Time Is Running Out

Another four hundred thousand years passed without anyone noticing. Peacock Mountain had changed dramatically, with formations standing everywhere around it, all Qing Feng's work.

He himself had taken humanoid form from a spirit mountain and possessed exceptional talent. During the hundred thousand years he and Lan Mu had supplemented each other's shortcomings and discussed the Dao, he had relied on the Central Thick Earth spiritual vein to reach the Quasi-Saint realm.

His breakthrough had happened only recently. Under Lan Mu's "cultivation," he had reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm long ago. After all, increasing one's mana cultivation was far too simple in the beginning of creation.

Yet comprehending Root Algorithms had held Qing Feng back for over three hundred thousand years.

Only recently had he barely managed to comprehend Information Modification.

This kind of Root Algorithm required an information-level foundation. Qing Feng lacked one, so using it came at a tremendous cost.

Only then did Lan Mu understand why the algorithms comprehended by Inverse Light and Sharu required a price. It was not because they had merely scratched the surface, but because they lacked information-level foundations like the Five-Colored Divine Light and the Life Sphere.

Many people possessed traits of absolute information and the ability to use Root Algorithms, but if they still needed to consume energy or pay other costs, it meant they remained at Level 6.

Only direct, straightforward alteration counted as entering Level Seven.

Of course, the Level Seven imagined by Galactic Core inhabitants meant freely modifying all information.

In Lan Mu's view, that standard was truly too harsh if one wanted to divide it further. As long as one could alter something directly and without cost, even if it was only one kind of information, that should count as a beginner at