Pang Jian fell into deep thought. It did not seem to matter that he had only personally contributed to the rebirths of Pang Ling and the Bee Sovereign. Even Yuan Qi and the Ice Armor Eel Dragon's transformation affected him as well. It felt as if all the beings reborn through the Gate of the Abyss were deeply connected to him. As long as they were reborn through the World God Pendant of the Abyss, their ascensions could also fuel his cultivation breakthrough, helping him shatter the barriers that bound his realm. Did Pang Lin know this all along? Pang Jian wondered. Is that why she used her power to push the Fey Gods to evolve, so that she could help me break through? As Pang Jian mulled it over, he realized that every being he had resurrected through the Gate of the Abyss had done so through the Black Empyrean Phoenix's blood. Though he had not revived Yuan Qi and the Ice Armor Eel Dragon himself, he guessed that they had been brought back through the same method. Those reborn from the World God Pendant are rapidly achieving a breakthrough! He had a feeling that the connection between him and those reborn through the Gate of the Abyss was growing ever deeper. His Immortal Divine Soul, located within the barrier of the Abyss, noticed a faint image emerging from deep within the Bee Sovereign's mind—a serene blue sea. It was the Soulstream of the Nether Abyss! A crystal-clear golden Divine Persona gleamed like a glacier, radiating a brilliant light. Threads of interwoven lightning, profound mysteries of the soul drawn from the Soulstream, pulsed within the Divine Persona. Even a single glance seemed to reveal the hidden workings of the universe. The Bee Sovereign's cultivation realm soared from low-ranking godhood to mid-ranking, then straight into high-ranking godhood! This transformation came faster and more violently than Yuan Qi's! In a matter of moments, the Bee Sovereign had ascended as a high-ranking God. His pair of golden compound eyes gleamed with profound intelligence. Both Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul and physical body sensed that the Soulstream within the Nether Abyss had also undergone a profound transformation. As he used his Immortal Divine Soul to commune with the Soulstream while quietly observing the Bee Sovereign, a strange feeling stirred within him. The Bee Sovereign seemed to have transformed into a higher being. The soul fluctuations emanating from him were increasingly similar to those of the Soulstream itself. Gazing at the Bee Sovereign felt no different from staring into the Soulstream of the Nether Abyss. Billowing soul essence rippled forth, silently coursing through some hidden channel, flowing into both Pang Jians to cleanse his Divine Persona and Immortal Divine Soul. Father... Pang Ling called from across a distant starry region. A thick torrent of life energy poured from the World Tree and washed over his two bodies, seemingly ignoring the restriction of the Illusory Void Realm. Follow current novels on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⁂𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⁂𝘯𝘦𝘵 Pang Jian had supported Pang Ling's ascension. Now, she was returning the favor. Pang Jian's physical body in the Sanctum of Godly and Demonic Genesis felt as if it were bathing in a pool of soul essence and life energy. The stars, moons, and suns in the sky of his dantian shone with dazzling brilliance. Though still in the bizarre mist and technically confined to the Ruin Realm, he could now clearly see everything unfolding in the starry skies above. Not even Pang Lin's vast darkness could obstruct his vision. He saw as Fu Ya and Luo Hongyan besieged Pang Lin's Black Empyrean Phoenix body, pressing in on her from either side. The Hall of Gods trembled. Waves of otherworldly radiance surged like a vast tide, resisting the encroaching darkness. Intricate patterns blazed brilliantly across the palace, each representing the Dao of the Outer Gods within. Awe-inspiring celestial phenomena radiated dazzling brilliance. Continents of seven colors collapsed, stars whistled through the sky, and thunder clapped, obliterating swaths of space. These phenomena from the Hall of Gods fought back against the darkness and its destruction, corrosion, and toxic malevolence. In response, Pang Lin's darkness took on an aura of empty silence, as if intent on turning the skies into the nothingness that once consumed the Seventh World. Pang Lin's Dao of Darkness was capable of reverting the universe to its primordial state, to the chaotic time before celestial bodies or life. The Hall of Gods, on the other hand, sought to kindle the vitality of heaven and earth, imposing order through its laws, meant to govern the fabric of space. A battle between Sovereigns was a clash of laws and Daos. Each side sought to rewrite reality itself, using the profound truths they had awakened to overwrite their opponent's laws. Luo Hongyan condensed a massive sphere of light, and six silhouettes emerged from it. Each of the six figures had its own Divine Persona and radiated a distinct aura of light, darkness, life, death, flame, and cold. Six Divine Personas in one body. This was her terrifying divine technique. "You also forged a body within the Abyss, and you carry a past that cannot be erased," the Black Empyrean Phoenix said coldly. "That past is tied to me. That 'she' is also you." Her pitch-black eyes quietly settled upon the crimson-robed Luo Hongyan among the six bodies in the sphere of light. As the Black Empyrean Phoenix gazed at her, a flicker of complex emotions stirred in her eyes, as if recalling buried memories. She seemed to remember all the events that followed her emergence in the Solitary Mountain Range, every moment and emotion, every fragment of the past. Her gaze softened, a subtle shift that caused a flaw to appear in Luo Hongyan's six bodies. Four of the five remaining bodies showed signs of confusion and hesitation. Waves of disruptive emotions rippled through their minds, prompting the primary Divine Persona to frown. "You were scheming against me?" sneered the white-robed Luo Hongyan, radiating blinding light. "You knew the body from the Blood Spirit Sect was mine all along?" "I know the origin of every being born in the Abyss, no matter who they are." The Black Empyrean Phoenix's beak never moved, but her voice rang out clearly. "You thought you could forge a new Divine Persona in the Abyss and keep it hidden from me?" The Black Empyrean Phoenix beat her wings. Violent darkness surged toward the Luo Hongyans, engulfing the sphere of light that held the six of them. "Part of your divine soul will forever bear the mark of the Abyss, a trace you can never sever. It'll prevent your six Divine Personas from ever achieving perfect fusion. "With your six bodies and six Divine Personas unable to unify, you'll never reach your peak." The Black Empyrean Phoenix's vast darkness wrapped itself around the sphere of light, layer upon layer, like a black corona encasing a dying star.