Chapter 1890: Chapter 390: Edge of Perished Sun
Pioneer Platform.
A Metatron Cube composed of countless tiny geometric shapes, a core that emits rays reaching far out.
Numerous rays follow the continuous change of the cube, sketching out a triple-crossing halo on the periphery. This halo is akin to a star ring, forming a platform on which intricate inscription arrays flicker, alternately bright and dim, like breathing.
This is Ianâs Aether True Body.
An Aether True Body is not necessarily a concrete manifestation of a particular creature. The Bloodline True Form of Terra gives such an illusion because most Fourth Level powerhouses choose their most familiar, and quickly enhancing âbloodline source imageâ as their Aether True Body image.
But this is not absolute, just like True Form can change into âfantasy formsâ that never existed before, a personâs Aether True Body could be a dragon, and a dragonâs Aether True Body could be a natural phenomenon. If desired, it can certainly transform into a crown and a platform.
For example, one of the most renowned Fifth Energy Level powerhouses, the Forgemaster Cheng Yin Chuan from Yanjiang, his Aether True Body is a hammer and anvil. To him, everything is raw material, ready to be forged into different forms with one strike.
And Ianâs platform is his true nature.
The nature that seeks everything yet is unwilling to give up anything, seeking everyoneâs assistance yet willing to help all.
A greedy nature.
Its core ability is to discover possibilities in parallel timelines related to oneself, and then acquire oneâs special âAether True Bodyâ from that parallel timeline.
This can complement the enhanced abilities of the Guiding Star, which can summon avatars from various Paths of the Dao for aid in battle: The Pioneer Platform creates specialized Aether True Body forms with special attack capabilities against certain enemies, and the Guiding Star summons avatars and battle experiences from these Paths, directly producing a special avatar to tackle certain foes.
Thus, by harnessing this avatar, Ian can obtain a near âomniscientâ Aether True Body!
This is the part where Ian desires everything and all assistance.
At the moment Ian forges his Aether True Body, he also perceives the non-combat capabilities of his Aether True Body.
That is selecting âPioneers Eligibles.â
Sounds familiar.
Just like the Great Aether Circulation selects Ian and Pioneers like those who were chosen in a similar manner, Ianâs Guiding Star can also select qualifying âPioneers.â
Anyone who can cause Ianâs immortality vibration aligns with the Pioneer Platformâs selection criteria.
Simply put, those drifting in infinite space-time as Chosen Psychic Power are essentially the legacy of numerous immortal powerhousesâ immortality within the river of time. They select eligible individuals as hosts.
The Rites of the Star Gods can barely be considered a form of star god-bestowed immortality, and all qualifying Pioneers can obtain this most potent âChosen Psychic Power.â
Ianâs Pioneer Platform mechanism is similar, with the only difference being that Ian is alive, and the Pioneer Platform doesnât merely provide psychic energy but provides âknowledge.â
Just as the Guiding Star can transmit technological knowledge across parallel timelines, Ian can, within the scope of his Pioneer Platformâs influence, select eligible Pioneer reserves, gather âknowledgeâ from them and give âknowledgeâ as recompense.
In simple terms, Ian can leverage the Pioneer Platform to directly find Pioneers likely to make epochal inventions, freeload the knowledge and wisdom in their hands, and then share his insights with them or provide them with part of his power to help overcome obstacles, resolving issues to achieve dual-win, triple-win, and multi-win!
In short, Ian never loses!
At the moment, one can see the Pioneer Platform constantly emitting numerous rays reaching infinitely afar. It doesnât maintain a stable geometric form, but keeps micro-adjusting, changing, with varying angles of rays emitted.
In the future, this platform will continue to upgrade, changing with the depth of Paths of the Dao Ian develops.
For now, itâs the Metatron Cube since the inherent Paths arenât numerous... If there are more Paths in the future when more Pioneers cast their light into it... it might become a sphere.
By that time, the Pioneer Platform might even turn into a massive luminous sphere emitting boundless rays.
The origins of this ability are quite complex. Ian blended Crown Prince Carlosâs divine arts technology and part of the Spirit Disaster Pathâs concepts to create a module within Pioneer Space for bestowing power, and also incorporated part of the Swarm Pathâs thought network as a method for internal communication and knowledge transmission, while Foresight View was crucial. It can discern peopleâs future potential and influence on the world, greatly aiding in selecting Pioneer reserves.
However, thatâs a matter for the future.
Currently, for Ian, the Pioneer Platform is simply a most direct specialized combat search tool.
Just like now, Ian is searching for a specialized true form against the âSunbird.â
It isnât hard to find.
In countless parallel timelines, almost all Ians eventually face the Sunbird.
Some fail, some succeed. Among the successes, some draw, some narrowly win, some involve sieges, and of course, there are one-on-ones resulting in a grand victory.