Chapter 300: The Vision of a Planet Dragon, a LV6-Level Creature?

After finishing the projection, Baichuan clicked open the few remaining important projections one by one to watch.

After a while, having seen everything, he couldn't help but feel a little more confident about the idea that had flashed into his mind earlier.

As the saying goes, as a dragon, if one doesn't even possess a dragon body as vast as a planet, how can one dare to call oneself a dragon?

Having grown from a small snake to where he is now, Baichuan had relied on the strength of his massive size to reach his current position, so he has always believed that size is power.

Big is justice!

If one day he grows to the size of a planet, even without any other power, just the strength of his own flesh and the biological magnetic field and gravity brought by his enormous mass — who would dare look down on him?

The vast, boundless starry sky he had once gazed up at and imagined in his weaker days had finally lifted a corner of its mystery for him.

Though the starry sky is vast and boundless, it is not lonely. Just the beings he knows of that may come from the starry sky include the Blood Worms, Star-Eating Worms, the Dragon Blood Source, the Fugitive Fleet and their homeworld behind them, as well as various civilizations drawn here.

Once he truly steps off the planet, it means he will one day collide with them. Especially the "Luo" civilization, mentioned often in the Fugitive Fleet's records — his intuition tells him they will one day meet.

Therefore, if he doesn't at least possess a planet-sized body and power, he would feel very uneasy.

Only true planet-level power can put his mind slightly at ease.

What dragon in this world is inferior even to a mountain-range beast?

But under normal circumstances, even with his Ability Panel, reaching that realm wouldn't be so simple. Growing to the level of a Planet Dragon might take an incomparably long time.

After all, for a living being, growing to such an enormous size is nowhere near as easy as simply scaling up proportions.

The bones, organs, flesh, skin, scales… and most importantly, the nervous system — all would need countless iterations of renewal.

Otherwise, what would emerge would be either a huge, slow-moving living target, or a creature of twisted flesh?

A living being, after all, is a precise, perfect system that cannot afford the slightest error.

And each of these changes requires long periods of trial and error and transformation. Even though his Ability Panel can shorten the process, it cannot make it happen in an instant.

Unless he could directly obtain a Star Beast, directly obtain its ability model, and reference its bodily structure.

Even a juvenile would do — after all, his Ability Panel isn't picky.

Of course, an adult one — he currently can't take one down either.

Star Beasts — this was content from the later projections, a mysterious creature that flashed briefly in the later recollections of Tangboshi, who left the projections.

In the universe, there are always some perfectly favored beings blessed by fortune. Once they reach adulthood, their size and strength can rival the might of a planet.

For these beings, growing from juvenile to adult alone means the destruction and devouring of a planet.

And that planet cannot be an ordinary one — it must be a planet with life!

The quality of this living planet — that is, the more intelligent life on it — the stronger the power after devouring it.

In other words, the destruction of one civilization, one planet, is required for a true Star Beast to be born.

Baichuan even suspects that the source of the Dragon Blood is actually a Star Beast!

It might even be an existence of extremely noble bloodline within the vast Star Beast species.

Unfortunately, Star Beasts are rare and hard to find. Even Tangboshi, who, thanks to his homeworld's special nature, had seen countless advanced civilizations, only ever saw one half-grown Star Beast in his entire life, and that was within the "Luo" civilization.

Yet even so, it was treasured immensely, granting it a unique status among many advanced civilizations.

Based on all the information, Baichuan suspects these Star Beasts may possess LV6-level abilities he has never encountered.

LV6 — this is an ability he has never seen since his growth began.

So although his Time seems plentiful, it really isn't as abundant as he imagines.

But fortunately, with the aid of this cultivation civilization that has developed over tens of thousands of years, and the special environment this planet possesses, he might be able to overtake on a curve —

To ascend in a single step, to be the first to obtain an external incarnation — a Planet Dragon!

Even if this might only be an external force, not truly his own power, and might not match a true adult Star Beast in strength,

It doesn't matter — external force is also part of one's own strength. It can serve as his trump card, his protective path, before he fully grows.

Of course, whether this plan can actually succeed still requires him to try it out a little. Moreover, he hasn't fully received the "inheritance" this fleet brought from their homeworld's ruins.

He hasn't examined that mysterious Faba, nor the cultivation manuals that created this world's Spirit Qi system, and he doesn't yet understand what the realms of Planet and True Immortal represent.

Thinking of this, Baichuan activated the authority within him. He now knows exactly what this authority is —

A portion of the counterfeit authority of that mysterious Faba!

Speaking of which, he had actually already obtained a part of this Faba long ago.

The Immortal-Binding Rope — the Faba that helped him easily kill the Sun Heavenly Sovereign — was a small component of it.

It once helped Tianyuan Zunzhe achieve greatness in the old era, and now has aided him considerably.

If not for this Faba helping him seal off the opponent's control over this realm, killing him wouldn't have been so easy.

So he has grown increasingly curious and expectant about the main body of this Faba.

It has helped this fleet escape the pursuit of advanced civilizations countless times, and with its own power has shrouded the entire planet, shifting it into a mysterious space to hide.

How immensely powerful must its true might be?

And the true source that birthed this Faba — the ruins on the Fugitive Fleet's homeworld — what level of civilization did those ruins represent?

While pondering, Baichuan had already followed the perception transmitted by the authority and arrived at the most important location of the entire starship —

The location of the power system engine!

As a light gate opened, what appeared before Baichuan was a strange instrument occupying the entire power room. Its shape resembled a massive base, and above the base, a transparent blue light shield enveloped the entire base —

Directly above the center of the base, suspended in mid-air within the blue light shield, an Ancient Bell of bronze color floated quietly. Inside the bell, upon closer inspection, one could seemingly see a fruit radiating seven-colored light.

Spirit Qi so dense it was almost suffocating flowed quietly in liquid form beneath the shield. Looking closely, one could even see faintly visible solid Spirit Qi (spirit stones) piled at the bottom of the sea of Spirit Qi throughout the entire power room.

Seen from afar, it was like a mysterious bronze Ancient Bell suspended in a sea of golden liquid, with an occasional flash of seven-colored light shining from within.

Baichuan understood that this fruit was the Rhythm Fruit that once belonged to Tianyuan Zunzhe, representing the highest crystallization of this world's power, possessing the force to trigger mysterious fields.

This was not the original appearance of the power room. The starship's original power engine had long been removed and relocated elsewhere. Moreover, the entire power system had been transformed by later researchers into the most important location on the entire Tianyuan Star.

Because the mysterious Faba that created this planet's strange phenomenon resided here — the mysterious bronze Ancient Bell.

The vast sea of liquid Spirit Qi beneath it was the energy supplying the bell to operate the planet's barrier, jointly provided by the beings of this realm and those Heavenly Sovereigns and Main Gods.

At the same time, after Baichuan directly took control of the Heavenly Sovereign's authority, the spiritual power born from nothing also originated from this ocean of spiritual power.

The birth of this ocean of spiritual power came precisely from the ingenious design of those researchers back then. Any existence that used that authority to cultivate to the Divine Realm or above—every cultivation, every exertion of power, every restoration of spiritual power within—would invisibly channel a portion of their spiritual power through the Ancient Bell to appear here.

This was no exception even for the Heavenly Sovereigns; however, compared to those of the Divine Realm, they knew a false truth: that the Great Dao (Rhythm Fruit) existed between heaven and earth, and they were beings in Symbiosis with the Great Dao,

If the Great Dao exists, then they exist forever; if the Great Dao perishes, then they fall from the divine altar and perish.

Therefore, even for their own sake, beyond the spiritual power transmitted through normal cultivation and exertion, they also actively stored a large portion of their own spiritual power here at regular Time intervals.

This was also why every Heavenly Sovereign and Main God would spontaneously harvest humanity's faith and all manner of power.

The sole purpose was merely to reduce their own burden, dragging mortals—who should never have been involved in this spiritual power supply system—into it as well, even if the price was those mortals' deaths.

But there were so many ants and cattle, and if they ran out, Regeneration would handle it—those mortals could always breed more.

Standing at the highest position of this world were ultimately not humanity's strong, but alien beings that had usurped the nest.

The only reason they hadn't exterminated humanity was thanks to humanity's ability to breed, combined with their intelligence and their own weakness.

Unfortunately, now with the death of all the Heavenly Sovereigns, this vast ocean of spiritual power had lost its greatest supplier and had actually diminished by nearly one percent.

Of course, this should also be due to Baichuan having taken in all the Divine Realm experts of the entire Dalong Dynasty.

At this moment, Baichuan suddenly thought of the True Lords he had taken into his Small World during his previous great battle with that Heavenly Sovereign of Conferring Gods.

After all, with this world's normal spiritual power suppliers suddenly halved, the reduction of the spiritual power ocean was almost inevitable.

It seemed he needed to find Time to release that group.

Thoughts turning in his mind, Baichuan withdrew his gaze.

He had come here not merely to sightsee, but to completely take this mysterious bell-shaped Faba into his own hands!

The next moment, a Star-Devouring Worm sub-body flew out, and under the pull of the Immortal-Binding Chains, vast spiritual power surged forth like a tide, wrapping the ink-black giant dragon as it rushed toward that ocean of spiritual power.

He was clearly preparing to imprint his mark on all the spiritual power here, then use this vast spiritual power to thoroughly take control of this Faba bit by bit!

As the invisible spiritual power surged forth, strange lights inexplicably appeared in the void of this region, dyeing this ocean of spiritual power like ink.

Golden light continuously exploded forth, splashing up droplets of golden spray, as if a giant beast had appeared within this golden sea!

Of course, that was indeed the case.

Baichuan's vast spiritual power, aided by the Immortal-Binding Chains connected to the mysterious Faba, directly transformed into a ferocious, writhing ink-black giant dragon within this Spirit Sea!

The ink-black giant dragon writhed its slender dragon body, rapidly swimming and continuously spewing clumps of viscous ink-black Dragon Breath within this golden Spirit Sea,

The instant the Dragon Breath appeared, it rapidly spread toward the golden Spirit Sea, transforming into a patch of pitch-black ink sea.

As the ink sea's range grew ever vaster, the ink-black giant dragon hidden within the Spirit Sea seemed to have set its sights on the Ancient Bell suspended above the Spirit Sea,

In an instant, the ink-black waves churned, rolling up massive black tornadoes that crashed toward the Ancient Bell.

"Buzz—!"

The Ancient Bell was shaken; beneath the terrifying black tornadoes, the Ancient Bell involuntarily emitted a clear chime.

"Hmph…"

The bell chime, substantial as if real, spread throughout the entire void, freezing everything in its path—even those terrifyingly powerful black tornadoes were involuntarily fixed in place, then collapsed.

It was also at the instant the black tornadoes collapsed that a muffled groan involuntarily rang out.

That was Baichuan's spiritual power being blasted apart; this Faba was resisting Baichuan's refinement,

Even though he possessed part of this Faba's authority, as well as some small objects, that authority was merely a fake, and small objects were ultimately still small objects.

Regarding this, Baichuan was well aware: the more powerful the Faba, the harder it was to acknowledge a master. Perhaps using it was possible, but truly refining it was difficult to achieve.

After all, this Faba's true might was enough to envelop and relocate an entire planet—indeed, its true power was even more than that. Could he, at his current level, easily refine such might?

If it were truly that simple, this Fugitive Fleet wouldn't have gone tens of thousands of years without anyone being able to truly refine it.

Baichuan himself would have suspected this Faba might be a fake.

From this he could deduce that this Faba's essence might be above true planet-level, or even higher.

What he currently wanted was merely to perform an initial refinement, embedding his spiritual imprint within it, truly achieving a sense of connection with it—rather than borrowing that external object's authority. That authority was, after all, merely a product of those fugitives' expedient tricks.

As thoughts turned, Baichuan replenished his spiritual power once more and began the next round of refinement.

It was merely spiritual power; with the help of countless Light Point energies, he possessed countless Small Selves and could completely maintain his spiritual power in a perfect state, using the patient grinding effort of water to perform an initial refinement.

With this thought, Baichuan began to wear down this mysterious Ancient Bell.

……

Time flowed leisurely, and in the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

Five years' Time—if not for the gods of the western region still supplying spiritual power, as well as the True Lords and mortal armies he later released, with the desperate efforts of numerous True Lords, this Spirit Sea would truly have completely dried up.

What awaited him then would have been refinement failure, and Tianyuan Star returning to Xingkong.

Yet even so, the high-energy Spirit Stones beneath the Spirit Sea had vanished by a full two-thirds, and the Spirit Sea itself had dropped to only 30% of its original level.

Fortunately, with such a tremendous sacrifice, he had finally achieved his first small goal—

The initial refinement of the mysterious Ancient Bell!

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(End of this chapter)