It's been a week since Sumer was able to complete the Body Refinement Layer.
At this point, he is well on his way to breaking through to the Innate Realm from the Half-Step Innate Layer.
He reads the information in his head again:
"In this realm, genuine energy starts to flow through the meridians which results in an enhanced sense of surroundings.
The lifespan increases to more than 100 years. This is due to various stages of primary body refinement before this realm to remove all bodily impurities.
In this realm, a person cannot be regarded as an ordinary mortal as their lifespan increases and they obtain superhuman physique and control over the aura they emit.
Beings at the peak of Refinement can exhibit a strength of 2-4 tons.
A peak Innate Realm can manipulate energy and can transfer the energy into a separate object enhancing its attributes and attack potential greatly.
While also being able to exhibit the strength of 10-20 tons depending on the cultivation technique and physique the cultivator possesses at their peak.
Note: To break through to the Innate Realm, once circulation of genuine energy begins, do not stop as a backlash would occur that would rupture your meridians.
Circulate the genuine energy in your body as fast as you can. Once the speed reaches enough, the meridians will begin to absorb the energy and evenly suffuse the insides of the meridians with genuine energy.
This will pave the road for easier cultivation of genuine energy since existing energy is present. This step is often skipped and it annoys me. That is all."
"That makes sense and kind of ironic. The path of cultivation is a road that doesn't end. If that road isn't done correctly, gradually it will begin to form potholes. Those potholes would soon make that road unusable."
A stable foundation is the basis for a strong building. And his foundation is very stable as he unknowingly refined every layer to the extreme.
Additionally, with his body being refined by the World's Will itself, he had gained more results than any divine talent or physique produced by the Heavens with half the effort.
Simply because the World's Will incorporated every special trait they had and put it into one, harmonious body.
Coupled with an energy source stronger than the genuine energy in the world, the density and purity of it are many times more as well.
Sumer doesn't waste any more time. He circulates his energy with a slow steady pace.
He then begins to increase the circulation speed. Within twenty minutes, each round of circulation of the Omega Effect's energy in his meridians strengthens his body and increases speed.
The current speed of each circulation is approaching Mach 1.
A loud rumbling noise could be heard throughout the entirety of a 3-mile radius.
Suddenly, his meridians began glowing a bright, crimson red. In each round, you could visually see more and more of the Omega energy become more apparent.
Three hours later, the entire meridian nodes and pathways in Sumer's body are lit up crimson.
Sumer was not worried about the glowing meridians because it is stated that this is a temporary thing during the Innate Realm breakthrough.
He just simply laughs. In a week, he had gone from Body Refinement 1 to Refinement 6. Not to mention his breakthrough to the Innate Realm.
If any old ancestors saw this scene play out, they would die from embarrassment. Who told them to be less talented? Just accept your fate and get buried.
Without warning, a loud boom sounds within Sumer's body as a huge gout of Omega energy rushes into his body, completely nourishing it.
That sudden boom signifies the shackles of mortality have been broken and the person is no longer bound by the world as much.
The body, acting as though it hadn't eaten in days, greedily absorbed the Omega energy.
'This is expected. Upon breaking through, my body would consume large amounts of Omega Force. Someone possessing this type of body would eventually die due to malnourishment. Darkseid has been useful yet again.'
Almost a day passed by as Sumer's body finally stopped absorbing Omega energy. It was full and had had enough.
Taking a look at himself with his inner vision, Sumer is surprised at how much stronger and denser his body is compared to others of the same level.
If others' bodies were tug boats drifting in the ocean, then Sumer's body was a crane vessel surfing tides while holding up entire buildings with ease.
Even the amount of Omega energy now produced by his body is no less than that of the power supplied to a fully functional military base. It is simply inexhaustible at the same level.
Sumer's attention was drawn deeper into his inner palace. Before him, ten giant, white stone pillars rose from the ground to about 10ft in the air. Above each of them was a glowing ring. Each ring had their own color.
Red ring.
Gold ring.
Orange ring.
Yellow ring.
Green ring.
Blue ring.
Indigo ring.
Violet ring.
Black ring.
White ring.
Sumer goes to each pillar and uses his senses to inspect them. Once done, he ponders, trying to figure out where he's seen them from. Inspecting the green ring, he confirms his guess.
'These rings are the rings of all 10 Lantern Corps. How did they end up in my inner space?'
Putting most of his questions to the side, he puts on several rings. None of them have any reaction.
Going off of his intuitive instinct, Sumer backs up far enough for him to see all ten pillars in full.
'Ah, that's why. None of the rings will have any reaction because only one will work for now.'
The reason he came to this conclusion is because all of the pillars were grayish-white while only one was truly white. Sumer had missed that small detail simply due to the attractiveness of the spinning rings.
The white pillar had the green ring spinning above it. This, by his guess, was the only one to be unlocked.
Sumer immediately jumps to it. He grabs the ring from the top and puts it on his right middle finger. Instantaneously, a green bodysuit conforming to his body and musculature system takes shape.
"Hey! This is the same as the Green Lantern movie. I'm Ryan Reynolds."
Sumer then leaves his inner palace to begin to test out the ring and its capabilities. He was quite surprised that his body had not been clothed and suited in the attire of the Green Lantern.
Instead of a ring on his middle finger, there lies the symbol of the Green Lantern Corps of Will in the form of a tattoo around it.
Another week passed as he had gotten used to the inner workings of the ring. In all honesty, it worked exactly the way it did in the comics. Sumer could make anything of his imagination and as strong as his will.
Along with that, Sumer also found out that he had obtained Darkseid's stamina, ability to fly, and gravity manipulation ability.
Applying his Omega Force to gravity manipulation and the ring allowed for a multiplicative of 10x the power.
Knowing that his Will will be increased along with tempering of the soul as well as overcoming mental obstacles, Sumer found no problems using the ring just by itself.
After being in the same place for almost a month, Sumer decided he should go and test his newfound powers with practical training.
The place he's in is called the Thousand Beast Forest. This forest has thousands of species of mutated beasts of all sorts. Ranging from mammals to flora, the forest has it all.
At the same time, the topography and terrain fluidly blended. One would think it was an entire world of its own.
Funnily enough, it isn't far from the truth. In the entire 5,000km of forest and mountains, lies an entire civilization of beasts. At the top of the food chain are 5 beasts:
5. Heavenly Wolf Clan
4. Indomitable Bear Clan
3. Honorable Roc Clan
2. Ferocious Tiger Clan
1. Divine Ape Clan.
Similar to the cultivators of this world, beasts also cultivate. In the lower levels, they are just that, beasts.
However, as they progress through the realms, they become increasingly smarter.
At the higher stages, the beasts would even be able to take on human form.
That was a scary fact if one wasn't familiar with beast aura, they would blindly talk with a beast who would be there to absorb their life essence.
With this knowledge received from Long Caihong, Sumer breaks out in a sprint.
He remembers through the previous Sumer's memories that he was at the border between the outer and inner regions.
The outer regions held beasts in the Refinement realm to the Innate realm. The Inner region held beasts from the Spirit Illumination realm to the Spirit Core realm.
The core region… well not much info was revealed to him about that as Long Caihong probably wanted him to explore that by himself.
Based on the previous categories, he wouldn't be surprised to find Virtual Tribulation beasts and Life-Death beasts there in huge numbers anyway.
And the beasts who rule that region are none other than the apes. Some cultivators dub it as…
The Planet of the Apes.