Chapter 1433 - 782: Facing Shanghao and Walking Alone in Darkness!_3

Chapter 1433: Chapter 782: Facing Shanghao and Walking Alone in Darkness!_3

This "month" is "Cosmos Time", the standard time reference for the entire Cosmos.

It does not shift with galaxy cluster migration or gravitational influence, only follows the reference-frame clock of the Cosmos’ slow expansion.

For Blue Star’s "planetary time", Meng Chuan inferred from intelligence on the Dao Domain Network that, taking the Silver Disk Galaxy as the baseline, it is roughly six times slower than Cosmos Time.

In other words, this trip leaving Blue Star, just the round trip alone will take at least one year.

Adding in the time spent in the Pangu Divine Hall, by the time he returns to Blue Star and re-aligns with the planetary time standard, it will not be more than three months since he left, so he will not miss the Execution Bureau’s chief officer assessment.

But the growth of age is very real; once this journey ends, his actual age will be 23...

"Hoo..."

The exhaled airflow was swallowed by the darkness, silent and soundless.

Meng Chuan slowly closed his eyes, then drew in a deeper breath, adjusting his current state.

Though he could not move and his senses could not extend outward, his Heart Intent could still slowly circulate within his body.

Even in darkness, he could clearly sense every muscle, every inch of his skin.

Probing deeper within, whether from a macro or micro perspective, his limbs and bones were all complete.

This meant that Cultivation Techniques that did not require "movement" during cultivation could still run unimpeded here.

But Fist Skills, Hard Skills, and all Secret Techniques of qi refinement that involved bodily movements, were completely impossible to cultivate.

If he wanted even a little freedom of movement in this darkness, relying only on a Gang Transformation body was far from enough.

Perhaps only a "divine body" that was unaffected by the chaotic flows of the void could achieve that.

Tier Eight gods were the ones who truly obtained an admission ticket to this starry sky.

"Ascending to God..."

...

Cultivating in such an environment was a rare experience.

He had passed the physical hurdle, but the hurdle of the mind still obstructed his cultivation.

At first, Meng Chuan could hardly enter meditative stillness; not to mention the Celestial Abyss Skill, even the Yin-Yang Demon-Cleansing Heart Sutra was a top-tier True Skill that placed extremely high demands on cultivation mindset and environment.

Every time he just started to get into the state, he would be jolted awake as if startled in the middle of the night.

He had to first adapt to this environment.

Meng Chuan no longer forced himself to cultivate, but often replayed his cultivation and pondered Creation Skill Martial Arts in his mind; gradually, he became increasingly calm.

Enduring long solitude was a necessary quality for the strong.

"In Lan Zhan’s memories there’s a record that adapting to all kinds of different Cosmic environments is also one of the best ways to temper Spiritual Power.

How was it done again? Lan Zhan never cultivated either, but... how did he perform in battle? Let me take a look..."

He sank into recollection, trying to understand and imitate.

As time passed, Meng Chuan’s mindset gradually changed, and his Spiritual Power—his Heart Intent—grew stronger on this dark voyage.

Like the "light" that appeared after the Big Bang of the Cosmos, it granted living beings the hope to continue existing.

Within this darkness shrouding everything, his Heart Intent finally stirred, attempting to seize control of his body, until it was sufficient to maintain the operation of his Cultivation Techniques in this environment.

"Compared to Cosmic beings from powerful planets, my Heart Intent Power is a shortcoming; I’ll have to pay special attention to it in the future..." With a shift of thought, Meng Chuan then consoled himself:

"But the fact that I can struggle free of the darkness, and even originally derived a Heart Intent training method from Lan Zhan’s memories, proves that my path of the mind is highly promising, and my talent isn’t bad..."

Falling behind for a while only means catching up later!

After a long silence, the panel where only [Transcendence] was running gradually began to change.

The proficiency of the two techniques would jump every so often, making them the only two visible changes throughout this long journey.

As for the other change, it was his Inner World, which Meng Chuan also observed from time to time.

In the long darkness, only the faint bit of color in his Inner World added a trace of brightness to the desolation.

Unfortunately, after staying in the darkness for too long, his inner and outer worlds were passively engaged in a clash; the external dark environment was like ink droplets falling into water, dripping and diffusing, making the water ever more turbid.

The Inner World was being eroded by the outer darkness; the principle was the same, it became increasingly dim, its colors turning towards gray-black.

But in the clash between inner and outer worlds, the influence was mutual; while his Inner World was being corroded, it was also infecting the surrounding darkness.

Meng Chuan could sense this process, but the effect was far too small, so small it was almost imperceptible.

"How powerful must a Martial Arts Inner World be before it can in turn influence the surrounding void darkness..."

Cultivating in darkness consumed too much Heart Intent Power, so during a breathing adjustment, Meng Chuan pondered:

"In the mortal stages up to Tier Seven, there’s no point thinking about it. I wonder if, after Breaking Eight and Entering the Dao through Martial Arts, it will become possible..."

No one knew that he was destined to be the first human to attempt this in the future.

...

The deep space was deathly silent; occasionally, when the chaotic flows thinned, Meng Chuan could see scattered cold stars drifting by.

Darkness wrapped around his solitary body, slowly drifting in the void...

In this spatial environment where even time lost its meaning, Meng Chuan had a "task" he had to complete every so often.

That was to entertain himself, to prevent his brain from becoming rigid.

"Morning and evening Enlightenment, listening to the Dao under the moon, none of that helps; what I need most right now is a [Darkness Enlightenment] trait, then I’d just take off..."

While indulging in such thoughts, Meng Chuan’s gaze swept toward the panel.

In order to "endure" in the darkness, he had checked the panel more in this stretch of time than in the past several years combined...

[Yin-Yang Demon-Cleansing Heart Sutra: 6th Layer (7%) awaiting Limit Breaking]

[Limit-Breaking Traits: Qi Body Sourceflow (High-Level)]

"This technique has broken through two layers, and I’ve cultivated the Celestial Abyss Skill to over halfway through the second layer; it feels like at least half a year has passed, we should be almost there..."

As for planetary time—how long it had been since he set out from Blue Star—Meng Chuan could not temporarily calculate.

Because the cultivation environment was different, without the blessing of a sacred land, and with a cultivation mindset that was not as relaxed as before, his proficiency growth speed had dropped significantly; he could not use his previous cultivation speed as a reference to estimate the passage of time.

After another period passed, Meng Chuan’s gaze once again sank into the Inner World of his body.

The darkness outside showed no visible change, but according to his observation, the "blackening" process of his Inner World had stopped for quite some time, and now there were even faint signs of retreat.

The erosion of the void was weakening, the darkness becoming diluted.

He was certain in his heart that, following the guidance of the Pangu Order, he was about to arrive at the [Pangu Divine Hall].