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In the distance, the Abyssal Sovereign stared blankly. He had been waiting for the embryonic form of Su Wen's divine position to finish burning so he could forcibly devour his three mini-worlds, but now he was utterly dumbfounded.
First and foremost, the operation Su Wen was currently executing caused the Abyssal Sovereign's expression to change drastically.
"This guy is opening up a true plane!"
The Abyssal Sovereign's heart leaped into his throat, shocked to the core by Su Wen's madness.
Opening up a plane.
Up until now, such a feat had virtually never existed.
Even when someone did achieve it, it was merely an airspace or a mini-world.
Further up, there were God Kings who had opened up Divine Realms, but no one had ever opened up a true plane.
Even if a Divine Realm possessed a higher status than a plane, it was still ultimately man-made, a creation forged after the fact. Though its overall quality surpassed that of a plane, it was not an existence naturally born from the universe.
Planes, or true living planets, were things that only came into being through the universe's long, favored evolution.
Yet right now, Su Wen was actually attempting to open one up artificially.
Had anyone ever achieved this before?
As far as the Abyssal Sovereign knew, no one in this entire generational stretch of the starry sky had ever truly accomplished this step.
Perhaps there were those who had opened up mini-worlds and slowly developed and nurtured them into true planes, but there was no precedent for directly opening up a plane from scratch.
Of course, what shocked the Abyssal Sovereign most was the change in the embryonic form of Su Wen's divine position.
The moment it had finished burning, another embryonic form of a divine position--one that was two sides of the same coin--was immediately born.
It was only at this exact moment that the Abyssal Sovereign finally sensed the type of Su Wen's divine position.
"It's actually a God of Creation! Such a weak Creation God position!"
Yet, could a Creation God's position truly transform into a Destruction God's position after being destroyed?
The Abyssal Sovereign's understanding of creation clearly had not reached Su Wen's level. He lacked the insight that creation itself encompassed two sides: Great Creation and Great Destruction.
Great Creation was merely one side of the Creation God's position. Right now, as it finished burning, it naturally shifted into Great Destruction.
The destruction of the embryonic divine position itself--this very power--brought about the transformation of the embryonic form.
If this embryonic form representing the Great Destruction side of creation were to burn out again, it naturally wouldn't be able to cycle back into Great Creation. This was because Su Wen lacked further insights into Great Creation; once the embryonic form of the Destruction position burned out, it would only leave behind the artistic conception of Great Destruction, unable to directly convert back into Great Creation.
The embryonic form of the Great Destruction position condensed and began to burn once more.
After creation, comes destruction!
Though this was the case, Su Wen did not bring destruction upon the mini-world he was opening up.
What he destroyed was the universe at the original location of his mini-world, carving out space for his own mini-world and blocking the power of the universe from permeating it.
Under the Great Destruction, Su Wen's soul power also transformed at this moment into divine power carrying the aura of destruction.
As the divine power fluctuated, the surrounding cosmic space seemed as though it were being annihilated.
Su Wen was weak, and his soul power itself was weak. Right now, rendered under the influence of the embryonic divine position, it transformed into destructive soul power, which wasn't overwhelmingly strong either.
But Su Wen himself was strong!
His comprehension was far too profound. At this moment, his destructive divine power struck straight at the essence of things. Even if its intrinsic intensity was low, its destructive force was absolute.
"The embryonic form of Great Destruction won't last too long either." Su Wen turned his head, looking toward the Abyssal Sovereign, who was watching him open up his mini-world.
The Heaven and Earth Seal condensed.
The embryonic form of the mini-world was compressed into the Heaven and Earth Seal by him.
The aura of destruction melted into it.
The Abyssal Sovereign let out a cold snort. His right hand was about to wave, ready to draw out the Heavenly Sacred Abyss Halberd. But remembering that this was the edge of the Douluo Divine Realm, where he could very likely be discovered, he forced himself to hold back and did not draw his Transcendent Divine Weapon.
In the universe, power rules supreme.
Once a Transcendent Divine Weapon was exposed, if one didn't possess enough strength to keep it, it would very likely sow the seeds of disaster.
The Heavenly Sacred Abyss Halberd was a Transcendent Divine Weapon that the Abyssal Sovereign had nurtured using the Abyss's own origin. It had witnessed the destruction of far too many planes and devoured the essence of countless worlds. Coupled with the fact that the blank template the Abyssal Sovereign had obtained during a stroke of luck back then was an unparalleled material, it had ultimately achieved the rank of a Transcendent Divine Weapon.
Even the Crimson Mother had no idea the Abyssal Sovereign possessed such a weapon.
If she knew, she would likely find a way to get her hands on it.
Even if she didn't seize it by force, she would use it to test the Abyssal Sovereign's loyalty. No matter what, it would be a hassle. If he could avoid exposing it, the Abyssal Sovereign absolutely would not do so.
The Crimson Mother was only one factor; the true threat was still the Douluo Divine Realm. If the five Great God Kings truly acted together, the Abyssal Sovereign wouldn't even be able to protect this Transcendent Divine Weapon inside the Abyss.
Within the Abyss, the Abyssal Sovereign possessed power close to a God King, and cooperating with his Transcendent Divine Weapon, he could fight against one. However, he would still be suppressed.
Moreover, the five Great God Kings wouldn't even need to enter the Abyss. By joining forces to seal the Abyss, he wouldn't be able to escape.
Of course, if all five God Kings struck simultaneously, the Douluo Divine Realm itself would be left without a God King guarding it, leaving their home base vulnerable to being raided. But the likelihood of that was actually slim.
Still, the possibility existed, which was why the five Great God Kings never acted all at once. But that didn't mean they couldn't.
As long as the benefits were great enough, taking a few risks was well worth it.
And a Transcendent Divine Weapon was clearly worth their while.
The Abyssal Sovereign also understood the principle that an ordinary man incurs no guilt, but harboring a jade ring invites disaster.
Su Wen's power had not yet reached the point where he needed to deploy the Heavenly Sacred Abyss Halberd.
Resisting the urge to pull out the halberd, the Abyssal Sovereign mobilized the power of the Abyss, gathering it into a long halberd. The weapon tore through space, colliding with the Heaven and Earth Seal Su Wen had condensed.
Boom!
Borrowing a trace of the projected power of the Heavenly Sacred Abyss Halberd, combined with the power of the Abyss, the Abyssal Sovereign had condensed a long halberd that possessed the power of annihilation. As it clashed with Su Wen's Heaven and Earth Seal, it instantly shattered the world within the seal.
Far from being struck with fear, Su Wen was instead pleasantly surprised.
"There's still a flaw here!"
He rapidly perfected the mini-world. Sure enough, he felt the channels through which the universe's power permeated the mini-world decrease, and the rate at which the embryonic form of the Great Destruction position lost power slowed down.
He condensed the Heaven and Earth Seal once more, hurling it toward the Abyssal Sovereign.
The Abyssal Sovereign frowned.
He could see that Su Wen was using him to find the flaws in his mini-world.
"Hmph, I'll give you your chance!"
Truth be told, the Abyssal Sovereign had actually taken a liking to this mini-world.
By now, he faintly understood that the abnormal fluctuations of cosmic energy he had sensed at the very beginning were caused by this bizarre, mad fellow right in front of him.
With just three mini-worlds, the spoils were limited, though that embryonic divine position still held some value.
But, if this mini-world currently being opened up was factored in...
The Abyssal Sovereign was deeply covetous of such a mini-world.
This was an artificially opened-up plane. Perhaps it lacked much of the natural order compared to an inherently existing plane, and it might be somewhat incompatible with the universe, making its development more difficult.
But it was artificially opened up!
The Divine Realm was also artificially opened up!
Who knew if this mini-world could be counted as a Divine Realm after upgrading?
An external mini-world enveloping three internal mini-worlds.
A plane enveloping mini-worlds.
What if the internal mini-worlds upgraded?
Could they stimulate the external mini-world to take a step further, breaking through to become a Divine Realm? Or reach an existence of the exact same level as a Divine Realm?
No matter what, this was incredibly enticing.
Controlling his own power, the Abyssal Sovereign used the condensed halberd of annihilation to prick out the flaws in the mini-world manifested by Su Wen's Heaven and Earth Seal one by one.
Su Wen gave a mental thumbs-up to this Abyssal Sovereign who was cooperating so beautifully.
With the Abyssal Sovereign being this compliant, Su Wen naturally knew exactly what he was scheming, but he hoped the man would do just that.
After all, aside from the decisive battle in the Abyss assigned by the God of Time, Su Wen also had another mission given by the Sea God: to lure the Abyss into the territorial range of the Douluo Divine Realm.
The world was being perfected.
The intensity of the universe's power permeating the mini-world grew weaker and weaker.
Finally, the mini-world closed off completely.
Su Wen, observing from a high-dimensional perspective, appreciated his masterpiece.
"Wen!"
Su Wen raised his brush. The Tianyuan Brush entered his hand, and he firmly wrote down a character upon the mini-world.
The World of Literature and Dao.
This was his signature.
It also symbolized his ownership over this mini-world.
The Heavenly Beads flew out from the three mini-worlds.
Twenty-four Heavenly Beads landed in various corners of the mini-world, suppressing the space of the entire world.
Sensing the pressure on the space, Su Wen frowned.
"Twenty-four Heavenly Beads are still a bit lacking. If there were thirty-six, it would be complete."
The twenty-four Heavenly Beads were equipment Su Wen had cultivated through his vital energy and spirit in the Heavenly Bead Plane as a Heavenly Bead Master. They suited him perfectly, allowing him to suppress his own mini-worlds and now this external mini-world. Even though he currently lacked twelve Heavenly Beads to reach perfection, he had no intention of casually forging twelve beads just to make up the numbers.
"For now, I can only see how things go. If there's an opportunity, I'll have to return to the Heavenly Bead Plane," Su Wen sighed inwardly.
To reach thirty-six Heavenly Beads, the best method was to continue condensing twelve more beads according to the cultivation system of a Heavenly Bead Master. However, doing so would require him to cultivate to some unknown realm beyond eighteen pairs of Heavenly Beads.
The Heavenly Change stage of thirteen pairs of Heavenly Beads was already the upper limit of the Heavenly Bead Master cultivation system. To continue condensing a fourteenth, fifteenth, or even sixteenth pair--the difficulty could well be imagined.
If the thirteenth rank corresponded to the God rank, the sixteenth rank roughly corresponded to a half-step God King.
And that wasn't just reaching that level of strength; it was a matter of realm.
Su Wen's current intrinsic realm in terms of soul power was only that of a Title Douluo.
"For the time being, I'll upgrade the quality of these twenty-four Heavenly Beads first. That should stabilize the development of the mini-world."
Su Wen finished the final perfection work of the mini-world.
The Visualization Mini-World relied on Su Wen's mental strength. Right now, it still lacked Su Wen's third mental soul core as its origin foundation, but it was getting close.
The foundation of the Physical Body Mini-World was Su Wen's physical body, built upon his blood essence soul core.
The Heavenly Book Mini-World was opened up with Su Wen's martial soul as its basis, carried upon his soul power soul core.
The three mini-worlds relied respectively on Su Wen's essence, qi, and spirit.
At this moment, the mini-world was opened up, yet it did not rely on Su Wen himself as its foundation, but rather on the external universe.
No, to be specific, it was the external micro-universe corresponding to Su Wen's essence, qi, and spirit.
It wasn't the actual universe.
Rather, Su Wen himself was stationed within this mini-world.
The mini-world carried Su Wen!
The three mini-worlds represented Su Wen's internal seeking, digging into his own essence, qi, and spirit.
The external mini-world represented Su Wen's external pioneering, carving out the external world and expanding outward.
By relying on each other, they achieved the current spectacle.
The three mini-worlds were located in three different energy dimensions, propping open the external mini-world and granting it its four-dimensional attributes.
And after the external mini-world was successfully opened up, it became the carrier of Su Wen's three mini-worlds. Situated within the external mini-world and bound by its constraints, the balance between them grew even more stable.
"My thanks to the Abyssal Sovereign for his support."
Su Wen looked at the Abyssal Sovereign, who was preparing to launch a strike, and cupped his hands.
At this moment, his Three Talents Great Dao Array had reached its limit, and he deactivated it.
Both the Great Creation and Great Destruction sides of the embryonic Creation God position had finished burning.
His power receded.
Although he had upgraded to a God-level lifeform due to the opening of the mini-world and his strength was greater, compared to his state right before opening the world, he wasn't more powerful; rather, he was a bit weaker.
A mini-world was, after all, a mini-world, not the Great Dao, and not the universe. The boost it provided Su Wen was inferior to the boost from the Three Talents Great Dao Array just now.
Unfortunately, now that he lacked the embryonic divine position to act as an insulation, Su Wen didn't dare continue borrowing the power of the Great Dao.
He had felt it just now--the Great Dao was profound and boundless. Even if it merely represented the essential laws of the universe without concrete so-called rules or settings, it still represented the entire universe, making Su Wen feel as though he were directly facing the silent, empty cosmos.
That was a highly nihilistic spectacle. If he hadn't been separated by the embryonic divine position and had merely caught a glimpse from a bystander's perspective, had Su Wen been subjected to that feeling firsthand and perceived it from a first-person perspective, it would have been absolutely terrifying.
There wouldn't have been any insights gained.
The probability of being assimilated by the universe was simply too high.
His thoughts and consciousness would have turned to nothingness, with nothing remaining.
Having finished speaking, Su Wen immediately prepared to make his escape.
"Hmph, you think you can just fight when you want to fight and run when you want to run? Do you really think my Abyss is made of clay?" The Abyssal Sovereign had long seen right through Su Wen. Holding his large halberd, he chopped down fiercely.
A dark purple beam of light sliced through the deep space of the universe, intercepting Su Wen halfway through his retreat.
Su Wen curled his lips.
The power of time and space swirled around him.
The power of time and space, which he hadn't displayed until now, began to manifest.
His figure blurred unpredictably. In an instant, before the beam of light could slice through the void, he broke through ahead of time.
The intercepting light beam instead ended up slashing nothing but air.
"What advanced profound mysteries of time and space!" The Abyssal Sovereign was truly wary now.
A Creation God position, a Destruction God position.
Even if they were only embryonic forms, they still illustrated the talent of this mysterious, mad fellow before him.
And now, he even possessed such advanced profound mysteries of time and space.
Where on earth did this guy come from?
"Hmph, do you really think this seat cannot keep you here?"
The Abyss expanded, instantly permeating the surroundings and rapidly enveloping the area Su Wen was in.
Space was locked down by the Abyss.
Su Wen's profound mysteries of time and space were also slightly affected.
"Stay right here!"
If this mini-world was utilized properly, it might truly serve as the foundation for opening up a Divine Realm in the future.
The Abyssal Sovereign was covetous.
Su Wen saw the large halberd in the Abyssal Sovereign's hand change.
It was no longer a halberd condensed from the power of the Abyss, but had been replaced by the Heavenly Sacred Abyss Halberd.
With one strike of the halberd, the abyssal trait of ignoring all defenses erupted.
Su Wen's pupils contracted.
The Law-Forbidden Domain expanded.
The mini-world rapidly spread out around him.
A golden stream of light unfolded completely within the mini-world.
This was originally Su Wen's ability, and combining the two, the arrangement was completed in just an instant.
The Heavenly Sacred Abyss Halberd fell, ignoring the defenses of the mini-world, and attacked Su Wen's actual body directly.