852: The power of devouring...

"What are you planning to do?"

Yang Dian glanced at Lao Bai, who had reappeared beside him after a stream of green data flashed by, as well as Silver Spirit and Blue Hair, who were following right behind him to the core location of the Thousand Star Battlefield.

"What to do?"

After muttering that, Yang Dian was still able to smile and say:

"What else could I do?"

"Of course, I'll follow the plan."

Coming to the Thousand Star Battlefield, Yang Dian had three goals.

First was to find that dimensional creature hidden in the Thousand Star Battlefield, or the creature that had obtained Dimensional Power, to avenge the grudge of being almost beaten to death thousands of years ago.

That creature had recently been identified by both Silver Spirit and Blue Hair as a spider that had cast itself in the role of the 'Heavenly Dao'.

Second was to train the troops.

The various Huaxia legions, including but not limited to the Expeditionary Force, lacked large-scale war experience.

The various races in the Thousand Star Battlefield were not weak. Even with the assistance of the Machina, those alien races fighting to the death could still inflict significant 'casualties' on the legions.

Although this type of 'casualty' was just battle damage, where soldiers would be teleported to the Emerald Dragon Star after sustaining fatal injuries.

But apart from the Expeditionary Force, the soldiers of the other ordinary legions didn't know that.

Therefore, under the threat of death, the effect of the training was extremely strong.

Just looking at the few legions Yang Dian was paying attention to, their comprehensive combat capabilities had increased by several times in just a short period.

The effect was excellent.

The third goal was Yang Dian's own plan.

As one continues to Cultivate, especially after the fifth rank, the resources required are astronomical.

Even though he could plunder resources from the Spirit Domain and the Destiny Realm, those resources were still a drop in the bucket for Yang Dian.

After all, he dared not go too far.

The founder of the Spirit Domain was Tai Yi, one of the few known eighth-rank powerhouses in the Universe, a pillar of the Human Race, and a bridge supporting the heavens.

He established the Spirit Domain to Cultivate the younger generation of the Human Race, allowing powerful Humans to help weaker Humans.

After helping other Human civilizations, it was certainly not a problem to ask for some benefits from them.

But if he were to plunder that civilization on a massive scale, heaven knows if he would be punished by Tai Yi.

The same applied to the Destiny Realm.

Although the seventh-rank powerhouse Child of Destiny in the Destiny Realm was trapped, the destiny book remained, and there was no shortage of other sixth-rank powerhouses in the Destiny Realm.

Causing a little trouble in the Destiny Realm was fine and wouldn't attract the attention of the powerhouses.

But if things were blown out of proportion and disrupted the Destiny Realm, then what might be waiting for Yang Dian would be the heavy fists of those old sixth-rank monsters.

Obtaining resources was too difficult, and Earth had not overlapped with the dimensions of other planets recently.

After his strength surged, didn't Yang Dian naturally set his sights on the Thousand Star Battlefield?

'I just don't know how much my strength will increase if I devour the Thousand Star Battlefield.'

'Also, although the Dimension Butterfly can't find the spider, since that spider considers itself the Heavenly Dao of the Thousand Star Battlefield, if I devour the Thousand Star Battlefield, will it show itself?'

While lost in thought, a wisp of dim light emerged from between Yang Dian's eyebrows.

The Dimension Butterfly, which had always lived in the interlayer of his forehead space, seemed to have encountered its nemesis; it flapped its wings and flew to Yang Dian's chest, continuously radiating feelings of terror.

Yang Dian, who had never officially used the Power of Devouring, was obviously a bit surprised.

"The Power of Devouring can actually pose a threat to the Dimension Butterfly?"

The murmur came from Yang Dian's mouth, but it was completely devoured by the wisp of dim light on his forehead, unable to spread beyond his immediate vicinity.

And those who appeared even more terrified than the Dimension Butterfly were clearly Silver Spirit and Blue Hair.

As the Power of Devouring manifested between Yang Dian's eyebrows, the two of them felt that in an instant, the world turned pitch black.

Light, sound, energy, matter...

Everything, all of it, vanished from their perception.

It was as if they were the only ones left in the entire world.

If not for the fact that they could still hear their own heartbeats and the sound of blood flowing, both of them would have felt that they had inadvertently been turned into dust by the energy escaping from Yang Dian, leaving only one or two thoughts existing in the world.

On the other side, the moment Yang Dian manifested the Power of Devouring, countless data streams appeared in Lao Bai's eyes.

"Unobservable, unanalyzable, completely unknown..."

"If it weren't for observing energy surging into it, I wouldn't have been able to detect it at all."

"What kind of power is this?"

"Is this the essence of his seemingly limitless increase in strength?"

Yang Dian, having 'devoured' Lao Bai's murmurs, was stunned for a moment.

'The Devouring Rule seems far more outrageous than I imagined.'

'Not only can it annihilate matter into energy, turning it into resources for my own improvement.'

'It can also devour information, completely parsing information hidden within matter, energy, and even light.'

'It's just that parsing information requires consuming quite a bit of energy.'

'So the question arises.'

'Under the influence of the Power of Devouring, all matter and energy will be devoured by me.'

'In this situation, where did the energy used to parse the information go?'

Reaching out and grasping at the air, Yang Dian wanted to explore the reason.

But he could only observe that energy was being consumed; he could not observe where the energy went.

It was as if the law of conservation of energy didn't exist; that portion of energy had completely disappeared.

'Is it insufficient strength, or is it the influence of the Devouring Rule?'

Unable to get an answer for the time being, Yang Dian turned his thoughts to the information he had just parsed.

[The location of the galaxy where the Thousand Star Battlefield is located is currently unknown; in any case, it is not the Milky Way. The galaxy's thickness is about 3000 light-years, slightly thicker than the Milky Way, and its diameter is unknown...]

[800 light-years away, a craftsman sacrifices himself to the sword, voluntarily jumping into the furnace...]

[1365 light-years away, an asteroid with a diameter of 8000 meters hits a Death Star, activating the Death Star's magnetic field...]

[3000 light-years away, ancient soldiers are arrayed against each other, and a great battle is on the verge of breaking out...]

[8000 light-years away, a Cultivator is massacring a Mortal town, collecting essence blood to refine a Demonic Weapon...]

...

All of the above is the 18-second-long information that Yang Dian just parsed, which was contained within the light.

While parsing the information, Yang Dian also obtained the coordinates of the corresponding planets in the information, as well as his current limits.

'The Devouring Rule can temporarily only devour and parse information contained in light within 10,000 light-years.'

'Once it exceeds 10,000 light-years, due to the interference of various rays in the Universe, the information stored in the light will be affected, becoming no longer coherent or complete.'

'However, it's enough.'

'With the Thousand Star Battlefield as the core, there are a total of 33,510 life-bearing planets within a 10,000-light-year diameter of the disk galaxy.'

'And using the unknown original locations of planets like the Emerald Dragon Star, the Strange Star, and the Tiannan Star as a springboard, searching for life-bearing planets centered on them, how many more life-bearing planets could be found?'

'If all these life-bearing planets were occupied and developed into logistics bases for Huaxia, or if they were all devoured...'

Having finally discovered the power of the Power of Devouring, Yang Dian imagined a bright future while also controlling the Power of Devouring to orderly devour the energy accumulated in the Thousand Star Battlefield over countless years.

But when the devoured energy and matter exceeded a critical point, Yang Dian felt the entire battlefield suddenly tremble.

Threads that were incomparably crystalline, as if densely packed throughout the entire Thousand Star Battlefield but only existing in illusion, suddenly appeared in Yang Dian's perception.

Following the direction of the threads toward their source, and after feeling the vague sense of threat coming from the center of the spider web, Yang Dian finally slowed down his devouring of matter and energy.

"Spider Heavenly Dao?"

"Found you..."