Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Liu Jun wasn't someone who acted recklessly, but as he hesitated about whether to escape, he suddenly witnessed an unexpected transformation.

"No, my will..."

Angry and fearful roars emanated from Baya Ya, the dragon fish.

Baya Ya seemed to be losing all his will, being eroded by more terrifying forces, swallowed by the violent convergence of power.

"Let me out—" On the dragon bowl, Baya Ya turned into a moving dragon fish mural, persistently crashing against the bowl's walls, attempting to break free.

The incomplete 12th tier Great Dao Fruit Artifact—the dragon bowl, was surprisingly dented and cracked by him.

Fortuna was shocked by this strange scene: "What's happening? Is he trying to escape?"

Liu Jun saw this and his lips twitched, immediately guessing a certain possibility:

"The Divine Object is the embodiment of countless laws, its convergence represents the ultimate will of nature, the sum of the universal laws."

"Humans cannot become nature."

"Once you try to become nature, you completely turn into a dead object, becoming a Dao Fruit Artifact."

Just as Liu Jun pondered, Fortuna suddenly exclaimed:

"He's going to break the bowl, he's stopping his breakthrough, he's trying to run midway through! What should we do?"

As the mysterious dragon bowl was about to shatter, Liu Jun's expression flashed with heaviness, and a glimmer of realization.

He understood why his Mushroom Soup had shattered.

Why it was an incomplete twelfth tier.

It turns out, once the twelfth tier reaches the breakthrough condition, there are no traps or thresholds for breakthrough.

But after the breakthrough, you die!

You become a bowl, Mushroom Soup.

Or maybe a smelly sock, a vase, a precious sword...

So back then, the one with the Mushroom Soup, he didn't fail to breakthrough to the twelfth tier!

He realized immediately during the breakthrough that once he succeeded, he would become that Mushroom Soup itself, a dead object.

So, he stopped the breakthrough midway, shattered the Mushroom Soup bowl, and fled!

Thus, he left behind an incomplete twelfth tier Dao Artifact, which Liu Jun had accidentally picked up.

"God, should we stop him?" Fortuna suddenly asked.

"No, we'll observe quietly."

Liu Jun's eyes flashed with a hint of heaviness, "This is an extremely precious data sample, let's see the changes after he escapes."

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

The violent energy tides continuously impacted the dragon bowl, and finally, with Baya Ya's desperate struggle.

The forming Dao Artifact began to crack.

"I won't prove it, I won't become a Dao..." Baya Ya, with a face full of fear, transformed into a stream of light, madly rushed outward, disappearing into the distant void.

Just at the moment when he escaped, the entire Dao Artifact he left behind completely formed, perfectly sealed.

But that crack indicated the imperfection of this Great Dao Fruit Artifact, as a part of its origin had escaped.

Just like Liu Jun's Mushroom Soup, both were incomplete!

"What a pity." Liu Jun reached out and grabbed the freshly formed dragon bowl, continuously feeling the terrifying power coursing through it.

This was a terrifying vessel condensed by a Super Universe.

The Super Universe is nature.

Its condensed Dao Artifact reflects the origin of nature itself.

"What about the escaped Baya Ya?"

Fortuna suddenly shouted, "Even if he abandons his Dao Fruit Artifact, now incomplete as a twelfth tier, he probably still has earth-shattering power left!"

Fortuna's worries, Liu Jun could understand.

This incomplete twelfth tier, might he come back to take his Dao Fruit Artifact? Might he come to kill us?

"Running is futile."

Liu Jun quickly realized this, gazing mystically in the direction of Baya Ya's escape into the void, "Even incomplete, it's still twelfth tier, catching up to us eleventh tiers, incredibly easy!"

Fortuna sighed with a frown, "Damn, this God feels a slight pressure."

Turning his attention back, Liu Jun was too lazy to think further, he began researching the Great Dao Fruit Artifact, the dragon bowl.

He discovered this thing could also nurture a series of his own incomplete twelfth tier Divine Objects, each in different bowl shapes.

These Divine Objects hold extremely high status!

It's like acquiring a second Golden Finger.

He could use this thing to create a second type of Divine Object.

"What a shame, it's nowhere near perfect!" Liu Jun toyed with the dragon bowl, "If Baya Ya hadn't escaped, hadn't broken the Dao Artifact, sacrificing himself for the Dao... this twelfth tier treasure would definitely be flawless!"

Of course, this was only a joke.

Liu Jun waited for three days.

He discovered something odd, Baya Ya unexpectedly disappeared, not coming back for his Dao Fruit Artifact?

Afraid of us?

How could that be?

This guy has a deep grudge against us, the whole species being herded by us like fish, it's impossible he wouldn't return.

Simultaneously, Liu Jun noticed another interesting point.

He discovered that as this Dragon Bowl settled, it began to glow, seemingly fully formed.

An eerie phenomenon occurred.

This Dragon Bowl actually began to teleport!

Whoosh—

The next moment, the Dragon Bowl disappeared from its original place.

"Chase!" Liu Jun decisively set off with Fortuna in pursuit.

When they arrived at the void where the Dragon Bowl was, they found Baya Ya frantically fleeing.

And behind him, there was a bowl chasing him!

Fortuna, dumbfounded, immediately realized:

"This is unbelievable, this bowl, driven by instinct, wants to complete its structure and is chasing its other half source?"

"This Great Dao Fruit Artifact is chasing its own Artifact Spirit?"

In fact, when Baya Ya broke through, he already had an instinctive sense that he would be chased.

So he had been constantly fleeing.

"Damn it, how can there be such a nemesis... and it's one I created myself!"

Even though he was now incredibly powerful, as an incomplete twelfth tier wanting to kill God and Fortuna, he dared not approach the bowl pursuing him.

Liu Jun was somewhat shocked, watching him flee frantically, "So that's the logic of the twelfth tier."

He suddenly remembered a story.

If someone gave you a billion, and behind you was an invincible snail chasing you relentlessly, would you agree?

Now, it's exactly the same.

Receiving the billion is the twelfth-tier realm.

The snail chasing you is the Great Dao Fruit Artifact you created, trying to reclaim you, the fleeing Artifact Spirit!

Liu Jun's expression was calm, his eyes flashing with complexity,

"This world is truly unexpected, even if we guessed it could happen, the way he is imprisoned still broke my imagination."

"Once you break through to this incomplete twelfth-tier realm, you'll be endlessly pursued by a 'snail'."

Liu Jun suddenly realized.

His own Mushroom Soup wasn't constantly teleporting, crazily chasing some owner.

It must be...

The owner of this Mushroom Soup was long ago hunted down by the 'snail'.

Upon closer inspection, this Mushroom Soup seemed more complete than that Dragon Bowl!

It must be that the Mushroom Soup consumed that escaped Artifact Spirit.

But even after reclaiming the Artifact Spirit, the Mushroom Soup remained incomplete.

Because at the moment the Mushroom Soup broke through to the twelfth tier, it was struck with cracks, which could never be repaired.

In the end, this Mushroom Soup that had hunted down its own owner fell into his hands.

Liu Jun guessed the general cause and effect, "This Baya Ya is really pitiful, such extreme ups and downs would break anyone's mentality..."

Fortuna was also filled with lingering fear, saying, "What should we do now?"

"Even though he, as an incomplete twelfth tier, is incredibly powerful and perhaps could easily kill us, he is now too busy fleeing to spare a hand to deal with us."

Liu Jun thought it was fortunate he was cautious, otherwise, he would have fallen into the trap.

Imagine this.

In this vast void, even if someone really endured countless hardships to reach the twelfth tier.

They would also become pitiable, forever on the run.

At this moment.

Liu Jun and Fortuna were following Baya Ya's escape route all the way.

He realized how terrifying and dreadful the twelfth tier was.

The twelfth tier is truly known as the Creator God, a being of the creation realm!

They will become an unusual Kua Fu known as the "Creator God," running wildly in the void, never stopping.

During the course of running, because of the agony and fatigue of the wild run, they will create cosmoses with each breath of exhaustion.

Falling into an endless cycle of labor!

When thirsty, they will drink the Chaotic Sea Water from the roadside to replenish energy.

Ultimately, after endless running, they will collapse from fatigue, falling in despair.

This is the twelfth-tier Creator God.

They are the embodiment of the law of nature, the supreme God of cosmic creation, born with an inherently sacred and grand ultimate mission!

"So tragic."

A peculiar look spread across Fortuna's face,

"Previously, I thought every realm was like imprisonment, the higher the realm, the more outrageous the imprisonment."

"I naively thought that the twelfth tier was escaping imprisonment, successfully breaking out."

Fortuna looked at the disheveled fleeing Baya Ya and silently said:

"In the end, the twelfth tier indeed leaves the prison, successfully breaking out, gaining truly vast freedom."

"But the consequence of the breakout is being constantly pursued by a guard."