NOVEL NEXT Chapter 247 Simulation: Slacking Off
Energy...
Matter...
Wang Chao and the others understood that if humanity wanted to traverse the cosmos, the trend of physical evolution must inevitably move towards energy, at least to the point where one could freely transform between matter and energy.
Single matter alone could not support the continued advancement of humanity.
"That's really a pity," Chan Yinsha sighed, thinking they could imitate Ao Tian and go to various single-element dimensions to boost their strength first.
"It's not really a pity, after all, such enhancement is merely an accumulation of energy, and we no longer lack high-quality energy in our cultivation," Sun Shisheng smiled. "It's just that we don't have such a 'direct enlightenment' performance like Ao Tian."
Tang Zichen smiled, "The most important aspects of cultivation are wisdom, courage, perseverance, and the mind. An unyielding spiritual heart can rise from the depths of despair no matter where it is. In some sense, spiritual energy is also an external force."
Her mind had become much clearer during this time, understanding that the spirit is the eternal path of the self.
Wang Chao, however, had a different view, "Sister Chen, external forces can also be utilized."
Tang Zichen smiled knowingly, nodded slightly, her lips parting gently, she said leisurely, "Little brother, did I ever say they couldn't be used? After all, a gentleman knows how to use external things."
"Exactly," Sun Shisheng praised, "A gentleman knows how to use external things, wisdom comes from imagination, and imagination involves using external things to transform reality."
"By this logic, spiritual cultivation, before becoming transcendent, also involves using a medium—spiritual energy—to achieve transcendence."
"If the spirit becomes transcendent, it is eternal. The path afterward involves the accumulation of runes, laws, and the great Tao. The differences between them are just a matter of how much power one possesses."
Li Hansha, Wang Chao, Chan Yinsha, and Tang Zichen all nodded.
Spiritual cultivation, becoming transcendent is the peak! It is the true essence!
The subsequent cultivation is merely an accumulation of power, various great Tao and such, which might sound mysterious, but in reality, are just different attributes of power, not worth mentioning.
"I am the will of heaven!"
"Release me!"
The magnificent voice echoed, creating threads of thunder in the void, as the heavenly will of the thunder dimension resisted.
Sun Shisheng and the others immediately suppressed and refined it.
"This is the last resistance of the heavenly will!"
With a pat of his palm, Sun Shisheng extinguished the thunder emerging from the void.
Wang Chao and Li Hansha suppressed it with the Primordial Form and the Supreme Form; Chan Yinsha sat cross-legged, her hands forming a seal, pressing down with a fist; Tang Zichen's spirit transformed into a dragon-snake, solidifying into a gentleman's sword, stabbing at the thunder in the void.
Wang Chao and Li Hansha represented Taoism; Chan Yinsha represented Buddhism; Tang Zichen represented Confucianism, the three forming a trio of forces, using the wisdom of the spirit to harmonize with the heavenly will of the thunder dimension.
This type of single-element dimension's heavenly will has simple logic and strong instincts.
It is also easy to refine, as long as various mindsets and wisdom are integrated into it, naturally causing it to lose its most basic logical judgment.
To put it more plainly, it's like inserting a virus into a server, causing it to crash or be controlled.
So, three days later.
Under the collective refinement of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, the heavenly will of the thunder dimension had already lost all ability to resist and even grew close to Sun Shisheng and the others.
At this time, the Taixu Celestial Sphere appeared, collecting the heavenly will of the thunder dimension—now refined into a blue spherical core—into one of its facets.
The divine will that was refined, was all collected within it, and then fused with the cosmic sphere of Taixu over a long period.
"Huff——"
Wang Chao exhaled, "Refining the divine will is indeed not easy. The last time I refined the divine will of the Fire Dimension, it was also this troublesome."
Li Hansha said, "We have too few people. If we had more, the refinement would take less time."
Chan Yinsha opened the channel to the Thunder Dimension and said faintly, "We're about to refine the entire Fire Dimension. Next is the entire Thunder Dimension, which is even more vast, roughly ten million light-years in size, a hundred times the volume of the Milky Way. It's not simple to fully refine it."
Sun Shisheng said, "It's indeed a huge project. So first let's finish refining the last bit of the Fire Dimension and then move on to the Thunder Dimension. When the Illusory Realm gains a certain degree of its own natural vital energy, we will slowly look for leaks to be plugged and complete other missing things."
That was roughly the plan.
However, to increase the pace, they desperately needed more people to grow up and provide support.
And what they needed was not ordinary embryo breath, but the kind of "embryo breath" like theirs, those who enter this realm with life force breaking a hundred.
The only one with this potential on Earth was Su Jie.
One of the Three Pure Ones, Spiritual Treasure Celestial Emperor.
"What level has Su Jie reached now?" asked Wang Chao, his gaze penetrating through the Taixu Illusory Realm and settling upon the Primordial Star.
"His mental realm is in a peculiar state, between entering meditation and embryo breath," Sun Shisheng also fixed his gaze on the Primordial Star, quietly watching Su Jie leading the primordial humans in their development. "However, he has already formed some ideas about his path of the spirit, and reaching embryo breath is imminent."
Li Hansha's eyes flickered, as he watched Su Jie practicing his boxing there. Touching his chin, he said, "The root is the way, giving birth to all things, yet he turns it back and transforms all things into the way, truly the opposite of my path."
"I take the divine will as the basis, evolve all phenomena, govern the hearts of the people, and follow the principles of nature as the highest; he bases on human hearts, renews all phenomena, evolves divine will, decrees that people can overcome heaven—his image does not lose that of Spiritual Treasure."
Pointing to himself, Wang Chao asked, "What about me then?"
Li Hansha glanced at Wang Chao and said, 'Divine and human wills are both your will; you follow the Doctrine of the Mean, avoiding extremes. Thus in terms of realm, you are certainly inferior to the current me and the future him, but in terms of combat power, you should be the strongest among us."
Wang Chao was filled with exasperation.
Was that a praise for his extensive Divine Skills, or a mockery that he was all brawn and no brains?
Sun Shisheng chuckled gently and advised, "All right, Li Hansha, stop teasing Wang Chao. If he gets angry, you're going to suffer."
Undeterred, Li Hansha continued, "I've just realized a powerful technique from another incarnation of your principal, and it's perfect to test it out with Wang Chao."
"Oh?" Wang Chao raised an eyebrow, rubbing his wrists, his eyes flashing with intense fighting spirit, "It seems someone wants to challenge my middle position." MyVirtualLibraryEmpire(MVLEMPYR)appreciatesyourreadershipatthesource.
"I'm not interested in the middle position; I just want to test out a new move," Li Hansha's eyes were also gleaming, "Or are you scared?"
"Me, scared?"
Wang Chao sneered, "Come on, let's have a contest."
The two left the place and started their competition in the void of the Taixu Illusory Realm.
Chan Yinsha was speechless, "Really, the Fire Dimension hasn't been completely refined yet...Sun, I think those two are just looking for an excuse to slack off."
"Then let them slack off."
Sun Shisheng split into two avatars, temporarily filling the roles of Li Hansha and Wang Chao, his gaze deep: "Later on, let those three keep doing this work."