In the Player Encyclopedia update for Version 3.2, Tianyao Official made it clear that starting from Dou Zong, breaking through with a Supreme Foundation, combined with Attribute Pills and Heart Blood Meat matching the base values of each major realm, could only produce an overall panel marked with a "Five-Colored Word Seal."
To reach a higher-grade word seal, one needed boosts through other means.
For example, higher-quality Attribute Pills, Heart Blood Meat, premium equipment, and so on.
Among them, the panel boosts brought by Heaven and Earth Oddities were undoubtedly the most conspicuous! Take Yang Shan, for instance. His current overall word seal was "Five-Colored; Ascending," but even using the relatively weaker Sea Heart Flame to boost his attributes could raise his overall word seal to "Seven-Colored"!
Likewise, Gu Yao—the man standing on the ground whose hair had gone gray before his time—and Xiao Li, the biological second brother of the original protagonist, could both gain considerable panel boosts at a very low cost through their respective Heaven and Earth Oddities.
In the original story, Xiao Li had been a minor character who only broke through to Dou Wang by taking Life Devouring Pills at the cost of his lifespan.
Unexpectedly, the Flame Emperor was absent from the game, yet the Flame Emperor's second brother still received pretty decent treatment.
Not only did he possess an Eighth Grade Dou Di Bloodline, he had even acquired a strange lightning!
Gu Yao, meanwhile, had once served as the original protagonist Xiao Yan's opponent. Before Xiao Yan unleashed his ultimate weapon, the Destruction Fire Lotus, Gu Yao had faintly held the upper hand over him.
However, the original story had never clearly specified Gu Yao's primary attribute.
The game not only made his attribute clear, it had even given him strange earth! They