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As night fell, the sky over Jiangzhou should have been pitch black.

But just after eight o'clock in the evening, a silvery glow suddenly appeared on the skyline at the edge of the city.

The light was initially very faint, like moonlight shining through the back of distant mountains.

But soon, crimson seeped into the silver light, and golden light intertwined within the crimson.

Finally, silver, crimson, gold, transparent, and yellow light flowed slowly across the night sky, creating a wondrous and beautiful scene.

"Mom, what's that?"

In Jiangzhou Park, a little girl points to the sky, her eyes wide open.

The citizens strolling nearby all looked up.

"Aurora? We can see the aurora in Jiangnan Province?"

"Wait... there are too many colors, and it's moving!"

Someone raised their phone to take a picture, and the scene on the screen was even more dazzling than what the naked eye could see.

The five-colored rays are not static; they slowly rotate, intertwine, and separate in the sky, occasionally colliding and bursting out fine fragments of light, like stardust falling.

On the rooftop of the Supernatural Abilities Management Bureau, Zhou Zhen leaned on the railing, his brow furrowed.

He pulled out his communicator: "What did the weather bureau say?"

An urgent voice came through the communicator: "Team Leader Zhou, all instruments are functioning normally. This isn't an atmospheric phenomenon! The energy reading... is rising!"

Zhou Zhen looked up at the sky, and the center of the five-colored light seemed to be... directly facing the underground secret room of the management office.

An extremely abrupt thought exploded in my mind: "Could it be...?"

His Adam's apple bobbed as he recalled the instructions given by Commander Wei three days ago: "No matter what happens recently, do not go near the third basement level."

Wei Song's tone was calm at the time, but Zhou Zhen could detect a kind of suppressed expectation in his voice.

Now he understands.

The next day, the five-colored aurora did not disappear.

They hide their light during the day and reappear at night, their range growing larger each day.

By the morning of the third day, the entire Jiangnan province could see that magnificent color in the night sky.

An even more astonishing change occurred at noon.

When the sun was high in the sky, a blurry shadow suddenly appeared on the eastern side of the sky.

At first, people thought it was sunlight reflecting off the clouds, but the light and shadow grew brighter and brighter, and its outline gradually became clearer.

It was a phantom of the sun, radiating a blazing white light, hanging beside the real sun.

"Two...two suns?!"

"Am I seeing things?" A passerby shook his head vigorously.

Pedestrians stopped on the street, drivers stopped to look at their phones, and the rhythm of the entire city was disrupted.

The second phantom of the sun was brighter than the real sun, but the heat it emitted did not cause a burning sensation.

All heat waves are constrained, absorbed, and transformed by an invisible force within a kilometer of the ground.

Residents of Jiangzhou could feel the temperature rising, but the heat wasn't scorching; it felt like being soaked in warm water, making them feel cozy all over.

The third basement level of the Supernatural Abilities Management Bureau, outside the secret room.

Wei Song sat cross-legged outside the alloy door, with Gaga on his shoulder tilting its little head and staring at the tightly closed door.

"Wei Song, how much longer will Ian take?" The little guy's voice was unusually anxious.

"I don't know, but the strange phenomena have only just begun."

Gaga pecked at his shoulder with its beak: "Can you feel it? It's... hot inside."

Even through the thick alloy door and three layers of energy barriers, Gaga could sense that some kind of terrifying energy was accumulating inside the secret room.

It seems to be gestating, transforming, and waiting for a certain critical point to arrive.

Wei Song closed his eyes again, absorbing the meager energy seeping from the crack in the door.

These dissipated energies alone subtly enhanced his understanding of the rules.

"Just wait," he whispered. "When he comes out, the world will be different."

On the seventh day, the aurora borealis covered half of the Great Yan.

From the Jiangnan province to the northwestern desert, from the coast of the East China Sea to the mountains of the southwest, the night sky is filled with five-colored light.

The phantom of that second sun would appear for three to four hours during the day, hanging in the eastern sky.

Satellites from various countries have captured this phenomenon.

The Bald Eagle Federation, the Pentagon's underground command center.

The huge screen displayed a panoramic view of Xuanhuang Star. Above the Great Yan Kingdom, an area of ​​abnormal energy was marked, with the color deepening from pale yellow to a dazzling crimson.

"The energy readings are still rising," the analyst, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, said, his voice trembling slightly.

"It has exceeded the expected peak of legend... ten times."

The command room was deathly silent.

An elderly man with white hair, bearing four general's stars on his shoulders, stared at the screen. "Is the location confirmed?"

"The anomaly first appeared in Jiangzhou City, Jiangnan Province, of the Great Yan Dynasty, but the exact coordinates..."

The analyst swallowed hard. "It's blocked by some kind of force field; all detection methods are ineffective."

The old man paused for a moment, then said, "Notify the president to convene an emergency meeting. Also…"

He paused for a moment, then added, "Connect with Europe, the polar bear... I suggest convening a global legendary conference."

"The reason is," the old man raised his head, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Over in the Great Yan realm, someone might be breaking through... beyond the legendary level."

The strange phenomenon continued until the fifteenth day, and had already enveloped the entire Xuanhuang Star.

Whether it's day or night, no matter where you are, as long as you look up, you can see the five-colored aurora in the sky, as well as the increasingly solid phantom of the sun.

The world fell into a strange calm.

All wars ceased, all conflicts were temporarily suspended, and even the activities of the mutants decreased significantly.

It was as if the whole world was waiting for something.

Then, at noon on the fifteenth day, the phantom of the sun in the sky suddenly burst forth with extreme light.

The light was unstoppable, instantly covering every inch of the Xuanhuang Star.

At the same time, an indescribable, immense will descended from the sky.

That was not sound, not energy, not anything that could be described.

With a single thought, it can cover the entire Xuanhuang Star, reaching everywhere.

A secret altar 300 meters underground in Kyoto, Japan.

A black-robed cult priest knelt in the center of a blood-red magic circle, chanting blasphemous prayers. Seven human hearts, still beating slightly, were placed in front of him.

Suddenly, the priest's body stiffened.

He raised his head, revealing a distorted face beneath the black robe and hood, covered in dark purple pustules.

"No...this is..."

Before he finished speaking, his body, starting from his fingertips, turned into tiny specks of light.

Every inch of flesh and blood, every wisp of soul, evaporated and dissipated in the soft light.

Three breaths later, only a pile of ashes remained on the altar, and the light of the magic circle was completely extinguished.

Deep in the South American rainforest, a Level 4 aberrant beast hides in a cave hundreds of meters deep, its body having become one with the rock.

Sunlight shone through the rock strata and fell upon it without obstruction.

The mutated beast let out a short roar, and its massive body began to disintegrate, turning into the most basic energy particles from the outside in.

In the basement of an ancient European castle, mountains of contaminated artifacts are piled up: swords stained with blood, bone fragments engraved with evil runes, and crystals sealing vengeful spirits.

Under the light, the dark purple stains quickly melted away, turning the antique artifacts into ashes.

Similar scenes are happening all over the world.

The will swept across every inch of land, every corner, and all the cultists hiding in the shadows were reduced to ashes.

All the surviving mutant beasts, regardless of where they were hidden or their level, were instantly vaporized.

Even the buildings and objects contaminated by the abyss were purified in an instant.

The whole process lasted ten minutes.

Ten minutes later, the light slowly faded, and the will receded like a tide.

But the world... has completely changed.

The square in front of the Imperial Palace in Japan.

The old emperor, dressed in traditional attire, knelt on the cold stone floor, tears streaming down his face.

Behind him were all the members of the royal family, cabinet ministers, and shrine priests, kneeling in a dense, dark mass.

"This is... a true god from heaven..."

The Emperor's voice trembled, his forehead pressed against the ground.

In those ten minutes, he personally witnessed a hidden side hall deep within the palace, where "sacred objects" obtained from the rift by successive emperors were enshrined.

Those sacred objects always made me feel uneasy when I came into contact with them in the past.

Now all the impurities of the sacred objects have dissipated, leaving only warmth.

"Send the order." The Emperor raised his head, his face still wet with tears.

"From this day forward, all shrines in Japan will establish a shrine for the Supreme Sun God, and the entire nation will hold a national ceremony on this day every year."

Goryeo, Blue House Plaza.

The president and his entire cabinet knelt in the center of the square, with tens of thousands of people who had gathered spontaneously behind them.

No one speaks.

Everyone looked up at the sky, which had returned to normal, their eyes filled with a mixture of awe, fear, and something indescribable... hope.

The president's lips moved, but he only managed to utter one sentence.

"The Great Yan has always been our suzerain state."

This is not based on political judgment, but on a profound understanding from the depths of one's soul.

In the deepest conference room of the Pentagon, two legendary figures who had secretly arrived sat around a round table in the Bald Eagle Federation.

There were no documents or screens on the table, only three cups of coffee that had gone cold.

The elderly man sitting in the main seat was dressed in military uniform, with no rank insignia on his shoulder straps, only a simple gold sun emblem.

He is the only remaining legendary late-game hero of the Bald Eagles, "Radiant Shield" Alex.

"The data is out. Globally, 3,742 cult strongholds have been confirmed to have been purified."

"Ninety-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-one monstrous nests, and countless contaminated artifacts."

The old woman on the left closed her eyes, her fingers trembling slightly, and uttered, "A single thought can suppress the entire world."

"It wasn't intentional," the middle-aged man on the right corrected. "It was just... a ripple of will descending."

The three fell into a long silence before Alex finally spoke.

"From this moment forward, the Bald Eagle Alliance's foreign policy will include a permanent clause... a permanent alliance with the Great Yan."

Three hundred meters underground in the capital of the Great Yan Dynasty, in a secret training room.

The white-browed elder, Li Hao, opened his eyes, and deep within his pupils, he saw the energy runes flowing on the ceiling.

He has maintained this posture for fifteen days.

From the very first day the strange phenomenon began, he sat here, sensing the ever-growing power in the sky.

"This is not the will of the world," said Wang Chongyang, the black-haired old man opposite him, in a soft voice.

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Li Hao nodded: "The world's will isn't that...gentle."

They were the ones who perceived the global purification that occurred just now for the past ten minutes most clearly.

That will was so strong it was suffocating, yet its methods were as delicate as embroidery needles.

It only eliminates evil spirits, without harming the innocent; it even removes the filth from contaminated buildings without damaging their structure.

"Someone is breaking through." Wang Chongyang's eyes revealed boundless longing. "Besides him, there is no one else."

Li Hao remained silent.

He recalled the intelligence he had read before: the three legendary figures of India were killed in one move, the Drya was half destroyed, and the national treasury was emptied.

At the time, he already thought that "Mr. Yin" was ridiculously strong, but now it seems... that was just the tip of the iceberg.

"Is this what it means to be beyond the legendary?" Wang Chongyang murmured to himself.

"How did they manage to do that...?"

The two stopped talking and just stared blankly at the ceiling, as if they could see strange phenomena in the sky.

They tried to capture a trace of rules, a hint of breakthrough, from those flowing lights.

Unfortunately, they couldn't understand anything; it wasn't something they could comprehend at their level.

The strange phenomenon continued until the twentieth day, when things began to change.

The five-colored aurora, covering the entire planet Xuanhuang, slowly receded like the receding tide, shrinking from covering the entire sky of the Great Yan Kingdom to only remaining above it.

Then, the scope was narrowed from the entire territory of the Great Yan to the area of ​​Jiangnan Province.

Finally, all the light converged in the sky above Jiangzhou City, condensing into a giant cocoon of light with a diameter of 100 kilometers.

The surface of the cocoon shimmered with five colors, and inside, a blazing white sphere could be faintly seen slowly rotating.

Jiangzhou City was completely shrouded in darkness.

From the outside, all that could be seen was a soft glow; the buildings, the streets, and even the terrain were indistinct.

All detection methods—satellite scanning, energy detection, and even the spiritual perception of legendary experts—become ineffective when approaching the cocoon of light.

It was as if some kind of rule existed there, forbidding anyone from prying into it.

The headquarters in Beijing, top-floor office.

Li Yan stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a report that had just been delivered.

The report is simple: the anomaly in Jiangzhou City has contracted, forming a closed force field, rendering all external observations ineffective.

He looked at the report for a long time, then finally put it on the table, walked to the liquor cabinet, poured himself a glass of strong liquor, and drank it all in one gulp.

My throat was burning, but my heart was ice-cold.

"Who exactly are you?" he muttered to himself, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

Outside the secret room door.

Wei Song remained seated cross-legged, the miniature star on his chest having expanded to the size of a fist, creating subtle spatial ripples as it rotated.

In those twenty-five days, he absorbed more dissipated energy from the crack in the door than he had gained from the past five years of arduous practice.

The gravity rule was increased to 68%, and the thermal energy rule was increased to 66%. Even just the aftereffects had such an effect.

Gaga perched on his shoulder, her eyes fixed on the closed door. "Wei Song, how much longer will Ian take?"

It has asked the same question no less than a hundred times in the past month.

Wei Song showed no impatience, simply replying softly, "Soon."

"He...should have succeeded, right?" The little guy's voice was unusually apprehensive.

Wei Song remained silent for a moment, then a smile appeared on his lips.

"Don't worry, I never do anything I'm not sure I can do."

As soon as he finished speaking, a slight vibration, like a heartbeat, came from the door of the secret room.

boom!boom!boom……

The rhythm was slow and powerful, and with each beat, the surrounding air vibrated.

Wei Song suddenly opened his eyes, and all the energy in his body was contained within.

Gaga's feathers bristled, and its eyes gleamed with delighted silver light. "Ian's coming out?!"

"No." Wei Song shook his head, his expression grave. "It's the final stage."

He got up and retreated to the end of the passage, quickly forming hand seals to set up three layers of protective barriers.

This is to prevent the energy burst later from blowing up the entire management office building.

Day 28, 10 PM.

The cocoon of light that enveloped Jiangzhou City suddenly began to shrink.

From a diameter of 100 kilometers, it shrank to 10 kilometers, then to 1 kilometer, and finally condensed above the Supernatural Abilities Management Bureau, transforming into a ball of blazing white light.

The sphere of light was only the size of a house, but the light it emitted illuminated the entire city of Jiang as if it were daytime.

No, not just Jiangzhou.

At this moment, the sky suddenly lit up in all time zones of the entire Xuanhuang Star, regardless of whether it was day or night.

It is not sunlight, but a purer, more fundamental source of light.

The sphere of light continued to shrink, growing from the size of a house to the size of a car, then to the size of a washbasin...

Finally, it coalesced into a fist-sized sphere of blazing white light... the true star appeared in the world.

Although it is tiny, only the size of a fist, it is indeed burning, releasing light and heat, and following all the physical rules that a star should have.

The instruments at all observatories around the world instantly exceeded their limits.

All the legendary powerhouses looked up at the same time, and even though they were half a planet away, they could "sense" the existence of that miniature star.

That wasn't something you could perceive; its very presence was so strong that it was directly imprinted in everyone's consciousness.

In Japan, the old master was in seclusion when he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning deathly pale.

"Never look directly at the true God..."

He muttered to himself and hurriedly closed his eyes, but he could still see the light and shadow of that star under his eyelids.

Bald Eagle, Alex awoke from his meditation, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"Stars... materialize..."

He had lived for over two hundred years and witnessed countless miracles, but this scene before him completely overturned his understanding.

A star the size of a fist hung silently burning above Jiangzhou City.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds.

Then it begins to shrink, and its mass increases dramatically.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds.

Then it begins to shrink, and its mass increases dramatically.

The surrounding space began to distort, and light was stretched and bent, creating a very obvious gravitational lensing effect.

The buildings in Jiangzhou City trembled slightly, and the spatial structure of the entire city fluctuated.

Wei Song stood at the end of the passage, his hands gripping the barrier tightly, veins bulging on his forehead.

"Gah gah, come in!" he growled.

Gaga transformed into a black shadow and scurried into his collar, only its little head peeking out.

The next second, the star shrank to its limit.

It changed from bright white to dark red, and then to pure black.

The surrounding light was drawn in by its own gravity and could not escape.

Black hole? No, not even close.

This is just a critical point before the breakthrough, a moment between a star and a black hole.

The pitch-black orb of light flashed suddenly.

In that instant, everyone on Xuanhuang Star, whether they had their eyes open or closed, and no matter where they looked, saw only pure white.

The pure white light lasted for 0.3 seconds before the sky returned to normal.

The night sky was dotted with stars, and the moonlight was bright; it was as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

But everyone knows it's not an illusion.

The star above Jiangzhou City disappeared, the five-colored aurora disappeared, and all the strange phenomena vanished.

Day 30, early morning.

The sun rose as usual, the sky was a clear, deep blue, and the clouds drifted lazily by.

When Jiangzhou residents stepped out of their homes and looked at the familiar streets and buildings, they felt as if they had returned to another world.

They have experienced so much in the past month.

Aurora Borealis, the Second Sun, Global Purification, the Last Tiny Star...

The current calm is unsettling.

"Is it over?" someone asked quietly.

"I don't know... I guess so."

……

No one knows the answer, but everyone has a vague feeling that this world... will be different.

It's not that the environment has changed, it's something deeper.

Rules? Order? Or perhaps the world's own attitude has undergone a subtle change.

Like a stagnant pool that has been rippled by a boulder, the ripples have spread, and it can never go back to what it was before.

The interior of the secret room on the third basement floor of the Supernatural Abilities Management Bureau is no longer recognizable as it once was.

After the alloy wall completely melted and solidified, its surface formed a glass-like crystalline texture, shimmering with five-colored light.

In the center of the secret room, Ian slowly opened his eyes, and the five-colored light deep in his pupils had disappeared.

It transformed into a single, dazzling starlight.

Deep within the starlight, a miniature star can be faintly seen slowly rotating.

It is no longer a phantom, but a real star core, less than one centimeter in diameter, yet containing enough energy to tear apart continents.

The panel appears in view.

Name: Ian Marcus

[Realm Level: Early Stage of Morning Star]

[Seed of Rules: Fiery Star Core (Prototype of the Celestial Path)]

Lifespan: 10,000 years

[Rules Domain: Fiery Gravitational Domain (Radius 10,000 km)]

[Gravity Rule: 100%]

[Thermal Energy Rule: 100%]

[Purification Rule: 85%]

[Time Rule: 42%]

[Earth Rule: 51%]

[Order God Body → Star Core Body (Transformation Completed)]

Ian looked down at his hands, his skin glowing with a faint light, a natural luminescence emanating from his body.

With a gentle clench of the fist, the space around the center of the fist collapsed, forming a dark hole the size of a thumb, which took 0.1 seconds to be repaired by the rules of the world.

With a slight thought, he vanished from the center of the secret room and reappeared by the wall the next second.

This is a void jump, tearing a gap in space and crossing it directly.

The entire process was silent and without light or shadow, as if he was always meant to be there.

Ian closed his eyes, his senses dissipating.

With a radius of 10,000 kilometers, the entire territory of the Great Yan Kingdom was within his perception range.

He could "see" three hundred meters underground in the capital city, where two old men were sitting opposite each other with solemn expressions.

Having been able to "see" the Bald Eagle Federation, the legendary late-stage powerhouse Alex stood by the window, holding a communicator in his hand, hesitating whether to make a call.

He could "see" the Imperial Palace of Japan, where the eighty-year-old master knelt before the shrine, praying devoutly.

I also saw... a rift deep in the void, a corrupted world on the other side, and countless eyeballs.

Ian smiled.

Big Eyes, I'll be coming to find you soon!