The Beginning of Dominance, Advancement to Mid-Stage

Above the vast waters, Huangfu Zheng's expression was calm as he looked at Han Yi. An unusual divine glint surged in his eyes, as though he wished to see through Han Yi completely. Yet with his strength, he unexpectedly could not see through him, leaving doubts in his heart.

His doubt was that he could tell Han Yi was forcibly raising his cultivation through origin energy.

The origin energy he used might have been origin crystals, or perhaps world-level wondrous artifacts. There was nothing inherently wrong with this cultivation method, but it absolutely could not be this fast.

For an ordinary Divine Venerable, absorbing a single origin crystal would take at least decades, perhaps even centuries or millennia. Moreover, there was no way to absorb origin crystals without limit; there would be a certain threshold.

Origin crystals could assist cultivation, but one could not rely entirely on them to directly raise an entire realm. Otherwise, if a God Clan pooled all its resources, it could simply pile up origin crystals to create high-stage Divine Venerables. Yet in reality, even on Ancestor God Star, high-stage Divine Venerables were exceedingly rare.

Therefore, Han Yi's act of absorbing origin energy to advance his realm, seemingly without any limit at all, puzzled him.

What he did not know was that Han Yi was not directly absorbing origin energy. Instead, he used the panel to first convert the origin energy into Life Seeds, then absorbed the Life Seeds.

And the panel had already been sealed by the First Elder of the Primordial God Clan using a Bagua wondrous artifact. Even a peak Divine Venerable could not detect it.

Huangfu Zheng did not investigate deeply. Han Yi came from the Primordial God Clan and might be concealing secrets of the Primordial God Clan. If he pursued