Seeing that no living creatures remained nearby, Lu Ren closed his eyes and felt the Divine Power and Cursed Energy slowly circulating within him, climbing toward the threshold of a First-Level God with every breath.
Yet the closer he came to this juncture, the more clearly he understood one thing: slow, it was still too slow.
Even though he had turned the entire Divine Realm into a crucible of venomous creatures for the Culling Game, even though Cursed Energy was streaming toward him from every direction-
This speed still was not enough.
Because he had never had much time left.
And there was something else he understood all too well.
"My domains aren't nearly as effective against God Kings anymore."
Lu Ren murmured to himself.
He recalled how, not long ago, he had used Huo Yuhao's body to unleash three overlapping domains against the God Kings of Goodness and Evil.
Time Cell Moon Palace.
Malevolent Shrine.
Blood River Nine-Phase Life.
Three domains bearing down at once-that combination would have driven any powerhouse on the Douluo Continent to despair.
But what had happened?
Those two God Kings had not only held out, but had endured the domains' effects and struck back with their God King Fusion Skill.
After that battle, Lu Ren's confidence had diminished by more than half. He could no longer guarantee that even Unlimited Void, the killing-move domain he was proudest of, could completely paralyze a God King's brain.
Even if-it could only paralyze them for three seconds.
After turning it over in his mind, Mahoraga seemed to be the only thing he currently had that could definitively counter God Kings.
His other Cursed Techniques no longer delivered the kind of "dimensional crushing" they once had.
"As expected, the higher the cultivation, the harder it is for mechanics