The Fifth Layer of the Starry Sky Prison.
Inside the deathly silent mine tunnel.
Jiang Ping An lay on the rubble, his breath as faint as a thread, hovering on the brink of death.
According to the normal timeline, the Ghost Demon Emperor should have killed him, and he should have fallen here.
But he had not died.
The timeline and history had both been changed.
This outcome was all thanks to the soul he had nurtured over the past hundred years.
After nearly suffering qi deviation last time, he had strengthened his resolve and merged his other two souls, allowing his soul and body to undergo a transcendence.
During that transcendence, he discovered that strengthening his body through belief did not necessarily require invincible belief.
Even without invincible belief, he could still strengthen his physical body and the rules he had mastered.
When ordinary people had conviction, they could focus more intently on their studies and find greater motivation to strive.
Many cultivators also gained a boost in combat power when pushed into a corner.
These were all manifestations of belief strengthening the body.
It was just that ordinary people and ordinary cultivators struggled to strengthen themselves substantially through belief.
To temporarily multiply his body's strength several times over, as Jiang Ping An had done, one needed to understand the soul to a certain degree, or reach a certain realm.
Jiang Ping An named this realm [Supreme].
After his last bout of qi deviation, he had suddenly attained enlightenment, bringing his control over his soul and body to new heights.
Now, he could use soul force to greatly increase his physical strength and raise the level of his laws.
The golden radiance the Ghost Demon Emperor had seen surrounding him was his burning soul.
Burning his soul to the