The Fire Li Clan were descendants of the Fire God King from a certain Divine Realm. The Seven-Colored Lotus Flame inherited by their royal clan was a divine-grade true flame, capable of burning everything, even divine bodies and divine consciousness. It was one of Huo Yuhao's few trump cards that could participate in god-level battles.
He had obtained it through a transaction and an alliance.
For the Fire Li Clan, the Douluo Continent was not their homeland. They had always been searching for a way back home.
But this was not easy. In their understanding, only god-level beings could travel the universe, and only god-level beings could possibly find their homeland, the Falan World.
Unfortunately, when they first arrived on the Douluo Continent many years ago, they had still held hope that a god-level being might emerge here. But after searching for a place to live and learn about the Douluo Continent, they quickly became despairing.
The possibility of a god-level being emerging here was too small. Aside from the few from twenty thousand years ago and the Butterfly God ten thousand years ago, no other deities had ever been born. One could imagine the difficulty of becoming a god.
Hoping for a god-level being to help them was less realistic than finding a way for their own branch to thrive.
It was in this context that Huo Yuhao had found them, guided them to the War Temple to live, and showed them part of his foundation, giving the Fire Li Clan a glimpse of his potential to become a god in the future.
Thus, the two sides reached a transaction.
After Huo Yuhao became a god, he would need to help them find the location of the Falan World. In return, Tianhuo would grant him a portion of his true flame.
This transaction was rather disadvantageous for the Fire Li Clan. After all, Huo Yuhao was getting something for nothing, offering an empty promise. Normally, no one would agree to such a deal.
However, thanks to the prior favor of guiding them, and the fact that the Fire Li Clan possessed the Flame Golden Eye, which could see whether a person was sincere, the transaction was ultimately completed.
It was just that since obtaining the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame, Huo Yuhao had studied it for quite some time but had never had a chance to use it.
After all, using it on anyone would be overkill. He had originally considered using it on Gu Yuena, who might have been an enemy, but now that was no longer necessary.
Tianhuo glanced at the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame, then turned his head to look at Huo Yuhao. "As things stand now, my choice was correct."
He did not know why Huo Yuhao had entered this state of re-cultivation, but he had witnessed with his own eyes that the other had lived from the past all the way to the present, far exceeding the lifespan of a Limit Douluo.
In fact, he even suspected whether Huo Yuhao had already become a god and simply encountered an accident along the way, ending up in this state.
Regardless, Huo Yuhao was the most promising candidate for godhood he had ever seen.
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao smiled slightly and put away the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame. "I think you need not place all your hopes on others. Perhaps one day in the future, you too will be able to travel the universe and search for your homeland."
"You flatter me." Tianhuo sighed and smiled helplessly. "The laws here are different from those of our plane. I have already tried. I cannot break through to the god level here. How could I possibly travel the universe?"
"Becoming a god may not be necessary."
Huo Yuhao said this, but did not dwell on the topic. He discussed some more details with Tianhuo, and the latter took his leave.
But before leaving, Tianhuo reminded Huo Yuhao of one thing.
"I have met the Limit-level powerhouses of the Federation's direct forces. Chen Xinjie is unquestionably the strongest among them. In fact, in recent years, he has continued to improve."
"And the War Temple is the strongest among the Federation's direct forces. So, if I am not mistakenly, the Grade Twelve soul tool shell stored at the War Temple is the strongest one, Eternal Heavenly Kingdom."
The War Temple Master, the Mingde Hall Master, and the Dark Department Master were each responsible for guarding one God-Slaying Grade soul tool shell. They had equal status, but that did not mean equal strength.
Outsiders did not know, but from Tianhuo's perspective, the War Temple's Yuetian Douluo was also a quasi-divine being. That meant the War Temple had two quasi-divine beings in total.
The Dark Department and Mingde Hall each had only one Limit Douluo. The Dark Department's was a quasi-divine being. The Mingde Hall Master was only a demigod, but he was, after all, a demigod soul engineer who worked with soul tools. No one measured him by his cultivation level. He could be considered the equal of a quasi-divine being.
But in Tianhuo's view, neither of them was a match for Chen Xinjie.
After all, Chen Xinjie's spiritual power, like Yun Ming's, was at the Divine Origin realm.
A single realm of difference was like heaven and earth.
The reason quasi-divine beings were powerful was that they already possessed the characteristics of a deity. But possessing characteristics and completely crossing the threshold were two different things.
Chen Xinjie's spiritual power had already entered the divine level. How could other quasi-divine beings who had not reached this level compare to him?
In the end, the War Temple was the Federation's organization responsible for frontline combat. Mingde Hall was focused on research and development. The Dark Department carried out secret secret missions. Whether in terms of leadership or number of powerful individuals, the War Temple was the strongest.
Moreover, the War Temple's compound was connected to the Central Legion, which also had a Limit Douluo. Naturally, the War Temple had become the safest place in Mingdu.
Placing Eternal Heavenly Kingdom there was a choice everyone felt comfortable with, and the most likely option.
Tianhuo did not know why Huo Yuhao was worried about the God-Slaying Grade soul tool shell at the War Temple being stolen. But it was clear that the other did not trust certain people in the War Temple. So these two reminders were necessary.
Upon hearing this, a flicker of something passed through Huo Yuhao's eyes. He nodded, watching Tianhuo leave.
Emperor Tian had taken the initiative to bring up the battle between Yun Ming and Chen Xinjie, which had ended in a draw, precisely to make him take these two seriously and not underestimate them.
One-on-one, only Emperor Tian and Snow Empress in the Spirit Transmission Tower could fight them. The others were more than a step behind.
If one's physical body was elevated to the divine level, one was more durable and could escape even when facing two or three quasi-divine beings. But if one's spirit power level and spiritual power broke through to the divine level, their combat ability underwent a qualitative change.
Take Lie Di of the Abyss Plane's third layer as an example. He was a powerful individual whose spirit power level had reached the divine level, meaning he possessed divine power. The first time he led an invasion of the Douluo Continent, facing three quasi-divine beings, he still held his own.
In the end, it took the death of two quasi-divine beings on the Douluo side to send Lie Di back seriously injured.
And Ling Di, who possessed Divine Origin realm spiritual power, held a status even higher than Lie Di in the Abyss. One could imagine his strength. However, given that Ling Di could burn his life to break through to the Third-Class God Divine Origin realm, it was clear that he had traveled a considerable distance within the Divine Origin realm. It was only natural that he was ranked above Lie Di.
And the gap between one who had broken through to the divine level in one aspect and other quasi-divine beings was immense. Huo Yuhao, who had also been at the Divine Origin realm in the past, deeply understood this.
But a quasi-divine being who had broken through to the Divine Origin realm meant that a part of them was already at the deity level. They would be severely suppressed by the plane. To avoid affecting themselves, they would normally keep their realm, maintaining it at the peak of the Spirit Domain realm. If they did not reveal it, it was very hard for outsiders to feel that obvious obvious gap.
Snow Empress was currently in this state. Chen Xinjie and Yun Ming were also clearly in this state. That Tianhuo could see Chen Xinjie's realm could only be attributed to a difference in perspective. After all, Tianhuo's plane had deities.
"However, Chen Xinjie has continued to improve in recent years, has he?"
Thinking of Tianhuo's words, Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes.
It seemed one of the people collecting Sea God divine fragments on the Douluo Continent had been identified.
Not very surprising. After all, given the Sea God lineage's relationship with the Sea God, they would certainly be the first to detect Sea God divine fragments falling on the Douluo Continent. Moreover, Chen Xinjie was at the Divine Origin realm. He could see the question with the divine fragments.
Yun Ming was also at the Divine Origin realm. He might also be collecting and studying divine fragments to improve himself.
Under these circumstances, Yun Ming and Chen Xinjie might be even stronger than in the original.
Among them, Chen Xinjie might have gained even more benefits. After all, he was originally a Sea God, a Divine Origin realm powerful individual, possessed a divine artifact given by Tang San, and his martial soul was the ocean. Then he absorbed the Sea God divine fragments, fusion fusion ing their power.
He had quite a few stacked advantages.
He looked a bit like a boss.
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