Chapter 288: The Change of Light Point Energy, the Great Transformation of an Era

Of course, whether it is or not doesn't matter at all.

As long as it can make him stronger, that's enough.

Then, it's time to test his earlier conjecture.

With a thought, Baichuan directly summoned that mysterious bronze chain.

This chain was strange indeed — after recognizing a master, it could actually be driven by Spirit Qi to transform directly into a ball of energy hidden within his body, guarding the source of Spirit Qi.

Presumably, this chain in this world should be considered an incomparably precious, even unique, divine Faba.

While lost in thought, Baichuan began preparing to release a ball of energy Light Point imbued with brand-new abilities.

Then, he froze, because his energy Light Point seemed to have changed quite a bit.

A peculiar sensation from within told him that, with the original Light Point Characteristic unchanged, he could now make his Light Point energy appear in two other forms.

For example, the first form is, on the unchanged basis, merely making the size and attributes more powerful. To give an example, take a lightning Light Point — previously one Light Point could only release 50 milliamps of current, but now it can directly release 100 milliamps of current. That's a twofold increase.

Don't look down on the current merely increasing to 100 milliamps — you must understand this is the release amount of a single energy Light Point. Two would be 200 milliamps, a thousand would be 50 amperes! This is a tremendous improvement.

As for the other form, it directly transforms its shape to appear like a descendant of that Star-Devouring Worm, though of course much smaller, only less than one centimeter long. This form of Light Point is like his avatar — on the basis of possessing the Star-Devouring Worm's abilities, he can selectively endow some of his own abilities into it.

"Good news! A pleasant surprise!"

In an instant, Baichuan reacted — this meant his output had grown considerably more. After all, the strengthening of the Light Point energy symbolized a great increase in his power. Presumably it should be that the Star-Devouring Worm's ability treated his Light Point energy as its own descendant ability, thus causing a mutation.

"Then, whether it succeeds or not depends on now."

After muttering this softly, Baichuan closed his eyes. At this moment, nearly all his attention was placed on this newly born Star-Devouring Worm Light Point.

Under the control of his own spiritual force, Baichuan also slowly controlled the chain to release a ball of green blood tinged with a trace of gold, which surfaced. Above the blood, a strange orb of light was constantly rising and sinking.

The moment this ball of blood appeared, it emitted a dense breath of life. Under this strange aura, the surrounding plants began to be stimulated, greedily absorbing this aura, and then continuously growing larger at great speed.

At this moment, the plants' change was as if their own Time had been accelerated countless times, or as if all their growth Time had been compressed into just a few breaths.

Obviously, this is the blood of a deity, a True Lord, who might be called the God of Life.

Baichuan began projecting his consciousness into Light Point after Light Point. At this moment, he was the Light Point, and the Light Point was him.

In an instant, Baichuan looked at the divine blood before him, imitating the Star-Devouring Worm's operation from the dream, and directly submerged himself into the divine blood.

This is perhaps also the benefit of being able to see the memory of the ability model's owner — the use of the ability completely doesn't require him to fumble and research on his own like when he obtained the blood worm ability.

He can completely use it by imitating the way its true owner employed it in the memory.

After a strange penetrating sensation, a comfort like that in the dream began to rise in Baichuan's heart. The aura of surrounding energy and flesh and blood began to spread between his breaths — if he had such a thing.

In an instant, from the deepest bottom of the body of the Star-Devouring Worm-shaped Light Point, a hunger that was both familiar and strange assailed his heart.

"It worked!"

In an instant, this thought flashed through Baichuan's mind — clearly his hypothesis had succeeded.

Of course, there's still the final step — after successful Assimilation, can the Star-Devouring Worm Light Point bestow the ability upon him, rather than it remaining on the Light Point?

Knowing it was not yet Time to rejoice, Baichuan, after a moment of joy, regained his composure and continued controlling the Star-Devouring Worm-shaped Light Point to continue the Assimilation.

Also, for the sake of success rate, fearing that too many Star-Devouring Worm Light Points competing would leave the divine blood energy insufficient at the end, causing all Light Points to fail Assimilation, Baichuan also recalled most of the energy Light Points, leaving only one.

Then he released several other balls of divine blood from the chain. Having a large number of Small Selves and nearly endless computing power is good in this respect — one can divide one's mind for multiple uses without producing the slightest error.

If the final step can also succeed.

Then, this group of deities' and True Lords' abilities will truly belong to him!

With this thought flashing through his mind, Baichuan also devoted his entire mind to it.

Time began to slowly pass at this moment…

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

Assimilation is a long process. During this Time of standing motionless, Baichuan only truly understood the Star-Devouring Worm's power more clearly.

"Crack!"

Amid a crisp explosion, one could see a ball of the divine blood floating around turn into a puff of dust and dissipate completely.

And from within, a white, tender light worm emitting an enticing fragrance flew out.

This was unmistakably the Star-Devouring Worm Light Point that Baichuan had first Assimilated with the God of Life's divine blood.

After half a year, perhaps because the divine blood's owner was weaker compared to Baichuan, it finally succeeded within this short Time.

"Then, it's Time for the final test."

After muttering to himself, Baichuan controlled this greatly changed Light Point energy and slowly drew it back into his body.

In an instant, a sense of fullness swept over his heart.

Then Baichuan's body abruptly stiffened. The position of the Star Bag inside his body moved on its own.

Amid writhing, one could see the Star-Devouring Worm-shaped Light Point being wrapped up.

Then, in an instant, it began to be decomposed, absorbed, and inscribed.

From this point, another month of Time passed.

On this day, Baichuan, who had kept his eyes closed until now, finally reopened them.

The Dragon Claw beneath him moved slightly, and as a breath of fragrance spread downward, the plants in the entire mountain forest seemed to come alive.

Grass blades forcefully burrowed out of the earth, swaying their now razor-sharp edges; vines crawled like living snakes; great trees waved their dense branches as if coming alive to applaud…

This was unmistakably the ability of this divine blood's owner!

Clearly, Baichuan's hypothesis had succeeded, but Baichuan showed not a trace of joy in his eyes, because—

During the process of inscribing the Star-Devouring Worm Light Point into himself, he would lose all ability to move, frozen in place waiting for the sudden great change within his body to end.

But it's not strange either — after all, such a change involves alterations to the body's fine structure. Under such violent bodily activity, if one could move freely, the changing body structure would inevitably deform, possibly even causing the birth of the ability to fail.

Regarding this current ability, Baichuan pondered for a long Time and felt that its only benefit was being able to directly sense which part of his body was undergoing frenzied change, and how this change gave birth to this ability.

If he had possessed this ability back then, he probably wouldn't have needed to read through a massive number of secret manuals in this world, construct models, and expend vast computing power to find the common points of each ability, only then to understand the true secret of Spirit Qi within living organisms.

Instead, he could have reached it in one step, understanding the secret of Spirit Qi in an extremely short Time.

Of course, this ability appeared not too late either. In the future, when he steps into the starry sky, he will inevitably encounter various worlds with life. If those worlds possess any peculiar and powerful energy systems, this ability can also assist him in understanding the essential principles of their power more quickly.

Retracting the power he had emanated, Baichuan swept a glance at the creatures that had appeared here because of the divine blood aura, then shot straight up into the sky and vanished at the horizon, his target—

Jingzhou Huangcheng!

Since all trivial matters had been resolved, it was time to seek out that mysterious existence that very likely involved the source of Spirit power.

Along the way, Baichuan no longer stopped, his slender dragon body vanishing into the invisible and swiftly departing.

A few days later, Baichuan's gaze shifted as he looked toward a nearby mountain forest.

There, at this moment, an old man who appeared ordinary was walking. But upon closer inspection, one could see that even on this rugged mountain path, the other walked steadily and securely, without a trace of sweat. Yet Baichuan could perceive the vast Spirit power hidden and unrevealed within the other's body.

"A great power cultivator wandering Ren Jian?"

This thought flashed through his mind, but Baichuan had no intention of stopping to pay attention, and continued on his way.

But after another few days, Baichuan once again saw a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian robe with a long beard. The man's face was relaxed and content as he walked across the land, his eyes curiously scanning about. But upon careful observation, one could see a hint of anxiety in him, and every step he took easily spanned several hundred meters.

Obviously, another cultivator of considerable strength.

Baichuan didn't think much of it. After all, the closer one got to the center of the entire dynasty, the more numerous the powerful beings naturally became.

Until he once again encountered a young man riding an exotic mount... a squad of elite soldiers in heavy armor led by cultivators with imposing auras — that was the Divine Soldier Corps he had once encountered before... a Divine General wielding a divine sword — that was the Startling God General who had originally confronted Old Dragon Ao Qing...

Even in the end, massive armies emanating terrifying auras appeared in the distance, one after another.

At this moment, if these people hadn't all completely ignored him, and some among them even wore anxious expressions as they hastened their journey, Baichuan would have suspected they were targeting him.

However, he finally understood: these powerful beings of considerable strength seemed to have some sort of agreement and were all rushing toward Huangcheng together.

It seemed something major had happened in Huangcheng.

At this moment, such a realization slowly dawned in Baichuan's heart.

It seemed he needed to quicken his pace.

With this thought silently flashing through his mind, Baichuan planned to speed up.

The next instant,

"Rumble rumble rumble..."

But just then, from the clouds in the sky above, a sudden clap of thunder rang out.

"Drip drip drip..."

"Drip drip drip..."

Then drops of red rain began to fall.

In an instant, a torrential downpour as crimson as blood began to fall, landing on the earth, on the lakes, on the mountains and forests, on this boundless Great Prosperity heaven and earth...

An inexplicable aura of sorrow slowly spread, as if the heavens themselves were grieving, weeping.

Every intelligent being touched by the blood rain seemed to have a faintly visible, majestic great figure appear in their minds — a figure clad in a dazzling golden robe, wearing a crown with twelve strings of beads, seated upon a throne floating amidst hazy aura.

Yet this supreme being who should have looked down upon all beneath heaven, governing all things of heaven and earth, at this very moment leaned back against the throne, tilted his head upward, and forever closed those eyes that had surveyed all under heaven, a wisp of golden meaning slowly flowing down from the corner of his mouth.

At the very top, there seemed to be a faintly visible black ink-like mass, as if gloating, as if drawing something in...

In an instant, in a nearby massive city on the earth below, countless commoners seemed to sense something and walked out their doors, raising their heads to watch this unusual blood rain.

At this moment, not only this city, but cities even farther away... all living beings throughout the entire Great Prosperity realm slowly came to understand: their Great Prosperity's supreme Majesty, that sage sovereign, the existence who had reached Half-Step Heavenly Sovereign, had fallen...

This was heaven and earth mourning together, bidding farewell.

All the powerful cultivators and armies on the road were stunned.

It seemed they had arrived too late; their Majesty had not held on until their arrival.

At this moment, in a certain towering and magnificent great city, an old man wearing an official hat and holding a great seal walked out of his residence step by step, collapsed in grief, and knelt down weeping.

At this moment, in a certain mountain temple, a spirited young man with a sword who roamed the world stared blankly toward Jingzhou, and before he knew it, his face was already covered in tears.

At this moment, within a resplendent temple with flourishing incense, a divine statue seated at the center slowly shed two streams of bloody tears from its eyes, and a crack gradually split open.

At this moment...

Unknowingly, at this very instant, regardless of where they were, all the citizens of Great Prosperity were infected by this emotion, silently shedding tears, and could not help but slowly kneel toward the direction of the capital.

In an instant, an invisible force slowly rose from the earth, flying toward the heavens, toward some mysterious direction.

"Ah——!!"

"No! Impossible!"

"M-Majesty, how could this be?!!"

In an instant, the cultivators and powerful beings still on the road roared out in disbelief, transforming into streaks of flowing light and racing toward Huangcheng.

What a joke,

H-He, how could their Majesty have just fallen like this?!

"Already dead?"

Such a tremendous upheaval between heaven and earth — Baichuan naturally saw it too. He couldn't help but extend a Dragon Claw to catch a drop of blood rain that had just fallen before his eyes, and murmured to himself.

It seemed that during his Assimilation, an earth-shaking epochal upheaval had already unknowingly unfolded.

And he, now, was a step slower still.

However, it probably wasn't too late yet.

That one's death or life had nothing to do with him.

The only thing he cared about was one matter — the source of the supernatural in this world.

Presumably, at this most critical moment of dynastic transition, the mysterious existence behind that dynasty would also emerge.

Watching the countless brilliant streaks of various colored light flying up in the distance, Baichuan chuckled lightly.

Let these powerful beings make their commotion. If they could force out that existence, that would be even better.

With such a tremendous upheaval, even if the source of Spirit power was not on that one's person, it could still draw the attention of the one who truly possessed it.

He was already satisfied with the harvest from this world; it was Time to overturn everything.

Let me see what you've got.

The turning of the era is upon us, and he is destined to become the final victor.

Carrying the resources of this world, he will take another step forward—into the starry sky!

No one can stand in his way.

At this moment, Baichuan slowly tightened his grip on the Dragon Claw and murmured to himself.

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(End of Chapter)