The planet Phosphorus Element originally had a diameter of trillions of miles, but now it has shrunk by a million times!
Although the concentration of vital energy has not decreased, the shrinking environment has led to a sharp reduction in the total amount of resources!
[It has been hundreds of thousands of years since a powerful being of the sixth realm, the "fruition stage," was born on this planet.]
In a secret realm where the "Nine Profound Heavenly Soil" is contested, Xiao Lian, the current Holy Maiden of the Sunflower Sect, has laid an incredibly solid foundation for her Zero Realm "Soil Cultivation Stage" thanks to the divine soil you helped her obtain.
Night, gentle breeze, fallen leaves, forest, tent.
"Brother Yun, do you think this world is sick?" Xiao Lian nestled closer to you in your arms.
Although she will soar to new heights from this day forward, with the potential to mature and even blossom, she is very preoccupied and thinks far ahead. Even before reaching the first realm, she is already worrying about much more.
"If things continue like this, this world will eventually perish... No matter how powerful we all become, we will all die..."
"A million years ago, there was a sect called 'Tianyang Sect.' They wanted to flee the planet Phosphorus Origin, but the outer reaches of the sky were filled with collapsing cosmic rocks... It is said that in the blink of an eye, most of them were crushed!"
"In the end, only a very small number of people escaped back; the remains of the vast majority were permanently buried there. We had nowhere to escape!"
"Perhaps in hundreds of thousands of years, we will be forever obliterated from the world, crushed into endless cosmic rocks."
The pessimistic girl began to cry.
You comforted him, saying, "It's alright. Now that I'm here, this world will never get worse again."
"I don't believe it!"
【you:"……"】
[(A severe lesson)]
"Believe it or not!"
"Ugh, you may be very powerful, but aren't you still just a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator like me, competing for resources here? Even if you're invincible in Foundation Establishment, how far are you from the 'Heavenly Sun Sect' of a million years ago?"
[(An even harsher lesson)]
"Believe it or not?"
"I believed it...I believed it (weakly)."
Release her, step out of this secret realm, and reach the planet's extreme point.
[The young girl Xiao Lian is unworthy to know the truth about Phosphorus Star's gradual shrinking, but ultimately, there are others who do know.]
It was a massive, sunken sand pit, exceeding a hundred million miles in both diameter and depth.
The ten top powers of Phosphorus Star are stationed on the edge of the sand pit. Even in the current decline of Phosphorus Star, these powers still possess five realms of power!
They call this huge sandpit the "Star-Eating Hole"!
[The colossal cave that devoured the Phosphorus Star!]
[But don't misunderstand, this hole didn't appear out of thin air. Rather, a colossal pillar, reaching from the heavens to the earth, drilled into the cosmic rock outside the planet and pierced into Phosphorus Element Star.]
"Ah, this..."
That colossal pillar has been sucking up various substances from Phosphorus Star for tens of millions of years, acting like a straw, and is the culprit that has gradually shrunk the planet to its current size!
[Soil, minerals, rivers, and mountains continuously flowed and shifted towards the giant cavern, until they were absorbed by the colossal pillar and transported away through the pillar's extensive, unseen conduits.]
This is the culprit that devoured the entire world—the Pillar of Heaven!
[Its width reaches 100,000 li; originally, it was merely like a chopstick inserted into the earth, but through endless years of absorption, it has formed a giant pit with a diameter of hundreds of millions of li!]
The ten major powers surrounding the edge of the giant crater tried to sever it, but they couldn't.
[We tried to move it, but the base of the pillar stubbornly followed the Phosphorus Star, trying to absorb it!]
[Trying to move the entire planet? They don't have that ability! The planet is surrounded by incredibly tough cosmic rock. Even a sixth-realm expert would have to exert all their strength to break off a small piece. Forget escaping alone, even surviving inside is impossible!]
[But they knew of a possible way to save the planet: to send a powerful being who had reached the sixth realm into the giant pillar through the suction hole at its base, reach its source, and then destroy it!]
Many powerful beings at the sixth realm in this world once did just that, but they never returned.
You know, this giant pillar is just a trial.
You enter the passageway inside this giant pillar and head towards its source.
[Gradually, the colossal pillar thickened. After traveling countless light-years, the pillar you are on merged with another pillar, forming an even thicker passage.]
[Through constant convergence and merging, you encounter powerful beings from different planets, those planets also being devoured. You journey alongside them, together heading towards an even deeper end.]
"This is the path to becoming emperor!"
Some beings at the Sixth Realm encountered along the way explained: "When a planet reaches its peak of prosperity, it will connect to the Imperial Road. The Imperial Road will continuously devour the planet's life force, forcing the strongest beings within to embark on the Imperial Road!"
"Ultimately, it may mean the destruction of the planet, or it may mean winning the imperial battle and saving their home planet."
"But if one becomes an emperor too slowly... even if one already possesses infinite power, the original planet will still be sucked dry and destroyed by the Emperor's Path!"
[On the Imperial Road, there are many nodal cities, absolutely safe residences, where those at the Sixth Realm who haven't progressed perfectly can gather resources and rebuild themselves, becoming stronger and progressing further on the Imperial Road.]
The source of the Imperial Path lies in an extremely distant land. As it spreads, it branches into countless smaller paths, drawing life force and energy from countless prosperous stars, all to unleash a burst of vitality at each confluence, thus nurturing an Emperor!
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