[In the blink of an eye, another two years passed.]
[During these two years, I stayed at the Sun Moon Royal Primary Soul Master Academy, cultivating hard. My cultivation broke through again, reaching the level of a rank seventy quasi-Spirit Saint.]
[During this period, the clashes between the Sun Moon Empire and the Evil Soul Master forces continued.]
[After the major purge initiated by the Sun Moon Imperial Family last time, the Evil Soul Master organizations within the heartland of the Sun Moon Empire were temporarily eradicated, and a large number of them fled to the Far North Province.]
[To resist the Sun Moon Empire, these Evil Soul Master organizations actually united to form a new organization—Evil Spirit Heaven!!]
[And they declared that they would surely fight their way into the Sun Moon Imperial City and overthrow the Sun Moon Empire!]
[However, after hearing the name Evil Spirit Heaven, I frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong.]
[Because I remembered that on my way to the Sunset Forest that year, the few Evil Soul Masters who intercepted me claimed to be from Evil Spirit Heaven.]
[This time, the new organization formed by the union of these Evil Soul Master organizations is also called Evil Spirit Heaven.]
[Is it really such a coincidence?]
[If it really is a coincidence, why choose this specific name?]
[I have an inexplicable feeling that something is off; there must be a great secret hidden within this.]
[But for the moment, I still can't find where the problem lies.]
"Evil Spirit Heaven?"
"The new organization formed by the union of these Evil Soul Master organizations is actually called Evil Spirit Heaven as well?"
"This is quite a coincidence!"
Qian Renxue's elegant brows furrowed, also feeling that it was a bit too coincidental.
These Evil Soul Masters were up to no good; the name they chose for their newly formed organization was definitely not chosen at random.
Either this Evil Spirit Heaven possessed powerful strength that overwhelmed other Evil Soul Master organizations,
Or there was a massive secret hidden inside.
But if it really were the latter,
Then what exactly could this secret be?
[After breaking through to rank seventy, I headed to the Star Dou Great Forest once more, guided by the unseen hand of fate to find a suitable Spirit Beast for my seventh spirit ring.]
[In the inner regions of the Star Dou Great Forest, I found a Demon Eye Magic Tree with a hundred-thousand-year cultivation.]
[According to the guidance of fate, this Demon Eye Magic Tree is highly likely the most suitable seventh spirit ring for my Double Pupil Martial Soul.]
(Demon Eye Magic Tree · Concept Art)
[After hunting this Demon Eye Magic Tree,]
[From the remains of this Demon Eye Magic Tree, a crimson hundred-thousand-year spirit ring slowly rose.]
[Besides that, a head Spirit Bone dropped, jade-green throughout and covered in eye-like patterns.]
[This is the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Eye Magic Tree Skull.]
[After I used the Double Pupil Martial Soul to absorb the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring of this Demon Eye Magic Tree,]
[Because it is the seventh spirit ring, there is still only one Spirit Ability, which is the seventh Spirit Ability: Spirit Avatar.]
[However, after breaking through to Spirit Saint and gaining the seventh Spirit Ability: Double Pupil True Body, the boost to my own strength is immense.]
[Not only can it enhance the effects and power of all my other Spirit Abilities, but it also reduces spirit power consumption.]
[Furthermore, the Double Pupil Domain can only display its true power once I have the seventh Spirit Ability: Double Pupil True Body!]
[Afterward, I integrated the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Eye Magic Tree Skull.]
[Since the attributes of the Demon Eye Magic Tree are Wood and Mental,]
[After absorbing the spirit ring and integrating the skull of the hundred-thousand-year Demon Eye Magic Tree, my mental force improved significantly.]
[As for the two bone abilities of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Eye Magic Tree Skull, I named them: Spiritual Gaze and Seal of Ten Thousand Pupils.]
[Among them, the effect of Spiritual Gaze is to summon countless spiritual pupils to gaze upon the enemy, which can cause those with weaker mental force than mine to fall into a state of mental blankness and physical paralysis.]
[And the stronger the mental force, the more spiritual pupils are summoned, and the stronger the power and effect of the Spiritual Gaze become!]
[As for the Seal of Ten Thousand Pupils, it allows me to condense spiritual pupil seals using mental force and store them within the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Eye Magic Tree Skull.]
[When needed, the pupil seals can be released, unleashing the stored mental force to significantly boost my mental force.]
[After absorbing the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and integrating the skull, my cultivation broke through from rank seventy directly to rank seventy-three Spirit Saint.]
[After consuming the Immortal Herb: gaze through autumn water dew, absorbing the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, integrating the skull, and long-term cultivation of the Double Pupil Visualization Method,]
[My mental force has already far exceeded Spirit Masters of the same realm.]
[I don't even know exactly how powerful my mental force is now.]
[Following the condensation of spirit power into a Spirit core, I plan to try compressing and liquefying mental force to condense a spiritual core as well.]
[And subsequently, I plan to continue developing my self-created Thunder Body Tempering to try and cultivate Qi and Blood Power.]
[This is a completely new power, different from spirit power, obtained by Tang Wulin, the son of the protagonist Tang San, after inheriting the Golden Dragon King's bloodline during the Legend of the Dragon King era thirty thousand years in the future.]
[Since the Douluo Continent possesses mental force, Qi and Blood Power, and spirit power—representing the three powers of Spirit, Essence, and Qi respectively—]
[According to the Taoist system of my previous life, when the three elements of Essence, Qi, and Spirit combine into one, a Golden Core can be condensed.]
[From then on, 'Once the Golden Core is swallowed into the belly, my fate is determined by me, not by heaven!']
[This makes me wonder: if I can simultaneously cultivate mental force, Qi and Blood Power, and spirit power, and condense them into a spiritual core, a qi and blood core, and a Spirit core,]
[Could I then merge the three elements into one to achieve a Golden Core?]
[From then on, could I obtain power no less than that of a Divinity while in a mortal body?]
"In our Douluo Continent, besides spirit power and mental force, there actually exists a power like Qi and Blood Power?"
Seeing this, Xie Yue couldn't help but be shocked and incredulous.
"Moreover, by condensing Qi and Blood Power, spirit power, and mental force into forms similar to Spirit cores, one can even condense that thing called a Golden Core and obtain power no less than a Divinity?"
"I wonder if this Honorable Lin Hanjue eventually succeeded."
"If he succeeded, did he, like a Divinity, obtain the ability of eternal life?"
"And is he, in fact, still alive now?"
Hearing this, whether it was Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, or Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, they all couldn't help but tremble and fall into a long silence.
Lin Hanjue could leave behind such a miraculous notebook and possessed such monstrous talent that he dared to leave the bold words 'a world without gods.'
Such a being might very likely have become a god!
In that case, Lin Hanjue might very possibly still be alive now.
But if he were still alive,
Then could these notebooks all be part of a scheme laid out by Lin Hanjue?
But if so, what would be the purpose of his scheme? To achieve his goal of a world without gods?
But for now, it seemed he had only recorded the downfall of the Sun Moon Empire from ten thousand years ago in the notebook.
The downfall of the Sun Moon Empire was clearly related to the Evil Soul Masters.
Why then did Lin Hanjue write in the preface: 'The gods are immoral, bringing chaos to all living beings'?