Chapter 66: One Scroll Across Ten Thousand Eons of Empty Sky

Trinity—Hermes.

At this moment, the Supreme Primordial Great Celestial Venerable manifested!

The once naive and chaotic ocean of the soul, as if the universe had yet to be born, now seemed to give rise to the first light of creation.

“Is this… Hermes?”

Within Hermes’s Dimensional Garden courtyard, where he had been studying and refining his virtual universe planning scheme, intending to embed it into the Black Tower, he suddenly looked up, his pupils contracting involuntarily.

“Why do I feel that Hermes has changed so much, so profoundly?”

It was as if… it was as if…

His very form of existence had undergone some subtle transcendence?

“Like a Star God?”

The moment this thought surfaced, the Black Tower immediately rejected it.

As the Black Tower, who had repeatedly paid homage to the Omniscient Sovereign, swiftly discerned the distinction between the two.

Yet, though rejecting the notion, the Black Tower faintly sensed that Hermes’s current essence of existence seemed no lesser than that of a Star God?

“Hah. What an intriguing speculation.”

Though an utterly absurd notion—if it spread, the entire cosmic galaxy would laugh at the delusion.

But as a true genius, she was naturally unlike those mortals and mediocrities.

The Black Tower would never deny any possibility, no matter how absurd the speculation!

“Let me see what this fellow intends to accomplish with such a grand spectacle!”

Above the four-dimensional spacetime, this figure, resembling the pillar of the world and the root of the universe, appeared before all eyes.

Seated upon it, beneath him surged an endless torrent of spacetime; with each opening and closing of his eyes, the boundary between reality and illusion shifted.

Thus is it written: “One scroll across ten thousand eons of empty sky”—no more, no less!

In the eyes of this great being, the entire river of time was but a single dynamic scroll, freely turnable at his will.

“This is…”

Wuliang Tower Jizi, gazing at the familiar figure in her consciousness—so heavy it outweighed the entire universe—was left speechless.

“Though I long knew Hermes was powerful, I never imagined he could reach such heights!”

Wuliang Tower Jizi could hardly speak.

Now, with Hermes’s aid, she had been utterly transformed.

Starlord of the Ember Fire—Wuliang Tower Jizi!

As the saying goes: the descent of the ember is the beginning of hope and warmth, the eternal sun of civilization that never fades.

The passing of the ember—this is the core principle of Starlord of the Ember Fire, Wuliang Tower Jizi.

As one of Hermes’s most carefully cultivated subjects, Wuliang Tower Jizi could occasionally borrow spare resources from the Heavenly Dao’s Astrology, and her progress rivaled even those historical heroes with millennia of heritage.

Precisely because of this, the greater her strength, the more profoundly she sensed the magnitude of this manifested presence.

At this moment, all beings on Blue Planet were struck by an indescribable shock.

“The Supreme Primordial Great Celestial Venerable has manifested!”

All on Blue Planet were awestruck by this phenomenon.

This was the first public appearance of the Primordial Venerable.

Aside from the faint chance granted at the founding of each Starlord’s path, how could ordinary mortals ever hope for such an audience?

“I wonder what the Venerable’s manifestation means this time…”

Countless beings bowed in reverence, their minds filled with speculation.

As all beings reeled in awe, this omnipresent great being began to change.

With a gentle flick of his finger, the trajectories of starry rivers and epochal transitions were traced.

Instantly, this finger-point pierced directly into their soul’s origin, dissecting their true hearts.

The Path of the Destiny Star relies on illusion to cultivate truth, refining emptiness to attain the Dao; the most crucial and foundational step is to knock upon the heart and establish the Dao’s foundation.

This is the Questioning Finger!

Hermes’s Path of the Destiny Star was never a solitary, aloof road—it came into the world to make all living beings more beautiful, each one a dragon, not merely to elevate a few Starlords to rule heaven and earth.

Then, the Venerable’s form changed once more.

After questioning the heart and establishing the Dao’s foundation comes the practice of the path—this is the Ascending Path to Heaven!

Starlords cultivate by embodying their true nature, achieving perfection without reliance on external things, nor bound by them.

The Ascending Path to Heaven—treading with song, drawing nourishment from countless dimensions, the Path of the Destiny Star is thus fulfilled.

Before the eyes of countless beings, the Venerable gently tapped again, opening heaven and earth within a speck of dust.

Within that tiny speck, spacetime shattered, clarity and turbidity separated; a realm both minuscule and magnificent was opened in the hearts of all beings.

The Primordial Venerable watched all this, smiled faintly, and in an instant, the Perfect World guided the world toward a beautiful future.

Cause and effect arose and perished in his palm; epochs cycled with his breath.

Before all beings, he asked the truth of the Dao—yet he himself was already the answer to every doubt.

“… ”

“Opening heaven and earth within a speck of dust?”

Countless beings stared, dumbfounded—this scene surpassed the utmost limits of all imagination.

“This…”

At this moment, the supercomputer linked to the Black Tower spun wildly, data overload nearly causing it to smoke.

Watching this scene reflected in her mind, she too was left speechless.

In the Bengtie universe, dimensional technology was never mainstream.

As a universe housing Star Gods, the orthodox scientific path of the cosmos had always been studying Star God mysteries, decoding Destiny Energy, and unraveling the secrets of the Imaginary.

But now—

Hermes’s casual finger-point revealed to the Black Tower the infinite possibilities of dimensional technology!

“So this is why Hermes refused to ascend to godhood at this moment…”

The Black Tower, after all, was one of only eighty-five geniuses in the entire cosmos since ancient times—her talent and wisdom were beyond ordinary comprehension.

Quickly, she formed a further hypothesis regarding Hermes’s current state.

“Star Gods are sentient celestial bodies, the embodiment of abstract philosophical concepts.”

“Yet Hermes, as the supreme master of energy science, does not merely pursue a single philosophical concept—rather, he seeks to unify and integrate these concepts through his own energy science tree…”

The Black Tower’s eyes blazed with unprecedented light as she murmured to herself.

This path held infinite potential for advancement.

Given time, reaching—or even surpassing—a Star God would be no difficult feat!

This living example not only stunned the Black Tower but also sparked boundless inspiration within her.

Though she could not reach the level of “I think therefore I am” like Gray Wolf, in the eyes of mortals, she was still an out-of-species entity.

Her vision, long rigidly fixed by Star Gods, had been unlocked in an instant—

In that fleeting moment, she seized countless inspirations, constructed billions of models, and sought to forge her own path as well.