More than ten years later.
"This path of Destruction Dao Intent truly is difficult."
"It seems I will still need to undergo great battles before I can find a sliver of an opportunity for breakthrough."
Ling Pengyun slowly opened his eyes and gave a faint sigh.
In recent years, he had been constantly perfecting that incomplete Destruction Primordial Spirit.
At first, things had gone relatively smoothly, and he had not spent much time perfecting it to more than ninety percent.
Yet that final step, so close at hand, had held him back for several years.
There was, however, a shortcut.
The Destruction Dao Intent excelled in slaughter and conquest. Amid slaughter and conquest, one could touch the origin of destruction and seek an opportunity for breakthrough.
But great battles could not be rushed.
The only experts in this world who could contend with him now were those Spirit Transformation cultivators.
And once figures of that caliber fought, they would inevitably stir up enormous turmoil.
Thus, over the days that followed, he placed more of his attention on perfecting the divine abilities in which he excelled and nurturing his various Lifebound Magic Items.
Since his cultivation had entered the Transformation God Realm and undergone a transformation, his speed in doing these things had increased greatly.
His most proficient divine ability, the Five Elements Thundercloud, had now touched the threshold of the Great Divine Ability realm.
Its power had consequently risen considerably. It could now fuse six thunderclouds into a Great Thundercloud of boundless might, one that would most likely pose a threat even to someone on Star Sea Old Ancestor's level.
Among his magic items, the one progressing most swiftly was the fifth-rank Spirit Treasure, Black Flood Dragon Full Body Armor, which he had acquired from the Black Flood Dragon Clan.