The tremendous aftershocks across the battlefield on the thirteenth layer slowly subsided. Countless fragments of laws born from the clash drifted like stardust through the boundless void, gradually falling still and fading into nothingness.
After the earth-shaking battle in which a Lowgod had slain a five-star Highgod against all odds, the entire void of the thirteenth layer still carried a thick aura of slaughter and annihilation.
Shiheng did not hurry to leave the battlefield where he had just fought a bloody battle. He surveyed his surroundings and eventually found a quiet, secluded natural cave hidden within a spatial fissure, where he stopped to rest and recover.
His head-on battle against Di Lige, a Five-Star Fiend and Death Highgod, might have seemed an overwhelming victory won through absolute strength, but beneath that dazzling result lay an enormous drain on his reserves.
Repeatedly fusing four types of divine power, unleashing the extreme increase in combat strength granted by his mutated soul, and driving four conflicting divine laws beyond their limits had placed a tremendous burden on the source of his soul. Added to the earlier desperate pursuit spanning a million li, this had left many imperceptible hidden injuries deep within his body and soul. Traveling recklessly would not only hinder the stabilization of his cultivation, but could even leave lingering problems that would affect his future progress on the divine path.
For the next several days, Shiheng remained secluded in the cave, cultivating in silence.
He turned his attention inward, circulating the four divine cores of life, fate, destruction, and death within his body. Drawing on the perfected, endlessly renewing divine power of four elements that both nourished and restrained one another, he gradually nourished and refined his divine body while stabilizing the Death Law Divine Core that had only recently reached