Outer Space - Several Hundred Thousand Kilometers from Earth
Vaelor floated in the void, his body surrounded by the residual shimmer of discharged impurities that drifted away like a slowly dispersing nebula. The spatial cracks created by his catastrophic purge were gradually healing, reality stitching itself back together with the universe's natural regenerative properties.
He turned his attention inward, examining his transformed self with newly enhanced Divine Insight or should it be called primordial insight.
The difference was... incomprehensible.
My comprehension ability has been amplified ten thousand fold, he thought, the concept barely capturing the magnitude of change. What took hours to understand before now takes fractions of a second. Complex principles that would have required years of study are instantly transparent.
His consciousness expanded outward experimentally, touching the fabric of space around him.
Immediately, he perceived things that had been invisible before.
Space Law permeated everything—the fundamental principle governing distance, position, and dimensional structure. He could see it as glowing blue-white threads woven through reality, each thread representing a constraint or possibility. Where the threads were dense, space was rigid. Where they were sparse, space was flexible.
And he was comprehending it. Passively, automatically, without conscious effort.
His enhanced Divine Insight observed the Space Law threads, analyzed their patterns, identified their governing equations, and integrated that knowledge into his understanding. What would have taken King-Tier cultivators decades of meditation to begin grasping, he absorbed in seconds.
This is insane, Vaelor thought with genuine awe. At this rate, I'll achieve Law comprehension across multiple domains within weeks. Maybe days.
He shifted his perception, examining other aspects of reality.
Time Law became visible—golden streams flowing through existence at variable rates, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, occasionally pooling or diverging. The principle governing causality, sequence, and duration.
His consciousness automatically began analyzing temporal mechanics, identifying how time could be manipulated, accelerated, reversed, or frozen.
Gravity Law appeared as purple gradients, density variations in spacetime itself, masses creating depressions that other objects rolled toward. The principle governing attraction, mass, and curvature.
Elemental Laws—Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Lightning, Ice—manifested as colored energies permeating the universe's substance. The principles governing matter states, energy transformations, and physical interactions.
Conceptual Laws—Life, Death, Creation, Destruction, Order, Chaos—existed as abstract patterns that influenced probability and outcome. The principles governing meaning, purpose, and cosmic significance.
All of it visible. All of it comprehensible. All of it being passively integrated into his knowledge base without requiring active study.
This must be what it feels like to be a cosmic entity, Vaelor marveled. To see the universe's operating system and understand the source code.
He turned his attention to his cultivation base next.
The ocean of qi in his spiritual sea had undergone complete transformation. What had been blue-white energy—standard cultivator qi—was now something that defied classification.
It looked like liquid starlight infused with rainbow auroras. Multidimensional. Existing simultaneously in normal space and higher dimensions. Containing depth that suggested each droplet held infinite complexity.
Can I even call this 'qi' anymore? Vaelor wondered. It's so dense, so pure, so fundamentally different from normal cultivation energy that it's essentially a new substance entirely.
He examined the quantity available—and found it immeasurable. Literally. His enhanced perception could detect no upper boundary to the energy reserves his foundation could contain.
The Eternal Cosmos Cultivation Scripture treats my body as a universe. Universes don't have maximum energy capacity—they expand to accommodate whatever they contain. So neither does my cultivation base.
The illusory universes within his cells had also evolved dramatically. Previously, they'd been semi-real—conceptual structures that mimicked cosmic properties without fully manifesting them.
Now they were becoming genuinely real.
He focused on a single cell in his arm, his enhanced perception zooming in to observe at microscopic scale.
Within that cell existed a miniature cosmos—complete with space, time, matter, energy, even rudimentary physical laws. Tiny stars burned. Exotic particles circulated. Dimensional boundaries separated different regions.
It was no longer illusory. It was real—a genuine universe compressed into cellular scale, fully functional and independently stable.
And I have trillions of these cells, Vaelor thought with dizzy comprehension. Trillions of miniature universes, all interconnected, all contributing to my total power.
No wonder the system can't calculate my battle power anymore. How do you quantify someone whose body is literally composed of countless universes?
He shifted attention to his eyes—the organs that had undergone the most visible transformation.
His golden irises now blazed with inner light that suggested galaxies rotating in his pupils. Rainbow luminescence flickered constantly across their surface, each color representing a different perceptual mode.
Testing experimentally, Vaelor focused his gaze on a distant asteroid drifting through space several thousand kilometers away.
Immediately, information flooded his awareness:
[Asteroid Composition: 73% iron, 15% nickel, 8% silicates, 4% trace elements]
[Structural Flaws: 247 critical stress points identified]
[Optimal Strike Location: Coordinates marked - single impact would fracture entire mass]
[Age: Approximately 4.3 billion years]
[Origin: Asteroid Belt, Region 7-Alpha]
He could see through the asteroid, perceiving its internal structure as clearly as its surface. Every flaw, every weakness, every detail laid bare.
Flaw detection, Vaelor cataloged mentally. Perfect analytical vision.
He shifted to another perceptual mode, focusing not on the physical but the conceptual.
The asteroid's "essence" became visible—the fundamental truth of what it was. Not just rock and metal, but a fragment of primordial solar system formation, carrying information about the universe's early development encoded in its atomic structure.
Essence perception. I can see the truth of things beyond their physical properties.
Another mode shift. This time he focused on a section of empty space, looking for... something.
And he found it. Hidden dimensional boundaries became visible—thin membranes separating normal space from pocket dimensions, parallel planes, and higher-dimensional spaces.
Most beings could never perceive these boundaries. They existed "beside" normal space in directions that three-dimensional senses couldn't detect.
But Vaelor's evolved eyes could see in higher dimensions now. The hidden architecture of reality was transparent to his gaze.
Dimensional perception. I can see spaces that exist outside normal spacetime.