In the Spiritual Abyss Realm, spiritual power is like an abyss, like a prison, reaching up to the blue sky and down to the underworld. Under normal circumstances, this realm is already the limit that humans can achieve. A higher-level Spiritual Domain Realm is, theoretically speaking, already beyond humanity.
Although in the later parts of Douluo Dalu 3, the setting got messy, and Spirit Domain experts seemed to appear everywhere like stray dogs. But in the beginning, the setting was that only Huo Yuhao had ever reached that realm.
In this era, even the spiritual power cultivation of Titled Douluo only reaches the Spiritual Sea Realm at most. True Spiritual Abyss Realm exists solely at the level of Limit Douluo.
This is not because these Titled Douluo lack sufficient spiritual power to step into the next stage. On the contrary, their spiritual power is already extremely abundant in quantity. In this barbaric era, anyone who can become a Titled Douluo is a stat monster. Whether in talent or luck, they are all extremely powerful—even Dugu Bo…
Even Dugu Bo.
The reason they cannot reach the Spiritual Abyss Realm is that they have no awareness whatsoever that their spiritual realm can once again undergo constriction and compression. They have no way to complete the qualitative transformation of their spiritual power to reach a higher standard.
Their quantity has long since surpassed the minimum threshold required to enter the Spiritual Abyss Realm.
To transform into a higher realm, one needed outside help or a special chance. But in this era, there were far too few beings who had reached the Spirit Abyss realm. There was almost no one to learn from.
For example, Qian Daoliu was someone Chen Ming had confirmed to be in the Spirit Abyss realm. If nothing unexpected had happened, Tang Chen and Bo Saixi should also be in that realm.
The main reason was that this era was still very far from the age of spirit souls.
Right now, human Spirit Masters' study of spiritual power was still very basic.
They had no method to actively increase spiritual power. They could only passively build it up through cultivation and growth.
This caused everyone's spiritual power to be very low, and they also had trouble truly using it.
As for why Chen Ming had not taken the initiative to create a method for cultivating spiritual power after all these years, it was because he himself did not need another method to train it.
His soul was special.
As long as he kept deducing, kept calculating, and kept using his computing power to the greatest degree, his spiritual power would naturally grow along with it.
After all, although it looked like AI, it was actually part of his soul.
It was not like a chip that reached its limit the moment it was made. It was more like a living thing, with the ability to grow through training.
In this era, no one could say for sure what level their own spiritual power was at.
Even Qian Daoliu, the human with the highest spiritual power Chen Ming has ever seen, does not know how to classify his current level, nor how he cultivated upward step by step.
He could only credit it to his constant cultivation and the blessing of the Angel God.
As for exactly how he gathered and compressed his energy to complete the breakthrough, he truly could not explain it.
Because of that, Chen Ming had been stuck in the Spirit Sea realm for a long time.
He could only keep feeling his way forward, slowly searching for a way to transform.
Until he saw Long Na'er and felt the "battle skill" she displayed, along with the Silver Dragon Spear.
Through that example, he finally found the chance he had been missing.
At last, Chen Ming reached his limit.
Then he broke through the upper limit of the Spirit Sea realm, and his spiritual world began a huge transformation.
If spiritual power in the Spirit Sea realm was formless and without substance, then spiritual power in the Spirit Abyss realm was formless, yet had weight.
Chen Ming's spiritual power was being compressed and transformed.
Every trace of soul energy was being washed clean.
Every trace of soul energy gathered together, becoming denser and higher in quality.
The door no one in this era knew how to open was kicked apart by Chen Ming.
He only felt that the spiritual power he had been holding back was finally released at this moment.
The instant he reached the Spirit Abyss realm, Chen Ming's spiritual power began to surge.
In a single moment, it doubled.
He jumped straight from the peak of the Spirit Sea realm to the middle stage of the Spirit Abyss realm.
In other words, his computing power rose directly from 50 units to one 100 units.
He could vaguely sense the particles of energy between heaven and earth, and he could feel the direction in which that natural energy flowed.
Although it was still not very clear, it meant that he had already reached a decent level within the Spirit Abyss realm.
"I understand now. It turns out to be such a simple matter. I was actually trapped for so long because of something this simple. What is difficult for others is not difficult for those who understand it. In reality… it's just like this…"
Chen Ming opened his eyes. His eyes emitted a red-and-blue dual-colored radiance. Sitting motionless in place, he merely glanced toward the distance. Immediately afterward, one stream of ice and one stream of fire exploded out of thin air, directly destroying a large section of rock wall.
Numerous falling rocks crashed toward the ground. Yet before the rubble could land, the ground suddenly began to melt, transforming into a quagmire-like state that completely swallowed the falling stones before returning to its original calm.
"I can already begin using my spiritual power to command part of the world's elements and make them move according to my will."
"But a lot of this is because my Martial Soul's traits are strong enough. It can already command outside elements by nature."
"That lowered the difficulty of using spiritual power to carry and control the elements by quite a lot."
"If we only talk about spiritual power, I probably haven't reached the level where a single thought can make the elements between heaven and earth fully obey me."
"But I should be close."
"For humans, the Spirit Abyss realm is the limit."
"But for me, even the Spirit Domain realm is not my limit."
"I just still don't understand how to make spiritual power at the peak of the Spirit Abyss realm complete its next transformation and break into the Spirit Domain realm."
"It seems I still need to build a good relationship with Long Na'er in the future."
"I should learn from rich households like her and see what traits spiritual power has at higher levels."
Chen Ming could feel that the two sleeping souls in his spiritual sea had become more active because of his breakthrough in spiritual power.
But because Chen Ming had not reached that realm yet, and because he did not truly have a summoning-type Spirit Ability, he could not directly summon those two souls to fight for him.
Right now, through stimulation over a certain amount of time, he could awaken the consciousness of those two souls in his spiritual sea.
He could let them stay active and think inside his spiritual sea, just like Skydream Iceworm and the Ice Empress during the time of Douluo Dalu 2.
But after thinking about it, Chen Ming felt it was better not to do that for now.
He would wait until he had more references and methods later, then think about whether he should activate those souls.
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