After advancing to the divine rank, Xiang Yu had received quite the benefits.
First was that all his initial bloodline abilities were strengthened multiple times over, becoming extremely powerful.
Another benefit was that his bloodlines could finally be engraved in the soul as well.
But at the moment, he couldn’t do this as his soul had yet to complete its bridge and integrate with the body. Speaking of, he had realized that his architect profession was quite useful. He had used it the day before to develop a bridge in his spiritual sea to integrate his soul. Since he was close to reaching the peak of the integration realm, he had decided to start early.
He was really looking forward to integrating his soul. If he did, he believed his system wouldn’t require him to always have his body anymore. Even if he died and reincarnated, he could be sure that it would follow him. And even if it wouldn’t, his four bloodlines could at least do so if he engraved them into his soul. Although he wasn’t thinking of dying anytime soon, the insurance was great to have.
For his phoenix bloodline, his regeneration increased quite a bit, though he couldn’t tell due to how good it already was. But it now even affected the soul. His soul regeneration speed had increased multiple times over. Although not quite to the level of instantaneous regeneration like his body, it was still quite fast.
Soul injuries were the hardest to heal, and unfortunately, this didn’t change as a soul advanced.
In fact, it got worse. That’s why someone like the Empress was unable to restore her soul to the eternal realm instantly. He was really excited about this. He hoped that his soul reached the level of instantaneous regeneration at some point.
When that happened, he would really be invincible.
This was because if his soul was bridged, another ability of the phoenix bloodline would show itself. That was the fact that he could endlessly regenerate his body as long as his soul was still there. Not from a mere blood drop anymore, but from the soul. This was really impressive.
From what he had heard from the Empress, this was the signature ability of an eternal level soul - being able to regenerate your body instantly as long as your soul exists. Though it probably wasn’t comparable to the real ability of the eternal level soul, it was still impressive.
He really needed to finish up the bridge soon.
Another ability he received for the phoenix bloodline was the advancement of his fire domain into a law instantly. Though he wasn’t particularly impressed with this, as his dragon bloodline also advanced all the elements into laws. Though he supposed it was fine, as the fire element now received lots of experience in the law realm.
The dragon bloodline also gave him some form of draconic authority. It was a kind of intimidation-type ability that allowed him to command others or greatly intimidate them. Though he felt it might be just for show, as it could only be used on those weaker than him and to a limited extent on those of equal strength.
Even so, it wasn’t all that bad.
Another ability that made him not value that one as much was divine authority. He had received some sort of divine authority from all the four bloodlines, but he didn’t understand how to use it. It definitely felt extremely powerful, but also elusive at the same time.
He decided to ask the Empress.
...
[Some sort of divine authority?] the Empress asked.
"That’s right," Xiang Yu’s partition replied.
[I see. It’s probably divine power,] she said.
"Divine power?" he asked.
[That’s right. When you breakthrough to the god realm, you acquire a certain amount of divine power,] she said. [Think of it like a superior version of heavenly merit. It helps people upgrade their talents and do other things. It can also be used in combat, but that’s considered a waste. Most people use it immediately after breaking through to advance their talent, or even upgrade their bloodlines to divine rank. This is actually the only known method for advancing bloodlines to divine rank.]
Xiang Yu was surprised by the information. He hadn’t expected it to be this powerful. After some thought, he decided to keep this divine power for later. If he reached the god rank, he might get another round of it. Maybe he could store it and use it to upgrade his talent above dao.
He thought to himself that the dao realm was probably the limit of natural talent, and he might not be able to gain a single exp beyond that. He needed to start saving divine power if he wanted source level enlightenment so he could comprehend the original source level absolute source.
The dragon bloodline didn’t seem to have any other benefits, so he moved on to the others.
Actually, it did, but the benefits were mostly to his body and physical strength. While greatly appreciated, he didn’t find it as interesting. As he thought of this, he suddenly noticed something he had almost missed.
It was another law. "The Law of Strength." He hadn’t expected something like this. There was actually a law of strength. The way the law worked was straightforward, allowing him to boost his strength multiple times over according to his mastery of the law. As expected of the dragon bloodline, it didn’t let him down at all.
He moved on to the others. For the white tiger bloodline, it gave him the intrinsic ability of being able to attack across space - basically just an increase in spatial affinity. But that wasn’t all. It also upgraded his space domain to law. Another thing was that it gave him a killing intent related ability. It was similar to the draconic authority as it was related to intimidation. The ability basically allowed him to instantly kill any opponent weaker than him just by showing his killing intent.
Just like the draconic authority, it wasn’t particularly interesting to him as all his battles were almost always against people stronger than him. It was an interesting ability either way. The rest of the benefits, just like the dragon, were related to body and speed.
Speaking of, he realized that it gave him another law just like the dragon - "Law of Speed." It was just like the law of strength but focused on speed.
"Wait, if this also has another law... then the phoenix..." He quickly checked to see if he’d missed something:
"Law of Reincarnation."