Breaking Through to the Seventh Ring

In the void drifted a Plane Fragment.

It was only a few hundred miles across, devoid of vegetation or soil, and wandered aimlessly through the void. Its main body was a crystalline, glasslike meteorite.

Inside the meteorite stood a palace-like structure.

It was built entirely from crystallized elemental energy, with Alchemical Rune Arrays inscribed throughout its interior. As the runes activated, the element crystals turned into swirling mist, rapidly increasing the concentration of elemental energy inside the palace.

The Dark Dragon sat cross-legged at the center of the rune array, its entire body radiating gentle moonlight. Beneath that light, its scales gradually changed from black to milky white.

Using the Ritual Law Fragment, it converted all the crystallized faith power of the Moon God into divine power, storing it in the Moon God apertures within its body.

[Seventh Ring: Moon God's Shadow.]

An intricate Acupoint Diagram appeared across the Dark Dragon's body, containing more than thirty-six thousand apertures.

They linked together like stars, while a hazy phantom of the Moon God appeared behind it.

The manifestation of a Dao Lord was the manifestation of a law.

The First-Generation Moon God's Altar Diagram was far more complex than Lady White Moon's Undying Altar, containing two hundred and sixty thousand aperture positions.

However, converting every sacrificial position into an aperture usable within its draconic body would require extremely difficult modifications. Filling all two hundred and sixty thousand apertures would also demand an astronomical amount of divine power.

Thus, after extensive pruning, the Dark Dragon retained only thirty-six thousand apertures, forming a Moon God Acupoint Diagram centered on a single Heavenly Main Aperture.

"Refine!"

The Dark Dragon's expression hardened in concentration.

It activated an ancient body-tempering method and began cleansing and refining its body with the Moon God's divine power.

It,