What kind of power was necessary to be attained to be equivalent or stronger to a Pseudo-Divine Being?
Either one would become a Pseudo-Divine Being oneself, or one would go one step ahead and become an actual Divine Being.
Zayn couldn't achieve the former with his mortal body, especially not since no God would grant him a Divine Blessing. Meanwhile, the latter was something that required way too much time. He would never be able to create a Divinity in the time he had left until the Divine King reached him.
So, what was he supposed to do?
At the end of the day, Zayn chose to pick a third option. He would create the foundation of Godhood!
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtIn order to achieve that, Zayn would have to be in possession of nine Soulrings and accumulate enough soul particles to combine the nine Soulrings into an Omni Soulring.
The Omni Soulring would cleanse and refine the body, allowing mortals to shed their mortality and attain immortality.
That was the closest Zayn could get to the Divine King's combat prowess. He had yet to encounter the Divine King, but the memories of his Spirits were not a laughing matter either. Some had seen the Divine King and witnessing his power in those fragments of memories was more than enough to tell him that he had mere hours left to increase his strength as much as possible.
As for thinking about fleeing, Zayn did consider it. However, the Gods were already enraged about the death of their loyal followers, and they guided the Divine King to him. No matter where he would hide, the Divine King was bound to find him.
Zayn chose to prepare for the final battle with that thought in mind. He had to become stronger, and his Spirits would be useless for the final battle. Glutton had devoured and digested every corpse, providing hundreds of millions of high-quality Soul Orbs.
So, what could Zayn do to accumulate enough soul particles inside his body to skip several steps in the Soul Ranking and create the Omni Soulring? How could he absorb as many soul particles as possible with the low talent he possessed?
It was pretty simple, really.
'By turning my body into a spirit-based black hole, I can change the condition of my entire body!'
Black holes were said to form when a massive star collapses under its own gravitational force, causing its core to become incredibly dense and compact. The collapse creates a singularity, a point of infinite density, and zero volumes at the center.
A spirit-based black hole would require a massive celestial spirit-based body to collapse under its own gravitational force. However, Zayn didn't have something like that. The only thing he had was hundreds of thousands of Spirits and six Soulrings, which he could forcefully compress.
Zayn stored all Spirits inside the six Soulrings and compressed them as tightly as possible. He then used the pressure he could exude using his past memories and everything he recalled from the past to shatter his six Soulrings and hundreds of thousands of Spirits at the same time.
The moment Zayn did that, the outermost layer of his Soulrings was expelled, creating a massive explosion, a supernova that destroyed the remains of the battlefield. The Normies had already been sent away to make sure that nobody would hinder Zayn's fight against the Divine King.
Thus, nobody was hit by the supernova even though everyone across the realm fused earth could see it clearly.
The remains of the six Soulrings and Spirits were purified soul energy that was compressed into an infinitely compressed core. The Soul Core was extremely dense and had a strong gravitational pull, and it continued to collapse inwards until it became a soul singularity.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThe gravitational force of the spirit-based black hole was so strong that it pulled every soul particle around it toward it, devouring it greedily. This is why it was also considered a 'golden' hole – because it is so dense, and its gravitational pull is so strong that not a single soul particle can escape it once it passes a certain point in the horizon.
The entire Demon territory and adjacent territories were drained of all their soul particles from one moment to another. All soul particles were sucked into Zayn's body as it began to creak and break. Zayn's skin and the flesh underneath burst open, and his condition continued to grow worse as he released the Soul Orbs that had been created by Gluttony.
The massive number of Soul Orbs was instantaneously devoured by the soul singularity and Zayn's body was on the verge of tearing apart due to the massive strain weighing down on his body. He had absorbed way too many soul particles. His body couldn't handle it anymore!
However, Zayn couldn't care less about that right now. If his body was not able to endure the pressure weighing down on him, he might as well destroy his body and repair it, over and over again until the cells inside his body were strong enough to endure the pressure of the soul singularity and the soul particles it had devoured already.
In the following hours, Zayn's body was destroyed and repaired using the dormant soul energy inside him. He couldn't recall how often his body had been repaired or destroyed but the pain was clearly imprinted on his mind. It was something he would never forget.
Fortunately, the result was worth the pain he endured. A body that accepted soul energy instantly was created, in addition to the extra utility to further refine his body the more soul particles he accumulated inside his body.
While Zayn was satisfied with the reconstruction of his body, it was not yet over. In fact, he was just getting started. The real problem was just ahead.
He was to transform the soul singularity into an Omni Soulring now that it had amassed enough soul particles. Fortunately, Zayn's memories of the past were helpful in that regard.