Mu Ye's gaze was heavy, fixed on the epicenter of the explosion.
Their analysis had been flawed.
Although the Abyssal Sage King still hadn't entered the channel with his main body, he had unleashed his full power.
That great halberd could not only injure across space but could also be used like this.
This was equivalent to making Su Ming withstand a strike from the Abyssal Sage King at his peak.
Of course, it wasn't considered a full-power strike, as there wasn't enough time.
Could he stand it?
Based on Su Ming's analysis shared with them, the Abyssal Sage King was likely a First-Class God, meaning strength at the level of 130.
A casual strike from him would heavily wound even a level 120 powerhouse.
Su Ming had displayed extraordinary combat strength, perhaps reaching the level of over 110 under normal circumstances. But could he withstand a strike from the Abyssal Sage King, who was over level 130?
The answer was certainly yes.
Because Su Ming wasn't withstanding it.
He was self-destructing.
His task wasn't to annihilate this strike through mutual destruction.
His self-destruction was meant to sever the connection between this strike and the Abyssal Sage King.
When Su Ming self-destructed, the Pioneer's Will merged into every corner of his Spirit Power.
The storm unleashed by his Spirit Power was enough to sever this strike's connection to the Abyssal Sage King.
With the connection severed, the Abyssal energy contained in this strike would all become resources for Su Ming's revival.
The sudden self-destruction left A Er Yi momentarily stunned.
What was happening?
He looked toward the location of the self-destruction, his expression filled with shock and uncertainty.
Su Ming had never self-destructed before him; he didn't know Su Ming could revive after self-destruction.
The Abyssal Sage King frowned, turning to look back at the Abyss.
Multiple layers among the first thirty-six layers of the Abyss were collapsing.
Continue striking?
This thought only flashed through his mind. The Abyssal Sage King abandoned the idea of continuing to attack, turning back to quickly reorganize the Abyss.
After all, the Monarchs Su Ming had killed with his self-destruction only possessed the corresponding Abyssal cores, not the total energy of their respective Abyssal layers.
The cores couldn't return, and those Abyssal layers would collapse, but the energy remained.
The Abyssal Sage King needed to redistribute this energy, doing his utmost to maintain the number of powerhouses within his Abyss.
The Abyssal Sage King ceased his attack. Amidst the ruins left by the self-destruction, Su Ming's phantom appeared, then gradually solidified, as if moving from the illusion to the real.
The surrounding Abyssal energy swarmed into him.
The energy of six peak-level Monarchs was very abundant. This self-destruction would definitely not result in a loss.
Adding the peak-level strike gifted by the Abyssal Sage King, Su Ming had made an immense profit.
"Halt!"
Su Ming shouted.
The Douluo Star army halted as commanded. They stopped their charge against the Abyssal army, mutually covering each other as they retreated a hundred meters, creating a gap between themselves and the Abyssal forces.
The Limit Douluos had no choice but to cease as well.
Even if they didn't want to, they had to. The self-destruction had directly interrupted the battle.
The Limit Douluos on Douluo's side were focused on Su Ming. The Monarchs who could break free from combat also did so.
This great battle thus ended.
Ultimately, the Douluo army established their encampment at the sixty percent mark of the spatial channel, beginning to construct a forward base.
A large area behind them was now vacant. Yu Guanzhi and the other Limit Douluos didn't return to Douluo Star, instead entering seclusion in the vacated area behind the lines.
Now that their territory had expanded, more Limit Douluos were needed to hold it.
Cao Dezhi looked at Su Ming with a slightly skeptical gaze.
This revival was different from the last one.
Where was the Nirvana Flame?
Could he revive without using the Nirvana Flame?
Su Ming didn't remain in the channel. He returned to Douluo Star, back to the top of the Tree of Life, and began absorbing the various energies within his body.
He had absorbed quite a bit of special energy from the explosion this time. He couldn't absorb this energy, but the Tree of Life could, producing life energy. Su Ming absorbed this along with the Abyssal energy, leaving a portion to activate his Spirit Rings.
His Spirit Power quickly recovered to level seventy-nine and easily broke through the level eighty barrier.
Unfortunately, without an eighth Spirit Ring, he couldn't determine exactly how many levels his Spirit Power had increased.
"There should be at least two levels."
Around him, Spirit Rings appeared one by one.
Red! Red! Red!
Orange-Gold!
Orange-Gold!
Orange-Gold!
Black-Gold!
Of the seven Spirit Rings, aside from the three rings represented by the Light Sphere, which were still red, the rings represented by the other three Spirit Souls were already orange-gold. The golden patterns on the Spirit Rings had three full rings, representing a thirty-thousand-year cultivation.
After completing the Abyssal Heaven Refinement for the first time, discovering Gold Force, and verifying its effects, Su Ming had instructed his four Spirit Souls to cultivate Gold Force to increase their Spirit Ring life.
He glanced at the three red Spirit Rings without comment.
The Light Sphere truly had it rough—one Spirit Soul with three Spirit Rings made increasing them three times harder than for the others.
Over the past few months, the Light Sphere's progress in cultivating Gold Force had actually been higher than the other three.
The energy remaining in his body was infused into five Spirit Rings: the second, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh.
Chaos and Hun Yuan directly awakened.
Without waiting too long, the Light Sphere and Chunqiu awakened one after another.
Su Ming finally revealed a look of satisfaction.
Although the Light Sphere was lazier than Little Gold, when he truly got serious, he was reassuring.
Chunqiu also exceeded Su Ming's expectations, awakening on his own and entirely by himself.
"Chunqiu, I'm going to start stripping now. You and the Light Sphere will temporarily share the first Spirit Ring."
Neither Chunqiu nor the Light Sphere had any objections.
This had already been explained before Su Ming called the meeting.
The Light Sphere glanced at Chunqiu's orange-gold Spirit Ring with three rings of golden patterns.
Sluuuurp.
Noticing his gaze, Su Ming knew what he was thinking.
"Let's begin."
Chunqiu fused into the fifth Spirit Ring.
The next moment, this Spirit Ring directly detached from Su Ming's Spirit Ring set, shattered, and fused into Su Ming's first Spirit Ring.
The first Spirit Ring rapidly changed from red to orange-gold, now with a total of four golden rings. The second and third Spirit Rings remained unchanged.
Su Ming reached out and grasped, pulling A Yin out of the Tree of Life.
A Yin didn't even have time to say anything, only letting out a scream before being erased by Su Ming.
An emerald-gold Spirit Ring appeared.
Su Ming guided the Spirit Ring to fuse, and it fused successfully in the blink of an eye.
A Yin was left with only a single strand of origin, her power limited. This Spirit Ring also retained only its essence, appearing emerald-gold.
Su Ming extracted some life energy from the Tree of Life, merging it into the fifth Spirit Ring. The golden patterns within became brighter. Just as a second golden ring was beginning to form, Su Ming stopped drawing life energy from the Tree of Life.
The new fifth Spirit Skill was very special. It was called Life Sovereign.
Its effect was simple: briefly seize the position of Life Core.
If the plane already possessed a Life Core, the effect would be fused with the Life Core.
At first glance, this ability seemed useless. Su Ming already controlled the status of Life Core. Seizing the Life Core seemed redundant, but it wasn't. What Su Ming controlled was the Life Core status of Douluo Star, not that of every plane.
With this Spirit Skill, Su Ming could even enter the Abyss and seize its Life Core!
Thinking of the situation in Douluo 2, the corner of Su Ming's mouth curved up slightly.
"Not a bad ability at all."
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