Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor!

In his palm, the golden sphere that had gathered the essence of the plane's life and been inscribed with the Life Law trembled slightly, emitting a clear hum as though it possessed life, resonating with Lei Chen's heartbeat.

With a flicker of thought from Lei Chen, the golden sphere transformed into a gentle stream of light. Like spilled mercury, it instantly covered his entire body. Wherever the light passed, a full suit of armor that fit his form perfectly quietly emerged.

The armor was a deep, noble dark gold throughout. It did not possess the cold, hard luster of metal, but instead resembled the grain of an ancient divine tree, like an extension of life's veins, flowing with a soft, restrained radiance.

Wearing the entire suit, Lei Chen did not feel the slightest weight or constraint. Instead, it was as if he had put on a layer of living skin, incomparably well-fitted. Vast yet gentle life energy circulated endlessly within and around the armor, linking him to the very breath of the entire plane.

After briefly sensing the changes brought by this armor, a satisfied curve rose at the corner of Lei Chen's lips.

"Gathering the essence of the plane's Life Gold, nurtured by the Life Core, inscribed with the Life Law... this armor shall be called the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor."

He softly bestowed a name upon the armor, and the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor had astonishingly reached the rank of a Super Divine Artifact!

This was no exaggeration. Even a small piece of naturally formed, unrefined Life Gold, with its vast vitality and imperishable properties, was already comparable to an ordinary Divine Artifact.

To forge this armor, Lei Chen had gathered nearly all the Life Gold scattered across the Douluo Plane. He had then nourished it day and night with the Plane Life Core for more than half a year, and finally, using his authority as the Plane Lord, imprinted within it the Douluo Plane's most fundamental Laws of "life" and "creation."

With so many heaven-defying conditions piled together and so much effort invested, forging a Super Divine Artifact had simply been the natural and inevitable result.

As a suit of Super Divine Artifact-grade armor, the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor's basic defensive power went without saying. It could withstand the fierce assaults of opponents at the same level without wavering. Yet its strongest and most essential trait was not mere durability, but what its name represented—Living Beings' Watch.

Putting on this armor was equivalent to receiving a nearly eternal blessing of "immortality."

No matter how grievous the injury, under the terrifying life force contained within the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor—a reserve comparable to that of an entire plane—it could be repaired instantly at an inconceivable speed.

Even if he suffered a fatal attack, such as soul annihilation or the collapse of his origin—injuries that would mean certain death even for God-level experts—the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor could forcibly preserve the wearer's final thread of life and keep him alive.

It could be said that with this Super Divine Artifact, Lei Chen's survivability had been pushed to the absolute limit, reaching a level that would leave others in despair. So long as the plane did not completely collapse and the Life Law was not utterly extinguished, even dying would be difficult for him!

Lei Chen was immensely satisfied with this masterpiece he had forged himself. With another thought, dark-golden radiance flowed, and the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor quietly vanished into his body. Then, he fully spread the perception he possessed as the Plane Lord, covering the entire Douluo Plane like an invisible tide.

Over the past half year, most of his attention had been focused on forging the Living Beings' Watcher Divine Armor. The portion of his consciousness he had split off had only kept watch over several key regions of the plane.

Now that the Divine Artifact was complete, he naturally needed to take a proper look at how his plane had developed over the past half year under the new rules and his guidance.

His boundless consciousness swept across the entire Douluo Continent like an invisible tide, passing over mountains and rivers, cities and villages, sects and clans... Countless streams of information flowed into Lei Chen's mind, where he swiftly sorted and analyzed them.

Yet when his perception swept through certain particular areas, the expression on his face became somewhat subtle. There was an understanding that said, just as expected, mixed with a trace of surprise at these people's efficiency.

"Heh... those fellows moved rather quickly. They really are quite 'decisive.'"

Lei Chen muttered to himself, his gaze seeming to pierce through space and see certain recent "little moves" made by Shrek Academy and the Noumenon Sect.

Through his perception, he learned that not long ago, Shrek Academy's higher-ups had used both threats and inducements to "obtain" the essence of the Tang Sect's core inheritance, the Mysterious Heaven Treasured Record, from the already declining Tang Sect. In particular, they had acquired the Purple Demon Eyes cultivation method, said to nurture spiritual power and heighten spiritual awareness.

As for the Noumenon Sect, its methods had been even more direct and overbearing.

Du Bushi personally led several sect elders to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Relying on his formidable Level 99 strength, he half-negotiated and half-pressured them, forcing the long-standing Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to "voluntarily" share its secret Nine-Aperture Glazed Heart art, which could enhance spiritual power.

Although this development had been entirely within Lei Chen's expectations, their swift action still surprised him somewhat.

This was actually quite normal. When Lei Chen had gathered the Seven Powerhouses in the Undead Demiplane, he had clearly explained what a Demigod was: as long as one's physical body transformed into a Divine Body, or one's spiritual power became Divine Sense, achieving either one would make one a Demigod.

The speaker might not have meant much by it, but the listeners had certainly taken it to heart. Which of old monsters like Mu En, who had been trapped at the Level 99 bottleneck for years, was not shrewd?

They had immediately realized: if achieving either one made a person a Demigod, then if both body and spirit transformed, reaching a realm with both a Divine Body and Divine Sense, would that not make them true Level 100 gods outright?

However, Lei Chen had only had Du Bushi make the Innate Secret Art for cultivating a Divine Body public. He had not provided a supreme method specifically for cultivating spiritual power, so they could only find their own solution. Naturally, the first things they set their sights on were the Tang Sect's Purple Demon Eyes and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Nine-Aperture Glazed Heart art.

There was no need to elaborate on the Tang Sect's Purple Demon Eyes. By absorbing the purple qi that came from the east every morning, it could enhance one's spiritual power. Once cultivated to great completion, it could raise spiritual power to its limit, leaving only one step before it transformed into Divine Sense.

As for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Nine-Aperture Glazed Heart art, it had merely been the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart ten thousand years ago. After Ning Rongrong became a god, she created it based on the sect's original method. It was likewise a technique capable of cultivating spiritual power to its limit.

It was simply that, in the past, soul masters on the Douluo Continent had not placed much importance on improving spiritual power, so no one had ever set their sights on these two methods.

But now, in order to cultivate Divine Sense, Shrek and the Noumenon Sect had indeed each displayed their own abilities and secured these two secret arts. Though their methods differed, before the immense temptation of breaking through to the God-level, worldly rules and personal ties had clearly been set aside for the time being.