Seven years had passed since they last met, and everyone from the Qio Continent had broken through to the lower god realm. Their strength varied according to their talents. Stassom, Almerick, and a few others had reached the lower god late stage, but people like Candida and Emma had started later than Old Monster Stassom and the others, so they had only just reached the lower god early stage.
Fanny, Phoebe, and the other women had also all cultivated to the lower god realm. According to their agreement with one another, they no longer forbade themselves from making love with Han Shuo, so after returning to Celestial Pivot Pharmacy, Han Shuo finally welcomed his days of "bliss."
After returning, Han Shuo set aside time to talk with Blood Spirit, Bolands, and Gilbert. On the one hand, he guided the three in their demonic cultivation arts; on the other, he wanted to understand their true strength.
Blood Spirit and Bolands now focused exclusively on demonic cultivation arts, so Han Shuo understood their conditions fairly well. Gilbert, however, was somewhat unusual. His body had been refined as a demonic artifact, and his soul had practiced demonic cultivation arts before. Even now, he tirelessly practiced the soul-strengthening demonic cultivation art. Yet after arriving on the Continent of the Gods, Gilbert had also begun cultivating darkness power and had broken through to the lower god realm in it.
Gilbert's circumstances differed somewhat from Han Shuo's. Although Han Shuo also cultivated demonic cultivation arts alongside the powers of death and destruction, his three bodies cultivated separately. Gilbert had only one body, and both powers gathered within it, making his dark divine power extremely peculiar.
After examining him carefully, Han Shuo discovered that Gilbert's dark divine power contained some of the demonic energy Han Shuo had