Chapter 378: Chapter 201: A Single Step to the Heavens, One Dao to Suppress Ten Thousand Daos
’Tier Seven... a quantum leap!’
Wang Xiao quietly assessed the shift in power within him and let out a soft sigh.
If a Tier Six Life was strong enough to dominate its world,
Then a Tier Seven Life was qualified to traverse the sea of stars.
The starry expanse of the cosmos was a silent, boundless void.
Yet it was also teeming with all kinds of Cosmic Energy!
The Divine Techniques that a Tier Six Life could use within its world would be disrupted by Cosmic Energy upon entering space, their effectiveness greatly diminished.
However, once one refined a planet, ascended to Tier Seven, and converted their internal Grotto Heaven Power into Star Power,
They could form a Domain around themselves, thereby neutralizing the effects of Cosmic Energy.
Furthermore, within their Domain, they could even alter and weaken the Great Dao Rules, allowing them to suppress a Tier Six Life!
After all, the Divine Techniques used by a Tier Six Life are all based on the Great Dao Rules!
Of course, a Tier Seven Life’s ability to alter and weaken the Great Dao Rules was not without its limits.
For example, some Tier Seven Life forms who had only refined a Death Star lacked a planetary consciousness in their Grotto Heaven.
The Domain they formed would be extremely weak.
It would be nearly impossible for them to alter the rules of an Origin Great Dao!
When facing a Tier Six Life who possessed a Grotto Heaven of Origin,
Their advantage as a Tier Seven Life would be greatly diminished.
For instance, back when Wang Xiao unified his Nine Great Origins to forge his Grotto Heaven, even though he hadn’t yet reached Tier Seven,
He could have defeated an ordinary Tier Seven Life with ease.
’The difference between a Tier Seven Life who has refined a planetary consciousness and one who hasn’t is like night and day!’
Wang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.
He finally understood why Tier Nine Life forms like Chaos Nether King Gu Tiandu looked so regretful when they spoke of refining planets.
Although these Tier Nine Life forms had relied on external power to evolve to Tier Nine,
The Grotto Heavens they had forged back then were too weak, and they had already lost any chance of advancing further.
In terms of actual power, they were probably weaker than some Tier Eight experts who had refined a planetary consciousness.
’One wrong step leads to another. There are no shortcuts on the path of cultivation.’
’Relying entirely on external forces instead of strengthening oneself only courts endless disaster down the line.’
’Fortunately, the Grotto Heaven I’ve forged can already be considered top-tier. If I can also refine a sufficiently potent planetary consciousness, I’ll be invincible among my peers!’
Wang Xiao was now aware that the combat prowess of a Tier Seven Life depended entirely on two factors.
First, the size of their internal Grotto Heaven.
Second, the potency of the planetary consciousness it contained.
Wang Xiao had previously unified his Nine Great Origins and fused them with various Natural and Basic Great Daos to create the *Tai Chi Eternal Heaven*.
Empowered by these various Great Daos, the internal Grotto Heaven he had just manifested already spanned an area of over a million square miles!
Now that he had broken through to become a Tier Seven Life, its area had increased more than tenfold!
This was far beyond what an ordinary Tier Seven Life could achieve!
After all, the Grotto Heaven of a Tier Seven Life who had only refined a Death Star would be ten thousand square miles at most.
There was simply no comparison to Wang Xiao’s.
As for the potency of the contained planetary consciousness, that depended on the development of the planet itself.
It didn’t refer to the planet’s size alone.
It also encompassed the development of the various life forms on the planet, their future potential, and other factors.
Generally, planetary consciousnesses were categorized by their potency into four levels: Primary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Peerless.
A Primary planetary consciousness required a Grotto Heaven forged from one to three Origin Great Daos to be refined.
An Intermediate planetary consciousness required a Grotto Heaven forged from four to six Origin Great Daos to be refined.
An Advanced planetary consciousness required a Grotto Heaven forged from seven to nine Origin Great Daos to be refined.
As for a Peerless planetary consciousness, it required a Grotto Heaven not only forged from the Nine Origin Great Dao, but one that had also undergone Origin Unity!
The planetary consciousness of his current world, for instance, could be classified as Advanced based on its potency.
As for what qualified as Peerless, there were two criteria.
First, the planet had to be at the core of its star system, with all other planets revolving around it.
Second, the planet had to be the place where a Meteor that had streaked across the Cosmos had fallen.
For example, the planetary consciousness of Earth in the Real World would be considered Peerless.
Of course, a Tier Seven Life wasn’t limited to refining just one planet.
The number of planets one could refine depended entirely on the strength of their own Grotto Heaven.
With the Grotto Heaven Wang Xiao had manifested after achieving Origin Unity, for instance, he could refine at least nine Advanced planetary consciousnesses!
As for Death Stars, there was no limit at all!
Refining planets could, to a certain extent, also cause a Tier Seven Life’s Grotto Heaven to expand.
It could also be used to repair a damaged Grotto Heaven.
Zhao Yin from the Celestial Universe Star Domain, whom Wang Xiao had encountered previously, had attempted to forcefully refine a planetary consciousness precisely to repair his own Grotto Heaven.
This led to a disastrous backlash, causing his body to transform into a Celestial Demon and his Grotto Heaven to devolve into the Underworld.
Wang Xiao’s Divine Thought swept outward.
In an instant, everything within the Nine Provinces was laid bare to his senses.
This was one of the abilities gained after refining a planet.
He had essentially replaced this world’s Heaven and Earth Consciousness.
No matter how vast the planet, nothing on its surface could escape his perception.
Through his Divine Thought, Wang Xiao witnessed the events unfolding across the Nine Provinces.
After the war to purge the gods and demons twenty years ago,
All the Divine-Demon Descendants had been completely eradicated!
The Human Race had finally risen, taking complete control over the Nine Provinces.
As for the Demon Race, the Human Race had driven them all into Barbarian State, one of the Nine Provinces.
No member of the Demon Race was permitted to leave this state without the approval of the Human Race’s Celestial Venerables.
Unless, that is, they volunteered to serve as mounts for the Human Race.
