Lin Chen stood tall atop the ruins of the City of Sin.
Beneath his feet, the sea of blood slowly turned, its color growing ever darker and deeper.
He had attained Dou Sheng, and his soul had reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
This should have been a moment of joy, a moment when he stood at the pinnacle of the continent. But his mind was completely captivated by a strange thread of dark-golden energy inside him.
This energy was utterly different from Dou Qi.
Dou Qi was vast and mighty, stirring the energy of heaven and earth, its power fierce and forceful.
But this thread of dark-golden energy was far more restrained and condensed, as though it held some deeper law and the very essence of power.
As it flowed through his meridians, even those that had endured countless temperings and were strong enough to withstand the impact of saintly power began to ache and burn faintly.
It felt as though a higher form of energy was forcibly widening and cleansing them.
"Not Dou Qi..."
Lin Chen closed his eyes and immersed his entire mind in his body, carefully sensing the many profound changes produced as the Blood Scripture operated on its own at the Dou Sheng stage.
Deep in his bloodline, the mark left by Ancestor Styx glimmered faintly.
It conveyed fragments of information that were vague, yet supreme beyond measure.
"Spiritual energy... This is... spiritual energy?!"
A term flashed through his sea of consciousness like lightning!
The information from his inherited memories gradually became clear—this was a form of energy that surpassed Dou Qi.
It was the foundation of cultivation in the higher plane known as the "Great Thousand World"!
At the Dou Sheng stage, his Blood Scripture was domineering to an astonishing degree.
It could defy the