After discussing matters with Zhang Yang, the Demon Venerable had been constantly pondering the power of her true body and the power of fear.
She had already gained some insight into the power of fear.
When she understood Sentient Beings' Fear and could also sense her own fear, she had already stepped across the threshold of the Emperor Realm in Fear Power.
What remained was how to advance that power into the Emperor Realm.
As for the power of her true body, she had gained some insight some time ago. Yet without a clue about the Spirit-Splitting Thought Transformation divine ability, the true bodies she split off were meaningless.
After Zhang Yang delivered the Spirit-Splitting Thought Transformation divine ability, her research over this period had brought her to an extremely profound level of mastery.
Once the Spirit-Splitting Thought Transformation divine ability succeeded, the splitting of her true body became meaningful.
This time, she had entered battle specifically to study the power of her true body.
She needed to know what level her split true body could reach under the Spirit-Splitting Thought Transformation divine ability.
Therefore, before entering battle, her true body had already split out a duplicate. Her actual true body was, in fact, at the center of that duplicate!
In other words, the Dark Emperor Realm expert Nikun had been dealing with nothing but one of her split bodies from beginning to end.
Using the Spirit-Splitting Thought Transformation divine ability, she carefully experienced her split body's state.
The process of that split body perishing within the Dark World allowed her to understand the power of her true body even more deeply.
Because she had created the duplicate herself, she could sense the entire process of it being ground away by Dark Power. This let her peer into the deeper