Beneath the Divine Stairway.
"Faster, faster, faster!"
Tang San stared at the First Generation Shrek Seven Monsters, willing them to move faster.
In the end, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing stopped at the fiftieth step.
Tang San heaved a heavy sigh.
"At least that's a tiny bit of progress..."
[Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing enter the God Ranking... Godhood Inheritance. Reward: godhood advancement... First-Level God of War and First-Level God of Speed!]
Ning Rongrong stopped at the fifty-first step. Oscar showed even more potential than the other three, reaching the fifty-eighth.
But just as he was about to take the fifty-ninth step, as Qian Renxue had, he collapsed completely.
[Ning Rongrong and Oscar enter the God Ranking... Godhood Inheritance. Reward: godhood advancement... First-Level Nine-Colored Goddess and First-Level Food God!]
All seven of the First Generation would also have power to inherit from the Peerless Era. With those future godhoods added to their original ones, each effectively held a Dual Godhood. And because their godhoods were the same, fusing them could take them further still. With the support of the Comparison Heavenly Screen, the Heavenly Stairway, and the God Ranking, Second-Level Gods had risen to First-Level Gods.
But no one had expected what came next.
Ma Hongjun, once the most unremarkable of the Seven Monsters, proved to be the First Generation's greatest dark horse.
A colossal Black Flame Phoenix roared behind Ma Hongjun.
"Wait, what's going on? Didn't Ma Hongjun eat the Immortal Herb, the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower... and raise the quality of his Martial Soul, changing his potential?"
"Then why is his Martial Soul...?!"
"Wait, that aura... two Second-Level Phoenix God godhoods, and... the aura of a First-Level Fire God godhood!!!"
Tang San's eyes widened. Something felt wrong.
Then Ma Hongjun's two Phoenix God godhoods fused into the Phoenix God.