Ch. 461The Third Trump Card?
Chapter Summary: “Third Bargaining Chip?”
Key Plot Points and Events
- The Balance Rule initiates Green’s elevation to the level of a Super-Rule Lifeform, responding to the “second bargaining chip” and the overwhelming feedback from hundreds of Middle Worlds.
- During the Origin Baptism, the New World’s Crystal Wall operates at full force, drawing Void matter into Green as its World Lord. The Chip confirms that Green’s attributes are increasing and that numerous incomplete Rule Models are being completed.
- The Balance Rule forcibly separates Green’s True Body from his state of unity with the New World, though the World Origin remains fused with him, allowing the baptism to continue.
- Green’s qualitative transformation begins within his Psychic Space. His countless Rule Models—representing his bloodlines and abilities—appear as points of light. The Earth and Ocean Rules, along with many other incomplete Rules, are completed through the New World’s ascension.
- Green unconsciously absorbs these Rule Models, causing his Soul Origin to grow. Once his existence reaches its extreme, golden Immortal Matter begins forming from within his soul rather than being produced through the usual interaction of existence and nonexistence.
- The Immortal Matter spreads through Green’s body and overflows into the physical world. Observing Seventh-Level Wizards are shocked by its immense quantity and conclude that Green is a Void Overlord whose Immortal Matter can regenerate from the strength of his will.
- Inside his Psychic Space, Green awakens in darkness and instinctively attempts to leave through a golden passage. The Chip intervenes because his main body has entered an unconscious state, activating the seventh layer of the theoretical Modified Limit Meditation Method.
- The breakthrough destroys and reconstructs Green’s Psychic Space on a vastly greater scale. The New World pours additional energy and matter into him, and the Chip announces that the Modified Limit Meditation Method has successfully advanced.
- Green regains full consciousness, recognizes that the Extreme Meditation Method’s principle of quantitative accumulation leading to qualitative transformation has succeeded, and enters the golden passage. Beyond it, the hidden reality behind the Balance Rule begins to reveal itself.
Character Development
- Green advances from a powerful World Lord toward the Super-Rule Lifeform realm. His transformation is portrayed as fundamentally different from ordinary Seventh-Level advancement because his Immortal Matter originates from the extreme of existence itself.
- His soul and consciousness become vastly stronger as he absorbs and completes countless Rule Models.
- Green’s instinctive, near-unconscious state reflects his transformation into a “newborn” existence, but the Chip’s intervention restores his awareness and allows him to complete the final stage of his breakthrough.
- He gains a deeper understanding of his own cultivation path, realizing that the Extreme Meditation Method’s accumulated quantitative power can trigger a qualitative transformation.
Significant Themes
- Evolution through completion: Green’s imperfection drives him to absorb the scattered Rule Models, symbolizing the desire to become a complete existence.
- Existence versus nonexistence: The chapter contrasts ordinary Immortal Matter with Green’s superior form, which is born solely from the extreme of existence.
- Will and immortality: Green’s Immortal Matter can regenerate as long as his will remains firm, suggesting that true immortality depends on spiritual determination rather than physical reserves.
- Quantitative change becoming qualitative transformation: The successful seventh-layer meditation breakthrough validates the idea that endless accumulation can eventually produce an entirely new level of existence.
- Limits of control and intervention: Although Green’s advancement begins through the Balance Rule, the Chip ultimately intervenes and influences the breakthrough, showing the tension between external rules, instinct, and artificial guidance.
Character Interactions
- Green and the Balance Rule: The Balance Rule forces Green out of his world-fusion state to control and accelerate his elevation, while Green’s growing strength increases the cost of the process for the Rule.
- Green and the Chip: The Chip monitors the baptism, completes Rule Models, detects Green’s unconscious state, and activates the Modified Limit Meditation Method to ensure the breakthrough succeeds.
- Green and the New World: The New World’s Origin remains fused with Green, continuously supplying him with energy, matter, and completed Rules.
- Green and the observing Seventh-Level Wizards: Though they cannot directly influence him, the wizards study his transformation in awe and fear, recognizing him as an unprecedented Void Overlord and attempting to learn from his advancement.