Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

Under the witness of the [Star Ancestor] origin and the [Tear of Eternity], the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor submitted.

“What is your name?”

Su Yuan asked.

“Ji!” the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor replied lazily.

“That doesn’t sound good!” Su Yuan shook his head.

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor fell silent;

he thought it was fine.

“You shall be called Tianji from now on!”

The Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm Ancestor obediently nodded. What difference did it make?

“How old are you?” Su Yuan inquired.

“About three hundred and sixty years old!” Tianji drooped his long horn as he spoke.

Su Yuan was stunned. From the thoughts Tianji transmitted, he had learned that Tianji had lived through over three hundred kalpas.

Truly an ancient relic.

Su Yuan said to him, “You were trying to reach a higher realm by devouring the origin of that Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl earlier, right?”

“Yes!” Tianji nodded.

“Then have you ever considered that by devouring the origin of that Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl, preventing it from ascending to a higher-grade treasure, how could you possibly break through using it? Only by allowing it to advance to the next level would you have a chance to use it to break through to a higher realm!”

Tianji froze. After hearing Su Yuan’s words, he immediately realized he had committed an enormous foolish act. He had been struggling with his inability to break through, so he continuously absorbed the Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl’s power.

But he had never considered that precisely because he absorbed too much of the pearl’s power, he himself couldn’t break through either.

Tianji nodded: “I’m too stupid!”

“The pupil is teachable!” Su Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

“Then your task from now on is to slowly return the origin you devoured from the Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl back to it, allowing it to reach the level it should have attained!” Su Yuan immediately advised.

Tianji first nodded, then couldn’t help but freeze. If that were the case, what difference was there compared to the first choice earlier?

Tianji felt deceived!

“Don’t worry, don’t worry. Your insights remain, your realm remains. Losing some origin won’t harm you at all. Besides, my supreme treasure can continuously restore your consumption. You needn’t worry too much!” Su Yuan said with a chuckle.

Tianji sighed: “I understand, Master!”

Reluctantly, he went to the side of the Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl and directly infused his own origin into it.

Nourished by the origin, the Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl’s quality gradually improved.

Only then did Su Yuan begin to observe this supreme treasure.

Because this Innate Supreme Treasure hadn’t fully matured yet, it couldn’t be refined, and thus its specific information couldn’t be obtained.

But Su Yuan controlled the [Fate Compass]. With one glance, he saw the future trajectory of fate and witnessed the result of the Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl’s final form.

[Chaos Pearl, Mid-grade Innate Supreme Treasure (Heavenly Dao Level/Creation Level), dual space-time attributes, possessing numerous abilities including suppressing space-time, creating space-time, controlling space-time, and more! Peerless defense, capable of evolving various rule powers, impervious to all methods, evolving all laws!]

Su Yuan was startled. The name Chaos Pearl wasn’t the Spatial-Temporal Treasure Pearl’s original name. Rather, influenced by Su Yuan, it naturally changed the supreme treasure’s true name, forming into a name more familiar to Su Yuan.

However, this treasure’s functions indeed somewhat resembled the Chaos Pearl from Su Yuan’s impressions. Its ability to control space-time was extremely powerful, offering great advantages in battle.

Su Yuan looked forward to the treasure’s completion.

But estimating the time, even with the Spatial-Temporal Horned Worm’s origin assistance, reaching advancement would require tens of millions of years. Under time acceleration, this would still take several decades.

Su Yuan could wait.

He began waiting right where he was.

After losing the Chaos Pearl’s influence, the space-time power in this space-time dimension began stabilizing considerably, shifting toward order. The center of the entire space-time dimension also shifted from the Chaos Pearl to the Spatial-Temporal Continent under Su Yuan’s control.

All space-time power throughout the space-time dimension began converging toward the Spatial-Temporal Continent, making this continent increasingly powerful.

Su Yuan looked outside the space-time dimension. The God Realm Sea’s power began invading the space-time dimension’s interior, and the rule of faith-based godhood slowly seeped in.

Watching this scene, Su Yuan became thoughtful.

Rules are divided into Hunyuan Great Luo Level (Saint Level), Hunyuan Taiji Level (Heavenly Dao Level/Creation Level), and Hunyuan Wuji Realm (Great Dao Level/Supreme Level).

He initially thought the Great Dao of the God Realm Sea was composed of many Great Dao-level rules, but that wasn’t actually the case.

“The Great Dao power of the God Realm Sea is actually dominated by the rule of faith-based godhood. The highest faith rule is Great Dao-level, while other rules haven’t reached Great Dao-level! At most, they’re only Heavenly Dao-level!”

“Then that means the Abyss Realm Sea is similar, where only the Abyss rule is Great Dao-level!”

“And the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea is different. The human race alone has three Wuji Realm powerhouses, meaning at least three Great Dao-level rules. Plus, considering it’s called the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea, there are clearly two Great Dao-level rules: Immortal Dao rule and Demon Dao rule!”

Then Su Yuan thought of his eternal entry [Star Ancestor]. The star rule level cap of this entry shouldn’t possibly be only Heavenly Dao-level, but at least Great Dao-level.

But how could he elevate the star rule from Heavenly Dao-level to Great Dao-level?

Previously, Su Yuan had no clues.

But now, observing the rule changes as the God Realm Sea invaded this space-time dimension, he gained some enlightenment.

“This is the true great opportunity!”

Su Yuan immediately realized this and wholeheartedly began comprehending the rule transformations of this space-time dimension.

To slow down the transformation speed of the God Realm Sea’s Great Dao power, Su Yuan took out the Chaos Pearl again and placed it back in the core to continue growing. Tianji also successfully emerged but still needed to dedicate his origin to help the Chaos Pearl recover.

With the Chaos Pearl’s suppression, the God Realm Sea’s Great Dao power invasion slowed but didn’t stop. Now that this space-time dimension’s integrity was broken, in the God Realm Sea’s Great Dao judgment, it no longer possessed value for continued protection, so naturally, this space-time had to be incorporated into the God Realm Sea’s dominion.

Su Yuan seized the time to comprehend, and gradually, he understood many things.

The most important difference between laws and rules is the addition of will.

Laws are universal principles, valid everywhere. Rules are sublimations above laws, representing will’s enhancement of laws.

The more willpower a rule contains, the stronger the rule becomes!

And rule enhancement can, in turn, boost willpower. The two complement each other, growing stronger together!

Among these, enhancement from a single individual’s will can promote rule strengthening, but enhancement from countless people’s collective will can also strengthen rules!

The God Realm Sea’s faith rule, propelled by countless beings’ will, formed massive willpower that pushed the faith rule to the Great Dao level!

This means that living beings’ choices drive rule advancement. The God Realm Sea’s evolution also came about through collective evolution and transformation of living beings!

Just like this space-time dimension—without external influence, the beings of this space-time all used space-time laws as their cultivation foundation. If a Great Dao-level rule eventually emerged, it would inevitably be the space-time rule!

But now, the God Realm Sea’s Great Dao power has already invaded. There’s no chance left.