"Their king knew I came from the Divine Kingdom Alliance... so he forced me to tell him about it... after I told him, they were eager to conquer the alliance, so their king imprisoned me. Sometimes he drugged me, sometimes he cut my body open, trying to understand this divine power... they're all barbarians... later, some friends here helped me escape... and I hid here." Tears immediately welled in Liyin's eyes as she spoke of it.
"I see. That makes sense. Once they learned how formidable divine power was, they naturally wanted to study it." Something else occurred to me after I said that, and I asked, "Is our divine power stronger, or is their strength greater?"
"Each has its advantages... when they hunt us, they have powerful physical force. We simply can't beat them at close range. I've already opened my Divine Eye twice, but some of them are too strong for me to defeat," Liyin said.
"Did you learn that stone-flicking technique when you opened your Divine Eye the second time?" I asked.
Liyin nodded, then said, "My current strength is roughly equivalent to someone who has cultivated to Veinbone here. They have cultivation stages too, and call themselves divine cultivators. After opening the Divine Eye, they enter the initial Divine Entry realm, which consists of Vein Opening, Divine Refinement, and Void Breaking; then the middle Divine Consolidation realm, consisting of Veinbone, Heaven Integration, and Divine Perception; and finally the Divine Attainment realm, consisting of Radiant Body, Great Completion, and Divine Body."
"Body cultivation with its own complete system? What sort of stage is Veinbone?" Hearing the stages these divine cultivators used, I already sensed that theirs was a cultivation system that worked from the inside out.
"Veinbone means letting the spirit veins penetrate the bone marrow, granting