfth tier--the peak of Heavenly God!
At this moment, Su Wen's strength had reached the absolute limit that this plane could sustain.
Su Wen also felt the constraints of the plane.
It wasn't that the plane was actively binding him, but rather that the plane could not withstand a more powerful force.
The entire power of a Heavenly Jewel Master actually originated from the plane. Therefore, once this power was exceeded and the plane could no longer sustain it, it would become like rootless duckweed and naturally dissipate.
Unless one gained insight into the laws, using their own self to restrain the power and then breaking through step by step.
The half-step Heavenly Change level originated from this concept.
As for the God Level further ahead, breaking through required the same theory. However, attempting to break through to the God Level in a soil that could not sustain it was profoundly difficult.
With his strength reaching the limit of the plane, Su Wen could also perceive the laws much more clearly.
Under the enhancement of his Saint Force, the entire world had undergone a massive transformation in Su Wen's eyes, as if lines of laws pierced through every part of the world.
All things and all matters were entirely enveloped beneath the laws.
"The final piece of equipment hasn't been crafted yet, and this is also my final Consolidated Equipment."
The heart-protecting mirror.
Su Wen planned to craft it.
But before that, he needed to open up his own world first.
The Elf Clan.
Su Wen arrived at the Sealed Land and was received by the elves.
"You want to open up a world?" The Elf Queen frowned, thoroughly puzzled.
"Just a small world will do. One that can operate completely with the assistance of the main plane, possessing a complete ecosystem," Su Wen said.
Yet even so, the Elf Queen still frowned.
Such a small world was not that easy to open up.
Although the Dragon Clan possessed the Spatial Realm of Light and Shadow, strictly speaking, it could not be considered a small world at all. Its reliance on the main plane was far too great; it was not a pure injection of laws, but also required the massive worldly energy of Heavenly Jewel Island to maintain the production of so many resources inside.
The small world Su Wen wanted to open up was clearly not like that.
It was much more akin to this Sealed Land of the Elf Clan.
The Sealed Land had almost no demand for the external main plane.
Even the support of the laws was realized through the Ancient Tree of Life, and there wasn't much absorption of the outside world beyond that.
By leveraging the Ancient Tree of Life, this small world of the Elf Clan was spatially situated within a spatial rift, capable of directly absorbing external energy and converting it to maintain the small world's operations.
This was something the Spatial Realm of Light and Shadow could not accomplish.
"I wish to study this place, to study the spatial dimension this place is situated in. I hope Your Majesty the Queen can grant permission," Su Wen requested earnestly.
The Elf Queen felt helpless.
She had not expected Su Wen to make such a request.
This place was the very foundation of the entire Elf Clan.
"In return, I will help the Ancient Tree of Life complete its evolution," Su Wen said, a surge of power appearing in his hand.
A silver-white light flickered.
Saint Force!
It was completely different from the Saint Force Su Wen had released previously.
Before, Su Wen's Saint Force was golden, but now it had turned silver-white.
It hadn't merely changed; rather, he had mastered another form of Saint Force.
He displayed two types of Saint Force separately in his two hands: one was golden, and the other was silver.
The Elf Queen's heart throbbed.
She felt that the simultaneous appearance of these two types of Saint Force carried a vague, inexplicable stroke of destiny.
This was an instinct transmitted to her by the Ancient Tree of Life.
"I mastered it incorrectly before. The golden Saint Force should primarily be based on destruction." The profound meaning of creation within the golden Saint Force in Su Wen's hand was stripped away, and the profound meaning of destruction merged into it.
After so much time had passed, with the assistance of the Dark Demonic Dragon lineage combined with the destructive energy from the Lord of the Netherworld, Su Wen's profound meaning of destruction had long since caught up, but he had not merged it back into his Saint Force until now.