In 5541, you ascended to the Ninth Heaven.

[As is expected, another celebration was held.]

[The serious kind, almost everyone I know is involved, including Qin Zhenhai, who had been offline for a long time, and Chu Heshang, among others.]

[This breakthrough went well; I received another descent, bringing the total number of descents to ten.]

[You guess that you descended to the sixth heaven 8 times, and actually to the seventh heaven 8.9 times, but you're counting it as 8 times.]

[Thus, although the increase in Holy Body is becoming smaller, the number of times one can accumulate to the Eighth Heaven only increases from 8.9 to 9.7. It may seem like two Heavens only increases the maximum number of times one can accumulate to the Descent Realm, but in reality, there's a decimal point after that!]

[Therefore, the advancement from the eighth to the ninth level is smaller, but it takes 9.7 to 10.4 attempts, which perfectly fills one opportunity!]

[Ten descents represent a Holy Body multiplier exceeding one thousand; you've tested it against your adopted sons.]

[The battle took place outside the Yuan Tian Realm.]

[Furthermore, before the battle, they cleared out a space, pushing away all the "cosmic membrane matter" within it to provide you with a battlefield to showcase your skills.]

After all, if you were fighting within the cosmic membrane, every move you made would be a struggle against an incredibly strong cosmic barrier. It would feel like being sealed inside amber, even more uncomfortable than an ant trapped in glue.

[You, a peerless powerhouse whose power is measured in trillions of thorns after descending ten times, cannot even move an inch within the cosmic membrane. Your self-destruction would be like pressing a needle tip against the skin, bouncing back in the next instant.]

[You sparred with Xiangyang, Geqi, and the others for a few rounds, and they suppressed their strength to the same level as you.]

If the aftershocks of these battles were to spread out completely, they could destroy an entire imperial domain spanning over a hundred billion miles in length and width, uprooting its very surface, flattening magnetic fields, icy zones, high-pressure zones, and abyssal zones, and annihilating all living beings, even the lords of mythical forces across the dozens of heavens.

But the devastating death ray, the dragon's blood that melts planes, the blazing sun that purifies all ages...

[Some attacks were anticipated and exploited to break through weak points; others were neutralized. These terrifying skills struck the outermost cosmic membrane, yet the resulting ripples... well, there were none.]

After several battles, you regretfully discover that the combat skills gained from precognition are largely useless in the Seventh Realm.

[At most, they can only prevent the opponent from unleashing a powerful, charged attack. In close combat and normal fighting, Xiangyang and his group not only possess the necessary combat awareness, but also have corresponding Dao principles to assist them!]

For True Immortals with numerous methods, many shortcomings of a single system are compensated for. Want to use the superior combat skills of foresight to overcome enemies with four times the numerical strength? This only exists at the Sixth Realm and below, and even then, only at the Lower Heaven, where the Sixth Realm's methods are limited and scarce.

"But it doesn't matter, I don't need those stats anymore."

[Ever since you could stack your descent... no, ever since you advanced to the fifth realm and discovered the second multiplication zone within yourself, you've never worried about your stats again.]

[It's not entirely without its challenges, for example, when you realize the gap between yourself and the rulers of the Spring and Autumn Period.]

According to Guts after the battle, your current strength is roughly the same as his when he had 97,000 soldier seals, which is 26 trillion thorns.

[While he couldn't possibly compare to the Dao Seals of so many Heavens when he was using the Weapon Seal, he should still be considered the closest existence to a True Immortal in the history of the Yuantian Realm. At that time, his strength was 65 trillion thorns.]

[These Dao Fruits, synthesized from the same system of "Military Seals," will have their numerical value inflated to an extremely terrifying level before they are even synthesized.]

However, after synthesizing the Dao Fruit... Guts, like those 36 Dao Seal True Immortals who were only a little over 10 billion thorns before becoming immortals, only had about 1 point of Dao power.

Guts is probably the one whose strength difference before and after becoming an immortal is the smallest.

Then, he revealed that the difference between himself before and after becoming an immortal was 1.5 trillion times.

After he ascended to the True Immortal realm, he was equivalent to 100 trillion trillion thorns.

[The number 1 was followed by 26 zeros.]

"That person must be exhausted."

This is the most basic level of power, the power of a True Immortal at the level of 1 Dao.

[True Immortals possess immeasurable power, not truly countless, but simply terrifying; the difference between their current realm and the previous two or three realms is greater!]

Moreover, given the scale of the Yuantian Realm, it is indeed immeasurable—the cost of measuring the destructive power of a True Immortal is far beyond what this small Yuantian Realm can afford.

Compared to a True Immortal's 1e26 Thorns, your current strongest state is only 2.6e13 Thorns.

[The difference is 13 orders of magnitude. If your stats are reduced by more than half, then after your arrival, you would be many times stronger than the Thorn Demon King, and a True Immortal would be many times stronger than you.]

The gap is so large that even if you stack twenty more instances of the "Descent" ability, you still can't catch up.

[Right now, even if you descend ten times, it will only allow you to advance by three orders of magnitude, nothing more.]

"It's probably impossible for someone at the sixth realm to defeat a true immortal."

You sighed, but immediately became excited again: "But it doesn't matter, as long as I become an immortal, that's all that matters!"

The difference between mortals and immortals is indeed vast, an insurmountable chasm.

But becoming an immortal isn't difficult; it only takes a few thousand years at most—a piece of cake!

[Year 5570.]

Outside the Yuan Tian Realm, only a thin layer of the calamity force field that had enveloped the world remained.

It is visibly much weaker than it was a hundred years ago.

A dark, light-devouring sphere landed on the field of Zed's power.

A new skill for facing the sun, a sun extinguished by darkness.

[A strike with nearly ten million units of power!]

The pitch-black sphere made contact with the force field of calamity. There was no earth-shattering sound, no aftershocks that shattered light-years; there was only silent annihilation.

The dark sphere did not bounce backward; after making contact with the force field of the Calamity, it continued to push forward slowly and steadily.

The sphere does not compress or deform; it only consumes its own energy, annihilating itself along with the object it contacts.

[It will not have any impact on the outside world; the energy reaction, capable of destroying the Yuantian Realm countless times, is happening quietly within this space.]

Then, the entire black sphere itself was completely annihilated, and the corresponding Cataclysmic Force Field should normally have paid a price, annihilating the same matter and energy in response.

[But in reality, it remains completely unchanged, like an indelible, eternal wall.]

Yun Shou: "The Dao Lord is like this, with absolute characteristics and authority to suppress, no matter how powerful a person is below the Dao Lord... even a multiverse lord cannot defy him."

(His guess ↑)

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(Fourth update, almost at the hardest part to write (?′ω`? ))