"It can't even measure my strength. It seems my Trinity is just too overpowered."
Su Ming felt even more relieved.
Compared to his tribulation-facing strategy, the Trinity gave him even greater security.
Heavenly tribulation?
It doesn't understand anything. It only has a mechanism. But no matter how strong the mechanism, can it be stronger than the mechanism of my Trinity, which spans the River of Time?
What's all that rumbling about? Go talk to my Trinity!
Even when Su Ming borrowed power from the Trinity, this heavenly tribulation still misjudged his strength.
"It even factors in that I am the Lord of the Plane, yet it can't perceive the power I gain from borrowing."
This was a slim chance of survival.
It was also Su Ming's confidence back in Douluo 1, before he had even stolen a bit of the universe's status.
Boom!
A thick bolt of thunder pierced heaven and earth.
Like a blue-purple pillar of light, like a giant python, it dove down from the sky.
The earth was trembled.
Thunder overflowed in all directions.
Many Limit Douluos acted, resisting the tribulation's aftermath for the army.
The Abyssal Sage King remained in place, not ordering an opportunistic attack on Douluo Star.
He had an illusion: the tribulation had targeted him.
And whether he would actually be struck depended on Su Ming.
This subtle intuition made him remain silent.
Unfortunately, even if he remained silent and lowered his profile, Su Ming had already decided he was a good helper.
The tribulation grew stronger with each strike.
At the moment when the gathered tribulation clouds were visibly weakening, even more universal energy converged, and the tribulation's intensity rose to another level.
At this point, Su Ming felt the pressure and diverted ten percent of the tribulation to his good helper.
The tribulation continued to intensify.
Su Ming finally increased the share.
From ten percent to fifteen percent, then to twenty percent.
In the end, Su Ming diverted twenty-five percent of the tribulation to the Abyssal Sage King.
He withstood the remaining seventy-five percent entirely on his own.
The tribulation also grew tired.
Its mechanism was now trapped by Su Ming.
If it couldn't kill Su Ming, it would keep striking him.
However, the self-protection mechanism also kept the tribulation restrained, preventing it from wasting power.
The current tribulation intensity was already sufficient to kill Su Ming, yet Su Ming wouldn't die.
So, the tribulation could only supplement its power.
It kept striking, but the intensity didn't change.
Wearing him down to death was still death.
But after the tribulation had lasted for a full month, the tribulation clouds finally began to disperse.
The thick pillar of lightning piercing heaven and earth vanished.
"Why all the long faces? This is great news."
Su Ming waved his hand, directly activating the Tree of Life to devour the remaining power of the tribulation.
The Tree of Life skyrocketed.
In an instant, the Spirit Masters of the Blood God Legion, who had endured a month of ravaging, were enveloped in light rain of life. Their injuries healed, their Spirit Power increased, and even their life origin was strengthened.
The Spirit Masters who had died during that month were also revived by Su Ming.
Unlike the situation in Douluo 2, the revived Spirit Masters on the Douluo 3 side were also bathed in this light rain. With Su Ming's help, they directly reactivated their Spirit Rings, obtaining the years corresponding to those rings.
When a Titled Douluo died and was reborn, their ninth Spirit Ring's years doubled.
Titled Douluos without a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring gained one directly upon revival.
And since the Spirit Rings of Spirit Masters in this era mostly came from Spirit Souls.
For those whose ninth, eighth, and seventh Spirit Rings were connected, multiple rings underwent qualitative change simultaneously.
Even so, Su Ming wasn't bleeding profusely.
His gains from this were unimaginably large.
To kill a Lord of the Plane, the universe had continuously gathered energy for a full month of tribulation!
This was all energy.
Even the waste that had been used by the tribulation could be recycled by the plane.
The Abyssal Sage King also immediately began digesting his gains.
While being struck by lightning, he had cursed, but now it was time to digest the gains. He said nothing and madly devoured the energy gathered by the tribulation.
The vast power even allowed him to elevate a Monarch named Thunder Emperor below him to the divine power level.
This Thunder Emperor was originally only the Monarch of the thirty-first layer. Although his strength was at the Limit Douluo level, it was only at the lowest level of demigod.
Now, he directly crossed the quasi-divine level, reaching the same level as the Blaze Emperor, Spirit Emperor, and Demon Emperor.
Besides the Thunder Emperor, many other Monarchs also benefited, their strength all improving.
When the tribulation ended, both sides had actually gained.
Su Ming also monitored the Abyss's changes. Confirming that the Abyss hadn't undergone a qualitative change, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He hadn't diverted too large a share during the tribulation. As long as he could withstand it without damaging his origin, he wouldn't borrow external power, because the tribulation itself was also a resource.
Once that vast power was given to the Abyss, it might stimulate it into directly breaking through.
The Abyss plane had not yet reached the divine level.
The Spirit Emperor, Blaze Emperor, and Demon Emperor were examples.
They had reached the divine standard, yet couldn't break through.
"This counts as facing the tribulation through proper means. Even without the Trinity, just using status and the 'Heavenly Tribulation Descends Upon the World' Spirit Skill, I could still survive."
Thus, the Douluo 2 side could replicate this.
But before that, Su Ming still needed to digest.
"I need to develop my eighth Spirit Skill properly."
Su Ming turned his attention back to his eighth Spirit Ring.
The Douluo 1 main body had gained two Spirit Skills: Heavenly Tribulation Descends Upon the World and Illusory World.
On the Douluo 3 side, after some contemplation, Su Ming summarized the effects of his two Spirit Skills.
"Eighth Spirit Skill, Body Transforms into Universe!"
This was a Spirit Skill he had conceived during the tribulation, using his status to control the tribulation, suppress its intensity, and shield the existence of the Abyssal Sage King.
The effect is as the name suggests: his own spiritual power merges into the universe, allowing him to control universal energy within a certain range.
This was the first step in crossing from Lord of the Plane to Lord of the Universe.
When the range of this control expands to the entire universe, he would become the Lord of the Universe.
Su Ming also released the eighth Spirit Skill once to verify the effect of Body Transforms into Universe.
"It's not just energy. I can even use this Spirit Skill to comprehend the operation of the universe!"
This was a timely help for Su Ming, who needed to construct his External World.
Su Ming, who had originally thought building three External Worlds would take an unknown amount of time, now felt confident.
"There's also the second Spirit Skill."
This eighth Spirit Ring also provided Su Ming with a second Spirit Skill, named Real World.
Opposite to Douluo 1's Illusory World, this eighth Spirit Skill constructs a real world.
"Illusory World strips the enemy from reality and exiles them within it."
"Real World creates a real future. The world's history will change toward a given direction."
Illusory World is instead a real space, capable of stripping and imprisoning an enemy.
Real World is illusory. It is a woven future. Based on the existing world, it weaves a future, makes changes within the real world, then maps them to the present world, causing the present world to move toward the changes of the real world.
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