Lu Yu had an overwhelming desire for his light to pierce the outside world, allowing him to see it clearly.
"Is the light too weak to reach out?" Lu Yu reflected inwardly.
He continued to gather planets, hoping to acquire more "light" so that it could penetrate the outside world, enabling him to see it clearly.
While collecting planets, Lu Yu made a discovery.
Apart from the scattered planets he could perceive in the surrounding darkness, there were also some hidden, invisible planets.
When these invisible planets entered the range of his light, they too would light up and become his own.
Thus, while collecting visible planets, Lu Yu would also painstakingly search for those hidden ones.
Even though the invisible planets were shrouded in darkness, whenever his planets passed by, they'd cause slight changes.
Through these subtle changes, Lu Yu could locate the hidden planets in the darkness, bring them back to his territory, and transform them into his own.
In the army of demons, whenever an Order Maintainer flew by, a few demons would inexplicably fall as if they died instantly.
Yet, on the surface, there seemed to be no injuries, only upon close inspection by higher-level demons would it be found that the mysterious fallen demons' source was completely gone.
No, what they had wasn't exactly a "source"; at best, it was a "pivot" in this cosmic world.
Just as in a computer, every string of characters has an "addressable root."
In this cosmic world, every object has a "pivot" that holds it in place.
When a "pivot" is lost, it is equivalent to disappearing from this cosmic world, never to be found again, with nowhere to reside.
Lu Yu was unaware that the hidden planets he found were the "pivots" of those demons in the grand cosmos.
He knew that having enough luminous planets would allow his light to penetrate the outside world and see it clearly.
The Order Maintainer left a trail where demons inexplicably fell, vanishing completely from this world.
In an advancing army, the death of demons was normal; a few fallen wouldn't draw the attention of higher-level demons, nor would even large numbers.
They didn't care for these killing machines produced by the demon's lair.
Higher-level demons didn't regard lower and mid-level demons as kin; to them, those were merely moving masses of flesh.
Without external interference, Lu Yu gathered more and more planets, illuminating an increasingly vast range.
The light clinging to the Order Maintainer caught the attention of another demon, curious about the mysterious glow on the Order Maintainer.
The light felt strange, as though unlike anything else in this world.
Instinctively, it reached out to touch the light.
The moment its fingertip touched the light, a beam pierced its finger and entered the demon's body.
Lu Yu saw his light finally penetrating the outside world, allowing him to see it.
He saw an abundance of black-red planets crammed together, some connected by thread-like red-black tendrils.
Following the path his light opened, Lu Yu ventured into the outside world with his planets.
The Order Maintainer's strange light disappeared, leaving the touching demon momentarily stunned. Seeing the Order Maintainer about to attack, it quickly moved away to avoid involvement.
It didn't notice a beam of light had entered its body through its fingertips.
Lu Yu broke through a red-black wall with his planets, entering a black river.
He could sense a strange force lurking within the black river.
Lu Yu, instinctively aware that this force might erode his planets, carefully used his light to shield against the odd force in the river.
Following the black river, Lu Yu journeyed freely, encountering various splendid worlds.
He had never seen such worlds before, where oddly shaped planets coexisted harmoniously, forming a whole.
Reaching the galaxy's center via the black river, Lu Yu could still feel the world's grand resonance.
Thump, thump, thump ~ The powerful resonance was a testament to the world's harmony.
Listening to the strong resonance, Lu Yu sensed a desire for his planets to unite and concentrate all their power like this.
Thump ~ thump ~ thump, thump ~ thump, thump, thump ~ His planets began pulsing rhythmically, as if everything was brimming with life.
Satisfied, Lu Yu, with his planets, continued down the surging black river, venturing deeper into this world.
A demon flew above, sending lower and mid-level demons into a time-space vortex towards the battlefield.
Suddenly, it heard two different heartbeats coming from its chest cavity.
The demon paused briefly, oddly glancing at its heart, exposed and protected only by a few skeletal frames.
The heart seemed fine, yet two sounds emanated from it.
Not understanding the cause and knowing the heart was fine, it disregarded the heartbeat issue.
Though it felt strangely as if the heartbeat was growing louder.
Shaking its head, unable to figure things out, it shifted focus to other matters, randomly tossing some irksome demons into the vortex's most dangerous part.
Finishing this, it felt much better, dismissing the echoing heartbeats in its mind.
Lu Yu and his planets arrived at a world where planets resembled trees, their roots and branches intertwining to form a luminous forest.
Curious, he used "light" to touch a tree's leaves, flooding his mind with fragmented information.
The information was in fragments, and utterly chaotic, leaving Lu Yu clueless about its nature.
He quickly released the touch on the leaves, unwilling to receive those meaningless scrambled data.
"Garbled data? What could that be?" A question arose in Lu Yu's mind.
Piecing together memory fragments from various planets, he understood the concept of garbled data.
Suddenly, Lu Yu had a thought: he needed fragments from various planets to compose his desired information.
Could it be that these tree-like planets outside also require multiple pieces for a complete understanding?
Curiously, Lu Yu extended his "light" tendrils to the surrounding trees.
The demon's head suddenly glowed faintly, halting its actions.
Massive information surged from the "light tendrils" into Lu Yu's mind, granting him sight, a body, sensations...
A vast array of peculiar demons appeared before Lu Yu as he controlled the demon's brain, blinking.
The other demons didn't notice their commander momentarily stopping, continuing to rush into the time-space vortex to fill it.
Lu Yu pondered deeply, as he considered his current state, feeling as though he had transformed into a beam of light.
Upon taking over the demon's brain, Lu Yu recalled everything about his past.
Using this demon's "pivot" in the grand cosmos, he reclaimed his memories.
However, this didn't mean he'd regain his powers.
Currently, his "pivot" in the grand cosmos was erased; he was a non-entity to the cosmic world.
Previously, his light failed to penetrate the outside world due to lacking a pivot, disconnecting him from the grand cosmos.
Inside the demon's body, he found a "borrowable" pivot.
Unless he could create a pivot, he couldn't reappear in the grand cosmos.
