Chapter 3782 - Ninefold Hellstar
There was no conflict between Tianming's two paths. As long as he didn't forget the foundation of his strength and didn't place too much trust in the Galactic Emperor's power, he would be fine. He still cared about making real breakthroughs.
Still, his desire to grow stronger was definitely related to the pure difference in size that he kept noticing. The Upper Star Ruin was a place filled with giants and it hurt to constantly have to look up to meet their gazes! The sensation of being dwarfed was far from pleasant. Even if he could defeat overflowers, that sensation of discomfort didn't change.
"I have to find a different way of strengthening myself that isn’t related to the flameyellow descendants. The Ancient Oldgod Domain is the way!" Bai Ye's terra and vita were still there, with twenty-seven and forty-five infant souls. That was a lot more than the caelum had. Taking them over would give him a total of eighty-one infant souls, including the nine he already had!
"The terra and vita have reached their limit as they haven't engaged in symbiotic cultivation. It's a shame that I won't be able to bring these five million flameyellow descendants with me to the Ancient Oldgod Domain all at once, or I'd be able to fight Sixth's terra with my current level of power."
The Myriadpath Celestial Formation and Order Formation's transfer speed might be fast, but they both had a hard limit on how many people they could transport. They served a completely different purpose than divine astralships. The Ancient Oldgod Domain was located in the depths of the Xenoworld, which couldn't be reached by divine astralships, either. Tianming would have to grow his personal power to take down the terra.
"I can fight fourth-level overflowers right now, but cosmic gods exist from God Domain Nine onward. If Bai Ye's terra's territory doesn't have any cosmic gods, its combat capabilities have an upper limit, probably at the peak of the Overflower stage. Bai Ye's caelum and I will have to grow quite a bit stronger." For now, the only thing he could do was have Zi Zhen guard God Domain One.
"That location is incredibly important. If it's revealed, word that the Original Sin Pool vanished will also spread across the Upper Star Ruin, which wouldn't just make it hard for me to get more overflower fragments. They might even go all the way to my dynasty for it!"
At the very least, Yanri Shuang and the Cosmic God Palace had been taken care of. "Long Qian said that ships in the Upper Star Ruin are marked down to their divine astralship formations, so even if I take the control cores, their locations will still be broadcast. I can't use the Cosmic God Palace for my own ends, then." Even though he couldn't really use it, he still took the formation core to check out the star map of the ship.
"Wow! It can even use the wormhole expressway!" The only reason it hadn't done so during the return trip to Starmoon Haven was the relatively short distance to begin with. Opening the wormhole expressway was a waste of nova source for such a short trip, since it wouldn't even save that much time.
"Starmoon Haven is supposed to be a large fortuna-class world that isn’t too far away, yet I'm unable to see even a blink of light from it! The Upper Star Ruin is too dark." That kind of darkness made it feel like there were traps in its midst. Fortunately, he had Yin Chen for scouting purposes.