Chapter 64: Sharpening the Blades, Du Busi's Divine Ascension Through the Flesh
After that brief but covertly tense long-distance confrontation with the Tian Shen, Lei Chen did not undertake any further grand, public actions.
Like a composed chess player, he fell silent after making his move, submerging the vast majority of his consciousness into the Plane Origin Sea. Acting as the most efficient hub, he quietly coordinated the operation of various internal plans across the Plane.
The entire Douluo Plane, under an atmosphere of outward calm and inner tension, resembled a war machine beginning its full pre-battle warm-up. Every gear, driven by an invisible will, turned with unprecedented efficiency.
Ever since Lei Chen personally visited the Sun Moon Empire's Hall of Worship and issued that earth-shattering decree, the continent's situation had completely entered a channel of high-speed transformation.
When the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, using the highest-grade confidential letters, delivered the Plane Master's warnings about the 'invasion of powerful enemies from beyond the domain' and the 'war for the Plane's survival,' along with the demand to 'arm all Soul Masters across the continent,' to the imperial families of the Star Luo, Tianhun, and Douling Kingdoms, as well as top forces like Shrek Academy and the Body Sect, the resulting shockwave was nothing short of a tsunami.
The initial reaction was almost universally one of disbelief and intense skepticism.
However, when Kong Deming, following Lei Chen's command, personally carried the Plane Master's Seven-Colored Mark across borders, appearing successively in the three kingdoms' imperial capitals, Shrek City, and the Body Sect's mountain gate to provide 'verification,' all doubts and clamor fell into a deathly silence before the vast, abyssal, and indisputable will of the Plane emanating from that mark.
It was a tremor and reverence stemming from the depths of the soul. Any Soul Master who had reached a certain level could clearly perceive the supreme authority that mark represented.
Question the will of the Plane Master? No one dared to bear the consequences of such an act, nor did anyone believe the Sun Moon Empire possessed the audacity or capability to forge such a divine miracle.
Thus, under immense survival pressure, a consensus was reached at a speed beyond imagination.
Although millennia of estrangement and hostility could not vanish instantly, under the overwhelming baton of the Plane's continued existence, all factions had no choice but to temporarily set aside their disputes and embark on an unprecedented emergency cooperation.
Haggling and nitpicking at the negotiation table were inevitable.
After confirming the authenticity of the crisis, the primary goals for the Three Kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent were securing their share of command authority over the joint Soul Engineer Corps and the distribution plan for resources. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Empire firmly held control over the core of Spirit Tool technology and the distribution rights for stockpiled equipment.
Representatives from both sides engaged in fierce verbal battles at the conference table, neither yielding an inch. The atmosphere was often tense and hostile. During this period, small-scale conflicts erupted between border legions belonging to different countries due to historical grievances, and some major sects attempted to exploit the chaos for greater gain.
However, whenever negotiations reached an impasse or uncontrollable trouble erupted below, the Seven-Colored Mark between Kong Deming's eyebrows would grow slightly warm, and an intangible pressure would spread, reminding all participants of who the true enemy was.
The will of the Plane Master acted like a sword suspended overhead, forcibly correcting the deviating course time and again.
Ultimately, a cumbersome yet relatively fair cooperative framework was forcibly established: A joint command headquarters would be formed with representatives from all parties. The Sun Moon Empire would provide all equipment and technical guidance, while the Three Kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent would contribute based on the quantity and quality of their Soul Masters, jointly forming a combined army.
As massive strategic warehouses brimming with defensive Spirit Tools were thrown open within the Sun Moon Empire's borders, a torrent of steel—vast quantities of standardized Spirit Tools, fixed-load Spirit Tool artillery shells, linked Spirit Tool array bases, and other war supplies—began flowing continuously through emergency-secured channels to designated locations.
The Three Kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent also demonstrated astonishing mobilization capabilities. Under the coordination of their imperial families and major forces, various sects, noble private armies, and even wandering Soul Masters were rapidly organized into groups and underwent emergency training under Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers.
In this process, both sides were secretly alarmed.
The Sun Moon Empire's high command, looking at the intelligence reports summarizing the total number of Soul Masters mobilized by the Three Kingdoms—especially the high-level Soul Masters hidden by sects that usually kept a low profile—could not help but gasp in shock. They deeply realized that without the Plane Master's intervention to integrate them, a war would have been extremely brutal, even with their Spirit Tool advantage.
Meanwhile, representatives from Star Luo, Tianhun, and other kingdoms, upon witnessing the mountains of high-level Spirit Tools stockpiled in the Sun Moon Empire's warehouses—many of which they had never even seen before—especially samples of terrifyingly powerful ninth-rank fixed-load Spirit Tool artillery shells and Spirit Tool fortification technology far beyond their imagination, broke out in a cold sweat.
They finally understood the terrifying power the Sun Moon Empire had accumulated through millennia of restraint. If truly unleashed in an internal war, the three kingdoms' defenses would likely have been riddled with holes.
Regardless of the undercurrents and lingering fears during the process, before the final deadline set by the Plane Master, ten 'top-tier Soul Engineer Corps'—well-equipped, with members consisting of at least Soul Saint-level or higher Soul Masters, and outfitted with the latest linked Spirit Tool artillery arrays and flight Spirit Tools—along with fifty'standard Soul Engineer Corps' mainly composed of Spirit King and Spirit Emperor-level Soul Masters, with equipment similarly far surpassing the original standards of any kingdom, finally took preliminary shape and began intensive integrated combat drills.
The density of long-range Spirit Tool artillery fire was sufficient to create a devastating metallic storm over pre-set positions, providing crucial long-range firepower support for the potential low-end battlefields of the future Plane War.
At the level of core strength, the Douluo Plane also witnessed breakthrough progress.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, that treasure trove of heaven and earth, under Lei Chen's will, became the ultimate aid for top experts to break through their bottlenecks. Among them, the Body Sect's leader, Du Busi, in that uniquely advantageous environment and combining the profound mysteries of The Innate Secret Method, after over a year of arduous cultivation, finally tempered his physical body to its absolute limit.
On this day, within the valley of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Du Busi's mountain-like, robust frame trembled violently. The blood and vital energy throughout his body surged and roared like mighty rivers. His skin's surface revealed a bronze, immortal luster, and every muscle seemed to contain the power to split mountains and part seas.
A majestic pressure, far surpassing the level of a Limit Douluo, soared into the sky, churning the waters of the Ice and Fire Springs.
"Hahaha! The Innate Secret Method, divine ascension through the flesh! I've finally done it!"
Du Busi threw his head back and roared with laughter, the sound shaking the surroundings. He had successfully forged a true divine body, stepping into the Demigod realm!
At this moment, relying solely on the power of his physical body, he was already capable of shaking heaven and earth. Only the final step remained before the dreamt-of level 100 divine rank—the transformation of his Spiritual power into divine sense.
Once accomplished, he would become the first truly divine-level human expert in the current Plane to achieve it through his own cultivation!
Sensing the vast aura of Du Busi's successful breakthrough, Mu En, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and others cultivating in the same valley all revealed complex emotions in their eyes: envy, urgency, and a strong, newly ignited fighting spirit.
Under the looming shadow of the Plane War, every increase in strength meant one more shred of hope for survival.
The entire Douluo Plane, under intangible pressure, was sharpening its claws and fangs at an unprecedented speed, quietly awaiting the arrival of that collision destined to rewrite fate.
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