"As expected of a peak Monarch. The energy is truly immense."
Half of this harvest came from him.
The remaining half came from the other two Titled-level Monarchs Su Ming had killed and what he had gathered along the way.
He kept the peak Monarch's energy to enhance his Spirit Power, feeding the remaining Abyssal energy to his Spirit Souls and his Gold Force.
Even with such an allocation, Su Ming's Gold Force progress far exceeded his Spirit Power.
It was still because his Spirit Power quality was too high.
The power of two Titled-level Monarchs plus the energy gathered along the way, aside from being somewhat inferior in quality, was comparable to a peak Monarch's core energy.
He divided it into seven parts, and his Gold Force broke through repeatedly in a short time.
First order, second order...
All the way to seventh level!
This utilization efficiency was a bit low.
But Su Ming didn't feel it was a loss.
He personally controlled three strands of Gold Force. Although each was only at seventh level, he knew that seventh level Gold Force was enough to unleash Super Douluo-level power.
Fusing the three Gold Forces together, coupled with Su Ming's application, would be enough to unleash the power of an ordinary Limit Douluo.
It wasn't that the Gold Force cultivation system was exaggerated, but that Su Ming's foundation was exaggerated. His Gold Force was based on Half-Step Transcendent ninefold Heaven Refined Alloy.
This was equivalent to him having a divine artifact-level tool Martial Soul, cultivated to the seven-ring Spirit Sage level, capable of challenging Super Douluos.
All three tool Martial Souls were well-matched and could be perfectly fused, so fusing them could yield Limit-level power.
With his Gold Force enhanced, Su Ming naturally began to expand his External World.
A radius of one meter was still too small; it could accommodate few 'rules'.
He spread his seventh level Gold Force, enough to cover a spherical domain with a radius of ten meters.
Within this domain, the dense Spirit Power formations he had previously constructed became sparse.
To this end, Su Ming prepared to reconstruct them.
However, he soon discovered that a diameter of ten meters brought not only an increase in volume but also a rise in construction difficulty.
A full thousand-fold increase!
He couldn't fill this External World to its previous density in too short a time.
"Reduce the range. Three meters is enough."
Left with no choice, Su Ming narrowed his Gold Force coverage, not rushing to build a ten-meter radius External World, but first using three meters as a transition.
Within this three-meter radius sphere, he began adding Spirit Power formations.
These were the framework—the framework of his External World.
Once the framework was sufficiently solid and the External World could condense a Spirit Core—or even successfully condense one—he could begin to adopt rules not derived from his own comprehension. For example, he could release his control over the External World, allowing the external world's rules to enter and evolve more complex rules.
As Su Ming was contemplating, he suddenly sensed commotion outside.
Opening the door, some Body Sect disciples saw him and explained.
"War God Manifestation?"
From the Body Sect disciples, Su Ming learned the reason for the commotion outside.
It came from the Fourth Peak, where the War God Hall was located.
After Shrek Academy, without authorization, had established a statue of Dai Mubai in the War God Hall, the War God manifested.
The establishment of this War God Hall was clearly being promoted by Tang San, with Dai Mubai as the beneficiary. However, because of Su Ming's status, as soon as the War God Hall was established, it was occupied by Su Ming.
Now that War God had come to seize the faith.
Su Ming let out a chuckle.
It had taken them this long to react.
If such a clumsy god weren't backed by Tang San, Su Ming wouldn't even want to bother outmaneuvering him.
"Notify the sect's elders and supreme elders. Have them return immediately and apply for the title of War God in the War God Hall."
Steal faith?
This was what Su Ming feared least.
Soon, at Su Ming's prompting, many Body Sect elders and even Du Busi began applying for the title of War God.
The War God Hall was initially established jointly by Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Family, and they had always been the ones maintaining it behind the scenes.
However, when this organization was founded, it was made clear that becoming a War God depended on contributions.
Undoubtedly, the contributions of these Body Sect elders were immense, surpassing those of the Sea God Pavilion elders like Yan Shaozhe.
Their collective application for the title of War God also gave those maintaining the War God Hall a headache.
Especially the Sun Moon Imperial Family. Xu Tianran felt this was Su Ming's warning.
There was no helping it. Shrek had suddenly suggested establishing a statue of a figure from ten thousand years ago in the War God Hall, directly causing that War God to manifest. This undoubtedly changed the nature of the War God Hall.
Xu Tianran was sensitive about this aspect.
After all, the reason the War God Hall could gain traction was due to the framework he had initially established.
He knew the War God Hall's foundation was leveraging all Spirit Masters.
Therefore, it was even more impossible to let the War God Hall become a one-man show.
Shrek's War God Manifestation was undoubtedly an attempt to use a War God to bring the War God Hall under their control.
"We can't approve all of them, either. Otherwise, the War God Hall will become a one-man show for the Body Sect. Each faction should have a few of their own War Gods."
After weighing the options, Xu Tianran had several Super Douluos and Level Nine Spirit Engineers under the Sun Moon Imperial Family's control also apply for the War God slots.
As for Shrek, they didn't need his notification. Upon hearing that the many Body Sect elders had collectively applied for War God status, they also had all their elders register.
Besides the various factions, Xu Tianran also notified the Titled Douluos without major faction backgrounds.
The method of notification was not to order them to register.
He reformed the War God Hall's system, proposing an optimization of the War God selection process. Henceforth, all War Gods would be replaced collectively once a year, avoiding the trouble of having to call a vote every time someone applied for the title.
The first collective selection was set for three days later.
For these three days, the entire battlefield was in a frenzy.
Titled Douluos who felt they had a chance all registered and went to the battlefield to fight bravely.
There were also ninth-rank Abyssal creatures, but very few. After all, some Monarchs were only at the Titled Douluo level. Could ninth-rank Abyssal creatures not covet the power of those Monarchs?
Therefore, to maintain the ecosystem under his command, the Abyssal Sage King had strictly limited the level cap of various races.
Apart from the races of the Monarchs in the first thirty-six Abyssal layers, other races were almost incapable of advancing to the ninth rank.
Only these higher races, after breaking through to the ninth rank, would not compete for the Monarch positions of the lower thirty-six layers due to the superiority of their bloodlines.
The patriarchs of these races also had enough strength to restrain the ninth-rank individuals of their own races.
Even for Super Douluo-level members, the peak Monarchs of the first thirty-six layers could easily control them and would not allow them to compete for Monarch positions in the lower thirty-six layers.
The already few ninth-rank Abyssal creatures were directly hunted down by the Titled Douluos on Douluo's side.
On the battlefield, the ninth-rank Abyssal creatures all died, becoming resources for the Tree of Life. But equally, on Douluo's side, five Titled Douluos and two Level Nine Spirit Engineers also died.
The Titled Douluos who survived naturally reaped considerable rewards, but the death of their comrades awakened their rationality.
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