As he headed out from underground, Han Shuo kept considering a question that deeply puzzled him. The eight elemental powers and four law powers did not seem to include Demonic Essence. What, then, was Demonic Essence?
The eight elemental powers and four great law powers differed, but all involved using powers that existed between heaven and earth. With their souls and bodies as the foundation, living beings absorbed these powers or mastered their use, strengthening their bodies and souls to become gods who stood above other living beings.
However, whether they were the eight elemental powers or the four great law powers, they had existed between heaven and earth since time immemorial. Cultivators gathered and used these ancient powers to unite their bodies with them, gradually strengthening themselves until they became gods.
Yet the Demonic Cultivation Art Han Shuo practiced had originated within his body from the very beginning. Although absorbing certain unusual powers could improve it throughout his cultivation, Han Shuo had never been able to sense the existence of Demonic Essence between heaven and earth. This greatly astonished him.
Those who cultivated the eight elemental powers and four great law powers relied on these external powers of origin. Han Shuo's Demonic Cultivation Art, however, differed from them. Fundamentally, it was a process of endlessly uncovering and evolving his own potential. This seemed entirely different from the powers described in the Skeleton Magic Staff.
Judging from the information he had just acquired, quite a few beings in the Boundless Universe had become gods using other powers, such as fear and desire. As long as they mastered the methods of using and absorbing them, they too could cultivate to godhood. Ultimately, however, these gods also borrowed external powers, whereas the Demonic Essence of Han Shuo's Demonic Cultivation Art had formed