The moment he reached the safe zone, he took out the lifeless spirit body of the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit. A golden light shone upon the lifeless spirit body, and an old mechanical voice resounded in the space, verifying the identity and power level of the spirit body. The other seedlings hearing this were all amazed and shocked because the lifeless spirit body seemed invincible in the beginning.
The golden chains from before rose from the safe zone and wrapped around Solanky's spirit body's waist region and dragged him into the ground. The others watching all understood this scene because that was the same way they appeared in this spiritual space. The chains were there to help the spiritual bodies of the seedlings to get back to their physical forms the moment they achieve the high success rate of increasing the spiritual body's strength.
Solanky's spirit body returned to his physical body, and he felt that his physical body was very easy to control; he was amazed at how his senses had increased. He opened his eyes and saw the desolate god standing before him with a smile on his face. "Very good, you have evolved your spiritual body to the half-step peak-turn level. Hurry up and break through to the transcendent entity; with your talent, you will become a transcendent saint emperor the moment you break through. "Well, I look forward to it," the desolate god said.
Solanky stood and bowed to the desolate god and asked him if he could venture into the beyond realm alone without any of the seniors protecting him from the shadows. The desolate god looked at him with respect and agreed to the request and said, "The only way a true absolute being could be born is through the harshest trials and conditions. I will make the decree now for no being to follow you or interfere in your journey to become transcendent, but remember to return to the region the moment you are done handling your business." With that said, the desolate god disappeared and helped Solanky out of the desolate god region with a wave of his hand.
Solanky, with his half-step peak-turn spiritual body, now had no fear for a being like the officiator, who was an entry-level saint emperor. Solanky spread out his spiritual sense to scan an area of nine hundred light-years around him to find a suitable star to use as a seclusion space to break through to the transcendent entity level. He found a star five hundred light-years away from him, which was in its dying phase; with a single step, he appeared above the star. This star was 2.6 light-years in diameter, and its temperature alone could burn an infinite-source god into ashes, but to Solanky, a peak-level entity, this was not to him.
He formed seals with his hands, and a hundred and twenty light-years of space around was sealed, and it solidified into ice with blue flames of the source-defying flames. He then let out a velvet ball of contamination and crushed it. A velvet cloud enveloped the sealed space, making it look like a natural thing. He then rushed into the core of the star and sat down cross-legged.
Within Solanky's body, the source-defying armor, which had merged prematurely with every cell in his being, began to vibrate violently, as becoming a transcendent meant his body wouldn't be made of normal flesh and blood alone. His cells began to collapse under the pressure of his spiritual power and reform again; this was gruesome, as beings seeking to become transcendent entities had to refine their bodies once more with the power of their spiritual power and integrate the spiritual power into every cell of that body. making every part of their bodies carry their wills even if they are killed, and with outside beliefs, their wills can reshape their bodies again, bringing them back to life no matter what, unless they are killed using a peak-turns technique.
Becoming a transcendent entity also meant they had to sever the bond and control of their infinite source worlds and internal worlds, granting freedom to all beings of those worlds. This looked easy, but in reality most entities still controlled the fate of the worlds they created or acquired and used it as reincarnation backup or a future belief bank the moment they became saints.
Solanky bypassed these requirements because he believed all beings were equal, regardless of their power and were all qualified to have their own fates and destinies handed over to them to make a choice. Without a choice to make, Solanky continued to merge, but he seemed to hit a hard wall. He remembered the entity of the moon's diagram back then, which he made a mental note of; he brushed through his memories, and he found it. He started studying the diagram; after a century of seclusion, he had grasped the complete mysteries of the diagram. He started rearranging the source-defying armor from his feet upward to the waist region, making his lower body 50 times stronger than what it was.
This was due to completely transforming this skin, cells, tendons, and bones into the source-defying armor; at first his cells were the only part of his body that were source-defying. Solanky knew this wasn't over yet; as if he wanted optimum results, he had to refine his entire body, and he continued to rearrange his cells again for another two hundred years. During this time he failed to harmonize the power rearrangements, and he had to rearrange them for another six hundred years before they perfectly harmonized. The whole body revamp took him about a thousand years, which was equivalent to a hundred thousand years in the lower realms.
Solanky, now with this power, felt that his power now was five thousand times his previous strength, which was stuck at 980,000 times the strength of an ISG, but comparatively now had 4.9 billion times the power or strength of an ISG.
The regular transcendent saint had 10 million times the power of an ISG and ten times the power of a special lifeform peak entity, which had at most 1 million times the strength of an ISG. Special lifeform saint transcendent entities could have at most ten times that strength, placing them on par with entry-level immortal gods (regular lifeforms) and venerable-saint transcendent entities, who had 100 million times the power of an ISG. At the transcendent level, most beings' life forms are suppressed at most ten times; this is done to prevent the calamitous beings outside the beyond realm from sensing the life energy signatures. This suppression was placed in the beyond realm by the powerful true-peak turn beings like Supremo, Behan, and the others from the council of peak-turn beings.
Saint Emperor transcendent had 1 billion times the strength or power of an ISG; powerful saint emperors like the first venerable one had 6.8 billion times that strength. Special lifeforms at this level are greatly suppressed to 4 times the power of a regular being. A being like Elisa, who defied all logic, had 7.2 billion times the power of an ISG, with half-step peak-turn beings having 10 to 50 billion times the strength of an ISG based on the type of lifeform they are. With regular half-step peak-turn beings having 15 times the strength of a transcendent saint emperor, making them 750 billion times more powerful than an infinite source god, their presence alone could crash them.
Solanky, testing his new strength, came up with a new idea, which was to use the source-defying flames to refine his body again together with his remaining transcendent grasses of eternity. During this process, Solanky noticed countless seals appearing on his body; he began breaking them bit by bit until all of these seals completely vanished. He began refining his own body, merging it over 10 transcendent grasses of eternity; this process was the longest, as it took him another three thousand years.
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During his seclusion time, most of the seedlings had become transcendent entities, with the most powerful amongst them being the mysterious woman who was a saint emperor transcendent with 3.5 billion times the strength of an ISG. The time of the war between the Levians and Forsakens was drawing near; after six thousand years, Solanky stepped out of seclusion.
He waved his hand, and all the seals he set up were undone; his white hair billowed as he stood in the space. During his seclusion he allowed his facial hair to grow as well and matured the look of his countenance. After absorbing more than ten transcendent grasses of eternity and breaking the seals on his body, his life force power reached a whopping 10 billion times the strength of an ISG, making him the most powerful beneath the half-step peak-turn level.