Chapter 695 Free Stuff is a Two-Way Street (6800)

Although Tang Yuan sounds like tangyuan (glutinous rice balls), tangyuan is, after all, not Tang Yuan. So, under Tang Yuan's care, Su Zhou's body became like tangyuan, which was clearly not a normal thing.

"It has nothing to do with me!"

Regarding Su Zhou's astonished outburst upon his return, Tang Yuan directly denied it: "Minister, your body's appetite has nothing to do with me! It insisted on being greedy and eating things; I couldn't control it!"

Su Zhou: "Really? I don't believe it."

Although he imitated Twilight's tone, it was just a joke.

Amidst laughter, Su Zhou returned to his body.

The moment he returned, Su Zhou sensed a boundless power, more vast and immense than the entire star sea above him, welcoming him and merging into one without any resistance.

That was precisely the power contained within his body—far stronger than the body he had crafted in the Aean world, even after he had comprehended the Dao of Spirit in that world.

"This is more than ten times higher than my original spiritual power reserves!"

Carefully examining the majestic energy contained within his body, Su Zhou suddenly understood: "So that's how it is. This is actually equivalent to my body cultivating in isolation for two years."

The young man's advancement speed had always been much faster than the speed of his spiritual power cultivation. Except for the stage from awakening to transcendence, where he had cultivated to the maximum, every major stage was when his realm broke through first, but the theoretical limit of his body had not been fully cultivated.

No matter how talented one was, it was impossible to say that one could break through realms consecutively in five years while also maxing out all basic attributes, right? The infinite multiverse was vast, and perhaps there were such people, but Su Zhou's opportunities were not focused on that aspect.

Therefore, while Su Zhou's soul traveled to another world to break through, his body, on the contrary, was constantly swallowing heavenly treasures (alien starships and various Twilight powerhouses) and constantly cultivating in isolation (digesting after feasting), almost reaching the limit of his body's current realm!

Don't say that warships weren't heavenly treasures—a warship contained materials, alloys, and the spiritual energy in the core engine, which could be used to forge a dozen magical artifacts. They tasted crunchy and rich in the transcendent elements needed by various cultivators.

And now, if Su Zhou used his understanding of spiritual power to further elevate his realm and transform this body again... it was hard to imagine how powerful the final result would be.

"Let me see what happened to my body in these two years."

Muttering to himself, Su Zhou began to examine the condition of his body.

Even Yala couldn't casually interfere with the time flow of the Twilight World Cluster. This was because Twilight didn't care, so the time ratio was almost one to zero point eight compared to the Earth-sealed universe. Adding the long journey back and forth in the void, it was almost the same.

And two years of devouring and self-development had created the form of the Judgment Death Star.

The Judgment Death Star form was based on the Divine Tree Battleship form, which then spontaneously sublimated and transformed. It was the ultimate form of Su Zhou's body faithfully fulfilling the Dao of Innovation, constantly self-replicating, mutating, eliminating malignant bugs, and only retaining benign optimizations.

Although he didn't know why it eventually turned into a ball, considering that his true form was just a cracked egg, it wasn't particularly difficult to accept.

"...But the mass has become too great. It will be difficult for me to enter the atmosphere in my complete true form to carry out missions in the future."

Sensing that his current mass was probably larger than several mountains of the Mount Everest range combined, Su Zhou couldn't help but sigh.

As an immortal god who advanced through the Dao of Sex, his physical mass didn't need to be particularly large; his true form only needed enough power to destroy large targets. An Emperor of Heaven who could destroy a star didn't necessarily have to be as large as a planet. In fact, in the Transmission Tower inheritance, most immortals and gods showed true forms that were at most a few hundred meters tall.

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But now, with Su Zhou's true form size, as long as he entered a planet's atmosphere in this form, he could immediately pierce through the sky. Any casual action would damage the geological layers, and a vigorous jump could probably crack the crustal plates directly.

Every word and action could cause the world to shake. The power of a Celestial Immortal had reached its peak here.

"But come to think of it, I can just split off a fraction of myself to descend, right?" But on second thought, there were always more solutions than problems, so Su Zhou wasn't particularly concerned about this aspect.

After the body and soul merged, Su Zhou's perception of all his diffused inheritances increased.

In the Aean world, the young man could only sense the people in that world who cultivated his cultivation methods. Most Celestial Immortals were generally satisfied with this level, after all, their inheritance and Dao techniques could spread in one world, which was enough to achieve immortality.

But Su Zhou was different. His inheritance and cultivation methods spread throughout the entire sealed multiverse.

Now, Su Zhou, who had returned to his body, was like a signal tower that had suddenly strengthened its signal, sensing the people in many worlds who had inherited parts of his cultivation methods.

On Earth, some inheritances related to the Devouring Demon Lord were spreading. These were the 'Evil-Detecting Eyes' and other related content within the Zheng Nation official circles, which could almost be considered a compulsory course for public officials and the Security Bureau.

And cultivation methods like the Five Virtues Qilin Method and the Cycle of Immortality Method had already begun to be popularized among the masses. The Beast God Realm and the Nine Profound Realm naturally also had related Dao propagations.

In the Divine Wood World, although there was no inheritance, the power and vows related to the Blade of Extinction were still spreading. Although there was no 'Dao,' the karma was very heavy.

Even without leaving an inheritance, according to information dissemination theory, it was only a matter of time before an approximate version of the Cycle of Immortality Method appeared in the Divine Wood World.

The Reincarnation World went without saying. Almost all of the Fire Clan possessed the blood of the Candle Sun, and the Soul of Water had been transformed by Su Zhou. They could completely comprehend Su Zhou's cultivation methods from their bloodlines, Soul of Water, and the power of the Judgment Dragon.

In the Divine Dragon World, Su Zhou had Aura as his disciple, and the name Candle Sun originated here.

In the Perfect World, Su Zhou taught the masses, and the Five Virtues Qilin Method and the Cycle of Immortality Method he spread had become the foundation for all people.

The Aean world had become the base camp for the Candle Sun. The indestructible Inheritance Hall was located in the Northern Lands, which would become an information radiation center. Su Zhou believed that even if the era reincarnated and civilizations were repeatedly annihilated, as long as subsequent intelligent life found that hall, the inheritance of wisdom would never be cut off.

What's more, if one learned the Candle Sun's methods and still wanted to be extinct?

Would that still be an authentic Candle Sun?

Not the right vibe!

"Very good."

Simultaneously sensing his direct inheritors in many worlds, Su Zhou suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction, as if he had completed all the achievements in a game: "This way, my safety is guaranteed on several levels."

Yala: "You haven't even died properly; what do you need this sense of security for?"

Su Zhou pretended not to hear, after all, Yala was a snake, not a squirrel. He just liked not using props and then storing all the materials to the brim.

Moreover, it was extremely absurd to have inheritances in multiple worlds.

One had to know that it was very difficult for ordinary Heavenly Venerates to spread their inheritances in multiple different worlds. Especially before the Earth God system began its journey to the real multiverse, basically all Holy Seats were huddled in the few space-time domains centered on Earth, essentially only spreading in one big world.

And because of the Heavenly God Scale, he had obtained the opportunity to spread his inheritance in the multiverse even before becoming a Heavenly Venerate.

Familiar with his body, sensing his strength, and finishing the point harvest, Su Zhou originally planned to greet those old friends he hadn't seen in a long time.

But suddenly, he sensed a large group of people who had cultivated his inheritance emerging.

This immediately stunned the young man: "What's going on? Why are there more?"

"I shouldn't have been to other worlds yet, right?"

With such confusion, Su Zhou once again concentrated his mind to sense.

And then...

He sensed a large number of Pioneer auras!

"Damn, what the hell?!"

After confirming the situation, Su Zhou was shocked: "Are these all the exchange results of the Pioneer's dependents?"

"So the Pioneer Space's unpatented, pirated Candle Sun bloodline actually counts as my direct inheritance?"

"Of course." In response, the snake spirit was not surprised: "It has always directly copied everything, even the weaknesses and backdoors are copied together to ensure absolute authenticity. What's so strange about it being your direct inheritance?"

Speaking of this, Yala said meaningfully: "This is called two-way freeloading. The Pioneers freeload your knowledge patents, and you freeload the Pioneer's teacher resources and dissemination channels!"

——That sounds good!

The results of Su Zhou's sensing were quite bizarre. In the Pioneer Space, most of those who exchanged for the Candle Sun bloodline were Explorers and Pioneers, and fewer were Adventurers.

After all, the Candle Sun people were widely spread throughout the realms. Most adventurers had the experience of being chased and beaten by the Candle Sun. Although they also had ideas like 'using the Candle Sun to deal with the Candle Sun!', not to mention that dragons do restrain dragons, what the Candle Sun bloodline needed most was an atmosphere of sharing experiences with each other.

If one wanted the Candle Sun bloodline to develop to the fullest, they needed a kind world willing to share their achievements. In this regard, the Pioneers were naturally familiar with the process, and the Explorers could also do it with some effort. But those evil Adventurers who ransacked everything were a bit lacking. Their Candle Sun bloodline mostly needed to exchange for modules themselves and explore the related system themselves, so they naturally felt that they were doing twice the work for half the result.

In the Adventurer circle, the Candle Sun bloodline was even considered the worst level of exchange because if one wanted to become powerful, in addition to the true bloodline exchange from d's 'Candle Sun Heart' to ss's 'Candle Light Illuminates the Mortal World', they also needed to exchange for a variable number of 'Extraordinary Biological Modules'.

Of course, adventurers could also obtain Extraordinary Biological Modules through plunder.

But not to mention that most of the Extraordinary Biological that were worth plundering were very powerful, easily falling into a vicious circle of 'I can't beat it! Then go plunder biological modules! I just can't plunder biological modules! Then go beat it!'

Even if they could beat it... a group that exchanged and shared modules would definitely be faster than a single fool hunting.

In short, in the Pioneer Space, there was even a small-scale Candle Sun bloodline community, most of whom were Explorers and some Pioneers. They internally exchanged various biological modules they obtained, and the extra access and exploration points were used to improve other aspects. They could be considered a small-scale but quite powerful group in the Pioneer Space.

After noticing this, Su Zhou's joy was like wanting to just grind a daily quest but unexpectedly dropping a legendary weapon.

An unexpected surprise!

"Good fellows, when I enter the Pioneer Space, I must go see how these people cultivate."

Setting a small goal in his heart, Su Zhou shifted his perspective back to his own body.

"Brother Day! Brother Day!"

At first sight, he saw Shao Shuangyue happily raise her head and greet the ceiling: "You're finally back! Uncle and Aunt have been worried sick these past two years."

"And also, when can you lend me your body again? The Candle Sun body is so powerful!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Shuangyue."

Su Zhou was also somewhat emotional. He had been away from Earth for two years, and his parents must have been very worried. If it weren't for Shao Qiming and Shao Shuangyue, two people who knew more about his situation, to go and meet and comfort them, it wouldn't have been good for the elders' health.

As for his little sister's following sentence, he had only one suggestion: "Then I suggest you cultivate your own Candle Sun body. Don't always think about other people's bodies!"

"Jiu Ming, not bad. You haven't slacked off in these two years."

After talking to Shao Shuangyue, who was somewhat disappointed, Su Zhou shifted his gaze. He looked at this familiar True Dragon friend and couldn't help but nod: "Shuangyue, you still need to stabilize your foundation. Your body is a bit too weak and needs to be strengthened a bit."

"On the contrary, Jiu Ming, you are only one step away from being an Earth Immortal. After we return to Earth, let's talk about your future advancement goals. In this regard, I might be able to help you."

"Okay!"

Hearing this, Jiu Ming's eyes lit up. As a senior Pioneer dependent, what he lacked most was not resources but experience and ideas.

Unlike those great existences who directly gave their dependents and clans supernatural powers or even inheritance, the Pioneer gave channels.

The Pioneer Space itself did not provide any special power. Even the space prompt board required spending exploration points and access to exchange for.

But in return, the inheritance and bloodlines of the entire multiverse could be freely chosen by the Pioneer's dependents.

Every Pioneer's dependent had their own future and path to explore. This unknown distance that belonged only to them, this adventure that belonged only to them, was also their most important 'trial'.

In this regard, Su Zhou naturally couldn't make any decisive guidance for a True Dragon about to advance to an Earth Immortal, but he was experienced in breaking through the 'Dao' and could completely give Jiu Ming experience to help him grow and advance.

And finally, he shifted his perspective to Tang Yuan.

"Thank you, Tang Yuan."

Facing the young man who still looked tired, Su Zhou sincerely thanked him: "Thank you for your hard work these two years."

After truly residing in his body, he also understood that Tang Yuan hadn't done nothing. It was just that the physical drive he had set was not perfect and needed to be improved—what's more, what's wrong with being fat?

When other people got fat and became balls, it was because they couldn't grow taller. If Su Zhou's true form got fat, he could just stretch it, right? How could fatness be an immutable thing!

"Just remember to give me a vacation." In response, Tang Yuan waved his hand freely: "Speaking of which, Minister, is your current strength enough to deal with the Nihility Cult?"

"Originally, I thought it might be a bit difficult."

In the space of the universe, the huge gray-black Death Star shook slightly, and water-like spiritual ripples spread out at the speed of light in a spherical shape.

Within the spherical domain space, all spiritual power was controlled by the Death Star, achieving absolute 'domain'.

Sensing the spiritual power within his body that was almost boiling, and the endless domain outside his body, Su Zhou chuckled: "As for now..."

"I'm a little regretful that I really blew up those wormholes. Otherwise, it would have been easier to annihilate the remaining Annihilation Emissaries on the spot."

"Right, Tang Yuan, this time I brought back an inheritance from another world. After thinking about it, I feel that it is very suitable for you."

Saying this, accompanied by bursts of spiritual power fluctuations, Tang Yuan sensed that an invisible spiritual power information beam was coming towards him, and he could choose to accept or reject it.

Naturally, there was no reason to reject it. He smiled and chose to accept.

Then, a new inheritance called [Enlightenment Mind Light] emerged in his heart.

Enlightenment Mind Light was a mind body cultivation method similar to an external avatar that Su Zhou created based on Jiu Ming's mind card and the Mind Light Body of the Aean World. It had the functions of disaster relief, accumulating spiritual power, and transferring soul damage that the Mind Light Body originally had. Now, it also possessed the various special abilities and supernatural powers created by the cultivator's mind, like a mind card. It could destroy the material universe in a nearly physical way, causing double damage to the body and soul.

In fact, Jiu Ming's mind card had a similar trend before Su Zhou learned it. His advanced natal card [Wandering Star Primordial Abyss Dragon], compared to the original [Abyssal Dragon Vein Giant Worm], not only had powerful abilities such as 'being able to forcibly sacrifice the enemy's summons every once in a while and invalidate the enemy's magic, trap, and monster effects', but also had the ability to directly control all water elements in the world.

This was almost the same as the Water God of the Reincarnation World, but it was not the authority given by the Soul of Water. It was a supernatural power evolved from Jiu Ming's mind card itself.

Enlightenment Mind Light, as an optimized version, could naturally do this.

In fact, Su Zhou himself also had his own mind card.

[Revelation · Seven-Headed Ten-Crowned Great Red Dragon]

[Effect Monster]

[Race: Demon]

[Attribute: Dark]

[Star Level: 12]

[Attack Power: ?]

[Defense Power: ?]

[When this card is Normal Summoned, you must banish seven Demon-Type monsters from both players' fields, Graveyards, and Decks to Summon.]

[This card's Summon cannot be negated.]

[When this card is successfully Summoned: monster, Spell, and Trap effects cannot be activated.]

[This card's ATK and DEF is increased by the number of cards banished x1000.]

[Once per turn, during either player's Main Phase: Both players discard 1 card, and each gains 1 "Revelation" Counter. When the number of "Revelation" Counters exceeds seven, the player who controls this card wins.]

[While this card is face-up on the field, when a Spell, Trap, or Monster effect that destroys or banishes a card on the field is activated, discard 1 card to negate and destroy that activation.]

[If this card is Special Summoned: Send it to the GY during the End Phase.]

The seven-headed great dragon was tearing apart the sun, and the entire world was beneath them.

This was the Mind Light Body that Su Zhou condensed in the void after defeating the Sun Emperor and communicating with Twilight. In terms of strength, it was seven or eight times stronger than the prototype he had condensed at the beginning.

Although he didn't know what the strength of this card was in the mind card world, he thought it was also a one-card-out level.

Su Zhou was always happy to share his path, cultivation methods, and experience.

In fact, slightly smarter Immortals and Gods could sense that the rules of this multiverse were encouraging this.

Earth Immortals could achieve immortality through inheritance, and Celestial Immortals and Heavenly Venerates could even inscribe their own paths to achieve coexistence with the universe. And at higher levels, as long as the 'Dao' was still spreading, then they could probably touch the edge of 'eternity'.

Su Zhou originally thought that this was the law of heaven.

But now that he thought about it, this was indeed the law of heaven, but the existence of this law itself might also be due to a tree.

A seemingly ordinary tree that lacked a sense of existence, but as long as one thought deeply, one could perceive that He was the 'tree' of the correct cornerstone.

This was undoubtedly the 'correct' manifestation of the Great Dao Tree.

The ancient Immortals and Gods were very likely to evolve into immortal beasts independent of civilization, but the inheritance and continuation of the Great Dao Tree led these Immortals and Gods to think about how to pass on their Dao and make themselves immortal—this led to the spread of power and also gave all living beings a further cornerstone.

Indeed, the Immortals and Gods had obtained immortality, which was a thing far superior to the extraordinary power obtained by mortals. The Gods had no losses and could obtain the eternal foundation they craved.

This was a huge profit—it could also bring mortals the opportunity to change their destiny and bring endless possibilities.

It was because of the Great Dao Tree's law of heaven that great existences such as Chaos, Pioneer, and Creation had a more correct foundation!

Although it felt ordinary, it was this kind of rule that created the 'order' essence of the entire sealed multiverse!

The world created existence, and the Great Dao defined the law of heaven. The union of the two Divine Trees was the indestructible correctness, and could even contend with the void of Twilight.

"No wonder the other great existences want to prevent the world and the Great Dao Tree from contacting each other..."

Thinking like this, Su Zhou suddenly frowned.

He thought of another doubtful point.

"Since the threat of the two Divine Trees is so great... then why haven't I suffered too many obstacles after being entrusted?"

Although it was possible that the Great Dao Tree and Yala had blocked many troubles for him that he didn't know about, and it was also possible that in the Twilight World Cluster, no great existence dared to make any big moves, but no matter how he thought about it, it shouldn't have been so simple.

"Could it be that they just want an undisturbed time to do some things, and after they finish, they don't care if the two Divine Trees unite again?"

This was very possible. The snake spirit also nodded slightly. Yala obviously agreed with Su Zhou's guess.

But guessing couldn't get answers.

Compared to thinking about these overly macro schemes that might involve the future of the entire multiverse, Su Zhou felt that it was better to send all the pests in his own universe, those Nihility Cult members, back to nothingness.

These not-so-authentic Twilight dependents should return to nothingness and meet Twilight well, so that they could know that he, Candle Sun, was the right one!

Thinking this way, he asked Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming to open the Pioneer Space line and actively contact the Earth side.

And after a brief contact, the line was opened.

Then, there was the voice.

【Hi, everyone, I'm Su Zhou!】

At this moment, the solar system, Titan.

In the ecological dome, the ambassadors of the major civilizations and the Earth representatives were calm on the surface, but they were all extremely anxious.

——What is the current situation?

Ever since Shao Shuangyue drove the Candle Sun body and started fighting against the End · Ten Faces, the communication channel had turned into bursts of garbled characters, and they could no longer see the situation clearly.

The aftermath of the battle between the two near-Heavenly Venerate powerhouses was enough to make Shao Shuangyue unable to support the smoothness of the channel contact.

——What is the result of the battle?

——The Annihilation Emissaries launched a joint attack. Can the Candle Sun body block one, can it block the other few?

——If the Candle Sun body is destroyed, how should they deal with the Nihility Cult that is sweeping back with the momentum of a great victory?

Troubled by these questions, only a lot of whispers reporting information to their mother civilization could be heard in the conference hall.

Until the clear picture appeared on the central screen again, Su Zhou's perfect face appeared on the screen, and then his hearty voice sounded.

【I have returned from another world, and the Nihility Annihilation Emissaries have also been jointly annihilated by the Earth Allied Fleet.】

He said this, and with just one opening, it was a major news story that shocked all the forces' ambassadors into speechlessness: 【The Twilight Fleet has begun to retreat, and we have achieved victory on the front line of the battlefield.】

【And】

At this moment, Su Zhou lengthened his tone, and then, his next sentence made many galactic superpower ambassadors unable to help but stand up, suspecting that their ears had made a mistake.

【I faced the 'God of Dusk' directly, and found the flaws of the Nihility Cult,】

【I found their greatest weakness and obtained the truly correct path of 'Dusk Twilight'!】

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