Chapter 666: Efficiency
The Black Abyss Highlord had deliberately simplified the first three phases of the Supreme Technique out of concern that novice practitioners would fail to understand them. The key essence of the Supreme Technique lay in the fourth level.
When it came to constructing a miniature universe, simulating one without having condensed a True Spirit was nearly inconceivable. But that was not even the main challenge. The real difficulty lay in simulating a miniature universe outside the Astral World.
Any flaw in the simulated universe could lead to its complete collapse. Such a collapse was akin to the destruction of a Divine Being's Natal Planet. Once it collapsed entirely, it would be utterly annihilated.
However, due to the unique properties of the Astral World, combined with the power of the Eternal Oblivion, which absorbed and neutralized the forces of uncontrolled collapse, it was as if there was an external force helping to eliminate internal instabilities. This was why Cosmic Radiances could afford to fail three or five times and still continue their attempts.
Of course, leveraging the Astral World for breakthroughs came at a cost. Each failure burdened the Cosmic Radiance with a heavy load of Eternal Oblivion Force. The more they failed, the greater the burden. In the future, unless they succeeded in fully simulating a universe and were forcibly expelled by the Astral World, each failure would bring them one step closer to death.
Even with the Astral World providing multiple opportunities for trial and error—be it three, five, or even seven or eight attempts—many remained perpetually stuck at the threshold of achieving Supremacy.
As for the people trapped in the Heavenly Prison World, they had only one chance. If they failed to condense their miniature universe, the ensuing collapse would utterly consume them, reducing them to ashes.
"True Spirit..." Li Pin murmured.
He had been researching this for a long time but had made little progress.
True Spirit was supposedly a standard requirement for Cosmic Radiance. Yet... even his progress in the Dao Realm, a realm that surpassed the Supreme, Transcendent, and Highlord in essence, had already exceeded that of the True Spirit.
Li Pin said, "It seems I'll have to follow the example of those Eternal Solar Flares trying to achieve the Cosmic Radiance Realm and start using inner spirit secret arts to condense a True Spirit."
Wang Fuyun responded, "If it were in the outside world, with no pressing time constraints, creating an inner spirit secret art from scratch would be the best choice. A perfectly tailored secret art offers immeasurable benefits in condensing a True Spirit. But in the Heavenly Prison World..."