(Second update)
The Beast Path steadily ground away the Sea God's lingering consciousness, producing an endless stream of pure spiritual power.
Yang Ming kept his eyes tightly shut and pushed his meditation to its limits, absorbing and digesting without pause.
His mind was perfectly clear. He could feel the divine sense within it expanding constantly. What had once amounted to a mere pool was spreading outward at a rate visible to the naked eye, gradually forming a lake.
When the Sea God's lingering consciousness gave a whimper and was finally ground away without a trace, the expansion of Yang Ming's divine sense finally stopped.
His eyes snapped open, and a sharp gleam flashed through them.
"Hiss!"
The gleam turned into a streak of sword energy that shot a meter ahead of Yang Ming, piercing a hole in the ground.
This sword energy was a manifestation of spiritual power taking physical form. Though it was still very weak, it offered a glimpse of how immense Yang Ming's spiritual power had become.
Even compared with a Peerless Douluo, Yang Ming was not far behind.
In fact, Yang Ming had a vague feeling that if he could obtain a few more Vast Sea Cosmic Shrouds and absorb the spiritual power produced by the gods' lingering consciousness within them, he could blaze an entirely different trail. Without accumulating soul power step by step, he could become a god through divine sense alone.
Lowering his head to glance at the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in his hand, Yang Ming could not help giving a wry smile.
The treasure, once so magnificent, had lost its former splendor and become dull and lusterless.
Yang Ming remembered that in the original story, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had four skills: Vast Sea Protective Shroud, Cosmic Spirit-Sealing Shroud, Vast