117: Chapter 117 Extreme Speed

Forty days had passed in cultivation.

Chen Mo cruised within the solar System by instinct, maintaining a speed of 80 kilometers per second.

Unknowingly, he was already about 80 million kilometers away from Blue Star.

This distance was nothing on the scale of the Universe; light only takes a little over four minutes to travel 80 million kilometers.

But for a human, 80 million kilometers meant being able to travel back and forth to the Moon 100 times.

On the way back, Chen Mo increased his speed to the maximum.

Hengyuan Force combined with his Inner World erupted suddenly.

Golden energy surged out from within his body, forming a layer of high-density energy medium on his skin.

His speed began to climb.

Within a few breaths, his speed broke through 3,000 kilometers per second.

7,000 kilometers per second.

12,000 kilometers per second.

His speed surged to a whole new magnitude in a very short time, and the points of light in the surrounding starry sky began to undergo faint blueshifts and redshifts due to the speed.

Finally, his speed stabilized at 15,000 kilometers per second.

Five percent of the speed of light.

Chen Mo sensed this speed, his brows twitching slightly.

Before his Breakthrough, the limit speed of the Source Power Realm was less than 1,000 kilometers per second.

An increase of more than fifteen times.

He maintained this speed and flew for a distance.

The scene of the starry sky began to undergo subtle changes.

At five percent of the speed of light, nearby planets would show a very slight displacement, while the light of distant stars remained perfectly still.

But the Universe was too vast.

15,000 kilometers per second was more than enough for traveling between planets, but flying from one star to another at this speed would still require calculations in terms of centuries.

Even the speed of light wasn't enough.

Even if he reached the speed of light, it would take more than a year to fly out of the solar System.

It would take more than four years to fly to Proxima Centauri.

Crossing the Milky Way would take 100,000 years.

Chen Mo pondered for a moment; he would worry about these things after future Breakthroughs.

While flying, Chen Mo began to deduce the path of the fifth Realm.

He had now completed the condensation of Hengyuan Force.

Source Power had been purified into Hengyuan Force during the collapse; a qualitative change had occurred.

Looking at the first three Realms of the Source Power System, the leap of each Realm was accompanied by a "morphological transition."

The Basic Realm was the tempering of the Physical Body, the Rhythm Realm was the connection of the conduction chain, and the Source Power Realm was the opening of the energy cycle.

The essence of the Constant Source Realm was upgrading the core of the energy cycle from liquid Source Power to a star-level dense energy core.

What about beyond that?

The Source Power had already condensed to the extreme.

He needed to focus on deducing this step after returning.

Then there was the expansion of the Inner World.

This was the path to the control of the sixth Realm, and also the key to him maintaining his leading position in combat power.

The Complete Domain was the ability of the fifth Realm; relying on his Infinite Growth ability, he had already mastered it two tiers ahead of schedule.

But "mastery" did not equal "completion."

The Complete Domain had an entire growth curve, and he was currently only standing at the starting point of the fifth Realm.

What he needed to do now was to expand the Inner World outward.

But the expansion speed was too slow.

The current limit of the Inner World's extension was a radius of 1,000 kilometers.

It seemed very large.

Everything within 1,000 kilometers could be sensed, manipulated, and moved by him.

But it was too far from the Outer World he had deduced.

The Outer World.

The complete control of the sixth tier, the true "Domain."

In that deduction, he wasn't just manipulating objects within the range; rather, all space and matter within that range had become part of his Inner World.

In the Outer World, every particle within the range should be like the cells of his body, naturally obeying the same will without needing deliberate control.

The world was him, and he was the world.

It was equivalent to reversing the Inner World to cover reality.

By then, the Law of Heaven and Earth would no longer be condensing Hengyuan Force to transform into a giant form, but rather the entire space would completely become his body.

Chen Mo, standing there himself, would be Heaven and Earth.

He was still far from this goal.

He had no clue how to accelerate this process yet.

While flying, he repeatedly deduced these directions in his mind.

The hour and a half journey passed quickly in thought.

The outline of Han City appeared ahead; it was already dark.

Warm yellow streetlights lit up on the streets.

Chen Mo descended from high altitude; the Hengyuan Force completely converged the moment he landed, the pale golden halo on his body surface retreated into his body like a tide, and his whole person returned to calmness.

He went to his uncle's house and stayed for a while.

The next day, Han City, Federal Parliament Building.

"Speaker."

Chen Mo sat down in the main seat.

Minister Li Long didn't make much small talk and directly opened the holographic projection.

Blue light unfolded in the center of the table, and data streams condensed into a three-dimensional structural diagram in the air; this was the information summary of the Spirit Energy Universe public Domain.

"During this period, through the Mental Power training method, thirty-four transcendents have had their Mental Power break through to 3.0."

A list of names and corresponding numerical curves jumped out on the holographic projection, "These personnel have successfully entered the Spirit Energy Universe. According to your instructions, we have conducted systematic information collection on the public Domain."

Chen Mo nodded slightly.

Minister Li Long continued his report.

The projection screen switched to a complex equipment structural diagram, a fully enclosed capsule with the inner walls covered in sensor arrays and neural interfaces.

"One of the important discoveries: Virtual World technology. The principle is to use a virtual capsule to perform high-precision simulation of the user's neural signals, rebuilding an interactive virtual world at the consciousness level. The realism is between fifty percent and eighty percent, depending on the hardware precision and the user's Mental Power value."

"We are already in development. The design drawings for the first phase of the project have been made, and the key difficulty lies in the precision of neural signal decoding. The investment in quantum computers can solve this problem. We expect to produce a prototype within two months. Virtual Universe technology is multidimensionally helpful to the Blue Star Federation at this stage. Combat fighting skills can be practiced repeatedly in a virtual environment without being restricted by venue or opponents. Mental Power training can be conducted with high intensity in specific scenarios, which is more controllable than simple psychedelic injections."

"Step up the research and development," Chen Mo said.

"Understood."

Minister Li Long switched to the next item.

"Secondly, regarding the speed of light limit, this is a piece of information that has been repeatedly confirmed in the public Domain. In the material Universe, any object with mass cannot break the speed of light. There is no known way to be an exception."

Chen Mo's gaze lingered on this piece of information for a moment.

The speed of light cannot be surpassed.

It is the absolute upper limit of physical rules.

"I didn't expect this," he said.

After the Breakthrough, the speed of the Constant Source Realm directly increased to five percent of the speed of light. Based on this increase, he subconsciously thought that after breaking through to the fifth tier, he would be able to easily surpass the speed of light and communicate with other cosmic civilizations.

"What about those high-tier life forms?" he asked, "If the speed of light cannot be broken, the time required to cross interstellar space by oneself far exceeds the natural lifespan of the vast majority of life forms. The scale of the Universe itself is fair in this regard."

"Can we only rely on technology? Wormholes?" Chen Mo pressed.

Minister Li Long shook his head.

"There is currently no such information. And the description of the fifth tier in the public Domain is 'Cosmic Life.' Any life form, once it enters the fifth tier, even the weakest one can destroy a planet with a diameter of 10,000 kilometers in one blow. But the speed of light cannot be surpassed."

Chen Mo kept this information in mind.

The fifth tier already possessed the power to destroy planets.

But on the scale of the Universe, no matter how great the power is, without a means to surpass the speed of light, one would be unable to move an inch.

This was obviously a scale; the power of the Physical Body and energy, and the control over spatial rules, might both need to be broken through simultaneously after the fifth tier.

Life forms above the fifth tier might not rely on flying through space, but rather on the folding, compression, and jump-traveling of space itself.

Controlling space.

As for the sixth tier, no information had arrived from the nearby Star Domain.

"Perhaps only the areas covered by the front of the Spiritual Energy tide will have it," Minister Li Long added.

Chen Mo hummed in acknowledgement.

"Go ask anonymously."

"Yes."

Minister Li Long pulled up the next piece of information, his expression more serious than before.

The sender of the information was the Tianzhi Race.

"The Spiritual Energy Revival currently experienced in this area is just the aftermath of the Spiritual Energy tide of the entire Universe."