Roger happened to have saved up fifty Soul Crystal Balls over the years. Once he refined them all into Soul Gold Beads, the soul of his Death God Divine Clone could immediately grow ten times stronger again!
At that moment, Roger was very glad Hagson had worked so hard all these years.
If Hagson had not tried every possible means to collect Sanctuary souls,
Roger could never have accumulated so much soul essence.
Next, Roger sent a voice transmission to Allen, who had been guarding outside the secluded chamber, telling him that he still needed to consolidate his cultivation. Allen was to keep watch outside and let no one disturb him.
Everything else could wait until he emerged.
Then he began concentrating on refining Soul Gold Beads.
Allen felt relieved as soon as he received the transmission.
The moment the laws of heaven and earth descended, he had stopped cultivating and immediately come to stand quietly outside Roger's chamber.
Quite a few of the Lowgods taking turns resting in the neighboring residences had also noticed the laws of heaven and earth descend upon Roger's place of seclusion.
Out of courtesy, however, they had deliberately waited a while before coming over.
Usually, someone would emerge shortly after a breakthrough.
But Allen told them that Roger had gained fresh insights and would need to remain in seclusion for a while longer.
The Lowgods exchanged glances, then returned to their own homes.
They were very curious.
Had Roger gained another Lowgod clone, or had his original Death God Divine Clone advanced to Midgod?
The former would be fine. One more Lowgod clone would not change the tribe's balance of power.
But if it was the latter...
The balance of power within the Fire Rhino Tribe would inevitably undergo a major shift.
Over the years, they had all received varying amounts of the soul essence Roger refined through Hagson.
That was also why they worked so desperately to collect Sanctuary souls.
Without any benefits, they certainly would not have worked so hard.
"Hehe, my brother really is a genius. He reached Midgod in such a short time!"
The others might not know, but Allen knew perfectly well.
Still, he could not be bothered to tell anyone.
If his brother did not say anything, he was not going to blab either.
Right now, the most important thing was to guard this place carefully so his brother could cultivate in peace.
Inside the secluded chamber.
Roger's vast soul power swept across several hundred meters around him.
He took in everything that had just happened.
Hagson had not come earlier.
Roger guessed he was probably still away.
From Allen, Roger had learned that Hagson had rarely stayed in the tribe over the past few years.
His whereabouts were quite mysterious.
Still, his soul's aura had clearly grown stronger, and he seemed full of vigor.
He appeared to have made a major breakthrough in his cultivation.
Roger did not care about any of that.
As long as Hagson delivered the Sanctuary souls on time, that was enough.
Now that he had advanced to Midgod and possessed enough strength to protect himself, Roger cared even less.
Settling his mind, Roger turned his attention back to refining Soul Gold Beads.
Over the next few days,
Roger successfully refined all the soul essence into Soul Gold Beads. He looked at the forty-nine Soul Gold Beads laid out on the stone table.
Without hesitation, Roger swallowed them one by one.
Several hours passed. Once he had absorbed all the Soul Gold Beads,
the soul of Roger's Death God Divine Clone had indeed been strengthened to its limit!
Whoosh!
Surging soul power spread freely outward.
In an instant,
everything within a three-thousand-meter radius fell under Roger's divine sense.
"Tsk, tsk. In a Higher Plane like the Netherworld, an ordinary Highgod's divine sense only covers a thousand-meter radius, doesn't it? Mine actually reaches this far."
At first, Roger found it a little strange.
But when he remembered that the mysterious Jade Disc Fragment had transformed his soul, and that he had already strengthened it to its limit as a Lowgod, it made sense.
Although the soul he had strengthened as a Lowgod had become much more compressed and condensed after his breakthrough,
now,
with it strengthened to its limit once again, combined with the Jade Disc's modifications, the range of his divine sense as a Midgod had surpassed that of ordinary Highgods in one leap.
Still, this monstrous divine sense, built up through countless Sanctuary souls and his cheat, was hardly something others could replicate.
At the original story's price of a hundred thousand Inkstones per Soul Gold Bead,
strengthening a soul to its limit at the Midgod stage would require five million Inkstones!
How could an ordinary Midgod who did not come from a great clan possibly afford that many Inkstones?
After all, Midgods who undertook fiend missions risked their lives to earn only a few tens of thousands of Inkstones per mission.
Moreover, soul essence alone was nowhere near enough to achieve this. At best, it could bring one close to an ordinary Highgod.
So, at this stage,
a Midgod like Roger was exceptionally rare.
"With a soul stronger than an ordinary Highgod's, along with my own insights into the laws, I finally have what it takes to establish myself in the Netherworld."
At that moment, Roger could finally breathe a little easier.
He also had the confidence to explore his surroundings.
Even now, Roger had yet to establish exactly where he was in the timeline.
Although he roughly guessed that it was the period shortly after the world's creation,
that period still spanned an immense length of time.
Roger needed a clearer point of reference.
But there was no rush.
Roger needed to consolidate his cultivation and develop an ultimate technique that could bring out his full strength, or even allow him to perform beyond his usual limits.
He sat down cross-legged again.
A Soul Attack recorded in Charles's notes surfaced in Roger's mind: Spear of Destruction.
It was a spear that condensed all of Charles's insights into Soul Attack.
A single strike could put even an ordinary Highgod in danger of death.
Charles had recorded all the principles behind this attack.
That made things convenient for Roger.
But what suited Charles would not necessarily suit Roger.
So Roger merely mastered the principles behind the attack, then used his own circumstances as the basis for further deductions and research.
After a qualitative leap in his comprehension and successive transformations of his soul,
Roger's mind worked at incredible speed.
Countless flashes of inspiration appeared in his mind every second.
Then his powerful soul sorted and organized all those inspirations, forming one possible combination after another.
After verifying those possibilities, Roger tested them one by one.
And so,
Roger worked tirelessly on his deductions for half a month.
At last, he created the preliminary form of his own ultimate Soul Attack: Soul Annihilation Blade!
Its principle was to condense soul power into a javelin through a special method, with soul power forming a rapidly spinning blade at its tip.
Once activated, it could easily break through an enemy's soul defenses upon impact and pierce straight through the soul's core.
This ultimate technique could both fully unleash Roger's monstrous soul strength and express his insights into the Soul Attack branch.
It was now Roger's greatest trump card.
Whoosh!
Inside the secluded chamber,
a hazy gray, translucent javelin formed in an instant.
At its tip was a slowly rotating transparent blade.
With a mere thought from Roger, that blade could spin countless times faster!
Its rotating, cutting force would tear through an enemy's soul defenses.
Although he had not used it in actual combat,
Roger was certain that, if he unleashed his full strength, even an ordinary Highgod would suffer badly under this javelin!
It might even kill them outright.
But since he had yet to test it, Roger did not know its exact power.
With a wave of his hand, he dispersed the hovering gray, translucent javelin.
Gray divine power surged throughout Roger's body, shaking off all the dust. "I've been in seclusion long enough. It's time to come out."
By his reckoning, Hagson should soon be bringing another batch of Sanctuary souls.
Although Roger's Death God Divine Clone had now been strengthened to its limit, his original body had yet to be strengthened.
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