Xiang Yu felt a wave of energy flow through him, his mind clearing completely.
All the heavy weight pressing down on him before had all been lifted away.
"Heavenly?" he wondered aloud, looking at the system screen.
He had expected it would advance directly to Immortal, but apparently not.
Well, it made sense based on what he’d seen so far.
Inside his spiritual sea, the imaginary space began expanding once again, growing by over ten times its original size. From the original four million miles across to roughly one hundred million miles across.
He observed his spiritual sea, thinking to himself that fortunately, the imaginary space hadn’t expanded into his established space but had simply pushed it back instead.
It seemed his earlier assumption that his spiritual sea was expanding into the Absolute End had been wrong.
It was still expanding just like a normal spiritual sea, growing by itself rather than expanding into anything else. It just happened that he had something else surrounding it.
Well, that was good. At least he didn’t have to compete for space with his imaginary spiritual sea.
Speaking of, now that it had expanded so much, he should be able to fit a few more stars, right?
Before, he had ten, but now, with an over ten-fold increase, he should be able to add a little more, shouldn’t he?
As he was thinking this, the immortal qi he’d been constantly absorbing through his skin and feeding to the existing stars began to vibrate.
It seemed it really was possible, he thought.
Xiang Yu focused his attention on his divine sense, extending it to cover the entire world.
He thought to himself that he could already do this before, but now he could extend it even further.
If he did, he should be able to cover even the moon and maybe any nearby planet within fifty million miles. Even so, he decided against it. He didn’t know what was out there or what they could do.
Well, technically, he knew what was out there.
After his battle simulation upgrade, it now had the same range as his divine sense.
Through it, he sensed over a hundred Earth Immortals, ten Heaven Immortals, two True Immortals, and a single Golden Immortal.
He didn’t know what was up with these people spawn camping this beginner village, but he didn’t want to find out. What if they had some strange method to attack him through his divine sense?
As he was thinking about this, he suddenly felt his energy begin to vibrate inside the stars in his spiritual sea. The energy bubbled and intensified, becoming more concentrated with each passing second.
Suddenly, something clicked. He broke through to the fourth layer of Golden Core, then the fifth, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth.
He wondered what was happening.
It was then that he remembered - before, he had theorized that he was stuck in the Golden Core realm despite having formed a soul because his soul was still in its infant stage.
Now, after his soul had broken through twice, his cultivation was starting to catch up.
...
At the tenth layer of the Golden Core realm, energy continued pouring into Xiang Yu like a bottomless pit. Xiang Yu thought to himself that it seemed even without the system, his body had already grown accustomed to pushing for the absolute limit.
Xiang Yu felt something shift inside him, and he entered the Soul Formation realm.
He felt his qi condensing even more into itself, the qi quality reaching Tribulation level.
He wondered if he might eventually reach Immortal level base qi quality with how this was going.
At that point, he might even be able to start transforming his immortal qi into celestial qi.
He calmed himself, he was being too ambitious.
He hadn’t even entered the Void realm yet.
Speaking of, although the qualifications for entering the Void realm were already met, which was having a domain, it was different than the Nascent Soul realm that just focused on the soul’s advancement rather than qi.
For the Void realm, he still needed to gather qi and breakthrough normally.
He sighed. He was back to doing it the old-fashioned way.
Even so, he smirked. The day after tomorrow, his spirit root might breakthrough to the Immortal grade.
During the breakthrough process when the spiritual root becomes overcharged, if he could take advantage of that and absorb lots of immortal qi, he might genuinely be able to speed run through the Soul Formation realms and go straight into the Void realm.
The only problem was his foundation was too solid.
The breakthrough from Golden Core to Nascent Soul had required ten million exp, then one hundred million from Nascent Soul to Soul Formation. To go to the Void realm, it would probably require a billion experience points.
He sighed. He needed to do some preparations just in case.

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