Ten years later.
Inside the sacred spring of the underground palace, towering flames erupted, dyeing the entire palace crimson.
Lu Yang walked out of the flames and sensed the eight additional fire-element divine souls within him. Each had reached the peak of God King Tier 9, and a smile crept onto his lips.
The Arcane King appeared beside Lu Yang and said with a smile, "Congratulations. You've finally fused all eight split souls into the fire element. Your strength is now comparable to a God King Tier 9 capable of manifesting their divine star externally."
Great Sage Wood Turbidity, Aurora Great Sage, and the others whom Lu Yang had captured back then had all had their internal divine stars forced back into spatial form. However, their bodies had been fused with their internal divine stars for a very long time, giving them an immense reserve of divine power.
One such God King Tier 9 possessed power equivalent to more than twenty ordinary God King Tier 9 divine souls of the same kind. Lu Yang had fused eight of them, meaning the divine power he could unleash was equivalent to that of more than one hundred and sixty God King Tier 9s who had not opened their spatial domains.
Even if he encountered a God King Tier 9 with an open spatial domain, Lu Yang would not need to worry about exhausting his divine power even if he fought them continuously for years.
More importantly, Lu Yang could now use the saint-tier weapon, the Star Incinerator Furnace. Previously, he had needed to gather divine power for a long time just to barely activate it once. Now, his divine power could freely drive the Star Incinerator Furnace and unleash half-saint-tier might.
Red light flashed.
Six Star Incinerator Furnaces appeared before Lu Yang.