Chapter 796: The Sun of Ten Thousand Worlds (III)
Not long after, Yi Xi Si, looking like a harmless little girl, rode a giant cicada into the sky.
Yuan Shi Dao Ren swept his divine sense, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.
Daoist Chen, however, whose body was almost transparent like a cloud of mist, smiled as he looked in the direction she came from.
The relationship between the three was quite complex.
When Yi Xi Si first descended, the location of her Zerg base wasn't too far from the Moral Immortal Sect. This led to the Zerg's main enemies being almost exclusively the Moral Immortal Sect and its vassals.
As for Daoist Chen's Sacred Chen Gate, it was located in another corner of the Dao Chen Realm, with its stronghold separated from the Zerg by billions of miles.
To spite their old rival, the Sacred Chen Gate even secretly provided Yi Xi Si with intelligence on the Moral Immortal Sect, allowing her to strike her enemies more precisely.
If it weren't for Bai Mo's world-destroying threat, these two mortal enemies would never have allied.
Perhaps now, Yi Xi Si was also included.
This was because the light emitted by the glorious sun, into which Bai Mo had transformed, seemed to hide some strange things, constantly trying to drill into her body.
The other two shared the same doubt.
The taste of the sunlight was wrong.
Ever since Bai Mo began to erode the Dao Chen Realm's Sun, they immediately noticed that the sunlight falling on them had started to change its flavor.
The previously harmless light now seemed to possess its own consciousness, actively trying to invade everything.
However, this invasion didn't appear to be physical; the illuminated areas showed no visible changes.
"Damn it! Old Devil Chen, the sect!" After pondering for half an hour, Yuan Shi Dao Ren suddenly realized something important.
This kind of sunlight, which sought to subtly change everything without a sound, could only be resisted consciously by beings of their level. The other cultivators in their sects had no means of resistance.
They might not even realize that the sunlight they encountered daily was, unbeknownst to them, undergoing a strange transformation.
"Our sect's mountain gate is hidden within the fissures of the world, creating self-contained grotto-heavens and blessed lands. How could mere sunlight possibly infiltrate them? Yuan Shi, you're getting senile."
"No, look at the lower realms. The mutated sunlight is not only spreading in the Dao Chen Realm but has already begun to infest the lower realms."
Yuan Shi Dao Ren activated his Heaven's Eye power, sweeping across dozens of lower realms closely related to the Moral Immortal Sect in one breath. The result was that most of the Moral Immortal Sect's subordinate branches had already been enveloped by the mutated sunlight.
Daoist Chen Yue, the Grand Elder of the Sacred Chen Gate, known as Old Devil Chen, voluntarily caused his transparent body to explode, using it to summon a portion of his true body, which transformed into a pale gray cloud spanning hundreds of thousands of miles.
"Ten, eleven, twelve..." He used the power of his true body to count the worlds under the Sacred Chen Gate that were being assimilated at the speed of light.
"Old Man Yuan Shi, Mother of Ten Thousand Worms, I think we should temporarily put aside our hatred and point our muzzles outwards." Daoist Chen Yue transmitted his message to the others.
Although he still hadn't analyzed what exactly had changed in the sunlight's composition, there was no doubt that this was blatant provocation, a challenge that completely disregarded all of them!
As for Bai Mo in the sky, he hadn't spared a single glance downwards the entire time, because all his energy was focused on drawing in and merging with the Sun.
On average, every second, he was pulling hundreds of trillions of tons of matter from the Sun into the Dao Chen Realm.
These plasma particles, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, began to expand in all directions as soon as they arrived in the Dao Chen Realm.
Bai Mo, situated at the center of all the plasma, was by now covered in an immeasurable amount of light and heat, and every second, the plasma layer enveloping him grew thicker.
...
At this moment, looking from the edge of the solar system, one could even see a miniature black hole-like collapse point at the Sun's edge, constantly sucking material from its surface.
The entire outer layer of the Sun was warped and deformed by this collapse point, taking on a slightly teardrop shape, with the tip of the teardrop being that profound and dark spatial collapse point.
The gravitational balance within the solar system was also completely shattered by the Sun's sudden deformation.
Fortunately, all the larger planets in the solar system had already been jointly devoured by the Empire and the Land of White.
Otherwise, after the gravitational balance was destroyed, the imbalanced planets would break free from their original orbits and begin to wander aimlessly within the solar system, like runaway chariots, crashing into everything in their path.
"Speaker, a communication from the Land of White." Ji Er Ke Fu, whose true body stood at the front of the capital starship's bridge, watching the Sun with a heavy heart, received a notification from his subordinate.
"Connect it."
"Yes."
"Hello, Speaker Ji Er Ke Fu."
To his surprise, on the other end of the ultra-long-range communication spirit art, it wasn't Bai Mo himself, but the Land of White's diplomatic ambassador.
"Hello."
"According to our estimates, in approximately ten years and four months, the Sun will completely disappear. At that time, please be mindful of the situation once the Sun's gravitational binding is lost."
"What's happening to the Sun?"
"I apologize, no comment."
"..."
"Is he breaking through?"
"I apologize, no comment."
"..."
Ji Er Ke Fu pressed twice more before realizing he was flustered. Given Bai Mo's high level, how much could the rest of the Land of White, which didn't even have a single True Immortal, truly know about the situation?
Due to the Land of White's open policy, high- and mid-tier cultivators could freely leave once they accumulated enough Contribution Points to "redeem" themselves. This resulted in almost no high- or mid-tier cultivators choosing to remain in this highly egalitarian world.
Once high- and mid-tier cultivators arrived in the Empire, their income and treatment were at least one hundred to eighty times that of the Land of White.
"Finally, a message the system asked me to convey — 'Find the Historical Text.' I'm also unsure of its meaning, so there's no need for the Speaker to ask further."
"..."
"The people of the Land of White are as consistently lacking in emotional intelligence as ever..." After cutting the communication link, Ji Er Ke Fu couldn't help but grumble.
The phrase "Historical Text" was so abrupt and lacked context that he genuinely couldn't fathom its meaning.
"Find the Historical Text... Could it be something from the Dao Chen Realm?"
...
"What exactly has been altered?" Using his Heaven's Eye power, Yuan Shi Dao Ren began searching for the effects of the mutated sunlight with atomic-level scanning capabilities.
Under the Heaven's Eye, the Dao Chen Realm, centered around the glorious sun above, was already submerged in a sea of illusory light for thousands of miles, yet in reality, nothing seemed to have changed.
Numerous lower realms were the same; in the Heaven's Eye, they were all submerged in the illusory light sea.
"Old Devil Chen, use your cloud-mist body to buy me more time!"
PS1: Since the New Year holiday is still ongoing, I should still be able to wish everyone a Happy New Year...
PS2: Recommending a book, "Please Call Me Master of the Hall" by the author Xuwei Wangting, an old friend whom I've now recommended for his third book..
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