I had to say, Morti was very efficient. In just a few short months, he had transformed the Thunder God Court and pledged its allegiance to Luo Ya as its new master.
Of course, this was also thanks to the great prestige of Luo Ya, the "strongest man in the Western Continent." With him backing them, the few Lowgods who had yet to leave the Valen Plane had also contributed a great deal.
Half a year later, the buildings on Thunder Sacred Mountain had all been renovated according to Luo Ya's strict requirements. Luo Ya and Milia's wedding was held there.
Albert, Beiya, and the other friends he had made in the past came to congratulate them. Some Saint Realm friends of Karen and his wife came as well, along with all the other god-level powerhouses in the Western Continent.
Even Laura, the Plane Overseer, came in person to offer her blessings and a wedding gift.
The last to arrive was the Sovereign of the Eastern Continent, the Midgod Violet. She looked at the two of them with a grin and sent them a telepathic message. "You're both god-level powerhouses, yet you've managed to find each other. That's truly rare."
In the Material Plane, it was quite rare for two gods to become partners. Violet couldn't help feeling a little jealous of Milia.
Hand in hand, Luo Ya and Milia soon finished receiving everyone's blessings.
Before long, night fell.
The bright full moon hung high in the sky, and its light spilled through the window onto the bed.
In the bridal chamber, Milia sat nervously on the wedding bed, dressed in a gorgeous white gown. Tonight, she was as pure and beautiful as a snow lotus blooming on a snowy mountain, both sacred and captivating.
"Milia!" Luo Ya gazed passionately at the pure snow lotus, two blazing flames burning in his eyes.
The next moment,
"Ah!" With a delicate cry from the golden-haired girl, Luo Ya swept Milia into his arms and fell back onto the bed with her. He drew the curtains, and soon clothes began flying out one after another.
"Mmm..."
At some point, thick clouds had covered the full moon. Only seven or eight stars remained, twinkling faintly.
Tonight was destined to be sleepless.
Being together with Milia truly brought Luo Ya a sense of fulfillment unlike anything he had ever felt before. But both he and Milia were equally devoted to cultivation.
And so, apart from the occasional marital fun, the years flowed by like water as they cultivated in peace...
In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.
Nestled among the mountains was a quiet lake with crystal-clear waters.
A simple wooden cabin, rich with the breath of nature, stood by the lakeshore.
Beneath the lake, however, lay another world, with a passage leading to a Miniature Plane Secret Chamber.
A young man in a black robe sat cross-legged on a cushion inside the chamber, a smile on his face.
"Luo Ya?" The golden-haired girl, who was also inside the Plane Secret Room, looked over in delighted surprise.
Though ten years had passed, Milia hadn't aged in the slightest. Instead, she now possessed a special aura.
As Milia watched in delighted surprise, countless clouds of black mist began to billow through the space above the miniature chamber...
Strangely, the black mist kept changing shape. At times, it coalesced into a demonic wolf with an evil aura; at others, it gathered into a giant python that seemed alive...
Finally, all the black mist contracted into a single mass, forming a bizarre black hole two or three meters in diameter. An astonishing suction force immediately burst from within it!
Luo Ya sat quietly at the center of the Plane Secret Room. The Dark Element seemed like an extension of his will, spontaneously forming the black hole. With each pulse of its suction, its rhythm grew ever more in sync with the black hole inside his body...
Suddenly, Luo Ya opened his deep black eyes. A dim, dark light gleamed in them, reflecting the outline of a mysterious black hole. "I finally did it..."
"Bzz!"
A strange fluctuation of Laws descended from above and enveloped Luo Ya.
His body floated up against his will. A Godhead glowing with a dark light emerged from the top of his head and hovered above the miniature chamber. Countless Dark Elements gathered around it, circling the Godhead under the influence of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
Luo Ya could clearly sense his Godhead undergoing a transformation under the influence of the Laws of Heaven and Earth!
Once the transformation was complete, the Godhead spun and merged back into his body. The surrounding Dark Elements dispersed along with it.
Opening his eyes, Luo Ya let out a quiet breath and smiled. "At last, I've become a Midgod."
This retreat had been shorter than he expected. He'd thought the final bottleneck in fusing the Profound Mysteries might hold him up for a year or two, but he quickly found the answer in the mysterious black hole inside his body.
Just like that, as he became a Midgod, the fusion of his two Profound Mysteries was also complete!
Though he had only just become a Midgod, he had already fused two Profound Mysteries. One of them was the High-level Profound Mystery Devour, which meant his power had undoubtedly increased tremendously.
Now, even without relying on Willpower, he could put up a fight against an ordinary Highgod.
"And this breakthrough brought other benefits, too."
First, there was his soul. During that brief moment when the Laws of Heaven and Earth enveloped him, his soul had grown almost ten times stronger than before!
"Then there's the most important thing: the black hole inside me..." The moment he became a Midgod, it was as if some restriction had been lifted. The Black Hole, which had remained motionless all this time, suddenly erupted once more, unleashing a shocking force of Devour that spread into the Elemental Ocean!
"Roar!"
The familiar scene played out again. An endless storm swept through the Elemental Ocean, and vast quantities of Dark Divine Power flowed like countless rivers returning to the sea, swallowed at an astonishing rate by the black hole inside Luo Ya...
In only a short while, the amount of Dark Divine Power devoured had already become incalculable.
"Crackle..."
Like withered wood brought back to life, the mysterious black hole was reborn. A steady stream of pure divine power poured into it...
Though the amount of Dark Divine Power absorbed was immense, after the black hole refined it, it became only a small clump of energy that entered Paste Space—the only area belonging to Luo Ya, a space of just two or three meters across.
After a quarter of an hour, Luo Ya's soul began to feel faint pressure. The black hole also seemed to have reached the limit of how much energy it could "digest."
"The two- or three-meter territory inside Paste Space has changed somehow, too." His consciousness passed through the space, and he found that his territory within Paste Space hadn't expanded, yet it had undeniably changed in some way he couldn't quite describe...
"This new change must be because the energy I devoured was of a higher level." Luo Ya pondered briefly and soon realized the reason.
The first time the black hole mutated, the scene had looked quite dramatic, but in truth, although it had absorbed a tremendous amount of power from the Elemental Ocean, all of it had been the most basic kind: Lowgod power.
Just now, however, the black hole had devoured Midgod power to its heart's content.
Clearly, the difference in the level of energy absorbed alone could promote new changes in the black hole within his body to a certain extent.
But Luo Ya had a vague feeling that this degree of evolution still wasn't enough...
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