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War is a disaster—but also an opportunity.
Bai Feng's title as the "God of the Starry Sky" was becoming increasingly renowned. Unfortunately, he remained stuck at the level of a First-Class God, just one step away from becoming a God King, yet unable to cross that final threshold.
However, his Star Soul Sword had already been refined to its peak. By inscribing runes into it, he had elevated its power to rival that of a super divine weapon, granting him the strength to battle a God King.
Xiao Huo's progress was even more direct and brutal. After joining the war effort, he took charge of invading life planets within the Evil God Domain, directly devouring their origin power to fuel and strengthen his Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
As his flame grew stronger, his position as the God of Different Fires also advanced rapidly. He now stood at the same peak First-Class God level as Bai Feng. With the tremendous might of his different fire, he too had the power to fight a God King.
This terrifying surge in strength caused Su Yu's name to spread far and wide.
Although Su Yu had long since withdrawn from the front lines, his legends continued to circulate throughout the battlefield.
He traveled across countless planes.
He even visited the world of Heavenly Jewel Change.
This realm was also a subordinate plane of the Douluo Divine Realm and had joined the ongoing war. Zhou Weiqing had reached the god level during the conflict and was acknowledged by the God of Destruction, who bestowed upon him the God Seat of Destruction.
The laws of the Heavenly Jewel Change world were uniquely structured, with a distinct cultivation system.
Like Douluo Continent, such realms with specialized cultivation systems were built upon highly distinctive rule frameworks.
Every function of the world was supported by its rules.
To sustain such a unique system, the laws of Douluo Star and Heavenly Jewel Change must inherently differ from the broader cosmic laws in structure and design.
By studying these frameworks, Su Yu gained new insights into the arrangement and interaction of universal laws.
Time passed.
In the blink of an eye, a century had gone by.
Even in the Divine Realm, the war had lasted for nearly half a year.
Among all the affected regions, Douluo Star had undergone the most dramatic transformation.
Xuan Ziwen had successfully condensed the God Seat of Exploration. Though it was a Third-Class God Seat, it was self-formed. With Douluo Star's rapid development, his contributions had already been written into history textbooks. His faith base was now vast and stable, giving him a strong chance of advancing to Second-Class God within five hundred years.
Jing Hongchen had initially not formed a God Seat and directly broke through to the peak of the Super God level. Once he could advance no further, he began gathering faith.
Fortunately, with the complete system of belief left behind by Su Yu, he quickly consolidated his following and became the God of Earth, attaining Second-Class God status.
Kong Deming advanced along two paths after reaching the Super God peak. While breaking through to the Lord God level, he also condensed the God Seat of Soul Guidance, which was very close to First-Class God in rank.
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had already broken through to Limit Douluo and joined the battlefield early on. Through countless battles, they too progressed rapidly.
Now, after a hundred years, the brother and sister had both reached the peak of the Super God level and were attempting to condense the God Seats of Metal and Ice-Fire, respectively.
At this point, the faith they had gathered extended far beyond Douluo Star and even the Douluo Plane. Numerous life planets under the Douluo Divine Realm had come to know their names and formed devout beliefs in them due to the war.
It's also worth noting that Qian Tong had reached godhood—not through direct breakthrough, but by forming a belief system and becoming the God of Wealth. However, his God Seat was only of the Third Class.
Divine Realm.
"Tang San, during wartime, some contact with subordinate planes is allowed—but changing the internal affairs of those planes for personal reasons is strictly forbidden. And yet, you've violated the rules again."
It wasn't the first or second time the God of Destruction had caught Tang San acting out of line. Yet Tang San showed no embarrassment—in fact, he looked entirely justified, as if he no longer recognized the Divine Realm's rules as absolute.
"Everything I did during the war was for the sake of increasing the overall strength of the Douluo Divine Realm," he said matter-of-factly.
"Shrek Academy's development allows it to produce high-level talent for the front lines more effectively than any other organization."
The God of Destruction took a deep breath, clearly exasperated by Tang San's unreasonable comparisons.
"Shrek only manages to produce a few monstrous geniuses by sacrificing countless talented individuals through its 'culling' method! Do you realize how many more of those so-called failures could've achieved greater success if they'd been nurtured in other academies or factions?
Real talent development should be about discovering hidden potential and pushing them step by step to their limits—not Shrek's way, which turns geniuses into elites and the rest into cannon fodder!"
Tang San remained unmoved by his words.
To him, only by further stimulating a genius's potential could true powerhouses emerge.
As for unlocking the talents of ordinary individuals—those would only become average gods at best.
Seeing that Tang San was impervious to argument, the God of Destruction chose to stop debating.
"Tang San, you've broken the Divine Realm's rules. According to protocol, you are to be stationed at the frontlines for twenty years as Head of the Assault Division."
He immediately called a meeting of the Divine Realm Council to pass judgment on Tang San.
Somewhere in the cosmos…
Su Yu stood in the void, his eyes seemingly capable of seeing through every dimension of the universe.
Time energy fluctuated around him, lifting him toward even higher-dimensional space.
He traveled swiftly, surpassing the dimension where the Divine Realm was located and approaching even higher planes.
He grew closer and closer to the realm where the laws themselves resided.
Eventually, he reached such a high dimension that the fluctuations of universal laws became extremely intense. His very presence caused those laws to riot, and countless rules descended upon him, attempting to erode his form.
"So this is how the universe's laws operate…"
Su Yu entered a deep state of comprehension. After briefly grasping the way cosmic laws worked, he began searching—for the very framework of the universe.
He discovered some structural elements related to the boundaries of the universe.
But where were those boundaries?
In the material dimension, the universe is endless.
Even when traversing multiple dimensions, its edges are difficult to locate. Only by approaching the dimension of laws—as Su Yu had now—does one begin to feel the universe resisting, trying to assimilate intruders into the cosmos itself.
To find the universe's true boundary and leave it behind to reach another cosmos entirely was incredibly difficult. Many even considered the idea a fallacy.
But Su Yu disagreed.
He firmly believed that beyond this universe, there were others.
At this moment, he was searching for the universe's edge.
Rather than wasting time and energy traveling through space and dimensions endlessly, he chose to begin at the source—the framework of the laws themselves.
Through his growing understanding and initial analysis of universal laws, Su Yu had finally found it:
The boundary of the universe.
He swiftly departed the area, passing through the God Realm's dimensional layer and rapidly returning to the material dimension.
Spatial power erupted in his hand, and a wormhole tore open before him.
Interdimensional Space.
Entering the wormhole, Su Yu stood within the interdimensional space, sensing the general flow of spatial energy within the chaotic turbulence of the void.
The entire universe was divided into an outer layer and an inner layer.
The interdimensional space served as the dividing line between them.
Within this space, Su Yu advanced continuously. After locating a spatial node, he mobilized his power to force open a passage.
He stepped into it.
Outside the passage was the boundless cosmic void.
However, unlike the material universe Su Yu had previously inhabited, this stretch of space felt even more vast and all-encompassing.
Here, despite being a higher-dimensional lifeform, he felt as though he had reverted to a mere three-dimensional existence.
When he turned to look back, behind him lay an entire universe, with overlapping three-dimensional spaces forming stacked dimensions.
"This must be the universe's periphery."
A universe requires immense energy to maintain its operation. Its development depends heavily on the consumption of that energy.
But where does this energy originate?
Naturally, it comes from beyond the universe—from Chaos.
Chaotic energy is absorbed and refined by the universe, and this peripheral region acts as the transitional zone where that absorption takes place.
Su Yu could already sense it.
"That must be chaotic energy," he murmured, focusing on a cluster of powerful energy in the distance.
"Perhaps this is what remains of the chaotic energy after being processed by the universe. Though not as pure or primal, it still retains the fundamental traits of chaos."
Drawing the energy toward himself, he examined its unique properties and, after some consideration, retrieved his Godslayer Sword.
He began refining the chaotic energy, infusing it into the blade.
Su Yu used his own Dao to integrate the chaotic power, and the fusion succeeded with ease. A new, distinct force emerged within the blade. It was—
Authority.
"An ultra-divine artifact!"
Su Yu's Godslayer Sword had ascended to the level of an ultra-divine weapon.
And just a single cluster of chaotic energy had been enough to elevate his weapon to that status. In the outer periphery of the universe, countless such clusters existed.
Although these remnants—left behind after universal digestion—were sparsely distributed, Su Yu believed that by venturing even closer to the true chaos beyond the universe, he would eventually gain the ability to draw upon its power freely and at will.
"But that's not the point," Su Yu muttered. He had never been one to overly pursue powerful weapons.
What truly concerned him now was his Dao—his next step forward.
Now, having reached the edge of the universe, he pressed onward, deeper into the periphery.
One year. Two years.
During this time, Su Yu encountered many more clusters of chaotic energy. He studied and dissected their nature, attempting to control them, even gradually transforming his own divine power to align more closely with the essence of chaos.
The digestion of chaotic energy was a slow and progressive process.
Much like a series of refinement stages, the closer one drew to the heart of chaos, the more primal and untamed the energy became. The structure of chaotic power grew increasingly disordered and violent.
Su Yu continuously deciphered these increasingly chaotic energies, searching for order within disorder.
At last, he sensed he had reached the very edge of the universe.
Here, he encountered chaotic energy that had only just been absorbed by the universe—energy that had barely begun the digestion process.
"I can withstand it."
Once he confirmed this, Su Yu stepped forward—as though entering a new realm altogether.
The universe's rules no longer shielded him.
He had entirely exited the universe's protection.
Now, he stood exposed in the pure chaos beyond.
In that moment, the wild force of primordial chaos surged against his body.
He seemed to lose all sense of up, down, and every direction, his consciousness plunged into pure chaos.
Yet almost immediately, everything returned to normal.
All the Dao he had comprehended manifested around him as runes—over three thousand distinct symbols.
Each rune was etched with countless intricate lines, and within each glyph, patterns moved and evolved of their own accord, forming self-contained systems.
Once his awareness fully returned, Su Yu looked back toward where he had come from. A universe drifted away in the distance.
"Not too far," he murmured. "I'll break through first."
He was about to attempt his breakthrough within the chaos itself—to carve out his own world!
But after a moment's thought, he decided instead to return to the universe and seal a portion of his power there, creating a fixed point he could navigate back to if needed.
With that settled, he plunged back into the chaotic void.
The three thousand runes hovered about him, sustaining the operation of his basic consciousness.
In truth, he didn't need all three thousand. Even the fusion of a single universal authority might have been enough to draw the protections of the nearby universe outward to shelter him.
Still, he chose not to rely on that.
Instead, he arranged all three thousand runes in formation. Line by line, the glyphs extended and intertwined.
His nine Soul Rings appeared.
At their core was Life and Death.
From the Way of the Cycle of Souls, countless principles unfolded.
His Force Soul Ring shone, and the Godslayer Sword materialized in his hand.
With a single stroke, he cleaved open heaven and earth.
The Space Soul Ring flared, stabilizing the fragment of world he had just carved out.
The Time Soul Ring glowed, causing that space to stretch. A great river of time swept through it, recording the past and future of everything within.
As time flowed on, all things within the realm transformed—and the river extended with them.
The Way of the Cycle of Souls poured into the river, and its myriad offshoot patterns linked to the three thousand runes circling Su Yu.
With the Cycle of Souls as its core, the three thousand runes wove together into countless great paths.
The space trembled with radical change.
Even the chaos around him seemed to respond.
Su Yu ignored it and pressed on with his world-forming attempt.
The Devouring Soul Ring shone, consuming the surrounding chaotic energy. The Primordial Soul Ring glowed, and the devoured chaos began to transmute, generating unique source qi for Su Yu's fledgling realm.
The Fate Soul Ring merged with the time river, fusing destiny and time into a single current that ran through all existence.
Then the Spirit Soul Ring flickered, and within his world the source qi began to develop a spark of sentience.
Sentience was born.
The Wisdom Soul Ring joined the realm. As sentience coalesced, sapient life emerged.
At that moment, for each of the runes Su Yu had woven into the world, the corresponding Way manifested sprouting life and consciousness—thus bringing beings into being.
His realm began to expand.
Su Yu felt delight swelling in his heart as the miniature cosmos—rooted in his nine Soul Rings and branching through the three thousand runes—grew ever larger.
It was as if his very life essence were ascending alongside it.
All the while, the boundless chaos churned around him, brewing something vast.
Within that formless void, a new world shone forth, taking shape and undergoing its first transformations.
(End of chapter)