Breakthrough-Planetary Level
Luo Zhe rubbed his sleepy eyes.
He strained to open his eyes, looked around, and exclaimed, "This dream is getting more and more real!"
"The planet has changed even more; there are even mountain ranges now. Hmm, it seems this planet is even bigger."
Looking out at the sky, the invisible barrier seemed even more distant this time. Even with Luo Zhe's eyesight, he could barely make out the Meng Yi, chaotic background.
"Um?"
Luo Zhe's gaze fell on the ground not far away, where a Black Metal Plate lay quietly, unchanged.
"How come this thing is here too? Is it really true that anything can happen in a dream? This dream is too real." Luo Zhe muttered, walked over, bent down, and picked up the Black Metal Plate that had fallen to the ground.
The familiar patterns, the familiar texture, and the light weight—everything about it made Luo Zhe feel that this thing was real.
"Wow, this dream was so realistic! If I pinched myself, would it hurt?"
Luo Zhe subconsciously touched his thigh and pinched it hard.
"Aww~"
A series of ghostly wails echoed across the entire plain.
Luo Zhe rubbed his thigh vigorously with his right hand, hissing and gasping for breath, and said angrily, "What the hell is this? Why are they really doing it this time?"
"How could Dimensional Space that was originally so small become such a big planet? It's not scientific at all!" Luo Zhe jumped around in place for a while before the pain in his thigh subsided.
Bang!
With the aid of his Spiritual Force, Luo Zhe soared into the sky, leaping hundreds of meters high, looked around, and then landed lightly on the ground.
"It seems to stretch as far as the eye can see. This planet is probably thousands of kilometers in diameter, and its actual area is not much smaller than Earth's," Luo Zhe pondered. "Just now, I even saw the outline of a mountain range tens of kilometers away. It's probably a large mountain range, not much smaller than the Tian Shan mountain range."
and--
Luo Zhe suddenly raised his right hand in confusion, turning it from side to side, and said with a strange expression, "I seem to feel that the bottleneck to breaking through to the Planetary Level has disappeared?"
Since his physical fitness and Spiritual Force both reached the peak of the War God, Luo Zhe has been vaguely aware of an invisible, yet persistent, sense of constraint. It seems that only by breaking free from this constraint can he enter a new world.
Luo Zhe originally thought this was a bottleneck unique to the War God breaking through to the Planetary Level!
After all, there are more than three thousand War God on Earth, and at least several hundred High-level War God. Among them, there are probably no fewer than thirty or forty who have reached the peak of the War God, but they are all stuck on the edge of breaking through and unable to make any progress.
From Apprentice Level to Planetary Level, this is the evolution of life, a leap in genes. Getting stuck at a bottleneck is indeed a very normal thing.
But now, it has suddenly disappeared?
Luo Zhe couldn't help but wonder why the bottleneck disappeared on the exact same day that the invisible barrier hindering spatial evolution was broken.
Could it be that this invisible barrier is actually the bottleneck he faces in breaking through to the Planetary Level?
Although this idea is a bit far-fetched, there's no reason why the bottleneck that was holding him back would disappear so easily. Why didn't it disappear sooner or later? It just so happens that it disappeared on the same day as that invisible barrier.
Nothing in this world is accidental!
One coincidence is one coincidence, but when multiple coincidences come together, they become inevitable!
Luo Zhe subconsciously looked up at the distant horizon, at the hazy white background. He knew that at the boundary between clarity and haze lay the second barrier. But now, he had more important things to try.
"If I'm not mistaken, now, all I need to do is absorb enough Universe Energy to easily transform my Spiritual Force and Genetic Origin Energy, thus breaking through the barrier and reaching the Planetary Level!"
Luo Zhe took a deep breath.
Furthermore, Luo Zhe had something else he didn't say: if his conjecture could be proven correct, then by the same logic, his other conjecture, 'the invisible barrier of Dimensional Space is equivalent to the bottleneck between each major level,' would also necessarily be true!
"If both of these conjectures are true, then the role of Dimensional Space might be even greater than I imagined!"
Shaking his head to clear his mind of distractions, Luo Zhe sat down cross-legged on the spot, assuming the Five Hearts Towards Heaven cultivation posture. After taking one last deep look at the gray-white background, Luo Zhe slowly closed his eyes.
In Luo Zhe's mental perception.
At the dantian, surging Genetic Origin Energy roared; in the sea of consciousness, turbulent Spiritual Force churned violently; and the five heart channels began to accelerate the absorption of the surrounding free-floating Universe Energy.
"Hmm? The density of Universe Energy in space has become even greater!"
As soon as he began absorbing the energy, Luo Zhe noticed something different. The density of the free-floating Universe Energy in the space was already several times that of the external Universe Energy, which was why Luo Zhe's physical growth rate far exceeded that of ordinary people.
Now, the density of free-floating Universe Energy is even ten or dozens of times greater than before.
In other words, the density of Universe Energy in space is already tens or even hundreds of times that of the outside world!
"Indeed! The evolution of space can indeed drive the further evolution of everything within it! In that case, who knows, one day in the future, various celestial bodies might continue to emerge in space, and even life might evolve in the distant future!"
Within Luo Zhe's sea of consciousness.
"Whoosh~~" The spiritual energy surged in the sea of consciousness like a vast starry sea, wave after wave. As the Universe Energy was absorbed, more and more spiritual energy poured in, and after being imprinted on Luo Zhe's spiritual imprint, it became Luo Zhe's exclusive Spiritual Force.
At some point!
In the very center of the swirling, dazzling sea of stars, a massive vortex quietly formed, with countless Spiritual Force swirling wildly like flowing water, creating concentric ripples.
Suddenly!
At the center of the vortex, a powerful burst of Spiritual Force shot out, instantly thinning out the surrounding swirling Spiritual Force. The dissipated Spiritual Force was then drawn back into the vortex's ripples by the gravity of the massive vortex.
Boom!
Jet! Fall back!
The vast ocean of Spiritual Force, originally as boundless as a starry sky, gradually underwent a qualitative change with each continuous ejection and retraction! The Spiritual Force ejected from the center of the vortex resembled the impurities ejected from a black hole during Hawking radiation. Spiritual Force that did not reach the level of qualitative change was ejected, while Spiritual Force that did reach the level of qualitative change continuously gathered at the center of the vortex!
Gradually, more and more transformed Spiritual Force accumulated at the center of the vortex, slowly forming a huge rotating sphere of spiritual energy! This sphere of spiritual energy was semi-transparent, with various strange rays of light flashing inside, and occasionally a very faint blue thread could be seen floating within it!
Jet! Fall back!
Spray again! Then fall back!
As the psychic sphere grew larger, the Spiritual Force surrounding the vortex gradually stopped being ejected and instead began to swirl around the sphere, constantly transforming and eventually merging into it.
As more and more Spiritual Force was incorporated into the psychic orb, the various strange lights flashing within it grew brighter and brighter, and the entire orb gradually began to radiate its own dazzling light.