Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

“You did well!”

Su Yuan patted Su Lian’s little head.

Su Lian happily danced around, overjoyed.

“Come on, let’s go back.”

“Mm, mm!”

The space around the two shifted.

When they reappeared, they were already back in the City Lord’s Mansion.

Su Yuan continued to ponder the Chaos True Name Great Dao.

At the same time, he also began to comprehend the Nothingness Great Dao.

Earlier, he had never cultivated the Nothingness Great Dao, only subconsciously feeling that the Nothingness Great Dao was clearly not the righteous path.

But the reality was that the Nothingness Great Dao was very likely the true righteous path.

So, after waking up, he naturally wanted to properly contemplate the power of Nothingness.

Within Su Yuan’s Nine Stars Land, there were some crystallized cores left behind by fallen Scavengers, which seemed to contain the Nothingness Great Dao.

Additionally, the Nothingness Spiritual Plant also held some secrets of the Nothingness Great Dao within its body.

With Su Yuan’s comprehension ability, he had already gained some understanding of the most basic Nothingness Great Dao.

“Chaos and Nothingness—these two seem inherently incompatible, yet they can transform into each other, like two sides of the same coin. The Nothingness Great Dao isn’t just one type; like the Chaos Great Dao, it is divided into many different compositions.”

“During battles, the power of Nothingness always feels identical, simply because all Nothingness powers share the same basic property—they mutually annihilate with Chaos power. This is their fundamental commonality, but beneath that commonality lies a multitude of unique properties.”

A strange light flickered in Su Yuan’s eyes. “And when countless variations of the Nothingness Great Dao merge together, they become absolute nothingness, the exact opposite of the Chaos Great Dao.”

Su Yuan was suddenly astonished.

He was shocked to discover that his [Dominator of Will] and [Dominator of Force] could help him master the Nothingness Great Dao!

It seemed he could simultaneously grasp both the Nothingness Great Dao and the Chaos Great Dao, containing them both within a single entity.

Su Yuan pondered for a moment, then resolutely chose to cultivate!

And the category of the Nothingness Great Dao he chose to comprehend was none other than the False Name Great Dao.

If the True Name Great Dao represented pure, genuine existence, then the False Name Great Dao represented eternal nothingness.

True Names represented existence; False Names represented solitude and desolation.

To permanently erase another’s True Name—this was to return them to nothingness!

Within Su Yuan’s body, countless True Name Stars formed a bright, resplendent universe that constituted his physical form.

But at this moment, a dead, silent False Name Star suddenly appeared in that universe. This star was dim and lifeless, without a single ray of light, without a trace of warmth. The radiance of several nearby True Name Stars seemed to be absorbed by it, making it look like a dead star.

It represented a living being that Su Yuan had utterly killed!

When a True Name was completely transformed into a False Name, a False Name Star was born within Su Yuan’s body.

The appearance of this first False Name Star was like opening Pandora’s Box—one after another, False Name Stars materialized out of thin air within Su Yuan.

Su Yuan couldn’t even remember how many beings he had killed!

He wasn’t bloodthirsty, but the number of beings he had slain was still vast beyond measure. Especially after he reached higher realms, when many powerful experts were killed, the universes they created would also collapse. In such cases, the fall of a single expert represented the fall of countless lives.

He didn’t need to remember the existence of these beings. When he cultivated and comprehended the False Name Great Dao, his body would naturally and spontaneously condense these False Name Stars!

The universe that was once filled with bright True Name Stars was now littered with countless dim, lifeless False Name Stars.

Some False Name Stars even seemed to generate a gravitational pull, devouring the light of True Names in all directions!

True Name Stars radiated brilliance, while False Name Stars consumed brilliance.

In particular, one massive False Name Star represented the existence of the Cyan Lion.

That False Name Star was enormous, forming a tremendous gravitational pull that condensed into a black hole-like celestial body, frantically swallowing all light and matter around it.

Even some True Name Stars caught in its pull were absorbed, becoming part of its own power.

These False Name Stars devoured the light of True Names, yet emitted an invisible False Name Light, producing the power of Nothingness!

The False Name Light rapidly spread throughout the entire physical universe, filling its framework.

Su Yuan felt a strange sense of fulfillment arise within him.

It was as if his physical body had previously been just an empty shell, lacking the substance of flesh and blood. Now, the power of Nothingness replaced the presence of flesh and blood, making his physical form feel solid and substantial.

It was a paradoxical feeling—clearly the power of a False Name, yet it gave a sense of reality.

Looking at the True Name Stars again, they did not become dimmer within the power of Nothingness; instead, they grew even brighter!

It was as if the power of Nothingness had added fuel to the True Name Stars, making the True Name Light they radiated even more dazzling and brilliant.

Insights came flooding in.

The [Dominator of Force] provided Su Yuan with the possibility of simultaneously cultivating both True Name Power and False Name Power!

Su Yuan had originally thought this trait was a combat-type trait, but now it seemed it was a cultivation-type trait.

Su Yuan sensed his own realm.

At this moment, as his comprehension deepened, his Chaos True Name Great Dao had risen to the 61st tier.

Meanwhile, the False Name Great Dao, which had gone from nothing to something, had broken through to the 49th tier!

“It seems that after my True Name Great Dao reached the 49th Dao Foundation, the mutually reinforcing False Name Great Dao also reached the 49th Dao Foundation—if the Nothingness Great Dao has a concept of Dao Foundation as well!”

Su Yuan fell into thought.

With a flicker of thought, the True Name Power radiating from his body instantly retracted, transforming instead into the Nothingness Power of a Nothingness Dominator.

Any Chaos Dominator who saw Su Yuan in his current state would firmly believe he was a Scavenger, and a powerful 49th-tier Scavenger or Nothingness Dominator at that!

When Su Yuan transformed again, the aura emanating from his body shifted once more, becoming that of a 61st-tier Chaos Dominator.

The transformation was effortless and perfect; no one could detect anything unusual about him.

Su Yuan slashed out with his sword. When the sword light first appeared, it was still a True Name Sword, but by the time it reached its midpoint, it had become a False Name Sword, representing the power of Nothingness.

He felt that Nothingness was so intimately connected to him. His power source was no longer limited to his Life-bound Chaos and his physical body, but now included this vast expanse of Nothingness.

Streams of Nothingness Power directly replenished themselves within his body, yielding to his control. He could effortlessly convert it into True Name Power.

Su Yuan tried to merge into Nothingness.

His body instantly vanished from its original spot, as if he had never existed at all, disappearing without a trace. It was quite some time before he reappeared.

He had actually mastered the special ability of a Nothingness Dominator.

So it turned out that the Nothingness Great Dao was truly the most suitable Dao for surviving within Nothingness.