CHAPTER 735: THE PRINCIPLE OF 675 ONE

Being instantly killed was not the point; the real issue was that he did not even understand why he had died.

At that thought, Li Chengyi looked up at Lan Meng.

"Dare I ask..."

Before he could finish, Lan Meng raised a hand to stop him.

"No explanation can substitute for your own experience."

With a gesture, a vague and illusory figure floated out from his body and landed beside Li Chengyi.

The figure quickly became clear; it was an avatar of Lan Meng, almost as tall as Li Chengyi himself.

"Let’s go, I’ll take you to experience it for yourself."

He placed his hand on Li Chengyi’s shoulder.

In an instant, the world whirled around them, light flashing.

Around them, the scene abruptly changed into a modern cityscape with towering buildings and crowded streets.

Silver buildings and small flying vehicles rose and fell, and people equipped with various modern technological devices bustled about.

This place was very similar to Li Chengyi’s homeland, Earth-Moon.

Lan Meng strolled leisurely down the street, oblivious to cars and pedestrian traffic passing through his body as if he were a phantom.

He smiled and gestured for Li Chengyi to follow, while gently explaining in a soft voice.

"You’ve encountered the Saints of the Void Sect; you should be aware that their Saint Positions are a special type of soldier that can be mass-produced. Simply by swallowing a blind spot, they can elevate themselves to the level of Saint Position."

Li Chengyi nodded; his recent experiences indeed confirmed that, compared to the Saints of the Tian Ju Pavilion, these Saints of the Void Sect were considerably weaker, much like flies.

"Quantity is their advantage; quality is their disadvantage. This is true for all Void Sect members below the Omniscient. But above the Omniscient, it’s a different story," Lan Meng said with a smile.

He casually grabbed a passing office worker.

"Now, let’s talk about their dimensional level. The dimensional level primarily revolves around the toxic dimension as the unified domain. But this dimension is still significantly inferior to the normal dimensional demon gods. The advantage, as before, is the ability to resurrect infinitely."

Hiss.

Swiftly, the office worker man he had grabbed stiffened up, his body quickly turning black, then rotting, dissolving into a pool of black toxic liquid on the ground.

Letting go, Lan Meng continued.

"The real trouble with the Void Sect is the Omniscient because at the Omniscient level, the advantage in numbers can significantly influence the outcome of the overall battle. Although an individual Omniscient is still weaker than us, they also have further evolution into Limit Breakers. That is, the ultimate mother of the Void."

"Now, let’s reenact what you experienced with the Omniscient, and see what method he used to instantly kill you back then," he said with a slight smile.

"Look up in the sky, what is hanging there?" he asked suddenly in a soft voice.

Li Chengyi looked up and saw a blindingly bright sun that took up one-tenth of the sky.

"It’s a star."

"Yes, indeed. A common star with a core temperature of thirty million degrees," he said, pointing at the star. He pointed gently.

Whoosh!

An invisible wave surged forth instantaneously without any transmission, as if performed by instantaneous movement, jumping directly onto the star.

The brightness of the enormous star dimmed down a notch immediately.

It was as if the brightness of a light bulb had been lowered by a level, and because of this, the entire city’s illumination dimmed.

"Now, its core temperature is only ten million degrees," Lan Meng said with a smile. "Do you know why?"

"..." Li Chengyi shook his head.

"Then, let’s continue," Lan Meng said, pointing again.

Whoosh!

Another invisible wave instantly moved to the interior of the star.

Pop! The brightness of the world dimmed once again. The entire city seemed to have entered twilight, with buildings on the ground shrouded in darkness.

"Now, its core temperature is only five million degrees. Without considering the heat released by its chain reactions, under any conditions, any logic, it is now only five million degrees," Lan Meng continued.

"This..." Li Chengyi seemed to vaguely grasp something.

"Once more," Lan Meng glanced at him as the flow of people around them stopped, cars halted, and flying vehicles descended and hovered.

All eyes turned towards the sky, towards the increasingly dim giant star.

Lan Meng pointed once again.

Pop!

The invisible wave surged instantaneously, and the star’s brightness faded even more.

Now it was almost as if it was about to turn dark.

"Now the core is only one hundred thousand degrees," he said, looking toward the star. The blazing star that had burned fiercely before had now completely lost its brilliance and luster.

All that was left was a pale red orb hanging in the sky.

The city lights around us had already flickered on, activated by automatic sensors. The crowd started to stir, unsure of what was happening.

"Finally," Lan Meng smiled, pointing again at the star.

Pop.

The entire star completely extinguished, turning into a dark expanse in the night sky, its outline no longer discernible.

"The core temperature is now five thousand degrees. It’s collapsing rapidly, shrinking," he said, looking down at Li Chengyi. "Do you understand now?"

Li Chengyi was at a loss for words; he had spotted the crux of the matter.

"So, you mean that the Omniscient can control the tier of other things?"

"No..." Lan Meng shook his head. "It’s not about tiers. Since you’ve reached the level of dimensions, you inevitably enter the purview of the Omniscient. For us, it’s dimensions that barely qualify as entities capable of communication. As for the Saint Position, they’re like the countless dead spots scattered across the sky—far too many."

Li Chengyi nodded.

"Indeed, in theory, every Blind Spot could give rise to a Saint. In that sense, Saints really are numerous."

"But my Tian Ju Pavilion only has a little over two hundred Saints. It’s not that we don’t want more, but there’s only so much resource to go around. You saw it yourself when you chose the Forbidden Knowledge—you had fewer and fewer paths to choose from. Bringing in more Saints without a future—what’s the point? To the Omniscient, Saints are mere ants," Lan Meng said softly.

He stretched out his hand and casually grabbed the outer wall of a skyscraper.

The robust alloy wall was blackish-grey and mirror-smooth, both hard and elastic, its surface immaculately free of a single scratch—clearly made of top-grade material.

"Let’s take another look," he said, tapping the wall gently.

Hiss!

Instantly, the entire side of the building, from the ground to the top, stretching thousands of meters high, shifted from its previous mirror-like quality to a pure grey alloy exterior.

"This is a building material that was very popular with the previous generation. It’s weaker in both hardness and toughness than what we use now," Lan Meng explained.

He glanced at Li Chengyi, then tapped again.

Hiss.

In an instant, the wall underwent another transformation. From grey, it changed to grayish-white. At the same time, the outer layer of the surface began to crumble away, revealing the deeper structure inside.

Embedded within were special concrete bricks reinforced with alloy steel.

"This is a building material used by the generation before them. The hardness, strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance are all much weaker than we just saw. But its advantage is cheapness," Lan Meng continued with a smile.

"...even the materials have changed, huh?" Li Chengyi mused.

Lan Meng didn’t answer but instead knocked on the wall again.

Hiss.

Immediately, the current wall rapidly transformed into ordinary reinforced concrete bricks and stones.

Lan Meng didn’t stop there, tapping once more.

Hiss.

The wall transformed yet again, in a blink turning into a mixture of grey cement and red brick.

The building was already violently shaking by this point, its bearing capacity plummeting rapidly, causing one side of the structure to begin sinking.

Its center of gravity compromised, the entire building looked like it might tilt and collapse towards them at any moment.

"Do you understand now?" Lan Meng smiled, and then tapped one last time.

Pop.

The wall obliged by transforming, in the blink of an eye, into a wall completely made of yellow clay.

A loud creaking noise erupted as the whole building began to bend, its top bowing towards their direction, breaking and falling.

Amidst the roaring noise.

Lan Meng and Li Chengyi remained unaffected, as if the falling bricks and debris were mere illusions, passing straight through them without any collision.

"I understand now..." he took a deep breath, grasping where he had lost.

"Yes, that’s the reason," Lan Meng nodded and smiled, "Omniscient and dimensions are different. On that basis, they have access to more information and more ways to enhance themselves. Not limited to just Forbidden Knowledge. But no matter what kind of Omniscient, they can broadly be categorized into three types."

He raised three fingers.

"First, the Omnipotence of Form."

"Omnipotence of Form?" Li Chengyi squinted.

"Yes, the Omniscient that can freely manipulate appearances fall under this category," Lan Meng said, "Within the realm of known awareness, every entity has its own appearance. You need to manifest that appearance to truly affect other things in the real Black Sea. Therefore, appearance is the external manifestation of everything underlying."

"Just like what I just did—the super-high temperature of a star is its appearance. The Omnipotence of Form, to easily dispatch a star, the simplest method is to downgrade it. You see, appearances have levels, with qualitatively different thresholds separating them. So, the Omnipotence of Form simply needs to slightly alter an element to instantly break the entire chain, inducing a rapid downgrade."

He paused for a moment.

"For them, who turn thought into knowledge, who have infinite energy, this isn’t difficult—it can be done with just a thought."

"So, the Omnipotence of Form can manipulate the appearance of anything, raising or lowering it at will?" Li Chengyi frowned and asked.

"They could even reduce your Consciousness Power directly down to a common person’s level—so you wouldn’t even be able to project it externally," Lan Meng said with a laugh.

"Hiss..." Li Chengyi gasped, realizing this was on a completely different level of terror than the Dimensional Demon Gods.

Now, recalling his own instant defeat, wasn’t it because his body’s strength was instantly and continuously downgraded, reverting to that of a common person?

"If that’s the case, being infinitely powerful and manipulating appearances at will, wouldn’t the Omnipotence of Form be invincible, apart from beings of the same rank?" he couldn’t help but ask aloud.

"The Omniscient is indeed invincible to those below its level," Lan Meng was unperturbed. "But against their same rank, manipulating appearances with such finesse becomes much more difficult. So that’s a different method of confrontation entirely. Let’s not get into that now."

"So could you tell me, senior brother, how to deal with such Omnipotence of Form?" Li Chengyi asked with earnest respect.

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