Blue Star's Surface Area Expanded a Hundredfold
With a furious roar, he continued his assault, no longer content to break through one restriction at a time.
His star-pressing realm Martial Dao cultivation circulated at full power within his body.
Using his Martial Dao cultivation as an ally within and the Evolution Factors as a force without, he attacked from both sides, launching an all-out assault on the deeper genetic restrictions.
The twentieth, the thirtieth, the fortieth... His muscles began to swell and contract violently.
His bone density increased geometrically, and the concentration of Evolution Factors in his blood had grown high enough to make an ordinary evolver explode and die!
When the sixtieth restriction shattered, the evolved beasts within several miles, regardless of rank, all crouched low, trembling under the oppressive might of his ever-rising level of life.
Then, the roar of every restriction shattering at once erupted inside him, as though the last dam holding a flood dragon captive had burst.
Power suppressed for countless years gushed forth from the deepest recesses of his genes.
Several cracks split open in the cliff face, and invisible force blasted a circular hole through the clouds overhead.
Sunlight poured through the opening, falling directly upon his cross-legged figure.
At that moment, the panel appeared again:
[Name: Chen Du]
[Realm: Sixth Tier evolver · Martial Dao path, star-pressing realm / Sixth Tier evolver · factor path, late stage of the restriction realm]
He slowly rose to his feet and looked down at his hands.
He felt that his strength was a hundred times what it had been before!
And that was only his raw strength!
His muscle density, bone strength, neural reaction speed, cellular regeneration, resistance to blows... All had risen to a level capable of matching that strength.
This was a true Sixth Tier physique, the perfect vessel to match his star-pressing realm Martial Dao cultivation!
He should now count as being at the Peak Stage of the Sixth Tier in both paths, able to kill an ordinary Sixth Tier opponent in an instant!
He let out a long breath, and the violent force around him slowly subsided.
"This factor path really defies all reason. Simply evolving can grant such immense strength."
"Every time I broke through a restriction, I seemed to gain a new ability, but my abilities all seemed to increase my strength. Stacked together, they made my strength so tremendous!"
Chen Du increasingly felt that there was more to this Spiritual Qi Revival than met the eye.
Since coming to the Heavenly Human Realm, he also seemed to have understood just how cruel this universe was.
A mere demonic cultivation sect could actually enslave so many worlds.
To increase their own strength, they would stop at nothing!
Moreover, he had sensed it very clearly: after following the passage to the Motian Sect, the strength of those people had exceeded his imagination.
It was as though each of them possessed Divine Status.
The cultivation system they practiced was probably not the Qi Refining he knew from xianxia novels. This qi was probably the legendary Qi!
If it was that kind of cultivation system, someone at foundation establishment could easily beat a Deification cultivator.
Just then, the phone in Chen Du's pocket suddenly vibrated.
A dense stack of push notifications filled the lock screen.
He took out his phone. On the screen, the headline news was displayed in enlarged, bold emergency type.
"Global geography undergoes drastic change! Earth's surface area expands a hundredfold! Countries issue emergency level-one responses!"
He swiped open the screen. Special reports from major media outlets filled it in a dazzling array.
Chen Du now knew that the Xia Kingdom government could no longer keep the Spiritual Qi Revival under wraps.
The most direct figures came from reports on satellite surveying.
An international space agency had released a comparison of the latest remote-sensing images. Twenty-four hours ago, Blue Star had still been a familiar blue-and-white sphere.
But in the current images, the continental plates and ocean expanses were expanding rapidly.
"Preliminary estimates indicate that Earth's surface area has expanded approximately 103 times compared with twenty-four hours ago. This figure is still being dynamically revised."
That was the final conclusion!
A hundredfold increase in area was staggering.
Ordinary people's lives had been thrown into complete disarray.
A ride-hailing driver posted on social media that he lived in Yanjiao and worked in Guomao. His one-way commute used to be twenty-five kilometers.
That morning, he had followed his navigation app, and not one of the landmarks along the way was missing, but the drive had taken a full ten times as long as before!
The tens of thousands of replies beneath the post all described the exact same experience.
One person returning to his hometown for the New Year found that the originally three-hundred-kilometer journey had become three thousand kilometers, and his fuel tank ran dry halfway there.
Another person had walked forty minutes from the entrance of their residential complex to the subway station, a trip that had taken only four minutes the day before.
If the change in distances merely left people confused and inconvenienced, the changes to the famous mountains left everyone awestruck.
Mount Tai, Mount Song, Mount Huang, Kunlun Mountain—these fixed elevations, marked on maps for decades, had turned overnight into towering peaks that pierced the clouds.
In aerial drone footage, Mount Tai's mass had expanded in every direction, and the once narrow, steep climbing path had been stretched into a vast, broad road winding around the mountain.
Vast stretches of primeval forest had appeared out of nowhere on the mountainside, with strange flowers and exotic plants never seen before faintly visible among the trees.
The monks of Shaolin Temple on Mount Song had used their phones to record the scene outside the temple.
The whole of Mount Shaoshi was like a giant that had been awakened. Ancient patterns had emerged on its surface, shimmering with a faint golden light in the morning sun.
The transformation of Kunlun Mountain was the most terrifying.
Satellite images showed that the main peak of the Kunlun Mountain Range had shot up to tens of thousands of meters overnight, piercing straight through the stratosphere.
Stranger still, the summit was shrouded in an impenetrable fog, and no means of detection could glimpse what lay within.
Only a low sound of some sort could faintly be heard from the fog, like the heartbeat of some enormous creature.
These transformations had happened far too suddenly, yet without a sound.
It was as though Earth's expansion itself had been carried out under the control of some higher-dimensional power.
Chen Du finished scrolling through the last news story, tucked his phone back into his pocket, and looked past the cliff into the distance.
On the horizon, mountains stretched on in unbroken succession, a sea of forest surged, and spiritual energy so dense it had nearly condensed into substance filled the space between heaven and earth.
This was only the beginning.
The Xuanye Realm was a small Martial Dao world with incomplete laws.
The Heavenly Human Realm was outright an artifact-refining furnace maintained by the Motian Sect.
And Blue Star, in the midst of a Spiritual Qi Revival, was even more peculiar.
Now, it had expanded a hundredfold overnight.
What kind of world could expand outright under the impact of a Spiritual Qi Revival instead of falling apart?
He remembered a concept mentioned in a book he had been reading... the Myriad Worlds Sphere.
According to legend, among the myriad worlds of the heavens, there existed an extremely rare kind of primordial world.
Such a world was born a nexus of the myriad worlds, where the laws of countless worlds collided, fused, and settled.
As a result, the upper limit of such a world was unfathomable, and its opportunities were endless.
If Blue Star was such an existence, then its potential was boundless, and it could not be regarded as a mere planet.
A hundredfold increase in area meant a hundredfold increase in opportunities as well.
The secret realms, spirit veins, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures hidden among those famous mountains and great rivers that had risen from the ground were a hundred times as abundant as before.
In short, the curtain had finally risen in full.