Chapter 2122: Chapter 55: Wandering Terra, A Brand-New Path of the Dao!
[I knew you wouldnât call me just to let me watch.]
The Galewind Dragon King anticipated this. Ianâs manifested light entity is undoubtedly powerful, but it lacks a specific energy source and physical body, making it omnipresent yet somewhat inconvenient in actual combat.
Lightning flickered chaotically, and the Galewind Dragon King unfolded its true form beside the cradle.
Its essence is a dragon-like electromagnetic being that once resided in the pulsar star cloud, where spirit energy and electromagnetic pulses intertwined, stirring parts of the universe into subspaces akin to otherworldly realms. Pure magnetism became a medium for condensed matter; the pulsarâs regular illumination acted as the passage of days and nights, with the nebulaâs matter reverently moving like shy mimosas and sunflowers toward the pulsarâs direction.
At the center of this colossal magnetic light nebula was a small, bright star, an aether furnace simulating a pulsar, constructed by the civilization known as âIllusory Mist.â Electromagnetic cloud beings could move freely in space, even traversing the domain of void subspace, but only the pulsarâs surroundings provided the ultra-high magnetic environment they required. Thus, for other civilizations, the aether furnace not only served as an energy source but also acted as their âspacesuitâ for survival.
[Go ahead.]
The Galewind Dragon King was forthright â in some sense, it genuinely entrusted both its soul and body to Ian, and Ian did not disappoint.
Leading the Galewind Dragon King to the very edge of the cradle, the Dragon Kingâs aether furnace spun behind him, like the halo of a deity. Ian placed one hand beside the cradleâs space-time condensation wall and the other on the âlight film,â sensing the difference between the two.
Their essence was the same.
This was the conclusion Ian reached.
The cradle was self-repairing. Over sixteen hundred years, it had formed a layer of light film through self-repair. This light film was actually a preliminary form of space-time condensation material. It could slow the entry of light, filter and block most of the lightâs energy, and even function akin to a black hole, storing all incoming energy within itself.
However, it had an absolute difference from a true space-time condensation wall: it lacked the singularity of severing causality.
Aether transcends space and time, and true aether can even penetrate the Doomsday Black Hole. But such power requires at least the full force of the great aether current. Generally, a Star God cannot surpass the singularity of severed causality. Thus, in a normal cradle, the birth of a Star God does not attract the attention of The End.
However, the Terra Cradle has collapsed. Its cracks can only block light radiation and a series of other mundane things. To aether, itâs like a tea strainer that appears to stop nothing, while in reality, the tea has already been brewed.
If The End doesnât notice, itâs fine. But if it does... breaking through it would be like a seed breaking through a rock â just a matter of time.
At this moment, in Ianâs hands, infinite aether swirled and converged. Bit by bit, he folded space-time, separated causality, purified matter... In an instant, he nurtured two distinct vortices in his hands.
One vortex was extremely intense, dazzling and bright, burning with colorless flames.
The other vortex was deep and dark, shadowy and vague, completely empty and void, where nothing existed.
The two vortices interwove and revolved, forming a circulating loop like ââ.â This endless spin affected space-time. In the light vortex activated by the aether furnace, energy levels skyrocketed, while in the void vortex, a complete vacuum was forming, surpassing the vacuum barrier towards the âvacuum decayâ state of pure void.
The universe is not a true vacuum but a âfalse vacuumâ in a stable state before true vacuum.
Using high-energy levels to drive space-time, break barriers, and create vacuum decay â generating âtrue vacuumâ and, in turn, obtaining tremendous energy. The void vortex and the light vortex transformed into a circulation, a continually expanding, near-eternally expanding âloopâ known as the âPerpetual Ring of Vacuum Decayâ was about to form.
But Ian stabilized this âtrue vacuumââ aether is a force surpassing space-time that can easily exist within true vacuum, maintaining âspace-time pressureâ like water in a balloon in the deep sea, compressing this seemingly endlessly expanding âvacuum loopâ into material akin to bricks or walls.
No, it wasnât material yet... If âcradleâ material was akin to bricks and stones, this layer of vacuum loop was merely a grain of sand. Yet, through the chain reaction of vacuum decay, Ian rapidly created countless âvacuum loops,â exceeding human imagination in quantity.
After a long while, approximately an hour on Terra, Ian finally stopped.
In the area where his hand touched the âlight film,â a one-square-meter âCradle Wallâ appeared in place of the light film area.
Ian had created the âcradle.â
[You really did it!]
Seeing this scene, the Galewind Dragon King gasped in thunderous awe. Though it knew what the cradleâs material was, it couldnât construct it. Yet, having inherited from the Terra Dragon, Ian could shape the cradle wall in one attempt!
Though not large, to be able to create it at all marks the leap from zero to one!