Chapter 176: Gradually Strengthening Foundation
Since the Demon Plane successfully merged into the Douluo Plane and Du Busi was assigned the task of refining part of the abyss energy, the development of the entire Douluo Plane has been like a giant ship with double insurance, entering a wide and steady fast lane, with everything progressing efficiently and orderly according to plan.
Deep within the Plane Origin Sea, colorful rays of light and dark red textures intertwined and flowed, more majestic and active than ever before.
The Golden Ancient Tree stood tall and upright, its root system like the most greedy absorption network, deeply rooted into that huge dark red abyss light sphere.
God of the Forest Bi Ji sat quietly within the ancient tree, her whole body flowing with emerald divine light full of vitality, resonating with the ancient tree and fully driving the refinement of its core origin.
The light sphere shrank at a speed difficult to detect with the naked eye, extremely slowly yet firmly, as extremely pure energy and matter were continuously extracted and merged into the torrent of the plane's origin.
And now, this heavy refinement work was no longer borne by Bi Ji alone; in the space not far from the Golden Ancient Tree, two relatively independent yet closely connected strange spaces were operating steadily within the Douluo Plane.
One space was deathly silent and solemn, which was the Undead Space that had completely merged into the Douluo Plane.
Necromancer Saint God Electrolux sat atop the gray tower at its core, his simple staff lightly tapping the void, guiding the laws of death and silence unique to the Undead Space, like the most precise etching liquid, carefully stripping and wearing away another slightly smaller abyss energy light sphere.
Death is not the end, but also a form of transformation; under Electrolux's control, the violent abyss energy was neutralized, decomposed, and turned into relatively mild base energy to feed back into the plane.
The other space appeared scorching and chaotic, which was the Demon Space governed by Du Busi.
Having already stabilized his God Position as the Lord of Demons, Du Busi sat cross-legged like a mountain in the center of a churning dark red energy vortex.
The dark purple mark on his forehead shone brightly, mobilizing the 'destruction' and 'devouring' characteristics contained within the Demon Plane to domineeringly grind the portion of abyss energy allocated to him.
His method was completely different from Electrolux's precision, filled with a sense of power like a giant hammer forging iron, breaking down and reorganizing the abyss energy in a tyrannical manner, with surprisingly high efficiency.
Bi Ji's life purification, Electrolux's death erosion, and Du Busi's destructive devouring—three distinct yet subtly complementary refinement methods were carried out simultaneously, causing the digestion efficiency of this last and toughest 'hard bone' of the Abyss Plane to suddenly increase several times over!
As the Plane Master, Lei Chen could clearly feel the direct changes brought about by this increase in efficiency.
Every day, he could 'hear' the joyful hum of the plane's origin, a beautiful movement of the constantly strengthening foundation.
The area of the continent continued to expand on a microscopic level, the oceans became deeper, and the concentration and activity of the world's origin energy grew day by day; even in some places where energy gathered, low-level natural treasures began to sprout spontaneously.
The entire plane was in a state of vibrant and positive upward leap.
"At this rate..." Lei Chen stood quietly atop the Golden Ancient Tree, inwardly observing the vast divine power growing in synchronization with the plane, deducing in his heart, "In ten years at most, even without this abyss core being completely digested, the accumulated foundation will be enough to push my cultivation to undergo a true qualitative change, breaking through that barrier in one fell swoop and ascending to the mysterious realm of a Half-step God King."
At that time, with the cultivation of a Half-step God King, combined with the Life Watcher Armor and the heavenly saint abyss-splitting halberd, two Super Divine Artifacts, he would truly possess the solid capital to establish himself among the myriad worlds, and even when facing the high-hanging God Realm, he would have the confidence to play the game.
While Lei Chen's foundation was steadily strengthening, the war within the Demon Space was also drawing to a close.
The Demon Space, once filled with the stench of sulfur and frantic roars, had now become scarred and battered, yet it revealed a kind of 'tranquility' as if having survived a disaster.
Under the powerful organization and leadership of the three demigods Mu En, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao, the powerhouses from the Douluo Plane conducted a carpet-style cleanup of the remaining demon creatures.
Although the high-level combat power of the Demon Space had been targeted and eliminated by Mu En and others from the start—those five Abyss Demon Lords equivalent to Limit Douluo and over forty Demon Commanders at the Super Douluo level were simply unable to withstand the fierce army led by the three demigods—its massive base of low-to-mid-level demons still caused the cleanup work to continue for a considerable amount of time.
Countless low-level demons of various forms, such as bloodthirsty and frantic Imps, Flame Demons, and Winged Demons, relied on the complex terrain to put up a desperate resistance.
However, in the face of an absolute disparity in strength, these resistances appeared pale and weak.
Mu En's Light Holy Dragon purified evil, Ye Xishui's death god demon puppet harvested souls, and Long Xiaoyao's Darkness Holy Dragon devoured vitality; wherever they and the other powerhouses went, the demons fell in swaths like mown wheat.
With every kill, the demon's Life Origin and energy would be instantly stripped and transformed through the rules set by Lei Chen, and then distributed immediately based on the slayer's contribution.
This made every powerhouse involved in the cleanup full of drive, turning combat into the best form of cultivation.
When the last Soul-Devouring Demon hiding deep within the lava sea was dragged out and completely annihilated by Ye Xishui, the entire Demon Space finally fell into complete silence.
The sounds of slaughter and explosions that had lasted for months came to an abrupt halt, leaving only the sound of lava bubbling through the cracks in the ground, along with the energy ripples and a faint burnt smell that had not yet fully dissipated in the air.
Counting the spoils of war, they were undoubtedly extremely rich.
Although there wasn't much high-level combat power, the number of low-to-mid-level demons accumulated by the Demon Plane over countless millennia was simply too vast. Summing up all the pure energy converted from the demons, the total reached a staggering level—enough to create two well-founded Second-Tier Gods out of thin air!
Of course, this massive amount of energy was not enjoyed by one person alone but was distributed to all the Douluo Plane powerhouses who participated in the cleanup according to their military merits.
Although it needed to be shared among many, the distribution mechanism ensured that those who worked more received more.
The three demigods—Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui—as the absolute main force, undoubtedly took the lion's share.
The amount of energy each obtained was enough to make any existence below the god level green with envy.
As long as they could fully refine and absorb the energy obtained this time, breaking through the level 100 bottleneck and formally entering the god-level realm was a certainty. They could even rely on this solid accumulation to take a steady big step on the path of godhood, conservatively estimated to push their cultivation to the level of 106 or even 107.
And for several Limit Douluo like Xuan Zi, whose cultivation had already reached level 99, the gains this time were equally significant.
The energy they received was enough to be the last straw that broke the bottleneck, helping them rush past the critical node of demigod status, successfully break through level 100, and ascend to the long-dreamed-of god-level realm, achieving an ultimate leap in their life level.
As for those powerhouses at the Super Douluo level, although they received relatively less energy, it was enough to make their cultivation achieve a leap.
Among them, those with outstanding merits, such as several Level 98 powerhouses, had great hope of breaking through to the demigod level with this opportunity, while those with slightly lesser gains would almost certainly ascend steadily to the Limit Douluo realm.
In short, after this battle, the top powerhouses of the Douluo Plane who participated in the Demon Space cleanup could be said to have all benefited and reaped a harvest. The entire plane's high-level combat power structure was about to undergo a qualitative leap, with a foundation so profound that it far exceeded that of ordinary planes.
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