This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder - Chapter 653

Contrary to the nameless system Tianyi had conquered before, it was a primitive era. It was an inhospitable land where glaciers and volcanoes clashed. The beasts that roamed there were more aptly to be called monsters. They moved not even by instinct and resembled natural disasters more than any living creature. They cared not for the changes they brought, including their own destruction.

The only true animals Tianyi discovered were still single-cell creatures, and his exploration did not reveal any sapient creatures akin to divinities.

After discovering nothing odd or of note, he immediately started fusing his divine world with the system. The size was around two-thirds of the Spacetime Divine System, but the difficulty was not even a fifth.

Tianyi used his newly optimized Chaos Fusion Method. The name was just a mashup of Chaos Genesis and World Fusion Method. It might not be as refined as Chaos Genesis, but it perfectly suited him because he created it by himself for himself.

The same principle applied to Chaos Genesis.

After expanding his spacetime divine world to the limit, he allowed the system to absorb it. The system did so voraciously. It devoured without care.

Tianyi could sense an embryonic World Will, but it was too young and weak for Tianyi. Once he used the essence absorbed as a backdoor, the system was helpless in the face of Tianyi’s assimilation. The process was much faster than the first Spacetime Divine System.

The insights gained from this fusion were much less plentiful. At most, it allowed Tianyi to peer at the divine-level law from a new angle, but the help was not much. Still, the advantage would accumulate with time.

After conquering another system, which he named Spacetime Divine System Number Two, Tianyi controlled it to float toward a certain location. Simultaneously, the newly renamed Spacetime Divine System Number One floated toward the same location.

Tianyi planned to have the two systems meet and merge into one.

Although the system was far faster than before, when it just moved with the flow, it was still immensely slow. Tianyi’s mastery over the Law of Spacetime could not teleport such massive entities, both the first and second ones. At most, he could manipulate the surrounding spacetime to make them fly faster.

To make it more convenient in the future, Tianyi set the location at an appropriate distance from the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System while making it a nexus for all the systems listed by Confucius. Even if Tianyi could not merge the systems into one, he could still use them as cannon fodder.

Tianyi’s actions didn’t stop just because the two Spacetime Divine Systems would take a long time to arrive. He continued to search for the many systems listed by Confucius. Over the long years, he worked hard. Of the ten listed systems, Tianyi found three and used Chaos Fusion to turn them into divine systems.

Unlike Spacetime Divine Systems One and Two, Spacetime Divine Systems Three, Four, and Five did not have World Wills. They were more developed than Spacetime Divine System Two, with a far more habitable environment filled with animals, though no true sapient lifeforms yet. However, Tianyi discovered that their potential was worse than Spacetime Divine System Two.

After discovering this, Tianyi adjusted which divine conduit would initiate the fusion. After splitting so many realm conduits, Tianyi created a tier. The tiers were nothing more than the amount of foundation he split to create the realm conduits. Depending on their inner realm, the divine worlds created when these realm conduits ascended to divine conduits varied.

Tianyi maintained the idea of maximizing the benefits while reducing the cost, so he planned and tailored the realm conduit to the system.

While searching for systems, Tianyi became puzzled by a particular one. Although a system’s location shifted with time, the larger the system, the easier it should have been to find. He was searching for a system that once waged war with the Pangu System—the Tengri System.

It had been one of the Pangu System’s most difficult foes. When it lost the war and fled, the Pangu System kept note of it, planning on exacting revenge. Unfortunately, the Godsfall War happened. Coupled with Pangu’s awakening, the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System was in no state for such a conflict. In fact, they would count their blessings if the Tengri System did not wage war against them.

That said, it didn’t mean the Tengri System was in any state to start a war. It paid a high price in order to retreat.

Tianyi wanted to capitalize on that weakness and conquer the system. Since it was already an antagonistic relationship, he would feel less guilty for whatever casualties the world fusion process caused.

He recalled that the ancient records said that the suppression from invading the Tengri System was several magnitudes greater than the one the Tengri natives received upon entering the Pangu System. Not only that, but suppression in the Tengri System wasn’t static. Many times, the suppression suddenly increased, catching the divinities and immortals of the Pangu System off guard and causing massive casualties.

Through repeated exposure, the Immortal Court of the time hypothesized that the god king of the Tengri System held massive influence over the World Will. Otherwise, they couldn’t explain why the suppression would suddenly shift without warning. It was also part of the reason for the high casualties.

If the god king of the Tengri System had enough power to alter the suppression, then it was not impossible for him to conceal the Tengri System.

Tianyi even suspected that God King Tengri had conquered the system like the Trimurti. His intense desire for conquest was also his ambition to advance his realm and break through the limit of the Divine Realm.

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Still, these were only Tianyi’s hypotheses. He still needed to find and investigate the Tengri System to verify all this. Since he suspected that the Tengri System was deliberately hiding itself, Tianyi also disguised himself.

The humanoid form his conduits took shifted. Many of them took on the shapes of asteroids or comets. Some even ballooned into rogue planets of varying sizes. The only difference was in their speeds. The smaller the object, the faster it traveled, and vice versa.

In this form, Tianyi halted all external forms of investigation, such as using his divine sense. Instead, he used his normal five ‘senses’ like sight. In addition, his disguised forms emanated a powerful fluctuation, making them resemble fragments of a destroyed system.

It wasn’t entirely false. To make it more believable and his infiltration foolproof, Tianyi broke parts of Spacetime Divine Systems Four and Five to use as disguise. He also brought out some useless planets from the Nine Heavens Universe.

Tianyi didn’t know if it was useful, but it didn’t matter. He had plenty of conduits. Compared with his previous active searching, this form of passive searching was easier on his mind. He just needed a stimulus, and he would immediately take note.

Thousands of years passed again. Tianyi discovered two more systems. Only one of the two possessed a World Will. It was even stronger than the nameless system Tianyi first discovered, and it took Tianyi two attempts before he finally succeeded.

This system differed in one clear way from his previous systems. Sapient creatures had appeared within, and even two divinities. His first attempt failed partly because of the difficulty and partly due to the two divinities. Before his second attempt, he killed the two divinities first.

Within the system, these divinities possessed power equal to the divinities of law, so Tianyi forced them outside the system’s boundary, where their power plummeted. While he killed them, it was not impossible for them to revive, so he quickly started Chaos Genesis.

Far from being angry, Tianyi only became happier. The more difficult it was to conquer these systems, the more benefits he would gain. Perhaps it was luck, or maybe it was because his accumulation had reached its peak, but Tianyi mastered three more divine-level laws, one of which was the divine-level Law of Devouring.

The mastery of the Divine Law of Devouring granted Tianyi many more ideas, and he set to work perfecting the Chaos Fusion Method. In the midst of perfecting Chaos Fusion, one of his many probes sent him new information.

The probe, which had been floating in the True Nothingness, disappeared! From the probe’s perspective, the view suddenly changed. Where it was once a desolate darkness illuminated only by the faint light of stars countless light years away, it changed into a vast blue sky with no end.

It didn’t take any measures and simply observed, paying attention not to expose itself. Tianyi didn’t have any of his other conduits teleport to it or near its location. He didn’t want to tip his hand to the God King Tengri just yet. Granted, he wasn’t a hundred percent sure, but Tianyi was rather certain.

An invisible force shackled the probe in the air, preventing it from moving. Simultaneously, a devouring force acted on the probe, nibbling it away little by little. It was only a matter of time before the exterior disappeared to reveal Tianyi’s conduit, disguised as it was.

However, Tianyi didn’t fret. As the layers disappeared one by one, he silently increased the energy radiation. It gave the impression that the rogue planet could go nuclear at any time and transform into a star. Perhaps it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if energy and resources were the goal of the abductor.

After revealing such signs, the erosion of the shell increased faster. It was not a natural increase, but a purposeful action, indirectly confirming Tianyi’s suspicions.

Soon, nuclear fusion began. The rogue planet did not transform into a star, but a protostar. Simultaneously, it emanated the aura of a fusion between the Law of Fire and the Law of Star. Although it emanated a powerful aura, it was continuously losing it.

Hundreds of years later, Tianyi’s conduit appeared where his probe had last been seen. He took the form of a meteor, still holding onto caution. After a certain point, he disappeared. He could no longer sense the location of his other conduits. Only his link to the Nine Heavens Universe kept him connected.

Because he disguised himself as a worthless meteor, nothing stopped or impeded his actions. His body continued its course, attracted by a nearby planet.

Before crashing into the planet, Tianyi saw six planets revolving around a sun. The outer planets appeared to be gas giants with low chances of life. The planet closest to the sun resembled a molten sphere, while planets two to four seemed habitable.

Unfortunately, Tianyi crashed into one of the moons of planet five.

It didn’t matter to him. He left his disguise not in his true form, but as a speck of dust. As the controller of a system, he was deeply aware that almost nothing could be hidden from a controller’s eyes. If he hid himself between the layers of spacetime, it would only expose himself sooner.

The only option was to hope not to attract their attention. Luckily, Tianyi did not exude any aura innately. So, this should aid his investigation.

As a speck of dust, Tianyi could not travel too fast, so he could only float slowly toward the nearest habitable planet. Despite departing from the moon of the fifth planet, the closest planet was actually the second planet. According to his trajectory and speed, the third and fourth planets would be behind the sun by the time he arrived at the second planet.

He arrived thousands of years later. Despite being the smallest of the four seemingly habitable planets, Tianyi saw a rich culture and diverse heritage. However, there was one thing in common: faith was mainstream, and it was expected for every adult to believe in one of the ninety-nine gods of the Tengri System.

This puzzled Tianyi. If Tengri had conquered the system, faith would not have mattered to him. Or perhaps he hadn’t conquered the system as Tianyi suspected? The World Will was intricately tied to the sapience of all beings. If all beings believed one thing, it could affect the World Will, but that was practically impossible and would take a miracle to happen. So, that was only a hypothetical scenario.

Tianyi continued to investigate. To make it easier, he left his body and entered the body of a soulless infant. Had he not taken over, the parents would have believed it to be stillborn.

The reason Tianyi chose him was not because it was easier, but because using a stillborn body would mean he did not have to interact with a soul. Not only that, but the mother died in childbirth, and his father was a warrior and rarely home. The father had more than one wife, meaning that Tianyi wouldn’t be noticeable. He wasn’t even the firstborn.

He had better options, such as using the child of a shaman, but being so closely tied to faith might expose him, so Tianyi chose a warrior’s child. While inferior to a shaman in status, warriors were also high-ranked.

Tianyi planned to lie low for a few years, following in the footsteps of this body’s father, but a few days after taking over the body, he saw a man looking coldly at him. The man bore a resemblance to Tianyi’s current form, but his eyes were incredibly cold, as if all things were meaningless.

This wasn’t a mortal’s gaze, but a divinity’s.