763: A mixed bag of good and bad cultivation paths

Dr. Bai, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, immediately frowned upon hearing Yang Dian's words.

After taking a brief look at Yang Dian's body, which showed absolutely no external injuries, his frown deepened.

"Even the Dimension Butterfly has run into trouble?"

He had always known that Yang Dian could travel freely between stars and traverse the Universe's galaxy because of the Dimension Butterfly.

It was the Dimension Butterfly that took Yang Dian to tear through space and cross the sea of stars.

It was also the Dimension Butterfly that took him to hide in the deep space when Yang Dian encountered danger, allowing him to safely undergo Undergoing Tribulation.

Even the speed of Huaxia's development being as fast as it is today owed a lot of credit to the Dimension Butterfly.

Now that even the theoretically invincible Dimension Butterfly was severely injured, how could he not frown?

"What did you experience in that Dimensional Battlefield?"

Dr. Bai looked up at the sky, confirming that there were no other planets besides the three suns, before asking again:

"What kind of existence could injure the Dimension Butterfly?"

Yang Dian pondered for a while before spitting out four words:

"The world itself."

He struggled to prop himself up and leaned against a haystack.

Yang Dian first glanced at the Young Attendant, who was huddled in the depression of the haystack behind him, covering his ears and shivering.

Then, while having Zero transmit the captured footage to Lao Bai, he began to recount his experiences on the Dimensional Battlefield:

"I shattered a planet in the Dimensional Battlefield, and then one of the strongest beings on that planet went crazy and sacrificed everything of theirs to curse me."

"That guy had a portion of his Soul and true spirit fused with the entire Dimensional Battlefield. Sacrificing himself meant offering everything he had to the 'world' of the Dimensional Battlefield, forcing the 'world' itself to attack me."

"The space interlayer sounds 'fancy,' and the deep space is a region that even a Stellar Ancestor cannot touch."

"But there is no denying that no matter how deep the space is, it is still a part of the world."

"An old monster who has lived for who knows how many years sacrificed everything and the remaining Luck of his race to get me. It's only natural that I got severely injured and the Dimension Butterfly was beaten back into its 'cocoon' state, right?"

Dr. Bai nodded thoughtfully:

"The 'world' itself can be awakened."

"If It is awakened, then there is nowhere to hide from Its attacks; one can only withstand them head-on."

As he said this, he rubbed his temples again:

"Actually, we should have noticed one thing a long time ago."

"The Dimension Butterfly is not truly invincible."

"Do you remember that the dimensional passage where the Lizardmen Alien Planet is located is a special dimensional crystal vein passage?"

"This vein sealed the Dimension Butterfly, or rather, the dimension life form itself before dimensional reduction."

"With the 'world' instinctively choosing to resist, even a dimension life form before dimensional reduction could be sealed, let alone one after dimensional reduction?"

"We all overlooked this point."

Yang Dian closed his eyes upon hearing this:

"We are humans, so it's normal to overlook this."

"But why did Zero, Taichu, and other artificial intelligences also overlook this?"

"They are either intelligent life forms or artificial intelligences that only faithfully execute orders."

"They should have calculated every possibility; even if the probability of the Dimension Butterfly being attacked by the 'world' itself was only one in a hundred billion, they should have warned us."

Dr. Bai met the eyes of Yang Dian, who had reopened his eyes, and nodded slightly:

"I will pay attention to this."

Yang Dian rolled his eyes:

"What's the use of paying attention to it now?"

"I'm almost done for!"

After complaining, Yang Dian sighed.

"Fortunately, although the loss is a bit heavy, it's not unacceptable."

"After going through this battle, my direction for Cultivate has become clearer."

Lao Bai scratched his head:

"Then tell me about the next direction for Cultivate?"

"Although I don't Cultivate, perhaps I can give you different suggestions from another cognitive perspective."

Yang Dian nodded, and after weighing his words, he said:

"Before this, my understanding of the direction of Cultivate was simple."

"I only knew to improve the strength of my Soul, body, and Qi and blood, and constantly comprehend and master more and deeper rule powers."

"In short, it's just stacking stats."

"This is right, but also wrong."

"It's right because these are the foundation, the source of power."

"It's wrong because this only increases a portion of destructive ability and does not develop the power of the rules to the extreme."

Dr. Bai, who had simultaneously received the relevant information and systematically organized it, frowned:

"Rules entering the body, Soul fusing with rules?"

"Looks good."

"But won't that restrict yourself within a fixed area?"

"For example, if you fuse with Earth's rule System, you can unleash your strongest power within Earth's rule System and possess ultimate self-preservation capabilities."

"But correspondingly, after leaving Earth, your power's upper limit will also have a decline."

As he said this, Dr. Bai used an analogy again:

"The time and resources we possess are a fixed quantity."

"If you use more on one side, you will naturally have less on the other."

"Within this fixed quantity, if you don't fuse with the planet or galaxy rule Systems, the power you can increase is 100."

"If you fuse with the planet or galaxy rule Systems, your power increase in that region might reach 200, or even more."

"But after leaving the range of this rule System, your power increase might only be 50, or even less, compared to the previous increase?"

Yang Dian understood what Dr. Bai wanted to express:

"You mean if I learn from the Dimensional Battlefield, that is, the Cultivate path of the Black Bear Demon, it will result in a great increase in my defensive power within the range of Earth's influence."

"And for external expansion, the speed of my offensive power increase will decrease?"

Dr. Bai nodded:

"That's the logic."

Thinking about it, he added thoughtfully:

"This might also be the reason why that Dimensional Battlefield has always existed."

Facing Yang Dian's curious gaze, he offered a possibility:

"Can the powerhouses of various civilizations on the Dimensional Battlefield really not end the Dimensional War?"

"According to the statistics from the footage you captured, in the Dimensional Battlefield where the Ghost God civilization is located, there are between 100 and 230 civilizations that possess powerhouses at the planet-shattering level."

"But the number of planets in that Dimensional Battlefield exceeds several thousand."

"Why would powerhouses at the planet-shattering level allow the existence of those planets that they could shatter with one hand?"

"The possibility of them being unable to take action because other powerhouses are watching, leading to alliances and counter-alliances, is extremely low."

"A more likely scenario is that a portion of the planet-shattering level powerhouses have fused their own Soul and true spirit into the Dimensional Battlefield."

"When the Dimensional Battlefield expands, their power is equivalent to becoming stronger."

"When the Dimensional Battlefield shrinks, their power is equivalent to becoming weaker."

"Therefore, they do not allow others to destroy planets at will."

"That is an extension of their power..."

Various thoughts flashed through Yang Dian's mind one after another.

Finally, a fair, slender, jade-like hand and a half-red skirt appeared in his mind.

'Tsk, why did I think of her again?'

'But if she really is the formless Ghost God of Ghost God Star, she should know many secrets of the Dimensional Battlefield, right?'