"Is our eldest senior brother really that powerful?"
Feeling the scorching Bloodline Power surging outside, Jiang Xiu clicked his tongue in amazement. His eldest senior brother had already reached the Marrow Cleansing stage, the second layer of the Flawless Golden Body, and was about to advance to the third layer, the Remolding stage.
One of the key traits of the Remolding stage was refining the acquired to restore the innate—refining the essence of the acquired and replenishing one's innate foundation to prepare for the final layer: the Indestructible Golden Body.
"I should get started too."
Jiang Xiu sat cross-legged on the bed and raised a hand, summoning Guang Long's shadow to keep watch in the dark and alert him to anything happening outside.
Guang Long could be considered Jiang Xiu's first Shadow Soldier on Douluo Continent. After all, Soul Beasts had vanished without a trace, leaving him short of a major source of shadows. And for the past four years, he had stayed in Shrek City to cultivate, with no chance to go out and extract the shadows of the dead.
But once he went to the Blood God Legion, this dire situation would ease considerably. After all, Abyssal Creatures there were a dime a dozen.
"Bzzzz!"
Wisps of dark energy filled the space as Jiang Xiu's consciousness gradually sank into his Shadow Monarch Martial Soul.
"Whoosh!"
With a soft sound, beneath the ground on the Abyss's 76th Layer, Jiang Xiu slowly opened his blood-red eyes and surged upward, carrying the Monarch Domain with him.
Smoke billowed across the land. A faint, eerie glow shimmered over the charred soil, where patches of dark-red magma lay buried here and there. Pale purple light drifted down from the sky, bringing no hint of peace—instead, it lent the scene an added tinge of