Method of Becoming an Aeon

Oh!!

Wasn't this the formula of certain popular novels from her past life?

The protagonist acquired a Golden Finger, happened upon the chance to take control of a world, then continuously annexed and upgraded worlds until the world under the protagonist's control was elevated into the supreme world of infinite heavens?

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "Good lord, as expected of a Genius Club member—you really know how to make things happen! Even after missing Amphoreus, you still managed to pull off something huge!"

Snow Moon Sword Immortal: "I don't really understand it, but being able to control the Way of Heaven does sound incredibly impressive."

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "All I can say is that it's even more outrageous than you imagine. Do you think Hermes merely became someone who controls the Way of Heaven? In reality, this is only the beginning!"

A single planet was nothing more than a trivial matter to a Genius Club member, even if they played all sorts of tricks with it.

And the fact that Hermes was willing to devote so much effort to it only highlighted, from the opposite angle, what it contained...

Snow Moon Sword Immortal: "@Pioneering Wisdom, thank you for the information. I've already verified it; it should all be accurate!"

Snow Moon Sword Immortal: "Otherwise, Zhao Yuzhen and I might truly have been manipulated by the Heavenly Mandate!"

Snow Moon Sword Immortal: "If there is anything you need, and it is within my ability, feel free to ask."

Li Hanyi sat motionlessly atop Cang Mountain, gazing into the distance with a complicated expression. The concealed sword intent upon her beloved sword, Iron Horse Ice River, kept shifting in her palm.

In the end—

A vast sword intent of supreme selfhood gradually took shape.

The experience of nearly having her mind dulled by the Heavenly Mandate and becoming a chess piece in fate's vortex filled Li Hanyi with deep unease.

If she had simply been less skilled than her opponent and died beneath their sword, Li Hanyi would have had nothing to say, nor would she have harbored any resentment.

For that was the romance of a swordsman.

But the one thing she could never accept was becoming a puppet on strings, a doll at another's mercy, without ever realizing it!

The Way of Heaven and the Heavenly Mandate had now instilled profound wariness in Li Hanyi's heart!

For this reason, Li Hanyi sat alone atop Cang Mountain, cutting herself off from every disturbance of the outside world as she entered a deathly seclusion.

In the end—

She comprehended this Sword Dao of supreme selfhood.

The word "self" referred to one's own self!

Supreme selfhood did not mean suppressing the world with one's sword or reigning alone through tyranny. It meant knowing oneself, mastering oneself, and believing that the only person who could control oneself was oneself.

That was supreme selfhood!

Mount Hua Sect Leader: "Come to think of it, it seems no memory instance from Snow Moon Sword Immortal's world has been uploaded."

Mount Hua Sect Leader: "I'm very curious. Just how profound is the Martial Dao in Snow Moon Sword Immortal's world? How strong are its fighters?"

Seeing the chat's topic drift toward Snow Moon Sword Immortal, Ning Qingyu finally could not hold back from asking.

If not for being forced into it, he did not want to abandon the path of Martial Dao either.

The imprint of Martial Dao had already seeped into his bones. It was the path that the entire Mount Hua Sect, and Ning Qingyu himself, had upheld for a lifetime.

Once he abandoned it, it would be almost equivalent to abandoning himself, and his cultivation would likely collapse.

But he was not some supreme grandmaster capable of pioneering an entirely new path...

Ning Qingyu could only place his hopes on Snow Moon Sword Immortal, hoping that this was a proper high-martial world.

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "As for its combat power... all I can say is that it should surpass the limits of a mid-martial world, but whether it can touch the threshold of a high-martial world is hard to say."

Pioneering Wisdom: "I think it is currently hovering around the high-martial threshold."

Pioneering Wisdom: "After all, Snow Moon Sword Immortal's world already has something like the Heavenly Mandate, and the will of heaven also appears quite active. Those are basically hallmark signs of a high-martial world."

Pioneering Wisdom: "Even if it hasn't reached that level yet, it will sooner or later."

As they spoke, Hermes also developed considerable interest in Li Hanyi's world.

A world where the Way of Heaven was active could provide plenty of data for his current plans.

If the Way of Heaven were too powerful, it would instead be difficult to obtain what he wanted. Li Hanyi's world was just right at the moment.

It was neither too powerful nor so weak that it had fallen silent.

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "That's true. When Wind and Cloud first aired, it was a typical mid-martial world. But once Half-Side God and Great Sun Tathagata appeared, it was immediately pulled into the high-martial tier!"

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "If we're talking solely about destructive power, then even leveling a mountain with one punch doesn't necessarily make it high-martial."

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "The fact that the Martial Dao experts in Wind and Cloud touched upon the concept of time should have been one of its defining events. By the same logic, the existence of the Heavenly Mandate and an active Way of Heaven are equally defining milestones."

"Ding, group member Pioneering Wisdom has uploaded a memory instance."

Pioneering Wisdom: "I've uploaded everything I know. @Snow Moon Sword Immortal, it can't possibly be exactly the same, but the general course of events should be correct."

Pioneering Wisdom: "As for payment, once the time is right and the Chat Group unlocks its world-travel function, just let me study the unique Way of Heaven and Heavenly Mandate in your world."

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "Studying the Way of Heaven and the Heavenly Mandate? So you really have set foot on that path."

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "But in the Tree Sea Multiverse system, shouldn't the Way of Heaven be the Tree of Imaginary and the Sea of Quantum? Shouldn't researching those be enough?"

Luo Qianqiu found it somewhat strange.

The Joy Aeon, Aha, had been able to climb to the peak of the tree and let out laughter that shook the Universe. That was proof enough that the tree existed and was not beyond reach.

Why take the long way around when there was a closer path?

Pioneering Wisdom: "The sea of trees is too far away, while the Snow Moon Sword Immortal is right in front of us."

Pioneering Wisdom: "Besides, who says I haven't studied the sea of trees? Why do you think I was able to become an Envoy of Erudition even after traveling so far down the path of Pioneering?"

After saying that, Hermes directly tossed out an image.

[Item: Philosopher's Stone - Honkai: Star Rail Hermes Version]

[Genius Club #84 Hermes extracted a trace of the Breath of Truth from Imaginary and Quantum, then condensed and created a nearly perfect substance. This substance possesses the ability to equivalently exchange all phenomena in the world!]

[Note: This item is estimated to rank between a single universe and the Multiverse. As long as the target falls within that range, it can take effect directly.]

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "It's shocking, but the moment I think of your name, I'm not surprised anymore. Hermes creating the Philosopher's Stone—isn't that only natural?"

Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "Still, I never expected this Honkai: Star Rail version of the Philosopher's Stone to have such an incredibly high rank."

Luo Qianqiu had known that the Honkai: Star Rail version of Hermes was outrageous, but she had not expected him to be this outrageous.

According to that description, as long as he had enough time to condense a sufficient number of Honkai: Star Rail Philosopher's Stones, wouldn't he be able to become an Aeon directly?

After all, Aeons also fell within the range from a single universe to the Multiverse.

Though that would probably require an astronomical number of Honkai: Star Rail Philosopher's Stones...