Solanky waved his hand, and the lightning cauldron descended from the skies above the continent before landing directly in front of him.
The lid of the cauldron opened, and under Solanky's control, the puppet entered the cauldron. He intended to thoroughly purify and stabilize its chaotic energies, allowing its power to reach the late peak-life of the second turn. After its demise, its strength had fallen to the first peak-life, so Solanky needed to restore it as much as possible.
Solanky exited the miniature world treasure and flew above the continent where his Black God body was seated. From above, he carefully observed the engravings covering the continent.
Although he was a saint transcendent, Solanky felt that the formation had little to no effect on him.
He began walking across the continent.
With every step, he carefully observed the area beneath his feet while simultaneously forming seals with each movement. Step by step, he studied the engravings embedded throughout the continent, memorizing their structures and analyzing the laws contained within them.
After completing his study of the engravings, Solanky activated his observational technique and turned his attention toward the six colored stars.
The six stars appeared to be connected by countless strands of engravings and laws that constantly flowed back and forth between them.
Solanky soon understood that although the six stars were separated by an immense distance, they remained connected to the continent. The black pillar, meanwhile, seemed to serve as the core connecting everything together.
He began deducing the secrets hidden within the countless strands of engravings and laws connecting the stars to the continent.
It took him ten years to completely comprehend them.
Only after he had perfected his understanding did Solanky turn his attention toward the black pillar.
He approached it slowly and extended his hand.
The instant his finger touched the black pillar, a terrifying aura brushed past his body.
BOOM!
A flood of information surged directly into his consciousness.
Solanky's body immediately became motionless, as though he had fallen into a deep trance. His Black God body was similarly frozen in place, completely immersed in the same state.
He remained like this for a full five thousand years.
Behan, who possessed a connection with the formation, was greatly shocked.
It was nearly impossible for a being beneath the third turn to comprehend the heart and will of the formation through the black pillar.
Yet Solanky had remained immersed in it for five thousand years.
Behan's true body eventually appeared outside the world formation. He looked toward Solanky, who seemed to have been completely frozen in time.
Behan's true body appeared as an old man with white hair and white robes. Seven stars revolved around him, surrounding a dim eighth star at his center.
That eighth, dim star represented his current state.
Behan was already on the verge of becoming an eighth-turn level being.
He simply waved his hand.
The living planets containing the formation were immediately enveloped by a protective barrier.
BOOM!
A terrifying torrent of flames and lightning suddenly erupted from Solanky's two bodies, spreading outward and filling nearly two-thirds of the entire star system.
However, if one looked closely, they would realize that the flames and lightning were actually part of a much larger phenomenon. Countless fragments of them had dispersed throughout the entire star system.
The dispersed flames and lightning suddenly began rolling back toward Solanky.
As they returned, the flames and lightning gradually began to coalesce.
This was an unforeseen phenomenon.
Normally, the flames would devour the lightning or suppress it.
Yet this time, the two existed in perfect harmony.
The aura radiating from the combination was terrifying.
Solanky, completely unaware of what he had caused in the outside world, remained trapped within his trance.
Within his consciousness space, however, something extraordinary was taking place.
He had successfully imitated the world formation outside and even made several slight adjustments to it.
These adjustments caused the restrictions imposed upon his lifeform and the bottleneck restricting his cultivation to loosen.
As the laws and concepts within his true body expanded, their strength increased several fold, while his energy reserves became increasingly pure.
The main body's cultivation, which had been stuck at the saint transcendent level, instantly broke through that limit and entered the half-step true peak-turn level.
Yet no peak-summit trial descended upon him.
The reason was simple.
Within his consciousness space, the moment Solanky attempted to recreate the world formation, he had comprehended some of its deeper mysteries. However, his physical body remained restricted to the saint transcendent entity level.
He was able to break through because he had used his own essences, energies, and source-defying flames to recreate the formation instead of relying on the energies of the outside world.
Thus, when the flames, essences, and energies began leaving his body, the restrictions and internal worlds within him also started shrinking.
The supply of energy had been cut off.
As a result, the restrictions lost half of their effectiveness.
Their life energies had weakened significantly, and if too many of the restrictions remained active, they could potentially kill Solanky.
This restriction was not the ordinary restriction faced by every saint transcendent entity.
Normally, once a saint transcendent entity's spiritual sense and essences broke through to the true peak-turn level, the restriction would cease to exist.
Solanky's situation was different.
The restriction had been personally placed upon him by Supremo.
Its purpose was to conceal and protect his true lifeform status.
As the flames and lightning containing his essences rolled back toward him, their power was amplified far beyond what they had possessed before.
The returning energies surged into his body.
This caused his main body to instantly reach the same level as Goldie's lifeform.
However, Solanky belonged to a higher lifeform category.
All of his essences and flames eventually returned to his body, forming countless miniature world formations within him.
His power surged to 750 billion Infinite Source Gods (ISG).
This represented a staggering seventy-fivefold increase compared to his previous strength and energy reserves.
Both of Solanky's bodies finally opened their eyes after ten years of transformation.
At this moment, Solanky possessed a genuine chance of escaping from the clutches of an ancestor-level being should he encounter one in battle.
He still could not contend with an ancestor-level being directly.
However, he could deploy the world formation to stall, restrict, or even trap one.
Against weaker ancestor-level beings, especially those who had only recently entered the ancestor level and possessed merely their first peak-life, Solanky could even inflict severe injuries.
A delighted smile appeared on Solanky's face as he sensed the power of his main body.
He raised one finger.
The source-defying flames immediately appeared.
However, this time, Solanky noticed something different.
A faint trace of lightning could be seen within and around the flames.
Their power also seemed to have undergone a significant enhancement.
Solanky smiled in satisfaction before rushing downward toward his Black God clone.
He waved his hand.
His main body instantly disappeared into the internal world of the Black God clone, taking the miniature world treasure with him.
Black God Solanky turned his attention toward the lightning cauldron and smiled.
The refinement and purification of the puppet had been completed.
Its power had successfully reached the late peak-life of the second turn.
With another wave of his hand, the lightning cauldron disappeared into his internal world.
Black God Solanky had already understood the world formation.
He took a single step.
The surrounding space seemed to distort as he traversed through the world, effortlessly avoiding its dangerous regions and forbidden coordinates.
In the blink of an eye, he safely arrived within the world formation.
The moment he arrived, he saw an old man dressed in white robes with white hair sitting at a crystal table.
The old man calmly sipped tea.
Another man sat opposite him.
Solanky immediately recognized him as Behan's clone from the elite competition.
The moment he saw the old man, Solanky instantly understood.
This white-robed old man was Behan's true body.
Solanky respectfully bowed.
Behan smiled and said,
"That is very impressive. To master this world formation at your level is extraordinary. Even third-turn beings would find it difficult to comprehend such a complex formation.
Come, sit with us. Let us have a conversation about anything you do not understand."
Black God Solanky sat down opposite Behan.
He carefully observed both of Behan's bodies.
As a sign of respect, he naturally summoned his main body from his internal world to accompany him.
Behan smiled.
"Go ahead and ask about anything you do not understand."
Before Solanky could speak, however, the scenery around them suddenly changed.
The world formation disappeared.
In its place was a vast hall with transparent walls.
Through the transparent walls, Solanky could see numerous ancestor-level beings flying through the skies outside.
Only then did Solanky realize where they were.
This was the post Behan guarded.
It was located on the borders of the Beyond Realm.
Only ancestor-level beings and the most extraordinary elites were permitted to remain here.
Behan looked toward the transparent walls and slowly explained,
"This is the post I am responsible for guarding. It is located in the southern region of the Beyond Realm.
The other coordinates are protected by Govot, Jenny, and Supremo.
Although we erected the walls and barriers surrounding the Beyond Realm, the entire realm is located within the heart of a treasure and life space inside the draft world.
Because the Beyond Realm is so vast, the walls surrounding each coordinate had to reach a height of seven trillion light-years.
Only walls of such magnitude could completely encompass the vastness of the Beyond Realm."