This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder - Chapter 646

Tianyi stood at the core of the gigantic planet. Despite being deep underground, it was bright with a hot, fiery glare. The core was molten, practically a star. As the centermost part of the nameless system, the core of the planet was naturally the location closest to the World Will.

He closed his eyes, and his form changed. His purple robes shifted to a combination of silver and black. Even his hair turned silver. The golden coronet disappeared, allowing his hair to cascade over his shoulders and back like a waterfall.

When he opened his eyes again, one had turned completely silver, including the sclera. The other had turned gold.

The sensation of spacetime exuding from the conduit intensified. So great was its influence that the molten core seemed to have turned from fiery to burning silver-gold. Soon, his figure disappeared, and an illusory world descended.

It went unseen until the boundary grew out of the gigantic planet. From there, it engulfed the surrounding moons and continued until it reached its limit—about over half of the nameless system’s total area. If the wanshou had remained, most would not have seen the overlapping world. Only those with extreme senses and top talent for space or time would have detected the spacetime divine world.

Even fully expanded, I couldn’t cover the entire world? How did the Trimurti succeed then? Tianyi thought.

He did not rush to start the World Fusion Method and allowed himself to familiarize himself with each corner of the nameless system. Tianyi had yet to truly release his divine world. Right now, he was feeling it out, but the nameless system had already sensed a grave danger.

Tianyi ignored the warning from the World Will. His experience with the Heavenly Dao gave him a negative impression of World Wills. Moreover, weak World Wills were nothing more than self-regulation and protection mechanisms of systems. They did not have their own sentience.

After familiarizing himself with the system, Tianyi summoned back all his conduits. What he would do next required his full attention, and he couldn’t be distracted. His spacetime divine conduit would be the primary force, but his true self would silently support it with calculations and everything else. Even his lightning divine conduit had taken a backseat. If anyone attacked it, he would be helpless.

With everything prepared, Tianyi started the World Fusion Method.

The first step was to materialize the divine world. Most divinities would not choose to do this unless they had no choice. Materializing a divine world represented a divinity’s peak strength, but it also revealed their greatest weakness. If their divine world was damaged, it would prevent them from making any more progress. And restoring it to its previous state was close to impossible. It would take a veritable miracle.

Although the spacetime divine world materialized, it did not cause any contradiction with the original world. Even an ordinary mortal would be able to see it now. With one eye, they could see both the original world and the spacetime world. Both seemed to be in harmony, but the reality was far from the truth.

Had Tianyi used the lightning divine world, the superimposition of the lightning divine world would have caused both the original and divine world to explode from the forced contact. It was like forcing gunpowder and fire to exist in the exact same area.

There was no way it would be peaceful.

Even the current situation, where the system and spacetime divine world coexisted in parallel, belied a horrifying reality. Slowly, grain by grain, the real world was being colored by the spacetime divine world.

“Hm?” Although it was called the World Fusion Method, Tianyi realized that it was closer to assimilation. The more the spacetime divine world merged with the nameless system, the more insights he gained into the myriad laws. Even the comprehension of those he did not pay much attention to swiftly rose, only to reach an impasse just before transforming into a divine-level law.

No wonder the Trimurti was so powerful. If they fused with the system, comprehending and mastering divine laws became so much easier. However, Tianyi was surprised there was no mention of this benefit in the bodhi seed. Either the Buddhists did not know, or they hid it on purpose.

The reason Tianyi thought so was because no one else could reap the benefits except him. His spacetime divine conduit devoted all its consciousness to fusing the divine world with the system. It was actually rather overwhelming. If his Nine Heavens Universe consciousness were not helping the spacetime conduit categorize everything and point out the path of least resistance, the spacetime conduit would have already failed.

All the insights the fusion brought could not be digested. It was only Tianyi’s true self that had the leisure to comprehend everything while sensing everything the divine conduit experienced.

It wasn’t the countless laws Tianyi mastered that saw the most improvement. Nor did his elemental laws advance and break the divine level. Instead, it was his Divine Law of Spacetime. Countless methods of fusing spacetime with other laws emerged in Tianyi’s mind. It was not just one-to-one fusions, but fusions of several laws simultaneously.

He could feel the mystery of his Divine Law of Spacetime increase. Just as he immersed himself in the feeling of rising strength, the spacetime divine conduit reached its limit.

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Tianyi felt it was a pity, but as he suspected, he could not succeed on the first attempt. There were still many problems with his World Fusion Method. For now, he abandoned the insights into the Law of Spacetime and focused on recording the spacetime divine conduit’s experience.

The spacetime divine conduit had already lost its humanoid form, merging into one with its divine world. It was trembling as if it were being split apart. The scene gave Tianyi a familiar feeling, but he couldn’t recall where.

After a long struggle, Tianyi sighed. His control of the spacetime divine conduit had disappeared. He could still sense its presence, but the feeling was slowly fading. It seemed that even if he failed to take control of the nameless system, the system still required some time to absorb the spacetime divine world.

Tianyi’s main conduit opened his eyes and held his chin. That was good news. At least the difficulty could be lowered if he tried again, but he wouldn’t—at least not now. He needed to find out why the sensation was so familiar. He had a hunch that it would help him perfect the World Fusion Method.

And so, Tianyi visited the Immortal Scripture Repository once more. He did discover the source, but not from where he expected.

It was an accident, really. He had released his divine sense to scan his surroundings, avoiding the sensitive areas, and noticed a funeral. That wasn’t quite right. Of the people Tianyi knew who could have funerals, they had already long departed for reincarnation over ten thousand years ago.

It didn’t happen often, but when immortals who had not completely lost their will sensed their nearing death, or that their willpower was running out and they did not want to become emotionless tools, they would invite their acquaintances to witness their departure. Immortals may have past lives, but they definitely did not have future lives because they were not eligible to enter the Six Paths of Samsara.

Once they died, their bodies would dissolve into qi and merge with heaven and earth. They called it the Re-Unity Ceremony because they would merge back into the world. In the Primordial Era, it was called the Dao Merge Ceremony because it was thought that all their comprehension and insights would return to the dao.

It was not the first time Tianyi had witnessed one either. He stopped paying attention because he did not like witnessing it, but this time, the instigator was an acquaintance of his. They weren’t exactly friends—more like colleagues who had drifted apart.

He was Monarch Fiendblood. Back when Tianyi had not reached the Immortal Realm, he was already considered an ancient elder. After Tianyi became an immortal, their paths gradually diverged.

Perhaps in consideration of their past, Tianyi came to bid farewell for the last time. It was when he watched Monarch Fiendblood’s body dissolve into qi that he realized where the familiar feeling came from.

Tianyi immediately searched for several instances of immortals dissolving and further confirmed his suspicions. The process of fusing the divine world with the system had many similarities to an immortal’s departure. Why was it so?

In a sense, merging the divine world with the system was a process of strengthening the system. The Three Thousand Immortal Realms System absorbed immortals who could no longer sustain themselves. Rather than immortals, Tianyi saw them as something closer to livestock. After fattening them, the Heavenly Dao would reap all the benefits.

Only those who entered the Divine Realm could escape this fate. Maybe not. If a divinity died in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, it was highly likely their corpse would be absorbed by the system, strengthening it.

However, this process also represented a breakthrough point. If he voluntarily allowed the system to absorb the divine world and took action at the perfect time when the divine world permeated the entire system, the success rate should increase by thirty percent. Granted, that was the most optimal circumstance. If something went wrong, it could fail even harder than before.

While improving the technique, Tianyi focused on another aspect. He wanted to strengthen the Law of Spacetime. His previous experience with the World Fusion Method had already dramatically increased its power, but that was far from enough.

For the Law of Spacetime, it would be better to focus on stability, so he wanted to upgrade the Law of Fire, Law of Water, Law of Earth, Law of Wood, and the Law of Metal to the divine level. He didn’t need to merge them all into the Law of Five Phases; just the unmerged forms were enough.

This way, he could strengthen the spacetime divine world. The stronger the spacetime divine world, the greater the chances of success.

Thanks to the accumulation, the Law of Earth broke through and reached the divine level. What followed was the Law of Water and the Law of Fire. The Law of Wood and the Law of Metal did not reach the divine level when he created the second iteration of the World Fusion Method.

He could postpone it until all five elemental laws reached the divine level, but Tianyi did not want to wait any longer.

He split another realm conduit and teleported it into the True Nothingness. Like before, a divine world emerged from within his body. Unlike the first spacetime divine conduit, there were several planets inside the spacetime divine world. The greater the sense of completion of the world, the more perfect the divine law was. Peak divinities possessed worlds as complete as systems.

And the reason why Tianyi chose to split a realm conduit after mastering the divine-level Law of Fire, Law of Water, and the Law of Earth was because upgrading the divine world after its creation was a long and tedious process. Best to create the divine world with all the upgrades at once, saving the time and trouble.

The only problem was that it took longer for the divine world to reach its new size. Compared to before, the spacetime divine world was only about ten percent larger, but it was a world of difference—rather literally. Tianyi felt that the new spacetime divine world exceeded the previous one by fifty percent. If he had mastered the last two elemental laws, it might have reached one hundred percent or more.

Once more, Tianyi’s spacetime divine conduit entered the nameless system. He tried his best to hide his presence, but it was still detected by the World Will. If anything, the detection was even stronger than before.

Tianyi narrowed his eyes. Was it because of his first failure? Maybe allowing the system to absorb his first spacetime divine conduit gave it greater control over spacetime. He was confident in his concealment ability, but he did not think his current mastery could hide himself from his self before the first attempt at world fusion.

Since it was exposed, Tianyi didn’t bother hiding and teleported directly to the core of the gigantic planet. His body turned light as particles flowed off his body, as if he were dissolving.

World Fusion Method, attempt two!