Back on Crouching Ox Island, when Zhou Hao had unleashed the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, he had only been at the first level, "Divine Light Beam." Yet now, the moment he attacked, he was actually releasing the second level, "Divine Light Needle."
Do not be fooled by the difference of merely one realm. The change in power was no less than the tremendous leap from Xiantian to Purple Mansion, or from Purple Mansion to Myriad Phenomena.
"Is it because my soul has improved?" Zhou Hao secretly guessed.
Advancing one's soul was exceedingly difficult. To improve it required visualization techniques, comprehension of the Dao, the body nourishing the soul in return after growing stronger, and tempering one's will.
He had practiced visualization techniques since childhood, never missing his nightly cultivation for more than a decade. Especially after transmigrating into the world of the Desolate Era, the nourishment his soul received from Qi Refining and Fiendgod Body Refining, coupled with his Chiming Nine Heavens Map now reaching the eighth level, the middle stage of Purple Mansion, had enabled him to comprehend multiple True Meanings of the Dao. The Dao of the Vortex had even reached the Domain Realm of the Dao.
Furthermore, ever since Xiangcao's accident, he had continuously driven his divine sense with desperate effort. All of this had allowed Zhou Hao to further squeeze out the potential of his soul.
He could already sense that his current soul had touched upon a shackle. Once he broke through it, he would enter an even higher realm.
A stronger soul meant heightened divine sense, which naturally allowed him to wield ever more powerful and surging Origin Power. The Extinction Divine Light Beam, originally as thin as an infant's finger, had finally, under the control of his divine sense and by