Breaking through from a Grand Ancestor God to a Great Prosperity God was more a matter of life's evolution, and completing that evolution required more of life's fundamental essence.
Breaking through within one's own world was all but impossible, because that world's laws were already fixed. Even when the world advanced, its fundamental laws would not change.
To achieve an evolution of life, one had to obtain more life origin.
Gradually, the Demon Emperor came to understand what this so-called breakthrough really meant.
The Demon Emperor stood in the void, continuously sensing his own life origin.
He soon discovered how he differed from others. Perhaps others only needed to increase their life origin and break past their limits, but the Demon Emperor was different.
The Demon Emperor sensed the Nine-Star Worlds within his body, worlds hidden inside his individual acupoints.
Although these had greatly increased his combat strength and life's potential, they had also strengthened the shackles on his life. The Demon Emperor could clearly sense that, to break through, he would have to raise the level of every world within his body.
His body even contained many Six-Star Worlds and Five-Star Worlds, all of which he had absorbed in the beginning.
While the Great Void World had yet to finalize its agreement with the Milai World, he needed to seize more nine-star origin as quickly as possible and raise the level of the worlds within his body.
The Demon Emperor had to make every moment count.
He had not raised their levels before because he had been researching how to break through to a higher realm.
Who could have imagined that, after he became a Grand Ancestor God, the worlds within his body would instead shackle his potential?
Of course, even without these worlds, there would still have been