Chapter 1277: Breakthrough

I released the restraints I had placed on my Divine Core. The black hole within it fully awakened.

A terrifying projection appeared behind my body. It expanded rapidly until it became enormous, resembling a true black sun suspended in the pocket dimension. The moment it manifested, an overwhelming suction force erupted outward.

The ancient skeleton trembled. Then the silver Essence began moving.

Streams of pure Space Origin poured from the gigantic bones and were pulled toward the black hole behind me. The silver glow surrounding the skeleton became increasingly dim as enormous quantities of spatial Essence were extracted and swallowed into my Divine Core.

I sat down cross-legged beneath the ancient skeleton and closed my eyes. I had no intention of wasting this opportunity.

The black hole would handle the extraction.

My task was to comprehend.

I allowed the pure Space Origin entering my Divine Core to flow through my consciousness while I began meditating on the new understanding I had gained from the Roc and the ancient skeleton together.

The pocket dimension gradually became silent.

Only the deep rumbling of the black hole remained as the ancient inheritance continued being devoured.

And while I sat there in meditation, my understanding of Space began changing in ways I had never experienced before.

Seven days passed in this manner.

For the entire seven days, I did nothing except sit before the ancient skeleton and meditate on Space. The black hole inside my Divine Core continued drawing the remaining spatial Essence from the enormous bones, while I focused on every fragment of comprehension that entered my mind.

I did not rush the process, because the Space Origin was too profound to be treated like ordinary energy. Every thread I absorbed carried traces of the understanding that had accumulated within those bones over countless years, and with every passing moment, my own comprehension became deeper.

During those seven days, my Space Origin continued rising steadily. Forty-four percent, forty-five, forty-six, and then higher. Each increase made my perception of the surrounding void different. I could feel the difference between a space that had never been touched and one that had been disturbed by movement, the subtle traces left behind by spatial travel, and even the faint resistance that existed when two different spatial structures tried to overlap.

By the seventh day, my Space Origin had reached forty-nine percent.

I remained seated before the skeleton with my eyes closed, completely immersed in that feeling. The giant bird skeleton that had once seemed almost endless was now nearly empty.

Most of its silver bones had already lost their brilliance, and the intense fluctuations of Space Origin that had once filled the pocket dimension had weakened considerably. Only a small amount of spatial Essence remained buried deep within the largest bones, and the black hole behind me was slowly drawing out the final traces.

I could feel that there was not much left.

One final pull would be enough.

I did not immediately do it. Instead, I continued meditating for several breaths, allowing the comprehension I had gained during the past seven days to settle inside me. Forty-nine percent Space Origin Resonance was already an incredible level for a Middle Demi-God, and I could feel that I was approaching another boundary.

The remaining Essence within the skeleton was different from everything I had absorbed before. It had been buried at the deepest part of the bones, protected by layers of compressed spatial power accumulated over an unimaginable period of time.

I slowly opened my eyes. The void in front of me trembled faintly. Then I raised one hand and directed the black hole inside my Divine Core toward the skeleton.

The final pull began.

There was no explosion.

Instead, the entire skeleton suddenly trembled.

The silver bones began vibrating at an incredible frequency as countless strands of spatial Essence were forcibly extracted from them. They looked like silver rivers being pulled into the black hole, disappearing one after another into the darkness within my Divine Core. The remaining light on the bones became brighter for a moment before rapidly fading.

The instant that final portion of spatial Essence entered my Divine Core, my mind went completely blank.

A vision appeared.

Then another.

And another.

In an instant, countless visions flooded into my consciousness.

I saw endless space stretching farther than anything I had ever imagined, with no beginning and no end. I saw galaxies being born inside enormous spatial structures, their stars forming within regions that seemed empty from the outside. I saw space being compressed until entire worlds became smaller than grains of dust, and I saw those same worlds expanding until they occupied distances that could not be measured.

The visions changed again.

I saw a single point.

That point suddenly became a line.

The line became a plane.

The plane became a world.

The world became a universe.

Then the universe folded back into a single point.

Everything happened at the same time.

I saw spatial cracks forming naturally between different dimensions. I saw barriers separating universes. I saw how space could overlap with itself without truly becoming one. I saw countless invisible threads connecting every location, every movement, every boundary. Even distance itself appeared before me as something that could be stretched, compressed, twisted, folded, or completely erased.

The information was too much. My consciousness trembled under the flood.

I tried to understand it, but there was simply too much. For seven days I had been collecting drops.

Now an ocean had suddenly entered my mind.

I felt something inside my comprehension begin to strain.

Then it broke.

It was exactly like a dam collapsing after holding back an enormous river.

BOOM!

My Space Origin comprehension exploded outward.

An indescribably powerful spatial fluctuation erupted from my body, spreading through the entire pocket dimension. The surrounding void twisted violently, and countless spatial layers appeared and disappeared around me. Space folded around my body, then unfolded again, creating waves that spread outward in every direction.

The remaining silver bones of the giant Roc could not withstand the fluctuation. They began to crack.

A moment later, the enormous skeleton collapsed completely.

The bones that had survived for countless years shattered into countless pieces before rapidly crumbling into silver dust. The dust was immediately swept into the spatial storm surrounding me, disappearing into the black hole inside my Divine Core.

I remained seated at the center of it all. My consciousness was still drowning in the endless visions.

At the same time, something even more astonishing began happening inside my Divine Core. My Deep Golden Soul Force started changing.

The golden light surrounding my Soul Sphere deepened rapidly.

Twenty-five percent.

Then thirty.

Thirty-five.

Forty.

The transformation did not slow down.

My Soul Force became denser and purer as the new comprehension continued pouring into my Divine Core. The pale traces of gold that had remained within its structure disappeared completely, replaced by a much deeper golden radiance.

Fifty percent.

Sixty.

Seventy.

Then eighty percent.

I could feel the difference immediately. Every strand carried a much heavier presence than before, and the connection between my Soul Force and my Origins became far more natural. When I thought of Space, the Origin responded almost instinctively. There was no longer a clear separation between my will, my Soul Force, and the spatial fluctuations surrounding me.

At the same time, my Divine Core began expanding.

The enormous internal world that already existed within it suddenly became even larger as waves of spatial comprehension spread through its structure. Countless Origin fragments embedded themselves deeper into the Divine Core, and the connections between them became more complicated.

I could feel new Origin patterns forming within it, not because I was deliberately creating them, but because the comprehension I had gained was forcing the Divine Core to evolve naturally.

The spatial fluctuations continued spreading outward.

The entire pocket dimension trembled beneath my presence.

I slowly opened my eyes.