Chapter 158 Planes and Blue Star

Within the dimensional world, the six-winged siren was completely like a lamb ready for slaughter.

Lightning struck her, the air compressed her, and even the power of the purple moon within her body felt as though it had been sealed.

A dimension was akin to a true world; under the targeting of world rules, any life form appeared utterly vulnerable.

Although a dimensional world was small, it was not something a life form of the siren's level could oppose. To counter world laws, one could only rely on laws themselves.

Even so, the siren was still struggling.

Her entire body shone with an intensely fierce purple-black light; she wanted to fly away from the lightning's onslaught and charge up above the clouds.

However, within the sika deer's dimensional world, under the all-encompassing pressure of the air, she was like someone deeply mired in a swamp, utterly unable to move even an inch.

Her purple bow and purple arrows vanished the very instant she entered the dimensional world.

Without the protection and sustenance of the purple moon, the legal power she drew from it was naturally severed from all connection by the spatial barrier.

At this moment, under Ji Yu's control, the sika deer had already closed in upon her.

Watching the deer approach, a look of even more frantic ferocity distorted the six-winged siren's face.

She roared and shrieked at the deer, her struggling and frenzied appearance causing even Ji Yu to sigh softly.

"What a waste of a pretty face; this isn't beautiful at all."

Imprisoned in mid-air, the six-winged siren could not move an inch no matter how she struggled. At that moment, Ji Yu immediately caused the sika deer's antlers to press against the siren's forehead.

In an instant, the sika deer's antlers began to glow with a brilliant radiance, while within the siren's body, the power of the purple moon was continuously absorbed and rushed toward the antlers.

As these purple-black energies surged and made contact with the sika deer's antlers, they rapidly began to evaporate.

At that moment, an expression of intense pain instantly emerged on the siren's face.

Countless blood vessels and bulging veins swelled across her face and body. As these veins and tendons became visible, they writhed and surged upward continuously, as if countless insects were crawling beneath her skin.

At this moment, both the siren's visage and her entire body appeared utterly terrifying.

Yet amidst this horror and the siren's agonizing shrieks, Ji Yu remained unmoved, continually utilizing the traits of life grafting to absorb and decompose all the energy of the purple moon.

Slowly, the blood vessels and tendons across the siren's body began to fade. At the same time, her body also started to shrink gradually, as if suffering from severe dehydration.

Standing nearly fifty meters tall, she quickly shrank down to forty meters.

Then.

Thirty meters.

Twenty meters.

Ten meters.

...

While the siren's physique gradually diminished, the sika deer's body was also steadily shrinking.

Eventually, as time passed, the siren lapsed into a complete and utter faint.

Simultaneously, much like when the sika deer had purified the little sprite previously, once the siren's size shrank to nearly three meters, dead skin began to appear, and she shrank repeatedly, over and over again.

Compared to purifying the little sprite back then, purifying the six-winged siren this time consumed far more time.

Roughly half an hour later, the siren's body finally lost that obnoxious energy fluctuation belonging to the purple moon entirely.

However, covered by countless layers of dead skin, the six-winged siren's figure had completely vanished from sight.

As a gentle breeze swept past, the newly purified body of the six-winged siren was finally revealed.

Having fallen unconscious with her eyes closed, the six-winged siren that now appeared had completely lost everything, and her physique matched that of the sprite.

Her six wings had vanished, leaving behind only two.

Those two wings were as thin as cicada wings, transparent and crystal-clear.

Her exposed skin was fair and tender. Though her entire body was only about the size of a human thumb, she looked exceptionally petite and cute.

Without any concealment, everything about her entire body naturally fell into Ji Yu's view.

The sprite's form at this moment was indeed very beautiful, yet she looked entirely like an exquisite collectible figurine, making it difficult for Ji Yu to harbor any other thoughts.

Nevertheless, observing the miniature sprite-like physique of the six-winged siren now, Ji Yu felt a certain perplexity.

Because the life level of the previous six-winged siren was obviously very high, how could her appearance after purification be identical in size to the purified two-winged sprite?

"Once the amplification of the purple moon is stripped away, do they all revert to their most primitive, original forms?"

Ji Yu speculated thus, simultaneously feeling that reality might very well be just like this.

After all, if the power bestowed by the purple moon was entirely purified, then correspondingly, the breakthroughs in life levels gained under the purple moon's amplification would also be beaten back to their primordial state, wouldn't they?

Thinking along these lines, Ji Yu no longer paid attention to the little sprite before him.

The sprite would naturally wake up, and whatever questions needed to be asked later could naturally be handled by the sika deer.

What he needed to focus on right now was this dimensional world before him.

The very moment he entered the dimensional world, Ji Yu had actually received text prompts from the gaming system once again.

Beneath the text-recorded panel, such a row of records was displayed:

[Detected changes in the player's environment.]

[Confirming environment...]

[Environment confirmation complete: Half-dimension.]

[Half-dimension affiliation: Sika Deer (Avatar).]

[Half-dimension subordination: Blue Star (Planet).] (Gained the blessing of Blue Star's rules, existing in attachment to Blue Star.)

[Half-dimension tier: Weak.] (Rules are sound, but strength is weak, and pressure-resistance is weak.)

[Area: Fifty square kilometers.]

[Status: Currently capable of utilizing the dimension to its maximum extent to effectively counter demi-god life forms. Danger level is extremely high, easily leading to the destruction of the dimension; please proceed with caution.]

[Current Reserves]:

[1. Dark Matter Energy: 9.18/1000.]

(The half-dimension absorbs dark matter at an extremely slow rate, acquiring about 10 points of energy per natural month.)

(Note 1: The universe and the void contain endless dark matter. Dark matter is one of the primary energy sources for activating planets, dimensions, and all other hyper-physical matter and life.)

[2. Soul Energy: 0/1000.]

(The natural cyclical withered demise of living beings within the half-dimensional world generates soul energy. The Lord of the Dimension can also capture life forms and annihilate them within the half-dimensional world, thereby causing the half-dimension to acquire soul energy.)

[3. Faith Aspiration: 103.14/1000.]

(Faith aspiration is generated from ordinary life forms' worship, yearning, and other beautiful imaginations toward a certain individual. The half-dimension can help subordinate demi-gods or deities collect and store it.)

[Note: Faith aspiration is not the traditional perception of faith held by players; faith and gods do not possess a bound-type tie. Believe and it exists, disbelieve and it does not. Legendary life forms advancing to demi-gods, or demi-gods advancing to deities, do not need to rely on faith.]

[Dimensional Growth Conditions]

(1. Every ten units of dark matter energy can expand the half-dimension's physical interface area by approximately 0.1 square kilometers.)

(2. Soul energy can provide reinforcement for the half-dimension's rules, increasing the solidity of the spatial barrier and enhancing the intensity of rule manifestation.)

(3. Faith aspiration has a similar function to soul energy, providing reinforcement for dimensional rules. However, faith aspiration can also be converted to replenish the exhausted energy within the Lord of the Dimension's body at any time.)

(4. Dimensional growth can gain blessings from the subordinate primary dimension or planet. When the life form of the Lord of the Dimension becomes a planetary demi-god or deity, they will receive rewards from the primary dimension or planet's will each time to grow.)

Having read through all the data on the data panel, Ji Yu had also gained a general understanding of the existence and form of the half-dimension.

Concurrently, Ji Yu also attained a certain realization.

That was, the sika deer's tier-three life form state—namely the state of a legendary life form—was actually virtually incapable of acquiring a half-dimension on its own.

This half-dimension was truly a reward bestowed upon the sika deer by Blue Star.

Moreover, from the remarks on dimensional growth, Ji Yu could also discover that when the sika deer became a planetary demi-god or deity, Blue Star would further reward it by expanding the dimension and further indirectly strengthening the sika deer's power.

At the same time, through the entries on the data panel, Ji Yu could also tell that the growth of an activated planet was extremely similar to that of a dimension.

They all relied on dark matter, souls, or faith to grow.

Dark matter was easy to understand; it was a special particle existing within the endless darkness, but the form in which this particle existed was rather special, making it almost impossible for ordinary life forms to capture and utilize.

And those capable of utilizing it, perhaps just as the data panel prompted, could only be activated planets, dimensions, or other so-called super life forms.

Ji Yu vaguely remembered that modern scientists in contemporary society were all actively researching the possibility of dark matter's existence.

In their research, scientists pinned their hopes on large particle colliders, expecting to observe and capture dark matter, but regretfully, such experiments had yet to succeed to this day.

Dark matter could provide energy for an activated planet, while souls were also very easy to understand.

That was the souls overflowing when living beings died during natural cycles or wars.

Just like humans with natural beliefs who believed that all things possessed spirits, activated planets and even dimensions all fed upon the souls of living beings in the material interface to achieve growth.

As for faith, that was even easier to understand.

Just like the gaming panel prompt Ji Yu was looking at now.

If faith did not simply refer to piously believing in a certain god in one's heart, but rather this faith stemmed from yearning or imagination, then the faith acquired by Blue Star was the reverence and various emotions that all things bestowed upon it for giving them life.

And all of these were a special kind of energy capable of providing momentum for an activated planet.

Having understood and recognized all of this, Ji Yu could be said to have had his worldview completely subverted.

The relationship between an activated planet and the life forms upon it was akin to the planet raising Gu insects, which felt rather hair-raising.

However, upon careful thought, Ji Yu grew relieved.

Because the lifespans of living beings had limits, and the planet did not actively harvest their souls—living beings naturally lived, died, and then fed their souls back to the planet. This could only be said to be a mutually beneficial relationship after all.

After all, the planet nurtured all life, and during this period, life forms extracted all the resources of the planet. If the planet could not receive feedback, then perhaps it would truly be finished one day, wouldn't it?

Just like modern Blue Star, where humans became the overlords of Blue Star and the population swelled endlessly: if this situation continued indefinitely, and humans were unable to break out of the planet's cradle, then the entire Blue Star might truly one day fall into a state of resource exhaustion with all things withering, becoming a dead star in the true sense of the word.

Yet now, things were different.

Blue Star had already recovered from a certain dead star state, and having recovered, it obviously could already utilize the soul power and faith from the withered demise of life on Blue Star to acquire energy, thereby reviving everything on Blue Star?

Much like the growth model of a dimension?