What excited Ling Tian and the others most wasn't the improvement in their strength. More importantly, Little Devourer would soon awaken, and he could break through to a level close to that of a Quasi-Sage at any moment.
A Heaven-Devouring Wolf close to the Quasi-Sage level—and one that had devoured many independent Small Worlds, even the Beast Soul Realm—would naturally be incredibly powerful. By then, his strength would even far surpass Feng Lingzi's, who had also broken through to a level close to that of a Quasi-Sage. That was because the Heaven-Devouring Wolf's greatest strength lay in its ability to devour and fuse Small Worlds, making its own Small World even larger. This greatly increased its power, since many of its innate secret techniques were tied to its Small World, such as Sky-Splitting Claw and Mountain-Pushing Sea-Toppling—not to mention Sacred Beast Seven-Style Severing Slash.
What's more, the Beast Soul Realm Little Devourer had devoured was once Elder Heaven-Devouring Wolf's Small World. Elder Heaven-Devouring Wolf had been a Quasi-Sage, and one of the strongest among them. His Small World had been immense, since he had once consumed a Phoenix Soul Fruit and undergone rebirth through nirvana. Even if Little Devourer couldn't completely fuse with the Beast Soul Realm's Origin Power, it would still greatly increase his strength. The effect would be nearly as good as consuming a Phoenix Soul Fruit, undergoing rebirth through nirvana, and returning to his peak.
It was no exaggeration to say that once Little Devourer broke through to a level close to that of a Quasi-Sage, he would be virtually invincible among those of the same rank. The reason it was only "virtually" was that the God Realm still had cultivators who had consumed Phoenix Soul Fruits, undergone rebirth through nirvana, and reversed their golden cores eight