294: stellar sublimation

However, Barbo clearly did not know how terrifying Lin Tianwei was.

He still thought that this clansman named Zeta had been moved by him and was sincerely convinced.

He planned to return to Ze Star with him.

Immediately, he unceremoniously accepted the yuan coins from Lin Tianwei and said, “Zeta, it’s great that you have such awareness.”

“The Ze Clan will only have hope because of aware Ze Clan members like you.”

“Alright, no more nonsense, let’s quickly set off for Ze Star.”

“It will take at least half a year from here to Ze Star, so there’s no time to delay here.”

At this point, Barbo patted Lin Tianwei’s back and then entered the passage first.

Without hesitation, Lin Tianwei chose to follow Barbo directly.

In a short while, he returned to the dockyard and saw his extremely dilapidated spaceship.

Shaking his head, Lin Tianwei thought to himself that he was truly fated to toil.

He clearly had Kai, a luxurious ride, but he couldn’t enjoy it immediately.

He still had to pilot such an extremely primitive manual spaceship.

However, slowness also had its advantages.

At least during the half-year journey to Ze Star, Lin Tianwei would have enough time to study Kong Ling,

this Sky Spirit Clan Slave he had bought for a high price.

A Sky Spirit Clan Slave with powerful Talent.

In fact, it was not impossible for Lin Tianwei to experience a luxurious spaceship.

With Kai's ability, a Star-level 7 strength, simulating a manual spaceship was a simple matter.

Thinking of this, Lin Tianwei no longer hesitated and directly entered the silver spaceship.

Six arms danced, piloting the spaceship towards the location of Ze Star in his memory.

Lin Tianwei only hoped that this planet, capable of giving birth to space gems, would not disappoint him.

“Kai, can you directly devour this spaceship and simulate its operation?”

Upon returning to the spaceship, Lin Tianwei immediately asked Kai.

If it was just flying, Lin Tianwei wouldn't mind the spaceship being too slow.

However, he still needed to deal with Kong Ling, so he naturally couldn't do it in this dilapidated spaceship.

If Lin Tianwei used a little too much force and directly blew up and destroyed the spaceship,

forcing him to fly to Ze Star with his physical body, that would truly be a loss.

Lin Tianwei’s question was quickly answered, and Kai replied with his familiar electronic voice:

“Master, this spaceship is extremely simple, and its materials are also the lowest grade. It takes no effort for me to devour it.”

“However, since my main body is currently attached to Master, completing all of this from a distance would consume a lot of time and energy.”

“Please allow Kai to leave Master’s body and directly devour this spaceship.”

“This way, the devouring time will be faster, and the energy consumption will be less.”

Lin Tianwei naturally had no objections to this and agreed:

“Alright, until I receive a new command, your task is to disguise yourself as this spaceship.”

“There might be huge energy fluctuations inside the spaceship next, shield them so that the outside world doesn’t know.”

Upon receiving Lin Tianwei’s command, Kai quickly took action.

His body transformed into a silver liquid and directly detached from Lin Tianwei’s body.

And it began to spread infinitely, quickly covering the entire interior of the spaceship in a very short time.

The task of completely devouring the entire spaceship from the inside out began.

It must be said that there is an extremely common phenomenon in the universe.

That is, whether it is the Mech Clan or Cosmic Beasts, they all possess the ability to shrink their bodies.

This ability seems to be a universal Talent, an ability possessed by all life forms.

The stronger the existence, the larger their body, and the stronger their ability to shrink.

They can always maintain their bodies at a perfectly appropriate size.

In contrast, Talents that allow the body to expand and combat power to skyrocket are extremely rare, and their prices are exorbitantly high.

This is why Zeta spent hundreds of years of savings to purchase a Talent that could expand his body twice.

Therefore, even if Kai and Kong Ling’s original sizes were immense, they could still be carried by this tiny spaceship.

While Kai began to devour the spaceship, Lin Tianwei also started to take Kong Ling out of the Slave space.

This Sky Spirit Clan powerhouse, who greatly resembled a slug.

Perhaps because he hadn't received Lin Tianwei's command, Kong Ling did not make any moves.

He just lay quietly in Lin Tianwei’s palm, as if he was an existence that Lin Tianwei could easily crush to death.

However, Lin Tianwei dared not underestimate this seemingly ordinary slug in the slightest.

His Star-level 5 strength meant that even if he did nothing, he possessed extremely terrifying attack and defense.

Not to mention, once he activated his Talent, he was an existence capable of overcoming the strong with the weak.

Space-type Talent has always been so overpowered.

Perhaps knowing that Lin Tianwei was his master, Kong Ling completely dropped his guard against Lin Tianwei’s Mental Power, easily allowing Lin Tianwei’s Mental Power to penetrate his body.

Soon, Lin Tianwei clearly saw everything in Kong Ling’s inner world.

Five massive planets, and four slightly smaller planets.

They attracted each other, forming a not-so-large star system.

It was constantly operating at high speed, providing Kong Ling with an endless supply of Star Power.

This Star Power was vast as the sea, terrifyingly abnormal.

Cosmic Beasts with slightly weaker strength would even turn to dust upon mere contact.

It was almost one-tenth of the Star Power produced by Lin Tianwei's Rejuvenation Star, which was truly terrifying.

And this star system was the proof of Star-level 5 strength.

It represented five stars and four planets.

It was a process of evolving from a planet to a star.

This also indirectly corroborated the cultivation method of the Star Refining Art.

From Planetary-level 1 to Planet Level 9, it was simply increasing the number of planets within the Cosmic Beast's body.

While ensuring that the planets remained relatively stable with each other, and one could drive them to operate smoothly,

capturing and refining nine planets,

allowing them to continuously provide oneself with vast Star Power, was the proof of reaching Planet Level 9.

Relatively speaking, Star-level cultivation was clearly more difficult.

It had transitioned from simply pursuing quantitative change to pursuing qualitative change.

Especially the process of advancing from Planet Level 9 to Cosmic Level 1, which was even more a process of qualitative change.

Cosmic Beasts whose strength reached Planet Level 9, while gradually Reinforcement the planets within their bodies, also began to continuously collect materials,

continuously collecting higher-grade materials that could Reinforcement the quality of the planets within their bodies.

Then, they would choose a planet as the starting point for entering the Star-level and begin Reinforcement it.

From the very beginning, little by little, these materials were refined into the inner star, allowing it to gradually expand and possess greater mass.

Only when the first planet undergoes a qualitative change, evolving from an ordinary planet into a larger, higher-mass planet than other planets,

similar to the relationship between a star and a planet, can one leap from Planetary-level to Star-level in one fell swoop.

This process seems simple, but in reality, it is very difficult to operate.

For Cosmic Beasts whose strength has reached Planet Level 9, their inner world has already formed an absolute balance.

Any slight improvement to any of the planets within it would destroy this balance.

Causing the nine planets to become chaotic due to the loss of balance.

Therefore, the time for improving the quality of planets is often very short.

Instead, the time required to reconstruct this balance is extremely long.

Many Cosmic Beasts even spend their entire lives unable to complete the evolution from Planet Level 9 to Star-level 1.

Fortunately, this process is not very dangerous, and there are still a remarkably large number of Planet Level 9 Cosmic Beasts that successfully advance.

Leaping from Planet Level 9 to Star-level in one fell swoop, becoming a Star-level powerhouse.

The subsequent matters became much simpler.

Repeating the previous operation, little by little, strengthening all the planets in the body to the level of stars, one can possess the strength of Star-level 9.

This process will not have any danger; all that is needed is a vast amount of resources and a long period of time.

However, advancing from Star-level to Cosmic Level presents a different level of difficulty.

For nine planets representing stars to evolve into a universe will be an extremely complex, extremely difficult, and extremely dangerous process.

No destruction, no creation.

Nine begets all things!

To give birth to a universe within the inner world, what is needed is not to capture more planets.

Instead, it is to ignite an explosion within the body.

An explosion powerful enough to destroy everything, yet also capable of nurturing everything, representing new life.

Precisely controlling the trajectories of all stars, making them explode at their peak speed, colliding with each other, and finally shattering into countless planetary fragments due to the force of the explosion.

And these planetary fragments are the embryonic form of the universe.

They will scatter everywhere due to the aftershocks of the explosion, wildly destroying everything they encounter.

This is also a very critical moment.

How to withstand this terrible explosion, and tame these planetary fragments, allowing them to regain a new balance,

and cultivate these planetary fragments, born from the explosion, little by little,

allowing them to continuously grow and provide more Star Power for oneself,

allowing a new universe to be born in this magnificent explosion, this is the key to advancing to the Cosmic Level.

Therefore, unlike general advancements, advancing from Star-level to Cosmic Level will not immediately increase strength.

Instead, because the inner universe has just been born and is at a moment when new power has not yet arisen and old power has been severed, it is their weakest time.

Many Cosmic Beasts at this stage even have less than Star-level 5 strength.

However, once their inner universe stabilizes and begins to operate smoothly.

As these seemingly weak planetary fragments operate in an orderly manner, they will continuously provide their master with terrifying Star Power, leading to an explosive growth in their strength.

Crushing those Cosmic Beasts whose inner worlds are still only in the Star-level stage into dregs.

It is precisely because of this that from Star-level to Cosmic Level, although it is only one level up on the surface, it is actually a qualitative leap.

A mature Cosmic Level powerhouse can even effortlessly annihilate thousands of peak Star-level powerhouses without damage.

They are all powerhouses capable of suppressing a region of the universe.

It is also because of this that there is a saying in the universe: “Those who do not reach the Cosmic Level are all ants.”

However, even if becoming a Cosmic Level offers such huge benefits, with a leap in both strength and status,

it would not be an exaggeration to say it's like a carp leaping over the dragon gate.

Yet, not many Cosmic Beasts have the courage to attempt to reach the Cosmic Level.

The process of stellar cosmification is extremely dangerous.

It requires extremely high control over the mass of the stars and the energy of the Cosmic Beast.

It can be said to be the biggest hurdle in the cultivation path of Cosmic Beasts.

That is an explosion.

While hope may be born from it, destruction is the normal state of an explosion.

The higher the mass of the stars in the Cosmic Beast’s inner world, the stronger the Cosmic Level strength after advancement.

However, higher stellar mass also means that the damage caused by the explosion will be even more terrifying.

This is an explosion from within the inner world, an undefendable explosion, a terrible explosion that can only be endured with the physical body.

In an instant, the Cosmic Beast’s body could be blasted into dust.

Therefore, many Cosmic Beasts planning to challenge the Cosmic Level will not allow the stars within their bodies to develop freely.

They will carefully control their intensity.

Keeping their intensity within a controllable range, so that their bodies can withstand this explosion.

However, enduring this explosion caused by the collision of nine stars is only the beginning.

If there is not enough power to tame these planetary fragments caused by the explosion in the shortest possible time,

then what awaits them will be an equally terrifying disaster.

A disaster capable of destroying everything.

They will be surprised to find that they will completely lose their connection with these planetary fragments.

Apart from their riddled bodies, they will become newcomers who need to cultivate again.

Don’t think that this situation of returning to square one is very miserable.

In fact, this is one of the best outcomes of failing to advance to the Cosmic Level.

Only less than three percent of Cosmic Beasts can survive that explosion capable of destroying everything.

And among them, only ten percent of Cosmic Beasts can successfully advance.

In other words, the success rate of advancing from Star-level 9 to Cosmic Level is a mere 0.3 percent.

Furthermore, there is a 97 percent chance of death.

Such a high death rate and failure rate are enough to make the vast majority of Cosmic Beasts shrink back in fear.

Only powerhouses from some powerful races are willing to try.

They possess more resources and accumulation, allowing them to have a relatively higher chance of challenging the Cosmic Level.

Therefore, most Star-level 9 Cosmic Beasts do not have the courage to take this step.

They will only choose to continue to eke out an existence at Star-level 9.

After all, Star-level 9 strength is not absolutely weak in the universe.

Even if they don't advance, as long as they don't offend big shots, they can still live very well.

So there is a very strange phenomenon in the universe, which is the existence of a Talent gap.

The number of Star-level 9 Cosmic Beasts is ridiculously high.

Above that, Cosmic Level powerhouses are extremely rare, almost non-existent, and are all big shots.

It’s not that Cosmic Level is unattainable, but that Star-level 9 is more cost-effective. (End of Chapter)