Chapter 363: Time to Go Check on Rin

Since he was going to become the Spiritual Energy Source.

Then he must have the realization to become a great villain.

Xia Zhi understood this very well; after all, by convention, an evil existence like him was destined to be defeated by the brave.

Even if he merely provided a platform, allowing users to obtain services and convenience through it...

But, this is only his own claim—

To say he truly came purely to seek blessings for all beings, that is also unnecessary.

After all, he is simultaneously silently collecting all kinds of data and activity information uploaded by user accounts, managing his Big Data...

Which is to say, profiting from it.

This world is inherently full of calamities and hardships...

His arrival, although to a certain extent, prevented a portion of the disasters originally destined to occur.

But at the same time, from another angle, it also brought unprecedented challenges and trials to this world.

Commonly known as—raising the difficulty.

Moreover, with different standpoints, the gaze with which one views things differs.

As long as the angle is found well, then the Demon King will have the necessity to be defeated no matter what.

So, Xia Zhi knows this clearly in his heart, and does not prepare to defend himself, because a dispute of interests cannot be solved by debating scriptures.

What he needs to do is to do the "antivirus" work as best as possible, and prepare meticulously.

Maintain well the entire system he constructed and built, preventing the destruction and threats brought by "viruses".

Tracing to the root, the world's only two supernatural systems are prominently listed—

First, the Native Witch and Spirit System originating locally; even that Manifestation Device Technology is a branch derivative of this system, there is no other way.

Second, is the Spiritual Energy Revival he leads, and the scattered light of the Immortal Dao, heralding the rise of a more widespread supernatural system.

So—

He chose to firmly grasp the Spirit Power of all spirits in his hands, and define his own power as the Spiritual Energy Source.

Even later, utilizing the Earth-Moon Model of orbital revolution around the Sun, crafted into a Celestial Body Spiritual Energy Reactor, it still required his personal refinement of vast energy beforehand before it could be activated.

In this way, the distinction between primary and secondary naturally settles like dust.

Facing that Vital Energy Sea filling the entire Xing Xi, incomparably vast, the Spiritual Energy subsequently converted, no matter how endlessly it emerges, ultimately can only converge into it.

Qi Meridian Connection.

Same Breath Connected Branches.

Just like the sea accepting a hundred rivers, capacity makes greatness.

Even if a hundred rivers converge, they cannot usurp the host's role; they ultimately must merge into the sea, assimilated into a part of the whole sea.

On this vast cultivation path, every cultivator immersed within, inhaling and exhaling Spiritual Energy, cannot avoid being bound by a formless order.

After all, in the end, the realm of "all divine abilities and changes fully possessed" is not so easily achieved.

Especially in the early stages of cultivation, cultivators rely on and depend on the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth even more. Like an infant to breast milk, indispensable.

All divine abilities, every change, none are outside of Spiritual Energy.

This is the true Reality.

And as long as at the beginning of cultivation, one has inhaled and exhaled the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth, one has already been branded in the dark, stained with the Qi mechanism of that existence behind the scenes who embodies Heaven and Earth.

Even if later cultivation reaches a profound realm, opening the Heaven-Earth Bridge, igniting the Spiritual Energy Reactor within one's own body, able to spontaneously convert the external Pangea...

All this effort and achievement, is also merely becoming a part of this system.

Becoming a component that can work on its own, maintain itself, but in the end, still unable to escape this established order.

Just like the Celestial Body Spiritual Energy Reactor in the Earth-Moon Model, cultivators merely forge themselves into Human Body Spiritual Energy Reactors, still silently working for this vast system.

The Spiritual Energy they themselves refine, likewise flows like a trickling stream into the Vital Energy Sea, becoming an insignificant part of that vast Cycle.

And according to the Snowball Effect principle—

The advantage accumulated on the system's side, like its scale, will only grow larger and larger.

By rights, just this one hand, itself serving as the underlying logic of the entire plan, is also sufficient to become a powerful Safety Device.

However...

The Golden Core Cultivator is still not satisfied with this.

It's not that he is nitpicking, but he understands very well that often it's not fearing the ten thousand, but fearing the one in ten thousand.

Since ancient times, too many, too many Demon Kings with ideals, organizations, purposes, and premeditation, have fallen on this very point.

So, he must absorb those lessons as much as possible.

Admittedly, completely eliminating all accidents is unlikely, especially as this system's scale grows larger and larger, inevitable Expansion.

On Earth, he can control the overall situation, overlooking the Ten Thousand Things.

In the Solar System, he can also control variables, strategizing the rotation of the Mors Star.

But...

When the gaze turns toward the broader Space, when time is endless past, space boundless present, how can one become the Laplace's Demon who knows everything?

Moreover, at that time he probably won't be personally sitting in command forever.

So, he can only try to add a few more insurance measures, prepare a few more back-up plans.

Like those Ten Treasures prepared using Spirit Power to Forge/Cast, they are one of the Firewalls he prepared.

In the future, they will also accompany the growth of this "Spiritual Energy" system, continuously Self-Evolving; the Nanite Cluster Consciousness differentiated from Gray Gu, serving as internal Spirit of the Tool, will also continuously Update Protocol.

Looking at it now, this Firewall has clearly come into use.

"Hmph hmph, the bell corresponding to the power of Time next, also needs corresponding handling; once someone attempts to trace back the past, probe the mystery of the Spiritual Energy Source, the corresponding Mors Command must be triggered..."

Xia Zhi, with a gentle yet profound Smile, made the decision in a very Considerate and pleasant manner.

As long as future cultivators inhale and exhale spiritual energy, they will be within his net, because the flow of every wisp of spiritual energy is under his control.

And if one wants to use the "Immortal Artifacts" crafted with the Spirit Power of this world to pry into ancient secrets...

That is likewise a backup he has prepared.

However, just this seems still not safe enough, nor steady enough.

"The Human Order Magecraft should also be released, restrict the tendency toward destruction, conform to the coming historical trend, and it will naturally evolve into the form of the Dao Arts Heavenly Net..."

He seriously pondered—

"The strategy of the Magic King Goetia is also worth referencing, dispatching the Demon God Pillars from the distant past to the future, making the Magicians he designed his descendants, hiding them within human history..."

Ordinarily, these pieces live and learn like normal people.

However, once the critical moment arrives, they can assume another face, unwaveringly execute the predetermined plan, becoming an unpredictable force in the torrent of history...

This is obviously a very useful strategy.

Although once it can truly be used, the situation would probably be the positioning of those major powers or villain characters in the cultivation world.

The kind that would strike at the "Protagonist" without mercy, seemingly reverse-proving the legitimacy and necessity of them being defeated.

Also reverse-proving the "Protagonist's" Providence...

This is somewhat hard to accept.

Only after serious consideration did Xia Zhi still decide to use such a safety device.

After all, once a Hero appears, even if this Demon King does nothing, the Hero will rise up in resistance; since that is the case, might as well strike with a heavy hand.

Speaking of which, later when his cultivation becomes even more profound, it is not impossible to let spiritual energy spread across the timeline.

That way, its source would probably be even harder to trace.

The Golden Core cultivator closed his eyes, calmed his mind, his divine sense like lightning, in a single instant he had already measured at the current time node—

To what extent the scale of the Vital Energy Sea had expanded.

Accompanied by the blow of the solar wind, it was still continuously filling up.

Because of a deliberately added property, this energy would not dilute without restriction, and thus would not completely dissipate into the vacuum.

Otherwise, with the vast boundlessness of cosmic space, even if Xia Zhi were squeezed dry, there would be no way to raise the overall concentration of spiritual energy even a tiny bit.

According to the preset standard, it would only continue to expand its boundaries when approaching the threshold of the "Age of Gods".

And within its internal range, it is not uniformly distributed either.

Rather, it is dynamic, changing, with density, sparsity, and clarity all following certain rules.

Native ecology zones have more, human city ranges have less; the spiritual energy of famous mountains and rivers is clearer, the spiritual energy of industrial pollution zones is more turbid.

But the overall scale is indeed grand; with the foundation currently laid, it is already enough for Earth to transform into a cultivation technology civilization in the next stage.

Especially connected to Xia Zhi's Qi Meridians, making this world's Vital Energy Sea...

Seem like a projection of his own dantian Qi Sea onto the outside world.

"Perhaps..."

"Need to think of a way to maintain this connection..."

Xia Zhi pondered, faintly gaining some ideas, feeling he could reference this; this power might perhaps be one of the marvels a Nascent Soul Dharma Body should possess.

It is said that "Jewel Grandpa" Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg excels at Parallel World Operation, and personally crafted many Mystic Codes applying the Second Magic.

—Like the Jewel Sword, which can create a channel to a parallel world, and through that channel, extract mana almost without restriction...

—And like the Kaleidoscope, which can draw out various skills from parallel worlds, a Mystic Code allowing the contractor to use them...

Xia Zhi currently does not lack Blue Bars all that much.

But maintaining a link with the Vital Energy Sea he personally opened up still has very positive significance.

For example, even if he leaves this world, he can still perceive in real-time the various divine ability changes and wisdom insights imprinted by the spiritual energy.

Letting him, no matter where he is, intuitively feel the pulse of this world.

The more worlds he controls in the future...

The more Vital Energy Seas he opens up...

Then the Nascent Soul Dharma Body simultaneously superimposing different probability planes, drawing out grand magecraft from other universes without restriction, drawing out all kinds of divine abilities and Dao arts...

One can imagine what an astonishing state this will be.

"The difficulty lies in..."

"To achieve this, it is already no longer within the scope of Parallel World Interference..."

The Golden Core cultivator felt some conflict, and also a bit of a headache.

The Jewel Grandpa's ability is very good, but in the end it is only operating between different "ifs" and different parallel world lines within the same universe.

But the operation he wants to perform already belongs to the level between different universes in multidimensional spacetime.

"In short, first figure out the principle of Parallel World Interference; rice must be eaten mouthful by mouthful, first find a suitable springboard..."

He swiftly made a decision.

Only in the database Xia Zhi possesses, although it records the vast majority of secrets on Earth, even including extraterrestrial secrets.

However, regarding the "Magecraft" type of secret not passed down that is outside the standard, there is still a lack of understanding.

So he needs a suitable medium, or rather a sample.

For example...

The Jewel Sword?

This Mystic Code explicitly applies the principle of the Second Magic, and does not need to be obtained from the Jewel Old Man running around in various parallel worlds; it is not a limited drop.

Such an acquisition method is very friendly.

As far as he knows, the Tohsaka family's ancestor Tohsaka Nagato was once the Jewel Old Man's disciple.

As the homework left by that Grand Master, it is the Jewel Sword's design diagram... the task of the Tohsaka family heads through the generations, is also an almost impossible task to complete.

Therefore——

"Good……"

"It's also about time to go back and check on Rin……"

The youth struck his palm with a fist, making the decision quite cheerfully.

What? Is it because you need the Jewel Sword's Design Diagram and theory, so that's why you thought of it?!

How could that be, Completely Not!

(Chapter End)