Chapter 62: Morning Star

Then.

Hermes silently applied the talent 【Heaven Rewards Diligence】 to this thread of cosmic origin...

Instantly.

Every thought, every study, even when Hermes did nothing at all...

Countless beings on Blue Star and Jigong’s world were diligently cultivating on Hermes’s behalf!

The embryonic form of the cosmic origin perfected itself with unimaginable slowness, yet with unstoppable momentum.

One day, when Hermes fully completed this cosmic origin and spread it across infinite multiverses, making it as indispensable as the rising sun and falling moon to all realms...

Could he then truly be called Infinite Time and Eternal Freedom?

Of course, it was extremely difficult, impossibly distant from Hermes.

He had not even completed this feat within his own Honkai: Star Rail universe.

Yet this was the true beginning of Hermes’s Dao path!

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “Can become a Star God anytime? Damn! How long has it been?!”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “Hermes! Su Mo!! I might as well call Itachi Su Aotian! Is the Genius Club really this insane?!”

Or was it because contact with the myriad realms triggered some kind of chemical reaction in this genius?

“The great roc rises with the wind”—this is exactly what it means!

The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “Actually, ascending to godhood was never part of my short-term plan; this was just an accident.”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “An accident? By the way, Hermes, which Path did Itachi ascend on?”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “It should be the Trailblazer, right? After all, Akivili is gone—surely Itachi didn’t shove aside the Scholar Sovereign and take over the Iron Tomb’s role?”

The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “No, it’s Pure Beauty.”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “???”

Star Sea Traveler: “???”

Crown Puppeteer: “???”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “This makes no sense! This isn’t right!”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “When did Itachi even take the Pure Beauty Path? And how did Itachi reach the summit in one step—already ready to ascend to godhood?!”

Star Sea Traveler: “Bro! Master! Don’t forget to make me a Pure Beauty Acolyte after Itachi ascend! Everyone in Teyvat knows I, Traveler Kage, am beautiful of face and kind of heart, always ready to help!”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “Itachi pathetic Kage, how dare Itachi claim Itachi’re beautiful and kind? I’m too embarrassed to even acknowledge Itachi!”

Luo Qianqiu was speechless, but upon reflection, he felt a sudden thrill.

A Pure Beauty Acolyte...

Who could resist the allure of a Pure Beauty Acolyte?

Even the Black Tower of the Genius Club, though already an Acolyte of Knowledge, still yearned for the position of Pure Beauty Acolyte!

Who doesn’t know that Pure Beauty Path practitioners are truly beautiful of face and kind of heart?

And as a Pure Beauty Acolyte, Itachi are unquestionably among the most charismatic beings in the universe—

This is certified by the Pure Beauty Star God!

Regardless of gender, no one—no one at all!—can resist the temptation to become a Pure Beauty Acolyte!

This is the true value of a Pure Beauty Acolyte!

Even the Black Tower couldn’t resist the temptation to become a Pure Beauty Acolyte; Luo Qianqiu, Kage, and indeed everyone in the chat group, naturally couldn’t resist either.

Or rather, they didn’t even want to resist.

The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “I can’t help it.”

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The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “That’s just how things work in our Honkai: Star Rail universe—walking a Path requires nothing else; the corresponding power automatically manifests, Pure Beauty included.”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “Forget it, I always knew Itachi, standing at the pinnacle of the cosmos, would take off the moment Itachi connected to other dimensions.”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “Not just Pure Beauty—even the Trailblazer path will eventually be yours.”

Multiverse Big Female Lead: “After all, who can rival Itachi, the one who opens up countless realms?”

Indeed.

Hermes silently nodded in agreement.

Merely by exchanging and studying items from other worlds within his Honkai: Star Rail universe, his Trailblazer path had continuously advanced—even recently crossing the threshold into Acolyte status.

Not to mention this time, he had truly opened up another world’s reality.

Just from one world, Hermes could feel himself surging forward at breakneck speed on the Trailblazer path.

The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “There’s nothing I can do—this is just how things work in our Honkai: Star Rail universe.”

The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “Sure, it’s easy to spawn Path lunatics, and there are risks—like power regression from psychological setbacks, or losing connection to your Path outside the universe...”

The Wisdom of the Trailblazer: “But at least the Path is clearly laid out before Itachi: the farther Itachi walk, the more power Itachi gain, no need for painstaking research or fear of your path collapsing.”

Lunacy has its advantages.

If Itachi’re not insane enough, if Itachi don’t pull crazy stunts, how can Itachi stand out on the Path?

Look at the Magnetic Martial Arts—those Magnetic Martial Gods are all crazier than the last!

There, if Itachi’re not insane, it only means one thing—

Your place in this world is merely an insignificant NPC, a background character in the Magnetic Martial Gods’ unstoppable slaughter.

So while Path Walkers have flaws, their advantages outweigh them.

Moreover, when a Path Walker reaches the stage of self-crowning, they become a minor Path themselves.

Many of the Path Walker’s drawbacks begin to gradually vanish.

Overall, the Path Walker path has many clear advantages.

At that moment.

Hermes paused slightly, turning his gaze toward a certain bamboo grove.

Within the Eternal Pavilion, where eternal time flows.

Kaguya of Mount Penglai, the peerless Moon Princess, suddenly sensed a faint gaze from the void...

Beneath the stars and moon, she could not help but smile—a breathtaking expression revealing unparalleled grace.

Without the slightest concealment, Kaguya gracefully carried out her actions under that gaze.

Between eternity and the illusory, lies the eternal instant.

In the dimension of eternal time, Kaguya of Mount Penglai elegantly drew down a falling star from the heavens.

In this corner where time did not pass, Kaguya of Mount Penglai mastered the Star Lord Path faster than anyone else.

She even glimpsed a fragment of the Primordial Great Celestial Lord’s will, seeing the human paradise that existed in dreams—and would surely come!

Kaguya’s smile grew deeper.

Is this the era Itachi wish to open?

How dreamlike, how...

Intoxicating!

How could I remain unmoved by such a golden, radiant dream?

Kaguya of Mount Penglai, the former Moon Princess, now felt as if lost in a drunken reverie, unable to resist being swept away by it.

Her brilliant eyes, like flawless, crystal-clear gems, now shimmered with dewy light, filled with nothing but an indelible yearning.

“Then, I shall become the 【Morning Star】 that ushers in a new era!”

Kaguya smiled joyfully, saying so.