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Sophia maintained a face-down, twisted-neck, entirely inverted posture as she fell into contemplation.

"So that's how it is. My power was still chaotic when I was just alive, which is why I couldn't maintain balance and fell straight from the tree. It's not much related to the Substituting Raven that was perched on the branch," she thought.

"I need to remember this, perhaps it can be overcome by continuous practice... Uh, continue practicing?"

She turned over and sank into deep thought.

She opened her collar again and carefully felt her body at that moment.

"My body is no different from before, it just seems very weak, the overall strength left is about... about 30%."

"If my weakness reduces my strength to less than 10%, the Life Substitution might not be able to activate."

"However, my power is recovering at a quite fast rate, even if I do nothing, in a day or two I could return to my peak."

"And just a moment ago, when I met a terrible death..."

She remembered.

In that state, she no longer had a clear consciousness, no ability to think autonomously, and could only follow her instincts to find an appropriate Substituting Black Crow and seize rebirth.

Yet in the process of searching, she could roughly discern which black crows were more suitable as her carriers, including their general location and distance.

That was enough, at least during tactical retreats, she wouldn't end up running in completely the wrong direction.

She continued to try out other abilities.

Starting today, she too had died once.

"Wait, during my evolution just now, did I seem to see a few strange images?"

...

Meanwhile, in the Domain of the Deceased, Wraith Sacred Mountain.

"It's starting."

"The breakthrough to the Soul Realm."

In ancient times, the Soul Realm was known as Demigod, Quasi-god, usually the servants of divine spirits or powerful existences who ascended to godhood in mortal bodies.

This is an ancient saying.

Back then, the Legendary Realm was the pinnacle of human and other intelligent life forms, and beyond that, only by absorbing the Power of Faith could one break through, except for certain high-ranking beings.

In the earlier periods, the method of Ascension to Godhood through forging divine bases and sculpting soul power had been developed.

Some say it was created by the Bright Empire, merging the best of various schools.

Others say it was a new path carved out by a great legendary life.

In the current era, the paths to break through to Heaven and Earth Realm, Soul Realm, and Law Realm have been significantly clarified by generations of powerhouses.

In comparison to ancient times.

These major realm breakthroughs still maintain a very high failure rate, and once failed, one could end up severely injured or even dead.

"The breakthrough to the Soul Realm is not as dangerous as the breakthrough to the Heaven and Earth Realm."

The Breakthrough into the Heaven and Earth Realm requires Fourth-order Limit powerhouses to burn their lives, achieve Extreme Sublimation, thus leaving no path for retreat.

By comparison, stepping into the Soul Realm only requires the forging of a divine base and the sculpting of a soul.

A failure?

It's merely 'minor' issues like foundational damage, soul wounds, and temporary mental disorder.

However, compared to the Fourth-order stepping into the Heaven and Earth Realm, the breakthrough process from the Heaven and Earth Realm to the Soul Realm lacks much support from Tai Xuan.

Injury from failure is unavoidable.

Therefore, those who have already crossed the 'peak' benchmark, possessing domains of 5000 meters and beyond, also dare not attempt the breakthrough lightly.

They must make thorough preparations.

Once the foundation is damaged by a failed attempt, the hope for a next successful breakthrough becomes even more remote.

Dead Bone...

also made a lot of preparations.

Due to the scarce reference materials for breaking through to the Soul Realm, the preparations that Mu Yuan and Dead Bone made were all-purpose measures.

Mu Yuan brought approximately twenty thousand — mostly soul crystals that could be mobilized from Tianyuan City to this place, along with several large boxes of various Dark Shadow System treasures that are beneficial for cultivation breakthroughs.

Dead Bone's preparations were also straightforward.

It had all the Undead from Bone Mountains gather near the Holy Mountain to stand by.

Several 'Wells of Death' on Holy Mountain were also filled to overflowing standards.

It could at any time draw energy from the Holy Mountain and Undead Tide.

With everything nearly ready, it could begin the breakthrough.

...

The audience for Dead Bone's breakthrough was very small.

Only Mu Yuan, Duo Lai, and the avatar of Isloa were present.

Duo Lai could break through at any moment as well, but Dead Bone requested that it try first.

Originally, Mu Yuan planned to have more generals from the Tianyuan Department observe this breakthrough process — even though Dead Bone's breakthrough might not hold much reference value.

Alas...

The battle in the Shattered Isles Warzone had flared up again, and there were signs that a legendary monster had crossed into the domain of Ten Directions Island...

All these were draining the resources of Tianyuan City, forcing many Division Generals to deploy to specific areas.

"The breakthrough has begun!"

Duo Lai exclaimed.

Mu Yuan stood at the peak of a mountain tens of thousands of meters away from Wraith Sacred Mountain, gazing into the distance.

The clouds suddenly gathered swiftly.

Dark clouds continued to converge, and a black storm howled.

Vast, icy, silent, a domain filled with an endless aura of death suddenly unfolded, reaching an extreme limit of 50,000 meters.

A perfect domain that merged with heaven and earth.

The undead bathed in the domain's deathly powers boiled continuously.

"Arise."

Faintly, one could hear such a murmur.

Mu Yuan could see a glow of will soaring into the sky.

A fierce will linked mind and soul, constructing the Bridge of Heaven and Earth.

In the sea of consciousness, pieces of fragments broke through the water, rising into the air, continuously assembling, gradually forming a God Base shimmering in golden light.

The whole process was very natural, without the slightest delay.

Massive amounts of the Breath of Death and Shadow Energy, like great rivers, poured into the very center of the domain, nourishing the breakthrough.

This spectacle lasted for about a few minutes...

"Ding!"

A notification sound rang in Mu Yuan's ear.

"Alert: Your hero 'Dead Bone' is attempting a breakthrough in the Soul Realm..."

This alert had not completely played before a "ding" sounded and the next alert followed immediately.

"Alert: Your hero 'Dead Bone' resonates with the domain, communicating with heaven and earth, beginning to forge a god..."

"Alert: Your hero 'Dead Bone' has during the breakthrough forged a Perfect Divine Base; willpower, spiritual power, and soul power have greatly increased."

"Alert: Your hero 'Dead Bone' is now attempting to..."

"Alert: Hero·Dead Bone has ignited the Soulfire of Divinity, advanced to the Soul Realm, possessing the ability to split the soul and descend the soul."

"It's over, the breakthrough has been achieved."

Mr. Mu, gazing into the distance, spoke.

Isloa: "..."

That was the breakthrough?

In some ways, it was expected.

"But the power of heaven and earth around us is still gathering." Duo Lai said.

"That's because Dead Bone is still transforming." Mu Yuan said.

Just like when one first steps into the Legendary Realm, there's a transformative period lasting half a day to a day.

The transformation time in the Soul Realm might not be that long, but it exists.

At this time, Dead Bone had truly become a strong being of the Soul Realm, possessing the various great forces of the Soul Realm. Even if disturbed and the transformation interrupted, its realm will not fall, but such transformation opportunities are rare, akin to a baptism by nature.

Mu Yuan, accompanied by Duo Lai, continued to protect the law outside the Holy Mountain.

A few skeletons clacked and clacked over, bringing some... uh, pitch-black characteristic food from Bone Mountains.

"Please, enjoy."

"Then, thank you very much."

Mu Yuan patted the skeletons' skullcaps.

Many years... over a year ago, he was just an ordinary village chief, and Dead Bone was just a slightly extraordinary little skeleton.

And now, Dead Bone had become the rightful King of Skeleton, ruling over the sprawling mountain range.

He, Mr. Mu, was also a mighty Lord with over a thousand epics under his command.

"No, it's still not strong enough."

"Like the Tai Xuan Alliance, even more powerful forces than the Tai Xuan Alliance face destruction, and I'm merely a minor Lord Xiaodeng within the alliance, far from meeting the standard of surviving the Red Mist Tide or the Miasma Catastrophe safely," he said.

"Soul Realm, Legendary Life, these are still just the beginning."

"However..."

At least we now possess basic survival capabilities.

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"Once the battle in the Shattered Isles Domain ends, let's hold a citywide celebration."

"Yay!"