Gu Jinlai estimated that Creation Gate would need at least three hundred Cheng Ying Mechas to have a chance of winning in a war against the Ten Thousand Stars Sword Sect.
If they wanted to ensure a crushing advantage, the number of Cheng Ying Mechas would need to exceed a thousand.
This was still without him taking the top combat power into account.
"As a top force, Ten Thousand Stars Sword Sect has an Immortal Master; my current strength is still somewhat inferior when aggressively attacking an Immortal Master backed by a Grotto Heaven. However, if I could lure that Immortal Master out, tens of thousands of miles away from the Grotto Heaven, without the continuous amplification from the power of Grotto Heaven, even though he could incorporate the power of Heavenly Dao into his body, he would ultimately be worn down to death by my ’Three Realms,’" he thought.
Gu Jinlai pondered, focusing his attention on his spirit world.
During this time, having cleared out both Baihe City and Creation Gate, he had accumulated quite a sum of Qingguang. Even after spending a lot, he still had eight hundred left.
However, using eight hundred Qingguang to bring the "Three Realms" Technique to Perfection was a bit too premature.
Moreover, the ultimate goal of the Three Realms Technique was for him to finish sculpting the miniature Spirit Realm within him and to integrate it into the True Spirit Realm.
In the process, he would transform into a Spirit Realm Life within the miniature Spirit Realm and naturally achieve the status of Spirit Master as the miniature Spirit Realm merged into the True Spirit Realm.
But the environment in the Profound Immortal Realm...
Was not friendly to spiritual life forms.
After pondering for a moment, Gu Jinlai’s gaze couldn’t help but fall on the skill of the Eternal Furnace.
Although the Three Realms were forged from the Chaotic Star Light Body, Eternal Furnace, Spirit Mechanism Technique, and Star Cloud Strategy, it didn’t mean that the skill sphere of the Eternal Furnace had disappeared.
In fact, if he could make breakthroughs in his Chaotic Star Light Body, Eternal Furnace, Spirit Mechanism Technique, and Star Cloud Strategy, and then reevaluate the Three Realms Technique, the power of this technique would also rise considerably.
His gaze settled on the Eternal Furnace, which had dropped back down to the Mahayana realm after acquiring a large amount of data related to "nuclear fusion."
"Compared to the Chaotic Star Light Body, the incredible endurance of the Eternal Furnace means it can exert even greater power in the Profound Immortal Realm. Also, due to the Flame Heavenly Dao I fortuitously acquired, I’ve repeatedly pondered over this Heavenly Dao recently. I have gained new insight into the Eternal Furnace and even the Three Realms Technique... Taking advantage of the large amount of Qingguang I have, it’s time to optimize this power system..." he thought.
With that thought, eight hundred strands of Qingguang surged like a deluge, pouring into the Eternal Furnace.
In this period, he himself had gained some understanding of the Eternal Furnace, and after adding some Qingguang into it intermittently, the infusion of eight hundred strands of Qingguang brought profound insights, instantly causing a tremendous change in the world before Gu Jinlai’s eyes.
Indistinctly, he seemed to transform into a pure gaseous substance—hydrogen—and under the Gravity trait derived from the Three Realms Technique, he continuously spun, compressed, and...
This collapse caused fierce collisions, which at a certain moment, reached a critical point of released energy, erupting suddenly, creating an unprecedented, unceasing fusion effect, and finally...
A constant star formed.
Once the constant star formed, it also used Gravity to continuously draw in matter from the vast starry sky as its fuel, allowing it to burn like it was eternal, radiating infinite brilliance and heat.
However, nothing in this world can truly last forever.
Even the True Immortals, who are renowned for their longevity and completely energy-based existence, are limited by the capacity of their Divine Senses and will perish after a thousand years.
The same is true for constant stars.
The gradually perfected Eternal Furnace, influenced by the Flame Heavenly Dao, gradually showed Gu Jinlai the direction of the constant star’s demise.
An unprecedented high temperature.
One billion degrees, three billion degrees, six billion degrees...
In such terrifying high temperatures, the Sun...
They burst forth with unprecedented radiant brilliance, unleashing a gamma-ray burst of one trillion degrees of heat, annihilating all matter in the cosmos with an unstoppable force.
When that radiant brilliance erupted and released in Gu Jinlai’s mind, even though it was clearly just an illusion derived from his comprehension of Qingguang, Gu Jinlai still felt his brain buzzing, his Divine Sense as if immersed in an unprecedented shock.
A might beyond what mortals could aspire to or gaze upon in their lifetime.
Gu Jinlai took a deep breath.
It took him a long while to recover from the scene of the solar explosion.
Immediately after, he quickly focused his attention on the Eternal Furnace, which had just been enhanced to Perfection.
Eternal Furnace: Mahayana → Perfection.
Derived trait: Supernova Explosion.
"Indeed, it’s this trait," he acknowledged.
He knew that as he continued to grow, there would come a day he would encounter such a cosmic marvel capable of destroying the Sun, but he never expected that day to come so soon.
He carefully sensed this trait.
In fact, when he activated the "Undying Eternity" trait of the Eternal Furnace, it would become very unstable.
At this time, if he forcefully operated the Eternal Furnace, it might collapse, ultimately causing an effect similar to a supernova explosion.
But, that effect was not only full of surprises but also an uncontrollable self-destructive last strike at the expense of both the Eternal Furnace and himself.
It was akin to a suicidal Jade and Stone Burn Together, completely out of control.
But the current Supernova Explosion...
It could even be considered a secret technique.
In cooperation with the Undying Eternity trait, it could squeeze all the power within the Eternal Furnace in an extremely extreme way, release it, and ultimately form a destructive strike.