Chapter 777 Cosmic Highway (6400)

The universe and the will of the universe are not the same thing.

In a sense, the awakening of the universe's will is akin to a mountain range developing sentience.

While the mountain range does support the ecosystems of many creatures and serves as a home for many lives, what does a mountain range that has developed sentience have to do with the original mountain?

A stone that gains sentience cannot be said to be the parent of all the microorganisms on it!

Rather, it is because many creatures in the mountain range grow and thrive there, their cycles of life and death creating a torrent of spiritual power, a concentrated life force that gives rise to the mountain spirit.

The universe is the same—it is because the civilization of a universe flourishes, with a large number of transcendents, with Shen Li networks (divine power networks) that cycle and permeate the entire universe as a super-giant artificial spiritual vein, that the will of the universe revives.

Castellaro even speculated that the emergence of the universe's will was not only stimulated by the creation of small universes, but also because the Creation Realm at that time was at its peak, affecting the universe itself.

Living beings are the creators of the universe's will, not the other way around.

Therefore, the situation that many people, even gods, worry about—'the universe's will awakening and immediately being equivalent to the Hongliu (Great Torrent) Realm, crushing everyone in their body like ants'—will not actually happen.

Just like how human will cannot control the 'autonomic nerves' in its body, the universe's will itself cannot control all the power within it—on the contrary, just as the various functions controlled by the autonomic nerves are vital to a person's life and death, the many lives in the universe are also closely related to the existence or non-existence of the universe's will.

But similarly, humans can gradually master every bit of power in their bodies through cultivation, not to mention the autonomic nerves, even tenants like mitochondria are controlled together. The universe's will can also do such things through various methods.

Just like what those heretics of Yuheng Dao (Measuring Balance Path) are doing.

[The Starry Sky Grand Ritual… originally used to communicate with the origin of the universe and confirm the current situation of the Creation Realm, has now been modified by them into a ritual to assist the universe's will in mastering its own power?]

Castellaro strode to the Time-Space Pool. The calm pool water shimmered with endless starlight, as if reflecting the entire universe.

In fact, that is the epitome of the entire Creation Realm universe, but the Time-Space Pool only intercepts the observable universe as an observation port. At the vast bottom of the Time-Space Pool, there are infinite universe miniatures spreading out.

The god's violet eyes narrowed slightly.

He could see that within the sphere of influence of Yuheng Dao, a considerable number of stars had changed their positions, or had dimmed and disappeared, which were the remnants of the Starry Sky Grand Ritual.

Stars are the condensation points of unbalanced mass-energy in the universe, containing a vast and pure energy that is difficult for even an ordinary Creator Machine God to match. Only true powerhouses can resist the power of the stars and incorporate them for their own use.

Dissolving and disintegrating stars, dissolving them into 'star veins' that run through time and space, can forge a great formation that runs through many stars. If a large number of stars are extinguished, sacrificing and dissolving thousands of stars in a certain area, turning them into star veins, then it is even possible to use vacuum as a canvas and stars as ink, creating a spiritual vein network composed of pure spiritual power, or even spiritual muscles and tendons, in the void.

In other words, it can become a part of the 'Dao-born life' that the universe's will can descend and control!

[Although they haven't captured that 'Dao-born life' that was naturally conceived, the Dragon of Bearing the Dao, but with the experimental data of the Shenmu (Divine Tree) siblings who achieved it due to the Origin Point Key, those heretics really have made some progress?!]

Staring at the universe scene reflected in the Time-Space Pool, Castellaro took a deep breath.

Relying on the Yuheng Sanctuary, or rather, relying on the Time-Space Pool, a treasure, allowed him to know many events in the universe without leaving the Sanctuary, but he could not interfere externally, nor could he go out at will.

Using stars as raw materials to forge a 'Dao-born life body', and then using a grand ritual to allow the universe's will to descend, transforming into a 'Star Giant God' that surpasses ordinary Harmony Dao, that is the plan of the Yuheng Dao radicals.

Very simple, but very effective.

After all, among the Ten Heavenly God Systems, only Yuheng Dao has a way to communicate with the universe's will, which is also the result of their many trips to the origin of the universe.

But this is not their real purpose.

As a member of Yuheng Dao, Castellaro knew better than anyone that allowing the universe's will to be born into the world was the beginning of everything.

Because, detached from the universe itself, the universe's will, transformed into a Star Giant God, can essentially be considered a 'person'.

The primordial universe nurtured all things. Living beings emerged from it, creating the gods, and the gods ruled the universe's authority, leading the world's order to prosperity.

This is balance.

The prosperous world nourished living beings, and the number of gods also increased, until among the gods, there emerged a powerhouse who could create truth. The powerhouse then used their own truth to open up the boundaries of the universe, allowing the universe to become increasingly strong, and allowing living beings to live in a world of great harmony. The gods could naturally create their own small universes in this expanding universe.

This is balance.

In theory, creating a small universe itself would not cause much damage to the universe.

Because the new 'truth' pioneered by the Harmony Dao powerhouse is also a great benefit to the universe itself. The existence of a small universe can even be said to allow the universe itself to conceive offspring. Although it may be a bit painful at first, it actually gives the Creation Realm more possibilities.

However, for reasons that no one knows, the universe's will, this representation of the most prosperous result of civilization and the world, or rather, the emergence of the 'created being', has instead brought absolute destruction.

How to solve the Final Calamity is a problem for every god in the Ten Heavenly God Systems.

What the Yuheng Dao radicals want to do is the greatest balance.

——To let the universe's will be born into the world as a person, making Him also a part of all living beings, so that the concept of the universe itself and all living beings becomes an absolute 'Taiji' where I am in you and you are in me.

Then, using the Harmony Dao armed 'Truth Judgment' as the core, coordinate everything, and then achieve the ultimate supreme balance.

Yin and Yang generate each other, eternal and infinite.

Without a doubt, this is a path from 'Harmony Dao' to 'Hongliu (Great Torrent)'!

It is also the ultimate creation that Yuheng Dao has poured all the strength and heritage of its entire god system into, even using the Harmony Dao armament as raw materials, and has initially touched the edge of 'infinity'—the [Eternal Star God]!

This is a plan that Castellaro cannot find fault with.

It not only takes into account the experiment of Harmony Dao breaking through to Hongliu, but also solves the problem of the Final Calamity and the universe's will. Furthermore, it allows the power of Yuheng Dao to spread throughout the world, completely suppressing other god systems and forbidden areas... a win-win situation, almost perfect.

Only one thing.

[Why should the universe's will listen to you? These radical fools, even if they really create the Eternal Star God, why should they believe a brat who has just been born for less than a few years, believe the biggest problem child in the history of the entire Creation Realm?]

If both sides were rational gods who loved all living beings, then Castellaro might not have opposed this plan so much. At most, he would have thought it was a bit risky.

But one side is the universe's will, which has no empathy with humans at all!

The moment the Eternal Star God is born will probably be the moment when the Creation Realm is devastated and on the verge of destruction.

[If it really doesn't work, in the end, I can only seal it at the last moment...]

Closing his eyes, Castellaro couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

As the last entrusted one before the Yuheng Dao Lord was trapped in the origin of the universe, the silver-haired god does have his own trump card.

It is precisely because of this trump card that those radicals have been searching for the location of the Yuheng Sanctuary and capturing Castellaro.

But... is it meaningful?

Even if the Yuheng Dao's plan is destroyed, and the Eternal Star God cannot be born, the destruction of Yuheng Dao is already a foregone conclusion—in any case, an organization that has fallen into madness can no longer exist as a universe god system that leads all things and all living beings.

This time, the Final Calamity has not yet begun. Regardless of whether the plans of other god systems succeed or not, Yuheng Dao has actually declared its elimination in advance.

Every time he thought of this, Castellaro always felt extremely lost, without any motivation to do anything. When he saw others full of motivation to complete their plans, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness in addition to envy.

Now, he can only wait.

Waiting for the arrival of the end.

However, just as Castellaro opened his eyes and was about to turn around and leave the Time-Space Pool, the god suddenly noticed something and couldn't help but be astonished.

[Oh, that Primordial Torch Dragon happens to be near this Starry Sky Grand Ritual area... Foolish, why is he still in the Yuheng Dao territory? No matter how arrogant he is, there must be a limit. Being able to escape the Harmony Dao armament once or twice doesn't mean he can escape it for life. This is dancing on the tip of a knife!]

For a moment, Castellaro even wanted to directly initiate communication and reprimand Su Zhou's recklessness and ignorance. He needed to know that the radicals could lose a hundred times, but the young man's loss once meant death. As the Primordial Torch Dragon, he needed to care not only about his own safety, but also the safety of other Torch Dragons.

But before the words of reprimand could be spoken, Castellaro took a deep breath and endured his impulse: [No need... after all, he's just an acquaintance. What does his life or death have to do with me?]

However, after saying this, he hesitated for a while, and then still started the communication. This Yuheng Dao Venerable comforted himself: [Forget it, I'll still tell him to be careful. After all, he's a foreign world friend who is willing to help me... I haven't expressed my gratitude for his help in detecting intelligence last time. As the God of Yuheng, it is basic to repay favors.]

[This time, I'll send the thank-you gift together.]

The other side of time and space.

Ruimu Star.

"...'Although you helped me last time, I'm not grateful at all, and I even blame you for being too reckless, but because you did help me, I must give you a thank-you gift. Just take it, no need to reciprocate or thank me, this is what you deserve'... Wow, reading this sentence is just amazing, my tongue is going to get tied."

In his apartment, Su Zhou, who was maintaining the exchange of new Shubi (currency) and various services, opened his eyes, his cyan-purple eyes flashing with strange light.

He showed a rather tangled expression, turned his head to the Snake Spirit hanging on the potted plant by the window, and said: "According to the truth that every great being's dependents are sick, and the higher the concentration of dependents, the more serious the illness, are the dependents of Balance all tsundere, or patients who will die if they don't speak in a twisted way?"

[Obviously not]

It wasn't the Snake Spirit, but the potted plant that spoke, a small pine potted plant, or rather, the World Tree, said in a heavy and dignified voice: [In my opinion, they should all have obsessive-compulsive disorder—some dependents of Balance must have exactly the same distance between their left and right steps. If there are squares on the floor, they will definitely step on the squares with every step, otherwise they will feel uncomfortable.]

[Or decision-making difficulties]

Another banyan potted plant, or rather, the Grand Dao Tree, said in an almost equally solemn voice: [Two rewards of almost equal value, ordinary people would just choose one, but the dependents of Balance can be tangled for a long time. They always calculate the value when shopping. If the income and expenditure are unbalanced, there may be a strange scene where they look at the entire mall and are tangled for a day without buying anything.]

"And then they will be in great pain because they wasted time."

The Snake Spirit, who was swinging on the potted plant, followed closely, perfectly integrated into it: "After the pain, they will enter a mode of working hard and cultivating, cultivating until they feel unbalanced in their hearts, and it's time to go out and have fun, appreciate the various aspects of the world, and then go out and have fun for hundreds or thousands of years, playing until they feel self-loathing, and continue to go back to cultivate."

"It's really overly sick."

This was Su Zhou's evaluation, which was the same as his evaluation of the dependents of other great beings, but his view of Castellaro was still very fair: "But remembering to give rewards, Castellaro is still a good person."

Generally speaking, the gods of Yuheng Dao don't care too much about gender. They will choose to live as a male for a period of time, and then live as a female for a period of time. If there are races with multiple genders, they will alternate between four or five genders.

However, more often, the Machine God bodies are asexual—after all, no gender is the greatest balance.

But in Su Zhou's view, with Castellaro's appearance and personality, there is absolutely no problem in being a tsundere heroine in some novels and anime.

The male lead might not be bad either?

Regardless, Su Zhou browsed the reward given by the other party.

This was a reward for Su Zhou's trial of the various Daos and knowing the plan of the Yuheng Dao radicals. Castellaro also didn't have to worry about his own radicals hooking up with other god systems because of this—these radicals playing radical isolationism was indeed good news.

And the reward was quite surprising to Su Zhou.

It was a strand of 'Divine Intent of Balance' that was pure to the extreme.

"Good fellow... is this inviting me to join the God System of Balance?"

Holding the translucent ripple of ice-blue divine intent, constrained by the pitch-black gravity well in his hand above his head, Su Zhou looked at it back and forth many times, and had to admit that this was not false at all. It was a Divine Intent of Balance that only the great dependents of Balance could condense, one of the most precious man-made divine materials in the multiverse.

When he was on Earth, Su Zhou had eliminated a mysterious organization in his early years. That mysterious organization called the 'Heavenly God Descent Society' once had a plan, which was to spread the 'Heavenly God Factor' as a kind of plague to the world, using everyone in the world as crops to cultivate the Heavenly God Factor, semi-dependentizing them, and then let them harvest it, so that they could go further on the path of dependents.

Of course, before this plan could begin, the Heavenly God Descent Society was eliminated by Su Zhou, but the principle was the same.

Divine intent is the result of countless extremely high concentrations of Heavenly God Factors being purified and condensed again and again.

If an ordinary person obtains it, it's not enough to become a god on the spot, but on the path of the dependents of Balance, they will definitely make rapid progress.

Even if they cannot comprehend the meaning of Balance, raising their bloodline and becoming a higher dependent is also an option.

Even gods and Celestial Lords, if they can obtain such a wisp of divine intent, can use it as the core, mix it with countless divine materials, and forge a Balance divine weapon that is born with a very powerful Balance divine ability, adding another means to suppress the bottom of the box.

It is said that all Harmony Dao armaments are essentially based on the divine intent accumulated by the tens of millions of gods of a god system for countless years, plus many materials that are rare in the multiverse.

This wisp of ice-blue divine intent in Su Zhou's palm, within the gravity well, is only the thickness of a finger, like a larger candle flame, but it is enough to forge a divine weapon that can intimidate the stars. If thrown into a personal space at random, it will infect a large number of Balance-type dependent lives. Its value is not to be ignored even by the young man.

Not to mention anything else, if matched with the evil soul of a Balance dependent Celestial Lord to eat, there is a great chance of comprehending a supreme divine ability of Balance.

Of course, this is an idea unique to the Devouring Evil Demon Lord. Ordinary people think of integrating this wisp of divine intent, and there is a great possibility of directly becoming a direct member of the Yuheng Dao lineage.

"Good stuff!"

Su Zhou, who was originally half-lying on the sofa, couldn't help but get up. He carefully looked at this Divine Intent of Balance, and couldn't help but praise: "Originally, I was still thinking about what action to use as the highest reward in the Torch Dragon chat group and the new repair exchange network... Now that I see it, I have an inspiration!"

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if I imitated this wisp of divine intent and condensed a wisp of 'Torch Dragon Divine Intent' myself?"

The thing about divine intent, it's not difficult to condense, but it's not easy either. At least for Su Zhou before, without any object that he can refer to, he simply couldn't condense anything.

But now, with an object to refer to, there is at least no problem in imitating seven or eight percent.

As for this wisp of Divine Intent of Balance itself, Su Zhou thought for a while, and felt that he could completely collect it and save it for later use.

Right now, he doesn't have the means to use it 100%. If he really wants to eat it, he needs to match it with the evil soul of a Celestial Lord at least.

The problem is, where are so many evil souls of Celestial Lords for him to eat?

"As for the Starry Sky Grand Ritual... Hmm, these Yuheng Dao radicals actually know this kind of huge術式(jutsu)ritual method? Although Castellaro himself hesitates and doesn't say it, but sure enough, it's still related to the universe's will, right?"

Although he doesn't quite know the details, Su Zhou can completely guess the relevant matters.

Even the Ruimu Star planetary broadcast notification a while later confirmed this.

[Ruimu Star Cosmic Disaster Defense Center issued an emergency warning: According to the detection of relevant departments, a divine power meteor shower with a intensity of 'Creation level' will sweep this galaxy]

[This time, the disaster of the divine power storm has exceeded the intensity of the relevant defense networks around Ruimu Star. Yuheng Dao direct, Planet Disaster Supervision Office reminds all residents, please migrate collectively as soon as possible with the help of the migration mothership and the gods that will arrive later...]

Hearing this reminder, although Su Zhou had expected it, he still couldn't help but be stunned: "This speed is too fast—is Yuheng Dao so efficient?"

In an instant, his body disappeared and appeared in the universe.

Standing in the vacuum, Su Zhou looked at the distant time and space.

In a flash, his expression became solemn.

Because he saw a vast river.

That was a river of star beasts that numbered in the tens of millions, almost endless!

Has anyone seen the rivers in the Great Heat season, at noon, when the sun is high in the sky?

The scorching sunlight bakes everything, and even the rushing river is evaporated into a burst of twisted rising mist between the turbulent waves, and the fragments of water waves reflect dazzling light.

This is also true between the stars at this moment... Countless star beast clusters gather together, and the majestic spiritual energy even distorts time and space. Their bodies are huddled together, and the dazzling divine light they release is like stars.

Of course, ordinary mortals cannot see it. What they can sense is that the entire planet has become solemn, and with the fluctuations of time and space, there are indeed several Machine Gods of Yuheng Dao leaping from the distant time and space.

These gods release spiritual energy that can calm people down, directly penetrate into the interior of the planet, appear in person, and appease the people.

Even, there was a god who noticed Su Zhou, who was floating in the space and did not conceal his existence, and flew directly over.

The Machine God body of this god is not huge, only more than 8,000 meters high, presenting a four-winged human shape, like an angel, which is quite petite for Machine Gods who are often 100,000 meters and above.

At first, Su Zhou thought that this Angel Machine God was going to half-threaten and half-warn him about something, such as not hindering their actions or something—isn't that how it's written in novels?

But in reality, he still misunderstood the basic literacy of a supreme god system god in a great harmonious civilized world.

[This gentleman, although I don't know which god system you are a reclusive god from, please migrate with the people]

This Yuheng Dao radical god came to Su Zhou, and the Angel Machine God first bowed slightly, and then condensed the Yuheng Dao holy emblem before speaking.

Although it may be because he sensed that Su Zhou's strength was higher than him, in any case, his words and actions were extremely polite, and even carried a bit of the earnestness of a neighborhood committee aunt persuading people to make concessions: [It is indeed a bit sudden, but we will provide you with relocation compensation on other planets, whether it is divine power points or natural treasures are no problem]

[Sir, please reply, if you don't speak, I'll take it as you defaulting?]

As everyone knows, Su Zhou is a man who doesn't respond well to force, even if a Boss kneels and begs for mercy from him, he will not hesitate to twist off the other party's skull and use the other party's spine as a jump rope.

But Su Zhou still has a bit of the minimum restraint of not hitting someone with a smiling face.

So, enduring the confusion, Su Zhou took a deep breath, shook his head, and then said: "So, what exactly are you planning to do? Such a sudden relocation of the people, or the migration of a fairly well-developed central star field... doesn't make sense, right?"

"Don't talk about the cosmic disaster, the divine power meteor shower, I saw those star beasts. Not to mention the aftershocks of the Creator Machine God, as long as you send more people, you can block the aftershocks of the Harmony Dao powerhouse."

Regarding Su Zhou's question, this Yuheng Dao god was obviously prepared with relevant answers to deal with it.

The Angel Machine God said without thinking: [It's like this, because of various needs, we have to build a cosmic highway...]

Su Zhou: "...?"

Cosmic highway my ass, do you really think I haven't read *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*?

Think of a better reason!

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