"Ha-ha! The four of us are different. We were at the Earth Immortal Realm in the ancient times.
The divine essence is a once in a lifetime opportunity for us.
As long as we absorb enough energy this time, our strength will be restored to the Earth Immortal Realm!"
The mountain god's excited voice boomed around Austin.
Once his words rang out into the wind, the four generals from the Heavenly Court sat cross-legged and began to absorb the floating divine essence.
"Oh, right! I almost forgot about that!"
Austin's eyes widened in delight.
More than anything, the four generals from the Heavenly Court needed energy desperately, exactly like what the mountain god said.
Before the energy contained within divine essence in front of him, no treasure within heaven and earth of this world could ever match up.
After a moment, Austin mimicked them and sat down too.
First, he tried to absorb some of the divine essence like what the four generals were doing.
It went without saying that he wasn't dumb enough to absorb too much; just a couple dozen grains of the essence were enough.
"I'm... I'm fine!"
Austin's heart jolted when he found that he could completely absorb the essence without any negative side effect.
After a moment's hesitation, he tried to absorb a hundred more grains of the divine essence and felt nothing bad happen to him.
Moreover, the energy in his body soared with every grain he absorbed.
Once Austin was certain that nothing bad happened, he tried to absorb one thousand more grains of divine essence in one go and was still fine.
"I need more!"
Austin shouted and absorbed more than ten thousand grains of divine essence at once.
Instead of feeling bad, he felt even better than ever before.
Before he realized it, he absorbed about a hundred and sixty thousand grains of divine essence more in one go.
'I... I've reached my limit!'
Panic shot through Austin as his body began to swell.
It was only thanks to his strong physical strength that he didn't explode in a cloud of blood and gore.
'Maybe it's because of my physical strength that I could absorb more than a hundred thousand grains of the divine essence.
I would have exploded and died otherwise, '
Austin wondered to himself.
Austin's physical strength could now match someone at the Earth Immortal Realm, and that was really something.
Since he wasn't an idiot, he didn't dare to absorb any more divine essence.
"Ha-ha! I absorbed more than thirty thousand grains of the divine essence and my fighting power was multiplied by at least ten times!"
From the distance, self-satisfied wild laughter came from the successor of the Divine Sect.
"Wow!"
The others snapped to look at the person and gasped in astonishment.
Ordinary masters at the Earth Immortal Realm reached their limit after absorbing four or five thousand grains of the divine essence and didn't dare to push themselves further.
But the successor of the Divine Sect absorbed a jaw-dropping thirty thousand grains, a little more than
happened in centuries!
When something like this happens, it means that the divine god may successfully reach the Shore of Rebirth!"
Every single person in the army of the eight branches of pilgrims stared in shock.
Meanwhile, all of a sudden, in the Divine Being's World, a terrible force penetrated through a space node and a dark crack in space appeared.
There was a moment of silence before a group of people rushed out of the space crack.
"We finally arrived at the Divine Being's World!"
"Hurry up and find the Millstone of Reincarnation!"
A mad scramble broke out as the group began to desperately search for the Millstone of Reincarnation.
More and more space nodes in the Divine Being's World began to crack and different groups of people broke into the world one after another.
It wasn't long before the eight supreme leaders of the Divine Being's World sensed the disturbance.
"This isn't good! Creatures from the outside invaded our world!"
"They must have heard that the Millstone of Reincarnation is rotating again and that the divine gods will go to the Shore of Rebirth.
They want to obtain the opportunities given to the divine gods!
Humph! The evil spirits of the outside worlds truly are greedy and want to take advantage of the divine gods!"
"I don't think it's that simple.
There isn't any open passage to our world from the outside worlds and that was how we managed to maintain our isolation.
Logically speaking, it would be impossibly difficult for the evil spirits from the outside worlds to enter our world on such a large scale.
Unless... Unless a divine god from the outside was helping them!
It's likely that the divine gods outside want to take the divine cores and even want to seek an opportunity to reach the Shore of Rebirth!
That must be why they sent these evil spirits from the outside worlds to invade our world!"
Various opinions flew between the eight supreme leaders as they stared in horror at the unprecedented happenings in the Divine Being's World.