Chapter 2074: Chapter 47: Valiant Soul Path

But, such evil is also unnecessary.

Because now Ian knows more than those ’past Ians’—the answer is no. Pure accumulation can never reach the infinite.

However, conversely, Ian glimpsed the possibility of an entirely new path.

——Fae are Celestial Deities, somewhat similar to Star Gods, spiritual energy beings, so they can resonate with the light elements and create the ’Light Element Furnace’ for their race.

——Then, can Humans do the same?

——Ordinary humans cannot, but those powerful Heroes possessing their Heart Light Body, even the Aether True Body and immortality as Sublimators, those who have achieved great deeds and done what many others find impossible...can their souls also produce Primal Aether? Consequently, if their souls are thrown into a furnace, could they also summon ’Valiant Souls from parallel space-times that possess similar Heart Light Bodies, beliefs, and abilities’?

This is not impossible!

Instead, it is absolutely possible!

Because the essence of immortality is such—it traverses space-time, searching for ’qualified ones’ meeting its criteria—and Ian merely reverses this; he uses human immortality and achievements to call upon the strength of Valiant Souls from parallel space-times!

Thus, perhaps not only can ’infinite energy’ be created, but like the Fae using the furnace to create Fae, humans can also use the furnace to summon Heroic Spirits!

The power of Heroic Spirits, immortal nature and belief transformed into rings, can even create an infinite furnace more massive than that of the Fairy Clan!

After all, Fae merely rely on their racial uniqueness to create the Light Element Furnace, while humans use greater, more significant immortality, walking the orthodox path...

"No, wait?"

Ian suddenly raised his head, thinking of a possibility, slightly surprised, "I’ve always wondered why in infinite parallel space-times there’s one of me who slaughtered everyone on Terra—I can’t be foolish enough to think that killing everyone on Whole Terra would meet the activation condition of a Perpetual Motion Machine."

"What does slaughter have to do with finding a Perpetual Motion Machine? This point was previously unclear to me."

"But, if, suppose, that was the possibility of a branch of the Path of the Heroic Spirits I tried in infinite parallel space-times..."

If the reason that ’Slaughter-Line Ian’ slaughtered all of Terra was to collect the souls of everyone on Terra, everyone’s Heart Light Body and immortality, and throw the Sparks of Thousand Stars entirely into the ’Heroic Spirits Furnace’, attempting to create a ’Perpetual Motion Machine’ of his own, unrestricted by the ’Star God’...

Then he truly dares to think and act!

"It still won’t work." Ian also remembered that the Slaughter-Line himself eventually failed—simple accumulation cannot achieve infinity.

A ’Ring’ must be constructed.

A ’Ring’ is an infinite unit, a ’Ring’ is one with infinity, a ’Ring’ is infinity itself.

Only, one person’s ’Ring’, no matter how strong, is still the ’Ring’ of one person, even if it possesses infinite energy, it is just the power of ’one person’, still the average output of all the selves in infinite parallel space-times—that power is too small, basically like using a small faucet from a classic infinite reservoir, hardly helpful in battle.

Like the Fae, constructing a ’Ring of the Race’ and continuously melting those who don’t want to live into the Light Element Furnace can gradually increase the output of the Light Element Furnace.

But similarly, it will constantly consume the beliefs within the furnace. If the belief is insufficient, the furnace will gradually extinguish.

The Throne of Heroic Spirits, or rather, the Heroic Spirits Furnace is the same.

It requires a continuous stream of beliefs and wills poured into it for humans to have resurrection potential, to maintain its infinite output, and to gently increase it.

Such a creation Ian had already made a prototype.

"My Artificial Underworld." Ian murmured, "My [Heart of Terra]."

Yes, that’s it, the Heart of Terra!

A future that will spread across Whole Terra, accommodate all Human souls, contain all Human memories, completely gather all past and future information of human raza, and include not only humans but also all Magical Beasts, the heart of wisdom for all [mind] divine creations on Whole Terra!

The true and fitting [Heart of Terra]!

This is the ultimate purpose of Ian’s creation of the Heart of Terra—even if everything fails, Humans cannot activate the Perpetual Motion Machine left by Star Gods, there is still the ’Perpetual Motion Machine’ of humanity!

[Heart of Terra] will remember all wise life—not killing everyone and then gathering their souls into the Heart of Terra, to deduce the infinite parallel possibility, that too terrifying only the Evil God and Slaughter-Line Ian would do—Ian’s Heart of Terra would only accept souls who died naturally or those who wish to choose death into the Underworld, preserving their memory, soul, and personality as the foundation for summoning and the Perpetual Motion Machine.

Star Gods altered this universe, thought, will, and belief can guide the direction of Aether’s operation, this is the greatest love of Star Gods to all beings.

The difference between the Light Element Furnace and the True Aether Furnace is that the True Aether Core requires only an extremely pure intention as directional guidance, it moves by itself, whereas the Light Element Furnace needs self-propelled will, hence there is consumption.

The Heroic Spirits Furnace of Heart of Terra accommodates all wise life, it definitely falls short of a Perpetual Motion Machine but may not fall short of the True Aether Furnace, can even surpass the relatively low-numbered Fairy Clan.

Moreover, when the Heart of Terra is completely finished, even ordinary people can benefit.

Because, even the weakest, most fragile, most cowardly wise life, in infinite parallel space-times, surely also has an ’possibility’ to accomplish.

A Fifth Energy Level may be impossible, but a Third Energy Level, if given sufficient opportunity, is not impossible.

Yes. That ’stronger self’ may not be the same person as the ’weaker self’ now, just like the ’past Ian’ is not the same as the ’present Ian.’

But does that matter?

Ian at this moment closed his eyes; endless thoughts flowed in his mind...day and night rotate, stars rise and fall; are these not also a ’Ring’?

The sun both rises and sets, both sunset and sunrise, it descends as it ascends on the other side of Terra, as its light fades so it shines brightly on the other side of the planet.

’I’ am the same.

In the endless ring, ’I’ will fail, but ’I’ will succeed. ’I’ will perish, but ’I’ will be reborn.

Yes, that is indeed not the true, current ’me’.

But is that not ’me’? 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Ian never dwells on these questions.

"The Domain of Extremes of the teacher may have some loopholes, but its overall direction is correct."

Opening his eyes, Ian now completely understood the mechanism of the Light Element Furnace, his eyes blazing: "Unifying Terra, unifying civilizations, gathering group wills, indeed assists in reaching the Sixth Echelon."

"But this help is not so easily obtained, it must be acquired with a divine artifact of creation like the ’Heart of Terra’."

"For Terra People, Heart of Terra is like the Great Aether Circulation for Star Gods—and the method by which Star Gods upgrade Great Aether Circulation could be to absorb those artifacts of races that have ascended to Star Gods, integrating them into Great Aether Circulation, sharing mutually!"