NOVPUB"The extraordinary powers in the world had already disappeared, and the lifespan of ordinary people had reached its limit at one hundred years."
"Yet, the eternal pursuit of the Dao by people remained unchanged."
"Through research, analysis, and utilization of laws, even Mortals could burst forth with astonishing and unconventional power."
...
In the blank world before Sun Erlang, a sphere suddenly appeared.
The sphere spun on its own, with countless black spots representing humanity moving at a very high speed.
Initially, the buildings on the ground were just over ten feet tall, but as time rapidly passed, more and higher buildings sprouted from the ground.
Soon after, even flying machines appeared among the clouds.
Sun Erlang, while weaving the world he envisioned in his Spirit Consciousness, recalled the teachings of his Master at that time.
"The quandary of the Xuanhuang World is fundamentally the same as these worlds without extraordinary powers. The ancient scriptures often say, ’The Immortal Way is eternal.’ This statement might indeed be true."
"The so-called [Immortal] is that group of beings who exhaust the rationale of the Dao and utilize it to its utmost limits. They stand on the other side of all Living Beings, on the same level as the Dao, overlooking the masses, undying and indestructible."
"But what if the [Dao] itself changes?"
"The Dao would still be the Dao. However, those who can’t adapt to the changes in the Dao would inevitably head towards Annihilation."
"Unable to harmonize with the Dao, one does not deserve to be called an Immortal. They would perish."
"Among the common masses, there will always arise new [Practitioners of the Dao]. The powers they master will also grow increasingly strong."
"Becoming the new [Immortals]."
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At that moment, the words of the Faceless Saint Emperor were profoundly mysterious, not just to Sun Erlang, but also to the few direct disciples Under the Holy Emperor; none could grasp the principles within.
However, at this moment, with the power of the Real Fruit, he luckily tasted the flavor of a creator.
Sun Erlang, looking at the world he had created before him, suddenly felt inspired.
In that spherical world, after countless years of natural evolution, a race aligned with the Dao of his created world would always emerge.
They could discover the ultimate secrets of the world, imperceptible to other Living Beings, and thereby become the so-called [Practitioners of the Dao] of this world.
Boom!
Sun Erlang’s vision rapidly traversed, descending onto the sphere he had created.
In one ordinary building, a young scholar was frowning and pondering under the light.
The blackboard in front of him was filled with complex formulas and drawings.
"No, no, no..."
"Where exactly is the mistake? Why are my calculations so significantly offset from the actual trajectories?"
"It’s as if there’s a force binding us, preventing us from leaving this planet."
The scholar painfully pulled at his hair, then suddenly looked up towards the window.
In the pitch-black night, it seemed to confront Sun Erlang’s gaze directly.
...
Sun Erlang’s vision blurred momentarily, and the image suddenly shattered.
When he regained his senses, he was astonished to find some spaceships on the sphere, already trying to fly out of ’the boundaries of the world.’
Yet beyond the world, Sun Erlang had not yet created anything; it was still completely void.
They naturally couldn’t succeed.
Sun Erlang’s thoughts quickly shifted, and he began to expand new maps.
The white space slowly turned dark. In the Starry Sky, in addition to the original planet, thousands of other planets also began to appear.
The scope of the map suddenly expanded more than a hundred thousand times, and Sun Erlang’s Stone of Transformation also began to feel the strain.
To reduce the workload, Sun Erlang set most of these planets as barren places filled with Death Silence, devoid of life.
And to prevent the original inhabitants of the primal planet from expanding too rapidly, he set a very long distance between each planet.
A distance so vast that without the power of Longevity, it was nearly impossible for Mortals to traverse from one planet to another in their lifetime.
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After a Herculean effort, Sun Erlang barely managed to save the original world from collapse.
But soon, before he had the chance to perfect and expand the Star Sea map, the world again became dangerously unstable.
Upon investigation, Sun Erlang realized that the original inhabitants had begun to doubt the reality of their world.
This doubt arose not only because they couldn’t fly out of the world but also because they had observed numerous planets in the Star Sea that they hadn’t observed before.
These planets appeared suddenly, shattering their previous understanding.
"The principles must not be crudely set but deeply rooted in the fundamental principles of the world with all its myriad appearances."
This thought suddenly surfaced in Sun Erlang’s Spirit Consciousness.
Quickly, he made the necessary adjustments.
Next, in another undying attempt by the original inhabitants, a spaceship actually managed to escape the planet’s constraints and entered the Star Sea.
The humans on the spaceship discovered a blue ring surrounding their planet, outside in space.
It was this ring that had distorted internal observations of the outside world and had prevented their earlier attempts to escape the planet.
This was a groundbreaking discovery, a monumental breakthrough!
After surviving a life-and-death crisis, the spaceship finally returned to the ground and shared this discovery publicly.
And when scholars on the planet incorporated the Star Ring variable into their calculations, theory and reality finally reached a temporary alignment.
People cheered, welcoming the arrival of a new era, and regarded all the crew members of the first spaceship to fly into space as heroes.
With this successful experience, the suppressed original inhabitants of the planet saw their development peak swiftly.
