In the year 2644 of the Douluo Calendar, a year had flown by in the blink of an eye. Zhi An and Xuan Xiao had spent it training as though possessed.
Despite already being a Soul Douluo, Zhi An had gained six levels that year. A year ago, he had only been level eighty-one; now, he had reached the threshold of level eighty-eight.
Xuan Xiao's progress was even more outrageous. In just one year, he had forced his way from level seventy-five to level eighty-nine. No one would have believed such a pace.
After all, once someone reached level seventy, gaining even one level a year was considered fast. Yet he had gained fourteen, more than doubling his level gains.
Of course, those fourteen levels had not all come from Xuan Xiao's own cultivation. He had only gained eight himself; the remaining six had come from his Eighth Soul Ring.
It had come from the sacrifice of a god-rank Time Blue Demon Bird purchased for two hundred thousand deviation points. Pouring in an entire divine beast's divine power had yielded only those six levels.
Anyone else who received that sacrifice would surely have ascended to godhood in a single step. But not Xuan Xiao-the black hole of Soul Power inside him was simply too vast, vast beyond imagining.
After pouring in an entire Blue Demon Bird's divine power, the Soul Power that had transformed into divine power amounted to only one-twentieth of his total. The ratio had even made Zhi An draw sharp breaths.
"Whew!"
Xuan Xiao finished cultivating and let out a long breath. Tinged with faint blue light, it lingered in the air without dispersing, as though it had pushed all the surrounding Soul Power aside.
Gu Yuena approached from the side, her silver hair gleaming softly in