Nexus Ascension: My Comprehension Defies the Heaven-Chapter 414: I need more inspiration

"Have you noticed the commotion in the Three-Planet Alliance, Trevor?"

On a faraway planet that was slightly veiled in darkness, two men spoke in hushed tones. both were older with wrinkled faces and blonde hair, but the similarities ended exactly there.

Trevor had a wild, braided blonde beard and a bulky frame covered in faint battle scars.

The other man, Silas, wore luxurious silk robes and kept his blonde beard neatly trimmed. His sharp, calculating eyes betrayed a deep, underlying cunning.

"I noticed it," Trevor replied in a gruff, heavy voice.

"The Velmera, Scion, and Crimson Core planets are suddenly gone. It is hard not to notice their abrupt disappearance."

"They became the orbiting rings of the giant blue planet that had mysteriously appeared," Silas said thoughtfully.

"Do we know anything about it?" Trevor asked.

"Nothing. It suddenly appeared in that region without any prior notice," Silas shook his head.

"I do not know exactly where it came from, but I have already sent one of our top scouts there to investigate."

Trevor frowned deeply. "To safely swallow the Three-Planet Alliance that had the hidden backing of the Daoye Palace, the person behind it is no ordinary being."

"We must act with absolute caution," Silas warned.

"Why should we be cautious?" Trevor huffed, crossing his massive, scarred arms.

"We are two mighty Origin Seed experts. What is he going to do to us?"

"I refuse to believe he is an Origin Seed expert. I know exactly how many Origin Seed experts there are in the Northern Star Region."

"Speaking of which, the fabled Five-Star Blacksmith Grandmaster of the Profession Commission, Carter Smith, is coming to the Filmora Alliance. Should we go?"

"Huh? Why?" Trevor asked, his expression twisting in genuine confusion.

"Why not? It is widely said that one of his classes alone can turn you into a masterful blacksmith even if you have absolutely no talent for it."

"I am currently a Four-Star Blacksmith, and I have been desperately finding means to break through to Five-Star and get my official license at the Profession Commission."

Trevor stared at him in utter disbelief.

"You, the man who runs the most secretive and dangerous black market in the Milky Way Galaxy, actually care about a legal license?"

"We must move with the times, Trevor," Silas said smoothly, adjusting his luxurious silk sleeves.

"The spatial turbulence isolating our galaxy is slowly diminishing. The Profession Commission is already quite prosperous in our galaxy, and every top power respects them."

"But when we once again gain contact with the main Pan-Cosmic Human Alliance, the Profession Commission’s prosperity will be greater than ever."

"If I earn myself a prestigious spot in there as a Five-Star Grandmaster, then I can leverage that status to keep our alliance thriving and also build more connections in the vast starry sky."

...

Meanwhile, inside his personal sub-dimension, Grey was deeply analyzing the profound cultivation paths.

"To reach the apex, martial artists must internalize the combat domain. They bind an absolute martial law, be it the cycle of Yin-Yang or the governing Law of Weapons, to their own soul and sinew."

"They violently sever their connection with the earth by taking a single step into the absolute beyond, completely bypassing the final mortal threshold."

"The concept of a physical body unravels and dissolves entirely into the Origin."

"They become formless, returning seamlessly to the primordial wellspring."

"This state of absolute unbinding is exactly what they call the origin of True Energy."

Grey sat in silence, his expression deeply thoughtful.

The reason they called it that was because, to them, it was a literal return to their cosmic origin.

They cultivated that specific energy in the early stages, and then they physically became the very thing they cultivated at the 5th Rank.

"As for the immortals, refining qi is merely the foundation of their profound art."

"The immortal cultivators force the boundless spiritual energy of the world, governed by a supreme celestial decree like Creation or Oblivion, to completely replace their mortal meridians."

"They sever the endless cycle of life and death by forcefully tearing their own names from the tapestry of fate."

"This terrifying undertaking entirely bypasses the natural limitations of a mortal lifespan."

"Blood and bone completely cease to function as biological anchors."

"The physical vessel undergoes a complete transmutation into a pure spiritual vessel."

"They literally discard their human fragility to become a living facet of the universe."

"They proudly call this unblemished state the font of Immortal Qi."

The martial artists called their Origin state the Boundary Transformation Realm, while the immortals called it the Void Refinement Realm.

They both aggressively took in the dense spiritual energy of the starry sky to ascend as a higher-level being.

But what they both fundamentally had in common was one crucial structural element.

They both successfully developed a specialized convergence point.

The martial artists called it their Boundary.

The Boundary was a conceptual place where abundant physical power or the hidden treasures of transcendence were securely stored.

The martial artists had to unlock a specific part of their Boundary and then violently collapse it into a Boundary Core at the Middle 5th Rank.

For the immortals, they had something strikingly similar. It was a miniature planet.

But the process of forming it was a brutal, terrifying gamble with their very lives.

First, their mortal domain scatters and violently forms a chaotic void directly inside their formed Origin Core.

If they lose control of this collapse, the resulting void simply consumes them and erases them from existence entirely.

From there, they must carefully gather the scattered spiritual light and successfully form a spherical world within that dead space.

That way, they can successfully step into the Middle 5th Rank, widely known as the Origin Seed Realm.

At this specific point, the world is just a barren rock floating in total emptiness.

From there, they actively infuse their specific laws into the spherical world they had just created.

As their deep understanding of the world merges with the dead space, it ignites into a living ecosystem, upgrading it into an Immortal Grotto Heaven.

With that massive step completed, they officially step into the Late 5th Rank, the Origin Nova Realm.

However, this was only the very beginning of their divine struggles.

The universe absolutely hates when mortals steal its power to build their own private worlds.

The very second the Origin Nova Realm is reached, heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities crash down endlessly to destroy the newly formed Grotto Heaven.

If the immortal manages to survive the disaster, they cannot just sit back and peacefully cultivate.

They have to carefully manage their internal world exactly like a physical territory.

They must breed spiritual beasts, plant immortal herbs, and perfectly balance the ecosystem within their spherical world.

This naturally produces the Mahayana essence needed to fuel their new power and eventually reach the 6th Rank.

Compared to the martial artists, it might seem like the immortals had a much harder time, but unlocking the Boundary had its own terrifying struggles as well.

"But how exactly am I going to incorporate these concepts into my own system?" Grey muttered thoughtfully.

But at the exact same time, he had another profound thought naturally surface.

Did he even genuinely need to incorporate these specific methods?

His Nexus Path and their traditional paths were fundamentally different.

No, he needed to sit down and think much more deeply about this.

He could not just blindly copy the systems of others without fully understanding how it would affect his chaotic foundation.

Just as he was about to dive deeper into his cosmic calculations, a sudden shift occurred.

His heightened senses flared violently.

Right then, he distinctly sensed something unusual originating from deep within his personal domain.