novelraw Chapter 1572 - 1110: You Are the Nodes
Chapter 1572 - 1110: You Are the Nodes
The World Tree that Zheng Yichen mastered is one of the few entities capable of containing Chaotic Sea Water, and with the characteristics of the World Tree, it can prevent the Chaotic Sea Water from altering.
This solution requires certain necessary conditions to be executable, but it’s still somewhat risky.
However, if successful, it would establish a new foundation for the Virtual World Core in the future.
With this foundation, they can attempt to obtain a +1 that can conclude the infinite 9.
The second necessary condition for attempting to convert Chaotic Sea Water into a water source is Zheng Yichen’s physique.
Without his special physique that allows direct contact with Chaotic Sea Water without being affected, there would be no room for subsequent operations.
Being able to directly touch Chaotic Sea Water, combined with Zheng Yichen’s mastery of Life Creation, only after satisfying these conditions can the plan proceed smoothly.
As for the assistants... others can just watch from afar.
The World Tree manifested within the Virtual Genesis unfolded.
The surging Chaotic Sea Water was released from the internal space, and the instant these waters contacted the normal environment, changes occurred.
But Zheng Yichen had prepared in advance, directly using Phenomenon to bind the Chaotic Sea Water.
After establishing stable contact conditions, he allowed the World Tree and Chaotic Sea Water to come into contact.
The area where the World Tree and Chaotic Sea Water touched would be adjusted by Zheng Yichen using Life Creation.
It transformed into a state capable of normally bearing Chaotic Sea Water.
After completing this step, it came down to mutual fusion; the World Tree is the best carrier and also the best source for Chaotic Sea Water.
Ideally, the World Tree could continuously produce new Chaotic Sea Water.
But that’s only a thought; being able to continuously produce secondary Chaotic Sea Water is enough.
This solution of diluting Chaotic Sea Water has synergy; as long as the World Tree can become a new water source, it can naturally emit diluted Chaotic Sea Water.
What Zheng Yichen needs to do now is complete all of this as much as possible, then later go to Dusk for an ’optimization.’
This is also why Zheng Yichen dares to execute this plan at this time, even without any experience. With Dusk as a fallback, it won’t be too bad no matter what.
Without experience, the assistance Lilith could provide to Zheng Yichen was to carefully calculate his next possible step with every action he took.
This is akin to slowly advancing by 0.01% within the current progress; as for when Zheng Yichen just started executing the plan, Lilith deduced the complete plan, but it was not suitable for the current endeavor.
The fishing rod once integrated with the harmonizing stone, and this played a significant role at this moment as well.
While Zheng Yichen was harmonizing the World Tree itself with Chaotic Sea Water, the power of the harmonizing stone was crucial.
The World Tree can bear the Chaotic Sea Water, but what Zheng Yichen did was use Life Creation to ’fuse’ the Chaotic Sea Water into the World Tree, making it part of it.
He had learned a lot about body modification from Ahn Ke before, and although he was performing ’tree’ body modification for the first time, luckily he had shared experiences with Senluo before, so he wasn’t at a loss.
Life Creation accelerated the World Tree’s adaptation and fusion with Chaotic Sea Water.
Inside the World Tree, the Chaotic Sea Water churned violently, giving Zheng Yichen the feeling that he was giving the World Tree a blood transfusion.
On the back of the Starry Sky Colossus, dozens of Star Gods larger than heart-core planets floated there.
These are the Eternal Star Gods of this world. Although they have not reached the level of true stars, their strength has reached a new pinnacle.
If this world retained its former state, just these dozens of Eternal Star Gods could slaughter all other Star Gods. The gap in power levels is crushing to ordinary Star Gods.
Even if those Star Gods allied to fight the Eternal Star Gods, they’d be in vain; the Eternal Star Gods deal with other Star Gods like an invincible snake, growing stronger the more it consumes, while the number of ordinary Star Gods dwindles — how to win?
The Eternal Star Gods left in the end are truly the Starry Sky Colossus of this world, able to directly become stars.
Thus, those Star Gods not parasitized by Constellation Resonance were completely depleted.
Zheng Yichen’s previous advances killed many Star Gods, but most of them were Nightmare Star Gods transformed, and not many were parasitized by Constellation Resonance.
After advancing to become Eternal Star Gods, these Star Gods did not show arrogance.
Because ’Starry Sky Colossus’ is stronger than they are, and after becoming Eternal Star Gods, the Constellation Resonance parasitic within them did not weaken but strengthened.
Thinking of the previously deceased Star Gods, who were devoured without any ability to resist, they don’t want to become the ’food’ of other Star Gods either.
"What can we do with such Starry Sky Colossus?"
"You will become critical Star Cluster nodes." A Boundary Breaker, wearing a white coat, stepped forward.
The Star God aggregated here is unstable, but with the addition of these Eternal Star Gods, they will become stable once they form Star Cluster nodes.
As for the will of those Star Clusters? It doesn’t matter now.
In the eyes of the Boundary Breakers, the most valuable assets right now are these Eternal Star Gods, while ordinary Star Gods will serve as nourishment later.
Nurturing a dozen more advanced Eternal Star Gods proves more cost-effective than these Star Gods currently only serving as cannon fodder.
Even though these ordinary Star Gods are top-tier entities in other worlds.
But here they’re playing a high-level game, aren’t they?
In high-level games, let the cannon fodder serve well as consumables.
Zheng Yichen doesn’t know when he will return, so the speed at which the Eternal Star Gods serve as nodes must be expedited.
After completing the node’s refinement, Zheng Yichen still did not appear.
The heart-core planet’s natives anxiously looked at the sky.
The true Starry Sky Colossus was observing ’them’, with the Eternal Star God serving as a vital node. The Starry Sky Colossus, fused by the Shadow of the Eye of Heavenly Path, was even more solid.
Its body was no longer completely translucent; only a faint view of the scenery behind its body was visible, as if it possessed a substantial form.
"Is the Star God...angry?" An old man bowed low.
In space, the Starry Sky Colossus gently raised a hand, enveloping the entire heart-core planet.
It didn’t destroy the heart-core planet, even though this planet has planetary resistance, which can buffer a considerable portion of external attacks.
But no matter how much it buffers, there is a limit.
Currently, it wouldn’t be difficult for the Starry Sky Colossus to destroy the heart-core planet; the difficult part is destroying the Dusk Territory.
An attack by the Starry Sky Colossus on the Dusk Territory would be neutralized, and the areas influenced by the Dusk Territory would continuously erase things that should not exist.
If the Star God does not approach, nothing will happen; if it approaches actively and dies, it is due to insufficient intelligence.
Destroying the heart-core planet offers no benefits, as Zheng Yichen inherently has space survival capabilities.
If the heart-core planet were destroyed, the Dusk Territory would become a wandering island, and at that point, Zheng Yichen could wield the Dusk Territory as a weapon.
While the heart-core planet is intact, Zheng Yichen cannot excavate the Dusk Territory out by digging.
The current Dusk Territory is connected with the heart-core planet.
As long as the planet is intact, the Dusk Territory is unshakable.
As seasoned Boundary Breakers, they wouldn’t make such a mistake, and Zheng Yichen, as a Proxy Agent, destroying other planets would not concern the Dusk, but destroying the world’s heart-core planet would result in severe penalties.
Restricting and blockading the heart-core planet is the best approach.
But this blockade lasted for half a month, yet Zheng Yichen still showed no signs of action.
"..."
"99 merit points."
"Give, give, give, quickly!" Zheng Yichen quickly handed his fishing rod and Firmament Wheel to Tia; this time, only these two needed optimization by the Dusk.
The World Tree and fishing rod were fused together, and the Firmament Wheel underwent a brand-new structural upgrade, incorporating many Star Cores.
Although it underwent perfect fusion through Lilith’s Heart of the Machine, further minor flaws could be eliminated via the Dusk.
He didn’t even ask about the merit point consumption ratio.
The fishing rod was the most important; after a fusion lasting more than half a month, Zheng Yichen was almost exhausted.
Using the Essence of Life reserves within the internal space, he barely completed the fusion.
Yet this fusion was still imperfect, causing the World Tree to suffer like a feverish patient, potentially burning out without proper treatment...or the World Tree could gradually adapt to the Chaotic Sea Water over a long time.
Certainly, if Zheng Yichen was in better condition, adjustments could continue, but he couldn’t wait — the plan execution’s consumption was unexpectedly high.
He thought it would be completed in two or three days at most, but it took over half a month.
With Lilith’s full support, this initial completion was achieved, after which Zheng Yichen took the opportunity to rest and interacted with Lilith, who had turned red.
The sensation was burning hot.
Given his current body condition and resistance, it was clear how burdened Lilith was computationally.
Furthermore, with Tia’s reported merit point requirement, Zheng Yichen realized how high the fee Dusk would have charged if he bypassed the execution plan step.
Anything crafted in the Dusk, meeting the required standards, could save at least half of the merit points.
If done well, saving over 90% in consumption wouldn’t be difficult.
The premise is having the capability to create things; if not, full payment is due.
In more than half a month’s time, the Dusk Territory had become even lonelier, with less than twenty Dusk mercenaries visible in the sprawling atrium.
Most of those remaining weren’t there to fend off the Star God but to seek some local specialties.
Trying their luck, while the main force of Dusk mercenaries had long withdrawn.
Zheng Yichen waited here for half an hour, similar to past enhancement times.
Receiving the unchanged fishing rod from Tia’s hands, Zheng Yichen eagerly planned to go outside to explore.
But as soon as he stepped outside, he saw a pair of giant ’eyes’.
The Starry Sky Colossus was in space, watching him, the crack atop the giant god’s head had fully opened, filled with writhing shadows.
Feeling somewhat weak, Zheng Yichen gestured to the Starry Sky Colossus staring at the Dusk Territory as if mimicking a shooting motion, then turned back inside the Dusk Territory.
He tested the new weapon and adjusted his condition, then prepared to continue the battle—his enemy’s actions clearly against expectations, determined to engage in a war of attrition.
Had he not confirmed with Tia that the opportunity to preserve the Dusk was assured, he might have felt an undue sense of crisis.
First respond to each move, but to recover quickly, the supply of Essence of Life would have to be fully exhausted...