“Void-grade? How are weapons and pills ranked after the Divine-transcendent tier?”

It was the first time Ye Liuyun had ever heard the term.

He seized the chance to ask the book-demon how weapons, treasures, and pills were classified from here on.

The book-demon, delighted that he’d reaped such rich loot, explained at length:

“Above Divine-transcendent comes True-grade, matching the Unity realm—returning to nature is ‘true’

Void-grade corresponds to the Grand-void realm; moving from true into void is true transcendence of natural power

Both grades split into nine tiers and nine sub-grades.

Yet sometimes a Divine-transcendent treasure outperforms a True-grade one; it depends on function and material

Only pill potency follows the hierarchy faithfully. The golden pill in your hand is Void-grade, first tier, first sub-grade—its effect will be terrifying. Wait until late Unity before swallowing it; too early and you’ll waste it.”

The answer not only taught Ye Liuyun the rankings, but also the essence of Unity and Grand-void.

“Fine. I’ll push my strength first; I’ll take this condensation pill when I’m late-Unity.”

He planned to stockpile resources, then use the pill to compress every aspect of his power.

“You’d better hurry and advance your spatial and heaven-earth forces,” the book-demon advised

“When you break through to Grand-void you’ll recall your clones and stack their essence, spirit, blood, and body

But spatial and heaven-earth power can’t be stacked—whatever insight you have is what you get. Without prior effort you’ll be weak there.”

“Must I recall my clones to enter Grand-void?” Ye Liuyun asked.

“Not necessarily,” the book-demon replied

“Yet most people need a huge leap. Grinding alone takes forever

That’s why the Whale’s soul is so mighty yet still stuck—its blood and body are too weak. With a body that huge, it can’t find enough resources to upgrade them.”

“Even absorbing everything I just took won’t suffice?”

“Far from it. Its true essence and soul probably qualify, blood barely, but its flesh definitely doesn’t. One shortfall blocks the gate

Above all, the body: breaking into Grand-void draws a thunder tribulation. With weak flesh it daren’t even try.”

“A tribulation? I’ll face one too?”

The book-demon chuckled: “Of course! Why should you be exempt—because you have plenty of women?”

“...I’m just asking!”

Unwilling to banter further, Ye Liuyun went to hunt more loot.

In the treasure vault a blood-red battle-armor dominated the display, its baleful aura so dense he hesitated to approach.

“Void-grade,” the book-demon confirmed.

He sent in a thread of psyche—armor flung it back

Blood force, true essence—same result.

“It thinks you’re too weak,” the demon laughed in his sea of consciousness.

“...All right, I’ll store it till I’m stronger.”

To be spurned by a suit of armor—novel humiliation.

Next he found a Lightning-Source Orb—empty; the Whale’s tribulation stash. He handed it to Lei Ming to refine and stockpile thunder.

Nothing else caught his eye; he rarely relied on gear anyway

Most items here were True-grade, so he hauled them out and let beasts and humans pick at will.Inside

Inside the hidden vault where pills were stored, Ye Liuyun called Lin Luoyi out, had her pick out the highest-grade elixirs for condensing profound energy, soul, bloodline and physique, then simply handed the rest to her to copy and distribute to the rest of the team.

Lin Luoyi’s alchemy had hit a wall: with no one to guide her and no recipes for True-tier pills, her recent progress had flattened.

Ye Liuyun felt the same was true for Lin Xiyao, Tong Xin, Qiong Qi and the rest—it was time they learned from stronger alchemists and forgers, and he promised to keep an eye out for such mentors.

Next came heaps of source energy, crystals and other power resources; Ye Liuyun didn’t bother counting—he swept everything into Blue Heart’s lap for sorting.

Then he handed the resources out, telling everyone they would stay put for one month and to cultivate flat-out.

“Use whatever you can absorb—don’t hoard, power-up first,” he ordered.

He led by example, hauling out the blue-whale stockpile and refining it together with his clone, refusing to save it for a future big breakthrough.

The stash, however, was enormous; they couldn’t finish it in one go.

A month slipped by; only the souls inside the Soul-Seal Orb were fully drained. The five-color body-tempering stones were exhausted after the three of them took turns, and when he dived back into the trench the pressure no longer registered.

The blood-clot chunk was only half consumed, and of the galaxy source not even twenty percent had been absorbed.

Bear in mind: inside the clone’s inner world they had trained for three hundred days, yet this was all they managed.

Of course, during those three hundred days he still fought regularly, heeded the Book Demon’s warning, and kept sharpening his spatial and heaven-earth powers—no aspect could fall behind.

So when the month ended his cultivation had only reached mid Third-Rank Unity, yet his profound energy was now frighteningly dense. Coupled with stronger spatial and heaven-earth force, he no longer feared fighting Sixth-Rank Unity experts.

The other beasts and women were patching their own weaknesses, refining true energy instead of rushing another breakthrough—most had only just advanced and couldn’t jump again so soon—but every one of them had clearly grown stronger.