Yun Shou pinched his chin.

Just like a rich kid who has grown up and knows the importance of hard work, so naturally he doesn't need to be lured by candy to study hard.

Because his father told him, "Son, as long as you achieve X, I'll give you a house and a hundred million."

"No, there are still some differences. It should be said that this is more like a trial version after the 12th breakthrough to the seventh realm, having completed the previous ones. As for more features? Those can only be unlocked by spending money."

"Paying real money" refers to becoming a Universe Lord, or a fully-fledged Universe Lord.

"emmm..."

"In other words, if you break through to the seventh realm too quickly, your abilities will not change until you advance to the eighth realm."

"It's just a little regrettable. Judging from my current abilities, I'm afraid I have little hope of becoming the Lord of the Light Dust Source Soup."

While 99 descents can increase your strength many times over, the Dao principles replicated using unconventional Dao power during the descent state will dissipate over time, offering no help in accelerating your path to becoming a Universe Lord.

[The Return to Truth skill can be used once a week, and each use restores your state from 90 days in advance. This effect is quite good, effectively increasing your speed of replicating Dao principles by more than ten times, allowing you to replicate nearly 300 points per year.]

However, even in a million years, only 300 million points can be replicated. Although strength will increase over time, for every tenfold increase in Dao power, the number of Dao principles that can be replicated each year will only increase by one.

Overall, unless the total number of Light Dust Source Soup Dao Rules is only a few billion, preferably less than 6 billion, or even less than 4 billion.

Otherwise, this universe will still face its destined end in 8.4 million years.

"Forget it, a wonderful life as a Dao Lord awaits me in the future, no need to rush."

"From now on, let's continue to benefit this universe until its final moments."

You emerge from your seclusion, greeted by the cheers of countless living beings.

[...]

[8.39 million years until the destruction of the universe.]

You shall remain in the Source of Light and Dust.

[And...you created a being that completely violates the law of conservation of energy, not just something that came from nothing, but a directly amplified form!]

You have reduced the resources required by some living beings to an immeasurable fraction.

Such humans only need to eat half a grain of rice to sustain their physiological needs for a day.

They absorbed the energy from the space of a single room, yet the resulting energy was enough to destroy a building!

This kind of pure amplifier is even more outrageous than creating something from nothing!

[Because while special structures like the world's, which can generate primordial energy out of thin air, represent a breakthrough from 0 to 1, their rate of energy generation has a limit!]

[A world spanning millions of miles could not naturally generate enough primordial energy to support a third-realm cultivator in a normal state, nor sustain their life.]

[However, if this third-realm cultivator only needs one millionth of the resources, then he could even unleash his full power in that world, continuously using powerful moves that consume massive amounts of vital energy.]

[What's even more outrageous is that after he absorbs a portion of primordial energy and converts it into his own primordial power, normally this primordial power could still be transferred to others for use, but there would be some loss in the process, so when it was finally used by someone else, only 80% of its effectiveness remained.]

Just as the world can be created from nothing, 80% of the effect also means that 20% of the energy is lost out of thin air.

The energy in this world doesn't follow any strict rules; it simply flows back and forth, increases and decreases, and can continue to operate dynamically without any apparent problems.

[However... once the energy required for that third-realm cultivator decreases, even if he loses 20% after absorbing a unit of primordial energy, he can still regurgitate tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of units!]

Even if a peak-level fifth-realm cultivator is trapped in a place with only a wisp of primordial energy, it can repeatedly absorb and release primordial energy, eventually creating an ocean of primordial energy!

This is the utterly unreasonable and terrifying effect that arises when consumption and strength are not aligned!

Yun Shou thought to himself, "Normally, ten times the amount of power is essentially due to increased consumption, but also increased combat power. So, there's not much change in the overall effect. At that time, we couldn't see any other problems; it was all just normal attrition."

It's now possible to feed a pig one pound of bran and it will gain two pounds of meat!

As this gift from God the Father spreads, your faith grows ever stronger, and the universe flourishes at an unimaginable pace—the closer it is to destruction, the more prosperous it becomes!

You can't help but wonder, if you had possessed this ability earlier, allowing all life in the universe to consume one and regurgitate a hundred, would the universe have avoided collapse and destruction, and instead continued to expand indefinitely?

[...Later you learned that it didn't work. When your wanderers returned, they brought back news that they had encountered other homeless True Immortals whose original universes had been destroyed. Those True Immortals had desperately tried to save their universes during their destruction, using all sorts of methods.]

[This includes dragging other world planes from the multiverse ocean into it to replenish energy, but it's all completely useless; the universe will still resolutely head towards destruction.]

[8.3 million years until the destruction of the universe.]

[Within the Source Soup of Light and Dust, the first person to break through one hundred million Dao principles has appeared.]

[Their Dao principles have exceeded one hundred million; if their Dao principles were converted into Dao power, it would already exceed one hundred million!]

[If we're only talking about Dao power, there have already been people whose Dao power exceeded 100 million under the blessing of high essence. True immortals like that appeared in the first few thousand years after you emerged from the cosmic membrane.]

[However, only now, thanks to your Return to Truth, have they achieved a more than tenfold increase in their Dao progress, resulting in the birth of the first truly significant "Second-Stage Resonance True Immortal."]

[He is one of your twelve apostles: Tai'a Heavenly Emperor (Chapter 713)]

The reason he broke through first is simple: because his initial Dao principles were the highest, with 12,000 Dao principles allowing him to increase by 4 points annually from the start, giving him an early advantage.

After the Tai'a Heavenly Emperor breaks through, you ask him, "Xiao Ze (his real name), can you sense the total number of my Dao Principles now?"

[It's perfectly normal that you perceive yourself as merely a fragment of consciousness separated from the true spirit of the universe, and therefore lack understanding of the vast true self.]

What? Someone says this is completely unreasonable?

【nonsense!】

[Was he ever a cosmic spirit? Some of his statements are nonsense and assumptions.]

No one understands the true spirit of the universe better than you!

The Heavenly Emperor Tai'a did not reply to you immediately because he was sensing something.

After a moment, he opened his mouth and said something bitter.

"It's 42 per 10,000..."

"The total number of Dao principles in the Guangchenyuan Soup is... 23.7 billion."

【you:"……"】

[Others: "..."]

[Take a break.]