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Mental Spirit Ring.
At this moment, a dark golden spirit ring with an illusory texture hovered outside Su Wen's body.
Similarly, it was a spirit ring provided by a small world acting as its true origin. At the same time, this spirit ring had fused with Su Wen's source of mental power, serving as an extension of his mental strength.
"My mental power cultivation is still lacking. If my visualization technique hadn't reached the pinnacle early on, giving me the qualification to open a small world, I might have had to wait a very long time before getting the chance to obtain my eighth ring."
Su Wen reflected.
His current situation was that his cultivation level was lagging behind.
Indeed, his insights were already in place, but his cultivation level was too far behind.
The trial given to him by the God of Time had allowed him to experience the cultivation of a Heavenly Jewel Master. With the cheat-like assistance of Saint Energy, and in that Heavenly Jewel Plane where one could rely on insights to merge into the heavens and earth to accelerate Heavenly Energy cultivation, Su Wen had experienced a cultivation level close to the God Rank, along with a true God Rank comprehension.
However, upon returning to the Douluo Continent, he still had to honestly cultivate according to the rules of the Douluo Continent.
According to the rules of the Douluo Plane, the entire foundation of a Spirit Master's cultivation lay within their Martial Spirit.
This had its pros and cons. The downside was naturally that progress was gradual, making it difficult to reach the heavens in a single step. But the advantage was that everything ultimately belonged to oneself, using the Martial Spirit to integrate all external forces into one's own body.
The cultivation system of a Douluo Spirit Master was actually a grand path to heaven in its own right; it was just that too few could walk this road to its absolute end.
Only after achieving God Rank would one truly understand what a miraculous existence the Martial Spirit of the Douluo Plane actually was.
The Physical Jewels and Elemental Jewels of the Heavenly Jewel Plane were certainly not bad, but compared to the Martial Spirit where everything truly returned to oneself, the Physical and Elemental Jewels fell a bit short.
The Heavenly Jewel Plane focused on the external, failing to internalize and turn all power into one's own. Long Shiya, however, had managed to achieve this, which was why Su Wen made him the administrator of the Academic Realm, hoping he could become a god because he possessed the qualification.
As for the other Heavenly Jewel Masters, while it seemed they had completely mastered the skills stored in their Elemental Jewels, in reality, both Elemental and Physical Jewels were existences generated by the mutual resonance between the Heavenly Jewel Master and the external heaven and earth space.
It could be said that Physical and Elemental Jewels were a form of equipment. Relying on equipment to master power was fine, but relying on equipment to achieve a true sublimation of one's own life order was lacking.
Xue Aotian did not constrain himself much to his Heavenly Jewels, yet he was still somewhat limited. Unless he truly made the Heavenly Jewels his own, it would be difficult to break through that final step. On the other hand, the Dragon Emperor and the Elf Queen were not Heavenly Jewel Masters; they cultivated their own inner strength and had reached the absolute peak. Each had their own opportunities, so they would not be without a chance in the future.
Martial Spirits were different. A Martial Spirit was intrinsically the bridge that fused a Spirit Master's soul and physical body together. Although it also required obtaining external spirit rings to strengthen oneself and directly master spirit abilities.
However, after the Martial Spirit Avatar appeared, a Spirit Master would begin to internally digest the power of these spirit rings.
The Martial Spirit Avatar was a spirit ability that fused all of a Spirit Master's strength, and it was also the containment of all their spirit abilities.
Furthermore, even if the eighth and ninth spirit rings were obtained after the seventh spirit ring, they would still affect the Martial Spirit Avatar. Once these two spirit rings were acquired, the power of the Martial Spirit Avatar would include them as well, still providing an all-around boost.
After becoming a Hyper Douluo, one relied on this exact capability of the Martial Spirit Avatar to digest everything about the Martial Spirit, thereby increasing the fusion rate between themselves and their Martial Spirit.
As the fusion between the Martial Spirit and oneself drew closer and closer to one hundred percent, the spirit power rank would also gradually increase.
This was the current method of cultivation for Spirit Masters on the continent.
Sitting cross-legged in the void, Su Wen visualized the small world breathing in and out the energy of the universe, which then fed back into his spirit power and mental power cultivation.
With the creation of the small world, Su Wen's mental power directly entered the Divine Meta Realm.
At the same time, he also felt an unprecedented throb. His mental power began to operate and construct itself spontaneously, forming a domain.
Spiritual Domain!
According to what Su Wen knew, a Spiritual Domain was a capability that could be unearthed as early as the Spirit Domain Realm in the classifications of later generations. Yet now, he had already broken through to the realm of gods--meaning his mental power had reached the Divine Meta Realm--before his Spiritual Domain finally condensed.
It wasn't because his domain was so unique that this happened, but simply because he lacked experience.
Indeed, he had never compared his mental power to standard ranks, nor had he paid attention to whether his mental power had reached the so-called Spirit Domain Realm.
Coupled with his overly rational mindset, his absolute control over his own mental power, and his visualization of the heaven and earth, all of these factors had suppressed the Spiritual Domain hidden deep within his soul, preventing it from being unearthed.
Now, with his mental power breaking through to the Divine Meta Realm, this domain had finally condensed on its own.
Within the domain, Su Wen experienced the effects of his Spiritual Domain.
"Controlling reality with a word..."
Su Wen slowly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with deep emotion.
He hadn't expected his Spiritual Domain to be so heaven-defying, possessing such an idealistic capability.
Rather than calling it controlling reality with a word, it was more accurate to say it used illusory power to forcibly interfere with reality.
"Perhaps it's because my research into rules is too thorough, my analysis of everything is too fundamental, and opening the Academic Realm gave me a foundation for the mutual conversion between reality and illusion. That must be why I possess this domain."
Whether a so-called Spiritual Domain was innate or acquired, Su Wen wasn't sure. But regardless of which one it was, it was actually quite normal for it to be connected to all of his prior achievements.
If a Spiritual Domain was innate, then it was a talent, and it would be perfectly normal to exhibit talents in similar aspects during cultivation.
And if it was acquired, there was naturally no issue either. A lifetime of cultivation would project the most desired and craved power deep within one's soul, ultimately manifesting when reaching a boundary like the Spirit Domain Realm.
The Spirit Domain Realm already allowed for the materialization of mental power and the materialization of thoughts.
In such a realm, if one truly held an obsession, the concept of it awakening into a Spiritual Domain was completely acceptable.
"Fire."
Su Wen spoke.
In front of him, a ball of fire manifested out of thin air.
"Water!"
With a shift of his thoughts, a winding river materialized out of nowhere.
"Earth!"
The earth extended beneath Su Wen's feet.
"Wind!"
In the vacuum environment of space, wind-attribute elements transformed into air currents, swirling around Su Wen and sweeping in all directions.
"Shackle!"
Streams of illusory chains pierced through heaven and earth, firmly locking down a section of space in front of Su Wen.
"Rewind."
Within a specific area, all energy and matter began to regress, returning to their state from ten seconds ago.
Su Wen revealed a smile.
"Controlling reality with a word. While it doesn't represent the laws of the real world, it can manipulate those laws."
To put it simply, controlling reality with a word meant that whatever Su Wen thought of would manifest in an illusory form, and then forcibly distort reality.
It was not limited by his cognition.
However, the less he knew about something, the greater the consumption would be, because in that case, the vast majority of the distortion would have to be achieved through brute force.
On the other hand, if his understanding of its essence was more thorough, then this process of distortion would become much easier and smoother.
"I really am a natural fit to become an omniscient and omnipotent God of Knowledge..."