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The fluctuations from the breakthrough of the Douluo Plane covered an incredibly vast area.
Inside the Douluo Plane, the changes were even more violent.
Among the Limit Douluos who had been stuck at rank ninety-nine for a long time, both Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi felt a stir. Acting as major cores, they each operated the portion of the array formation base they were responsible for, absorbing and refining massive amounts of cosmic energy.
Other Title Douluos who were trapped at various ranks of Super Douluo also felt their opportunity arriving one after another, their martial souls growing restless.
They could feel that their martial souls seemed to have found an opportunity of their own.
The path that had originally been sealed shut now seemed to loosen.
One powerhouse after another entered deep cultivation. Although they were in seclusion, they did not slacken in operating the great array at all. Instead, they worked even harder. Involuntarily, they used the great array to refine a significant portion of cosmic energy and fed it back into the Douluo Plane.
During their seclusion, some Super Douluos discovered that the more they fed back to the plane, the more intense the fluctuations they felt originating from their martial souls became. Consequently, they stopped refining energy for themselves altogether and focused solely on feeding it back to the plane.
Their soul power had long reached the peak of their current stage. At this moment, the advancement of their martial souls was their opportunity to break through their soul power, so they tried every means to break through their martial souls first.
Five years had passed since the Silver Dragon King took human form.
Rather than committing fully to a human life, the Silver Dragon King had used transformation merely to rid herself of her predecessor's injuries, allowing her to progress at a blinding speed.
She had not even sealed her bloodline power or her mental origin.
In just five years, she had already grown to the level of a normal seventeen- or eighteen-year-old soul master. Her body had long since developed into that of a young girl, and her soul power was even more monstrous, having reached rank ninety-four.
Unfortunately, even though she had hurried as fast as she could, she still had not reached Limit Douluo, making her unable to use this opportunity to break through to the God rank.
However, given her inherent foundations, she didn't actually face any bottlenecks in breaking through to the God rank; it was just that she might have to wait a long time at rank ninety-nine to prepare for the breakthrough.
She had also contributed to this opportunity for the breakthrough of Douluo Planet.
Su Wen secretly thought it was a pity.
The Silver Dragon King's growth was still too slow.
After waiting for two years, she was only at rank ninety-four. By leveraging this breakthrough of the Douluo Plane, she should be able to raise her soul power to the level of rank ninety-seven or ninety-eight, but she was still far from the God rank.
Even with her predecessor's foundations, she wouldn't be able to provide any help for his planned rampage in the Divine Realm.
However, he had no time to sigh over such matters.
A man could only rely on himself.
The essence of life was sublimating.
In the universe, billowing tribulation clouds gathered above Su Wen's head. The nine-colored tribulation clouds were terrifying beyond measure, nurturing various energies within them. Every single bolt of lightning looked as if it could destroy the world.
The soul masters on Douluo Planet also felt that aura from afar, sensing the terrifying power of world-destroying thunder exploding in the deep expanse of space.
Some of the powerful individuals among them--those who knew Su Wen was breaking through in outer space--looked toward space in worry, gazing at the boundless tribulation clouds.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning containing all five elements fell.
At this moment, the five-elemental elements were filled with an aura of destruction.
Faced with this falling lightning, Su Wen showed no fear at all. Instead, his eyes were filled with anticipation.
Destruction?
The destruction derived from the five elements should be quite unique.
With a burst of vital energy and blood power, he actually chose to withstand this bolt of lightning directly with his physical body.
Boom, crackle.
The bolt of lightning dispersed across his body, and countless electrical currents coursed through his interior. However, the power of the five elements and the destructive energy contained within failed to destroy his body. They were refined by his blood power before they could even touch his vital essence.
"There should be a lightning tribulation when becoming a god, but I am already too strong."
Su Wen looked up at the tribulation clouds above and smiled.
Therefore, while others could not comprehend the mysteries of the lightning tribulation while enduring it, he could.
Carefully sensing the profound meaning of destruction contained within the lightning tribulation, Su Wen remained calm and unhurried, analyzing it all piece by piece.
He even guided the power of the lightning into his own miniature world, perfecting its rules.
The lightning fell like rain upon Su Wen. The aura of destruction permeated the air, looking as if it would envelop the entire stellar system around Douluo Planet.
However, even though the aura of destruction spread everywhere, there were still two places brimming with vibrant life.
One was Douluo Planet. Currently undergoing an upgrade, Douluo Planet radiated boundless vitality. How could it be affected by a mere godhood lightning tribulation? Forget a nine-colored tribulation; even if it were a slightly stronger chaotic lightning tribulation, Douluo Planet would still be able to withstand it.
The other place brimming with life was, naturally, where Su Wen stood.
He manifested his miniature world, using it to accommodate the nine-colored lightning tribulation, refining it to supplement and perfect his own rules regarding destruction and the lightning tribulation.
Under the lightning tribulation, a large number of minor worlds within the miniature world were destroyed, but they quickly recovered under the blessing of Su Wen's power.
This repeated cycle of destruction and restoration baptized the entire miniature world.
"Is the lightning tribulation over already?"
Su Wen still wanted more. Before he could fully enjoy his comprehension, the lightning tribulation itself could no longer hold out.
As the tribulation clouds dispersed, he did not dwell on the regret.
A breakthrough to the God rank was a metamorphosis of life's level. The reason it drew a lightning tribulation was also because a God-rank life form, just like a plane, began to transform into rules, affecting a region of space.
No, saying it was "rules" might be a bit difficult to understand.
To put it another way, a God-rank life form had generally fused their own life essence with the profound insights they mastered, distorting the operation of a section of space in the universe. Their entire life was advancing in the direction of distorting the laws of the universe.
This was a provocation to the rules of the universe, so a lightning tribulation would naturally descend.
The changes brought about by breaking through to the God rank were immense.
Through his Heaven's Eye, Su Wen could perceive the rules much more clearly.
Not just the rules, he could even seem to clearly see some of the underlying laws governing the operation of the universe.
"The universe operates according to laws. These laws have no physical form, but I can already see them."
It was equivalent to being able to see the rules.
The operating laws of the universe were no longer imperceptible.
It was just like studying; all the knowledge was laid out right there, and whether one could learn it depended entirely on their own effort.
Su Wen could not understand why some people would stagnate at a certain realm without making any progress.
After breaking through to the God rank, shouldn't everyone be able to sense the operations within heaven and earth?
It is an open-book exam with the materials provided to you; can you really not comprehend it?
It is like giving you mathematical formulas and theorems and having you understand them.
Of course, this might be comparable to highly profound mathematical concepts.
"It's clearly very easy to understand."
Having broken through to the God rank, Su Wen observed the flow of cosmic energy around him and sensed the changes within it. In just a brief moment, he gained new insights.
His essence, energy, and spirit fused.
He contemplated the cosmic energy, returning it to its primal source.
Under his derivation, a brand-new form of energy was gradually born within the miniature world.
This was an energy unique to Su Wen's miniature world. It was still very tender, but it had a foundation. Born from Su Wen's essence, energy, and spirit, it was derived from the primal source after their fusion.
Boom!
On Douluo Planet, Xiao Zhan broke through.
The condensation of his third soul core was highly successful. Under the refining of the vast cosmic energy, a large amount of soul power accumulated within his body, rapidly helping him complete the accumulation process required during the co-resonant soul core condensation.
Unfortunately, while Xiao Zhan broke through, the two Limit Douluos, Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi, did not.
On the human soul master side, Title Douluos generally raised by one rank, and Contra soul masters generally raised by about two ranks. Those Contras stuck at rank eighty-nine basically all succeeded in breaking through.
Further down, the breakthroughs at the Soul Saint level were somewhat uneven; some increased by three ranks, while others only increased by one.
Below Soul Saint, the breakthroughs were even more unequal; some broke through by one rank, while others broke through by four or five ranks.
Lin Dong and Ye Luochen both took advantage of this opportunity to break through to rank seventy, achieving the realm of Soul Saint.
The strength of the human soul master faction directly advanced by an entire level.
The soul beast faction was not weak either.
Especially in places like the Great Star Dou Forest, where a massive amount of the energy of heaven and earth gathered.
The Great Star Dou Forest expanded along with the breakthrough of the plane, and the life vitality nurtured within grew even more abundant. Aside from the Great Beasts who suppressed their own cultivation growth, soul beasts under one hundred thousand years old all experienced a purification of their bloodlines, and their cultivations rarely enjoyed a collective increase.
Su Wen experienced the changes within himself.
However, someone did not want him to enjoy it.
The breakthrough of the Douluo Plane was far too sudden.
The God of Destruction had discovered it, but because of the future prospect Su Wen had described, he did not intervene.
Consequently, this resulted in the gods of the Divine Realm being completely unaware that the Douluo Plane had suddenly broken through under Su Wen's subtle influence.
This was especially true for the batch of gods who were truly living out their retirement.
The gods who constantly paid attention to the development of the Douluo Plane actually knew a bit in advance, but they also well knew that Su Wen was involved with a large number of deities like the Sea God, the War God, and the Stone God, so they all remained silent and said nothing.
"Why?"
"What happened?"
"A subordinate plane actually broke through to the God rank, and it's the Douluo Continent!"
"Why would it suddenly break through?"
Across the distant dimensions, these gods were also alarmed, and they immediately began to perceive the changes in the Douluo Continent.
They all immediately felt the plane source aura of the Douluo Plane rapidly rising after its deep foundations broke through.
Secondly, they felt an incredibly powerful life form!
"Who is this?"
"A soul master!"
"He broke through! He didn't inherit a divine seat; he chose to break through directly using the path of the universe!"
"He truly deserves to die!"
"Who was responsible for supervising the Douluo Continent recently? How did no one notice?"
"Subordinate planes are not permitted to produce gods!"
"..."
The gods were furious.
A massive amount of divine sense probed toward the direction of the Douluo Continent. Su Wen frowned, and his miniature world expanded, completely locking down the surrounding space and refusing to allow these gods to observe the changes of Douluo Planet.
"This fellow is truly arrogant!"
"Oh?"
Sensing the anger within these divine senses, Su Wen gave a light laugh.
Following the guidance of the Sea God, he directly crossed dimensions and rapidly approached the Divine Realm.
Having reached the God rank, he now possessed the power to easily cross dimensions, truly digesting the dimensional elevation from when he previously opened up the miniature world.
Surrounded by the power of time and space, Su Wen's speed was incredibly fast. In just the blink of an eye, he transported himself into the Divine Realm.
Hmm?
Before the gods could even react, they discovered that Su Wen had actually entered the Divine Realm!
"Audacious!"
"Trespassing into the Divine Realm, what punishment do you deserve!"
The Magma God, a second-class god, barked furiously.
Su Wen looked at this Magma God.
"The Divine Realm has never belonged to you gods. The Divine Realm belongs to all subordinate planes, to every single living being within the territory of the Divine Realm," Su Wen said word by word, staring at the Magma God.
Upon entering the Divine Realm, he had also sensed the essence of the Divine Realm. It was simply a mass of energy maintained at an extremely high dimension. There was not even a concept of time here, which was the root cause of why gods could live forever.
"Presumptuous!"
"How dare you disrespect a god!"
Su Wen didn't bother to pay attention, simply making a mental note of these loudly clamoring gods.
In just an instant, he arrived in front of the Magma God and extended his right hand.
The Magma God was horrified.
What terrifying spatial attainment.
With a furious roar, four halos rose from beneath his feet.
Boundless magma erupted. In just an instant, it was like a volcanic eruption, bursting with terrifying power.
However, an imprint condensed in Su Wen's palm--the Heaven and Earth Imprint.
A world descended, completely gathering the magma and suppressing the Magma God along with it.
Su Wen turned back, looking at the other gods, flashing a grin showing his pearly white teeth.
"I do not wish to cause excessive slaughter. Displaying my strength today is to tell you that there are plenty of people in the lower realms who are far more suited for these divine seats than you are. You have stolen and occupied these positions for a long time. If you do not seek progress, then abdicate early."
"It would be one thing if you simply didn't seek progress, but blocking the progress of latecomers is what's truly most disgusting."
Su Wen snorted coldly.
He resolved the Magma God in a single move, suppressing him. This method caused even the seven First-Class Gods of Original Sin and the other six Elemental Gods besides the Space God--a total of thirteen First-Class Gods--to be incredibly wary at this moment.
They could not guarantee that they could suppress the Magma God in a single encounter.
One had to know that the Magma God represented magma and excelled in explosive power. Just now, the one suppressed wasn't a Magma God who failed to react, but a Magma God erupting with full strength.
To suppress him from the aspect he was most skilled in.
It wasn't a battle of attrition.
"I hope you will listen carefully to my next words."
"..."
Su Wen stated the terms of his reform for the Divine Realm one by one.
"Henceforth, the Divine Realm shall not restrict subordinate planes from breaking through to the Divine Realm. It must provide divine seat support for every God-rank individual from the subordinate planes to help them rapidly complete their accumulation."
Looking at the furious gods, Su Wen said indifferently.
"It is fine if you disagree. Those who disagree will be executed on the spot."
"Su Wen, you are presumptuous!"
The God of Destruction roared furiously.
He truly sensed killing intent from Su Wen's tone just now.
Does this guy really want to kill all the gods?
If so, the Divine Realm would inevitably fall into turmoil.
Su Wen curled his lips.
"You must be Destruction, right?"
The God of Destruction frowned, feeling that Su Wen's attitude was off.
"Fight a match with me. If you win, what I just said won't count. If you lose, then treat what I just said as the rules set by me, a newly ascended God King-level combat power who has just entered the Divine Realm."
"Newly ascended God King-level combat power?"
What did that mean?
The gods were bewildered, playing dumb.
They absolutely refused to believe it.
They dared not believe that a fellow who had just broken through to the God rank could actually possess God King-level strength.
The God of Destruction frowned.
This kid wants to achieve his reforms by suppressing him?
He was extremely infuriated.
How much did this Su Wen look down on him, the God of Destruction, to actually propose a decisive battle with him.
"You are too arrogant."