chsdbacks Chapter 354 Merit Completed, Ascending to Starlight
Chapter 354 Merit Completed, Ascending to Starlight
Chapter 354 Merit Completed, Ascending to Starlight
"Huh?" Ye Yang was a little surprised. He thought she was going to say something else, but he didn't expect it to be about this.
So much time has passed, he's almost forgotten.
"What I was so angry about back then, I don't care about now. Time really can change everything."
With a sigh, Ye Yang said calmly, "I'm not some kind of devil. As long as no one dies, you can handle the rest."
The female fairy nodded quickly: "I understand."
After dealing with matters concerning the Zi Teng Star System and the Ling Shu Star, Ye Yang planned to leave.
Before leaving, Luo Yunru smiled and said, "I'll be waiting for you at Falling Star Lodge for anything else you want to know."
Ye Yang nodded, and his body dissipated.
Returning our attention to the core microbial community, it had now recovered from the void's erosion.
"006 The Gate of All Heavens?"
Ye Yang thought to himself that the small amount of information Luo Yunru had revealed had already given him a lot of guesses, but he couldn't be sure.
Her previous statements about "true spirit reincarnation" and "we are special" made Ye Yang wonder if this woman was also a time traveler.
Although the strategists and dungeon masters in the Immortal Alliance are all operating in the myriad worlds, they are fundamentally different from Ye Yang.
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They are centered around the "Main World" and [042 Gate of the Heavens].
But Ye Yang's situation is more like turning the "main world where the Star Alliance originated" into a dungeon world, and a certain being projected Ye Yang's consciousness into this dungeon world.
Of course, not necessarily.
It cannot be ruled out that Ye Yang's memories of his past life were all fabricated, and that his local soul and local consciousness had loaded an additional memory.
In short, everything needs to be explored further once Ye Yang becomes stronger.
"No matter how many schemes await me, as long as I make progress that exceeds the schemers' expectations and breaks through their redundancy, these schemes will naturally become useless."
Ye Yang felt that the civilizational fortune he could leverage was gradually reaching a balance with the Great Dao Seed he had condensed. Many people and tens of thousands of stars were centered around him, and their causal fortunes were connected.
A certain kind of "power" at the level of the Great Dao has already formed between Ye Yang and this starry river.
He smiled, closed his eyes in peace, and several days later, his internal state also reached perfection under the influence of external factors.
With his inner strength and outer virtues perfected, and the nascent form of the Great Dao condensed by Ye Yang's Dao Law almost complete, now is the time to take the final step and prove the Dao!
What is the true path that a cultivator comprehends? What is the false path?
The difference lies in self-consistency and perfection, thereby attaining the constant and unchanging nature of the Great Dao.
How can someone who is internally conflicted and unable to spontaneously form a balanced cycle still have the audacity to claim that they have proven a truth?
Because the Great Dao possesses the characteristic of being constant and unchanging after attaining enlightenment, it can maintain its own balance and cycle without the need for external forces to propel it. Therefore, the amount of mass and energy that can be controlled will increase exponentially!
Many sixth-tier cultivators can hardly even shake a planet with a diameter of 10,000 kilometers, but for a seventh-tier Dao Integration expert, even the weakest one can destroy a planet the size of Jupiter in its natural state.
Of course, if it weren't in its natural state, but rather a planet refined by other immortals, there would be a huge difference in size. The basic power that immortals can leverage is overwhelming; ordinary seventh-tier cultivators simply cannot budge it.
After attaining enlightenment and becoming a true being, one only needs to exert one-thousandth of the original effort to control the same power. Therefore, by cultivating the Dao for ten years, one can devote more energy to controlling more power or performing more precise operations.
This is also the prerequisite for them to refine an entire star and control so much matter and energy.
"This Great Path is built upon all the laws I have comprehended, whether they are the laws of the main world, the laws of the devouring world, or the laws of other heavens and worlds—"
Fire, metal, time, space, soul, spirituality —
Countless insights surfaced in Ye Yang's mind, and eventually a complete True Monarch-level thinking algorithm theory emerged, which was also combined with his insights into the soul and spirituality.
Spiritual and material principles, all things, combine to form a balanced and functioning system, much like a simple, rudimentary cosmic cycle, achieving self-consistency within a certain range.
A sense of fulfillment arose in Ye Yang's mind.
It can be called the fruit of the Tao, the seed of the Tao—at this moment, it has proven its own truth.
Ye Yang opened his eyes. Although his appearance did not change much, and there were no special effects of dazzling light and strange rules descending after a breakthrough, his temperament underwent a 180-degree transformation.
Previously, because he focused on cultivation, combat, and enlightenment, he made continuous progress, and his temperament was sharp and confident.
Later, by purifying the planet and saving all living beings, coupled with the blessing of good fortune and the accumulation of merit, Ye Yang gained an even more sublime and dazzling aura, like the rising sun.
Wherever you place him, almost everyone will instinctively center their attention around him, just as the stars revolve around the sun.
But now—all those qualities have vanished, and Ye Yang has returned to his original simplicity, becoming ordinary and unremarkable.
However, this is only the impression on the surface. If you look closely into his eyes, you will find that they are like a clear and tranquil deep pool of water. They are obviously clear and clean, but they are too deep and bottomless.
It's like peering into an abyss, or gazing at the starry sky. As you stare, the heat, the sharpness, the weight—layer upon layer—constantly change, like an endless kaleidoscope.
No one could tell his true nature.
But the seemingly ordinary side that Ye Yang showed was actually the truth.
"The Great Dao has been established; it is time to ascend."
Ye Yang murmured something, and his third clone immediately began to move.
In a part of the Milky Way's star system, a massive star radiating an incredibly intense blue-white light is undergoing subtle changes.
Living on the stars, the mycelium that constantly expands and reproduces converges at the center of hundreds of billions of nodes, and soon condenses into hundreds of billions of mimic brains.
These brains are distributed throughout this blue supergiant star, floating in the photosphere, troposphere, radiative zone, and star core.
Microbial community mimicry to form hundreds of billions of brains is not a difficult task, provided the scale is large enough.
However, to make use of these trillions of brains, one would need to divide one's mind and thoughts, requiring a trillion points of attention, which is difficult even for a Celestial Venerable.
However, Ye Yang has mastered the technology of thought algorithms. Even if he cannot be as extreme as the "transcendent being who abandons humanity and becomes a demon" and can iterate multiple times to make his thought scale far exceed the limits of human thought patterns, Ye Yang's thought scale can still reach the upper limit of human thought patterns.
The power of thought leads to the power of consciousness. When combined with a willpower comparable to that of a cosmic sage, even splitting one's mind into billions of parts is barely achievable.
"Hmm? Why does it feel much easier than I expected?"
Ye Yang's consciousness enveloped the entire blue supergiant star, his mind taking in every change in the matter within this massive plasma fireball, the vortices,
Laminar flow—besides the interactions of particles at the microscopic level, the powerful electric and magnetic fields of stars also influence these fluid motions—
Having understood everything, he found himself still seemingly in complete control, without feeling like his mind had reached its limit.
"Could it be because I have achieved the Great Dao, and my will has made another breakthrough?"
Ye Yang had a guess in his mind, but he put it aside for the time being and did not think about the question.
Right now, we should focus on completing our ascension.
The "Star Ascension Method" is derived from the "Sun Refining Spirit Method," but it is far more complex and sophisticated.
This is a method that assists seventh-level cultivators in refining stellar matter and modifying stellar structures with less burden.
If this method is not used, it is not impossible to forcibly refine it with one's own Great Dao power, but the efficiency and burden would be unacceptable.
An existence like Ye Yang, once he achieves the Great Dao, can rival the strength of a peak Star Lord. Even without using the Ascension Method to forcibly refine a planet, he can at most refine a gas giant planet several times larger than Jupiter.
However, if one masters the "Star Ascension Method," then even a blue supergiant that is dozens of times heavier than the sun and has hundreds of thousands of times more violent energy can be defeated!
"The most helpful insights into the laws of fire, water, and cause and effect are what truly aid in refining the stars."
"The laws of fire need no further explanation. The understanding of the laws of water and cause and effect mainly helps ascendants to control and grasp the changes in the complex fluids within a star."
"If we cannot control the changing patterns of these complex fluids, we will be subject to many unexpected interferences, which will slow down the process and may even lead to failure in refining."
Under Ye Yang's consciousness, the power of the Great Dao acted on the entire blue supergiant star, directly refining it from the inside out, using the trillions of simulated brains distributed throughout as nodes!
His Great Dao and his Laws began to permeate the entire star, becoming its constant and unchanging nature!
Normally, ascendants work from the outside in, first refining the outermost color sphere and corona. Although the color sphere and corona are thin, they are relatively easy to control and can be forcibly suppressed by one's own power.
Then, refine the light sphere layer inwards. This is the surface of a star visible to the naked eye in the outside universe, but it is also very thin, and the refining difficulty is moderate.
Below that lies the troposphere. Only by refining this layer can one truly establish a foothold in the realm of True Immortals and prevent their realm from becoming unstable due to changes in celestial activity.
But the troposphere, as the name suggests, is a world dominated by hot fluids that continuously transport heat from the interior of a star to its surface through convection.
Its size far exceeds that of the light sphere layer, and it is even more chaotic and difficult to grasp. Usually, ascensioners who have just entered the True Immortal realm need 100 to 300 years to refine this layer.
At this point, he was considered to be in the early stage of True Immortal.
Continuing deeper into the star's interior, into the radiation layer, which is even larger than the photosphere layer, refining and controlling it will mainly require time.
Of course, the stronger the Dao and the higher its quality, the higher the refining efficiency.
Refining the radiation layer will allow one to reach the mid-stage of True Immortal.
Ultimately, the final challenge comes from the star's core, where fusion reactions occur under high temperature and pressure, and is the star's energy source.
It is also a place where immortals refine the power of Tai Chi.
The vast majority of the true immortals in the Immortal Alliance were born millions of years ago. After that, there were no more stars in the Milky Way for them to ascend to, so they entered a period of silence.
Therefore, most of the True Immortals in the Star Alliance have already mastered the core and refined Taiji, reaching the late stage of True Immortal.
At the peak of True Immortal status, one can refine a second star.
The Star Lord realm is more of a further advancement under the system of the Great Dao and the fortune of civilization, but in terms of the essence of power, it is still about controlling the power of Tai Chi.
However, with the strength of the Star Lord's Great Dao, he can not only refine more stars and form constellations, but also has the potential to try refining more extreme celestial bodies such as blue supergiants and white dwarfs!
Further up, one refines neutron stars, which is the realm of refining the primordial essence at the True Monarch level.
One year, two years—20 years have passed.
Normally speaking, it is almost impossible for someone who has just ascended to immortality and has no experience to refine a Blue Superstar. It is almost certain to fail.
Even for someone who has just entered the Star Lord realm, it would take at least a thousand years to initially refine a blue supergiant star, and tens of thousands of years to fully refine it.
Ye Yangyuan was no ordinary person. His true meaning had an extraordinary refining ability. In addition, he had prepared by planting mycelium to grow in advance, and at the same time, he had multiple points of blooming inside the star, refining simultaneously at hundreds of billions of nodes!
Everything depends on his strong foundation, which allows him to use this most efficient refining method.
In 20 years, Ye Yang's refining progress has reached 50%.
This is progress in terms of quality, but the quality control during the refining process is increasing exponentially. Therefore, the refining progress in terms of time has reached 99.9%.
Because of the manipulation of the spacetime field by the supermassive black hole-white hole at the center of the Milky Way, the time flow in this part of the starry sky is the same as that in the outside world. Therefore, 20 years is only equivalent to less than 2 hours of standard galactic time!
Paying some price to adjust the spacetime field in order to save lives on millions of colonized planets is nothing.
"Okay, it's done."
Sitting quietly on a meteorite orbiting a blue supergiant, Ye Yang's first clone revealed a knowing smile and waved his hand to summon a Tai Chi force.
Although he allowed his third clone, in its fungal form, to complete its first ascension, the three clones were ultimately of the same origin and connected by cause and effect. While borrowing the immortal power of the other clones was somewhat cumbersome, it was not impossible.
"The Tai Chi Immortal Power is far more useful than the magic power I currently possess. Both its controllability and strength are on a completely different level. This is a qualitative leap. The same energy has resulted in various values increasing by several orders of magnitude, which is somewhat exaggerated."
Manipulating Tai Chi immortal power in his hands, Ye Yang suddenly blurred into motion, striking down with his palm. Instantly, starlight distorted, like a galaxy cascading down a waterfall, with countless heavy stars crashing down in succession.
Starfall!
One palm strike after another, relentlessly, the power growing increasingly surging and violent, seemingly demonstrating what absolute suppressive force truly means.
The palm strike shattered the structure of space and time, striking the desolate edge of the Milky Way. Even a Star Lord in the early stages of cultivation would have their Great Dao obliterated if hit.
Ye Yang's current cultivation level is theoretically only at the peak of True Immortal, because he has only completely refined one Star.
"Then, let's continue to break through to the Star Lord realm."
He had another idea and contacted the "Special Emergency Action Committee for the Void Disaster of the Immortal Alliance".
This plan has already been approved and is in the preparation stage for implementation.
Everything was ready, and Ye Yang had completed his ascension. So—
Buzz buzz buzz~~
The controllable spacetime field of the galactic center black hole-white hole, with the assistance of the Star River Array, has begun to operate, altering the surrounding spacetime structure.
The blue supergiant star that Ye Yang refined was named "Ying Hong Star" and is the main star in the planned "Ming Hong Constellation".
At this time, Ying Hongxing's starlight only reached a few dozen light-years away at its farthest point.
Because Ying Hongxing's existence was very short, it only existed in the main world for a few decades. And these few decades of light-years represent the spatial range of its beam of light.
To elevate a star deity to a higher status, the star deity's personal reputation, fortune, and karma are important, but the star's existence time and fame are also very important!
The older and more famous a constellation is, the stronger its accumulated power becomes, and the more civilizational fortune it carries.
Back in the era of ascension, when the Star Lord realm had only been developed for tens of thousands of years, there was a saying: "Wherever starlight reaches, that is where the power of the Star Lord extends."
At that time, many top-tier immortals competed for those stars or star groups that were extremely famous in the history of civilization because of this.
For example, Sirius, the Big Dipper, the Purple Palace Enclosure, the Supreme Palace Enclosure, the Heavenly Market Enclosure, Altair, and Vega —
Thus, the first batch of extremely powerful star lords were born.
They inherited the name of the ancient star-gazing culture and took the power flowing in the cognition of civilization, which is "naturally" strong.
But history can be written, myths can be created, and in the hundreds of thousands of years that followed, heroes emerged one after another. Many previously unknown stars or star clusters also left their mark on history due to the changing times.
All of this has been left over from history, and when the Immortal Alliance integrates and shapes the entire galactic system, it will also need to be compatible with this set of rules.
To elevate a star to the status of a general star, one must at least allow starlight to illuminate a constellation spanning thousands of light-years, thus establishing a basic understanding of this constellation at the macro-level of civilization.
Only then will everyone realize: Ah, so there is such a star in the sky!
So what is the fastest way to accumulate knowledge using this set of rules?
Of course, it's faster-than-light starlight!
The rolling, spacetime folding and shifting, like laying out a carpet, spreads Ying Hongxing's starlight throughout the entire Milky Way.
Furthermore, this is a blue superstar.
Ye Yang only slightly squeezed and accelerated the fusion, and it burst out with a light a thousand times brighter, equivalent to the brightness of tens of millions of standard stars. At this moment, no star in the Milky Way was brighter than it.
Today, a new star shines upon all the stars and illuminates the Milky Way!
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