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Chapter 651: Chapter 488: Heavenly Dao Incarnation?
As the Water Elemental leader of the Cosmic Realm, the Catastrophe from the Sea is extraordinarily powerful. Its presence is overwhelming, even though it’s just at the Peak Realm, surpassing many in Longevity.
However, things have two sides.
While the rules of the Cosmic Realm bestow these divine lives with boundless power, they also restrict their power’s exertion. This means these divine beings cannot act against outsiders unless they truly threaten the Cosmic Realm.
This restriction applies not only to outsiders but also to the native beings of the Cosmic Realm.
If it weren’t so, there would not have been such periodic rotations among the Watchers of the Cosmic Realm.
After all, the total amount of power is constant. Aside from life and death, anyone who tries to seize your power is your enemy.
This is true for ordinary people, and even more so for the divine lives of the Cosmic Realm.
For them, indeed, power is life itself.
Take the Catastrophe from the Sea, for example. As a Peak Realm, its lifespan is three thousand years. After becoming a divine life, that number grew to five thousand, and now, as it almost manages the entire Water Element of the Cosmic Realm, it’s extended to ten thousand years.
In such circumstances, if someone were to usurp its position as Water Elemental leader and succeed in overthrowing it, the Catastrophe from the Sea’s life span would drop to five thousand years. If the usurper is even more ruthless and strips away the divinity, the lifespan would be reduced to three thousand.
The Catastrophe from the Sea is now four thousand four hundred years old.
Because of its identity as a Watcher, having fought many battles in its youth, it’s left with numerous scars, significantly diminishing its lifespan.
Under such conditions, anyone who takes away its position as Water Elemental leader is essentially demanding its life.
It’s because of this situation that the Cosmic Realm values power as if it were life itself.
Of course, this is merely about the power struggles among divine beings. In contrast, it’s a different matter for those Watchers unable to gain divinity.
Influenced by the divine lives and restrained by the world’s rules from freely harming others, even without the constraints, the non-divine strongholds of the Cosmic Realm essentially show little initiative, behaving like cannon fodder in comparison to equivalents in other realms.
With such mental preparation, when Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu entered the core area of the Cosmic Realm, the Inner Ring Forest Sea, what they saw was not unexpected.
But, it was still immensely shocking!
"What is that? The Heaven-Reaching Tower?"
Looking up, Chen Zhixing swore to the heavens, that despite having seen much, this scene before him was still breathtaking.
Thousands upon thousands of Nirvana Realm and Peak Realm cultivators of the Cosmic Realm gathered within the Inner Ring Forest Sea, working like worker ants on possibly the largest ’construction site’ in this world, using a variety of strange methods to form a colossal platform that takes up nearly half of the Forest Sea.
The Heaven-Reaching Tower!
"Are they trying to build this tower to reach some Divine Kingdom?"
Gulp, Bai Yu swallowed hard.
She’s seen crazy people, but an entire world turning mad is something she witnessed for the first time.
"How far are those Divine Kingdoms in the sky?"
"About fifteen thousand kilometers."
"Is it possible to build a fifteen-thousand-kilometer tower out of wood?"
"What do you think?"
"...Why don’t they just fly up?"
"I don’t know, if you want to know, why not ask someone?"
"Totally mad!"
Bai Yu uttered a coarse word, decidedly unladylike, to relieve her suppressed emotions.
She truly couldn’t imagine what kind of madness could drive a group of Nirvana and Peak Realm cultivators to ignore reality to construct a building almost like a daydream. Yet, when Bai Yu and Chen Zhixing looked upon these people, their determination was surprisingly unwavering.
They truly were devoted to building the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
They cultivated tree species, harvested wood, laying the foundation for this colossal platform at the highest point of the Cosmic Realm. Moreover, for this project, virtually all the higher combat power of the Cosmic Realm was gathered here!
After a moment of silence, Chen Zhixing saw that on this vast construction site, some life form finally noticed their arrival and started heading towards them. Chen Zhixing spoke to it:
"There’s no action crazier than this."
"Crazy? No, we are merely mending this broken world, clearing up the mess left by the Ancient Gods in our own way."
The humanoid life form that emerged from the construction site replied in the universal language of the Celestial Profound Realm.
It was smiling, seemingly unperturbed by Bai Yu and Chen Zhixing’s arrival.
A bizarre life form with an almost inhuman beauty yet maintaining human form, its being exuding a World Consciousness so intense that Bai Yu instinctively felt like hiding behind Chen Zhixing.
It’s terrifying.
The last time Bai Yu saw a record of such a life form, where it was basically acknowledged as a World Consciousness vessel, was within the Immortal Ascension Sect’s documentation about the Divine Court Emperor Venerable. Yet Bai Yu believed that even the Emperor Venerable couldn’t match the extent of world-endowment seen in this strange life form before them.
This practically qualifies as a half-World Consciousness!