Chapter 702 Candlelight: Anything Can Change Form (7000)

Of course, what Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming were talking about wasn't the giant light sphere of the Pioneer Space—that was the embodiment of the Pioneer's essential totem, and the hub of the Pioneer Space, which had nothing to do with the Gate of Final Radiance.

But the super-giant star they saw was indeed real.

[The Realm of Celestial Light] was Shao Shuangyue's third exploration world, and the mission world where she and Jiu Ming met and decided to team up.

At that time, Shao Shuangyue had just returned from the Mystery World [The Realm of the Astrological Clock]. In Su Zhou's later deduction, that world probably belonged to a world under the Great Existence 'Balance', with sacrifice and ritualistic worship as its main power system, where you get what you pay for, which was the ultimate truth of that world.

Shao Shuangyue was still a novice explorer in that world, so she didn't gain any benefits from it—however, a wandering priest discovered the Candlelight Scale necklace on the girl's neck and was immediately astonished, using various means to obtain it, but because it was a talisman given by Su Zhou, Shao Shuangyue refused to sell it no matter what.

The overly strong refusal, and the girl's overly delicate physique, led the wandering priest to hire a large number of bandits to rob Shao Shuangyue…

And the result was that they were all wiped out by Shao Shuangyue with a super mecha.

Yes, Shao Shuangyue was indeed weak at that time.

But her mecha was very strong!

And the result of sacrificing all the treasures on the enemies, and even the enemies themselves, was to give Shao Shuangyue a considerable degree of skill and will talent, allowing her to more skillfully manipulate various weapons and mecha.

This can also be regarded as a characteristic of the Realm of the Astrological Clock. The main cultivation of that world is sacrifice, fair exchange, to get everything you want—the corpses of enemies are one of the best sacrificial offerings.

After obtaining the relevant talent, Shao Shuangyue was determined to go all the way in terms of mecha pilots, and coincidentally, [The Realm of Celestial Light] was a high-tech world, and there were many products of spiritual energy and technology mixed together.

Just when Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming met and worked together to complete tasks in this world, they were fortunate enough to see the reason why the Realm of 'Celestial Light' was named 'Celestial Light'.

An extremely bright, super-giant star located at the center of the entire galaxy.

[Giant Star: Celestial Light]

This super-giant star is the largest spiritual energy source in the Realm of Celestial Light, and also the world's nearly eternal subspace coordinates. It is also the source of light that all spiritual energy civilizations in the world can see from the moment they open their eyes.

Wars and conspiracies revolving around the Star of Celestial Light have been constantly occurring for hundreds of millions of years. Every Celestial Lord intends to guide the power of Celestial Light for their own use, and all invaders from outside the galaxy regard this star as their biggest goal, and disputes have never ceased.

The war that Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming participated in was also essentially related to the Star of Celestial Light, because the cause of the war was that two civilizations were competing for a spiritual energy superluminal channel created by the distortion of Celestial Light mass. This kind of strategic passage located in subspace is of paramount importance to any civilization, and whoever can seize the initiative will occupy an absolute advantage.

Therefore, in the middle of the war, they saw the appearance of the Star of Celestial Light from afar on their own imperial warship.

That appearance was extremely similar to the model displayed by the Galactic Net Ai, and could even be said to be exactly the same.

"I seem to indeed remember that there are rumors in the Celestial Light world itself about time-travelers from other worlds…"

Below the stage, Shao Shuangyue said thoughtfully, "It is said that 750,000 years ago, the creator of the Hella Gamma Republic, a commoner general who rose from humble beginnings, was a time-traveler—she came from a high-level cultivation world, and used personal strength to unite the civilians of the star territories under the brutal interstellar aristocratic rule at that time, and finally launched a reform war to completely unify the southwest star region."

"And she also brought about the reform of the spiritual energy system of the entire Celestial Light world, integrating spiritual energy cultivation and mecha piloting together, and achieved the highest achievement of 'Mecha Transcendence'."

Jiu Ming also nodded, and he frowned and recalled: "Our camp at the time, the Enke Omeros Empire, also had legends of time-travelers—the first chief of the Royal Science Association was said to have knowledge 'from another world', and he joined hands with the empire's founding emperor to create the empire's founding prosperity, which is still being praised today."

"I originally thought they were reflecting us pioneer explorers, but the timeline doesn't match up."

"Now it seems that it is very likely that Celestial Light, the space-time distortion brought about by the Gate of Final Radiance, caused the abnormal time-travel phenomenon."

"Speaking of which, it's also very strange." Speaking of this, Shao Shuangyue couldn't help but feel puzzled. She quietly stretched out her hand and pointed to the Gate of Final Radiance phantom at the edge of the galaxy model: "You know, the distance between the Pioneer Space and the various mission worlds is almost infinite in the void—our Earth universe and the Celestial Light world are at least half a multiverse apart, right?"

"If these two giant stars are really one, how did it manage to exist in these universes at the same time?"

"Because of the Final Ring Seal, probably."

Jiu Ming obviously didn't intend to think too much about this, and he said without thinking, "After all, it's a fragment of some universe, so it's normal for it to be a bit magical."

"No matter how magical it is, it's still a fragment of our universe! How can it be magical enough to go to other worlds!"

"That's a miracle. (Perfunctory)"

"Where is that a miracle? (Slightly annoyed)"

The two argued about this for a while, and at first the voices were relatively small, but soon they became louder and louder.

Until the end, the duo, feeling a little wrong, stopped speaking.

Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming swallowed and turned to look at their sides.

Sure enough, almost all the alien ambassadors in the entire ecological hall, and even Su Zhou and the Galactic Net Ai communication interface on the podium, were watching them with subtle gazes.

"Hey, heh heh…"

Chuckling, Shao Shuangyue originally intended to muddle through, but Su Zhou nodded and said with considerable dissatisfaction: "Don't stop, keep talking."

"I'm listening."

Of course, even if Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming were given the courage, they wouldn't dare to continue talking. The two found an excuse and slipped away directly, as if fleeing.

But to be honest, no one in the entire venue felt disturbed, because the news revealed by the two explorers was indeed very valuable.

Su Zhou sincerely wanted to continue listening, but his speaking habits sounded too sarcastic, so it had the opposite effect.

But even so, it was actually enough.

"I remember that the Celestial Light world is part of the 'Creation World Group'. Although I don't know its specific distribution in the multiverse, it must be quite far from Earth."

Touching his chin, Su Zhou fell into deep thought—this was also the question that had困惑ed him from the beginning.

Even with the Final Ring Seal, wanting to make a super-giant star with one-fifth the mass of the Milky Way span more than 800,000 universes, and span every corner of the multiverse, this power is a bit too outrageous no matter how you think about it.

The reason why it is said to be more than 800,000 universes is because basically no small and medium-sized world that has not reached the level of a universe can carry such a terrifying celestial body—just like the Aean world, the entire world is not even as big as the opponent's main body, so what can be done.

Even a galaxy-level world would be distorted by the terrifying mass of the Gate of Final Radiance, becoming a unique structure centered on the Gate of Final Radiance.

"Moreover, it seems that Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming are not the only explorers in the Pioneer Space who have seen the Gate of Final Radiance."

Raising his head, Su Zhou looked at the other explorers in the hall, and he nodded slightly, speculating in his heart: "Although 800,000 universes are many, they are still smaller than a proton in the universe when placed in the multiverse."

"I don't think this is a coincidence. The Pioneer Space is actively connecting these universes that have cause and effect with the sealed universe, and selecting them as the mission worlds for the explorers."

"As for the special nature of the Gate of Final Radiance, it is likely still related to the structure of the Great Seal. What it seals is likely not just the cracks in our universe, but an important crack in the Great Seal!"

This was Su Zhou's conclusion, and he was thinking deeply about some issues in this regard.

"There is no major problem in general." Yala also nodded slightly to this conclusion, but He shook his tail again and pointed out: "But Su Zhou, you still have a problem that you need to argue with that Net Ai next to you."

"Why, as the inheritors of the ancient Pioneer civilization, who knew the importance of the Gate of Final Radiance, would they allow the Void Cult to guard the passage from this universe to the Gate of Final Radiance?"

"Moreover, why does He know so clearly that it is possible to enter the Gate of Final Radiance from 'other universes'? Logically speaking, can this kind of facility only be entered smoothly from the 'main entrance'?"

The serpent spirit's questioning was simple and clear, and Su Zhou suddenly understood.

"Good fellow, indeed." The young man nodded, and he couldn't help but admire: "As expected of you, Yala."

The serpent spirit waved its tail and shook its head, "Heh, you still need to practice more in finding mistakes."

Without hesitation, Su Zhou turned his head and directly asked the Galactic Net Ai this question.

[Because in the distant past, the Void Cult was not the organization it is today]

Regarding Su Zhou's question, the Net Ai explained: [At that time, they were not members of an extremist ideology, and were qualified to go anywhere and station anywhere—I am only the Net Ai, not the 'Peacekeeping Protocol']

[And even the former 'Peacekeeping Protocol' could not attack the Void Cult that had not violated the Galactic Covenant. And when they showed a different appearance from the past, the war had already begun, and they had grown to a point where they were difficult to contain]

Su Zhou had heard the term Peacekeeping Protocol in the data of the Senos Thiestians. It seemed to be an ancient Ai fleet responsible for guiding and regulating various cosmic biological clusters in the galaxy to prevent them from interfering with the armed patrol organizations of normal civilizations.

This fleet was essentially the galactic police. Their last mission was to join forces with the Seras Thiestians to fight against the evil gods of the Otherworld that broke out in the Twilight Star Region, and they turned the tide when the Seras Thiestians were close to defeat, assisting the two Ω-level peak spiritual energy users of the Seras Thiestians to seal the rift in the Twilight Star Region with the Galaxy Star at the cost of countless sacrifices and almost complete destruction.

As for the second question, this Galactic Net Ai was silent for a while.

[Because we have tried to bypass the main entrance located in this universe and enter the interior of the Gate of Final Radiance from the side doors of other universes]

After a period of time, seemingly calling a considerable portion of resources, the Net Ai's voice became somewhat buzzing and stiff: [Retrieving x-level confidential database…Answer: In the most recent 1.45 million years, the Net maintenance module…has tried to coordinate, experiment, and implement many inter-universe traversal experiments]

[Process: Experiment failure rate 97.4923%, the vast majority of individuals transmitted to other universes completely lost contact, only a small portion succeeded and sent back information about the Gate of Final Radiance in other worlds]

[Result: Empirical research proves that if the Gate of Final Radiance is opened, it will be opened to hundreds of thousands of universes at the same time, and there is no distinction between the main door and the side door]

[Worry: The opening of the Gate of Final Radiance may cause extreme and unpredictable consequences, the risk assessment value is '', but it is lower than the risk assessment result of 'infinity' for the Void Cult to obtain the Final Ring Seal, so a β aggressive action strategy is adopted]

The Galactic Net Ai is essentially still an alien Ai. The initial smooth communication was just using a simulation program to communicate with humans in a human way.

However, after being questioned by Su Zhou, the Net Ai, which began to connect to the database at its distant main body, returned to its original Ai mode. If Su Zhou couldn't directly perceive the information in the spiritual energy flow, he would probably not be able to understand what the other party was saying at all.

And the result of the answer surprised him quite a bit.

——So, the time-travelers in those Pioneer worlds were all your doing?

Of course, it may not be just the Galactic Net Ai. After all, the universe is not just the Milky Way. It is more normal for the Net Ai of the entire universe to join hands to conduct experiments, but the possibility of failure is indeed very high. According to the Net Ai, there are very few existences that can successfully transmit some information back, no more than twenty people.

As for the fact that opening the Gate of Final Radiance itself would cause extreme danger, Su Zhou had been mentally prepared for it.

Essentially, this is no different from opening the seal of the Twilight Star Region, which is equivalent to opening a huge crack in the Great Seal and the universe.

If the crack cannot be sealed again immediately after obtaining the Final Ring Seal, the result will probably be no better than the destruction of the universe and the shattering of the Great Seal.

But if the Void Cult succeeds, then the destruction of the universe and the shattering of the Great Seal are inevitable—so in the prediction, the risk assessment value of the latter is the highest, infinity.

The communication with the Net Ai has come to a temporary end.

And the communication with the ambassadors of many civilizations is also about to come to an end.

"Presumably now, all of you ambassadors have many messages in your hearts that you want to pass back to your headquarters, so this meeting can be declared over."

Directly announcing the end of this unique meeting, Su Zhou directly turned around and left the ecological dome while the ambassadors were still immersed in this high-density information bombardment.

A few seconds later, the Judgment Death Star Divine Dragon stationed at the Jupiter orbital port started again, and cyan and purple spiritual lights flashed continuously on its gray-black scales, and then flew towards the direction of the Earth-Moon-Jupiter teleportation array.

And following it was also the cocoon of the 'Ten Faces of the End' in its twilight form.

Leaving Earth for two years, going to the Twilight World, receiving the blessing of the World Tree, and capturing a World-Destroying Envoy of the Heavenly Venerable level, both his body and soul have grown to the boundary of the Heavenly Immortal realm.

The current Su Zhou needs to settle down for a period of time to transform these overly rich nutrients into even more powerful strength.

And just as Su Zhou was beautifying his rhetoric of 'wanting to go home and slack off for a while', the young man, who wanted to return to the vicinity of the lunar teleportation array through the teleportation array, encountered a rather difficult problem.

That is, he was too wide to pass through.

"Puhahahahaahaha——"

Inside the bridge, Shao Shuangyue, who had returned to Earth with Su Zhou, burst into laughter immediately. She looked at the teleportation array, which was normally powered on and only a little over 500 meters long and wide, and then recalled Su Zhou's Death Star form, even the width of the Divine Dragon form, and couldn't help but laugh: "Brother Zhou, it seems you have to fly back!"

"What are you laughing at? See if I don't train you properly when I get back!"

Su Zhou glared at his unreliable sister from afar, then took a breath and calmly said to the teleportation array controller, who was a little panicked and contacting him: "There's no need to forcibly increase the pressure to open the space-time channel wider—I can pass by myself."

"Eh, eh?"

Next to the teleportation space-time channel, the staff who were troubled about how to deal with the current situation were stunned immediately: "How can this pass? Even if the space-time channel is pressurized to the maximum, it can only be expanded to…"

But soon, he thought of a possibility and showed a horrified expression: "Marshal Su Zhou, your true form is too big to fit in!"

"Who said I was going to squeeze in?"

Su Zhou replied angrily: "I'm going to show you the supernatural power of 'a dragon can be big or small, can rise or hide; when big, it can stir up clouds and fog, and when small, it can conceal its shape'!"

The current true form of Su Zhou, the Judgment Death Star form, if it were spherical, would have a diameter of more than 40,000 meters.

Even if it is transformed into the Divine Dragon form, the body is lengthened a lot, and the width of the head also exceeds 4,500 meters.

The limit size of the Jupiter-Earth-Moon space-time channel is 3,700 meters, and it is very unstable, so the staff felt that it would be difficult for Su Zhou to pass through no matter what.

But the question is—who said that the Divine Dragon form is the most slender form of Su Zhou?

Therefore, in the shining spiritual energy, in the exclamations of Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming, in the astonished gazes of the staff, and in the inexplicably confused 'Gaw?!' sounds of the nine etheric dragons who were just there for moral support.

The colossal and majestic Cosmic Divine Dragon transformed again!

And this time, the form he transformed into was a spear!

Or rather, an unbelievably long 'line'!

The smooth surface of the gray-brown metal needle-shaped line, illuminated by the dim light of Jupiter, reflected the twisted storm scenery on the surface of the star. The tip at its front end was less than one meter wide, and the overall width did not exceed 500 meters.

What does this mean?

It means that the length of Su Zhou at this moment exceeds 10,000 kilometers!

In an instant, a metal strip with a strength exceeding four moons side by side appeared on Jupiter's orbit.

Then, just like that, in the moment when everyone was shocked and speechless, it accelerated and flew towards the other end of space-time!

At the same time.

Lunar Base.

The Artisan Saint and the Work Saint, who were supervising the progress of the lunar colony city and the new generation of warships at the back of the moon base, and many other master craftsmen from other countries, raised their heads under the intense spiritual energy reaction.

"Is Su Zhou back?!"

"This spiritual energy fluctuation…so powerful! Did he advance again?!"

"That's impossible, right? If he advances again, wouldn't he be in the Heavenly Venerable realm?"

They, who already knew this news, were quite expectant and happy, and then walked out of the closed lunar surface base to come to the lunar surface, intending to welcome Su Zhou's return at close range.

Then, everyone was stunned in place.

Just like that, watching a long spear rapidly extending and protruding rapidly towards outer space beyond the moon!

"What, what is that?"

"Is that Su Zhou?!"

In an instant, even the master craftsmen, whose average IQ far exceeded ordinary people by many times, were confused. These powerhouses, who could craft spaceships by hand, crack supercomputer passwords in their minds, and even were quantum computers themselves, were somewhat unable to accept the scene before them.

But that was the reality.

An hour and a half later, Su Zhou had completely passed through the space-time gate.

At this time, his length had long exceeded that of the moon, reflecting the light of the sun, making the spear look golden and dazzling.

And just when everyone was shocked and speechless, in a burst of intense flashes, the spear melted, and in the surging of spiritual matter, it was once again restored to the spherical Judgment Death Star form.

"Finally got through."

Breathing out a sigh of relief, Su Zhou shook his head helplessly: "But no matter what, it's at least faster than me really flying back to Earth from Jupiter."

"Shuangyue, Jiu Ming, wake up, we're going back to Earth!"

"Ah…this…"

Shao Shuangyue, who had personally witnessed and experienced the unbelievable, more-pliable-than-Play-Doh transformation ability of Candlelight, was now in the unique daze state of a beautiful girl: "This, this is Candlelight…"

At the same time, Jiu Ming also showed an unbelievable and shocking expression: "This, this is Dragon Serpent…"

Etheric Dragons: "Gawuuuuu…" (We, we want to go back to our lair, wuwuwuwu…)

But soon, both of them broke free from this state at the same time, and the flames of struggle ignited in their eyes!

"So strong! Is this the power of Candlelight? If I also had such a Candlelight mecha to pilot…"

"As expected, my future goal is this! Such a powerful Dragon Serpent body (after all, it's a long strip), I will definitely be able to possess it!"

As for the Etheric Dragons?

They wanted to learn, but unfortunately, they couldn't learn it at all.jpg

Su Zhou naturally didn't pay too much attention to the emotions of his little sister, the Sea Cucumber Dragon King, and the nine reserve rations.

At this moment, he was above the orbit of the moon, staring at the Earth.

Then, he fell into distress.

"It's so troublesome to pass through the space-time channel, how much more of a headache will it be when I really go back to Earth?"

You must know that the former Heavenly Pool Dragon King's main body was only 6,000 meters long, but it could destroy the Earth's ecosystem with just an impact.

Now, if Su Zhou, who is at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm, is not careful with his 40,000-meter-diameter main body, and is not very stable when landing, then he can at least sit down on the surface of a province.

"Hey, Brother Zhou, can't you just retract your true form?"

However, Shao Shuangyue had a different idea about this: "Didn't you used to transform into a human form casually?"

"It's too big, it's different."

Su Zhou shook his head at his little sister's naive question: "Retracting the true form is essentially transforming the true form into an intermediate state between the spiritual state and the material state, and then merging it with my own soul's essence—in other words, I use my own body to store the energy contained in the true form, and the mass of the entity will be transferred to the 'subspace'."

"Every cultivator has a corresponding projection in the subspace, emitting light, and the projection of the true form cultivator will be even larger, and the emitted light will be even stronger."

"And at my level, even the subspace cannot isolate the brilliance of my true form. When I transform into a human form, all kinds of 'visions' will manifest behind my human form."

In myths and legends, many immortals and gods have visions—either stepping on flames, or having a halo behind them, or having three heads and six arms, or dropping auspicious light.

These visions are essentially the 'strong spiritual energy interference' caused by the re-feedback of their overly large power, projected in the subspace, back to reality.

The current Su Zhou has also reached this realm.

He knew that if he did this, then his vision would probably be a Candlelight Death Star phantom looming behind him, releasing light enough to make all non-Lord Human Immortals feel extremely uncomfortable, or even cause death.

Yes, he can restrain this brilliance, but this is essentially not controlling his own power, but controlling the subspace's instinctive projection to the real universe—it's too tiring, and there's no need.

That's why most of the immortals and gods of the Immortal God era gathered together and rarely appeared in the human world.

"Forget it."

Su Zhou sighed, and a mechanical arm derived from the Judgment Death Star.

This mechanical arm casually tore off a piece of metal armor from the Death Star.

And this piece of metal armor transformed in the vacuum of space, and finally condensed into Su Zhou's human appearance.

Su Zhou's Human Avatar sighed and said: "It seems that this is the only way, anyway, it's the same me, it shouldn't make a difference."

"Speaking of which, among the ancient immortals and gods, there were many powerhouses who could pluck their hair and differentiate into thousands of avatars. Now that I think about it, it's probably similar to my current situation."

——No, no, no, this is not the same at all!

After hearing this sentence to himself, both Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming were frantically complaining in their hearts—they had seen the exchanges in the Pioneer Space, and what Su Zhou was playing was completely different!

Plucking hair and transforming into thousands of gas-like beings, and really plucking hair and turning into thousands are two completely different things, okay!

Su Zhou, who could hear their inner voices, said that he wouldn't bother with them.

Everything was ready, and Su Zhou was preparing to return to his Earth home with Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming, the cocoon of the Ten Faces of the End, and the nine Etheric Dragons.

However, before that, the message from the Tree of Wisdom in his personal space reminded Su Zhou of what he needed to do next.

"Master, look at the space!" Tree Tree issued a rather aggrieved voice.

"Oh, right."

Hearing the complaints of the Tree of Wisdom, Su Zhou glanced at his personal space and immediately understood: "There are still 6.5 billion Huo Xi people here. They've all been in my personal space for two years."

"Hey, I almost forgot about them!"

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