Wizard: I have ten trillion nanomachines

The name of cultivators is known throughout various worlds and among various races, originating from the ancestor of the immortal path.

The ancestor of the immortal path, one of the many progenitors, and also one of the few progenitors who achieved his status through acquired means.

The world of immortals is a collective term for the worlds influenced by His traces.

Mortal, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core – these are the most well-known realms for cultivators.

From mortal to Qi refinement and then to the perfection of Qi refinement, it goes without saying that it is nothing more than absorbing energy to change oneself.

As long as there are enough resources, one can move upwards. Because of this, the system is highly universal and there are no barriers such as spiritual roots.

Once you reach the Foundation Establishment stage, you focus on supernatural powers, so this stage is also called the Supernatural Power stage.

Supernatural powers are similar to fixed models, but the difference is that one is more realistic and complex, while the other emphasizes simplicity and ingenuity.

At the same time, it is also a path to a higher position, a way to attract the favor of "fruition" and forge a trace of gold in the soul.

The rare treasures that accumulate over time and eventually solidify are of great use to the so-called Golden Elixir True Lord.

Only by supporting the grotto-heaven and allowing the fruit-ranking person to reside there can one attain the status of Golden Elixir True Lord.

The position of attainment is a concrete certification of the authority of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. It is unique and is also the source of power and the foundation of immortality.

Only by attaining the fruition can one achieve the Golden Elixir; therefore, attaining the Golden Elixir is also called ascending to the position.

The realms beyond that were beyond Luo Kunlun's knowledge.

"Friendly Taoist, your methods are ruthless; I concede defeat."

"But please forgive this part of my true spirit, fellow Daoist. I will certainly tell you everything I know."

Now that things have come to this, Qingyang has no choice but to accept his fate.

There was nothing I could do; I was simply outmatched.

However, as a Great True Person who has reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, Qingyang has developed a trace of gold essence.

The metal element refers to the condensation of a cultivator's life force, signifying "the immortality of metal," and is not simply the metal element of the Five Elements.

The true spirit is linked to this metal element, and thus has a sense of immortality and indestructibility, and the ability to reincarnate and rebuild.

If this life is over, then let's start over and live the next one.

"Let you go?"

Luo Kunlun shook his head and then took action.

In an instant, Qingyang's true spirit was separated from that wisp of golden essence.

"What—"

Before Qingyang could even be shocked, Luo Kunlun copied his memories, and then Qingyang's true spirit was scattered.

"Let me see what kind of background this cultivator and this Jin Xing are."

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The Immortal Path World is a collective term for worlds that have been influenced by the traces of the Ancestor of Immortal Path and have developed special rules.

Such worlds are not numerous among the heavens, but they are not few either.

Furthermore, each immortal realm possesses a considerable level of power.

Qingyang comes from the Primordial Great World, belonging to a lineage called Yuantong Sect, and is a true disciple of the sect.

With his noble status and exceptional talent, Qingyang had a smooth and successful journey, achieving the status of a True Person in just two hundred years.

But this is the limit.

It's not about the limits of talent and opportunity, but the limits of whether one can become a Golden Core True Monarch.

To enter the path, one must choose a master; to cultivate oneself, one must seize the right time.

To ascend to the throne, one must have connections above.

Cultivating along the path is like a sequence, where those in higher positions absolutely suppress those in lower positions.

To ascend to the throne, one must first have a throne to ascend to.

Moreover, the golden essence is the condensation of a cultivator's life force, a rare treasure formed over time and is of great use to Golden Core True Monarchs.

Since it's useful, we should naturally take it.

How to get it? Eat it.

So Qingyang fled. If he hadn't fled, he would have waited for the True Lord who had risen to a higher position to devour him.

The only option is to escape, and the path to survival is the Spirit Realm, which is what cultivators call the subspace.

That is a realm that even the progenitors of the immortal path could not interfere with. Therefore, among cultivators, the Lord of the Spirit Realm has always been considered a good friend of lower-level cultivators.

At least through the Spirit Realm, capable cultivators have the possibility of escaping the sight of a True Lord.

Qingyang escaped the Primordial Great World by this very means.

However, he was seriously injured as a result and urgently needed to recover. Therefore, he sought a suitable life-bearing planet to refine elixirs in order to heal his injuries.

Life-bearing planets, as sources of materials, cannot be too powerful, because the systems and rules of the myriad worlds are not entirely the same, but their power is real and undeniable.

Searching for a planet with too much potential for life is tantamount to suicide.

Qingyang spent a lot of time finding suitable materials like the Dimensional Lifeform.

The planet has enough intelligent life, but its energy level is not high, making it an excellent material.

Everything was going smoothly until they ran into Luo Kunlun.

This is Qingyang's life experience apart from various cultivation techniques.

After that, Luo Kunlun began to study metal properties.

"This thing is not from this world."

Gold is immortal; it neither increases nor decreases, neither is born nor dies.

When a Great True Person who has reached the Foundation Establishment stage cultivates and condenses the Golden Nature, the entire process is, how should I put it, as if there were no process at all; it simply existed from the beginning.

It exists without a process.

From this perspective, the nature of metal can be considered something originating from a higher dimension.

Perhaps it can be absorbed to transform its own origin, which is also the motivation for the True Lord to plunder the metal element.

"Metal element isn't true spirit. If it could be absorbed... but how would one absorb it?"

Thinking it over, Luo Kunlun placed Jin Xing in his soul space.

To absorb higher-dimensional energy, one must first have the ability to observe higher dimensions.

Luo Kunlun doesn't have that ability yet, so he can only leave it for now.

Afterwards, Luo Kunlun began to digest the knowledge that Qingyang possessed.

Leaving aside the various grades of true qi techniques, such knowledge is of little use to Luo Kunlun at this point.

"Hmm? This is... a calamity-inducing technique?"

The method of "attracting calamity" is a technique used to harm an opponent by drawing upon calamities, altering their fate, and creating misfortune to take advantage of the situation. It is an extremely vicious method.

Qingyang happened to know about this.

The Corpse Gu descends, nurtures the Corpse Gu, attaches to a target, causing chronic exhaustion and sudden death.

A curse of resentment gathers into a spell, causing those around the target to become suspicious and betray them, creating interpersonal calamities.

The Destiny Chart Reversal Spell alters the target's fate, amplifies the influence of inauspicious stars such as Yang Tuo Jia Ming (羊陀夹命) and Huo Ling Jia Ming (火铃夹命), creates an "inevitable" calamity, and can even change one's destiny.

The most profound of these is the Seven Arrows of Nailhead.

The straw doll curses and kills, locking onto the true spirit, leading to the calamity of the soul being scattered.

Because it is too insidious and often harms both oneself and others, very few cultivators choose to practice it.

Most of them are cultivators who only dabble in it, just to understand that such magic exists and to prevent opponents from using it to harm them.

Even if they really need to use it, they won't practice or demonstrate it themselves; instead, they'll find someone else to do it.

Just as those in positions of power often don't get their hands dirty.

But this suited Luo Kunlun's purposes perfectly.

"But simply pursuing past tribulations is too slow, but if I could actively trigger one..."

"This way, with one approach from the inside and one from the outside, we achieve double the effect and double the efficiency!"

Luo Kunlun then began to take action.

When he first arrived on the planet, he recorded the history of that civilization.

A civilization struck by natural and man-made disasters, countless individuals consumed by their obsessions with love, and the karmic backlash of killing...

With the addition of knowledge of the method of inducing calamity, Luo Kunlun's method of forging calamity hammers was further improved.

Putting aside the idea of ​​using tribulations to harm others, Luo Kunlun didn't need to use such things to hurt or harm anyone. His original goal was the supreme method of refining oneself through tribulations.

It's like the indestructible body of a true demon in a famous novel.

First, it brings about human-caused calamities, using the essence of resentful curses and the art of divination to transform the interpersonal tribulations accumulated by civilization into sandpaper for self-refinement.

The wars that arose from the struggle for resources, the massacres that occurred due to ideological differences, and the tragedies that were caused by betrayal and suspicion, all transformed into countless blood-red threads that wrapped around his body.

Each thread carries a chilling resentment and despair, attempting to erode his true self.

Then came the catastrophe of natural disasters.

Storms, earthquakes, epidemics... it was as if countless wronged souls appeared, frantically washing over his soul.

Life was in anguish when disaster struck unexpectedly. Those who were unwilling to accept their fate and had an obsession with survival were transformed by the introduction and transformation of the new Dharma, like being struck by a violent hammer.

Finally, there was the most devastating Seven Arrows of Nailhead technique.

The consequences of karma backfired, and his soul was scattered.

This is the most violent hammer blow, used to remove the mundane essence and leave behind the immortal core.

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Spiritual practice knows no time.

After further refining the Cataclysm method, Lokunlun spent a year in this sector.

On the planet Dimension, after the Aberration Fog and Aberration Beasts dissipated, the fungal carpet that once covered the continent transformed into fertile humus, nourishing the newly sprouted vegetation.

Survivor leaders from various regions united to lead the survivors in clearing the ruins, reclaiming land, and rebuilding their homes.

It has already begun to show results.

Sunlight pierced through the clear atmosphere and shone upon the rebuilt homes, with wisps of smoke rising from the chimneys, as if everything were waking from a long dream.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the starry sky, in the silent expanse after the asteroid's destruction.

After completing this stage of his training, Luo Kunlun left to continue his search for Jiebo.

Calamity is something that will never perish; it is both destiny and a driving force.

Luo Kunlun kept searching for the Calamity, which often led him to encounter various civilizations.

Some of these civilizations were powerful, while others were weak.

The weak are very weak, perhaps still in the primitive era, but the strong are also very strong.

The most powerful civilization Lokunlun encountered was one that colonized and ruled a dwarf galaxy with a diameter of about 1.4 light-years.

A civilization called Veridis.

It has reached the threshold of galaxy level, and can continuously utilize the energy of the entire star system, harvesting the energy of tens of thousands of stars within the galaxy.

Possessing technologies such as Dyson spheres, star engines, and prototypes of faster-than-light travel, it can colonize any planet within a galaxy, modify star orbits, and withstand the impact of supernova explosions.

Such a powerful civilization possesses unparalleled advancements in both technology and theory.

Luo Kunlun lay low, absorbing the knowledge of this civilization like a sponge.

Because this is the initial step into the threshold of a galactic-level civilization, many aspects of management are not strictly enforced on this peripheral colony.

Of course, this applies to powerful individuals like Luo Kunlun.

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In the outer reaches of the Viridis civilization, the exhaust plumes of starships flowed like a galaxy, tracing orderly paths through the dark universe.

The colonies here are mostly mineral planets that have just completed initial terraforming. They have thin atmospheres and their surfaces are covered with metallic veins that gleam coldly. Automated mining machinery operates day and night, emitting a low hum.

Lokunlun attached himself to the hull of a starship transporting minerals and silently infiltrated the colony planet designated γ-73.

The orbital space station on this planet stores a significant amount of information technology from the Viridis civilization.

Instead of recklessly intruding into the core database, they chose to parasitize the space station.

True masters live in seclusion amidst the city, and Luo Kunlun intended to blend in with the world.

Hiding in the network, that is, the communication system.

Its own data flow spreads along the space station's communication links, like a drop of water merging into a river or sea.

Veridis's communication system was advanced, but it was completely undetected by Lokunlun's infiltration.

He is an exceptionally powerful individual, not some kind of hacker.

In the space station's main control room, several Veridis engineers were arguing in front of a holographic projection screen, and their words were caught by Luo Kunlun without missing a single one.

"The energy conversion rate of the third ring of the Dyson sphere in the γ-9 galaxy has decreased by another 0.3%, indicating that the effects of gravitational tides are more severe than simulated."

"The experimental data is still unstable. The last jump test tore three colony satellites apart. The council has already issued an ultimatum."

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Thus, Lokunlun remained hidden within a civilization like a ghost.

While analyzing and recording the history of civilization, we absorb and organize various theoretical knowledge, and then find ways to put it into practice.

And so, ten years passed.

Luo Kunlun reached a conclusion.

There are two types of concepts that possess cross-dimensional universality.

One is quantum vacuum, and the zero-point energy of vacuum.

It is the ground state of all quantum fields in quantum field theory. It does not depend on the specific value of the spacetime dimension. It exists in any spacetime model and is the theoretical carrier of the leakage of high-dimensional energy to low-dimensional spacetime.

Second, mathematical laws, such as symmetry and topological invariants.

Mathematical physical laws such as the law of conservation of energy, Lorentz symmetry, and the fundamental groups of topological spaces do not become invalid with changes in spacetime dimensions.

Leaving the latter aside for now, the former is not truly empty.

Vacuum is not empty; rather, it is the ground state of all quantum fields, filled with the spontaneous fluctuations and annihilation of virtual particle pairs, and contains an undeletable vacuum zero-point energy.

The Casimir effect is direct experimental evidence for this conclusion. Two parallel metal plates placed very close together will generate an inward attraction due to the restricted pattern of vacuum fluctuations between the plates, proving that vacuum itself has energy and dynamic effects.

This contains enormous energy.