But Su Han's divine power was already at the level of a half-saint before, and he was not weak among them... How did he manage to increase it so much in just one day?
Tai Kangzi couldn't understand it at all. After all, even if one consumed the most precious treasures of heaven and earth and supreme divine pills, there was no way to advance by leaps and bounds at this level.
"I had some insights yesterday, and my strength has improved a little. Please excuse my poor performance!" Su Han smiled slightly.
Tai Kangzi remained silent. This couldn't be explained simply by a few insights. This time, your enlightenment directly broke through the Heavenly Gate, a realm that might have previously held you at the peak of the Saint Lord level for a lifetime, in terms of physical strength. Furthermore, it caused your divine power to surge to an unimaginable level…
After a long while, Tai Kangzi spoke, his voice low and deep, "I think I understand why you were able to become a god-king before you were even twenty years old."
At this rate, he wouldn't be surprised if Su Han became a God-King before the age of twenty, or even a Sage before the age of twenty.
"So, where are you taking me today?" Su Han didn't discuss this topic; he casually sent the overall Jinling array diagram to Xu Changnan.
"Let's go to the heavens first!" Tai Kangzi sighed deeply. His body was glowing, unleashing divine power, but this time there was no sense of oppression.
He seemed to be one with heaven and earth. Just as ordinary people feel awe when they see a towering mountain, but not oppression, Tai Kangzi gave others that feeling.
He transformed into a dazzling golden light, soaring straight into the sky. Su Han's gaze suddenly sharpened, and with a whoosh, he followed closely behind Tai Kangzi, flying into the heavens. The two flew higher and higher until they reached the clouds.
Surprisingly, there were three people standing there.
Two of them were Zhang Mingxuan and Li Hongxue, whom Su Han had met before. The other was a relatively unfamiliar middle-aged man, but Su Han could tell from his glance that he was a Divine Power Saint Lord.
"Commander, King Su!"
They all bowed to each other. Then they stepped aside and remained silent.
"Why did you bring me here?" Su Han glanced at Tai Kangzi, his brows furrowing. He sensed that the altitude here was much higher than the battlefield where he had last met Zhang Mingxuan and Xu Changnan.
Tai Kangzi remained silent, forming a hand seal. The void began to tremble, and with a crisp hum, a small, black sphere covered with dense chains slowly emerged.
The small sphere seemed to have a life of its own; it breathed, sometimes large, sometimes small. And when it expanded, it was bound by countless chains. The size of its expansion was extremely limited.
Su Han's Observation Haki detected a great deal: the small sphere was filled with pure, extreme spatial energy; it was even a manifestation of some kind of void energy. However, the other side he was connected to was filled with an eerie aura so vast it defied description.
"Although there are many small, sealed rifts in the city of Jinling, none of them can accommodate someone of our level."
Tai Kangzi sighed softly, a flash of recollection in his eyes, "If the Holy Lord wants to go there, he can only do so through this main road."
Su Han gleaned an immense amount of information from this statement. In other words, were there many cultivators below the Saint Lord level who traveled to another world through those small rifts?
In the next instant, the extremely surging energy within Taikangzi's body was suddenly transferred in.
Furthermore, the three Holy Lords, who had been silent all along, raised their palms, and dense sealing arrays appeared in their hands. These arrays transformed into chains, binding them to the outside.
A terrifying spatial energy spread out, enveloping Tai Kangzi and Su Han.
Although Su Han could have broken free and left, he didn't. He was very curious about what Tai Kangzi wanted to do.
In the blink of an eye, Su Han and Tai Kangzi disappeared, but the dark space sphere continued to expand.
Cold sweat beaded on the foreheads of the three Holy Lords, and their divine power surged even more intensely. Gradually, the spatial sphere shrank again, returning to its original shape.
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Chapter 178 The Astounding Truth: A Great Being from Ancient Times Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken Of and Whose Face Cannot Be Directed (Fifth Update)
"Proceed according to the original plan!" Zhang Mingxuan said solemnly. "We received a signal from the commander-in-chief on the other side. Open it immediately. Then bring them out... No matter what happens, under no circumstances should the seal be broken in the slightest."
“We all understand this kind of thing! If the space sphere explodes, countless people in Jinling will die... The entire city will probably have to be completely rebuilt.” Li Hongxue sighed softly, her expression melancholy.
As for the last middle-aged Holy Lord, he remained silent as he channeled his divine power into the inner realm.
...
When Su Han opened his eyes again, he was already in a dense forest. And standing beside him was Tai Kangzi.
"Where is this?" Su Han looked somewhat surprised. He sensed that his Observation Haki was spreading outwards, and then he realized that the forest was giving him feedback that felt exactly the same as on Earth.
However, as his sensing range expanded, he detected a human city in the distance. But the city was desolate, inhabited by countless bizarre creatures that roamed and eked out a living.
These creatures possess a strange and malevolent nature, making them unbearable to behold, and they affect one's mental state.
"What is this?!" Tai Kangzi looked Su Han up and down, and after noticing something, his brows furrowed, as if he couldn't believe it. "How dare you release your... no, you weren't affected at all?"
Tai Kangzi was quite taken aback. With his current cultivation level, even if he tried his best to sense the essence of those evil creatures, he would feel uncomfortable, but it was impossible for him to become completely evil.
Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that he sensed an extremely powerful creature...
That would make things very difficult. Therefore, he will not use his spiritual observation.
Generally speaking, when Tai Kangzi or other powerful individuals arrive in unfamiliar places, they rely on their eyes to observe their surroundings rather than their divine soul.
After all, the amount of information seen by the eyes is different from that sensed by the soul.
The more you know about a malevolent creature, the more likely you are to be infected.
"Before that, you need to tell me what's really going on in this world." Su Han withdrew his senses and stared coldly at Tai Kangzi.
He had already sensed the layout of that human city; judging from its internal structure, it was clearly... Jinling.
To be honest, Su Han trembled when he realized this. He could hardly believe what he was seeing was real.
How could Jinling have been so completely destroyed out of nowhere? If he hadn't known it was another world, he might have already gone there to kill his way out.
After all… the human city he had previously perceived had completely lost all trace of human life. It had become a lair for evil creatures.
“It seems you know!” Tai Kangzi understood something, and sighed softly, his gaze somewhat distant. “How should I put it… this is certainly not the real Earth. This is a sub-plane of the primary plane of reality.”
"Sub-plane?" Su Han muttered to himself, his expression turning strange.