"Good. This Abyssal Sage King is a real one for playing it safe."
Su Ming could see it. Without absolute certainty, the Abyssal Sage King would rather wait a while longer.
He'd waited six thousand years; what were a few more decades?
Anyway, he was the Lord of the Plane and didn't have to worry about lifespan issues.
"This suits me perfectly too. I don't have to reveal my means of controlling the plane, and he can rest easy."
After all, Su Ming's position as Lord of the Plane was a part-time gig, not a full-time one.
If he really clashed head-on with the Abyssal Sage King, his Douluo 3-era main body would have to be stationed at the Abyssal battlefield in real-time.
This obviously didn't align with Su Ming's interests.
"Sky-Piercing Spear!"
After thrusting his spear once, Yun Ming had been gathering power the whole time.
Following the establishment of Su Ming's Pioneering Faith, his second spear thrust was interrupted.
After pondering for a moment where he stood, he activated Su Ming's secret art, burning the impurities within his Demi-Godhood. The Sky-Piercing Spear briefly sublimated, achieving divine artifact status, and he thrust it into the spatial passage, a third of the way in.
Under the power of the Sky-Piercing Divine Spear, Abyssal energy rapidly dissolved, devoured by Yun Ming to mend the flaws in his own Demi-Godhood.
The Path of Invincibility had been walked wrongly.
Then he would correct it somewhat.
Not invincible, but forever striving to be the first!
Contend!
A new core formed. His Demi-Godhood bloomed with dazzling radiance, swallowing and spewing Abyssal energy, automatically suppressing the Abyssal brand within. In the blink of an eye, it became even more vigorous than before.
"Hmph!"
The Abyssal Sage King snorted coldly, mobilizing the Abyssal army, not giving Yun Ming the chance to improve so easily.
He wouldn't personally act for now.
Now that the battlefield was inside the passage, if he used too much force and broke the passage, all the efforts of the past six thousand years would be wasted.
So what if some energy got Devoured now?
He'd devour it back sooner or later.
Moreover, taking a step back, wasn't the Abyssal energy Su Ming and the others were devouring now originally the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy belonging to Douluo Planet anyway?
In short, the Abyss wasn't losing.
"Spirit Emperor, Blaze Emperor, you two lead all the other Monarchs and hold them back for me!"
While dispatching all his top subordinates, the Abyssal Sage King secretly observed and learned.
"Tsk tsk. Under the rule of the Douluo God Realm, this Douluo Planet actually still possesses such divinity. Clearly having lost the God Realm's protection, yet it can still condense faith."
Truly endowed by nature.
While sighing, he also guided the laws of Douluo.
"Come in, fine. But this way, I can also seize the chance to condense a Godhood."
The Abyssal Sage King appeared furious, but his heart grew calmer and calmer.
He was stealthily farming.
"Give me time. Even if the God Realm returns and the Sea God descends, they won't be my match!"
The Abyssal Sage King believed he was not inferior to the Sea God; he just lacked a foundation of faith.
If he could also walk the God Realm's path, given the scale of his Abyss, it would be enough to condense a Quasi-God King Godhood.
Although the Path of Faith had many constraints, it was indeed convenient for cultivation. It could use faith to illuminate the path ahead, first condensing the Godhood, then supplementing the realm later.
A Level 99 Spirit Master inheriting a corresponding Level 140 Quasi-God King Godhood, while not immediately possessing the peak combat power of that realm, could rapidly elevate their own cultivation level to the corresponding tier.
The Douluo God Realm system was strict, not allowing the cultivation systems of lower planes to have a divine-level path. Therefore, deities cultivated divine rings, using them to distinguish realms.
However, possessing a Godhood also allowed one to follow the lower plane's cultivation system.
"Now I, a bona fide Primary God, am equivalent to a God Realm First Class God without a Godhood."
Su Ming had naturally also noticed the Abyssal Sage King's little maneuver.
He did not intervene.
"As long as you behave steadily and don't cause trouble, then go ahead and farm."
Comparing farming speed?
Su Ming didn't believe his development speed was slower than the Abyssal Sage King's.
To be honest, condensing a Godhood was just a trick, a scam.
The God Realm was gone. Unless it was reopened, how could a Godhood possibly be condensed?
A Godhood, a Godhood. You need a God Realm to have a Godhood.
No matter how Yun Ming condensed his, it was a Demi-Godhood, just a prototype. He could never obtain a complete Godhood because there was no God Realm.
Therefore, his grand ambition wasn't due to overconfidence, but because he had to be ambitious.
Reopen the God Realm?
Su Ming sneered.
If the Abyssal Sage King truly had that ability, then Su Ming would genuinely admire him.
"If you really dare to open a God Realm, I'll pluck the peach!"
Su Ming remained utterly composed, perfecting his Pioneering Faith, rapidly sketching a long spear within his Sea of Consciousness.
Abyssal energy, come!
He beckoned, and countless strands of Abyssal energy were drawn toward him.
"With me as the core, open the frontline!"
Yun Ming roared.
The Blood God Legion's army poured into the passage. The sounds of battle shook the heavens as they charged forward.
"Haha, finally able to use Spirit Power inside this passage!"
"Before, I had to tread carefully. Now, I spread my wings and soar!"
"Abyssal brats, your granddaddy is here!"
"…"
The legion's soldiers swarmed like locusts crossing a border. Under the illumination of the Limit Douluos' domains, able to mobilize Spirit Power, they directly devoured the residual Abyssal energy around them. Each one howled, the pent-up frustration in their hearts fully released at this moment.
"This is Abyssal energy? Smells good!"
"Good? I think it's chewy!"
"Why do I think it stinks?"
"Is it tasty when you eat it?"
"…"
With the army's entrance, the area that only a few Limit Douluos had forcibly opened, capable of accommodating Spirit Masters, rapidly expanded. Gradually, the region near the Douluo Planet side of the Abyssal passage was occupied by Douluo Planet's Heaven and Earth Vital Energy.
The army advanced all the way until Yun Ming's position, one-third of the way in.
"Why, killing one Abyssal creature and devouring its energy is hundreds of times more efficient than absorbing the free-floating Abyssal energy!"
Yun Ming guarded the very front line, single-handedly blocking the Blaze Emperor. The aftershocks of their battle spread to the surroundings, causing the entire passage to faintly crack, on the verge of collapse.
Both Su Ming and the Abyssal Sage King silently urged their respective plane's laws, stabilizing the passage.
Chen Xinjie and the others also stepped forward, engaging the Abyssal Monarchs in the air above the frontline between the two armies.
As they fought, the passage also became more smooth.
Originally, horizontally, this passage was wide enough to accommodate over a hundred Spirit Masters in battle, each with ample room to move.
With this war, the passage cracked and healed, rapidly expanding. Its capacity was visibly about to double.
"Spirit Emperor."
Having organized his faith, Su Ming also join the battlefield.
He signaled for Chen Xinjie and the others to deal with the other Monarchs; he would handle this Spirit Emperor.
"Soul Severance!"
"Purple Extreme Divine Light!"
Without another word, Su Ming directly weakened the Spirit Emperor's soul defense, then invoked the Purple Extreme Divine Light sent by his bro Tang San.
The Spirit Emperor's expression changed dramatically. Sensing the danger, he immediately transformed into his true form, the Abyssal Spirit Dragon, and retreated.
However, he was still severely wounded in that instant.
Su Ming held the Pioneering Divine Spear and thrust it into the Spirit Emperor's tail.
"Explode!"
He just shouted, and the Spirit Emperor was so scared he severed his tail to escape.
Su Ming restrained all his violent Spirit Power, suppressing it. With one hand, he grabbed the Spirit Emperor's dragon tail, crushed it, and refined it in an instant.
The Snatch of Abyssal energy was a contest of branding. Tong Yu had exhausted all his methods just to brand forty percent.
However, Su Ming was different. Although his level was low, the insights he could use to occupy space were in no way less.
"Me from Douluo 1 and Douluo 2, give me strength!"
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