Black Divine Lightning

Even the Martial Ancestor had mentioned in the original work that being a Plane Master came with considerable benefits.

In future battles, with but a thought, one could draw an endless stream of spiritual energy from a Lower Plane.

But this was ultimately only a single Lower Plane.

If it was drained excessively, the plane would collapse, and the countless living beings within it would perish as well.

Yet there was no denying that the energy contained within this plane was simply too vast.

The so-called Sons of the Continent in the Great Thousand World—

at the end of the day, they merely used Continental Power to cleanse their bodies and marrow, or increased their chances of reaching Heavenly Sovereign.

But a Plane Spirit could directly help someone advance to Heavenly Sovereign. It was entirely a matter of making up for quality with quantity!

As for whether this would affect the Lower Plane?

After all, once a plane had been overdrawn, it became easier to move.

After becoming the Plane Master, Futu Yun gained the ability to relocate planes. With the help of a group of Heavenly Sovereigns,

Futu Yun successfully integrated this Lower Plane into the Great Thousand World, placing it beside White Dragon Continent!

And as this Lower Plane merged into the Great Thousand World, the previous overdraw was repaired by the Great Thousand World's power.

Thus, Futu Yun was not worried in the slightest about the Lower Plane being overdrawn.

For the Pagoda Ancient Clan Expedition Group he had formed,

all they needed was a trace of Earthly Power and a large amount of Supreme Spiritual Liquid to obtain a Plane Spirit.

Although Futu Yun would still be the one to ultimately become the Plane Master,

the opportunity to advance to Heavenly Sovereign could be shared with the other members of the Expedition Group.

Compared to that, a mere amount of Supreme Spiritual Liquid was nothing at all.

As for that trace of Earthly Power, it was even less worth mentioning.

Once this Lower Plane merged into the Great Thousand World, the Great Thousand World would naturally inject a share of foundation into the newborn continent—

the so-called Earthly Power.

At the same time, the Great Thousand World trembled once again.

Quite a few Heavenly Sovereigns understood that Futu Yun had likely found another Lower Plane and integrated it into the Great Thousand World.

So, they said nothing.

Only Futuo Continent and White Dragon Continent suffered for it.

Futuo Continent was fine, but White Dragon Continent was merely a medium-sized continent.

A new continent had appeared out of nowhere in the surrounding seas, directly triggering a massive earthquake.

Thus, the Pagoda Ancient Clan also began preparing coordinates in advance,

leaving as much safe distance as possible so that future Lower Planes could merge into the Great Thousand World more safely.

And once Futu Yun and the Pagoda Ancient Clan grew accustomed to this process, everything entered a virtuous cycle:

Futu Yun brought Earthly Power and large quantities of Supreme Spiritual Liquid into Lower Planes.

After forcibly taking control of or cultivating a Plane Spirit, he took over the Lower Plane, then handed its excess energy over to the Expedition Group.

Although they did not become Plane Masters, the benefits they received, aside from plane authority, were not lacking in the slightest.

They were even more plentiful than what those Plane Masters received.

After all, even if Plane Masters used the power of a Lower Plane to break through to Heavenly Sovereign, they had to control how much they drew upon.

After all, they also had to ensure that the Lower Plane was not destroyed.

Even those cold-blooded Plane Masters who had gained a Plane Spirit's recognition purely through chance

probably would not casually destroy the Lower Planes they controlled.

After all, Plane Masters and their planes shared prosperity and ruin alike.

Once a plane was destroyed, its Plane Master would suffer backlash as well.

But Futu Yun did not care about any of that.

He simply overdrawed the Lower Plane's energy, then sent it to the designated coordinates in the Great Thousand World to merge with it once he was done.

Moreover, as more and more Lower Planes were integrated into the Great Thousand World by Futu Yun,

the number of Lower Planes he could sense actually continued to increase.

At the same time, among the Earthly Sovereigns under his command who had existed in the original work, people successively broke through to Heavenly Sovereign.

With more and more available manpower, future development would only snowball further and further.

And it was not just the Expedition Group's manpower.

Quite a few Lower Planes had now become dead lands, but some still had survivors.

There were even some Lower Planes that had never been invaded by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan from beginning to end.

These Lower Planes also hid quite a few powerful experts.

Especially those who could cultivate to the very peak in a Lower Plane.

Even if they had failed to break through the Plane Barrier, they were undoubtedly extraordinarily gifted.

After arriving in the Great Thousand World, at the very least, they could break through their original bottlenecks.

The strongest experts from weaker Lower Planes could reach the Sovereign Stage after breaking through their bottlenecks;

while the strongest experts from powerful Lower Planes could even advance to Earthly Sovereign or Heavenly Sovereign after arriving in the Great Thousand World!

Such outstanding figures were sought after by every faction in the Great Thousand World. Naturally, Futu Yun would not let them go.

Whenever Futu Yun integrated a Lower Plane into the Great Thousand World,

while turning it into a new continent of the Great Thousand World, his cultivation also steadily increased.

A Lower Plane merging into the Great Thousand World inherently strengthened the Great Thousand World.

The Great Thousand World would therefore provide feedback, nourishing this newly integrated continent;

and since Futu Yun was both the Plane Master of that Lower Plane and the master of this new continent,

he would naturally receive this feedback as well.

"Where's the next one?" Futu Yun took out a glowing scroll and spread it open.

The scroll was covered in intricate patterns of light. From afar, it vaguely resembled an indescribably vast map.

He lightly tapped a region on the map with a finger, and ripples immediately spread across it.

Then the map began to enlarge, its patterns becoming increasingly clear.

In the end, a point of light landed upon that region.

This kind of Spirit Map was a tool specially used by the Great Thousand World to record maps. Those venturing out to train generally prepared one.

Futu Yun's, however, was custom-made—a linked model issued to every member of the Pagoda Ancient Clan Expedition Group.

He marked every spatial coordinate he sensed onto the Spirit Map.

First, he dispatched some Heavenly Sovereigns to open passages to the Lower Planes.

The Heavenly Sovereigns who successfully opened a passage would transmit the coordinates back.

Afterward, Futu Yun could lead the Expedition Group's main force there.

But just as Futu Yun urged everyone to set off, thunder suddenly rumbled from the heavens.

When everyone looked up, they froze—above the sky-filled black flames, a mass of black thunderclouds had suddenly gathered.

Within the dark clouds, bolt after bolt of dragon-like black lightning faintly stirred in silence.

A destructive power spread from the black thunderclouds.

"Black Divine Lightning?" Futu Yun's eye twitched violently.

This kind of lightning tribulation corresponded to the Spirit-Shedding Deification Stage, a realm every spiritual beast dreamed of reaching.

For spiritual beasts, evolution was itself a unique shortcut in cultivation. No matter how ordinary their bloodline, they still had the chance to evolve.

The Great Thousand World had never lacked spiritual beasts that had once been ordinary but broke through their barriers,

undergoing transformation after transformation until they became renowned throughout the Great Thousand World.

Any spiritual beast that cultivated into a divine beast would inspire wariness even in Sovereign-level existences.

However, aside from Futu Yun, even the weakest member of the Expedition Group was already an Earthly Sovereign, so naturally they did not take Black Divine Lightning seriously.

But the reason Futu Yun's eye twitched was that he sensed this Black Divine Lightning was actually coming for him?

He was clearly human. By rights, a lightning tribulation should only appear when he broke through to Earthly Sovereign.

Why had he now drawn a lightning tribulation—and Black Divine Lightning corresponding to a spiritual beast's Spirit-Shedding Deification Stage at that?