Chapter 307: The Power System Belonging to Baichuan, Cang's Special

In an instant, as his spiritual power vanished, a winding illusory Flame-Treading Yanlong slowly exhaled from his mouth; the moment this phantom appeared, it let out a silent roar and plunged into the statue Baichuan had chosen before him.

The very next moment, the entire statue seemed to come alive.

If before it merely looked like a living thing, now anyone who saw it would, at the very first glance,

in that instant feel an incomparably massive creature within the statue slowly open its eyes, sensing a gaze appear within their mind, transforming into a pair of majestic flame-dragon eyes that quietly watched their spirit!

This dragon assumed myriad forms, with no fixed shape — a thousand people, a thousand appearances,

each living being who gazed upon it saw a different shape: some might see a dragon of flame, others a deity with a dragon's head and human body, others still a beast-bodied, dragon-headed creature, and still others…

The one constant was that all possessed the element of the dragon.

At this point, the original statue was complete!

Baichuan gazed at this statue, nodded in satisfaction, and only then raised his head to look at the "crowd" before him—

By now the "crowd," who had long since recovered their wits, stared at him with bright, burning eyes — at him, at the statue in his hands — and recalling the words Senior/Adult/Father-God Baichuan had once spoken, they already had a premonition.

"Shi Long."

Baichuan called out softly.

"Here, Father God."

Shi Long, slightly delighted, glanced at the other "people," then stepped forward uneasily and said.

"From this day forth, a brand-new cultivation system — the 'Visualization Method' — shall be born in this realm, and the statue before you is the source of this method. I now bestow upon you the power of the myriad flames of this heaven and earth!"

As his words fell, the dragon eyes of the statue in Baichuan's claws flashed, and a streak of crimson fire-breath flew from the statue's mouth, shooting toward Shi Long like a swimming dragon, then transforming into a small statue that appeared before him.

"Ice Sea Dragon."

"Yes, my father."

A graceful, clear, and pleasant voice rang out, brimming with excitement.

"I now bestow upon you the power of the myriad ices of this heaven and earth!"

……

This investiture ceremony lasted a full seven days and seven nights before finally concluding.

At this point, every being that followed Baichuan possessed a statue of their own.

This was a special system Baichuan had established based on the contents of ancient texts, combined with his own power and years of insight, specifically named the "Divine Spirit Visualization Method," born from the old spiritual-power cultivation system.

And the Juanzhu followers under his banner served as the divine spirits of this power system, managing this world on his behalf.

In essence, the Juanzhu followers merged with this statue, becoming his subordinates, shaping the formless statue into their own visage, acting as the original divine spirits, and mastering a complete rhythm of the planet's operation.

Transforming into lofty sources of power, they would spread the "Divine Spirit Visualization Method" system he had created, making it the mainstream of this world.

When that time came, the old spiritual-power system would be overthrown.

After all, that system had reached its limit; the path above True Lord had been completely severed by him, and it had lost all potential.

Although Baichuan could once again release a lesser power, this brought him no benefit whatsoever, nor did it help him in the slightest as he prepared to step into Xingkong.

But the "Divine Spirit Visualization Method" was different — it was a system he had specially established for this world, with the source of all transcendence being himself.

So long as sentient beings cultivated, they would spontaneously channel wisps of power to nourish the growth of the divine statues, and the divine statues would in turn transmit this power to him, intermittently increasing the potential of his Standing while bringing him an accumulation of energy, along with various insights into the development and utilization of power.

In other words, he was cultivating by borrowing the strength of all sentient beings!

Of course, he was no vampire, merely exploiting sentient beings one-sidedly.

He had always preferred mutual benefit.

Therefore, the Juanzhu followers who worked for this system, upon merging with the divine statue, were innately endowed with the power of True Lord Peak.

Beyond that, they could also borrow the strength of sentient beings to thoroughly digest that rhythm, truly transforming it into their own power, rather than losing everything the moment they left the divine statue.

What's more, if one's talent was sufficient, inferring other rhythms on their own was not impossible.

Those who cultivated this system began by visualizing the divine spirit — that is, a profound rhythm of this heaven and earth's operation — using the most fundamental rhythm of this world to forge spiritual power, imbuing it with attributes from the very start.

In this way, countless cultivators would be able, from the very beginning, to wield powers once usable only by True Lords and those above the divine realm, bringing them greater strength from the outset.

Moreover, because they were visualizing divine statues formed from Light Point energy, once Baichuan's next step was complete, the entire planet would be saturated with energy light points; in such an environment, those born with the talent to cultivate the new spiritual power would continuously increase in number and become commonplace.

Not only that, because they were visualizing divine statues forged from energy light points, and in the early stages were drawing upon the power of the divine statues, under these circumstances they would also be infected by the power of the divine statues, and while cultivating, would spontaneously draw in the energy light points pervading heaven and earth to temper their physical bodies — thus achieving the dual cultivation of life and nature simultaneously.

If among these cultivators there existed such prodigiously brilliant individuals, they might even fully comprehend this complete rhythm, unobstructedly achieving a divine-realm being on par with the True Lords of old.

Baichuan had never obstructed the breakthroughs of sentient beings.

Moreover, this breakthrough would not occupy any of the Standing's authority or power, because what they comprehended was a rhythm projection released by Baichuan — a special phenomenon among planets and Xingkong.

After all, although this rhythm was said to belong to the Standing, it was merely the profound mystery of natural planetary operation inscribed by the Standing over countless eons; it belonged to the Standing, but also to the planet, to the cosmic Xingkong.

This was a power that could truly be unleashed within Xingkong!

So long as one possessed the corresponding energy and means to activate it.

This was something only true Earth Immortal Realm beings could accomplish — combining their comprehension of a law among all things within Xingkong with an energy method, transforming it into a cultivation system — otherwise, why would they be called Earth Immortals?

It allowed beings who cultivated this comprehension to borrow this rhythm to elevate their life level, while also being able to activate the power of this comprehended rhythm.

Truly, great power returned to the self; in time, every action could fully unleash its might through the complete rhythm one had comprehended.

Compared with the True Lord divine spirits of old, they merely lacked the ability to sense heaven and earth and borrow its power; but unlike True Lord divine spirits who could not leave the world — that is, the planet — they could leave this planet, unconstrained by it.

Of course, leaving was possible, but once they departed this realm, without the Standing's support, how would they recover their consumed spiritual power? That remained unknown.

After all, possessing only a comprehended rhythm without the corresponding means and energy to activate it was nothing more than a castle in the air, a dreamlike illusion.

Baichuan was already merciful enough — he had merely combined his own comprehended rhythm with spiritual power, unique to this planet, so that departed betrayers would forever agonize over their lack of energy, rather than being slain outright.

As for why he would go to such painstaking lengths to do this?

Because he intended to take the entire planet with him!

This was his bold conception: using the mysterious Standing upon this Tianyuan Star as its soul, extending his perception and thoughts across the entire planet—

Before this, his spiritual power and perception had not been so vast; despite having previously scattered energy light points across the entire planet, he could not fully control all this power — that was impossible.

In the beginning, he could only control energy light points within a radius of five kilometers; beyond that, he would lose control and collapse, and even after a long slumber and growth, he could barely control an area the size of a single region.

In the past, he had merely used the energy light points spread across the entire planet in a clever way — like a domino effect, he triggered the initial stage, and only then was he able to harness the vast number of energy light points.

To put it as an analogy, if the energy light points across the entire planet were treated as a vast pool of water, he had only created a vortex at the target's location, and that vortex would naturally draw in the surrounding energy light points continuously to ignite them, bursting outward in a special structure.

But now things were different. The standing domain spread across the entire planet allowed him to extend his perception over the entire planet. If at this point the energy light points he controlled were to cover the entire planet, then he could use his familiar methods to manipulate and harness this tremendous power, condensing it into a massive body forged from light points—

With the planet as bones, the standing domain as soul, and light points as body, forging a planet-sized dragon form!

Through his consciousness controlling this massive planet-body, truly wandering through Xingkong with the planet itself.

He is the Planet Dragon!

Of course, to move such a massive body, he himself was completely unable to do it alone — every single movement of such a massive body required an astronomical amount of energy.

Therefore, he needed the living beings within the world to cultivate and supply a portion of that power.

One person's strength is small, but when the power of all beings gathers bit by bit, it will Burst forth with astonishing force.

This was the true purpose behind his establishing this cultivation system!

He and all beings were mutually beneficial — he gave all beings the chance to transcend the mundane, and all beings lent him the power to explore Xingkong and protect the Dao.

When one flourishes, all flourish; when one suffers, all suffer.

And the consciousness shadow he had drawn out at the very beginning served as a guiding function — at the source of cultivation, the consciousness shadow would guide and unify this vast power as energy, to wander through Xingkong, and to transform into attacks when necessary.

Moreover, before the planet-body was fully established, if he could analyze the structures of some Super Weapons from technological civilizations, perhaps it could add several more layers of power to this Planet Dragon.

This astonishing planet-body could be said to have completely unified everything he had learned from his days of weakness up to now.

Now everything was ready, only the final step remained.

With the establishment of the visualization system, numerous subordinates who had housed the divine statues and transformed into Spirit beings descended to manifest their holiness, passing down entirely new cultivation methods, and the changes across the entire world grew increasingly varied.

Although there were also some remnants of the old era resisting the arrival of the new era, attempting to slaughter with the power of the True Person realm, an arm could never twist a thigh — the essence of the power of the new era's strong was fundamentally higher than the old era's spiritual power from the very start, and this was still under the command of this planet's true master, Baichuan.

The rolling tide of the great trend has never been shifted by any single person.

Though life and death, honor and disgrace, battle on before me,

Never once entering my heart — how then are they any different from the wind, flowers, snow, and moon of the four seasons passing before one's eyes?

Unknowingly, ten years had passed.

With no more standing domains needing to be inscribed, Baichuan was finally able to take some leisure to organize the various marvels after his breakthrough, as well as to analyze the technological crystallization aboard that starship.

In fact, after truly coming into contact with the system's technological knowledge, he realized that he had been far too idealistic before.

The crystallization of technology was far from as easy to replicate as he had imagined — besides the structures being too delicate,

There were also various material limitations. Certainly, he already possessed the ability to convert flesh and blood to exhibit metallic properties, but the birth of a creation required more than just metal —

Metal was merely one broad category; there were also various other non-metallic materials that needed to be combined to manufacture composite materials.

The environments in which these composite materials were born were, in some cases, extremely demanding.

Fortunately, what he needed was not to replicate an entire technological civilization.

He could still draw some reference and inspiration from these technologies. For instance, the light cannon attacks that people in the western regions had once liked to use — their origin was precisely the researchers of old drawing inspiration from the starship's main weapon — the Chuixing Pao — and simplifying it.

Therefore, he too could draw inspiration from various weapon concepts and, in time, bring them forth in the form of flesh-and-blood creatures.

On this point, Cang's abilities gave him this confidence!

It was also at this moment that he finally understood Cang's special nature.

【Race: Cang / ？？】

【Abilities: Qi Attachment LV5 (Internal), Damage Evolution LV4 (Transcendent), Mimicry LV4 (Limit), Displacement LV3 (Broken Limit/Incomplete), Spirit Power Adaptation LV2……】

【Qi Attachment: Flesh-and-blood power transforms into highly Burst-ful gas; attached to the body, every movement can produce intense destructive force. Developed to its limit, it shatters the earth and breaks the sky.】

【Damage Evolution: Any damage from the outside world will, at the cost of consuming energy, transform into nourishment for the energy host. Beyond a certain threshold, evolution is triggered, granting immunity to that type of attack.】

【Mimicry: While gaining immunity to a certain attack property, there is a probability of mimicking that property, making oneself stronger.】

【Displacement: Cross through space, achieving small-range displacement.】

These were Cang's abilities. Though there were not many of them, each one was immensely powerful — especially the combination of 【Damage Evolution】 and 【Mimicry】, which together held an extremely high probability of allowing him to manifest the properties of needed materials through flesh and blood, thereby transforming flesh and blood into weapons of great power.

Besides that, the ability of Damage Evolution alone could also make his own output even more powerful. After all, he had once created a composite flame of great power, but unfortunately because his own flesh and blood could not withstand its might, he could only helplessly weaken it.

But now, with this ability, could he repeatedly raise the upper limit of attacks he could withstand through damage after damage, until he became completely immune, and then fully manifest it with his flesh-and-blood body?

Baichuan was unclear how high the success rate of all these ideas was, but he was willing to give it a try.

Because even if it failed, his own defensive power would once again be upgraded, evolving his body to become even stronger.

It was precisely because of the evolution of Cang's abilities that a sudden sense of satisfaction came from somewhere within his body, and only then did he understand Cang's special nature and origins……

(End of this chapter)