Chapter 674: Passed
At present, Li Pin wasn't capable of cultivating to the fourth level of the Primordial Supreme Technique. It was only by using the Great Dao Radiance to illuminate the Heavenly Prison World's rules that he was able to simulate the power of the fourth level based on the foundation of the third level.
Using an analogy, if the Primordial Supreme Technique's fourth levelrepresented perfect mastery over nuclear power technology, then Li Pin had only reached the level of nuclear fission, at best. He was still one technical level away from achieving nuclear fusion, which was necessary for constructing a cosmic framework.
As for truly simulating a cosmos, he was missing the controllable key component to fusion power—the True Spirit.
Translating this into mortal time, it might take three to five years for him to attain a breakthrough. It could also possibly take fifty years, or even two or three cycles of fifty years. For a mortal who had grown to the point of being able to study nuclear power, fifty years was essentially the entirety of their remaining lifespan.
For a cultivator, failing to condense a True Spirit for an entire lifetime was also a normal occurrence.
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"I'm down to having just a hundred thousand Creation Gold Coins." Li Pin looked at the few remaining golden glows around him and sighed. "Creation Gold Coins are indeed useful. Having enough of them during cultivation truly feels like divine assistance. It's just that the consumption rate is too high."
Fortunately, he had managed to complete the simulation of the Primordial Supreme Technique's fourth level before exhausting all his Creation Gold Coins.
As he pondered, Li Pin lightly pointed his hand.
A force containing a faint singularity trait began to expand at his fingertip. Within it, matter, energy, time, and space grew simultaneously, just like the primal elements of earth, water, fire, and wind when the universe was first created.
Soon after, a miniature universe seemed to be taking shape.
However, before this miniature universe could fully condense, its internal structure became highly unstable and began collapsing inward.