Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal

Although the Qin family is not the Domain Master of the Taibai Star Domain, as a native power in the Taibai Star Domain, their level of mastery over this domain exceeds even Qin Yuyan's control over the Yanhuang Star Domain.

Gu Jinlai's battle with the Yan Huo God King had already proven himself.

Absolute Supreme Golden Immortal battle power.

Afraid that compared to those newly ascended Immortal Golden Immortals, he's not inferior by much.

If such power had someone to accompany and protect him, then the Qin family, aside from summoning their own Patriarch and Qin Yuyan, would have no one else capable.

In this situation, when Gu Jinlai expressed the attitude that ordinary Golden Immortals following him would only be a burden, the Qin family simply stopped sending anyone to accompany him, focusing their manpower on intelligence investigation instead, to prevent another attack from powerful Divine Spirits.

Time passed.

Gu Jinlai spent fourteen years killing five Divine Spirits and twenty-nine Demigods.

He had essentially completed the purge of Divine Spirits in the Taibai Star Domain and Yantian Star Domain.

Out of the five Divine Spirits, only one was identified by the Qin family.

From this point, one can see how deeply those Divine Spirits were hidden.

The remaining four Divine Spirits were all summoned during the process of Gu Jinlai exterminating Demigods, as they intentionally suppressed their own power, causing those Demigods to perceive hope in defeating him and thus calling upon the Divine Spirits behind them.

As for when those Divine Spirits emerged...

Gu Jinlai naturally seized the opportunity and exterminated them.

Over fourteen years, his gains were significant.

Not to mention Qingguang; each Demigod alone provided over sixty million Spirit Crystals.

If these Spirit Crystals were exchanged for Immortal Artifacts, they would be enough for a total of sixty pieces.

However, as time passed, whether it was the Taibai Star Domain or the Yantian Star Domain, the Demigods were hiding deeper and deeper.

The Divine Spirits behind them also dared not easily show themselves, greatly reducing Gu Jinlai's efficiency in hunting.

Out of the five Divine Spirits hunted, four were slain in his first few years in the Taibai and Yantian Star Domains.

"These Divine Spirits are too cautious, even with the Void Projection Technique searching for them, it's still so laborious. If it were someone else, they might not find a single Divine Spirit in hundreds or thousands of years."

Gu Jinlai expressed heartfelt sigh.

Seeking Divine Spirits is more time-consuming and labor-intensive than hunting them.

At this moment, he was piloting the Star Shuttle toward a section of the starry sky.

This coordinate was sent over by the Qin family three days prior, suspected of having traces of a Demigod in a certain world.

Just a trace, yet Gu Jinlai still promptly rushed over.

No choice, considering he had already wandered the Yantian and Taibai Star Domains for three years without any results, not encountering even a single Divine Spirit or Demigod.

Even if it was just a trace, he intended to give it a try.

"I need to leave the Yantian and Taibai Star Domains, but once I'm away from these domains and without the logistical support of the Qin family's information channels, searching for Divine Spirits will become even more difficult…"

Gu Jinlai felt a bit helpless.

His concern now was no longer about the strength of Divine Spirits, but rather how to successfully find them.

Each of those five Divine Spirits provided over twenty thousand Qingguang, with the most providing sixty thousand.

After all, although these Divine Spirits were not strong, they were different from the likes of Nie Yu, who had just ascended.

The five Divine Spirits provided over a hundred and sixty thousand Qingguang, and the twenty-nine Demigods contributed six hundred thousand Qingguang as well.

With the concentration of these Qingguang, his Spirit Level had broken through and stepped into the Twelfth Rank domain.

The entire process was so very ordinary, so unremarkable.

After all, both Ranks Ten to Twelve belonged to the major realm of the "Divine Dao Realm."

Only from Rank Twelve to Thirteen, stepping from the Divine Dao Realm into the Eternal Life Realm, could it be considered a major breakthrough in the Spiritual Realm.

"Cultivation from Ranks Ten to Twelve focuses on honing the resilience of the spirit, with growth methods involving continuous collisions of one's spirit with the chaotic Three Thousand Great Dao, until under the most chaotic circumstance of the Three Thousand Great Dao, one's spirit and dao can operate accurately and fully exert their true strength…"

Gu Jinlai had considered these issues when his Spirit Level reached Rank Twelve.

In those days, he had been trapped in the Immortal Xuanhuang Realm, suppressed by the Devouring Dao, unable to unleash even a fraction of his full cultivation.

And the existence of the Heart of the Cosmic is not limited to a single Devouring Dao; it contains the Three Thousand Great Dao.

If one's Spiritual Realm is insufficient, venturing hastily inside might not allow the use of even a basic immortal technique.

From Ranks Ten to Twelve, by continuously tempering one's spirit with the Three Thousand Great Dao, it ensured that the Honorable Daoists could exert their strength within the chaotic environment of the Heart of the Cosmic, while Ranks Thirteen to Fifteen further refined and enhanced one's spirit's resilience and endurance within the chaotic environment of the Three Thousand Great Dao.

"Unless there's a crisis in the Heart of the Cosmic, Great Powers seldom gather Immortal Golden Immortals to battle there, because they can't offer much help over there. Only Immortal Venerables of the Eternal Life Dao Realm can stand their ground, but likewise, due to the chaos of the Three Thousand Great Dao, they constantly have to allocate power to counteract the external environment, making it difficult for Immortal Venerables to stay for long at the Heart of the Cosmic."

Only those who have reached the end of the cultivation path, the Great Powers of the Silent Annihilation Realm, can disregard the harsh environment of the Heart of the Cosmic.

"Immortal Venerables of the Eternal Life Dao Realm can already be considered as true overlords, their spirit's astounding resilience and longevity making it difficult for the collective will of Divine Spirits to impede them… In other words, once my spirit is elevated to the Thirteenth Rank, wherever there is a Divine Spirit, I can charge straight through! Even the strongest in the Divine Spirit System, those ancient Divine Spirits known as Divine Emperors, would find it impossible to do me any harm."

Gu Jinlai pondered.

During this period of time, through repeated encounters with Divine and Demigods, he had become thoroughly familiar with the attack methods of Divine Spirits.

It's like the difference between multi-segment and single-segment damage.

The will of a Divine Spirit is akin to multi-segment damage, attacking ten times, with each attack causing twenty damage, resulting in a total of two hundred damage.

While an Immortal Venerable, would target once, dealing one hundred damage.

On the surface, Divine Spirits seem to cause more harm.

However, if they encounter a target with a defensive power of fifteen, ten-segment attacks from Divine Spirits would only amass to fifty damage.

While at that time, an Immortal Venerable could deal eighty-five damage.

The most powerful Divine Emperor of the Divine Spirit System would still be unable to harm Immortal Venerables who have yet to reach the pinnacle of the Golden Immortal System, no wonder that Golden Immortals, Honorable Daoists mention Demigods and Divine Spirits with little regard.

"The thirteenth rank divine sense likely requires three million Qingguang, equivalent to over a hundred ordinary divine spirits, twenty or thirty divine kings, or ten divine emperors, three god emperors... Going further, from the thirteenth rank to the fourteenth rank it would need thirty million Qingguang, and from the fourteenth rank to the fifteenth rank it would need three hundred million lines of Qingguang..."

Gu Jinlai calculated up to this point and couldn't continue.

Three hundred million lines of Qingguang would need three hundred divine emperors.

Higher great powers would require three billion, thirty billion, three hundred billion...

"Wow, three hundred billion Qingguang, thirty thousand divine emperors, even if I dragged out every divine emperor hidden in this vast universe, it might not even reach one-tenth of this number. Is this to annihilate divine spirits?"

This is not all.

If he wanted to surpass the great power stage from the sixteenth to the eighteenth rank...

Thirty trillion.

"Destroying the entire line of divine spirits probably won't be enough; even the Daoist Ancestor wasn't this ruthless, right?"

Gu Jinlai murmured to himself.

However, he still harbored doubts about whether Qing Lian could indeed allow his spiritual realm to break through the eighteenth rank and step into the nineteenth rank domain.

In other words...

He had nearly reached Qing Lian's limit.

Upon seeing Qing Lian's limits, he figured discovering Qing Lian's origins shouldn't be far off.

"Hmm? We've arrived."

Gu Jinlai looked at the world before him, took a step forward, and without alerting anyone, entered this star.

Even in the New Fire Star Sea, not all worlds have cave heaven barriers; such worlds without cave heaven barriers are like sieves to a Great Dao Golden Immortal.

Of course, unlike beyond the domain, almost every world in the New Fire Star Sea has a Great Dao Golden Immortal stationed, and those who can become a Domain Lord, more or less, have some connections.

In entering such a world rashly, one must consider whether it would offend the forces behind the Realm Lord.

Gu Jinlai, under the cover of the Formless Pearl, spread his divine sense after descending into this world.

The formidable divine sense, like a storm, instantly penetrated every corner of the world.

Soon, his figure flashed and appeared above a city.

After locking onto one bishop, he wasted no words and cast a Void Projection Technique, then used the Void Projection Technique to search for the demigod behind this bishop.

The entire process was remarkably smooth.

After all, in these decades, he had repeated similar steps dozens of times.

"Found it."

Gu Jinlai perceived briefly, and with a shift in his form, he soon appeared tens of thousands of miles away.

Here, a man disguised as a Profound Immortal suddenly stood up.

"Are you trying to incite a divine war?"

Gu Jinlai said inexplicably.

Almost simultaneously, the demigod below also stirred the divine will: "Bold! Who are you!? Are you trying to start a divine war with me?"

"Different lines, bad review."

Gu Jinlai thought to himself.

Previously, when he used the Void Projection Technique against those demigods, they would start with "divine war," yet...

This demigod was not playing by the rules.

"Wait! Such powerful strength... you aren't a demigod! You're a divine spirit!?"

The man suddenly exclaimed: "I am a subordinate god of God Emperor Leize! Whoever you are, if you want to annex my congregation, have you prepared for God Emperor Leize's retaliation?"

"God Emperor?"

Gu Jinlai was slightly taken aback.

Immediately, he showed surprise.

It was unexpectedly a God Emperor!?

In all these years, he had only met one Yan Huo among divine kings till now...

And now, a God Emperor had directly emerged!?

Did he catch a big fish!?

His eleventh rank divine sense could exhaust Yan Huo, and now his spiritual realm had advanced to the twelfth rank, facing a God Emperor...

It may not be impossible to kill him.

Taking advantage of the moment Gu Jinlai was distracted, the man's divine will burned intensely, and the next moment, a phantom of a divine country appeared behind him, accompanied by a vast and magnificent divine will.

As soon as this divine will descended, it surged overwhelmingly toward Gu Jinlai's spiritual world, even though Gu Jinlai's divine sense level had reached the twelfth rank, he still felt an impact on his thought processes.

This scene suddenly changed his expression.

"This God Emperor..."

Stronger than he expected.

He couldn't kill him.

With this thought, he quickly mobilized the Qingguang rendered in Qing Lian, rapidly spreading it toward this demigod's divine will, seemingly to annihilate this demigod and halt the full arrival of God Emperor Leize's power.

"Are you a divine calamity!?"

At this moment, the God Emperor Leize bellowed: "The great war is about to break out; do you intend to tear up the covenant now!?"