Chapter 446

Billions upon billions of stars are woven by formless gravity into a vast cosmic tapestry.

They surge at speeds mortals cannot perceive, yet in eternity they have solidified into a slowly rotating vortex of silver sand.

That is the Milky Way.

Ink traces ground out by the Universe in the Void with light-years.

— Profound darkness constitutes its purest base color.

— Those brilliant nebulae are merely phosphor fire floating on the surface of the eternal night sea.

Perhaps occasionally some carbon-based life on a rocky planet's surface looks up, its retina reflecting the milky-white river of light traversing the night sky.

A hundred billion Suns slumber within, as if they were scales on a giant snake's spine that happen to catch the light...

The light arrows shot by Orion must travel one hundred fifty thousand springs and autumns before they can touch the feather tips drooping from Cygnus...

And such a distance, within the spiral's folds, is merely two adjacent specks of dust.

The most ancient stars have faded to dark red.

Newborn blue giants still tear at the nebula's swaddling clothes with intense light.

All splendor and annihilation slowly settle along invisible threads, quietly rotating amidst the rises and falls of the galactic arms.

Frankly speaking —

This barred spiral galaxy presenting a massive disk structure, possessing four clear, distinct, and comparatively symmetrical spiral arms...

Is actually already of unimaginable vastness and magnificence.

The Milky Way, from inside to out, is respectively composed of the Galactic Center, Galactic Core, Galactic Disk, Galactic Halo, and Galactic Corona, possessing 1.5 trillion times the Sun's mass.

Therefore it contains several hundred billion stars, and possesses at least the same number of planets.

— For ordinary mortals who cannot surpass the stars...

— For those who cannot understand just how vast the Solar System is...

This is a vast domain unimaginable even in dreams, exceeding all fantasies, beyond the end of imagination.

Merely...

For the current Nascent Soul Cultivator, it is just a bit not enough to look at.

The sea of stars is but sand in the palm; wind and thunder beneath the sleeves boil the silver raft.

Those who have not reached this realm are completely unable to understand just what astonishing and exaggerated degree his Dao Conduct and Divine Abilities have reached.

At the initial breakthrough, he already possessed world-toppling Divine Might; with a wave of his hand he could annihilate countless Tianyu Di Lu — grand and mighty power.

As for now, even more so his spirit is condensed and Qi solidified, his Dao Foundation stable, and moreover after a period of dedicated cultivation to consolidate...

His magical power naturally seems to have no upper limit, climbing to an unimaginable height.

But this is also normal.

After all, Xia Zhi is currently constantly manifesting Magic God power.

According to reason, the Road he walks, the normal operation is to comprehensively read the wisdom of the 103,000 Grimoires, and then in a special way, draw out the power —

With a mortal body, in one stroke achieve the Magic God.

As long as this step is completed, even if previous power methods could only be limited to planets, the Surface World, and such...

One can also in a single leap become a Magic User who has stepped into the Domain of Gods.

Completely mastering magic, mastering all dimensions, all elements, all phases, able to arbitrarily distort all laws of the world — a Magic User, which is also the ultimate form of a Magic User.

— This kind of absolute essence transformation, that is what is truly called exaggerated, but also resembles some kind of especially crazy, all-or-nothing desperate gamble.

Xia Zhi would of course not be willing to choose this kind of road that feels unreliable.

He prefers to manifest Magic God power step by step, not pursuing a one-time special Ritual to achieve complete success.

However, at least every time a stage is completed, he must according to progress take a portion of power.

This is reasonable and fair.

Simply put, just like the pitiable Miss Oute —

She obtained Wisdom through a special method.

On the basis of this Wisdom, Othinus offered her own right eye, dug out by her own hand, at the Mimir Spring.

By means of the ritualistic destructive Behavior of "digging out one eye with her own hand," she systematized the "sacrificial offering," allowing her to sublimate from a mortal body into a Magic God.

— This is the key.

— Before the Ritual, and after the Ritual.

— Is the difference between a Wizard and a Magic God.

And Xia Zhi did not choose such a method, or rather, he likewise designed a special systematized Ritual for his own path to Godhood.

Only this Ritual is not one-time.

But is divided into multiple stages, multiple steps...

Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul...

Therefore it can also be said that his Ritual has long since begun, only it has been continuing all along, not yet reaching the time of true complete Completion.

And in this process of the continuously held Ritual, he will bit by bit transform his absolute essence.

From a Fleshly Mortal Body, gaining the Immortal Body's Prototype, then bit by bit filling in the incomplete parts, letting Existence Karma tend toward perfection without flaw.

Ultimately, he will inevitably cultivate an Immortal Body and Immortal Life.

So...

The current situation can be understood.

Facing the ultimate complete Realm that will surely master the entire Universe domain, although he is still far from reaching it, he has already finished half the Ritual stages.

Even though the later stages and steps will bring more power, and even greater proportions of absolute essence transformation.

But even if currently it is only one percent, one thousandth, or even one ten-thousandth.

If this ratio were benchmarked against a complete realm, as the complete power of the universe, that would also be an extremely staggering degree.

A mere galaxy……

Truly is completely not worth mentioning.

Of course, the actual situation cannot be analogized like this; the proportion of the Magic God's essence also does not necessarily directly correspond to the proportion of the universe that can be manipulated.

However, just understanding the main meaning is enough; details and such are not important.

As for right now……

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"A bit bigger……"

"Mhm, a bit bigger, can also expand outward a bit more……"

Xia Zhi whispered softly, his gaze traversing the stars, as if measuring the edges of the galaxy.

While pondering, he seriously planned this Star Domain that was about to be conquered.

He felt that when demarcating the land, he could try to demarcate a bit more, demarcate a bit more…… after all, this will be a vast project, requiring cautious and meticulous planning, best not to repeatedly toss and turn.

Even if merely delineating an entire galaxy, it is actually already a vast and boundless expansive Star Domain.

But……

Humans are just this prepared in advance; when you truly have the ability to claim territory by running horses, naturally you will try to delineate as large an area as possible.

Who would dislike having too much land of their own? Anyway, he doesn't dislike it.

Moreover, the current situation is that for the majority of people and even other races, this starry sky of the galaxy is already vast and boundless, sufficient for them to roam freely.

However, for Xia Zhi, this bit of space appears overly cramped.

As if a trapped beast in a cage, unable to unfold his true grand design.

This situation is just like how a true Magic God cannot appear in the Mortal World——

Because the Magic God's power cannot be explained by the world, fundamentally exceeding the limits the world permits.

They casually step out of seclusion one step, and would cause the entire universe along with the world to shatter together.

Xia Zhi now also faintly senses that, as his own merit and conduct climb endlessly, he also has a bit of this tendency.

Admittedly, if speaking of the scale of the entire universe, accommodating him alone is more than enough.

Merely……

If limited only to this corner of the galaxy, the narrowness of this spacetime appears particularly abrupt.

There is one more difference——

For a Magic God to descend from seclusion into the world, they must infinitely divide their infinitely great power, dividing it into an existence the world can barely accommodate, infinitely overlapping.

But no matter how infinity is divided, the result is infinity, so no matter how many times it is weakened, the Magic God still possesses infinitely great power that can press down and beat the whole world.

Xia Zhi has not yet reached this degree……

He also does not yet need to consider dividing power or anything; although Miss Oute has already informed him in advance of the Magic God's method of dividing power.

However, temporarily no need to consider, does not mean he will not feel a certain constraint.

Even if he merely stands quietly here at this moment, he cannot make the Star River reverse its flow, the stars tremble, let alone bring the End of the World…… but ultimately it is not very refreshing.

Just like a giant placed in a cramped room, the surrounding walls make it difficult for him to breathe freely; this feeling is very uncomfortable.

So taking this into account——

He must delineate an even vaster Star Domain, as his own Main Body Dojo.

And a place to reside.

It is just a mere galaxy, appears a bit too small, letting him unable to stretch out…… but if saying to reach the degree of the Laniakea Supercluster, it would again be a bit too impractical.

Xia Zhi needs to find a balance in between, find a point within his ability range that will not exceed the load.

"Leave some margin……"

"Still better not to borrow lightly……"

Pondering to the end, the Nascent Soul Cultivator felt he should play it safe.

He actually also has quite powerful allies right now——

Avatars dispatched from the Complete Body Demon God……

Heaven above and below, only I am supreme, willful yet unaware Team Leader……

Utilizing the Divine Model of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, preliminarily completing the first stage of the True Goddess Reincarnation Plan, the Twin Goddesses……

——As long as he makes good use of their existence, taking their divinity, power, and Authority as the center, transforming them into the cornerstones and elements of the World Composition.

Then theoretically, in the upcoming plan, he can radiate a vaster starry sky, leveraging more massive matter, energy, and information.

It can also make the Dojo he prepares to create more stable, more solid.

This is Naturally so.

Because besides his own grand mighty power, and the samples reaching the number of three thousand six hundred——

Downloading and obtaining the "Operation Library" of the physical laws of other dimensional spacetimes.

There are also the divinity and jurisdictions of multiple allies, which can participate in the Underlying Logic and Cycle of creation.

Such as the prosperity and harvest of the Material World, battle and destruction, the death and decay of the spiritual realm, the final destination of souls…… and so on and so forth.

To speak truthfully, as long as a good Cycle and self-consistency are formed, forming a unique closed domain, this is truly Absolute Defense, firm as a rock.

From the physical to the spiritual realm, all are impeccable.

It is just that after serious thought and deduction, Xia Zhi still does not prepare to raise the Dojo design to the Limit because of the allies' existence.

But rather to leave himself a safe margin.

Ensure that even if other links all have problems, he can still directly control everything, supporting the operation of the entire Law and Spacetime with his own mighty power.

This is not a matter of distrust or sensitivity.

It is purely out of safety considerations.

The more a system relies on precision, the more prone it is to problems; he can accept a system where every link interlocks seamlessly.

But he cannot accept a single link failing, dragging the others down with it, and ultimately, because the system's scale is too vast, causing a total halt that cannot be salvaged.

A thought reaching this point, the Nascent Soul Cultivator basically made up his Determination.

He raised his eyes, his gaze traversing the brilliant star sea, looking toward the center of the Milky Way.

There lies a supermassive black hole located at the Galactic Center...

It is the next Fa Tan, the main Ritual site...

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(Yesterday something happened to an elder at Home, it was a chaotic mess... now it seems they have basically lost motor function, Don't Know if there will be improvement afterwards...

Sigh, don't know if it's because my age has Arrived, the previous generation's age has also Arrived)

(Chapter End)