The thirty-two Level 3 Returning Breath Creatures lasted only ten seconds, killing less than a thousand Soul Skeletons. Their souls were then torn from their bodies by countless Soul Skeletons, who fought over them and fed them into Black Soluo's mouth.
"The taste is alright."
Black Soluo chewed as if savoring a delicious meal.
In less than half an hour, thirty-two soul skeletons emerged from Black Soluo's body, carrying with them an unyielding hatred that had reached its limit, and merged into the dark clouds in the sky.
Awakened by the sneak attack, Black Soluo didn't continue sleeping. Instead, he glanced at the sky and calculated the time.
"It's almost time; you can be promoted."
As he spoke, Black Soluo Black Soluo Beetle opened its massive maw and siphoned the soul-skull clouds in the sky, instantly sucking two hundred thousand soul-skulls into its belly like a river of water.
Its original size of only seventy meters began to change drastically; its carapace was stretched open, and a new body emerged from within.
Before the sunlight had even moved away, the Black Soluo beetle atop the mountain had already shrunk from its old shell and transformed into a gigantic ninety-meter-long creature!
The terrifying beetle pressed down on the mountaintop, and some unstable rocks, unable to bear Black Soluo's weight, collapsed and fell.
Looking at his new body, Black Soluo nodded in satisfaction; his body had reached the limit of level three.
Advancement within the Returning Breath World is far easier than in the Wizard World. With a slight manipulation of his mental energy, all the energy in the sky surged towards the beetle's body like a tidal wave.
Black Soluo accepts all comers, spreading its body and wings, swallowing the energy gathered in the air like a whale.
The aura of a level three powerhouse was constantly released outwards, and with each surge of energy, everything around trembled under his pressure.
"Boom"
A bolt of lightning struck down from the clear sky, hitting Black Soluo squarely in the body. The thick bolt of lightning dispersed, splitting into countless dense bolts that covered Black Soluo's entire body.
The attack, which should have made a level three extreme life form tremble, only made Black Soluo let out a comfortable breath when it hit his body, as if he had just had a full-body massage.
"Boom"
Another bolt of lightning struck, and when it hit Black Soluo, it dispersed into countless bolts of lightning that enveloped Black Soluo, who was shimmering with a black metallic luster, in a silver hue.
Thunder power is the element most familiar to the original body. If it were other elemental energies, the clone Black Soluo would have some reservations. However, this thunder power, apart from enhancing his strength, has no other harmful effects.
"Boom"
A series of lightning bolts struck down, but this time, before the lightning could even strike, Black Soluo opened his mouth wide and swallowed it whole.
As his body trembled, a semi-transparent soul floated out from his body, looking exactly like a beetle—it was the soul of his clone, Black Soluo.
"Boom"
This time, the lightning strike didn't hit the beetle's body, but struck its very soul!
Black Soluo's soul did not dodge, but instead lightly touched his physical body, and streams of black torrents composed of soul skulls entered his body.
Before the lightning struck, the soul, which was only three meters in size, had expanded to a hundred meters. The Black Soluo soul, composed of tens of thousands of soul skeletons, roared at the lightning like a warrior fighting against heaven and earth!
"Boom"
As the lightning struck, its terrifying power dispersed into countless tiny bolts that pierced into Black Soluo 'Black Soluo soul, striking precisely each of the soul skeletons within his soul.
Black Soluo clearly saw the soul skeleton he had just stuffed into his soul turn into wisps of black smoke and dissipate under the lightning attack, the soul skeleton being shattered into pieces by the lightning.
But as wisps of black smoke drifted from Black Soluo's soul and tens of thousands of soul skeletons died and dissipated, specks of silver light appeared and quickly merged into Black Soluo's soul.
The hundred-meter-tall Black Soluo soul was reduced to three meters in size again by a lightning attack, but the originally translucent soul had become much more solid.
However, this lightning attack did not completely destroy all the soul skeletons within Black Soluo's soul; a large number of soul skeletons remained.
They collided and struggled within Black Soluo's soul, once again pushing it to over a Black Soluo meters high. The seemingly solid soul once more became translucent.
"Boom"
The lightning struck again, breaking into countless tiny fragments as it hit Black Soluo's soul, shattering once more the tens of thousands of soul skeletons controlled within Black Soluo's soul.
As the soul puppet shattered with lightning, specks of silver light appeared and quickly merged into Black Soluo's soul.
After these silver specks merged with it, Black Soluo's soul seemed to have consumed a powerful tonic, becoming increasingly solid and its aura continuously strengthening as it charged towards the shackles that bound countless Level 3 beings.
"So that's how the advancement of Lord of Souls works. It involves using the power of the Thunder Law to help the soul transform and advance, and then refining all the soul energy accumulated over time to extract its primal power and integrate it into the soul."
While Black Soluo was advancing in the Returning Breath World, Leo and Yaoyao were watching their clone's advancement live in the Shadow Space!
Watching him being ambushed by more than thirty level-three Returning Breath World creatures, watching him fight back and kill them, watching him release the aura he had been suppressing, and watching him begin to advance in rank.
This is a completely different advancement from that of Stigmata Wizard; it is the birth of Lord of Souls under the control of the Returning Breath World Will.
Thunder never stops,
Black Soluo continuously summoned soul skeletons from his physical body to merge into his own soul, allowing them to be tempered by lightning.
After a day of advancement, Black Soluo's 200,000 soul skeletons had been mostly depleted, but the barrage of lightning had not stopped.
This situation might not be very friendly to other level-three creatures that have advanced, but it's exactly what Black Soluo wants to see.
"If the power of thunder in the Returning Breath World continues unabated, wouldn't it be possible to refine as much soul essence power as one desires?"
"With enough soul essence power, not to mention level four, even level five could be advanced."
" The Returning Breath World is indeed an easy place to implement a massive army expansion plan. With this method of forcibly increasing strength, as long as there are enough souls, you can have as many Lord of Souls as you want." Yaoyao sighed as she looked at the advancement of her clone, Black Soluo.
"That's true, but this kind of advancement always falls short. Without the blessing of the Power of World Origin, without the active mastery of the Power of Laws, it's merely an accumulation of soul power. One can only passively grasp the rules and cannot compete with Stigmata Wizard of the same level."
As Leo spoke, he waved the Godslaying Staff in his hand, and a black cloud composed of countless souls split off from the Soul Tower, flying through the Shadow Space and into the body of his clone, Black Soluo.
When other Lord of Souls advance in their cultivation, they might have a few hundred thousand or even a million souls of varying strengths to enhance their power at most.
But this common sense doesn't apply to Black Soluo at all!
A million souls are nothing but a drop in the ocean for Black Soluo!
On the battlefield between the two major World Cluster, Leo spent two hundred years reaping over a billion souls.
If the Thunder Laws of the Returning Breath World could refine all those souls into their most primal soul power and integrate it into Black Soluo's body, let alone level four, Black Soluo could literally advance to level five on the spot!!
Bolts of lightning continued to strike, and Black Soluo constantly summoned large amounts of soul energy from his physical body to replenish it.
These souls, under the power of thunder, all transformed into the most primal force, enhancing Black Soluo's strength.
On the fifth day of the advancement, after Leo secretly transferred five million souls from the Soul Tower, the lightning disappeared, and no new lightning appeared.
It seemed that the advancement rules of the Returning Breath World had reached their limit. No matter how many souls Black Soluo summoned, the sky did not react at all, and not a single ray of lightning appeared.
Both Black Soluo in the Returning Breath World and Leo in the Shadow Space closed their eyes and entered their own ocean of consciousness.
The originally divided ocean of consciousness, with the portion belonging to the Black Soluo being relatively small, accounting for less than 10% of the total ocean of consciousness, had a very small area.
At this moment, this ocean of consciousness, which only accounts for 10% of its area, is churning and roaring, creating huge waves that constantly crash against its own ocean of consciousness barriers, continuously expanding its area.
A rumbling sound seemed to echo within the sea of consciousness, and the barriers of that sea of consciousness were gradually expanding.
The ocean of consciousness represents the power of the soul; it is the manifestation of that power within the body. When Black Soluo's clone advanced to level four, the changes in the ocean of consciousness were to be expected.
Leo was eager to know how much impact this change would have on him.
The ocean of consciousness where the main body resided was also affected by the advancement of the clone; the seawater surged, and the surrounding barriers of the ocean of consciousness continued to expand under the impact of the seawater.
Projections of physical power shot in, causing seawater to surge upwards and form a new double helix structure.
Leo's strength is being boosted by the advancement of his clone, resulting in a significant increase!
The clone's consciousness appeared in the ocean of consciousness, facing Leo as they watched the changes within it.
Leo looked expectantly at the clone Black Soluo. The moment a power descended upon the Black Soluo, Leo's consciousness directly entered Black Soluo's sea of consciousness and instantly merged into Black Soluo's body.
Without carrying any aura or energy, no living being can detect Black Soluo's presence.
This mysterious power is the arrival of the Power of Laws. From the moment of his birth, Black Soluo, the clone, had never studied any Power of Laws. Leo wanted to see what kind of Power of Laws would descend upon him to complete his advancement Lord of Souls!
A universe where massive planets carrying countless smaller satellites collide, where energy is born and destroyed, planets disappear and new ones emerge...
When Leo's will reappeared in this space, Leo wanted to laugh wildly, to unleash his joy upon the entire world.