Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 252 Void Origin Essence, Breakthrough to True God

"Did he spot me?"

Recalling Hunzhen's last meaningful smile and look, Mohe couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"No, impossible! My disguise is perfect!"

Mohe himself didn't quite believe what he was saying.

He was truly terrified by the sight of Hunzhen slaying hundreds of world beasts across tens of thousands of light-years.

It wasn't that Hunzhen's attack was particularly powerful or unstoppable.

Quite the opposite.

In terms of energy level alone, Hunzhen's "Flash of the Void" is only at the eleventh level, which is the same power level as when he defeated the Eternal True God of the Divine Eye Clan billions of years ago.

However, the terrifying aspect of this attack was that Hunzhen controlled the power perfectly, wasting almost no power, and thus achieved the feat of instantly killing a hundred world beasts!

Otherwise, it's just the power of the eleventh tier. There are still many people in the universe who can temporarily reach that level by burning divine power. Why don't we see anyone instantly killing a second-tier world beast?

Such control is far beyond the limit of the eleventh level of Hunzhen!

What's even more frightening is that Mohe has absolutely no idea where Hunzhen's true limits lie.

He wanted to test Hunzhen, but he still couldn't see through the other's abilities! On the contrary, he felt that Hunzhen was unfathomable!

While feeling frightened, I also felt a strange sense of relief—thankfully I was cautious back then!

Immediately, Mohe chose to return to the dark place without hesitation.

One of his goals was to use the failed World Beasts to devour the small universes of humans in order to test the true nature of the universe.

But after this test, he doesn't plan to come out again until he reaches the sixth rank.

But the waves have already been stirred up. Even if Mohe, the mastermind behind it all, stops intervening, the Beasts of the Realm will take matters into their own hands.

After a large number of second-tier world beasts flooded into the cosmic sea, naturally, some third-tier world beasts would come and try to take advantage of the situation.

Compared to the extremely brutal competition for survival in nests today, the ecological environment of the Cosmic Sea is undoubtedly much better.

Under these circumstances, the long-dormant Beast Alliance finally erupted.

Despite facing a larger number of World Beasts than before, they repelled the invading World Beasts with minimal losses.

The Beasts of the Realm also realized that the various races of the Cosmic Sea were not entirely easy targets. Once they were driven into a corner, the benefits of venturing into the Cosmic Sea were not even comparable to the survival competition in the Dark Land.

After the World Beasts temporarily retreated, the World Beast Alliance regained its confidence and planned to bring up the old matter again to cause trouble for Hunzhen.

Faced with the questions from the many true gods of the universe, Hunzhen showed no intention of responding.

After the Lord of Chaos City quietly revealed that Hunzhen had recently killed hundreds of World Beasts with a single blow, and this was confirmed by several True Gods who were tracking the World Beasts, the World Beast Alliance fell silent once again.

"I knew it! How could the God of Time and Space possibly just stand by and do nothing?"

"As expected, the God of Time and Space is indeed comprehending the secret technique that can achieve victory in one strike, and this is the result!"

"We have misunderstood the Lord of Time and Space."

"The day the Supreme God of Time and Space descends from the mountain will be the day the calamity of the Beast Realms is quelled!"

It has become this rhetoric of following the will of the heart.

Are you kidding me... Killing hundreds of Realm Beasts in one strike, doesn't that mean we could wipe out their entire Realm Beast Alliance in just a few minutes?

To argue with such a vicious person is like asking to die sooner rather than later.

All of this is achieved through the natural coordination between the cosmic sea and the human race.

The cultivation of Hunzhen has reached the most crucial stage.

In the world of Jin.

A supreme treasure of armor, at the level of an Eternal True God, appeared before them, and under the protection of the True God Power, it quickly overlapped with the Void Ghost Armor.

"here we go."

"By absorbing this supreme treasure armor, the Void Ghost Armor can be upgraded to the level of a sacred artifact."

He silently said in his heart.

Billions of years is such a long time. Even if Hunzhen's rate of earning military merits has decreased significantly, he would have already gathered all the treasures needed for evolution.

The reason for the delay in evolution is that when the Time-Sorrow Demon Blade evolved last time, Hunzhen realized that the moment when the barrier dissolved when the natal weapon entered sainthood could bring him a very special state of clarity and inspiration.

This can help to understand many confusions and even forcefully break through bottlenecks.

Billions of years have passed, and Hunzhen's mastery of secret techniques has long since reached the limit level of an eternal true god.

The understanding of the laws of chaos is only a hair's breadth away from true perfection.

The concept of emptiness reached its limit here long ago.

His willpower also reached the Saint-level limit not long ago.

But if we were to talk about his greatest gain and most important cultivation and enlightenment over these billions of years, it would naturally be his understanding of the principles of the world.

Hunzhen believed that his understanding of the principles of the world had firmly reached the level of a god-king.

Even the God King of Jin could not teach him anything more.

Even so, the simulation ability that seemed to be able to go further billions of years ago has remained at the level of simulating ablation, and has not changed.

Hunzhen realized that if he continued down this path, he would never see the south wall again.

This time, it was his true limit.

Immersed in the cultivation of the principles of the world, Hunzhen almost forgot his original purpose—to break through the realm of emptiness to the so-called true meaning of emptiness.

From this perspective, he can be considered a failure.

Because he did not achieve his main goal of comprehending the principles of the world, thus failing to break through his simulation ability and consequently his understanding of the void realm.

However, Hunzhen did not regret it.

For billions of years, he pondered the principles of the world, immersing himself in the rules of heaven and earth. In the process of understanding the world, he gained unprecedented joy and profound insight.

Even disregarding the benefits this would bring him when he reached the level of a God-King in the future, Hunzhen was still very happy about it.

"Unlike billions of years ago, I can feel that the level of 'true meaning' above the 'artistic conception' I imagined truly exists."

"But that bottleneck is not something I can break through."

"This is the limit of talent."

Once you reach the limits of your talent, it's difficult to make any further progress even if you spend a thousand or ten thousand times more time.

Just like those who remained at the level of immortality throughout that entire cycle of reincarnation.

Even with an infinite lifespan, one still cannot break through to become a cosmic venerable.

Of course, the limits of talent are not insurmountable.

Just like how Lord Luo's son, who had mediocre talent, could become a Void God, it is possible for external forces to be strong enough, and even for talents to be modified.

However, Hunzhen did not have such resources.

Even the continent of origin might not have such resources.

He has always lacked a certain "object" or "attribute" that can reach the level of true meaning.

Perhaps in countless Great Evolutionary Eras, someone might be born with such conditions, but that person is not him.

"So, it's time to break through."

Having realized this, Hunzhen began to plan a breakthrough.

The accumulation has reached its limit.

Hunzhen planned to activate his "Enlightenment" talent in reality at the moment his natal weapon entered the realm of sainthood, consuming all the accumulated Enlightenment Lotus Liquid to achieve an unprecedented state of enlightenment.

Try to use this to understand the shortcomings you have not yet grasped.

The flash of inspiration brought about by enlightenment and the attainment of sainthood by one's natal artifact, along with the accumulation and sublimation over a long period of time, leads to the search for the right direction.

If you still fail to gain anything and cannot see the path to the level of true meaning, then break through in one fell swoop.

No more stopping.

Even if he fails to establish an unparalleled foundation, it doesn't matter.

Hunzhen was confident that with his current accumulation of knowledge and experience, he would definitely reach the so-called "God Lord" level in the future.

With the "transcendental" ability of the omniscient vision, his strength was naturally able to break through the barrier of the god-king and reach the supreme level.

With such supreme power, even if one were to cross different origin worlds to repair one's foundation, the difficulty would be much lower than struggling to the death right now.

hum--.

The Void Armor shone brightly, its Devouring Evolution reaching its final stage!

Hunzhen's eyes gleamed, his talent for enlightenment had been fully activated.

"Let me see what the unknown road ahead will be, illuminated by the firewood accumulated over countless years!"

When a natal artifact attains sainthood, the essence of the dissolution of the barrier between the artifact and the soul is the temporary sublimation of the soul.

It cannot do what was originally impossible; it can only do what Hunzhen was originally capable of, but it amplifies the possibility that was originally almost zero.

This brings forward the possibility that would otherwise take an infinitely long time to arrive.

This is what is known as "the interaction between heaven and man," or "the opportune moment."

When the opportunity arises, inspiration will naturally strike.

Hunzhen, who should have been considering elevating his artistic conception to the level of true meaning, suddenly realized that even in the state of "interaction between heaven and man," breaking through to the level of true meaning was still an event with zero possibility.

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Even though he had expected it, a faint sense of disappointment still flashed through his heart.

Fortunately, while one window was closed, the other was open.

The ability of omniscience has reached its limit.

The world before my eyes, reflected in the omniscient vision, should be real and true, but it is rendered with a hazy and dreamlike quality, like ink painting.

"How could this be?"

Hunzhen had a moment of doubt, but then he had an epiphany.

"The world is not an illusion."

"It's a difference in our perception of the world."

"It's like how a one-dimensional being sees the world as a point, while a two-dimensional being sees the world as a line."

"None of this is fake."

"However, under the omniscient perspective, I briefly reached a higher-dimensional viewpoint, but I was not able to fully achieve it."

"This...is my shortcoming."

Hunzhen's consciousness resounded loudly, and he finally saw through the hazy veil that had blocked his vision.

After simulating ablation, he was able to observe the world from two perspectives simultaneously.

However, there is a world of difference between the simulated perspective and the real perspective—the omniscient perspective.

If a perspective lacking omniscience is a one-dimensional perspective, then a perspective under omniscience is a 1.5-dimensional perspective.

The difference between reality and simulation naturally leads to errors.

At this moment, under the "opportunity," Hunzhen briefly activated his omniscient vision in the simulation in just a moment.

The world has since changed drastically.

It's as if a one-dimensional being in a two-dimensional world has only one perspective that extends infinitely in one direction, and can never glimpse the essence of the two-dimensional world.

At this moment, Hunzhen simultaneously opens up an omniscient vision in both the real world and the simulation, just like a one-dimensional being with two-dimensional perspectives in a two-dimensional world, establishing an XY Cartesian coordinate system.

The material layer, the spacetime layer, and then... the source material layer.

That was the concept of world cognition that Hunzhen independently planned when he gained the ability of omniscience.

At this moment, he realized that his previous deductions were a reflection of reality.

Perhaps it was the innate instinct brought to him by the omniscient vision, like the inherited memories of the world beasts, that told him about the concept of the three layers of the world, which he took as a concept he deduced on his own.

The so-called source matter... is the original substance.

The Origin World was born from Origin Matter.

The source of the source substance is the source of the source world, and at the same time, it is also the source of the primordial space.

He saw the infinite source of matter that forms the foundation of the world.

Each one, in theory, can evolve into a complete source world.

It is both so small and so vast.

Thus, Hunzhen instinctively allowed his consciousness to touch and become tainted with the attributes of the source matter and the attributes of the void.

Through a fleeting opportunity, in a possibility that was almost zero but truly existed, Hunzhen transformed the omniscient vision.

But for Hunzhen, who is seeking a breakthrough, this change is not what he is most concerned about right now.

As his vision reached the level of the source essence, Hunzhen had already realized the path to breaking through the void realm.

Just seeing, just realizing, just recognizing the existence of the source matter caused a huge change. The source matter in front of him was no longer the basic source matter that was no different from the vast number of source matter, but... the void source matter.

As his consciousness connected with and drew upon the Void Source, his artistic conception surpassed the limits of theory.

Hunzhen's aptitude is insufficient to reach the level of "true meaning" in the True God stage on the path of supreme laws.

But at this moment, Hunzhen understood without being taught that he was not at the level of the true meaning of the void, but had taken another step forward and reached an unprecedented extreme.

"This is the true ultimate; there is no end to the road ahead."

"Let's call this level of artistic conception... the ultimate meaning."

"The ultimate meaning of emptiness".

A relaxed and comfortable smile appeared on his genuine face.

If the true meaning corresponds to a legendary 100,000 times more perfect gene, then the ultimate meaning is completely beyond comprehension.

If I had to put it into words, it would be the limit of the world.

It is not the limit of the source world, but the limit of the infinite primordial space level.

Perhaps those who reach the end of the road can easily reach this level, but they no longer need to reincarnate to mend their foundation.

Therefore, Hunzhen reaching the ultimate state at this level of life is probably the first case since the beginning of time.

Even though he hadn't even reached the true meaning, and didn't understand how to reach the ultimate state, he naturally reached this realm as if it were a bonus from a breakthrough in simulated abilities.

The mountains and rivers seemed to block the way, but then a village appeared amidst the willows and flowers.

Such a result made Hun Zhen shake his head and laugh.

Whoosh—.

In the world of Jin, the embodiment of Hunzhen vanished instantly.

The cosmic sea, the spatial interlayer, the cosmic membrane—with a single step, Hunzhen traverses trillions of light-years across the void.

In the blink of an eye, the divine kingdom completed its expansion, and the miniature universe was quickly fully formed.

It continued to expand, growing to a billion light-years.

This is the true limit of the size of a miniature universe of the True God, and the ultimate principle of the world under the framework of the Origin Continent.

Even if the level of Hunzhen has already exceeded the limit, it cannot be forcibly broken.

If one were to forcibly defy the principles of the world, even a god-king would perish instantly.

Moreover, the supreme foundation spanning a billion light-years is sufficient to allow the seed of the pure void law to be perfectly nurtured.

boom--.

The miniature universes that had reached their limit poured into the cosmic ocean.

Based on Hunzhen's current experience in constructing miniature universes, the universe structure was completed without any delay.

His once-perfect body dissolved and completely merged into the miniature universe.

And so... chaos began to evolve.

(End of this chapter)