Chapter 84: The True Protagonist Finally Rolls Off the Production Line

Origin Sea.

Chén Chén touted it as enough to let Earthlings become the reliance of the universe's peak race; even Babata deeply believed in it and was conquered, making it a treasure.

The Earth's main body had exhausted all the law power it had accumulated over so many years; only then could half of the Monster Clan's returned power forge… a phantom.

Chén Chén's vision for the Origin Sea was naturally grand, yet reality was painfully meager; although this path has been proven feasible, being able to do it and being able to achieve it are two different things.

It's not easy to bear and restrain the gradually growing Earth martial artists on Earth, so the current Origin Sea is merely a simple prototype, with very limited binding power and enhancement for Stellar-level martial artists; it's mostly just a thought.

The Origin Sea still needs to be nurtured slowly; the Heartnet affairs can be safely entrusted to Xiu Bi, all big and small things on Earth also depend on the Heartnet system, and with the World Tree's operational framework also on track, the Earth chapter is finally about to end.

Come to think of it, isn't this kind of thinking not so good? After all, I am the Earth itself; as long as I exist, isn't it always the Earth chapter?

(T_T), okay, the Earth chapter hasn't ended yet, and it will never end.

After all, any Explorer Plan is just for fun; truly boosting one's own strength is the hard truth.

Right, as the protagonist's first appearance in this book, I must first introduce my current strength.

The Earth itself, perhaps the only life form in the primordial universe; even if other star-spirit life exists in the universe, it is certainly different from me.

First, Chén Chén possesses five major Origin talents.

First are the two major Origin talents used to construct the Heartnet.

One is Spirit Link, which is the most plain and unadorned of Chén Chén's talents, possibly an aberration caused by a backup left by the Mountain Sitter.

The essence of Spirit Link's function is to connect the mental bond between Earthlings and Chén Chén, allowing him to distinguish loyalty from treachery; this was also the first use Chén Chén could think of.

It is also by using the Spirit Link ability that Chén Chén built the initial Heartnet, exclusively for the core members of the World Tree.

The Heartnet is based on mental power, and Chén Chén's mental power on Earth differs from that of ordinary life forms; even at the planetary level, it can cover the entire Earth (within the atmosphere).

It is also by relying on powerful mental control that Chén Chén can search the whole world for the life and resources he wants.

The essence of Spirit Link's ability is limited to this; the true great effect of Spirit Link still relies on Chén Chén's another ability.

Life Link, or should be called Source of Life or Lord of Life.

As the Source of Life, Chén Chén can obtain the law feedback of Earthly life, the hearing of all beings, the sight of all beings, the feeling of all beings, the comprehension of all beings, the fate of all beings.

Unlike the Creator known to Chén Chén, Chén Chén's connection with Earthly life is unprecedented, allowing him to gain many, many benefits from Earthly life.

However, in how to wield this talent, Chén Chén has diverged from 'Mending Heaven,' or rather, it has formed mental internal consumption.

The feedback from Earthly life to Chén Chén is all-encompassing: the energy of the universe, the comprehension of laws, even the body after death will, because of Life Link, turn into reincarnation and become Chén Chén's nutrients.

However, according to Chén Chén's deduction, Life Link has a certain quota; if we regard Earth as a realm of heaven and earth, the heaven and earth nurturing all beings is a grace, and all beings repaying heaven and earth is a process of repaying gratitude.

Yet along the cultivation of martial arts in the universe, starting from the planetary level, life separates from this heaven and earth; in this gratitude process, the grace gradually wears off, reaching a certain realm where this grace is gone, and life completes its 'transcendence' from this heaven and earth.

Chén Chén's human avatar, having lived two lifetimes as a person, protects humanity and plans to early open the stellar era precisely because Chén Chén does not trust humanity; even with Spirit Link as a test, Chén Chén still does not trust human hearts.

Thus, Chén Chén's safest choice is to properly guide humanity's development through the World Tree, while he himself can rest assured in his own cultivation path.

Although this would greatly reduce the utility of Life Link now, the advantage is stability; someday when humanity becomes aware of its own existence, I can simply hand Earthlings over to the cosmic human race and let them go.

And 'Mending Heaven' wants to become the so-called 'Heavenly Way' from some novels in Chén Chén's previous world, or rather, Mending Heaven believes that if it weren't for the appearance of human Chén Chén, the Earth's spirit ought to have become the 'Heavenly Way'.

Heaven and earth are unkind, treating all things as straw dogs.

As the heaven of Earth, Mending Heaven believes one should not consider from humanity's perspective, nor should one place oneself in humanity's role.

One should not consider from life's perspective, nor should one project self-reflection onto life's identity.

Heaven and earth treat all things equally, favoring none, harming none, letting everything develop naturally.

Heaven and earth and all things originally had no concept of fate versus objects.

Although to oppose Chén Chén, Mending Heaven finally chose to taint itself with the Monster Clan's resentment, merely to let Chén Chén empathically perceive heaven and earth, but Mending Heaven's starting point truly represents the ideal of 'heaven,' just as its name suggests.

Finally, Chén Chén also abandoned his initial idea, chose the current path, making as much use of Life Link as possible, using Life Link as the foundation and Spirit Link as the guide, and opened up the Origin Sea.

Next is Chén Chén's third talent, also related to life, but indeed a separate talent from the Source of Life.

Creating life, establishing races— for the top powerhouses of the universe, these are no easy feats; only if one possesses special talent, or has a particularly profound insight, can one use it as a basis to create life from nothing.

And Chén Chén's third talent is precisely the ability, relying on his own foundation, to nurture a unique life.

The most astonishing thing is that the lifeforms nurtured by this talent can likewise be regarded as the universe's supreme life bloodline; they not only also possess powerful talent abilities, but also come with cultivation's Origin Secret Methods.

With Chén Chén's current perspective, I don't know what level of Origin Secret Method this is, but it is also an Origin Secret Method unique to them.

But in this regard, Chén Chén's third talent has already been pushed to the extreme; of course, the number of lives the third talent can nurture is limited, and currently Chén Chén only has four slots.

A Yun counts as one, Xiu Bi counts as one, and Jian Mu uses only half a slot.

Three slots have already used up two and a half, so the remaining one and a half need careful consideration.

Speaking of Origin Secret Methods, this seems to be a unique gift from powerful life in the primordial universe; from Chén Chén's past-life memories, it can even be enjoyed by the Lord of the Universe.

I don't know whether the Origin Secret Method of the special life Chén Chén creates with his talent is genuine, after all he is not the primordial universe's biological son, and he still packs secret methods for his grandsons and granddaughters.

This third talent Chén Chén calls 'Origin Nurture,' because the life nurtured, although it also has independent thought, body, and cultivation, has a connection to Chén Chén far tighter than that of Earthlings' existence.

If Earthlings are Chén Chén's understanding of incorporating them as part of himself, then the existence of A Yun and Xiu Bi truly is born from Chén Chén's portion of Origin.

Xiu Bi was nurtured by Chén Chén from the Heartnet core, the part of Spirit Link where all beings connect with him; A Yun was directly budded from Earth's atmospheric layer.

Hence the name 'Origin Nurture'.

Chén Chén's fourth talent on Earth is not as awe-inspiring as the life source or Origin Nurture; it merely allows him to freely change his body, weather, terrain, revolution, and rotation, a basic freedom ability, but beyond that, this talent has an advanced usage that is quite perverse.

That is to change the composition of matter, creating new substances.

Just as altering a carbon chain can turn firewood into bricks and stones, Chén Chén can, by changing the basic composition of matter, create entirely new fundamental substances.

Of course, this talent also has great limits; the composition of heaven and earth and all things is naturally not something that can be explained by the tiny bit explorable by Earthlings.

The rarer and more powerful the resource, the harder it is to nurture; this seems to be an unchanging truth of how the universe operates.

Different material foundations require different insights; similar to the material 'Meteorite Star Red Mixed Copper Mother,' wanting to nurture it requires great effort and time, and also sufficient law insight to drive Chén Chén's fourth talent.

With the current strength of the main body, nurturing d-grade metallic material is already not easy; even after spending some more time to nurture d-grade metallic material, Chén Chén has already made it into weapons—namely, the long spear for his human body and the short sword given to Jiang Jiang, which have even become hairbands.

Such talent potential exists; many scarce resources in the universe are renewable here for Chén Chén, and if this ability grows with Chén Chén's strength, it becomes infinite wealth and infinite possibility.

Chén Chén's fifth talent, which has not yet been truly used up to now—Swallow Star.

Also, among Chen Chen's five great talents, it is the only one linked to strength; moreover, it is a very crude and unsolvable strong ability, the ability to swallow stars, or rather, the ability to assimilate stars.

The function of this ability is also very simple: the whole Earth is Chen Chen's body; Chen Chen can gradually assimilate and transform matter that directly contacts his body into part of his body, and directly transform it into part of Chen Chen.

Just like the Golden Horn Giant Beast swallowing metal, the ability to swallow stars can speed up Chen Chen's comprehension of all laws, promote realm advancement, and even increase the gene multiplier when upgrading life levels.

It is a clear shortcut for Chen Chen to increase his strength.

Of course, although this talent is called Swallow Star by Chen Chen, its power is currently very limited; these years Chen Chen has merely secretly eaten a few passing comets or the like.

Even wanting to eat the little younger brother that has been circling him for so many years would still require a few more years of preparation; otherwise, he might very well burst his stomach.

Moreover, while gaining so much convenience, there are also drawbacks: his main body's movement ability is actually very weak, unable even to reach sub-light speed; wanting to fly out of the Milky Way is extremely difficult, let alone traveling in the universe; if by chance humans or any other race discover him, being captured to be kept as a precious animal would be awful.

Therefore, before his strength is sufficient, his identity still cannot be exposed; as for the fifth talent of the shortcut, although it is moving, one must also be cautious.

After all, the Solar System is not small for him either; back then, Huyan Bo interfered with the space of this batch; waiting until he has eaten this batch clean before leaving is not late; there is plenty of time.

The only trouble to consider is that, a few years later, this star field seems to have been rediscovered because of a wormhole; it is unknown whether one can resolve the wormhole before some point, or promptly deal with that unlucky bunch.

Just a few Star Levels; as long as Earth's news doesn't leak out, it's not too troublesome.

As for the present, human affairs on Earth have basically come to an end; the Monster Clan, although suffering heavy losses, can be considered to have repaid a life from his previous life; they are temporarily placed in the underground world, pending.

Next, he can proceed with cultivation step by step.

Besides the five great talents, Chen Chen also possesses a set of his own origin secret method; because the secret method itself has no name, Chen Chen calls it Nameless, a secret method unique to Chen Chen's earthly true body.

Great talent, a unique secret method, and the legendary unique life differ only in that Chen Chen's initial realm seems to be slightly lower.

As for how low, Chen Chen himself really can't say clearly; if one really follows the human classification method, when he had just become an Earth Spirit, he seemed to be only at the Planet Level.

Seven years later, now Chen Chen has a certain comprehension of the eight laws besides space-time; however, his specific realm seems to be above Star Level but below Cosmic Level.

Such speed, however, seems again not worthy of the dignity of the unique life……

One also cannot solely take the promotion speed as a reference.

Chen Chen can only console himself in this way.

The Earth chapter has ended; the main plan ahead roughly has two parts: one is to swallow the Solar System's group, and the other is to make contact with the Starfolk, to verify the thing Chen Chen has long anticipated: the Heart of the Stars.

And I, Chen Chen, the true protagonist of this book, have struggled diligently for seven or eight years; today I have finally come off the production line! (Although it's just a curtain call).