161: Xingtian's heroic spirit, God King realm

After the divine prison black pagoda shattered in Burial God Canyon, the Dao-tier runes that suppressed the Void Realm merged into the world barrier, making the world barrier between the eastern part of Huangji Domain and the Great States extremely dangerous and chaotic.

Lü Bu, Dian Wei, and others, accompanied by the White Dragon Army, patrolled the territory. It took them two months to reach the center of Huangji Domain, Jade Capital City.

During this period, the situation in Great Xia underwent drastic changes.

Huangji Domain, which had maintained a state of feudal lords splitting and contending for hegemony for thousands of years, now had no one daring to claim emperorship.

Under the leadership of Bai Qi and Xiang Yu, the Qiongqi Army and Taotie Army planted the black Dragon flag of the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty in every prefecture and every city in Huangji Domain.

Xuanling Realm has eight domains and fourteen states.

Except for the Five Great Sacred Lands and the central areas of the three Imperial Dynasties, each occupying one domain, the other fourteen states are named after Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Yellow, Universe, Flood, Desolation, South, North, Azure, Gloom, Border State, and Demon State.

The Great Qian Imperial Dynasty occupies Qianchuan Domain, Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Yellow, Azure, and Gloom—a total of six states.

The Heavenly Maiden Imperial Dynasty occupies Taixuan Domain, Universe, Flood, Desolation—a total of four states.

The Great Xia Imperial Dynasty occupies Huangji Domain, South, North, Border, and Demon—a total of four states.

In the last years of the Xuanling Imperial Dynasty, when the situation was at its most chaotic, the local feudal lords of Huangji Domain even dared to disregard the orders of Jade Capital City and establish their own independence.

As for the four great states of South, North, Border, and Demon, they were even more distant from imperial control, in utter Chaos, and infiltrated by various forces.

North State is adjacent to Ice Field Domain, South State and Demon State are adjacent to Dragon-Human Domain, and Border State is adjacent to Jiuyou Domain.

Great Xia's four states were either too deeply intertwined with Holy Land, with their feudal states acting like vassal states, offering tribute annually, or they were barren, desolate, and chaotic lands; otherwise, they would have long been carved up by the two Great Imperial Dynasties.

As for Huangji Domain, the biggest backers of those local feudal lords were the former Noble Families. After the Feudal Lord Blood Banquet, all the Noble Families who usurped power were purged.

The remaining group of unprincipled kings and marquises often had their heads removed by their own subordinates, presented as tokens of surrender to the military generals who came to reclaim lost territories.

A few days ago, Huangji Domain was unified, and the deeply entrenched Noble Families were nearly wiped out.

Combined with the continuous tyrant points provided after destroying Blood God Mountain and creating a Forbidden Ground, Xia Xuan's accumulation rose again from 700 million tyrant points to nearly 1 billion.

This time, he did not search for items to exchange in the exchange mall. He directly used 900 million tyrant points to start three draws.

[Successfully drawn: Heaven Rank Divine Artifact - Heavenly Works Pavilion]

[Successfully drawn: dao tier divine artifact core]

[Successfully drawn: Mythical Heroic Spirit - Xing Tian]

Heaven Rank Divine Artifact corresponds to the Divine Lord Realm, above Transcendent Divine Artifacts.

The Heavenly Works Pavilion is a massive Artifact Refining city. According to its description, by simply inputting the corresponding blueprints and Materials, it can refine various components in the shortest possible time, including Divine Artifacts, with an upper limit reaching Dao-tier God King Artifacts.

In addition, the Heavenly Works Pavilion also includes a blueprint for a Floating Divine City, whose value is incalculable.

The second draw yielded a dao tier divine artifact core, which has the effect of elevating any Divine Artifact to the Dao-tier.

The last one was the Mythical Heroic Spirit Xing Tian.

Xia Xuan was somewhat surprised and delighted when he drew him.

[Mythical Heroic Spirit: Xing Tian]

[Realm: Yang God Monarch]

[Weapons: Giant Shield 'Gan', Giant Axe 'Qi']

[Evaluation: Unyielding Battle Soul, Monstrous Demonic Might]

[Special: Can temporarily Breakthrough Realm restrictions three times]

Although Xing Tian's Realm is the same as Ni Tian Er Xing and the others, all Divine Lords, his combat power is absolutely the strongest among all the summoned Heroic Spirits to date.

The three times he can Breakthrough Realm restrictions do not mean he can only cross one minor Realm each time. Instead, they stack. On the third time, he can directly cross three Realms, forging a God King's body.

After Xia Xuan summoned the headless Xing Tian, he planned to send him to the taixu pagoda, where the time flow rate is 1:10, to Cultivate. However, Xing Tian refused, saying:

"Your Majesty, I was Reborn by a wisp of your Origin Dragon Qi. I do not need to Cultivate. My current Realm is due to not having recovered my lost power. When Your Majesty Cultivates to become a God King, I too can recover my God King power."

Hearing this for the first time, Xia Xuan was slightly surprised and asked, "Then why did the Realms of Great God Hou Yi and Ni Tian Er Xing not change when I broke through to the Divine Lord Realm earlier?"

Xing Tian pondered for a moment, looking confused.

"I do not know, Your Majesty. Perhaps the time has not yet come. All gods enfeoffed by Your Majesty should benefit."

"Hmm, you may withdraw."

Xia Xuan did not delve deeper. After Xing Tian's figure dissipated, he suddenly felt something.

His consciousness sank to his Sea of Consciousness immortal platform, where statues of gods stood in the celestial palace vision above.

Beside the towering, mountain-like Chi You statue that reached the sky, a vaguely carved stone statue suddenly cracked, gradually transforming into Xing Tian's appearance.

When Xing Tian sensed Xia Xuan's Divine Thought, he manifested a flesh and blood body: "Does Your Majesty summon me?"

Xia Xuan shifted his gaze, his Divine Thought covering the entire Heavenly Court.

He had always thought that summoning Heroic Spirits used the System's power.

It wasn't until he forged the Heavenly Court phantom above the immortal platform that he discovered the great power that brought Heroic Spirits back to life—what Xing Tian called Origin Dragon Qi—all emanated from his own vague Divine Soul phantom on the imperial throne of the Great Luo Heavenly Emperor's Lingxiao Palace.

If one day he could fully control this power, perhaps he could directly summon all the Mythical Heroic Spirits in this Heavenly Court and Celestial Palace without the System.

"As my divine Dao cultivation improves and my Divine Soul continuously strengthens, I believe that day will arrive very soon."

Xia Xuan retracted his Divine Thought, contemplating the path after the Divine Lord Realm.

God King has three Realms: Dao Fusion, Dao Transformation, and Peak.

To advance to the God King Realm, mere accumulation through daily Cultivate is no longer effective. One must at least find and fuse with the Heavenly Dao Origin of a world.

Whether it's a dust world, Minor Thousand Worlds, Middle Thousand Worlds, or Major Thousand Worlds, any will do.

It's not that a larger world is always better.

A complete Middle Thousand Worlds can be equivalent to a thousand Minor Thousand Worlds.

Major Thousand Worlds are immeasurably vast, originating from the primordial Chaos explosion at the beginning of the Sea of the Universe.

The larger the world, the stronger its Heavenly Dao Origin. A Divine Lord fusing with the Dao in such a world can only integrate one-thousandth, one ten-thousandth, or even less.

However, it cannot be too weak. Dust worlds are countless in the Sea of the Universe. Some worlds can only nurture Mortals, and God Kings who fuse with the Heavenly Dao of dust worlds are considered among the weakest in terms of combat power.

The current situation of Xuanling Realm is very special; it surpasses Minor Thousand Worlds but has not yet reached Middle Thousand Worlds.

The expansion of the sea area is even more intense than the Origin Qi recovery of the continents. The area of continents and islands has shrunk to less than one percent.

If it weren't for several main continents being pulled by the Five Domains continents and continuously drawing closer, these continents might never interact again in the future.

Now, after the Xuanling Continent's sealing array broke open, the continental shifts maintained a balance point and no longer merged. The sea areas between the several continents also became the most special places, no longer expanding.

However, beyond the four continents, the dramatic changes in the sea area were still ongoing.

Great Xia in the Five Domains once dispatched a fleet to explore the endless sea east of the East Sea, but not only did they see nothing, they almost failed to return.

Using the Heaven-Observing Mirror, it was observed that the four continents were in mutual balance. The deeper sea areas were boundless, with no other continents. They were undergoing a world-level leap, with the sea pouring back, the Void Realm shattering, and madly devouring world fragments from the Sea of the Universe to strengthen themselves.

The Heavenly Dao of Xuanling is not apparent and is quite unstable.

Xia Xuan needs a Heavenly Dao Origin of a Minor Thousand Worlds level to fuse with in order to advance to the God King Realm.