The Girls Are All Coveting Me

This is the 15th year since Chloe stepped onto the Star Realm battlefield.

Fifteen years of trials paved the way for the astonishing Filthy Sun Pantheon.

Now, under Chloe's command are tens of thousands of small worlds, hundreds of medium worlds, and even three high-level worlds capable of nurturing powerful divine power.

Undoubtedly, he is now an undisputed titan of the multiverse.

Although he still has one foot in the Supreme Realm, compared to before, he now essentially has a foundation for stepping into the Supreme.

Half-step Supreme and half-step Supreme are worlds apart.

Perhaps now he should be jokingly called half-step Supreme Great Perfection?

Chloe glanced at the young man leisurely sipping tea beside him:

"What are you doing here?"

"Can't I come?" Louis took a sip of tea and said, "I came to see a good brother, why the face?"

"It's fine if you came to see me, but could you tell me what's going on with that world back there?"

Chloe pointed to a world outside the World Tree.

The land there was filled with various weaponry.

But the weapons weren't the main point; the point was that Chloe sensed a power similar to his [World Tree Fruit] from them.

In other words, those weapons likely also sealed small worlds or things akin to small worlds.

He took a closer look and discerned the true nature of those weapons.

"Half-plane?"

"Yes."

"Benefits of the Mental Image World?"

"Yes."

"Good technique."

Chloe couldn't help but exclaim.

Louis chose a completely different path from his own.

He realized that those weapons in Louis's Soldier Realm were actually the embryonic form of Heaven-Reaching Divine Artifacts.

However, instead of True God Uniqueness, those weapons sealed items of the half-plane class.

In Chloe's era, the half-plane had become a legend, known only to a few about how exhilarating the half-plane was among the world's strong in the early years.

According to the norm, one had to advance to Legend to own a half-plane at least.

The nature of half-planes is quite similar to the current era's Mental Image World.

If there's a difference, the Mental Image World's reliance on the world itself is slightly weaker.

7,000 years ago, the Stars Continent was the era when half-planes thrived.

Extraordinary individuals, after stepping into the Legendary stage, would gradually begin to master the power of rules, and to wield power beyond the limits, they needed to seek a realm, infuse rules into it, and permanently alter that world's rules to create their domain.

So, the half-plane's essence is similar to the deities' Divine Kingdom, just an infinitely diluted youthful version of the Divine Kingdom.

This youthful version of the Divine Kingdom has its pros and cons.

The advantage is the half-plane is a world unto itself, capable of absorbing energy from the void and accumulating world power.

Extraordinary individuals can tap into world power to enhance themselves, unleashing astonishing power.

But the drawbacks are evident — Legendary warriors lacked the ability to independently create worlds, so their half-planes could only come from the World Group.

This also led to the World Will exerting an inexplicably powerful influence on Extraordinary individuals of Legend and above.

If the Stars wanted to restrict these destructively powerful beings from continually using powers, they just needed to set a rule: [Continually using world power, accumulating to a certain stage would result in being rejected by the world], effectively crippling continuous combat capabilities from Legend to Saint.

In the midst of battle, they simply fizzled out. No matter what these strong individuals tried, the limit was there.

Yes.

7,000 years ago, that's how the Stars were.

13,000 years ago, the Stars didn't have this half-plane system yet, but later someone discovered that half-planes allowed the same stage of Legendary to unleash power far beyond the past, and the expansion of this system became a foregone conclusion.

It's like jokingly saying if Lin Pingzhi replicated the Exorcism Swordsmanship and it spread across the martial world, non-castrated martial artists would easily be overpowered by castrated martial artists, eventually leading to a scenario where the bad drives out the good and only the practitioners of Exorcism Swordsmanship remained.

If you didn't learn it, you might get killed.

That's about the situation.

So 7,000 years ago, the Legendary and above powerhouses of all major worlds, excluding deities, generally used half-planes.

It's not that they didn't know the downsides; it's just that not learning meant death.

This situation underwent some subtle changes after the beginning of the Dawn Era.

Because the method of replacing half-planes with the Mental Image World gradually spread.

Unlike a half-plane, the Mental Image World doesn't need to rely on a world group, acquire a piece of land, or draw world power.

The Mental Image World, as its name suggests, originates from the qualitative change of the mind.

Although it's more difficult to condense a Mental Image World, it only requires a few extra years. With patience and persistence, one can transform illusion into reality using spiritual energy, allowing the Mental Image World to break through its seal.

A few extra years are inconsequential for those who have already stepped into the realm of legends.

The most significant aspect is that, since it doesn't rely on the land of the world group, the likelihood of legendary figures, demigods, and saints being interfered with by the world will is reduced.

A more free, more enduring Mental Image World naturally begins to spread among the higher-level extraordinarys.

Think about it: one of your ancestors, restricted by world rules due to using too much world power, is suppressed by the world will to the level of Sequence Six. Then someone tells you, switch to cultivating the Mental Image World, and you can again wield the power of a legend, demigod, or even saint.

—Would you do it?

The answer is almost certainly yes.

If it's just that, it wouldn't be enough to completely make people abandon the half-plane after 7000 years. But the special realm that only demigods can touch, hatched from the Mental Image World, known as Mythical Form, completely turns the half-plane into history.

Because even with all the restrictions of the half-plane, the power cap of extraordinarys is still higher when nourished by world power.

The small source magic power originating from the mind basically can't compete with the great source magic power originating from the world.

This is a difference in magnitude.

However, the emergence of Mythical Form changed this.

The Mythical Form hatched from the Mental Image World directly displays the most likely saint realm transformation for the current extraordinarys, effectively lowering the threshold for demigods to break through to saints.

"I heard that the Mythical Form which assists demigods in breaking through to the saint realm has a lot to do with you. Now it seems true." This method of contact left Chloe surprised.

But even more surprising to Chloe was the next sentence Louis said: "Your notion is incorrect. It's not the Mythical Form making it easier for demigods to break through to the saint realm; rather, before the emergence of Mythical Form, there was no saint realm stage in the multiverse."

Chloe was shocked.

At this moment, he looked at Louis's expression as if he were looking at a monster.

He already understood what his old friend had truly accomplished.

"You forcibly created a new cultivation stage between demigods and angels?"

"Yes." Louis finally revealed a mysterious smile.

Honestly speaking, it's rare for Louis to see a surprised expression on this old companion's face.

This secret has been hidden for so many years, known only to his wife, and even his daughter isn't very aware, with the intent of showing off among his old friends.

"You don't know how difficult it is normally for demigods to break through to angels. This is what we usually refer to as weak divine power. Although the multiverse has the notion of weak divine power, in reality, weak divine power is no different from demigods, except for that little divine power which is barely noticeable, and it doesn't signify any change in the essence of life."

"So, did you add something in there?" Chloe was really curious about what he did.

Louis spoke with mystery: "Whether I added something or not, let's just say, this thing about weak divine power and demigods having no difference in combat power, you should know what that implies, right?"

"Hmm, a child carrying gold through the market, not getting beaten would be strange."

"Yes, so the number of beings that fall within the realm of weak divine power is the highest because they only possess part of divine power, their essence doesn't change at all unless they accumulate divine power, ignite the divine fire, and completely step into the angel realm."

"So then you shaped a Mythical Form in the demigod realm..."

"Exactly, so I divided the previous extraordinary path into three steps: First, using one's soul as the foundation to shape the Mental Image World; second, using the Mental Image World to hatch a Mythical Form; upon meeting both conditions, you can then..."

"You can then use the activated Mythical Form to fill in the divine power at the weak divine power stage, turning the Mythical Form from illusion to reality."

"Bravo! Correct answer!" Louis laughed, "It allows geniuses who have the opportunity to enter the angel realm to adapt to the divine posture earlier, making it easier for them to reach the peak."

"And the original half-plane?"

"..."

"By using the path you've paved, how could they not pay the price? For those stalwarts who were originally overburdened, the half-plane in their hands not only fails to enhance their strength but instead becomes a shackle that restricts them."

"..."

"This path of the half-plane wasn't confined to The Stars; it widely spread throughout other world groups. So unlike me, you from the beginning... absorbed this part of the strength of the middle-tier powerhouses across the entire multiverse, right."

Louis said nothing.

But his smile said it all.

Black.

Truly black-hearted!

What in this world can compare to the speed of monopolizing growth?

Once Louis opened this path, by siphoning off all the legends, demigods, and saints from the multiverse, he was destined to step into the half-step supreme.

This move is equivalent to snatching food from the mouth of the world group.

To put it bluntly, Chloe is directly acquiring enhancement from small worlds outside the world group.

While Louis, this guy, directly harvests growth from the world group itself.

After all, compared to those small worlds which can't even spare a half-plane, only the magnitude of the world group can sustain such consumption.