The Tale of the Void Emperor

Athan filled up the genome tree's third branch for a whole day, but there wasn't much progress.

Skylord, Lucent, and DeathKnight were currently breaking through to the third stage of the Spirit Armament since they just finished absorbing their spirit evolution orbs.

After an hour, The shine from their miniature body stopped glowing as they revealed their new appearances.

They looked highly natural right now. Previously, They were created from Athan's thoughts and the nature of the concept he comprehended, so even though they looked cool and powerful, It didn't seem like they were natural species like other beasts and races.

But after breaking through to the third stage of the spirit armament, they evolved to perfect and unique species that housed their own unique power.

DeathKnight looked like a centaur with cool dark armor that had dark gold and white patterns.

Lucent grew a pair of wings that looked furry and wide that perfectly matched its tiger physique. Lucent's body had dreamy white and black stripes with a sparky blue horn on its head. Its fur looked natural and smooth.

Skylord's two pairs of wings turned into one pair of wings. Both wings were metallic black with shining green and red patterns. The wings gave off a destructive aura.

Its head had two long horns that had dark spiral patterns with silver linings. Sharp and destructive scales covered Skylord's whole body. The scales were mysterious as they changed colors often. Sometimes they were dark green, and Sometimes they were sharp red. Sometimes they were greyish dark and sometimes intense blackish gold.

Skylord gave off a wholly offensive aura, ready to destroy anyone.

DeathKnight gave off a balanced aura that seemed between Life and Death.

Lucent gave off a dreamy aura as if everything was an illusion, but a nightmare was ready to swallow anyone behind that illusion.

Athan was still inside his special space, so he wasn't teleported to the third layer battlefield after his altar spirit broke through to the third stage.

" Since you three are done, then start your process of strengthening me. I'll use this strengthening to finish the third stage of the Spirit Astride plane if possible. "

" Yes, Master. "

Lucent, DeathKnight, and Skylord stood in the middle of the Erudite palace as they closed their eyes and started to release their energy and branding their new powers inside the Erudite palace plane.

With this, Athan would get another boost in his overall strength, but most importantly, He will receive pure soul energy that could boost his soul body. But since he already transformed his soul, He will use this pure soul energy to complete the third stage of the Spirit Astride plane, Formation Source Nucleus, Also known as Source core.

Gradually, His overall capabilities increased. The capacity of his magic cores and his unima core also increased, and even his physical body got more robust. His two rule power became more potent in their ability, and finally...He received pure soul energy.

Sensing this pure soul energy that gathered around his soul body, ready to be absorbed by his soul body, Athan prevented it and instead controlled it and started the process to form his Source core.

Source core was the combination of his primal energy, soul energy, and genesis energy, and one more thing.

He flowed his primal energy and genesis energy towards his soul realm as they started to surround his soul body along with the pure soul energy.

He controlled them and slowly gathered them towards the chest of his soul body as the golden brilliance that always surrounded his soul body after it transformed finally showed its use.

Everyone whose soul has transformed will have this golden brilliance energy surrounding their soul body, and this was the catalyst to form the Source core.

After they combined for a while, Athan suddenly felt short on some pure soul energy.

His main soul body and sub soul body are formed by soul source ( pure soul energy ). The main soul body is a qualitatively more condensed and more powerful soul source.

So if he is short on pure soul energy, he would have to sacrifice a bit of his soul source to generate the pure soul energy, which will weaken his soul or sub soul until it is recovered naturally.

But after thinking for a moment, He decided to eat the last soul jade fruit.

Pure soul energy gushed inside the soul realm after Athan ate the soul jade fruit as he finally reached the perfect equilibrium to form his source core. There was still some leftover pure soul energy, but instead of giving it to his main soul body, He gave it to his sub-soul body.

All four energies combined and turned into a shining golden core that slowly entered inside his soul body.

The Source core started shining after it positioned itself in the chest of his soul body and marked the completion of the third stage of the Spirit Astride plane.

One other thing to notice was that his Source core constantly absorbed his primal energy, genesis energy, and soul energy.

Athan knew that this was a normal process to create the Primordial Force, which has some important uses.

Lucent, DeathKnight, and Skylord were long done providing the boost to the soul, and now, Athan also finished his process and formed his Source core.

He opened his eyes and came out from the special space.

Right after that, He heard the voice inside his head.

[ You have finished forming your source core, and your altar spirits have reached the third stage of the spirit armament. ]

[ After reviewing your battle records and capacity, You will be teleported to the most dangerous zone of the third level battlefield. ]

Right after that, Athan felt a pull as he disappeared and appeared at a gloomy place where destructive purple lightning and thunder were crackling in the sky as dark clouds loomed everywhere.

There were high mountains and thick trees but not intact as they were also devastated by the destructive purple lightning in the sky that descended often.

Athan formed multiple defensive barriers around him, including his Blood magic: Vindication covenant at full power.

His Jigen persona was still at the second layer, cutting down a horde of beasts, but Athan called it back in this third layer.

[ Survive and defeat powerful natural disaster beasts to receive raw primordial force. Once you break through to the Trinity Source plane, You will be teleported to the 3rd layer of the Roumbra Blood war dimension. ]

Since Athan reached the last stage of the Spirit Astride plane, The only thing left was to break through to the next plane, and for this, He needed more Primordial force.

Athan saw that there was no number or battlefield gauge on his wrist.

" Looks like this third level battlefield is free-roaming, but...." Athan looked in the sky as he saw a giant purple Loong ( Chinese dragon ) swimming across the dark clouds and among the destructive purple lightning.

" But I was really sent to the most dangerous zone in this third-level battlefield. "

*RAWRRRRRRRR...*

The giant hundreds of meters long Loong looked really powerful and gave off a destructive aura but...naturally, Athan didn't perceive it as a threat.