Fortunately, you have plenty of strength.

Even at your normal power level, your mental energy is enough to cover the entire Light Dust Source Soup, sweeping away every corner of this universe with a diameter of trillions of light-years!

The Dao can be seen, heard, and perceived by spiritual power; however, "seeing" is simply the most direct form of perception.

Although many inconvenient things will be seen after the spiritual energy is released, it doesn't really matter, because those people are all embodying the Dao principles, and the layers are ridiculously thick!

[...Five years later, you will have completed the replication of the last extremely subtle principle of the Dao.]

The fundamental principles it involves can be described in simple terms as "the hairs of space."

[On a certain space, hair, or rather, hair-like growths, appeared, making anyone who passed through feel as if they were being scratched or touched something like an insect's leg...]

[It's probably a Dao principle related to the void, very bizarre. I don't want to go into details, but anyway, it's been successfully replicated.]

When this last "empty hair" is imprinted on your Dao Fruit, you have successfully grasped the "All Great Daos" within the Source Soup of Light and Dust.

In that instant, you feel yourself undergoing a rapid transformation, the resonance level soaring dramatically, and your entire being entering a state of sublimation!

[It seems like eternity, yet it also seems like only a fleeting moment. You have become the Lord of the Source of Light and Dust, with everything in the entire universe under your control, and all living beings and things under your command!]

At least for this moment, you are "one," you are "all."

"You are the only myth~"

In the boundless void, or in some other universe, you might still be just a True Immortal of the 23.7 billion level. But in this universe, you are the Eternal End who has stepped into the eighth realm!

[As you slowly extend your palm forward, in that instant of eternal annihilation, you will sense that the lifespan of this universe is nearing its end.]

The universe is inanimate, so more precisely, its structure has reached its limit. In less than a billion years, it will completely collapse, contract, implode, and be reborn.

This is an ironclad rule written in its "equation book for the self-regulating universe."

But now, you've crossed out this ironclad rule.

From this day forward, the Source of Light and Dust will attain immortality. Every living being, every True Immortal, will no longer need to leave it to find another dwelling place, nor will they be reduced to wandering True Immortals who have lost their home in the boundless void.

[But that's not enough, continue revising.]

[Through certain principles of matter-energy conversion, you transform your almost inexhaustible source of Dao into pure primordial energy.]

[Most true immortals and even universe lords cannot do this because their universes lack relevant Dao principles. However, the extraordinary system you cultivated previously contained similar functions, and you absorbed these Dao principles when assembling your Dao fruit.]

[The Source of Light and Dust has begun to expand outwards at an alarming rate!]

[You don't need to inject the power after your arrival; you only need to use the Dao source you already possess.]

[You only tested the waters, using just a tiny bit of power, and in the blink of an eye, the diameter of this barren and weak universe expanded a hundred million times, which means its volume increased a hundred trillion trillion times!]

Seeing that it can still withstand the strain, gradually increase its power, allowing it to receive even more energy!

"You can actually eat so much? Then eat your fill!"

"Not bad, you little glutton, you'd better hold on for now!"

"I'll show you my true power!"

With the added benefits of your comprehensive essence, you now possess a normal state equivalent to a 26.9 billion-level Cosmic Lord!

Feeding a tiny universe of 23.7 billion units with one's own power would naturally not be difficult!

[You've amplified the output power of your Dao Source to its limit, causing the Light Dust Source Soup to expand wildly outwards. The only limitation to its current expansion is your Dao Source output rate!]

However, while expanding this universe, you didn't forget to push away some other worlds to prevent them from being swallowed up, causing the superhumans to be downgraded and a large number of beings to die instantly.

After a 30,000-hour period of returning to its origin, the diameter of the Light Dust Source Soup reached more than 1 billion light-years, and its volume was more than 2.1 billion times its previous size.

To be precise, its diameter has increased from 1e24 light-years to 3e80 light-years!

[It has reached three million cosmic gap units, pushing aside trillions upon trillions of other universes within a three-dimensional space!]

This is the true universe!

[This is the true size that a universe of 23.7 billion trillion dimensions could exhibit, not like that tiny, half-starved bean sprout from before!]

[However, even after your expansion, the Light Dust Source Soup still hasn't reached its limit. It will probably need you to return to its original state tens of thousands more times, increasing its volume tens of thousands of times over.]

"The Light Dust Source Soup of the past must have been truly starving," you couldn't help but remark.

"No wonder other universe lords, despite possessing resonance tenfold for every hundred million Dao principles, struggled to move their own universes... it's because they've overfed their universes."

[(You already know what this line says; I'm just pretending to be a narrator explaining it.)]

"Even with my output power, it would take me about 100,000 years to nurture the Light Dust Source Soup to its maximum size. No wonder many incomplete cosmic lords would spend twenty or thirty time spans to grow it to its full potential."

However, you are different from some incomplete universe lords. Although they control the expansion of the universe to increase space, the energy within the universe will become infinitesimally thinner as a result, and the rate at which the universe automatically produces primordial energy will not increase.

But you filled it all in one go.

"It's time to leave this place, make up for the remaining 3 billion+ Dao Principles, and then I can go to the Origin Land to obtain the millions of Dao Principles that those monopolists have hoarded..."

However, a sense of worry arose in your heart.

"In this era where former Dao Lords are surviving, do I need to reach the 27 billion level to become a Dao Lord, or the 30 billion level...?"

...

(Next, I'll brainstorm some ideas for the later plot, and then write a sequel to the previous side story? (ˉ﹃ˉ?))