Gu Yuena got down to business. "Xinghe, how do you plan to use that fragment deep within the core of the Ascension Platform?"
The Ascension Platform was, in essence, a fragment of the God Realm.
It had originated from the great war in the God Realm during the Dragon God's era. That battle had shattered the God Realm, scattering many fragments throughout the universe. One of them had fallen near Douluo Planet, been drawn in by it, and gradually formed a special plane.
Meng Xinghe had found it before the Spirit Pagoda was established and extracted a trace of immortal spiritual energy for research. Later, the Spirit Pagoda discovered it and used that fragment as the foundation to create the Ascension Platform.
The spiritual power dropped from slain simulated soul beasts was essentially a product of the God Realm fragment absorbing the world's natural energy. Because the fragment itself contained immortal spiritual energy, the spiritual power it produced carried traces of its properties. That was why soul masters could increase the age of their soul spirits and soul rings by absorbing it.
Immortal spiritual energy was an advanced form of energy that only deities could breathe in and absorb. The God Realm was the God Realm because the God Realm Core could absorb energy from the universe and endlessly produce immortal spiritual energy.
Immortal spiritual energy was not rare in the God Realm, since it filled the air everywhere. But in the lower realms—especially those with no trace of the God Realm—it was incomparably precious and scarce.
A God Realm fragment did not possess a God Realm Core, so every trace of immortal spiritual energy within it was one trace less.
If all the immortal spiritual energy contained in the God Realm fragment was absorbed, the Ascension Platform would collapse,