Gu Ding's Difficult Ascension to Godhood

In the empty, Time Acceleration Chamber, Gu Ding sat cross-legged in the center, taking out a tube of emerald green liquid. "This is the Jade Bamboo Dew that the Darkness Clan uses to break through their cultivation levels?"

"That's right, it's an extremely violent plant energy condensate formed by the Devil Bamboo absorbing a large amount of flesh and blood energy. The one in your hand should be over ten thousand years old. If it were Liliath and the others, I would suggest using it in combination with other enhancement potions to dilute it. But your situation is quite special. Every time you improve your cultivation, you must first break the Gene Shackles, which requires extremely violent energy."

The Sea Emperor also felt indignant on Gu Ding's behalf. Due to his innate shackles, Gu Ding needed to expend an enormous amount of energy each time he improved his cultivation, especially when breaking through to higher ranks, which required extremely violent energy.

But Gu Ding had no complaints about it, after all, it was something he was born with, and he chose to accept it calmly. Moreover, he had a vague premonition that if one day he could break through all the Gene Shackles in his body, perhaps he wouldn't be far from revealing the identities of his parents.

He Jade Bamboo Dew, a spicy sensation sliding down his mouth and quickly penetrating his internal organs, making Gu Ding feel as if a flame had been set ablaze in his lower abdomen. The intense burning sensation spread in all directions, and Gu Ding felt as if his body might explode at any moment, his whole body convulsing and spasming from the pain in his abdomen.

In a daze, Gu Ding was suddenly pulled into a void.

In that void, there was a Black Iron Gate hundreds of meters high that was not only closed, but also locked up by layers of black chains as thick as water tanks.

Gu Ding looked around. In this vast emptiness, apart from the gate before him and himself, there was absolutely nothing else. Not even a speck of dust could be seen. Only then did he gather his thoughts and look at the gate again.

From the void, a dark and inexplicable thought entered Gu Ding's mind. That thought was not conveyed in the form of language, but Gu Ding was able to understand its meaning.

You can choose to break all the chains and leave through the Black Iron Gate. This will grant you immense power. Alternatively, you can choose to exit directly, but the price will be that you will never be able to reach the level of a god.

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Ding raised his hand and launched an attack on the chains.

With a "ding," Gu Ding's Finger Force strike hit a black chain without cracking it at all.

"What powerful chains!" Gu Ding finally got serious. He had only used 70-80% of his strength to test the waters, but had failed.

He immediately gathered all his strength, imbued with Martial Dao Intent, and unleashed another finger strike. A sharp black light flashed out. The attack struck the chains, but only a "clang" was heard; the chains remained completely undamaged.

"How could this be? My full-force attack didn't even cause me the slightest loss!" Gu Ding exclaimed in astonishment.

Whether or not he could destroy these chains was crucial to his advancement to the divine realm, so Gu Ding naturally wouldn't give up easily. Five-Colored Flames erupted from his hands, and he activated the full power of "Burning Heaven," transforming himself into a body of fire energy. Then, he rapidly formed hand seals. Right off the bat, he unleashed the strongest move of "Burning Heaven"—the Heaven Burning Seal.

A giant fiery hand materialized from the void and pressed down on the black chains.

A faint "crack..." reached Gu Ding's ears. Gu Ding was overjoyed and looked towards the chains. But what he saw next greatly disappointed him. He had thought that his strike, even if it couldn't destroy all the chains, would at least break dozens. But to his surprise, only one chain had a hair-thin crack. On the chain, which was as thick as a water vat, this crack was almost negligible. And what was most infuriating was that he could even see that hair-thin crack visibly repairing itself.

"What exactly are these chains?" Gu Ding frowned slightly and asked the Sea Emperor, only to find that the Sea Emperor did not respond. Looking at his wrist again, the Smart Watch that the Sea Emperor had transformed into was long gone. Gu Ding then realized that this space was a place that the Sea Emperor could not reach.

Realizing this, Gu Ding tried to immerse himself in the body to find the puppy and use the power of the Demon Face, but found that his consciousness could not communicate with the Soul Space at all.

Left with no other choice, he had to repeatedly bombard the chains with the Heaven Burning Seal. With each repeated bombardment, the cracks slowly widened, but Gu Ding could not stop for even a moment, otherwise the cracks would repair themselves.

Gu Ding could also hear that interference from that thought.

Give up. Once you give up, you won't have to do such a boring and tedious thing anymore...

Gu Ding ignored him completely and continued to bombard the chains again and again. After an unknown amount of time, the first chain finally broke.

A sense of accomplishment washed over him, and Gu Ding looked up again at the Black Iron Gate. There were at least several thousand more of the same chains. He calmed himself once more and began the tedious bombardment.

In this void, no one knows how much time has passed—perhaps a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years— Gu Ding finally broke the last chain.

As the last chain disintegrated into Black Radiance and scattered, Gu Ding finally let out a long breath, turned his gaze to the massive black iron gate, and reached out to touch it.

The moment Gu Ding pressed his palm down, the Black Iron Gate opened automatically, and blinding white light surged out from the other side of the gate.

Accustomed to this dark void, Gu Ding slightly shielded his eyes from the blinding light, only to find that the dazzling light had condensed into a white sphere in front of him, like a small star, hovering in front of him.

Gu Ding reached out and caught the sphere in his palm, where it slowly seeped in. As the sphere completely disappeared, a realization dawned on Gu Ding: this sphere was actually an incomplete inheritance. Even incomplete, it contained a terrifyingly vast amount of information, including not only a wealth of information about the Universe Sea but also some techniques at the level of true gods.

This made Gu Ding even more curious about his origins. However, he also knew that as his cultivation improved, the mystery of his origins would be solved sooner or later.

Guided by a mysterious thought, Gu Ding stepped through the massive black iron gate. He felt a momentary dizziness and found himself back in the Time Acceleration Cabin.

The abdominal pain had completely disappeared. Gu Ding examined his body and found that his physical body was more than ten times stronger than before, with all his physical indicators undergoing dramatic changes. Within his Soul Space, the height of the five divine flames had also increased nearly tenfold, and a black tower nearly ten thousand meters tall stood in the very center of his Soul Space. Gu Ding immediately recognized it as the divine position he had formed at some point. However, Gu Ding had previously heard the Sea Emperor say that while divine positions varied in form within different people's Soul Space, their height generally did not exceed ten meters. He was somewhat puzzled as to what was so special about his divine position, which was practically as large as a mountain.

Unable to figure it out, Gu Ding simply stopped thinking about it and had the Sea Emperor scan his body data to see how much it had changed.

"Although you've only advanced to One-Star Low-rank God, your Combat Strength is probably no weaker than Ye Mei's, and may even be stronger than his," the Sea Emperor teased after his investigation, then projected the data.

Name: Gu Ding

Gender: Male

Age: 16

[Cultivation Level: One-Star Low-rank God]

Physical Strength: Two-Star Rank

[Mental Strength Index: Two Stars]

[Divine Source Strength: Upper-tier one-star]

[Forbidden Power: Absolute Seal (Level 3 Taboo Power)]

[Derived Forbidden Power: Weakening Shackles (Level 1 Taboo Power)]

[Divine Flames: Destruction Flame, Devouring Flame, Starfire, Nirvana Flame, Purple Lightning Divine Fire]

[Fated Divine Power: Devouring the Heavens and Swallowing the Earth]

[Description of Supernatural Power: Able to devour energy in all forms]

[Divine Power 1: Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body (Devil Elephant Realm)]

[Description of the supernatural power: Temporary increase of 10,000 times for the Physical Body Realm, permanent increase of 1,000 times for the Devil Elephant Realm]

[Supernatural Power 2: Darkness Immunity]

[Supernatural Ability Description 1: Immune to all dark-type curse abilities]

[Divine Ability Description 2: Damage caused by dark-type attacks is reduced to one-tenth]

[Superpower 3: Berserk]

[Description of the supernatural power: Increases overall Combat Strength by a thousandfold]

[God Skill 1: Asura World Extinction]

[God Skill Description: A technique that perfectly combines the physical body, soul, divine source, and Martial Dao Intent to unleash powerful moves that transcend the limitations of cultivation level.]

[God Skill 2: Burning Heaven]

[God Skill Description: Transforms the body's elements into a fiery energy body to unleash powerful attacks.]

[Domain: Four-Star Martial Dao Domain]

[Martial Dao Intent: Minor Success in the Spiritual Affinity Realm]

Upon closer observation, Gu Ding discovered several changes. His physical strength, mental strength, and divine source strength had all improved, which wasn't surprising. What Gu Ding found strange was that his domain had also improved. Not only that, but even his Martial Dao Intent, which had nothing to do with cultivation level, had been elevated to a minor level.

Looking at the time, he realized that it had only taken him less than an hour to break through to the god level. Normally, it would take at least two or three days for an average person.

After inquiring with the Sea Emperor, the Sea Emperor also found it strange, saying that Gu Ding's body had hardly changed in the past hour, until the very last moment before Gu Ding woke up and suddenly broke through, and then his body's various indicators changed drastically.

Having spent less than an hour inside the Time Acceleration Cabin, while less than a minute had passed outside, Gu Ding didn't intend to waste any more time. He took out the Silver Skeleton that he couldn't refine before and began to refine them. (To be continued...)