Chapter 842: Transformation Begins!

Chapter 842: Chapter 562: Transformation Begins!

If anyone were to witness this magnificent scene, they would surely be astonished.

What kind of celestial body could shine so brightly that it actually illuminates seven thousand light-years?

This was true, solid illumination, not merely projecting light over a long distance onto the night sky of some planet.

Under normal circumstances, the propagation of light is limited by speed.

To spread light across a Star Realm with a diameter of seven thousand light-years in the middle of the Small Magellanic Cloud would take at least thirty-five hundred years.

Now that it lit up in an instant, it was enough to show how wondrous this light source was.

This was indeed not the light of any celestial body.

Nor was it light born naturally.

At the very center of the light source, a “person” was suspended.

And that person was Lu Li.

He sensed that his divine body was about to undergo metamorphosis, and fearing that he might cause terrifying destruction during the process, he deliberately left Earth and came to the Small Magellanic Cloud.

“All the interstellar matter here has been completely annihilated by me, forming a hollow region spanning a full seven thousand light-years. Even if my divine body changes later and pours out immense power, I don’t have to worry about destroying any intelligent civilization.”

Lu Li gazed at the endless starry sky, pondering in his heart.

His current internal energy limit had reached a staggering sixty-five trillion stellar forces, while the Milky Way Galaxy only contained four hundred billion stars.

So purely in terms of ‘volume’, the power he now possessed was roughly equivalent to one hundred and sixty-two and a half Milky Ways.

And this local galaxy group had about fifty member galaxies.

Among them, aside from the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy, the rest were basically Dwarf Star Systems or small galaxies.

In other words, Lu Li’s power now was far greater than the total power of all the stars gathered in this entire local galaxy group.

The entire local group of galaxies was spread across a region about ten million light-years in diameter.

Lu Li was stronger than the entire local group, so illuminating seven thousand light-years was simply nothing worth mentioning.

In fact, if he wished, and used some special methods, even lighting up a range of one hundred and thirty trillion light-years would pose no problem.

It was just that he wasn’t some idle giant “light bulb” with nothing better to do, so there was no need.

As for why he was illuminating a Star Realm of seven thousand light-years now, it was because the vast energy within him had involuntarily spilled out.

“I have to complete this ‘metamorphosis’, otherwise my energy is growing every moment, yet this body can only ‘store’ sixty-five trillion units of energy. The rest of the naturally increasing energy can’t be accumulated; if I don’t deliberately control its outflow, this energy alone would be enough to destroy the Milky Way Galaxy, or even the entire local group, in a short time.”

Lu Li sighed slightly. “Even with me trying my best to control the outflow, I can still illuminate a range of seven thousand light-years. If I didn’t restrain it at all, the entire Cosmos would probably face a calamity even greater than the iron-based lifeforms. I have to say, I’m too strong.”

After venting some of the excess energy,

he instinctively took a deep breath.

Then…

Mm, he inhaled nothing.

“It’s time to complete the metamorphosis of my divine body!”

Lu Li lifted the suppression without hesitation.

He let the energy within him surge freely.

The next instant, he felt the energy burst forth like a breached flood, madly surging toward every inch of his body.

Along with the outpouring of energy, his body instantly shattered apart, transforming into an “will” form of existence.

In a split second, Lu Li’s “will” was “scattered” into every inch of a six-million-light-year region.

Once his “will” had evenly spread, that energy kept expanding and diffusing outward.

Under normal circumstances, such an enormous surge of energy from him would be enough to annihilate all matter within these six million light-years.

But right now, he was in the midst of his divine body’s metamorphosis, and the energy was being controlled by his “will” with supreme power, forming a type of energy called “void”.

This “void” energy was very strange. It clearly existed in reality, yet no creature or instrument could detect it, and it could also refrain from causing even the slightest damage to the real world.

This was only the surface phenomenon.

In truth, Lu Li was perfectly clear inside: with just a single “thought”, this “void” energy could be converted into “real”, and then unleash boundless power.

“The reason this energy transforms into ‘void’ is because the real world simply cannot accommodate such a powerful singular existence as myself. After all, with sixty-five trillion units of energy fused into one, a single cell of mine is equivalent to a star—and that’s even before my divine body’s metamorphosis. Once the metamorphosis is complete, the energy will become even more immense.”

Lu Li sighed inwardly.

Just imagine: the power of a star compressed to the size of a single cell—how terrifying is that?

That would absolutely be an existence far more terrifying than a black hole, by countless orders of magnitude.

The key point was that after the metamorphosis of his divine body, this energy would be compressed even further.

Under such circumstances, if Lu Li didn’t convert his energy into “void”, just his true form remaining in this Cosmos might trigger a horrifying “collapse effect”.

At that point, he would be a humanoid “collapse engine”.

Wherever he walked, the starry sky there would “collapse”.

No.

Not just the starry sky collapsing.

To be precise, the very “dimension” of wherever he stood would collapse because of him.

Of course, this was something that could only happen after his divine body completed its metamorphosis, and it was still just his speculation.

Whether it would really be so would only be known once the metamorphosis of his divine body was complete.

As he pondered, the energy began to surge.

It gradually condensed into an immense divine-body “phantom” roughly six million light-years in size.

The metamorphosis officially began!

…

River Entertainment Network.

The news that the Galaxy Alliance had deployed overwhelming firepower to encircle and annihilate the iron-based lifeform, only to fail, was quickly exposed by war correspondents.

An Interstellar War Correspondent uploaded the footage they had risked their life to capture, adding the caption: “Dozens of Titan Cosmic Battleship battle groups were reduced to dust in an instant. Does this mean that the technology of intelligent life is this fragile and helpless before ‘god-tier’ lifeforms born from the unique advantages of nature?”

Billions of races across the Milky Way Galaxy saw this report.

In an instant, the entire Milky Way Galaxy was shaken to its core.

“What?”

“Dozens of Titan Battleship battle groups were destroyed in an instant?”

“Those are Titan Battleship battle groups, the most powerful Cosmic Battleship groups in our Milky Way Galaxy.”

“Exactly. A single Titan Battleship battle group is at least equal to dozens of super Cosmic Battleship battle groups. With such overwhelming military might, is it still so weak and helpless before the iron-based lifeform?”

“It’s over!”

“Our Milky Way Galaxy is finished!”

“This iron-based lifeform is far too powerful; technology simply can’t compete with it.”

“The worst part is, to this day, no one has managed to capture the full form of this iron-based lifeform on camera. Do you know what that means? It means everything we know about this iron-based lifeform is partial, not objective. The fact that its body likely exceeds a stellar system—everyone might have already realized that. After comparing and analyzing numerous images and video materials, I can conclude that the true length of this iron-based lifeform’s body may exceed five light-years, perhaps even reach a staggering ten light-years. Do you know what that represents?”

“The density of the iron-based lifeform’s body is probably many times higher than that of a Neutron Star. The larger it is, the higher its density; the more intense the nuclear fusion reactions inside its body, the more ferocious they become, and thus its ‘survival temperature’ grows even hotter. The normal body temperature of an iron-based lifeform is above the boiling point of iron. If this iron-based lifeform’s body really stretches to five light-years, its surface temperature is likely comparable to that of many stars. If it reaches ten light-years, its temperature might approach that of stellar interiors. If it approached a planet, it might do nothing at all and still melt that planet down!”

“Exactly, that’s how terrifying it is.”

“My god, just by getting close to a planet, it can melt the whole world?”

“What do we do? With this iron-based lifeform rampaging across our Milky Way Galaxy, what are we supposed to do? Who’s going to save us?”

Countless netizens of the Milky Way Galaxy wailed in grief online.

When people first heard about the iron-based lifeform, they had already felt a deep, bone-chilling fear.

Now, with dozens of Titan Battleship groups failing in their encirclement and being destroyed instead, and with people calculating the terrifying extent of this iron-based lifeform, all the races of the Milky Way Galaxy were plunged into even greater panic.

In that moment, everyone truly realized just how despair-inducing this world-shaking cataclysm they were facing really was!

No one believed the Galaxy Alliance had the ability to destroy such a terrifying monster!

No one believed any technological civilization could save them from such a deadly crisis!

It was over; everything was over.

This was the despair in the hearts of every intelligent being of every race in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Of course, despair was despair; in reality, the entire Milky Way Galaxy had not yet given up hope of survival.

Because they knew that within the Milky Way Galaxy, there was still the existence of the True God!