Over the following days, everyone entered seclusion once more. Seeing Gu Ding achieve the True King Realm, they all felt unprecedented pressure. No one wanted to be the one holding the team back.
Furthermore, the unsealing of Tiger's and Blue's memories made them feel an even greater urgency to improve their strength.
After reaching the True King Realm, Gu Ding did not enter seclusion, but he never stopped cultivating each day. At this stage, he was mainly occupied with building his Inner Universe.
Just as he had envisioned, he divided his universe into twelve layers and began condensing stars within it every day. Condensing stars required an enormous amount of time and Great Dao Power. After several days, there was only a meteorite several thousand meters in diameter in Gu Ding's universe. The progress was so slow it was despairing...
At first, Gu Ding thought there might be something wrong with his method of condensing stars. Only after asking Sea Emperor did he learn that everyone was this slow. Being fast would have been abnormal.
Sea Emperor had an even heavier workload. He had to cultivate in seclusion to improve his strength, investigate information on Tiger and Blue, search for the whereabouts of the Enlightenment Stone, and pilot the spacecraft toward the Emperor Tablet.
Several more days passed quickly. On this day, Gu Ding suddenly received a call from Qian Duoduo and immediately answered it.
Qian Duoduo's still largely unchanged figure appeared as a projection before Gu Ding.
"Boss Gu Ding, you've become completely famous lately. Not only the human race, but all the other major races know about you now," Qian Duoduo teased as soon as he appeared.
"You haven't been slacking either, have you, Duoduo? I can see that you've grown much stronger. You'll probably break through to