When Hun Tiandi became a Half-Emperor, Gu He gave Yan Jin and Lei Ying each a Ninth-grade Profound Pill to heal their injuries. He also told them to dispatch their clansmen to monitor the Hun Clan's movements, especially outside the Central Continent. They were to send more people out and report immediately upon discovering any members of the Hun Clan. After making these arrangements, Gu He flew beneath the Lei Realm, preparing to refine the Heavenly Flame energy within his body.
With Nihility Devouring Flame having escaped, Gu He would be completely exposed before the Hun Clan. The pressure on him was immense, so he intended to raise his strength further.
After advancing to Half-Emperor, Gu He could sense that this realm was not the end. Unlike the clear bottleneck at the peak of the Dou Saint realm, he felt there was still vast room for improvement. However, even a slight increase in strength at this stage required an unimaginably enormous amount of energy. Even the energy contained within an entire dimension could only raise a Half-Emperor's strength by a tiny fraction.
He surmised that the Half-Emperor realm should also have subdivisions. Yet, over the past several thousand years, only a few had advanced to Half-Emperor, so the world knew little about how this realm was ranked. Based on the several Half-Emperor experts who had appeared in the original timeline, Gu He believed that, like Half-Saints, Half-Emperors should be divided into initial, middle, and high levels. He was currently an initial Half-Emperor; the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill within the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion should be a middle Half-Emperor; and Jing Lian Yao Sheng at his peak should have been a high Half-Emperor.
Of course, this was merely his own opinion and had not been recognized by anyone else. After all,