Lu Sheng's Martial Dao Dharma Projection began to disintegrate. The Dharma Projection is the external, tangible manifestation of a martial artist's Martial Dao's core. It channels the energy of the cosmos and the starry skies, symbolizing the first leap in a martial artist's life.
At the ninth level of martial arts, the Dharma Projection is undoubtedly the most formidable weapon in a martial artist's arsenal. However, once one surpasses level 9, it gradually fades from the forefront of offensive combat. The further one progresses, the less practical value it holds. Its greatest function is likely to provide a relatively intuitive demonstration of the depth of a martial artist's Martial Dao's hidden ability.
Lu Sheng has broken through all the way to where he is now. The size of his Dharma Projection has long since reached a height that even he himself cannot fathom it.
One thousand kilometers? Ten thousand kilometers?
He didn't know, but it didn't matter now. Because when the Law of Ice, the cornerstone of his level 13 Water Martial Dao, was imprinted on his Dharma Projection, it finally reached its limit. The avatar he had barely managed to condense at level nine was simply unable to withstand so many and such powerful Daos. It began to rapidly melt and disintegrate.
All of his Daos contained within the Dharma Projection began to flow in another direction. Something he never expected—the Immortal Dao Golden Core!
He was initially astonished, but after careful consideration, he realized... Looking throughout his body, it seemed there was truly nothing more suitable than this Golden Core to bear the diverse knowledge he had acquired. This core was gentle, balanced, and peaceful. It excelled at reconciling the repulsion and conflict between various forces. It was perfectly suited to inscribe his complex martial arts. Furthermore, it would aid his plan to fuse the Immortal Dao and the Martial Dao.
"As expected of a solution derived from the power of origin. How could I not have thought of that?!" He couldn't help but exclaim.
What happened next astonished him even more. His Stellar Dao was the first to be inscribed on the Immortal Dao Golden Core. The instant it was successfully inscribed, a small, golden-red sun materialized above the surface of the Golden Core. Within the sun, a three-legged golden crow built its nest.
The Divine Crystal Dao was then inscribed on the Immortal Dao Golden Core, and large swathes of crystal mountains of various colors immediately appeared on its surface. They shimmered under the sun, radiating a magnificent and dazzling light.
Sheng's "Northern Black Tortoise True Water Flow"—his Water Martial Dao—settled upon the Golden Core, and rivers and lakes immediately appeared on the core's surface. Of course, most of these rivers and lakes were frozen and covered by a thick layer of ice. Towering glaciers rose abruptly from the ground, impervious even to the sun. Their icy chill seemed capable of freezing the sun itself.
Sheng's Wood/WindMartial Dao, the "Mysterious Wind Azure Qi Annihilating Light Flow", was inscribed on the Golden Core as well. The enormous core rotated slightly, seemingly surrounded by a gentle breeze.
Then came the Earth/Soil Martial Dao, causing the outlines of mountains to appear on the surface of the Golden Core.
The power of the Thunder Law caused rolling purple thunderclouds to appear around the great sun.
For each additional branch of Martial Dao added to his Immortal Dao Golden Core, a new star appeared on its surface. Once all were inscribed, the golden-red sun was surrounded by stars. Among them, the forty-three brightest stars were the forty-three Powers of Rules that Lu Sheng had comprehended.
After he perfectly inscribed all the essence of his martial arts into his Golden Core, what he saw was a nascent planet!
"Before, I thought my Immortal Dao Golden Core was ridiculously large, not like a pill at all, but as enormous as a planet. Now, it's really become a planet."
Lu Sheng looked at the enormous Golden Core before him, which contained a sun, stars, mountains, lakes, thunder, and gentle breezes. It truly was the nascent form of a planet with potential life.
"Once I further perfect my Wood/Wind Martial Dao, life will appear on this planet."
Sheng imagined this with interest.
At this moment, the core essence of his martial cultivation had been seamlessly transferred into his Immortal Dao Golden Core. Compared to his original Dharma Form, after adopting his Golden Core as a vessel, the power of his Martial Daos, Rules, and Laws had become more rational, harmonious, and cohesive. It felt as though Lu Sheng's "CPU" had undergone a massive upgrade. Incidentally, all the hardware and software within it had also been reorganized and streamlined.
After this process, Lu Sheng's strength didn't increase, but his combat power underwent a qualitative transformation. This result delighted him, making him feel that the use of this source power was extremely worthwhile.
"Hmm? There's even a bonus!"
He suddenly sensed the last bit left after the source power's derivation was completed.
With a thought, in an instant, the glaciers on his newly refined immortal core, which had pierced the sky like sharp swords, suddenly emitted a chilling aura, freezing the sun overhead in a flash. The power of the Law of Ice was mobilized, as was the power of the more than five million Immortal Cells within his body.
The two powers collided, but this time there was no dramatic collision of planets. Instead, the former enveloped the latter, erupting forth in a perfectly harmonious manner.
Meanwhile, in the dream space universe, Sheng withdrew from his introspective state and abruptly opened his eyes. His eyes flashed with golden and blue light.
Suddenly, he raised his hand and threw a punch forward. In an instant, a dazzling golden-blue fireball was unleashed from beneath his fist. Terrifying heat and cold currents intertwined, colliding to create unprecedented and terrifying destructive power. It was like a sun completely frozen by a thick layer of ice! When this golden-blue sun struck the surface of the planet beneath him…
"Boom!"
In just an instant, the enormous planet beneath him, at least a hundred times the size of planet Azure, rapidly collapsed inward, cracking and crumbling. Finally, with a deafening "boom," it exploded completely.
Sheng stood in the starry sky, staring blankly at the planet below, now reduced to countless fragments. He seemed somewhat incredulous that he had actually accomplished this.
"Planete destruction! This move already possesses the destructive power of a planete-destroying force," Lu Sheng murmured.
Thinking that this was the first planet he had personally and completely destroyed, an unprecedented sense of accomplishment surged within him. It was as if he had achieved a milestone.
"Very powerful, extremely powerful, incredibly powerful."
"Far exceeding the use of simply the Law of Ice or the Law of Lightning."
"What an unexpected delight."
"So this is the correct way to use the power of the universe's origin…"
The destruction of that planet brought Lu Sheng a massive increase in the power of the universe's origin. Not only had the power of the universe's origin expended in his previous deductions been fully recovered, but it had also increased many times over.
"With the power to destroy planets, the speed at which I accumulate primordial power will be much faster," Sheng murmured softly.
His mind involuntarily drifted back to the sun he had unleashed earlier, burning fiercely beneath a thick layer of ice. A golden-blue sun, imbued with the extreme destructive power of both extreme heat and extreme cold.
He murmured to himself, "This move, let's call it Final Ice Blazing Sun."
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Translation notes by dhoo
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Martial Dao Dharma Projection aka Martial Dharma Form
The huge kind of holographic projection of a martial artist's body and might, see chapter #534
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Final Ice Blazing Sun aka Extreme Icy Scorching Sun
冰極烈陽, bīng jí liè yáng: 冰 ice 極 extreme 烈 blazing 陽 sun
Any better translation idea?
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Black Tortoise, Northern Black Tortoise
See my note on chapter #583.
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Mystic Wind Azure Qi Annihilating Light Flow, Mystic Wind - Azure Qi Obliterating Light Current
Sheng's Wood/Wind Dao. Wood/Wind is one of the Chinese Five Elements (Wuxing).
玄风青炁湮光流 (trad. 玄風青炁湮光流), xuán fēng qīng qì yān guāng liú - I found 1 occurrences of 玄風青炁湮光流 in chapters 584.
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CPU
It seems the author is a geek. See also the "If the entire universe were a game" analogy in chapter 534. A Computer Processing Unit is a computer component. It used to be (and to some extent it still is) a computer's main computing element, though there are now graphical GPUs doing fast parallel computing (important for games rendering) and even quantum QPU doing simultaneous magical computing.