702: Taoist body

Yang Dian, who had just arrived at the Strange Star, naturally knew Yu Tian's resentment.

After all, the Weapon Forging Grotto-Heaven was filled with nano-electronic bugs, and Yu Tian made no attempt to hide himself when he appeared.

His conversation with Liu Tao was naturally captured by the nano-electronic bugs immediately, then transmitted by Zero to Yang Dian.

Casually retrieving the dozens of communication messages sent by Liu Tao over the past period—or rather, sent by Liu Tao under Yu Tian's command—Yang Dian couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

“Do you feel that Yu Tian is a bit anxious?”

Zero had a different opinion:

“Perhaps he is deliberately showing this anxious demeanor to divert our thinking.”

Yang Dian nodded, indicating that Zero's words made sense, then changed the subject:

“Still haven't found Yu Tian's main body?”

“No.” Zero reported the monitoring information:

“After monitoring Canglan Star, Taicang Realm, and Chongming Star, these three Alien Planets, during this period, I found 73 individuals suspected to be Yu Tian, but I cannot determine which is his Clone and which is his main body.”

“As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place.”

“Or perhaps the Clone in the Logistics Grotto-Heaven is Yu Tian's main body, or perhaps he has hidden his identity and joined the three sects of Chongming Star.”

“In short, anything is possible.”

Yang Dian nodded, then moved on from the topic.

Cooperating with Yu Tian was like playing with fire; without absolute certainty, he planned to string him along first.

“Never mind Yu Tian.”

“Whether he is truly anxious or deliberately putting on a show for us, our most important task right now is to face the extremely cold Universe region.”

After setting the tone, Yang Dian surveyed the land beneath his feet.

The Machina were already busy with the Formation Materials.

Mountains, rivers, deep valleys, plains... countless Machina, carrying Formation Materials taken from their spatial rings, arrived at the leyline nodes under precise satellite navigation and buried Magical Artifacts.

Yang Dian rubbed his brow before extending his hand.

As his fingertip tapped, a Dimension Butterfly, which had appeared before Yang Dian at some unknown point, flapped its wings, and a multi-faceted mirror, reflecting countless scenes and composed of an unknown number of faces, formed at his fingertip, refracting his finger into countless copies.

“Meow~”

The Little Black Cat, whose eyes had been fixed on Yang Dian's wiggling finger, let out a yelp and covered its eyes with its paws:

“Human, how do you have so many fingers?”

Saying this, it rubbed against Yang Dian's neck again:

“Human, if all those fingers touched a cat at once, wouldn't the cat be miserable?”

Yang Dian chuckled.

With a thought, he transformed the Qi and blood overflowing from his fingertip into ten thousand strands, activating the pre-buried Magical Artifacts and initiating the Formation, while also stroking the Little Black Cat twice with his free hand:

“How dare you even imagine such a wonderful thing?”

He had just stroked the Little Black Cat twice when a tentacle, emitting a faint glow, wrapped around Yang Dian's finger, guiding his hand to a cool, umbrella-like cap.

It was Dudu, the little fellow, vying for attention again, wasn't it?

“You little thing.”

Stroking Dudu twice, Yang Dian then grabbed Dudu's umbrella-like cap and placed it on his own head:

“Stop playing, recover first.”

“In a while, we'll be plotting with Yu Tian for the Origin of other planets' Star Cores, and we'll still need you to foresee dangers.”

Dudu, who had initially been a bit reluctant, immediately let out joyful “Dudu” sounds, and Dudu's Soul, residing in its Soul, also pulsed, flying its umbrella-like cap into the energy pool to begin devouring energy and restoring its body.

For it, being able to help Yang Dian was the happiest thing.

Glancing at the remaining energy on his panel, Yang Dian continued to instruct:

“After recovering, devour some more energy to feed back the Starlight.”

“Dudu~”

Dudu responded and became even more diligent, while Yang Dian's gaze also fell upon his panel.

The panel was largely the same as before.

Under energy nourishment, the Dragon Claw Hand had developed traits such as Reverse-Growth Dragon Scales, Earth-Shattering, Sky-Rending, and Sui Kong (Shattering Space).

The Heaven and Man Unity Skill integrated with the Dao, and as Yang Dian's strength increased, its various traits grew more powerful.

The Star Gazing Art, Star Chart Art, and other Cultivation Techniques were likewise.

But Yang Dian already knew that text was merely a superficial representation.

Its essence was rules.

Text was merely the superficial manifestation of rules.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and the text on the panel began to twist and deform, turning into abstract symbols, finally converging into one.

Looking at the single, incredibly complex rune remaining on the panel, which an ordinary person would likely crash just by looking at, Yang Dian slowly exhaled.

“Dao...”

As he murmured, the ‘Dao’ rune suddenly dispersed, transforming into dozens of independent yet subtly interconnected runes.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, forming the Five Elements Origin, firmly occupied the central position.

The Yin and Yang, Space-Time, Fate, and Soul runes, possessing a beauty of incompleteness, circulated endlessly among the Five Elements.

And from the clash of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, rules such as Sharpness, Vitality, and Qi and blood were derived.

Tidal Gravity, Light and Shadow Seasons, and Primal Magnetic Deities were all present within it.

“Unfortunately, the panel is still not powerful enough.”

“Although I have grasped rules, I don't know how much of the rules I've grasped, or when I will be able to perfect the rules.”

The panel trembled slightly, then the rule runes on it remained unchanged, just as they were before.

It was just that it was a manifestation of Yang Dian's talent, not some external cheat, so it wouldn't speak.

If it could speak, it would surely say, 'Don't ask too much of the panel.'

Could rules be measured?

Yang Dian also knew this principle.

If rules could be measured, then someone must have transcended the rules and digitized them.

As for reaching the end of rules and being able to measure them?

That was merely a self-perceived end of rules.

Without transcendence, rules were endless.

“However, it's good that there are other things to measure rules...”

Slightly narrowing his eyes, groups of extremely discordant numerical symbols appeared in the center of each rule rune on the panel.

[Metal, 59396] [Wood, 12321] [Water, 13211] [Fire, 53211] [Earth, 79552]... The numbers were nothing else; they were the amplification of destructive power.

The destructive power on a planet.

Under the same conditions, if one unit of Qi and blood falling to the ground caused 1 unit of destructive power, then with the enhancement of rules, such as Earth-attribute rules, the destructive power could reach 79552.

Of course, this was only the most basic enhancement.

Rules complemented each other, and the destructive power unleashed by the Five Elements Divine Fist was naturally stronger than that unleashed by the Earth Element Divine Fist.

Moreover, it wasn't a simple addition, but a geometric explosion.

If not for this, Yang Dian would not have been able to destroy a star by himself.

“Speaking of which, Dudu is still a bit abnormal~”

The stardust Dudu scattered after devouring energy, on the surface, enhanced Yang Dian's Martial Dao Aptitude.

But essentially, it increased his Dao comprehension efficiency.

This was transforming his body into some kind of Dao Body, a Divine Body.

“Unfortunately, Dudu's stardust energy can only be used by me.”

“However...”

“Perhaps once my Physique is completely transformed, I will be able to fully master that stardust energy...”