After their versation ended, both Ad Linley’s group decided to remain together for the time being.

  During that time, Linley, with Amira’s help, began to teach Yunaia and Olivier the method of utilising “cepts”. A feat that took no lohan an hour or so to expin but several days before either was able to truly get started.

  Thankfully, both Yunaia and Olivier had met the entry requirements. Not only were both their souls easily strong enough, but they both also had ons of incredible quality that matched their respective paths.

  That was especially true for Olivier. Despite his soul still remaining in the saint realms and his on being a Diviifact at the Demi-God level, it appears that after his successful soul mutation, for whatever reason, his longsword – the Luminous Shadow Bde – seemed to have pletely accepted him as his new master.

  Unfortunately, as magical beasts, the path of cepts wasn’t suitable for Oscar and Bebe – at least not until they broke through to bee deities and became able to transform into human form.

  As a result, the three beasts would ofteheir time battling against each other. And as Apex-level Divis, they each had their pride, making them unwilling to lose to the others.

  Still, eventually, a winner was born to rise, and surprisingly, it wasn’t Oscar, whose realm was the highest and closing in on the middle stages of the saint realm, but Leona.

  Although all three of the Divis were at the early stages of the saint realm, Leona’s prehension was miles ahead of the other two. It was to the point where, as soon as she genuinely began using her insights into the ws of fire, she became virtually unstoppable. It was only when Bebe and Oscar worked together that they were relutly able to suppress the fearsome Lioness.

  Until that point, both Bebe and Oscar were happy with their progress and prowess. Although they khere were many strohahey both felt it was only because they were yet to finish maturing and bee a deity.

  It was on knowledge that although Divis held an advantage over their human terparts with their heaven-defying physical abilities, it was only when they broke through to bee deities, awakening their Divine Abilities, that their innate superiority would truly blossom.

  That was true for all Divis, but especially so for Apex-level Divis like the three of them.

  It was because of this that Bebe and Oscar were okay with their current rates ress, but after seeing Leona’s otherworldly battle prowess, something clicked inside of both of them.

  From that day, Bebe and Oscar spent all of their free time iation, p over the ws of their respective elements. A feat that brought a smile to both Linley and Yunaia.

  As for Leona, she spent her free time wandering around the fifth floor of the Necropolis of the Gods, hunting the various saint-level creatures, refining her battle style, and cultivating to raise her realm.

  It wasn’t that she didn’t want to further her prehension, but for reasons that escaped her, she couldn’t!

  She had no idea why, and she’d be lying if she said it didn’t profoundly frustrate her, but she was unwilling to sit bad do nothing. All she could do now was slowly raise her realm and hope that everything would be okay after she broke through to bee a Demi-God.

  As for Ace, whilst everyone else was busy fog oraining, so too was he. During their time on the sed and fifth floors of the ruins, Ad his group had picked up a number of top-quality treasures that would speed up the cultivation of mortal-level creatures, both beast and human alike.

  It was thanks to them that Amira and Leona had been able to raise their realm so quickly previously, but after Amira broke through to the eighth rank and finally had the ability to protect herself in front of peak saints, she was no longer in a hurry to raise her realm, instead fog on her prehension.

  Although she wasn’t like Ace, wanting to raise her prehension to the limits of the eighth rank before breaking through to the ninth, she still wa her primary focus back to her prehension whilst cultivating the old-fashioned way to increase her realm slowly over time.

  As for Leona, after breaking through to the saint realm, those resources they found were barely able to scratch the surface for her anymore. The differen energy levels between saints and mortals was like the differeween night and day. As such, instead of wasting them, she decided to leave them to Ad Amira.

  Even if there were too many for them to finish alohey could bring it back to their respective forces or even the Pavilion. There were still a number of mortals around them that could use it.

  With so many top-quality resources at his disposal, Ace’s cultivation as both a mage and a warrior rose like a rocket. Going from the early stages of the seventh rank to the middle stages in a day before spending a little over 48 hours before breaking through to the tter stages of the seventh rank. By the end of the week, he had smoothly ehe peak of the seventh rank, only oep away from entering the eighth rank.

  The best part about it was that he didn’t have to worry about his cultivation speed affeg his foundation. With the amount of time he spent at each level, his foundation couldn’t have been any firmer, even if he wa to be.

  Unfortunately, it seemed that these resources wouldn’t be enough to help him bridge that final gap and allow him to ehe eighth rank – at least not as a warrior, anyway.

  It had to be remembered that, aside from the desdants of the four supreme warriors and a select few born with special physiques, no other humans were able to cultivate past the peak of the sixth realm without first cultivating their battle qi. This was even true for Ad Amira, whose bloodlines were not o inferior to Linley’s. Still, it was only a problem that affected those who didn’t belong to the Yin-Yang Pavilion.

  Upon reag the pinnacle of the seventh rank as both a mage and a warrior, aed grin took shape on Ace’s handsome face as he skillfully used [Impose] to absorb the elemental essen the world around him to break the shackles that kept him from entering the eighth rank.

  He only used [Imposing Devourment] for a minute or so, but wheopped using his master’s incredible teique, a satisfied smile suffused Ace’s lips as he felt the ges to his body.

  Aiden had previously expihat when breaking through to the seventh rank with the use of [Imposing Devourment], one’s body would see a much rger than normal improvement, making their body equal to a magical beast of the same rank, and after reag the eighth rank, the iential of the body would once again increase making it no weaker than some of the more powerful magical beasts of the same rank.

  As it stood, although inferior to Divis and those Mystic Beasts who would bee saints as soon as they reached adulthood, the power of Ace’s natural body could be sidered top tier amongst ordinairy magical beasts.

  Still, what Ace was mostly focused on was the ges caused by his bloodline. Simir to when he broke through to the seventh rank, his [Hak had seen an incredible level of improvement.

  As it stood, when he used his [Armament Hak in its ey, his warrior cultivation would jump straight to the ninth rank. But what delighted him, even more, was that the power of his soul went from that of a prime saint-level mage to what he could only describe as a ? step deity.

  His soul had finally reached the same level as Aiden’s back when they first met, meaning, if it were to improve any more whatsoever, it would break through to the deity level.

  The differen spiritual esseweeies and those below the deity realm was too vast. It was at this level that one’s soul transformed into a spiritual sea, allowing those all-powerful deities to utilise their Godrealms.

  Because of that, Aew that the ces of his soul transf into a spiritual sea upon breaking through to the ninth rank should be virtually impossible. It was more likely that Ace’s already freakish soul would break the norms and tio grow in size rather than truly transform, but he could sehe limitations imposed by the heavens themselves preventing such a thing from happening.

  But more than that, he could sense his spiritual body and its unwillio be restricted by heaven…

  He wasn’t 100% sure, but something told him that he would be pleasantly surprised by his breakthrough to the ninth rank.

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