Emerging from Seclusion

Fan Gu Hall.

Deep within.

A figure sat cross-legged here.

Amid chaotic Nihility, vast amounts of Creation Power gathered here, swirling around that figure and transforming into two different profound mysteries that continuously fused together, tempering his body and every strand of his Divine Power.

No one knew how long this continued. At last, the tempering reached its limit. All the Divine Power around that figure had visibly grown much more vigorous and dense. No matter how it was further tempered, it could no longer change. It had truly reached the Divine Lord level.

"Phew."

Tai Chen slowly exhaled a trace of energy, and what emerged from his nose and mouth was a dazzling thread of light.

He slowly opened his eyes. Light radiated from them, and he was brimming with vitality.

He had succeeded!

After long years—tens of thousands of Realm Years—Tai Chen had comprehended the most crucial step and crossed that threshold. Now, he had finally mastered the Divine Lord-level secret technique and truly ascended to the rank of Divine Lord!

The excitement in Tai Chen's eyes was impossible to conceal. For a moment, he even wanted to throw back his head and laugh aloud.

A Divine Lord!

How many Divine Realm cultivators had been trapped at this step, barred before this threshold? Throughout the long ages of the Fan Gu Void Domain, no one had ever crossed that step. Yet now, he had finally stepped across it, ascending to this realm and becoming imperishable and indestructible through countless calamities.

"I have been in seclusion for so long. I wonder what the situation outside is like now."

Tai Chen was no ordinary person, after all. In just a short while, he calmed his emotions, and his gaze regained its composure.

As the Fan Gu Hall Master, he had