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Su Wen continued to expand the cultivation ceiling for Douluo Soul Masters.
His progress made the path of cultivation for Douluo Soul Masters much clearer.
However, the capacity of the Douluo Planet was still limited to the True God level.
Breaking through to the Super God level required heading into the cosmos.
Fortunately, the Douluo plane had already ascended to a god-level plane, its rules spreading through the universe. By basing one's foundation here, even cultivators exceeding the plane's limits could attempt to break through within the universe, rather than being completely locked away as they were before, with zero possibility.
Amidst the sky-filling thunder, Su Wen's expression remained calm.
His gaze pierced through the thunderclouds that had engulfed nearly half a galaxy, as if looking at something special.
"For my 'Little Heaven and Earth,' ascending directly to a God Star is the most correct choice."
According to his previous understanding, the God Realm was a state of semi-transcendence; it found an extremely high dimension to open up its own realm, transcending the spatial evolution of the entire universe, thus achieving the fact of transcendence. However, to achieve a God Star, one had to open this self-contained dimension within the material dimension, which was almost impossible to accomplish.
Back then, the Dragon God had intended to forge the God Realm into a God Star, but ultimately failed.
Su Wen did not know exactly how the Dragon God had managed this, or what he had thought at the time.
However, he would soon find out.
During his fourth test of the Time God's assessment, he had been rewarded with a chance to experience a "Creation Projection," which he had not yet utilized.
Now, as time passed, he had not forgotten this opportunity.
Creation.
What could be considered "Creation"?
These years of enlightenment allowed Su Wen to be almost certain that the process of the Dragon God opening the God Realm or opening a God Star was that very "Creation."
As for which specific process it was, that would depend on the Time God's capabilities.
During his last visit to the God Realm, Su Wen had not sensed the Time God, nor had he met the entity, so he still lacked clear evidence of the other's strength.
However, a divine position at the First-Class God level did not mean one was merely a First-Class God.
Su Wen could confirm this by using himself as a benchmark—it was entirely possible.
If such a mysterious Time God had lived through the era of God Star opening and possessed the ability to imprint and replicate it, it was not impossible.
Su Wen became expectant.
"Accept Creation Projection."
The scene before him changed.
In the universe, a massive Divine Dragon roared toward the sky, nine-colored light illuminating every corner of the cosmos, its dragon might sweeping in all directions.
That was the Dragon God.
Watching this scene, Su Wen confirmed that this must be the process of creating a God Star.
Although it was a failure, it still held reference value.
The universe was in turmoil.
Su Wen frowned.
The Time God was ultimately a bit lacking; he could not replicate the entire process of the Dragon God opening a God Star.
For instance, at this moment, what Su Wen was seeing was not the scene of the Dragon God tearing space and shaking the universe with his claws, but rather the aspect of the Dragon God's power distorting the workings of the universe.
However, what had been replicated was already enough.
Su Wen watched this entire process, and the illusory prototype of the Creation God's divine position above his sea of consciousness became increasingly powerful.
It seemed that in just an instant, Su Wen had observed the first half of the Dragon God's attempt to open a God Star.
Returning to the deep space of the universe, even with thunder rolling around him, Su Wen's heart was immensely tranquil.
He took a deep breath, his gaze profound.
"Dragon God, you were wrong."
The opening of a God Star must be conducted within the material dimension from the very beginning.
Otherwise, once opened to a high dimension, the God Realm, having abandoned matter, needs more than just energy to fully return to the material dimension.
This is a gap spanning long ages.
Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years of progress spent accumulating energy, only to find in the end that the wrong path was taken and not a single bit of progress was made in terms of material—how could this be remedied?
The Dragon God naturally had thought of this too.
Therefore, he chose a life-bearing planet as the foundation, fusing it with the God Realm to create a God Star.
Unfortunately, he failed.
And the price of failure was that the God Realm was damaged, the Dragon Realm disintegrated, and the hidden dangers within his own body completely erupted.
Su Wen turned around and looked at the sky-filling thunder.
"Seventh test of the Red-level Nine Tests: Little Heaven and Earth Transcendence, reward: Time God divine position."
"Ninth test of the God-level Nine Tests: Condense Knowledge God divine position, achieve Godhood, reward: Sea God divine position."
Su Wen had completed the sixth, seventh, and eighth tests of the God-level Nine Tests bestowed by the Sea God over the past five years. With the Sea God's help, he had rapidly crossed the True God level, and now, he had broken through to the Super God level.
The rewards for both assessments were divine positions.
Su Wen had communicated with them; these were not divine positions from the Douluo God Realm. Instead, if Su Wen succeeded, they would help him condense the corresponding divine positions within his "Little Heaven and Earth."
The Time God divine position—the foundation of all things.
Time is actually the process of material evolution, yet through the imposition of will, it has become the most mysterious power.
In the post-natally opened "Little Heaven and Earth," if a Time divine position is condensed to stabilize the origin of time, the Little Heaven and Earth would become even more perfect and stable.
As for the Sea God divine position, it was also a powerful one; with the Sea God's insights and the massive energy of a newly ascended Little Heaven and Earth, there was indeed hope of reaching the God King level.
Both of these divine positions had the potential to reach the God King level.
Su Wen didn't need to worry; with these two divine positions helping to stabilize his Little Heaven and Earth, it would become as solid as a fortress.
As for the Time God and the Sea God themselves, they would not enter Su Wen's Little Heaven and Earth, nor would they leave the Douluo God Realm; they would merely leverage Su Wen's Little Heaven and Earth to condense new divine positions and use them to break through.
The Super God-level lightning tribulation posed no challenge to Su Wen.
Bathed in the tribulation, he felt the changes in his Little Heaven and Earth.
Essence, Qi, and Spirit—all were sublimated.
The three small worlds broke through.
Four-dimensional!
As Su Wen triggered the advancement of the three small worlds, the Little Heaven and Earth as a whole was stimulated and began to break through to a higher level.
Opening!
Su Wen's gaze was piercing, becoming immensely resolute.
The Little Heaven and Earth emitted a loud rumble, its internal rules becoming perfectly integrated, instantly distorting the surrounding universe.
Rumble!
He felt a powerful repulsive force.
The entire universe was trying to find a way to expel him.
At the same time, through the perspective of his Little Heaven and Earth, Su Wen could feel a powerful energy eroding the barriers of his world.
It was not any power of the universe.
"This is... Chaos power?" Su Wen appeared within his Little Heaven and Earth, observing the colorless energy seeping inside.
Feeling the primordial, desolate aura of this colorless energy, its immensely powerful essence that was even more primordial and potent than universal energy.
Su Wen drew his conclusion.
Chaos Power!
Does the transcendence of his Little Heaven and Earth from the universe mean it must border on Chaos?
A thought struck Su Wen.
Does this imply that whether it is the God Realm or a God Star, they are actually independent of the universe, much like the relationship between a small world and a plane—still attached to the universe, but also exposed to a layer beyond it?
Universe... Chaos.
Perhaps the God Realm was in initial contact with Chaos power; there must have been an influx of Chaos power during its opening, which is why it possessed such immense energy.
It was provided by Chaos power.
Su Wen understood.
At this moment, the two assessments were also declared complete.
Two divine positions began to condense within Su Wen's Little Heaven and Earth.
A massive amount of Chaos power was consumed.
Su Wen could feel that as these two divine positions condensed, his Little Heaven and Earth became more stable and its ability to resist the universe's repulsive force grew stronger.
He did not hesitate; his own long-prepared divine position also began to condense.
Creation God divine position, condense!
Knowledge God, condense!
Two major divine positions condensed simultaneously.
However, looking at the speed of their condensation, the difference was evident.
The prototype of the Creation God divine position had long since reached the level of condensation following Su Wen's cultivation progress.
But at this moment, its performance in condensation was a full level behind the Knowledge God divine position.
In terms of devouring Chaos power, the Knowledge God divine position surpassed the nearly-complete Creation God divine position the moment it condensed.
Of course, from the current performance, it could be seen that the Creation God divine position had the opportunity to achieve the God King level alongside the Time God and Sea God divine positions.
As for Su Wen's Knowledge God divine position, its fluctuations were more intense, and it absorbed a much larger amount of Chaos power. Su Wen even felt the concentration of Chaos power within his Little Heaven and Earth drop sharply; after being absorbed by his divine position, even more Chaos power seeped in.
It was undergoing reverse-devouring of even more Chaos power.
Su Wen took a deep breath.
He felt it—his Little Heaven and Earth was being worn down by the Chaos power.
The material aspect was being eroded, forcing the entire Little Heaven and Earth to move toward a higher energy dimension.
No wonder the God Realm, despite its higher energy hierarchy, was more fragile—it was being worn down by Chaos power.
Su Wen realized that once this phase passed, after his Little Heaven and Earth adapted to the erosion of Chaos power and could stabilize, it would be considered a successful God Realm. By then, the Little Heaven and Earth would naturally reach a high dimension and lose the characteristic of being in direct contact with Chaos power.
This was a state that only occurred during the opening of a God Realm!
And if one were opening a God Star, it should be a total bordering on Chaos, using Chaos as the resource.
"The step of the God Realm is completely redundant, and in fact, it just adds trouble to achieving a God Star."
Su Wen was pondering at this moment: at which step is it most critical to open a God Star directly?
His strength was not lacking.
Although his basic soul power was only at the Super God level, he already possessed the realm of a God King, and was extremely close to the Dragon God.
In fact, in terms of breadth, he grasped more things than the Dragon God.
Especially at this moment, in the process of his Little Heaven and Earth's semi-transcendence, two major divine positions had already condensed, causing his strength to soar.
His soul power was also rising rapidly, driven by the two divine positions.
He absorbed a portion of the Chaos power, fusing it into his various Mythical Sets.
At this moment, his sets completely ascended to the Super God level.
"Only things like divine positions can rapidly digest Chaos power; my Little Heaven and Earth digests it a bit too slowly."
Su Wen felt a slight lack of stamina.
However, he had a solution.
Space-time power swirled, piercing dimensions. He reached out a hand, shattering the Abyss, and swallowed all the power of the Abyss from the spatial channel.
The Abyss Master was terrified, feeling a strong sense of crisis from deep within his heart, though he didn't know where it came from. In just an instant, a giant hand descended, destroying the Abyss.
He had no time to react.
Despite already possessing the power of a First-Class God and the Heavenly Saint Piercing Abyss Trident, and having been bold enough to claim he feared no God King within his own plane, he had died in such silence.
"There are strong and weak God Kings, just as there are high and low methods."
With the Heavenly Saint Piercing Abyss Trident, one could naturally threaten an ordinary God King, but Su Wen had killed across space instantly; the opponent he faced was, after all, an Abyss Master at the First-Class God level.
The opponent had no chance to utilize the trident.
Su Wen casually retrieved the Heavenly Saint Piercing Abyss Trident back into his Little Heaven and Earth.
Inside the Little Heaven and Earth, another divine position condensed.
Abyss divine position.
Containing authorities such as devouring, it condensed an Abyss divine position, a divine status approaching that of a God King.
Subsequently, the many Heaven and Earth Runes in Su Wen's world manifested, evolving into one divine position after another.
A total of eighty-one divine positions were condensed, and Su Wen's Little Heaven and Earth had expanded dozens of times.
The sky-filling ocean of thunder was devoured at his will, turning into resources for the growth of his Little Heaven and Earth. The Abyss divine position, representing devouring, had already strengthened the Little Heaven and Earth to its limit after consuming the tribulation lightning and the massive energy of the Abyss itself.
At this moment, the power of devouring was activated, consuming Chaos power.
The Abyss divine position transformed, becoming God King level.
Chaos power rapidly fused into his Little Heaven and Earth.
"The condensation of a God Star is not just transcendence; it is a transformation of another dimension."
Su Wen found the point the Dragon God had missed.
The creation of a God Star is not just pulling the semi-transcendent product—the God Realm—back into the material plane and endowing it with material characteristics.
There is also a dimensional change.
From small world to plane is a change from three dimensions to four.
From plane to god-level plane is just growth in the fourth dimension, an accumulation.
The God Realm is merely a transitional stage and should not be included in the comparison.
The next step for a god-level plane should be the God Star—transcending the universe and achieving the fifth dimension.
The fifth dimension is not time.
Time is a concept derived from the change of matter, not a dimension.
The transformation of the fifth dimension lies in "Virtual and Real."
"The material level is Real, the spiritual level is Virtual."
The existence of the God Realm is merely the aspect of pure Virtual.
The Dragon God developed a god-level planet and combined it with the God Realm; this seemingly attempted a combination of Virtual and Real, but since they were not one, how could they combine?
The Dragon God's starting point was originally just to endow the God Realm with material characteristics, but he did not see through its essence.
The combination of Virtual and Real is not for the purpose of pulling the God Realm back into the material dimension.
"The combination of Virtual and Real creates a new dimension."
From the very beginning, matter should not have been separated.
Su Wen solidified this belief once more.
At the same time, he combined the two sides representing Virtual and Real within his Little Heaven and Earth.
Real is all tangible existence.
Virtual is not energy existence, but conceptual, illusory existence.
For example, spirit, soul, and spirituality, and even the rules born under their influence, all belong to the level of Virtual.
This also explained a doubt Su Wen had held previously: at what level does the soul reside?
At this moment, he had found it.
Virtual—this is not a level that four-dimensional lifeforms can investigate.
It is a characteristic of five-dimensional life.
Only the combination of Virtual and Real is true unity of spirit and flesh.
The unity of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
The universe was in turmoil.
The Little Heaven and Earth achieved transcendence.
God Star opened!
(End)