The warm reunion with his family, the peaceful sight of the continent returning to tranquility, and the weighty responsibility of protection he felt as the Heaven Ancestor all seeped into Lin Langtian's slightly tense mind after his return from war like the purest warm current.
Yet beneath that peace, a deeper stirring quietly brewed and rose within him.
His cultivation had long since stabilized at the Ninth Grade Supreme Peak. Having also refined Myriad Spirit Bird blood essence and undergone the tempering of the Divine Sea, the depth of his foundation and the majesty of his power far surpassed those of others at his level.
But the chasm-like threshold to Earthly Supreme required not merely an accumulation of power, but an evolutionary transformation of both his physical body and divine soul.
And such a transformation could clearly not be achieved through ordinary accumulation alone; it required the impetus of some opportunity.
In the Great Thousand World, Supreme Realm experts were innumerable. Ninth Grade Supremes might not be everywhere, but they were still quite common.
Yet among them, fewer than one in a hundred could truly advance from Ninth Grade Supreme to Earthly Supreme. The reason was simple: they lacked the opportunity needed to advance.
But Lin Langtian possessed precisely such a unique, heaven-sent "opportunity," one beyond the reach of other Ninth Grade Supremes.
Because he was the Plane Master of the Tianxuan Continent!
Back when the Outworld Evil Race had invaded in force and the Abyssal Demon Emperor had prepared to wipe out the continent's countless living beings in one stroke, Lin Langtian had gained the recognition of this plane's Plane Spirit. He had deeply branded his own imprint into the continent's core, becoming its master in the truest sense.
It was only that his level of power at the