The Man Who Walked on the Sun

"True Monarch, did you find something?" Daigo asked when he saw Lu Changsheng looking up at the sky.

"I did find something." Lu Changsheng nodded, then turned around and said, "Shall I send you back first?"

"No need, I can fly back on my own." Daigo smiled. "Thanks to the technique you taught me, True Monarch, the duration of my Tiga transformation has increased. It won't start flashing red so quickly like before."

"Is that so? That's good. Keep cultivating, and you'll grow stronger and stronger." Lu Changsheng said, "I'm going to see what's over there."

"Alright, take care, True Monarch." Daigo waved.

The moment he finished speaking, Lu Changsheng vanished from where he stood.

Daigo was left alone, sighing that True Monarch was truly a good person.

In True Monarch's world, he must have been an incomparably great person admired by countless people.

Above the heavens, the laws of the universe extended throughout this place. Compared with the complete power of Hong Huang, the power of this universe was somewhat incomplete, with many mechanisms yet to be formed.

The Golden Light around Lu Changsheng grew ever more dazzling, which meant he was drawing closer and closer to a vast amount of merit power.

He swept his gaze around, then picked a direction and moved forward.

One step carried him a thousand miles, and he soon arrived at the place that had stirred his senses.

A great amount of ownerless merit power radiated dazzling golden light, like a flock of lambs awaiting the arrival of the fated.

As though drawn to its own kind, the arrival of Lu Changsheng's merit avatar caused the merit power to continuously gather toward him and be absorbed into his body. His Merit Body also became increasingly radiant.

As Lu Changsheng absorbed the merit power, he also learned why there was so much of it here.

This universe lacked a complete set of mechanisms. It could give birth to merit, but it had no way to bestow it upon anyone. Thus, it had accumulated here all this time, with no one to collect it.

The merit power of the entire universe had gathered here.

Some had been produced when Ultramen defeated monsters and saved the living beings of the universe; some came from the contributions made by great figures of the world to reduce bloodshed; some arose from aliens sacrificing themselves to save an entire star system...

In short, countless amounts of merit power had been generated for all kinds of reasons.

Lu Changsheng guessed that, after some years, once this universe's mechanisms were truly complete, a so-called Spiritual Energy revival would occur, with Spiritual Energy surging forth. By then, many cultivators would emerge.

The merit power accumulated here would also be discovered and absorbed.

But before the Spiritual Energy revival could arrive, he had come first.

"So much merit power." Lu Changsheng did not stand on ceremony. It would have been one thing if he had not encountered it, but if he found this much ownerless merit power and still left it untouched, that would be far too saintly.

Lu Changsheng sat down cross-legged and began madly absorbing the merit power to strengthen this Merit Body. His strength rose at an astonishing rate, like a simp's goddess going from riding a simp's bicycle to driving a rich man's sports car—fast as hell.

Across this universe, countless living beings developed the same illusion—why did the sky seem especially dazzling today, as if it had been gilded in gold, glittering and drawing the eye? Yet when they rubbed their eyes and looked again, everything seemed perfectly normal.

Within the alternate space, the merit power was steadily diminishing as Lu Changsheng absorbed it with great fervor.

The Time Flow Rate in this place where the merit power was stored differed from that outside. Time here flowed faster than in the outside world.

After absorbing all the merit power in this place, Lu Changsheng rose and left. When he appeared again, he had returned to the universe.

It was just that the place where he stood was rather conspicuous—right on the sun.

Lu Changsheng looked down, took a step forward, and flashed onto the far side of the moon.

Yet in the distance, a satellite silently recorded this scene.

This image caused an uproar across the world.

"A man walking on the sun? Are you kidding? You really take myths and legends seriously?"

"Could he be someone who lives on the sun? A Sun Person?"

"Is the satellite malfunctioning? How could this be so absurd? Someone walking on the sun?"

"Could this be an ancient Saint from the Eastern nation?"

"Why can't he be the sun god of our Western nation?"

Countless experts debated the matter, but that was all they could do, because they had no ability to get close to the sun and investigate.

Standing on the far side of the moon, Lu Changsheng swept his gaze across the entire universe at a glance.

He saw the ultimate darkness on Earth, Gatanothor, a Cthulhu-like monster; he saw giants sealed within the Ancient Ruins; he saw resentments unwilling to fade and unyielding battle spirits...

"This is?" Lu Changsheng raised a hand and tore open a rift. This was the Cosmic Membrane; tearing it open was enough to cross into another universe.

He stood within another universe, golden light shining in his eyes as he once again read the information of this universe.

"The universe where the Land of Light is located?"

He suddenly understood. It appeared that he had arrived in the Tiga Universe, but in truth, he had entered the Ultraman worldview.

As long as one possessed sufficient power, one could travel through the universes to the worlds of other Ultramen.

Correspondingly, that meant this universe also contained a great amount of ownerless merit power.

Lu Changsheng carefully sensed it, and as expected, he discovered the location of that merit power.

There were countless Ultraman worlds, and the Ultraman universes were tightly interconnected.

Lu Changsheng knew that this journey would definitely bring in a huge harvest of merit power—far more than the merit he had obtained in Hong Huang.

"It seemed this item was fated to be mine." Lu Changsheng sighed.

Immediately afterward, he opened passages to every Ultraman universe in one go, splitting off countless avatars to infiltrate them.

Quietly~

Absorbing an inexhaustible amount of merit power.

Once Daigo's cultivation reached a certain level, he figured Daigo would be able to transform into Tiga and travel freely through them. Of course, that also meant people from other universes could come to the Tiga Universe.

Previously, some Ultraman universes had self-contained worldviews, and it was difficult for certain travelers to find the Tiga Universe. What Lu Changsheng had done now was establish connections between the universes.

For example, Belial might appear before Tiga.

Still, this counted as a form of training for Daigo.

After all, how could a Cultivator Ultraman manage without a little high difficulty?

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