Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener - Chapter 689

Chapter 689: Chapter 689: Did the Invaders Get Scared? Full Speed Ahead!
At this point, no matter how much anger and resentment boiled inside him, it was all in vain.

“Fine, ten is good enough, after all. It’s still quite impressive,” he muttered to himself.

Taking a deep breath, his turbulent emotions slowly calmed down.

Contentment brings peace, he reminded himself. Sometimes, overreaching in the pursuit of something only leads to failure. Sterl always believed that strength brought surprises. As long as he was strong enough, everything he lost would eventually return to his control.

“Even though I couldn’t refine all the mother souls, at least the souls they gathered have all ended up in my pocket,” he muttered, his frustration fading even further.

With a total of twenty-seven mother entities, the souls he’d acquired now numbered over four hundred million. Adding them to the souls he had left, his total had surpassed five hundred million. And all of them were souls of normal beings. If he refined them all, that would be five million soul power!

This harvest was already rich beyond measure. Whether used to increase the productivity of the mother entities, enhance his own strength, or bolster his forces, these souls held immense value.

Moreover, these souls represented a massive foundation of power. With five million soul power, even maintaining Star-Bone Body for intense combat would be possible for a long while. His survival and burst potential had both greatly improved.

“Those despicable thieves… I’ll make you all spit it out sooner or later.”

With a cold snort, Sterl prepared to head to the next layer of Hell. While there was still plenty of power left in his Star-Bone Body, he intended to wipe the place clean!

But then, he paused for a moment, his gaze drifting toward a corner of Hell that had now become an empty void. There, a humanoid figure, resembling a sculpture, was floating in the void, radiating a faint life force.

However, this life force was incredibly weak. If left unattended, it would likely fade and perish in no time.

“An Upper-level Divine Authority?”

Sterl froze for a moment, a look of surprise crossing his face. He hadn’t expected that even an Upper-level Divine Authority would fall to the brink of death due to the residual shockwaves. That seemed a bit too extreme.

But after a brief reflection, he realized that Upper-level Divine Authorities in Hell were much weaker than those in the main world. Starting from the 80th layer of Hell, each subsequent layer was under the watch of an Upper-level Divine Authority.

However, before, Sterl had been too focused on pushing forward quickly, not paying attention to the Upper-level Divine Authorities, but based on their auras, it was clear that they were much weaker than those in the main world.

With a thought, Sterl waved his hand and summoned the sculpture over, pulling it directly into his Small World.

Although it was a weakened Upper-level Divine Authority, its combat ability still far exceeded that of an ordinary low-level Divine Power deity. Letting it die here would be too much of a waste. Even if it couldn’t do much else, he could still refine it into high-level soul power.

Once it was inside, Sterl didn’t give it another thought. He had business to attend to—specifically, finishing his cleanup of the first hundred layers of Hell before his Star-Bone Body state ended.

If he was lucky, the mysterious forces behind the scenes might not have had enough time to act, and he might still be able to harvest a mother entity’s soul.

Without hesitation, he extended his hand and waved it gently. The space shattered, and the barrier leading to the 91st layer was effortlessly broken as well.

During this process, Dimension Perception didn’t trigger any warnings, and Sterl’s concerns dissipated.

He was extremely satisfied with his Dimension Perception ability. Its foresight of danger was far superior to his own senses, and it even allowed him to predict ambushes by those mysterious invaders.

This completely eliminated the possibility of him being caught off guard by surprise attacks.

Sterl quickly reached the 91st layer of Hell. As before, he tore through everything at an unstoppable pace.

However, just as he was about to deal with the two mother entities of this layer and refine them, he suddenly noticed something odd: these mother entities had already begun to self-destruct.

He didn’t have time to hesitate. He immediately activated Phantom Purgatory to absorb them.

But he was still a moment too late. While the souls of the Hellish beings he had gathered were refined, the two mother entity souls completely disintegrated before he could finish the process.

Sterl’s expression darkened slightly, and he immediately moved on to the next layer of Hell. However, the result was exactly the same. In fact, the two mother entities in this layer had already begun to self-destruct even before he arrived.

Had he not acted quickly, the souls of the Hellish beings would have vanished along with them once they completed their disintegration.

“Are they trying to escape?”

Sterl frowned slightly, immediately understanding what was happening. Clearly, the forces behind the scenes had realized they couldn’t do anything to him for the time being.

So, in order to prevent him from harvesting these mother entity souls, they had decided to self-destruct, not giving him even the slightest chance.

Even though Sterl felt unwilling, there was nothing he could do. This was beyond his control. However, while he couldn’t obtain the mother entity souls, the ordinary souls were still not to be missed.

Without pausing for a moment, he pushed forward at maximum speed, relentlessly advancing through layer after layer of Hell. It wasn’t until the two mother entities in the 100th layer disappeared from his mind that he finally stopped.

“How boring.”

A look of disdain appeared on Sterl’s face. He had expected to encounter more ambushes from the forces behind the scenes during this process, but he had almost cleared all the layers without a single attack. Not only were there no ambushes, but the mother entities didn’t even put up a fight. It seemed as if they had already resigned to their fate.

By now, he had never truly enjoyed the full extent of Star-Bone Body’s power.

“Forget it. I’ll just put things away for now. If I keep going, it’s just a waste.”

Shaking his head, he used his will to gradually calm the energy within his Star-Bone Sacred Body.

Immediately, the immense power, which had been almost invincible like that of a superhero, flowed out of him like water, disappearing from his body.

“Ugh… the gap in strength is just too large.”

Once Star-Bone Body was completely closed off, Sterl let out a long sigh, feeling an overwhelming sense of weakness throughout his entire body.

While his original strength had already been quite formidable, capable of overwhelming most upper-level divine authorities, compared to the power of Star-Bone Body, it felt as weak as a child taking their first steps—horrifyingly insufficient.

It took quite some time before Sterl fully returned to his senses, regaining perfect control over his real body.

At this moment, he paused, feeling a strange sensation deep within his body, and a look of surprise crossed his face.

“I didn’t expect that the unused Power of Star-Bone could actually be stored!”

He was astonished to find that the remaining Power of Star-Bone had quietly settled within his body, like a cluster of condensed starlight.

However, this small amount of Power of Star-Bone was quite scarce. Once activated, it could only sustain Star-Bone Body for about two seconds.

Still, this was a form of safeguard. If he could store up Power of Star-Bone in advance, he could convert soul power into it beforehand. This way, even in the face of some extremely special situations, he would still have the ability to fight back.

Of course, all of that was for later. As was his usual practice, he first checked his gains. Originally, his reserve of soul puppets had been around 500 million, but now it had increased to around 800 million—an increase of 300 million souls, or about 8 million soul power.

Upon seeing this, Sterl couldn’t help but feel a sense of emotion. Truly, the world is full of uncertainties. When he first acquired the Soul Devourer Sphere, he never imagined he would obtain such a vast amount of soul power.

Of course, this massive soul power was the essence of the souls from most of the beings nurtured throughout the hundred layers of Hell.

“After this, I’m afraid it’ll be a long time before I encounter a place so rich in souls again.”

Sterl couldn’t help but feel a bit regretful. If he could, he would even wish that Hell had a thousand or ten thousand layers, so he could devour them all at once and enjoy the feast.

But the reality was that, aside from the eight core layers of Hell, he had already consumed all the other layers. There was nothing left to squeeze out.

Unless something unexpected occurred, after using up this eight million soul power, it would likely be a long time before he could obtain such a large amount of soul power again.

“First, give me the authority and blessings of these twenty layers of Hell.”

Sterl spoke淡淡 (lightly) to the air in front of him.

As soon as his words fell, the Will of Hell appeared.

The Will of Hell was the collective consciousness of all beings in Hell. After the liberation of these layers, it would instantly receive all the information from these layers of Hell and could perform an instantaneous transfer.

So, while the Will of Hell couldn’t keep up with Sterl’s speed, it was still able to catch up immediately after all the mother entities had disappeared.

“Good… good, please rest assured, I will start right away!” the Will of Hell responded, not daring to delay for even a moment.

Sensing the hundred layers of Hell that had been fully liberated, as well as the two layers of Hell that had permanently vanished, it immediately fell into a state of partial shutdown.

Everything that had occurred during this time was beyond its comprehension. Now, as it approached Sterl, it felt like an ant walking towards an elephant—an overwhelming sense of insignificance.

Just one casual movement from the latter would be like the collapse of the heavens and the earth for it.

Mainly, it was the mysterious state of Sterl that was so terrifying. The Will of Hell had never felt such a force before.

If this mysterious demon god decided to act against it now, it would have absolutely no ability to resist. Its only fate would be to face death—nothing more.

This was the crushing force of absolute power. As long as your strength was great enough, even an entire world would bow down beneath your feet.

With that, the Will of Hell quickly began to operate, rapidly gathering the blessing and authority from these twenty layers of Hell, transmitting all of it to Sterl without any concealment.