264: Chapter 264 Revealing Strength, Silver System, Four High-Level Paths

"You can rest assured. It is absolutely impossible for anyone to attack you here and still manage to escape the Academy star System."

Wang An naturally understood what he was referring to. A faint smile appeared on his face as he took a bronze mask from his Storage Pouch, on which a nine-headed serpent demon was carved, looking extremely ferocious.

"Many thanks to Fellow Daoist Sky Star Master Shui Bai for your concern regarding my safety. However, as for the madmen who might attack me later, it is unlikely they will be able to walk out of my hands alive."

Sky Star Master Shui Bai's pupils constricted as he looked at the ferocious bronze mask.

He naturally understood that this was the signature Life-Bound Sacrificial Artifact of the Bronze Human Race's Phantom Sacrifice Dao. This matter had recently caused quite a stir within the circles of the Three Human Races' academies, and he had naturally seen the data regarding Cancong Baixiang's Life-Bound Sacrificial Artifact.

Now that it appeared in the hands of this Heavenly River Immortal Master, the outcome was self-evident.

Moreover, it was rumored that this Cancong Baixiang had already defected to a powerhouse of the Wind God Pterosaur Clan who possessed two Profound Truths of Law. Since the Heavenly River Immortal Master was here safe and sound, and the warship had suffered no damage, it was clear that the disparity in strength between the two sides was extremely vast.

Sky Star Master Shui Bai took a deep breath, looking with awe at this Prodigy of Dao Master level who had pioneered a transcendent System.

"The methods of an Immortal Master are truly beyond what an ordinary mid-tier cultivator like me can imagine. To have defeated two powerhouses who have condensed Profound Truths of Law today, you will soon become famous throughout the Three Human Races and the Beast Alliance. Sky Star Master Shui Bai is filled with admiration."

Afterward, the Grand Tutor of the academy very courteously introduced the situation of the Silver Academy star System to Wang An.

"Our Silver Academy star System is mainly divided into four rocky planets—Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire—along with some special companion star Systems. Because we need to utilize natural rituals of heaven and earth to awaken transcendent power during our Mortal stage, the four academies have been specially modified to maintain as diverse an ecological environment and natural scenery as possible."

"For instance, some of our mainstream rituals, such as Full Moon Tides, Star Orbit Overlap, Aurora Descent, Midnight Dew Condensation, Wind and Snow Return to Silence, and Dawn and Dusk Alternation—all these natural celestial and terrestrial rhythms serve as opportunities for the Awakening of Silver rituals."

"Only by searching for a path that fits oneself within the Dao of heaven and earth, and carving a permanent ritual pattern within one's own Divine Soul, Bloodline, and Meridians, can one refine the natural energy of heaven and earth and transform it into the essence of all phenomena, [Silver Law Origin Breath]."

Wang An had some understanding of these things, but not as detailed as what Sky Star Master Shui Bai had just introduced.

Listening to his explanation, compared to the spiritual atmosphere of the Bronze Human Race that had been decaying through the ages, the two were vastly different.

One focused efforts on artifacts and cultural activities, while the other embraced the changes of heaven and earth and natural Laws, placing emphasis on the exploration of rules.

This was why, even though the Three Human Races were extremely similar in appearance, they did not settle adjacent to one another, nor had they developed into a unified, powerful civilization.

The three had huge differences in culture, worldview, and transcendent Systems. Unless one day a super-tier powerhouse was born who could integrate the three major transcendent Systems into one, it would be impossible to truly unify into a single, comprehensive civilization.

Of course, this probability was extremely small. Just like the Dinosaur civilization that had developed for hundreds of millions of years, they all lived in four independent branches and never had a unified political power; it was very difficult for Human Race civilization to achieve this as well.

Subsequently, Sky Star Master Shui Bai spoke of their Dao paths with an extremely proud tone.

"We currently have four complete Dao paths within the academy: the Full Moon Tide Ritual—[Moon Law Sequence Dao], the Star Orbit Alignment Ritual—[Star Sequence Bright Dao], the Dawn and Dusk Alternation Ritual—[Yin and Yang Balance Dao], and the Wind and Dew Return to Silence Ritual—[Clear Law Silence Dao]."

"These are all Dao paths that have produced high-tier figures, and they already have clear promotion rituals. At the same time, we welcome you, Fellow Daoist, to exchange your transcendent System with us so we can learn from each other's strengths."

"Four major Dao paths; your esteemed academy truly has a profound foundation, having produced at least four high-tier life forms. The Bronze Human Race is far behind!"

"That is natural; we have a history of over ten million years..."

In the process of chatting and learning, both warships soon arrived at the central region surrounded by two stars. This place was the true headquarters of the Silver Academy, a super-large artificial planet hidden beneath ordinary vision.

Wang An scanned the warship's radar; the geography and continents were completely a magnified version of Blue Star, though there were some differences in many places, which might have been what the continents looked like tens of millions of years ago.

The two stopped at the spaceport outside the planet and took a sightseeing spacecraft into the planet's interior. Passing through a planetary formation barrier, his Yin Spirit thought perceived an atmosphere of purity and nature.

"The energy concentration distribution is rather uneven, and there are quite a few branches of natural energy."

Along the way, Wang An had discovered many types of transcendent energy, so he asked curiously.

"Fellow Daoist Sky Star Master Shui Bai, does the academy not have a mainstream transcendent energy? My perception detected no less than 12 types of second-tier energy distributed here."

Sky Star Master Shui Bai, dressed in a white water-patterned robe, chuckled and asked in return.

"Your Excellency Heavenly River uses Heavenly River as your title, so you must have great achievements in the Water Dao Law. I wonder how many water-attribute transcendent energies you have sensed?"

Wang An's Yin Spirit thought had been covering the world outside the spacecraft. After being reminded by him, he realized that these 12 types of second-tier energy seemed to be divided into the four major categories of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire.

They existed in great harmony with one another, and he even observed them naturally transforming into each other. Of course, collisions were inevitable, but within these collisions, there was both dissipation and the birth of new attributes of transcendent energy.

Under the keen observation of his Pure Yang thought, extremely subtle Laws were born.

This was the Pure Yang thought he had achieved after 5 years of effort, following the acquisition of the real Heavenly River Water Golden Nature, by using its status and Law power to refine the Yin dregs within his Yin Spirit thought. His observation of the Laws of heaven and earth was extremely keen, already possessing some of the perceptual precision of a Golden Core True Monarch.

Only then did he discover the mystery here.

"Your esteemed academy truly has great ambition, allowing second-tier energy to interact with heaven and earth, driving the evolution of transcendent energy into Laws. However, are you not afraid that these transcendent Laws will be seized by the Universe, thereby losing the possibility of attaining high-tier status in this direction?"

Under normal circumstances, a newly proven transcendent System Law would be completely controlled by the person who proved it.

This is a natural authority that even the Universe cannot deprive one of, only waiting for that high-tier life form to die, or to enter the deep Universe space and abandon this authority.

Only then can the Universe, in the absence of an owner, bit by bit erode and control it, eventually becoming resources for its evolution of deep Universe space.

And in most cases, the Universe will not expend resources to promote the evolution of Laws within a transcendent System.

Because from the scale of the Universe, these life forms will vanish in the blink of an eye. It only needs to wait to receive their achievements continuously, so it is naturally impossible for it to take action personally.

And the Universe itself, being unconscious, has no such motivation to take initiative; it merely follows its instincts to evolve and become a more perfect Universe.