Chapter 277: The Essence of Space-Time, Perfecting the Myriad Stars

"However, although this 'Nine-Bend Yellow River Array' cannot be fully comprehended, it is not without its unexpected joys."

A smile appeared on Fang Longye's face.

He moved his body, and he actually vanished directly from the quiet room, ignoring all sorts of Dharma arrays and Restrictions, appearing in the Huai River Dragon Palace a million miles away.

Immediately following that, he moved again, and in an instant, he returned to this quiet room.

And during this process, he did not cause the slightest disturbance, not even a single ripple in space was produced.

It is not 'Flying Body Tracing', yet it surpasses 'Flying Body Tracing'.

It was entirely perfected by him based on that ability to tear through the void that had sprouted within his Bloodline earlier.

Using this for close-quarters combat against enemies, even if ordinary enemies were on guard, they would be unable to capture his movements.

It is truly elusive in the literal sense.

Fang Longye even has a premonition that, as he is now, if he were to go and practice the Great Divine Ability of travel known as 'Flying Body Tracing', he would be able to master the basics as soon as he started.

He might even reach a small level of success before long.

"And there is more—"

Fang Longye moved his thoughts, and the space before his eyes immediately rippled, twisting continuously in overlapping layers.

Space-time folded, and a barrier formed of its own accord.

This layer of defense, for those not versed in the Dao of space-time, can only be broken by force with immense power.

This is because, even if you were to press close to him, appearing to be within arm's reach, in reality, there are countless layers of space-time between you, visible but unreachable.

"Good treasure, I am almost reluctant to melt you down!" Fang Longye laughed heartily, stroking the scroll in his hand that looked like half a piece of old cowhide.

This was another harvest he gained from comprehending the remnant array on this scroll, which greatly enhanced his insight into the laws of space-time.

Although the main purpose of the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array is to erode a person's Dao cultivation and Dharma power, its crystallization in terms of space-time is equally not to be underestimated.

The 'Nine-Bend' refers to twists and turns.

This 'Nine' is not the number nine, but rather signifies the ultimate, the supreme, the highest, and the infinite.

Once one enters the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array, Life and Death are vast and beyond one's control. This is not just because of the array's ability to erode one's Dao cultivation and Dharma power, but more so because once you enter this array, you cannot escape.

Once the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array is set up, it will twist everything and give birth to boundless space-time.

Twisting and turning, turning and twisting.

In different space-times, even if you can see each other, you can only look at each other across the river, and you will never be able to reach one another. Not to mention trying to escape from this array.

This is also one of the reasons why, during the Conferring of the Gods Tribulation, the Three Goddesses of the Calamity Sect were able to make all the disciples of the Chan Sect look so disgraced with the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array.

It is simply because this array is easy to enter but difficult to leave. Once inside, it is not so easy to escape~

Either one needs to have a deep study of the Dao of space-time, or one needs to use absolute power to directly destroy this array.

Otherwise, one can only depend on the mood of the one controlling the array!

He imprinted the remnant array marks from this damaged array map into his mind stroke by stroke, and then extracted the Yellow Springs True Water from within.

Subsequently, Fang Longye tried to circulate the secret method of the 'Yin and Yang Great Vehicle Dragon-Transforming Scripture' to see if he could melt it into his body.

There were no surprises, and of course, no disappointments.

Facing this damaged scroll, this secret method he had always relied upon was indeed not up to the task.

No matter how the Yin and Yang millstone within his body ground it, or how the Dao fire within the Yin and Yang furnace scorched it, it could not shake this damaged scroll in the slightest.

"As expected, it seems I can only fuse it directly into my Inner World!"

Facing this result, Fang Longye truly felt no disappointment.

Originally, he had not held much hope; he had just wanted to give it a try~

One must know that this remnant map, despite looking a bit tattered, is essentially the World Membrane of a Great Thousand World.

Even if it is not complete, it is not something he can refine at his current stage. After all, no matter how strong a Divine Ability or secret method is, it ultimately depends on one's personal strength.

After making up his mind.

He casually threw this remnant map into his own Inner World.

He let the Inner World descend its power to pull it into a mysterious place and refine it bit by bit.

As the Inner World began to refine this World Membrane of the Great Thousand World.

Even though it would still take a long time to fully digest it, Fang Longye had already noticed some changes.

Compared to before, the World Membrane of his own Inner World had become a bit thicker and much tougher.

"Strike while the iron is hot!"

Subsequently, he reached out and pointed at the half-handful of Fuli Godly Soil before him, completely dispersing it and scattering it into his Inner World.

For a time, the vast land within the Inner World was filled with auspicious energy rising into the sky.

He could feel that this vast land had instantly become much thicker and more solid.

Although it could not possess the characteristics of being immortal, indestructible, and impervious to Calamity like the Fuli Godly Soil.

It still gained a bit of sturdiness out of thin air, along with a sense of 'carrying things with great virtue' and nurturing all life within it.

"However,..."

Fang Longye frowned and separated an incarnation to enter the Inner World.

As soon as the incarnation entered this Inner World, he felt that this world gave one a sense of being heavy at the feet and light at the head.

It was that kind of falling sensation as if the sky were collapsing and the earth were sinking.

Of course, Fang Longye was not panicked.

This was the same principle as the feeling of being light at the head and heavy at the feet after the sun, moon, and stars were completed earlier.

It was just that the heaven and earth were out of balance!

However, unlike the last time, this time it was the earth beneath his feet that had grown, while the firmament above his head had not yet kept pace.

For a moment, unable to withstand the increased gravitational pull after the earth grew, it was about to be pulled straight down.

After all, do not look at the fact that the Fuli Godly Soil he sprinkled into the Inner World was only half a handful; its weight is basically equivalent to the same volume of Breath Soil.

A single grain of Breath Soil the size of a rice grain can transform into thousands of great mountains, which shows just how heavy it is.

Although Fuli Godly Soil cannot expand or contract, its weight is the same.

One can imagine how much the earth within the Inner World at this moment has increased in terms of heaviness after merging with this half-handful of Fuli Godly Soil.

To solve this problem is very simple.

There are two methods.

The first is to do nothing himself and devote all his heart and mind to the task of refining this Inner World, fully assisting its smooth operation.

Convert a portion of the Fuli Godly Soil's creative nutrients for the earth into other forms of power, so as to adjust the balance.

Until the world stabilizes once again.

It is just that this method sounds like it would consume a great deal of time and energy.

The second method is much less troublesome compared to the first.

It just consumes some resources.

That is to increase the mass of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky, allowing them to counterbalance the earth's gravity, which can maintain the stability of heaven and earth.

The rest can be left to the Inner World to solve itself, and it will quickly recover as before~

Previously, whenever he encountered an imbalance in the Inner World, he always chose the second method. He would rather "spend more money" to buy time.

In reality.

Fang Longye's mind stirred, and he took the storage pouch containing the Heavenly Star Divine Sand into his hand.

"Fortunately, I am not without preparation."

He smiled and muttered to himself, then immediately tossed the storage pouch in front of his avatar in the Inner World.

"Stars shift and galaxies move!" The avatar took the storage pouch, first waved a hand toward the sky, and the sun, which was still in the middle of the sky, quickly set, revealing the stars filling the sky and shining over the Zhou Tian.

At a glance, it looked exactly the same as the starry sky in the Honghuang.

However, if one scans with the power of the primordial spirit.

One can see that these stars filling the sky, which look like a Star Sea, only have the Zhou Tian stars—that is, the three hundred and sixty-five main stars—that truly exist.

The remaining billions of stars are merely projections like dream-like bubbles.

The Heavenly Star Vine he had previously merged was, after all, just a section of vine from an Innate Spiritual Root.

Even though the Inner World had recently undergone a re-evolution of heaven and earth, advancing from a Grotto-Heaven to a Small World, it was still not enough to fully evolve the Zhou Tian Star Sea.

Being able to evolve three hundred and sixty-five main stars is already very good.

After all, the Gourd Small World where he was when he first transmigrated had not even evolved a single star; they were all projections of the Honghuang starry sky.

"Right now, it is the perfect time to supplement the other stars!"

The reason Fang Longye had the audacity to ask Yurong Wang for this Heavenly Star Divine Sand lay right here.

He had already planned to supplement the remaining stars in the Inner World.

"Go!" Fang Longye took four hundred and eighty million grains of Heavenly Star Divine Sand from the storage pouch and waved his hand, scattering them toward the starry sky.

These four hundred and eighty million grains of Heavenly Star Divine Sand immediately dragged trails of light as they soared into the sky. Each grain of Heavenly Star Divine Sand aimed at a phantom of a star.

In just an instant, all the Heavenly Star Divine Sand submerged into those four hundred and eighty million star phantoms.

Each grain of this Heavenly Star Divine Sand had accumulated an unknown amount of star power; both in mass and star power, each was equivalent to a small star.

Four hundred and eighty million grains of Heavenly Star Divine Sand meant four hundred and eighty million small stars.

Merging them into these star phantoms was naturally a tremendous stroke of good fortune.

For a time, starlight flared brilliantly.

The world, originally shrouded by the night sky, instantly became incomparably bright, as if it were broad daylight.

After a moment, the light dissipated.

Looking at these stars filling the sky again, they felt much clearer, no longer illusory, and no longer possessing their original rigidity, becoming very lively.

The four hundred and eighty million stars, from their original phantoms, transformed into true stars, rotating ceaselessly around the three hundred and sixty-five main stars that had existed before.

"It is a pity that I cannot fully refine that Juntian Divine Pot in a short time, nor can I comprehend the 'Small Heavenly Cycle Star Array' within it."

Fang Longye thought to himself: "Otherwise, even if it were not the Zhou Tian Star Array, it could still make this starry sky much more stable."

"Hmm~ There is no need to be too anxious about the Small Zhou Tian Star Array; being anxious is useless."

Without fully refining the Juntian Divine Pot, no matter how he tried, it would be impossible to see the full picture of that Small Heavenly Cycle Star Array. Let alone comprehend how to arrange and operate it.

And to fully refine a Supreme Spiritual Treasure.

Unless one has an opportunity like the one he had when refining the 'Xuanling Dun Jia', it is basically out of the question at the Golden Immortal Realm.

"Should I try to see if I can obtain this array from the Demon Master Mansion?"

This thought had just emerged when he dismissed it himself.

This is the 'Small Zhou Tian Star Array', equivalent to a simplified version of the Zhou Tian Star Array.

It would not be an exaggeration to call it the second great array of the Demon Clan.

If he wanted to obtain it from the Demon Master Mansion, the price would be astronomical.

It might even require him to give his whole self to be taught this array.

Why suffer for it? As long as he advances to Taiyi, he can spend some more time to fully refine the Juntian Divine Pot and obtain the true meaning of this array.

It was already meat on his own chopping block; why pay such a huge price just to save a little time?

He shook his head and cast aside these distracting thoughts.

He lowered his head to look at the storage pouch in his hand containing the Heavenly Star Divine Sand, a smile appearing on his face.

Weighing this storage pouch, he laughed: "To think there is still so much Heavenly Star Divine Sand left; this is indeed good news."

This storage pouch originally contained about three units of Heavenly Star Divine Sand, roughly twenty-four billion grains in total.

He had only used a small fraction to restore balance to this once-unbalanced world.

It had also supplemented the remaining stars within his Inner World.

One could only say that the Huai River Water God Wuzhiqi, who once vied with Dayu, truly possessed some substance. The incidental wealth he scattered to the mother of the Macaque King was enough to keep him well-fed.

And there was still so much left over.

Enough to let him handle what was to come.

He had not forgotten that he still had a batch of treasures prepared to be integrated into his Inner World, far more than just the four items he had just taken out.

To say nothing else, simply casting the divine water refined from the five types of Innate True Water into this Inner World would surely require him to readjust the balance of this realm.

If one wishes to save time on assisting the operation of the Inner World, one can only continuously pour corresponding spiritual objects into it.

There is still plenty of Heavenly Star Divine Sand left to scatter! "So this is the path of the Inner World?" Fang Longye felt a sudden realization at this moment.

"This is the path of the Inner World!" he affirmed, "It lies in perfection, in cultivation, in balance, in operation, and in evolution."

It appears to be a constant "gold-devouring" process, receiving a steady stream of feedback from the world, taking a shortcut.

In reality, it is a process of discovering problems, solving problems, finding deficiencies, and making up for them.

Therefore—

As long as it is not a chaotic imbalance capable of destroying the Inner World in an instant, it is a good thing.

Because as long as this chaotic imbalance is readjusted, it is a form of progress.

As the Inner World becomes more perfect, balanced, and harmonious, the "Dao" that the cultivator reflects within it naturally rises accordingly.

"Observe the Dao of Heaven, hold fast to the conduct of Heaven, and that is all."

Only today did he understand the profound meaning of these words.

Fang Longye raised his eyes to look at the stars hidden in the sky and the sun that had re-emerged, a sense of enlightenment appearing in his gaze.

His entire Aura became ethereal, and his Dao practice seemed to have made progress as well.

Fang Longye did not know if his understanding was entirely correct, but he only felt that he had infinite contemplations at this moment.

Indescribable and ineffable insights surged into his heart one after another.

Decisively, he handed all the spiritual objects he had prepared to integrate into the Inner World to his avatar.

He entrusted the subsequent work to the avatar.

Afterward, most of his consciousness withdrew from the avatar and returned to his true physical body in the present world.

He was seen sitting upright on the Cloud Couch, the celebration clouds unfolding above his head, the Three Flowers floating within them, and Green Lotus blossoms opening and falling all around.

This drew forth a scene of awe-inspiring Divine Light within the meditation room.

"Hum!"

As his thoughts stirred, the Profound Spirit Escape Armor emerged from the celebration clouds, scattering strands of incomparably profound Dao essence that spread outward.

Immediately following, profound runes, wreathed in the divine radiance of merit, appeared around the Profound Spirit Escape Armor, shining like stars.

These profound runes were the Eight Trigrams runes derived and drawn by the Sage Emperor Fuxi.

Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan were continuously arranged and combined, finally forming a Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram emitting the divine light of merit.

This led Fang Longye into a state of enlightenment, and he could not help but sink into his cultivation.

All was silent, with only the sandalwood incense curling in the air.

(End of chapter)