Before he attempted to break through to the Demigod Stage, Han Mei had also fallen into the net of justice. Experts dispatched by the Profound Dao Sect seized her with thunderous efficiency.
Even at the very end, Han Mei had no idea what had happened. When she was captured, she was utterly bewildered.
Just like that, victory banquets were held in every corner of the six great powers. From Enlightenment Stage cultivators down to Spirit Disk Stage cultivators, all celebrated this victory.
Only Yang Chen, amid this festive occasion, attempted to break through to the Demigod Stage.
This breakthrough took a full ten days.
After ten days, the celebrations gradually drew to a close. By then, the cultivators had basically entered their resting period. No one noticed that heaven-shaking, earth-overturning changes had already taken place inside Yang Chen's tent.
These heaven-shaking, earth-overturning changes did not refer to anything external, but to Yang Chen alone.
At this moment, the aura of the Body Integration Realm that had once existed around Yang Chen had completely vanished. There was not the slightest trace of true qi around him, making him seem like an ordinary mortal.
No, more accurately, Yang Chen seemed to have shed the substance of mortality and found another, entirely new substance.
This substance swirled around Yang Chen. It was nothing else but divine power.
Yang Chen slowly opened his eyes and murmured to himself, "Divine power... so this is divine power. It is forged by condensing vast amounts of true qi. Once divine power appears, the true qi aura around one's body completely dissipates. It can also be understood this way: true qi is something mortals use, while only divine power is the mark of the divine. If one wishes to cast aside the marks of mortality, one must abandon