Chapter 795: The Scorching Sun of Ten Thousand Worlds (Two)
The spatial structure of the Dao Chen Realm was quite unique. A single, fixed star, illuminating the land, was located within the Dao Chen Celestial Realm itself. The suns above the countless subordinate Spirit Worlds and Mortal Worlds were, in fact, merely projections of the Celestial Realm's sun.
As one of the most powerful beings in this world, Yuan Shi Dao Ren was naturally not content to merely gaze up at the sky. He had once ventured deep into the sun of the Dao Chen Celestial Realm to explore.
But that place held nothing but light and heat.
After casually collecting and refining some Solar True Flames from within, he returned to his sect, disappointed.
For lower-realm cultivators, such True Flames were an ultimate killing tool, but for a high-level existence like Yuan Shi Dao Ren, who could unleash nuclear-explosion-level effects with a casual palm strike, they were merely so-so.
After sealing and refining the True Flames into Solar True Flame Talismans, the temperatures, reaching hundreds of millions of degrees, were enough to instantly kill the vast majority of cultivators—naturally, including the user themselves.
High temperatures didn't discriminate between friend and foe.
Thus, the Solar True Flame Talismans, deeply stored in the Moral Immortal Sect's treasury, had only been used three times over several millennia. Each time, the result was the user, in a desperate situation, perishing together with their enemy.
It wasn't that no one considered turning them into sect-level strategic bombing weapons, launched like missiles from extreme distances.
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"Does he intend to embody the Great Sun?" Watching Bai Mo, who was gradually approaching the true form of the Dao Chen Celestial Realm's sun-star, Yuan Shi Dao Ren quickly grasped his intention.
The Dao Chen Realm did not lack cultivation methods for contemplating the sun-star; most of these methods ultimately aimed to embody the sun. However, due to the level of those who transmitted these methods, not a single person had truly been able to achieve this step.
The two "suns" gradually drew closer. Land within a million li radius had long since been scorched barren by the extreme temperatures brought about by this "two suns in the sky" phenomenon.
Especially the Ghastly Soul Desert—no, wait, it should now be called the Ghastly Soul Basin region—where the second "sun" was born, lay scorching hot, semi-molten glassy substances everywhere.
The ancient battlefield of the Ghastly Soul Desert, where chilly winds constantly blew, had now been forcibly transformed into a cultivation holy land for Light and Fire elemental spells.
If any lower-realm cultivator could endure the high temperatures and walk a few more steps, they would surely be able to pick up spirit materials such as Flaming Crystals or Seven-Flame Treasure Trees.
However, the current surface temperature of the Ghastly Soul Basin reached several thousand degrees Celsius; ordinary cultivators couldn't even approach, let alone venture inside.
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"Can he succeed?" After receiving the news, Kilkov, who had flown back to the periphery at the fastest possible speed, looked up at the two suns in the sky, gradually merging into one.
"I don't know." The onlookers' feelings were quite complex.
On one hand, they secretly hoped that Bai Mo, who had suppressed everyone for so many years, would simply disappear; on the other hand, they also hoped he could successfully walk this path.
After all, sixty years ago, during the sermon assembly, Bai Mo had, in fact, quite thoroughly demonstrated the subsequent direction for them.
If this path could be successfully traversed, then others could also follow suit.
But if it couldn't be traversed, they would have to start all over again.
If one were to say who was most perplexed at this moment, it would be none other than Yisisi, who had invited Bai Mo to the Dao Chen Realm.
It had originally thought that if Bai Mo accepted this generous gift and promised to deal with either Yuan Shi Dao Ren or Daoist Chen, it could greatly alleviate its own pressure.
But it never expected that the other party, having taken the reward, would, within two days, carelessly fly off to break through.
Although he had struck Yuan Shi Dao Ren with a palm strike before leaving, the "appearance fee" for that single palm strike was absolutely not worth the more than ten Purple-Green Great Medicines...
On average, the amount of Purple-Green Spirit Elixir produced annually by an entire subordinate Spirit World was not even enough to refine a single Purple-Green Great Medicine.
Moreover, to gather even this small amount of Purple-Green Spirit Elixir, large numbers of subordinates had to be dispatched to try their luck, which was extremely troublesome.
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Edge of the Solar System, Divine Terra Empire Main Fleet Astronomical Observatory, Third Telescope Group.
"Instruments show the Sun's brightness has decreased by more than five times its normal fluctuation!"
The Assistant Stargazer on duty hurried back to the observatory's main control room and reported to the Stargazer also on duty.
"Reporting, Supervisor, the gravitational balance monitoring device is also issuing an alert! It shows an unusual decrease in the gravitational pull we are experiencing from the Solar System."
Just as he was contemplating whether to report further up the chain of command, he received a message from the duty officer in the adjacent department.
"Damn it... why does this kind of thing always happen on my shift?"
After a flurry of chaotic activity, this news finally, through layers of network, reached the ears of the fleet's helmsman, Kilkov, Speaker of the Empire Council.
"It seems on the avatar's side, that person is making a big move again."
"Speaker, based on my conjecture," Ghost Immortal Hemer appeared beside him at the opportune moment, "there's a certain possibility he's summoning this side's sun in the Dao Chen Realm."
Unlike True Immortals of other paths, Ghost Immortal projection avatars could share information without delay; which meant everything happening in the Dao Chen Realm, Hemer could know in real-time.
As for Immortals cultivating other paths, they could only preset their True Spirit Avatars to transmit intelligence back periodically.
"Summoning the Sun? Is he trying to achieve the True Sun Star Lord stage over there?"
Bai Mo's late-eighth-stage, Six-Tribulation cultivation wasn't a secret, nor was his intention to break through to the ninth-stage True Sun Star Lord.
Even a fool would know he had been constantly modifying the Sun; this time summoning the Sun was almost certainly related to the matter of the True Sun Star Lord.
"However, advancing over there is also a good thing. Regardless of success or failure, at least it buys us more time."
"He's progressing too quickly," Hemer said. "How many years has it been since he advanced to the eighth stage, and now he's facing a tribulation again? He truly has no regard for his life."
He still remembered that according to the breakthrough method Bai Mo left sixty years ago, advancing from the seventh to the eighth stage, no matter how fast one was, it was difficult to accumulate less than a thousand years of cultivation; yet he himself progressed at a flying speed.
"He has no choice but to rush; Daoization must be pressing him hard." So many years had passed, and Kilkov had come to understand that Bai Mo was actually a decent person.
Even if he had fallen into the abyss of Daoization, he didn't forget to explore a truly viable path for others.
"Do you still remember Soil-01, which we dissected that year? Normally speaking, it wouldn't live past two hundred years."
"Two hundred years... indeed, it's fast."
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"Issue orders: adjust the output of all lead ships' fusion engines based on the latest situation. There's no need to panic about the Sun; everyone, carry on as usual and simply continue on the original course."
"Yes, sir!"
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Just as Bai Mo was continuously pushing for the fusion of the main universe's Sun and the Dao Chen Realm's sun-star, Yuan Shi Dao Ren and Daoist Chen also followed, arriving beyond the heavens.
It wasn't just for sect matters, but even more so, for themselves.
Who wouldn't want a glimpse into the higher realms?
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