In the empty time-accelerated room, Gu Ding sat cross-legged in the center and took out a tube of turquoise liquid. "Is this the Emerald Bamboo Dew used by the Dark Generation to achieve a breakthrough in cultivation?"

"That's right. It's an extremely violent plant energy condensate formed by devil bamboo after absorbing a large amount of flesh and blood energy. The tube in your hand should be more than ten thousand years old. If it were Liliath and the others, I would suggest diluting it with other enhancement medicine. However, your situation is a little special. Every time you advance in cultivation, you must first break the congenital genetic shackles. This requires extremely violent energy to do so. "

Neptune also felt that it was unfair for Gu Ding. Due to the congenital shackles, Gu Ding needed to consume an extremely large amount of energy every time he advanced in cultivation, especially when he was breaking through a major rank. It required even more violent energy to break through.

However, Gu Ding did not have any complaints. After all, it was something that came with being congenital. He chose to accept it calmly. Moreover, he had a faint hunch that if he could one day break all the genetic shackles in his body, he might not be far from revealing his parents' identity.

Gu Ding drank the Emerald Bamboo Dew in one gulp. A spicy sensation slid down his mouth and soon reached his organs. It made Gu Ding feel as if someone had ignited a flame in his lower abdomen. The crazy burning sensation spread in all directions. Gu Ding felt as if his body would explode at any moment. His entire body was convulsing from the pain in his abdomen.

In a trance, Gu Ding's consciousness was suddenly pulled into a void.

In that void, there was a black iron gate that was hundreds of meters tall. Not only was it closed, but it was also locked by layers of black chains that were as thick as a water tank.

Gu Ding looked around. In this void, there was nothing but the door in front of him and himself. Not even a speck of dust could be seen. Only then did he gather his thoughts and look at the gate again.

In the void, a dark and inexplicable thought entered Gu Ding's mind. The thought was not transmitted in the form of words, but Gu Ding could understand the meaning of the thought.

"You can choose to break all the chains and leave through the black iron gate. This way, you will gain great power. You can also choose to withdraw directly, but the price is that you will never be able to achieve deity-level cultivation. "

Gu Ding did not hesitate. He raised his hand and attacked the chains.

A "ding" was heard. Gu Ding's finger force had collided with a black chain, but not a single crack had appeared.

"Such a powerful chain!" Gu Ding finally started to get serious. He had only used seventy to eighty percent of his strength to test the waters earlier, but it was all for naught.

He immediately gathered 100% of his strength and pointed out with his Martial Intent. A black light flashed and attacked the chain, but only a "ding" sound was heard, and the chain was not damaged at all.

"How could this be? I can't believe I didn't even lose a single ounce of my strength! "Gu Ding's face was full of surprise.

Whether or not he could destroy these chains was related to whether or not he could advance to Deity Level. Naturally, Gu Ding would not give up so easily. Five-colored flames gushed out of his hands as he fully activated Skyburn, turning himself into a body of fire energy. Then, he quickly formed seals with both hands, and immediately used the strongest move in the 《Burning Heavens》 — — Burning Heavens Seal.

A giant flaming palm condensed out of the void and pressed down on the black chains.

"Crack …" An extremely soft sound reached Gu Ding's ears. Gu Ding's heart was filled with joy as he looked at the chains. At first glance, he was greatly disappointed. He had thought that even if he could not destroy all the chains with his palm, he would at least have no problem breaking a few dozen of them. Unexpectedly, there was only a hair-thin crack on one of the chains. On the chain that was as thick as a water tank, the crack was almost negligible. The most hateful thing was that he could even see the hair-thin crack repairing itself at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What the hell are these chains?" Gu Ding frowned slightly and asked Neptune, but found that Neptune did not respond. When he looked at his wrist again, the intelligent wristwatch that Neptune had transformed into had long since disappeared. Only then did Gu Ding realize that this space was probably a place that Neptune could not reach.

Realizing this, Gu Ding wanted to immerse himself in his body to find the puppy and borrow the power of the demon face. However, he found that his consciousness could not communicate with the soul space at all.

In desperation, he could only use the Burning Heavens Seal to bombard the chains again and again. After repeated bombardment, the crack finally slowly expanded. However, Gu Ding could not stop for even a moment, or else the crack would repair itself.

Gu Ding's ears were also constantly being disturbed by the thought.

[Give up. As long as you give up, you won't have to do such a boring and boring thing …]

Gu Ding ignored it and bombarded the chains again and again. After an unknown amount of time, the first chain finally broke.

At the same time as a sense of accomplishment came over him, Gu Ding raised his head and looked at the black iron door again. There were at least thousands of the same chains. Once again, he sank his mind and began the boring bombardment.

In this space of nothingness, Gu Ding did not know how long it had been. It could have been a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years. Finally, Gu Ding blasted the last chain.

When the last chain turned into dots of black light and disintegrated, Gu Ding finally let out a long breath. He looked at the giant black iron door and reached out to touch it.

The moment Gu Ding pressed his palm on it, the black iron door opened automatically, and a dazzling white light rushed out from the other side of the door.

Gu Ding, who was used to the dark void, used his hand to block the glaring light. However, he found that the glaring light had condensed into a white sphere in front of him. It looked like a small star that was suspended in front of him.

Gu Ding reached out and caught the sphere in the palm of his hand. The sphere slowly immersed itself in Gu Ding's palm. When the sphere completely disappeared, Gu Ding's heart flashed with a flash of understanding. This sphere turned out to be an incomplete inheritance. Even if it was incomplete, the amount of information it contained was terrifying. Not only did it contain a lot of information about the Cosmic Sea, but it also contained some true god-level means.

This made Gu Ding more and more curious about his life. However, he also knew that as his cultivation improved, sooner or later, the mystery of his life would be solved.

Following the guidance of an inexplicable thought, Gu Ding stepped through the giant black iron door. His vision blurred for a moment, and he found himself back in the time-accelerated hut.

At this time, the pain in his abdomen had completely disappeared. Gu Ding checked his body and found that his physical body was more than ten times stronger than before. His body's various indicators had undergone dramatic changes. In his soul space, the height of the five types of Sacred Fires had also skyrocketed nearly ten times. A giant black tower nearly ten thousand meters tall stood in the center of his soul space. Gu Ding could tell at a glance that it was a Deity Position that he had condensed at some point. However, Gu Ding had heard from Neptune that although God Positions took different forms in different people's soul spaces, they were generally not more than ten meters tall. He could not figure out what was so special about his God Position, which was almost like a mountain.

Since he could not figure it out, he decided not to think about it anymore. Gu Ding asked Neptune to scan his physical data. He wanted to see how much his physical data had changed.

"Although you've only advanced to a 1-Star Lower Rank Deity, your combat prowess is probably no weaker than Night Demon's. You might even be stronger than him," the Sea Monarch teased after a round of inspection before projecting the data.

[Name: Gu Ding]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 16]

[Cultivation Level: Lower Rank 1-Star deity]

[Physical Strength: Middle Rank 2-Star]

[Spirit Index: Middle Rank 2-Star]

[God Source Strength: Upper Rank 1-Star]

[Taboo Power: Absolute Seal (Level 3 Taboo Power)]

[Derived Taboo Power: Weakening Shackles (Level 1 Taboo Power)]

[Divine Fires: Destructive Fire, Devouring Fire, Star Fire, Nirvana Fire, Purple Thunderfire]

[Natural Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth]

[Divine Power Description: Able to devour all forms of energy]

[Divine Power 1: Imperial Body Manifestation (Demonic Elephant Realm)]

[Divine Power Description: Temporary increase of sixty thousand times in Physical Body Realm. Permanent increase of six thousand times in Demonic Elephant Realm.]

[Divine Power 2: Darkness Immunity]

[Divine Power Description 1: Immunity to all Darkness-type curse abilities]

[Divine Power Description 2: Damage caused by Darkness-type attacks is reduced to one-tenth]

[Divine Power 3: Rage]

[Divine Power Description: Comprehensive combat effectiveness increased by a thousand times]

[Divine Skill 1: Shura Armageddon]

[Divine Skill Description: Perfectly combines the physical body, soul, God Source, and martial arts concepts to unleash powerful moves beyond the limits of cultivation.]

[Divine Skill 2: Burning Sky]

[Divine Skill Description: Transforms the physical elements into a body of flame energy to unleash powerful moves.]

[Domain: Four-Star Martial Arts Domain]

[Martial Arts Concept: Lesser Mastery of Consonance Realm]

After careful observation, Gu Ding found many changes. His physical strength, mental strength, and God Source had all improved, which was not unusual. What Gu Ding found strange was that his domain had also improved. Not only that, but even his martial arts concepts, which had nothing to do with cultivation, had been upgraded to a small level.

He looked at the time and realized that it had taken him less than an hour to break through to deity level. Logically speaking, it would take an average person at least two or three days.

After asking Neptune about it, Neptune also found it strange. He only said that Gu Ding's body had not changed at all in the past hour. It was not until the last moment when Gu Ding woke up that he suddenly broke through, and then his body's various indexes changed dramatically.

Less than an hour in the time-accelerated hut was less than a minute outside. Gu Ding did not intend to waste any time. He took out the Silver Skulls that he could not refine before and began refining them.