Chapter 516

The increase in the power of the Devouring Fire allowed Gu Ding to refine nearly a hundred Silver Skeletons in just three days. These were the ones Lilliath gave up enslaving.

The ancient Silver Level deities had a cultivation level comparable to today's Higher Deity powerhouses, but their physical bodies were comparable to Supreme Deities, and the Vitality energy contained within them was extremely terrifying. Even though there were only bones left, the residual Vitality in the bone marrow was still huge.

Gu Ding planned to use these Silver Skeletons to replenish his own Vitality. Back when he was a demigod, the basic strength of his physical body could only reach the limit of a Lower Deity, which was only slightly lower than a Medium Deity. After the advancement of his cultivation level, his physical body was directly promoted to the strength of a Two-star Medium Deity, but the upper limit of his physical body was also increased again. Gu Ding could clearly feel his physical body's desire for Vitality energy.

In three days, the Vitality contained in hundreds of Silver Skeletons allowed Gu Ding's physical body to soar from Two-star Medium Deity, to Three-star, Four-star … Six-star, and even to Peak Seven-star before it stopped, only a step away from becoming a Higher Deity.

On the fourth day, Gu Ding stepped out of the time-accelerated hut. Lilliath and the others looked at him with joy. They could clearly feel that Gu Ding's aura was different. Three days in the time-accelerated hut was less than an hour outside.

"Who's next? Hurry up and go in!" Gu Ding saw that everyone was soaking in the hot spring, so he took off his clothes and jumped in.

"How do you feel after being promoted to a deity?" Dockett quickly came over and asked.

"It feels great!" Gu Ding grinned.

"You might as well not have said anything." Phaser, who had her eyes closed, opened her eyes. After glancing at Gu Ding, she closed them again.

Lilliath wrapped herself in a bathrobe and quickly went into the time-accelerated hut.

Gu Ding did not say anything more. He closed his eyes as well, but his mind was sorting out the legacy he had obtained from the black iron gate.

Dockett looked around and saw that both of them had their eyes closed. He felt a little bored, so he leaned his back against the edge of the hot spring. He then looked up and put a half-dry towel on his face. "I'm going to sleep too."

The water in this hot spring was formed from the Origin Stones of the Spirit Vein Hot Spring. It contained a large amount of energy. Even if one didn't actively absorb it and just soaked in it, it was still beneficial. Moreover, it was a hundred times more comfortable than ordinary hot springs.

Without Liliath around, Elsa felt bored and swam alone in the hot spring pool.

Unlike Gu Ding and the others, Mi Ke did not bare his arms. Instead, he was completely submerged in the water with only his head above the water. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the comfort.

More than forty minutes later, Lilliath stepped out of the time-accelerated hut. Her cultivation had broken through to deity-level. Moreover, Gu Ding could vaguely sense that not only had she achieved a breakthrough in her cultivation, but her soul seemed to have become stronger.

Following that, Erza, Dockett, and Phaser went in one after another. When they came out, they were all lesser deities.

Erza and Dockett did not simply achieve a breakthrough in their cultivation either. Erza's bloodline seemed to have been awakened again, and her aura was so strong that it was like that of an ancient almighty beast. Dockett seemed to have further inherited the Crimson Blood Beast's legacy, and his aura was becoming more and more similar to that of the Crimson Blood Beast.

As for Phaser, although she had a breakthrough in her cultivation, Gu Ding felt that her aura did not seem to have changed much. Gu Ding did not ask much about it.

What Gu Ding and the others did not know was that as soon as they achieved a breakthrough in their cultivation, their names disappeared from the Demigod Monster Leaderboard.

On the leaderboard, Fu Tu became number one, and Karlot, who everyone was familiar with, became number two.

This matter also caused a lot of discussion.

Usually, there were only two possibilities for someone to disappear from the Demigod Monster Leaderboard. One was that they had fallen, and the other was that they had achieved a breakthrough in their demigod cultivation.

Many people's first reaction was that Gu Ding's crew had fallen into some dangerous ruins. This was because several people disappeared from the leaderboard one after another, and the interval between each of them was less than an hour. If they had achieved a breakthrough in their cultivation, they would not have agreed to do it on the same day. No one was that bored.

However, some people with sufficient authority opened the Black Iron Monster Leaderboard and saw Gu Ding's name at the top of the leaderboard.

[Name: Gu Ding]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 16]

[Cultivation: 1-star Lower Deity]

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Other than that, Lilliath also made it into the top ten and was ranked ninth. Elsa, Dockett, and Phaser were ranked eleventh, thirteenth, and eighteenth respectively.

In the Cosmic Sea, the Demigod Monster Leaderboard was open to the public. However, only powerhouses with deity-level cultivation and above could view the Deity Leaderboard. Those whose cultivation had not reached deity-level did not have the authority to view it.

The Black Iron Monster Leaderboard was also a leaderboard for deity-level and above. It was not open to those who had not reached deity-level.

In fact, Biggie had occupied the first place for a few months before disappearing from the Black Iron Leaderboard a few days ago. However, less than half a month later, Gu Ding had once again occupied the first place, and this time with the cultivation of a 1-star Lower Deity.

On the Black Iron Leaderboard, other than Gu Ding and his crew, the top hundred cultivators were all 5-star Lower Deities without exception.

Unfortunately, Gu Ding and his crew were in the ruins and could not connect to Skynet, so they could not see the leaderboard.

However, in the Cosmic Sea, many deities were already discussing the leaderboard.

Although the Black Iron Monster Leaderboard was unknown to the general public, it was much more influential than the Demigod Monster Leaderboard. This was because becoming a demigod did not necessarily mean that one could become a deity. It was not that there were no monsters who were stuck at the last step due to various reasons. In fact, it could be said that there were quite a number of them.

Although it was extremely difficult for ordinary people to cross over to Middle, Upper, and Extreme deities when their cultivation reached Lower Deity. However, for real monster powerhouses, as long as they could cross over to Demigod and become a Lower Deity, there would basically be no obstacles on the way to Supreme Deity. The only obstacle was the step from extreme deity to half-step true god.

Therefore, the Black Iron Monster Leaderboard was much more valuable than the Demigod Monster Leaderboard. Although there were only three thousand people on the leaderboard, those at the bottom of the leaderboard had at least the combat effectiveness of a 3-star Upper Deity. Even those in the top one thousand had the combat effectiveness of an Supreme Deity. There were also rumors that the top fifty on the leaderboard had the strength of a Half-True God. Although this rumor might not be accurate, it was probably not far from the truth.

When one reached the level of a deity, many methods that could not be used in the past could be used. Therefore, there were many monster powerhouses in the Special Tribes who could jump ranks.

Outside the ruins, Harold and Balthaze from the Federal Government also noticed the change in the leaderboard. Their expressions were rather complicated. On one hand, they hoped that Gu Ding, as a member of the Human Camp, could obtain more resources in the ruins. On the other hand, they felt awkward because Gu Ding's crew belonged to a pirate organization. After all, the Federal Government and the Interstellar Pirates were two completely opposing forces.

In the ruins, everyone in Gu Ding's crew except Mi Ke had broken through to the level of a deity. Now, they finally did not have to deliberately hide from Night Demon and the others.

Just as everyone packed up their things and prepared to move toward the next treasure hunting spot given by Neptune, Mi Ke suddenly said hesitantly. Mi Ke Ke suddenly said hesitantly, "Brother Gu Ding, I also want to enter the time-accelerated hut to cultivate for a while. After all, I've been holding everyone back in this treasure hunting ruins so far. Originally, I planned to enter Robert's domain for a good closed-door cultivation after exploring the ruins. However, now that we have the time-accelerated hut, I think it's better to go into closed-door cultivation. Moreover, I haven't had the time to properly cultivate the technique I got from Futu. I feel that the technique will be very helpful in improving my strength. If I succeed in cultivating it, my combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly improved. "

Gu Ding did not say much after hearing this. He just ruffled Mi Ke's hair. "Alright then, cultivate well. If there's anything, contact Neptune immediately. "

"Okay." Mi Ke nodded heavily and stepped into the time-accelerated hut.

Gu Ding put the hut away. Only then did everyone ride on the back of a golden skeleton and rush toward the next treasure hunting spot.

After entering the time-accelerated hut, Mi Ke sat down cross-legged and immersed her mind into her soul space. She flipped through the technique.

Although her eyes could not see external objects, in her soul state, she could clearly see everything in her soul space, including the text and picture information of the technique.

She had been running around in the Virtual World in order to survive, so she had no time to cultivate the technique. After leaving the Virtual World, she entered the ruins again a few days later. Therefore, the technique that Futu gave her, Mi Ke had basically been idle except for reading it when she had time. It was not until now that Gu Ding had obtained the time-accelerated hut that Mi Ke seized the opportunity to cultivate properly.

The time-accelerated hut had a time acceleration effect of 100: 1. The flow of time was a hundred times faster than the outside world. Cultivating for a day was equivalent to cultivating for a hundred days outside. It was better than the thirty-fold time acceleration effect of Robert's domain.

Mi Ke Ke flipped through the cultivation method again. The name of the cultivation method was' Through Heaven World Path '. It described how to become an ancient world boundary master.

Mi Ke flipped through the pages one by one. It was the first time he had looked at the technique in detail. After flipping through it, he had some understanding of the wards master profession.

The wards master was a branch of the ancient formation masters. It was a very special school. The formation masters paid particular attention to the use of soul power to arrange the formation, which had high requirements for the strength of the soul. However, the wards master had slightly lower requirements for soul power, but had higher requirements for deduction ability and control of God Source. They paid particular attention to building a model in the brain and then constructing it with God Source.

Boundaries could only be constructed with God Source. Therefore, the minimum requirement for the wards master's cultivation was demigod. This was because those who had not reached demigod cultivation could not control the operation of God Source.

Mi Ke felt a little nervous when he saw such a profession that he had never heard of. However, when he thought about how he could not help Gu Ding and the others in every battle, he resolutely looked at the first blueprint.

It was a tower-shaped object. The structure was not particularly complicated, but there were at least three hundred lines. For a beginner, this could be said to be extremely difficult. However, Mi Ke did not know this. He quickly constructed the model of the tower in his mind, and then used God Source to outline it stroke by stroke …

First failure!

Second failure!

Third failure!

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It was not until the hundred and twenty-eighth time that he finally succeeded. During this period, he did not know how many God Source Replenishment Elixirs he had consumed.

A small white tower formed in the palm of his hand. Suddenly, a white light flashed between Mi Ke's eyebrows and shone into the tower.

Mi Ke was a little stunned to see a white tower the size of a palm fly into his soul space. The tower directly entered the pattern of the Way of the Skyward World.

A voice suddenly rang out. "The Way of the Skyward World has begun to recognize its owner!"