Before he knew it, Zhong Dian had become one of the old hands in the Infinity Organization.
After some new members joined, he became their senior, occasionally needing to lead these juniors to different worlds to carry out missions.
Releasing Mutated Beasts, killing some Awakened with great potential, and even once following the Dark King on a world-destruction mission.
To be honest, Zhong Dian neither resented nor approved of what the Dark King did.
His emotions grew increasingly calm, with barely any major fluctuations. Yet it was precisely because of his composure and indifference that the Dark King gradually trusted him more, beginning to entrust him with more important missions. At the same time, he learned many secrets.
For example, there was a shortcut to advancing into a Transcender: the Slaughter-Nurtured Thought Method!
This advancement method was actually very simple. Do not think about anything; simply keep killing, nurturing killing intent through slaughter.
Once one's killing intent surpassed the residual will the Dark King had left upon the Base Runes, one would naturally advance into a Transcender.
This was the crudest possible method of advancement. At present, at least thirty percent of the Infinity Organization had advanced this way.
There was another, more conventional method of advancement: the Hardship Tempering Method.
Simply put, one had to endure immense hardship and hold fast to oneself through it, breaking through one's limits again and again until one's will surpassed the residual will of the Base Runes, ultimately achieving transcendence.
This method was extremely brutal. As far as Zhong Dian knew, Dark Feng Laixian was the only one in the entire Infinity Organization who had advanced this way.
As for the Domain Adept, Sacred Domain Adept, Divine Domain Adept, and Dominator stages beyond that, perhaps because Zhong Dian himself was still far from