Chapter 13: Dawn of the Deep Soul
"Conditions? As far as I know, our Underwater Abyss Team has already set off, and you missed it. The intelligence from Zhi Xiang, we've also informed you."
Disweil contemplated for a moment, suddenly realizing:
"You mean, it's time to confront the Maxwell Consortium?"
"Prepare in advance, I am going to have a decisive battle with Lord Entropy."
Li Aozi's figure drew ever closer to Azure Star, the spacetime before him twisted by his Arcane Energy, like butter sliced by a hot knife. The majestic aura of Iota Rank (9) was fully unleashed without reservation.
"As you wish, Lord Leoz."
Mr. Disweil said in a deep voice:
"Also—just now, I seemed to hear Lulisha calling out 'Dad'... Was it an illusion?"
"...Maybe it wasn't."
"Perhaps I'm getting old," Disweil lamented, "Lately, I've begun to have wild thoughts, sometimes even praying to the heavens, hoping They would guide my daughter safely into the Nether Abyss, reincarnated into a happy and safe family."
"To occasionally hold onto a heart of fantasy is by no means a bad thing. That's what I believe."
Li Aozi smiled faintly, traversing the stars, entering the Fairy Galaxy where the Azure Star was located, proceeding straight ahead.
"If you harbor a strong desire and fervently wish, and take concrete actions—then you will surely receive a response."
"Just in such a short time, you have grown to this extent, it's simply beyond imagination. The path that Morphederia could not forge has revealed new hope in you."
"Life originates from the Sun, civilization from fire. The persistent pursuit and worship of light and heat, from primitive tribes to interstellar empires, has always been the eternal theme."
"Respond to people's expectations, fulfill life's aspirations, become the hope of all beings on Earth—as long as you can achieve these, you are the true Dominator."
"Now, show those Old Gods' rotten flesh who the real ruler of the cosmic beings is!"
"—'Primeval Heavenly Sovereign' Piarinus Solorao offers his blessings to you"
"You have gained the status: 'Deep Soul Benediction'—free consciousness will not be harmed when submerging Starry Abyss, lasting 50 years."
"You have met the promotion conditions for [Corona Pope]"
"Hint: At the masterpiece sublimation phase, your existence will further transform, truly entering the Demigod Race. Initiating the sublimation ceremony will change your species, physique, and gender."
"Begin the sublimation ceremony."
His body transformed from the porcelain form of [Lunar String Archbishop] to a mortal form, swiftly traversing the orbit of Azure Star, moving so fast that it rolled up millions of hectares of Ersha Cloud layer, even spacetime couldn't react and was immediately self-corrected by the Layer Abyss Universe.
Nephis and others were still fighting along the orbit of Azure Star, oblivious to the fact that the aura of Iota Rank (9) had descended with the displacement of spacetime.
Li Aozi's figure raced past Azure Star, leaving behind several planetary systems of celestial bodies, and he placed all his items and equipment into the dimensional space, then spread his arms, not toward Azure Star—but flying straight to the Sun, the star at the very center of the star system.
He deactivated the gravitational shield, allowing himself to be captured by the star, shedding the weak force radiation turbulence, receiving the light and heat from the Sun with all his being.
The scorching solar wind descended upon Li Aozi, high-energy charged particles tearing open flesh, traversing freely between his vascular pulses and nerves.
Flames consumed his flesh, plasma clouds danced wildly in his brain, and the existence of the organism was continuously annihilated.
The Sun, the origin of all.
As a star, its essence is a constantly exploding hydrogen bomb, even the smallest Sun has a mass equivalent to 300,000 times that of Azure Star.
Once captured by the Sun's gravity, there is no escaping it, the surface temperature, even at the darkest sunspots, reaches between three to five thousand degrees Celsius. After traversing a region of minimal temperature, Li Aozi's body began to plummet toward the chromosphere, his vision completely scorched, pathway energy emanating outwards, connecting to the surrounding atomic structures. All he saw was a sea of the brightest green.
Then came the transition region, flare, and prominence, with the temperature continually increasing, his body constantly under immense pressure, in layman's terms, it was as if 25.79 billion adults were standing on every inch of his skin. The temperature he endured was enough to vaporize all ordinary materials, leaving no room for resistance.
This terrifying pressure was enough to shatter everything, even a Kappa Rank powerhouse would be halted here.
However, Li Aozi wasn't completely destroyed.
Flesh was destroyed instantly, and the majority of the arcane sequence and mandate within him were obliterated, yet the sequence mandate remained unscathed.
Gravity was the first to reveal its might.
It silently displaces the pressure around it, spontaneously operating. The immense pressure comes from mass, but the gravitational arcane energy controls, interferes, and influences the phenomena of mass and spacetime.
The pressure of the Sun was the first to be overcome.
Then, it was the Weak Force that activated, intricately rearranging hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and traces of iron, silicon dioxide, carbon, sodium, and other elements within a gravitational environment, reforming them into a brand-new elemental substance, which can only form under extreme high-pressure, high-temperature conditions.
The power of the Electromagnetic Force is more immense than the previous two combined. Though its sequence is subsequent, once it combines with the preceding two, it can display incredible miracles.
From ancient times to the present, people have pondered what consciousness really is?
In the information age, people gave an answer—electricity.
Everywhere, electrons flow, becoming electric current, which carries signals through the human body. Through acidic and alkaline electron exchanges, simple information exchanges occur.
All kings, rulers, and leaders realized early on: control the exchange of information and its dominance, and you control the entire society.
And electricity is merely the most superficial manifestation of electromagnetic force.
In other words, whoever controls electromagnetic force is rightfully the ruler.
The average temperature of the corona layer reaches up to 1 million Kelvin, with a peak temperature of up to 8 million Kelvin. The closer to the core, the higher the temperature, eventually reaching 20 million degrees Celsius.
But these temperatures are far from being usable for humans.
The Baizhu Fleet detected the abnormal temperatures immediately, and the stellar observers opened monitoring channels, hurriedly reporting as they watched the data surge upward:
"The Sun of the Azure Star is continuously releasing strong solar winds. Expected to arrive in four minutes."
"What's the situation? It's just an ordinary star."
"No, unclear. The temperature of the corona layer keeps rising—a massive heat source is moving outward. The altitude is climbing—it's now reached the prominence and flare layers—be cautious of the solar storm, all personnel involved in extravehicular activities must immediately return to the ship."
The ceaselessly climbing data made the stellar observer report incessantly, their tongue almost tying in knots:
"The transition layer, chromosphere, surface—it's coming out!"
Buzz————————————!
Gravity, like a receding tide, contracts inward, with potential energy rapidly transforming into thermal pressure. Under the dual action of push and pull, a vast amount of matter is ejected far beyond the power of any machinery.
A visibly radiating ring is cast outward, this high-temperature helium matter advancing at 300,000 kilometers per second, sweeping across the entire star system.
"Warning: Solar storm approaching, everyone prepare for emergency procedures, magnetic shields activated, all systems set to manual control, document data uploaded to the cloud!"
The stellar observer hurriedly reported down the line:
"The storm is expected to bring a vast amount of high-temperature helium particles, reaching temperatures up to 2 million degrees—all space operations must cease immediately!"
"Repeat: Solar wind incoming!"
The Baizhu Fleet swiftly regrouped, all spacecraft and outdoor personnel returning to ranks in time, systems switching entirely to manual, astronauts didn't have time to enter the oxygen chamber to restore pressure, instead directly entering the vacuum area of the dock to wait.
The shield steadily expanded the magnetic field, intended to counteract the impact of high-energy carryon particles, yet in the face of nature's mighty force, all was in vain, for Baizhu Star's technology was not yet strong enough to withstand such levels of solar storms.
The electromagnetic pulse erupted from the flare layer arrived faster than the solar wind, a massive stream of protons erupting from the center.
The first to bear the brunt was the Commerce God Star closest to the Sun, its surface temperature reaching 430 degrees, an absolute life-forbidden zone. As the magnetic storm arrived, violent dust storms rose instantaneously on the scorched yellow Commerce God Star, with the surface dust being electromagnetically seared into crystal.
Next was Venus, this beautiful orange planet, losing 0.3% of its mass the moment the solar wind arrived. Its upper thick atmosphere was drawn away, contributing merely 2 billion tons of nitrogen and carbon dioxide to the solar wind, which modestly slowed the solar wind's speed, making the conquest somewhat less despairing.
The War God Star was the last stop before reaching Azure Star. This fiery red planet was mercilessly conquered, ravaged, and destroyed by the solar wind. Terrifying storms ravaged its vulnerable surface, lightning and magnetic storms bursting violently across the ground, and even in craters and canyons, auroras could be seen erupting.
They failed, and Azure Star was next.
The members of the Baizhu Fleet tightly gripped their seats, the powerful solar storm swept through the entire fleet with turbulent hot particles and gas clouds, millions of tons of warships swaying wantonly in space. Electronic devices died instantly, charged particles mercilessly destroying all electronic equipment, but fortunately, they were prepared, switching early to manual mode, able to return to normal operations immediately.
In this vacuum cosmos, they were able to listen through the medium brought by the solar wind, to the ancient voice from deep within the Sun:
「Lord Entropy, come to see me!」