The True Meaning

Reilo, encountering the astronomical telescope for the first time, was like a child, completely engrossed.

"Where's the moon?"

As Reilo was about to adjust the telescope's angle to find the moon, a voice from behind made him jump.

"To observe the moon, you need to adjust the telescope to a thirty-five-degree angle."

Reilo quickly turned around. It was his mentor, Gubo, wearing a loose black pajama. Reilo didn't know when he had appeared behind him.

"Mentor, you're not asleep?"

In the darkness, Reilo couldn't see Gubo's face clearly. He could vaguely see Gubo looking up through the observatory window, his deep eyes gazing at the boundless starry sky above.

"I'm accustomed to coming up for a stroll every night."

With his hands behind his back, Gubo, in his loose black pajamas, spoke with a hint of melancholy in the night. He lacked the usual sternness and severity Reilo remembered.

After a pause, Gubo continued, "Constrained by the high-quality manufacturing processes for convex lenses in astronomical telescopes, the celestial bodies we can observe are still blocked by the background radiation of the star veil. Only by breaking through that layer of radiation can we observe the true universe and prove what pioneer White Niven said: heaven does not exist."

Sigh...

He shook his head and sighed.

"There are some astrological manuscripts left by pioneer White Niven there. Since pioneer White Niven's death, there have been fewer and fewer astrologers in various countries. Celestial mechanics is restricted by the Church's instrument blockade, and almost no one studies it anymore. If you're interested, you can take a look."

On the rooftop late at night, Gubo, after a brief encounter with Reilo and a few words, turned and left again. Even Jiahei had gone downstairs.

The observatory fell silent once more.

Following Gubo's directions, Reilo found some yellowed manuscripts, protected by a special waxy structure. They contained a large number of mathematical formulas and complex celestial trajectory diagrams. Although he knew nothing about the foundations of mathematics, it didn't prevent Reilo from understanding the calculation results.

"Due to distance, the actual volume and mass of celestial bodies far exceed our visual perception. The Sun's actual mass is about thirty to fifty thousand times that of the star veil world!? This... how big is that?"

Reilo couldn't imagine such a mass and volume, nor could he comprehend this calculation result.

Humanity's many Duchies, dozens of them large and small, the combined area of many miniature Duchies is roughly equivalent to the area of the six great Duchies. However, all the Duchies combined are only about two-thirds of the Aurora Great Empire of Light.

Numerous Duchies and the Aurora Great Empire of Light formed a vast human kingdom.

Surrounding the human kingdom were many treacherous, desolate, and barren regions inhabited by numerous alien races. The land occupied by these alien races was represented by large blank outlines on the map, but their area was several times that of the human kingdom. Humans habitually referred to the sum of the human kingdom and the familiar alien territories nearby as Starveil Land.

Outside Starveil Land, it was surrounded by the sea on three sides.

The nearby waters were home to many pirates, both human and alien, and countless terrifying legends of the deep sea.

The only land connecting Starveil Land to the interior continent was separated by the vast and boundless Furnace Desert. On the other side of the Furnace Desert lay the Night's Veil Land, rumored by the human Church, the birthplace of the evil Bloodline Demons that the Crusades had marched against!

Like the human kingdom, the Bloodline Demons were the masters of Night's Veil Land.

As for what lay beyond Night's Veil Land, no one knew...

Yet, even this meager understanding of the star veil world felt like an infinitely vast territory in Reilo's heart. The results of the complex calculations in the manuscripts stated that the Sun's mass was tens of thousands of times that of the star veil world?

If that were true!

Instead of studying the biological specimens around him and obtaining the power of evolution from the food chain within the star veil world, it would be better to directly turn his gaze to the universe and the Sun, which contained unimaginable power, and obtain the power of universal truth and laws tens of thousands of times over!

The Sun, the Sun...

Wait!

If he could use his Bubble Technique to change its form into a convex lens, concentrating sunlight to attack enemies, wouldn't that be indirectly using the Sun's power!

If the calculation results in the manuscripts were correct, as long as his convex lens was large enough, even if it was an almost negligible amount of energy from the Sun itself, it would be an incalculable terrifying energy for the humans in the star veil world.

In other words, he only needed to borrow one thirty-three-thousandth of the Sun's energy... uh, no! Perhaps only one in a million, one in tens of millions, or even one in hundreds of millions of the Sun's energy would be enough to completely destroy the world beneath his feet!

If the Sun was truly the center of the universe, if there was no heaven in the cosmos, and if truth and laws were greater than the Creator of Light, then everything would be as pioneer White Niven said. Perhaps the ripples of power emanating from the universe would be devastating to him in the star veil world!

Although, as it stood, this technique could only be used during the day on clear days, if it could be perfected, it would still be a groundbreaking academic pursuit.

This was the truth and laws from the cosmos!

In the cosmos, in White Niven's macro-world, the star veil world was just one of countless celestial bodies revolving around the Sun.

And if he became a senior scholar, supported by a powerful Energy Magnetic Field, even this rudimentary technique of borrowing sunlight, as long as the bubble convex lens was large enough, he could gather sunbeams above the clouds even on rainy days, instantly dispersing the clouds with absolute high temperatures. A terrifying beam of light would descend upon the world, instantly vaporizing enemies on the ground!

"Hiss!"

At this moment, Reilo's mind was suddenly enlightened, and at the same time, he gasped at his own wild imagination.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Reilo suddenly seemed to remember something and was startled, "The power of the truth and laws of the cosmos! Could it be... that when the Creator of Light descended a miracle before the Aurora Grand Cathedral of Light and personally incinerated the great pioneer Bai Niwens, it was because of this?"

Whether it was natural laws, the mysteries of evolution, or even the mysteries of the human body, the mysteries of the spirit, alchemy, and so on...

If the Heliocentric Theory was true, then all the truths and laws currently studied by human scholars were merely branches of the truth and laws that extended to the star veil world, and then further branched out into root hairs of truth and laws!

The cosmos was the true essence of seeking truth and laws!

The next day.

Aya was a third-year student at the Grand Natural Academy. Her Elite Rank consistently hovered around the top 100, making her easily overlooked in the academy.

Aya didn't care about being invisible in the eyes of others and rarely paid attention to their opinions. This was because, in Aya's eyes, they couldn't understand her joy – the freedom of being completely immersed in the ocean of books and knowledge, reading without seeking deep understanding.

Therefore, almost every morning, Aya was the first to arrive at the library.

But today, as Aya breathed in the fresh morning air and arrived at the library doors in the dim pre-dawn light, she froze.

"So early?"

Someone was already waiting outside the library.

This was unusual. Aya stood aside and observed the person for a few moments. A young face, completely unfamiliar. Dark circles hung so low they nearly reached his chin; he looked like he hadn't slept all night. How could he possibly study in that state?

He must be a first-year freshman.

Without paying much further attention, Aya took out a biographical novel she carried and began reading with great interest, quickly forgetting about the stranger.

Reilo waited outside the library, pondering the feasibility of borrowing the principles and laws of the universe and stars. The senior student who arrived later was automatically ignored.

"Searching for auxiliary academics that can deform Bubble Technique."

Suddenly.

As the magnificent bells of the Grand Cathedral of the Saint Grand Fort chimed in the distance, almost simultaneously, the first ray of morning sun leaped over the horizon. The doors of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy library slowly creaked open.

Reilo was the first to rush in, eager.

Finding the "Convex Lens Manufacturing Process," Reilo sat in a corner of the library and began to read.

The most common optical instrument, the magnifying glass, was the starting point for convex lens manufacturing.

Constrained by the glass-making technology for concave and convex lenses, high-grade astronomical lenses required extremely precise glass grinding techniques. It took Utolan glass artisans months, even years, of meticulous handcrafting to complete.

But as the magnification of convex lenses increased, the required glass transparency and grinding precision grew exponentially!

In the foundation of mathematics, exponential growth was the most terrifying form of growth in this world.

The doubling of manufacturing time meant that for even a minuscule increase in observation distance for a high-grade telescope, a master glass artisan might have to dedicate most of their life's effort to grind a single convex lens, even risking failure.

"The conditions for astronomical lens manufacturing are so harsh. It seems my idea of observing celestial bodies and the microscopic world using Bubble Technique will have to wait until I become a high-level scholar and travel to Utolan. For now, I should focus on researching the basic academics for using Bubble Technique to create the most primitive convex lenses."

Thinking this, Reilo began searching the library for foundational academics that could cause Bubble Technique to transform its shape.

Foundational academics were countless; almost every creature possessed a few. Even humans were born with some seemingly insignificant auxiliary abilities, such as the ears' ability to distinguish the sound of hot and cold water being poured into a teapot.

After spending three hourglasses, Reilo found several Level Zero foundational academics with similar effects.

"Centrifugal Technique, Shape-Shifting Technique, Spirituality Technique."

To transform Bubble Technique into the shape of a convex lens, Reilo needed to overlay it with another academic. After much sifting, these three Level Zero foundational academics best suited Reilo's intentions.

First was Centrifugal Technique.

This involved using constant centrifugal rotation within the bubble to transform Bubble Technique into a convex lens shape. It required finding a Level Zero elemental creature called Vortex. This elemental creature was extremely rare in human kingdoms, making it almost impossible to find by luck. The price in specimen shops would likely be calculated in gold coins.

Next was Shape-Shifting Technique.

Shape-Shifting Technique relied on psychic telekinesis to shape matter. High-level magical beasts with telekinetic abilities were common, but Level Zero creatures were even rarer than Vortex elemental creatures. Wangsheng Turtle, Fire Candle Snail – Reilo had never even heard of them.

Finally, Spirituality Technique.

Spirituality Technique involved imbuing spiritual attributes to alter the external form of material energy. It could cause certain energy bodies to exhibit effects similar to summoned elemental creatures by scholars of natural laws, though the underlying principles were entirely different.

To Reilo's surprise, although Spirituality Technique could be mastered by studying many peculiar Level Zero creature specimens, such as Sprout Coral Turtle, Cockscomb Snake, Fire-Eye Peacock, and so on, the most common natural specimen for Spirituality Technique was surprisingly Coconut!

Coconut tree?

Reilo continued reading.

The Coconut tree was one of the most spiritually compatible plants among Level Zero biological specimens. People sitting under a Coconut tree were never hit by falling leaves. Scholars could discover the secrets of Spirituality Technique by analyzing and studying the Coconut tree's changes at the moment the Coconut fell.

"That magical?"

Reilo pursed his lips and checked the time. It was already noon.

His stomach rumbled with hunger, but Reilo was oblivious. He muttered to himself, "The map indicates that near the Salt Sea in the Furnace Mountains, there should be large patches of these spiritually abundant low-level plants!"