Back when Ling Huang had used the Painting of All Living Beings, the power he had used had surpassed the power of all living beings. Presumably, it had been a combination of the power of the will of all living beings and his own strength.
Long Chen's Primordial Samsara power and the will of all living beings had created the 'God Spirit Essence'. In truth, it was the foundation of all godly and devilish powers. However, the primordial Devil Race called this godly power 'Devil Spirit Essence'.
Long Chen knew very little about the godly realm. Right now, he was only a god in terms of power, and a demigod in terms of fleshly body. He hadn't yet reached the god-spirit level. In fact, in terms of power, he had ten times as many god palaces as an ordinary god-spirit.
The ten billion palaces were inextricably linked to the people of the Eternal Life God Domain. Most of Long Chen's power came from the palaces, and the power of the palaces came partly from Long Chen's own cultivation, and partly from the will power of all living beings who lived in the Eternal Life God Domain.
Because of this, as long as everyone believed in him, his God Spirit Origin would be endless and transcend everything.
God-Spirit essence was the first major transformation after godly ascension, and no one could ever have guessed that Long Chen would be able to form a demigod body during the eight tribulations. It was a miracle to everyone present.
The people who had become Long Chen's god palaces had no idea what was going on. All they wanted was for Long Chen to come out on top, and to them, he was like a god. They had no idea that they were actually helping him.
Thanks to the will power of ten billion people, Long Chen's God Spirit Origin Power was boundless and explosive. But his newly born body, the newly born World Tree, could contain a small amount of that power, and could send it to Long Chen's limbs and bones. His body was like a world, like a tree, and the God Palaces were like living beings living on it.
To him, it was the perfect body.
If he became a god dragon, the world tree wouldn't disappear. It would grow with him.
The end of the Eight Trigrams Tribulation brought Long Chen an unbelievable transformation.
At this moment, even though he was only in the Eight Trigrams Samsara Realm, he had a feeling that he was infinitely close to the Divine Spirit Realm. In some aspects, he had even surpassed the Divine Spirit Realm. This was the first time he had surpassed Long Qinglan in a certain aspect. Long Qinglan was even stronger than he was now, having reached the half-step Divine Spirit Realm. But even then, he had not formed the Divine Spirit Source Power and could not use the power of the World Tree.
"This power …"
From this power, Long Chen truly experienced what it was like to become a god. He felt that this was an extremely primal and noble power that could suppress any mortal. This power was also extremely ancient, as if it had endless transformations and possibilities.
"God Spirit Source Power is definitely not the ultimate power."
He sensed that this power could be transformed into different levels.
At this moment, he had already opened his eyes in front of Primeval Troll.
"World Tree activated, Divine Spirit Source Power …"
As expected, the Bloodthirsty Behemoth was stunned in front of Long Chen. His red sun-like eyes were wide open as he stared at Long Chen. Even as a noble primordial demon, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"As expected, with such talent, it's not surprising that such a miracle happened. You've found the most correct path to godhood. But once I devour the Immortal Realm, you will naturally lose your power," Primeval Troll said with a cold smile.
Long Chen naturally knew that half of the reason why he was so powerful now was that he had the support of all living beings. Because of this, he had to protect these people even more. Water could carry a boat, but it could also capsize it. He now understood that a true god could not lose his people.
Losing them was equivalent to losing his power.
He looked for Mo Xiaolang. Mo Xiaolang was very far away, but Long Chen still found him. However, the other party didn't meet his gaze.
"You're avoiding me?"
It was time to settle this.
Long Chen didn't believe that this Primeval Troll wouldn't wake up after killing the Controlling Soul Demon. Whether he was controlled or not, he should wake up.
As long as the Controlling Soul Demon was dead, the other Primeval Troll shouldn't have any chance of breaking the seal. As long as he stopped Mo Xiaolang, the Immortal Realm and the Dragon Sacrificial Continent would be safe and sound, and he would be able to resolve this crisis.
Outside the Devil Star, they saw the Eight Tribulations disappear.
That was a moment where everyone was almost suffocating.
"Everyone, as long as you calm down and listen carefully to the voice in your heart, can you feel his existence?"
Just as everyone was nervous about whether Long Chen could survive the Eight Tribulations, someone suddenly said.
Everyone focused their attention, and sure enough, everyone felt that mysterious connection. For a moment, everyone cheered and cried tears of joy. This huge joy almost made everyone faint.
When the news spread to the Immortal Realm, there was even more excitement. In everyone's hearts, Long Chen had become a god in this battle.
In the blink of an eye, everyone in the Eternal Life God Domain was cheering for Long Chen. They could sense that Long Chen needed this kind of power.
Boom, boom, boom.
The 10 Billion Divine Palaces exploded, and the power on Long Chen's body became more and more majestic. His power was now on the same level as the Primeval Troll. Even if he couldn't use the supreme power of laws, the Primeval Troll's laws wouldn't have much effect on him for the time being, because his Ancestral Dragon's mystique could resist such laws.
Originally, the Primeval Troll relied on pure power and mystique to crush Long Chen.
Now, Long Chen had the same power and mystique as him. In fact, Long Chen's power was like that of a real god. It was even more majestic, and definitely surpassed the weakened Controlling Soul Demon.
The Controlling Soul Demon's original realm was the ultimate realm of the Primordial Demon Realm. But now, he only had the power of the Primordial realm. This was the weakest he could be.
The Primordial realm, the Grand Perfection realm, and the ultimate realm.
At this time, the Primeval Troll spread his huge wings again, and his ferocious nature rose. Boundless demonic energy erupted from the entire demon star, drowning out all the space under the seal. For a moment, everything became evil and fell into the demonic dao. Only Long Chen's divine origin power could resist it.
"Do you think that just the source energy of a god can resist my power? That's right, my power is also the source energy of a demon spirit. However, that is only the source. A mortal like you would never know what the true World Tree is, and what the 'Boundless Divine Technique' is."
Long Chen was in a state of hunger and thirst. He wanted to know more about the Immortal Realm, but he knew nothing. He didn't even understand divine origin power.
He said, "Oh, then please tell me what the Boundless Divine Art is."
"Hmph."
The Primeval Troll was full of disdain and smugness. He spun the demon star around Long Chen and said mockingly, "How can an ignorant mortal like you understand the true Dao of Godfiends? It's laughable for someone like you to think of defeating me. Forget it, there's no harm in letting you know. Since demonic origin power is origin power, it's naturally just the foundation. Since you're a Godfiend, you have to cultivate the Boundless Divine Art to change the foundation of demonic origin power, turning it into a power of a higher nature and more suitable for you. Do you know why it's called the Boundless Divine Art? It's because the cultivation path of Godfiends is called the Path of Infinity. Of course, you don't need to know this."
Long Chen had a general understanding.
Divine origin power was just the foundation. Only by cultivating the Boundless Divine Art could the power of a god multiply into ever-changing might. It was no wonder Primeval Troll's demonic origin power was so much more terrifying. Long Chen thought it was just the difference between Godfiends.
"My soul-devil Boundless Divine Art is called the Agaz Infernal Devil Profound Heaven Art."
Whoosh.
As soon as the words left his mouth, a violet power pulsed out of him, laced with strands of blood. In the blink of an eye, it took control of the entire demon star, and if it weren't for the fact that it was sealed, it would have swept through the entire Eternal-Life Godly Domain. It was a boundless, wretched power that was filled with hallucinations and chaos. Violet energy swirled around it, and even the divine origin power was being corroded away. Clearly, Long Chen's divine origin power couldn't compare to the Boundless Divine Art.
"This is the infernal devil grand essence power."
Primeval Troll was very pleased with himself for being able to crush Long Chen's confidence. That was exactly what he wanted, to crush Long Chen's confidence. If he didn't, it would be a lot more troublesome.
Of course, that was because he didn't reveal the truth.
The truth was that although Long Chen's God Spirit Source Energy was weaker than the Dark Demon Great Source Energy that he cultivated with the Boundless Divine Technique, Long Chen's Source Energy far surpassed his in terms of quantity.
"The Boundless Divine Art has a total of nine grades. My Agaz Infernal Devil Profound Heaven Art is the second grade, which is death-grade. It's even close to the third grade, the Prehistoric grade. As for your divine origin power, it's not even a grade. So, you should understand what I'm saying today. Mortals are mortals. Even if you have divine origin power, you can't change the fact that you're an ant."
Primeval Troll's voice was so loud that it was deafening not only to Long Chen, but to everyone else on Planet Heavenly Dragon.
"Oh...."
Long Chen nodded as if he understood. He looked scared, but in the end, he laughed. He stared at Primeval Troll and said, "That's what you said, but I want to ask you a question. Why do I feel like you're afraid of me?"
It had to be said that Primeval Troll's intelligence was not very good. He knew that Long Chen's divine origin power was too strong, so he used the nature of his power to scare Long Chen. Unfortunately, this guy's acting skills were not very good. His words were full of loopholes, so Long Chen understood a lot.
As for the Boundless Divine Art, that was a matter for the future.