Chapter 722 - 229: Leader’s Charisma! Six Great Star Systems Alliance! The Competition Enters a White-Hot Stage

Chapter 722: Chapter 229: Leader’s Charisma! Six Great Star Systems Alliance! The Competition Enters a White-Hot Stage

’This so-called "immortality" doesn’t come without a price.’

In a brief moment between his body being sliced in half by Caesar’s Holy Sword and instantly reforming, a flash of insight struck Qin Feng.

’Every time my physical body is shattered, I can instantly reform it with my powerful life force and Mental Power. But the intense, tearing agony that comes from the depths of my soul, the mental anguish—that is real and unavoidable.’

’The essence of this immortality is, in fact, drawn from the vast Mental Power that has already formed the Immortal Tower, as well as the massive reserves of Spiritual Energy accumulated in my body.’

’This also proves that "immortality" has its limits.

Based on my current total Mental Power and Spiritual Energy reserves, if my body is continuously shattered and reformed more than 100,000 times, my internal energy will be completely depleted.

At that point, I would have to start consuming the resources stored in my Subspace units to replenish my energy and continue reconstructing my body.’

’And if even those resources run out... that would mean true death.’

While locked in a fierce, lightning-fast exchange of attacks and defenses with Caesar, Qin Feng calmly analyzed the situation in his mind.

’The Indestructible Projection is, in reality, the physical manifestation of Mental Power.’

’According to the Canaan Scripture, the first step on the path of a Star-level cultivator is to continuously absorb resources to expand one’s Indestructible Projection from its current height of several light-years to the size of an actual star system—a terrifying scale of at least 100,000 light-years.’

’After achieving that expansion in scale, one must then undergo countless rounds of tempering and purification, reforging the entire star-system-sized, silvery-white Indestructible Projection until it becomes a brilliant, pure gold.’

’Ordinary Mental Power is silvery-white. The difficulty of forging it into pure gold is likely countless times harder than cultivating from a mortal to the Star-level.’

Qin Feng’s mind was perfectly clear.

In this brutal battle, one that would shatter the psyche of any observer, he had actually dedicated a portion of his consciousness to cultivating the Canaan Scripture.

For him, whose Mental Power was already as vast as an ocean, this terrifying ability to multi-task had become as simple and natural as breathing.

By combining the detailed records in the Canaan Scripture with Master Yu Han’s previous in-person explanations, the complete cultivation path from the Star-level to the Star System-level had been laid out before Qin Feng, holding nothing back.

As a result, his goal became crystal clear: in the roughly six hundred years remaining in the competition, he would walk this seemingly unreachable path and successfully advance to become a true Star System-level Powerhouse!

This was the standard his master, the Heaven-Devouring King, had set for him when he was accepted as a disciple.

According to Qin Feng’s precise calculations, if the next six hundred years went as smoothly as the first four hundred, and he could acquire enough top-tier resources, this seemingly impossible goal might actually be achievable.

After all, any single Resource Point within the major battle zone, if taken and placed into the greater Cosmos, would be a top-tier "fortuitous encounter" capable of changing a "protagonist’s" destiny.

In this uniquely blessed environment, it was genuinely possible to achieve in a thousand years a level of progress that ordinary geniuses couldn’t reach even in tens of thousands of years.

Having figured all this out, Qin Feng’s state of mind grew even calmer, yet his attacks became even more ferocious and precise!

He and Caesar were like two entangled Neutron Stars, constantly colliding, separating, and colliding again.

Every clash caused vast swaths of the surrounding million-kilometer asteroid belt to undergo Annihilation.

Forged in the crucible of this high-intensity combat, Qin Feng’s understanding, application, and mastery of his core killing technique, the Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique, were also increasing at a visibly frantic pace.

He was drawing ever closer to the legendary realm of Control.

His Mental Power had long since grown from the "cupful" he possessed when he first comprehended the Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique into the towering Immortal Tower that now stood several light-years tall.

His cognitive abilities and the processing power of his Divine Thought had skyrocketed by more than hundreds of millions of times since then!

The Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique, which had once seemed incomparably complex and profound, was now crystal clear to him, holding no more secrets.

He was on the verge of the final breakthrough, needing only the right catalyst.

And this life-or-death battle with Caesar was the perfect catalyst!

The battle, watched by all, continued for eight long years.

Then, one day in the eighth year, at the very instant Qin Feng thrust out his Star-devouring Spear once more, its tip about to touch Caesar’s Holy Sword, it was as if his prayers were answered. All of his insights and accumulated knowledge fused together, achieving perfect synthesis!

[Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique (Control)]

OMMM—!

In that instant, the Star-devouring Spear in Qin Feng’s hand suddenly became incomparably strange!

The black-hole-like pressure of Mental Power that had merely been clinging to the spear’s shaft seemed to shatter some kind of barrier in that moment, becoming tangible!

Around the jet-black spear tip, light bent, space was devoured, and a minuscule but real point of gravity flashed into and out of existence!

This was the sign that the Heaven-swallowing Fist Technique had reached the realm of "Control," and it also meant that this Level 7 killing technique was now infinitely close to the legendary Level 8 Killing Technique!