Above The Sky

Chapter 2122 - 55: Wandering Terra, A Brand-New Path of the Dao!

[I knew you wouldn’t call me just to let me watch.]

The Galewind Dragon King anticipated this. Ian’s manifested light entity is undoubtedly powerful, but it lacks a specific energy source and physical body, making it omnipresent yet somewhat inconvenient in actual combat.

Lightning flickered chaotically, and the Galewind Dragon King unfolded its true form beside the cradle.

Its essence is a dragon-like electromagnetic being that once resided in the pulsar star cloud, where spirit energy and electromagnetic pulses intertwined, stirring parts of the universe into subspaces akin to otherworldly realms. Pure magnetism became a medium for condensed matter; the pulsar’s regular illumination acted as the passage of days and nights, with the nebula’s matter reverently moving like shy mimosas and sunflowers toward the pulsar’s direction.

At the center of this colossal magnetic light nebula was a small, bright star, an aether furnace simulating a pulsar, constructed by the civilization known as ’Illusory Mist.’ Electromagnetic cloud beings could move freely in space, even traversing the domain of void subspace, but only the pulsar’s surroundings provided the ultra-high magnetic environment they required. Thus, for other civilizations, the aether furnace not only served as an energy source but also acted as their ’spacesuit’ for survival.

[Go ahead.]

The Galewind Dragon King was forthright — in some sense, it genuinely entrusted both its soul and body to Ian, and Ian did not disappoint.

Leading the Galewind Dragon King to the very edge of the cradle, the Dragon King’s aether furnace spun behind him, like the halo of a deity. Ian placed one hand beside the cradle’s space-time condensation wall and the other on the ’light film,’ sensing the difference between the two.

Their essence was the same.

This was the conclusion Ian reached.

The cradle was self-repairing. Over sixteen hundred years, it had formed a layer of light film through self-repair. This light film was actually a preliminary form of space-time condensation material. It could slow the entry of light, filter and block most of the light’s energy, and even function akin to a black hole, storing all incoming energy within itself.

However, it had an absolute difference from a true space-time condensation wall: it lacked the singularity of severing causality.

Aether transcends space and time, and true aether can even penetrate the Doomsday Black Hole. But such power requires at least the full force of the great aether current. Generally, a Star God cannot surpass the singularity of severed causality. Thus, in a normal cradle, the birth of a Star God does not attract the attention of The End.

However, the Terra Cradle has collapsed. Its cracks can only block light radiation and a series of other mundane things. To aether, it’s like a tea strainer that appears to stop nothing, while in reality, the tea has already been brewed.

If The End doesn’t notice, it’s fine. But if it does... breaking through it would be like a seed breaking through a rock — just a matter of time.

At this moment, in Ian’s hands, infinite aether swirled and converged. Bit by bit, he folded space-time, separated causality, purified matter... In an instant, he nurtured two distinct vortices in his hands.

One vortex was extremely intense, dazzling and bright, burning with colorless flames.

The other vortex was deep and dark, shadowy and vague, completely empty and void, where nothing existed.

The two vortices interwove and revolved, forming a circulating loop like ’∞.’ This endless spin affected space-time. In the light vortex activated by the aether furnace, energy levels skyrocketed, while in the void vortex, a complete vacuum was forming, surpassing the vacuum barrier towards the ’vacuum decay’ state of pure void.

The universe is not a true vacuum but a ’false vacuum’ in a stable state before true vacuum.

Using high-energy levels to drive space-time, break barriers, and create vacuum decay — generating ’true vacuum’ and, in turn, obtaining tremendous energy. The void vortex and the light vortex transformed into a circulation, a continually expanding, near-eternally expanding ’loop’ known as the ’Perpetual Ring of Vacuum Decay’ was about to form.

But Ian stabilized this ’true vacuum’— aether is a force surpassing space-time that can easily exist within true vacuum, maintaining ’space-time pressure’ like water in a balloon in the deep sea, compressing this seemingly endlessly expanding ’vacuum loop’ into material akin to bricks or walls.

No, it wasn’t material yet... If ’cradle’ material was akin to bricks and stones, this layer of vacuum loop was merely a grain of sand. Yet, through the chain reaction of vacuum decay, Ian rapidly created countless ’vacuum loops,’ exceeding human imagination in quantity.

After a long while, approximately an hour on Terra, Ian finally stopped.

In the area where his hand touched the ’light film,’ a one-square-meter ’Cradle Wall’ appeared in place of the light film area.

Ian had created the ’cradle.’

[You really did it!]

Seeing this scene, the Galewind Dragon King gasped in thunderous awe. Though it knew what the cradle’s material was, it couldn’t construct it. Yet, having inherited from the Terra Dragon, Ian could shape the cradle wall in one attempt!

Though not large, to be able to create it at all marks the leap from zero to one!