"Withdraw," Lu Changsheng muttered. With that, the massive black hole vanished. 

As the divine ability sank into his body, he could clearly feel his physical form being altered bit by bit, reshaped into a body suited to wielding a divine ability.

This was the way of it: a martial artist first attained a divine ability, and only then, under its influence, did the flesh gradually and imperceptibly transform, extending the martial artist's lifespan. 

A Divine Ability martial artist lived for eight hundred years, only two hundred less than a Golden Core True One. 

Once a martial artist achieved a divine ability, he stood as a true equal to the immortal cultivators. In raw combat power alone, a martial artist in the Divine Ability Realm was generally even a touch stronger than a Golden Core True One.

The Golden Core True Ones were superior only in terms of the sheer variety of their arsenal, composed of formations, enchanted treasures, and spells. And...