Not long after the battle, Hengsheng returned to the cultivation cave. The first thing he did was cure his Right arm, which had been burned by lightning Qi of protection treasure. Hengsheng felt it still numb, and there were traces of lightning Qi inside his wound. He quickly swallowed the healing pill. Not long after that, Pill essence flowed through his veins and slowly healed his arm with a visible effect.
He moved his shoulder up and down to relieve the stress on his arm. "This is much better." Even though it did not wholly heal, he did not feel any traces of foreign Qi anymore.
Early in the battle, Hengsheng reflects on his performance and finds that his Qi potency has become a new weakness. "This is why most cultivation techniques focus on increasing their Qi potency when they are in the Qi gathering realm. The more spiritual Qi potency used to create the spiritual symbol, the better."
The difference between the Qi gathering realm cultivator and the Spiritual Foundation cultivator is that the latter has more spiritual Qi due to the second Dantain and the Divine sense generated from the Spiritual Symbol. Having more Spiritual Qi strengthens the Spiritual Foundation realm. Still, the divine sense is what really makes a difference.
The divine sense is not only another limb used to sense the things around the user, but it also boosts the cultivator's spiritual Qi potency when it merges with Spiritual Qi, like the thunderclap blade sect disciple early, despite having spiritual Qi much lesser than him—not even ten of his—can destroy his Qi structure with some effort, all thanks to their Spiritual Symbol.
However, this does not mean that his spiritual symbol is weaker than those four. It is also strong but in a different direction. If they are quality, then he is quantity, which is an overwhelming quantity that can overcome quality to a certain extent.
Hengsheng comes to understand that his lack of understanding of the whole picture of the cultivation road from the beginning realm to attain immortality might harm him if he keeps generating a new cultivation technique without a proper understanding and foundation.
Even though his new technique seems good and powerful, it ultimately lacks the spiritual aspect and foundation of most techniques created through the life and death of the cultivator through their cultivation road experience of countless generations.
But he has already done that three times since he was in the Body awakening realm, and his foundation is already different from the norm. It would have been out of the question if we had to return to the clan library to learn some new cultivation methods. He can only proceed on this path with extra care and not rush things before he truly prepares for what lies ahead.
After thinking for a while, Hengsheng turned to observe Yunsu, who had now become an egg again. He knew she was on her last step of the cultivation realm breakthrough, and soon, she would succeed and wake up. "Ah, I have to make a new, better system to support ours bound."
Since he dismissed the Beastmaster system because he wanted to install the Life Simulation System at that time, he could no longer see her status panel. The only binding between them is the Soul contract. He could use this connection to perceive her condition. He could feel that she was now relaxed and comfortable.
With everything settling for now, Hengsheng returns to his cultivation session. To continue cultivating in the Spiritual Foundation realm, He needs to nourish his Spiritual Symbol with his refined spiritual Qi, together with the belief in his chosen path from the heart and mind. He must also face three minor mind tribulations to enter the Spiritual Foundation realm's middle, late, and peak stages. each minor realm increasing their Divine sense of power to a certain extent.
At the peak of the Spiritual Foundation realm, the cultivator condenses the Fruit of the Heart, which would later be swallowed by the cultivator to form the true Dao heart. When the cultivator truly decides to commit to their path with all they have, they can perform the breakthrough into the next realm, the True Body Realm.
Hengsheng sat on his mattress and prepared his metal stage and body. He also surrounded himself with a thousand spirit stones in case of an incident, then started to nourish his Spiritual Symbol…
A week had passed. Hengsheng opened his eyes, paused his cultivation for a while, and sensed that Yunsu was almost done with her breakthrough.
Crake!
The Qi egg is starting to shine brightly. Soon, the light becomes more intense, but not long after that, the Qi egg itself starts to break down. This reveals Yunsu's body, which is now fully awake. Her appearance has changed; her body is now bigger than before, reaching a meter tall.
She still has gray fur all over her body, but the tips of her fur have seven colors, like a rainbow; her claw is shaped and long like a Blade, and finally, at her forehead, there is a Pentagon with a circle around it shiny with profound aura before it dies down and disappears. Despite all her transformation, she still looks like a cat, not another feline species.
"Meow…"
Hengsheng dashed at high speed, intent on hugging Yunsu's big body. Yunsu's eyes turned shaped before her body transformed into a shadow. She slipped away from Hengsheng's arm and appeared at another corner of the cultivation cave before crying and hissing, "MEOW!! " Hengsheng tried to understand what she was trying to convey for a second and then brought out a few thousand spirit stones on the floor.
Yunsu does not wait, drives into the mountain of spirit stones, and lies down comfortably. Hengsheng, not letting his opportunity slip away again, quickly rubbed and hugged Yunsu's soft fur. This time, she no longer fled. "what a big girl! you so big you can't stay on my shoulders anymore."
When she heard his words, her face was stunned for a second, and a pentagon sign glowed on her forehead. Her body slowly sank down into the house cat-size. Hengsheng eyes wide in surprise. "Where did you learn it from?" "Meow," Hengsheng comes to understand; it seems her new trait did something to her whole body.
"Yunsu, would you test your new strength in the simulation?" "Meow…" With the answer, He picks her now cat house size on his lap, sets up a simulation system, and sends Yunsu's consciousness into the simulation.
Yunsu closes her eyes and stays still. As she is inside the simulation, Hengsheng also closes his eyes to enter the System World or the former Mind space.
After a week of cultivation, his Spiritual symbol was stable enough to use the System World Creation Manual technique. He intended to create a system race, but before that, he had to make this world solid and stable as a separate dimension outside the heavenly Dao rule.
He stands in the middle of endless white space. He recalls what he must do, then moves with his supreme authority over the system world. He gestures his hand to call all the laws of reality that flow aimlessly all over this space to follow his command. Instantly, countless threads—a centillion and centillion threads of law that wave together to become the fabric of reality—appear before his eyes. They are the true face of the universe.
Then, he uses his supreme authority to reorganize these chaotic threads of laws to fit The world of his image. The process is quick. Almost instantly, the disorganized thread of laws rearranges itself to be more orderly.
Before he gives another command to merge them all into the endless white space, the thread of laws slowly dissolves itself into the endless white space.
After that, it was like paint was poured onto white paper. As if he is the center, all the spectrum that humanity knows about shoots out from the center in a circle and expands endlessly.
giving birth to the new spacetime. The endless white space is no longer there; now, it has become an endlessly expanded universe.
Hengsheng, who is now at the center of this universe below his foot, is the source of the origin. It appears to be a White Star glowing with white light, which gave it the first light in the universe. Its size is impossible to measure by human standards, but it was as large as a trillion or more galaxies combined.
The source of the origin is the most important part of this universe. It is the pin that holds this spacetime together with reality. It is also important to Hengsheng because he will use it to forge his own Dao later. Hengsheng moved a thousand light-years away from the source. Nothing is in this newly created universe, only raw matter and energy.
Hengsheng waved his hand, and then the stellar system appeared, an imitation of Earth's solar system. He stood on Mars, the red planet devoid of life because of its thin atmosphere.
He fixes that with a wave of his hand. With another wave, the blue orb appeared. Blue, the system administrator, was a super AI that he had created to assist him in all systems related to both creation and operation. Now, he will give it life, but one thing he has yet to decide is whether it should be a Man or a Woman.