Chapter 1425 - 924: Using the Stone of Creation Again_2
It could be said that they are an important catalyst for the birth of the world will.
But the appearance of the Stone of Creation diverted and siphoned off that portion of core origin Power which ought to have nourished the world will.
The very existence of this stone is like a powerful source of absorption, causing the world to lose the possibility of naturally incubating native Gods.
The awakening of the world will is rooted in the aggregation and sublimation of Life souls—not merely in the crude piling up of numbers, but in the quality of the souls themselves.
Every soul contains the potential to stride toward greatness, even if not every Life can cash that out.
When a living individual, within a particular "conjuncture of times," bursts forth with dazzling soul-radiance—especially those "great souls" who fall amidst turmoil or transformation—the soul imprints and information they release upon their dispersal are the key nutrients that spur the chaotic world will to condense self-awareness.
Native Gods, by virtue of their great essence, contribute to this to an even more immense degree.
Yet the Stone of Creation has brought about a paradoxical situation.
It is like a potent time-accelerator and stabilizing anchor, drastically hastening the overall developmental process of the world.
In this Plane, the original single Human Race, under the catalytic Power of the Stone of Creation, rapidly differentiated and evolved into a multitude of intelligent Races of diverse forms.
At the same time, it enlightened non-human creatures, granting them a certain degree of intelligence.
As time flowed on, the intermingling and symbiosis of various Races made this Plane present a splendid spectacle of "a hundred flowers blooming."
The problem was that all this happened too fast.
The intervention of the Stone of Creation severely compressed the world’s growth process.
Compared to the highly developed matter and civilization of the Holy Stone Plane, its core world will was like a malnourished sapling, its growth severely lagging behind.
Furthermore, the intrinsic mode of existence of the Stone of Creation itself also works against the growth of the world will.
It holds the world in a kind of "enforced stability" Status.
Whenever the world falls into chaotic crisis, there will always be someone able to make a wish, forcibly using the stone’s Power to restore Order and quell upheaval.
For instance, the wishes of many who yearn for Order would be answered by the stone, hastening the end of Chaos.
This certainly reduces the damage done to the world, yet it also stifles the soil from which "Heroes arise from the times."
Those who might have emerged in an age of Chaos, bursting forth with great soul-radiance in desperate extremity, ultimately leading an era or dying a glorious death—their stage has been diminished, even erased.
Without these great souls who blossom at critical moments and then take their bow, serving as "nutrients," the road to the awakening of the world will naturally becomes far longer and more arduous.
"It seems the ’World Host Plan’ is indeed workable, and in fact a prescription well-suited to this world."
Kana understood this clearly in his heart.
By Datafying Life forms, he would directly connect the soul-information and computational capacity of all living beings into the core of the Host.
𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
Thus, even living beings could, by means of their existent ’data souls,’ nourish, influence, and even sculpt the world will, accelerating the eruption of its wisdom and spirituality.
And this world, because of my presence, has already given birth to a Data Rule at the foundational level; it is innately the best incubator for carrying this plan... perfect!
Only, does this plan truly arise purely from my own conception, or has it been subtly influenced by the environment or will of this world, with a seed planted within?
A faint doubt traced across Kana’s heart as he muttered to himself.
But the thought immediately dissipated; at this moment probing it further was no longer important.
Having confirmed that the foundation of the plan was solid, that was enough.
The focus now was the matter before him; the plan framework long since fully constructed in his mind, together with all the exquisite details of its operation, was directly fed through the Stone of Creation—this perfect "upload port."
Taking the form of a pure stream of will-information, it became the most intense "wish," without reservation, precisely projected toward that hazy core of the world will itself.
The flood of information was inscribed in an instant; Kana immediately severed his deep connection with the Stone of Creation.
It could not be maintained any longer.
For if the connection lasted too long, and other stray thoughts or immature schemes in his mind surged along with it, interfering with the realization of the core wish, it would all be ruined.
As Kana’s eyes opened once more, the triangular Stone of Creation that had been floating before him, radiating eternal brilliance, had already transformed into a beam of incomparably resplendent flowing light, and, as though having fulfilled its final mission, utterly vanished into the Void.
"It’s begun!"
Bobo keenly caught the anomalous stirrings of the Space Rule; her tiny body tensed at once, and she glanced nervously all around.
In an instant, countless subtle, multicolored motes of light, like the star-dust of the universe at its birth, drifted forth from nothingness, spilling across this entire dark expanse.
Since the entire process of realizing the wish was focused within this independent space Kana had opened, it did not exert any direct impact on the outside world.
This space itself began to undergo earth-shaking transformation.
"So I’m to serve as... the output port?"
Kana clearly perceived the connection request transmitted from the world.
He Whispered, and, without the slightest hesitation, accepted the request and closed his eyes once more.
Boom—!
A Power beyond imagination flooded into his whole being in an instant!
The Divine Power surging from Kana’s body was like a star-river bursting through a broken dike, shattering its former limits without obstruction, directly rising to the peak tier of Medium Divine Power.
This was precisely the ultimate Power limit Kana had already comprehended upon attaining Godhood, the extremity he could reach under the blessing of this world’s Rules.
It was merely that, until now, there had never been an occasion that truly required him to exert himself to the fullest.
At this moment, in order to use him as the energy output port for realizing a grand wish, the world simply raised his Power, temporarily, to this realm that could shake star-rivers.
Overloading, vast energy, purely converted from the Rule of wishes, began surging outward through his divine body, as though it had found a sluice for release.
The Stone of Creation was, in essence, a mass of refined fragments of world Rules, forcibly fused into a singularity after being cut from a small segment.
It was like a universal key, capable of easily prying open nearly all underlying Rules of the world, so that the world will, even without high wisdom, could respond to wishes by mere Rule-instinct.
In this moment, Kana became the "data fiber-optic cable" connecting the core of world Rules with external space.
An ocean of "data streams," representing the operating logic of the Rules, madly surged outward through his divine body, which had been temporarily strengthened to its utmost.
The Data Rule he himself embodied naturally formed the most stable, most efficient transmission conduit.
In Alyris and the others’ eyes—
At this moment, Kana was no longer a concrete God-form.
His body seemed to have completely dissolved into the radiance.
He had become a pure and blazing source point of light, from the center of whose existence boundless multicolored motes of light spewed forth like spraying star-fragments, continuously scattering and diffusing outward, dyeing the entire dark space into a dreamlike sea of flowing brilliance.
"My heavens, never... never has anything like this ever appeared before!"
Bobo was stunned by this magnificent, grand spectacle; her tiny mouse mouth gaped wide as she cried out in disbelief.
Within the limits of her experience, wishes made to the Stone of Creation had never manifested in such a world-shaking, earth-rending form.
"Quiet your heart, and carefully attune yourself. This is by no means a bad thing."
Alyris’s calm voice sounded; even before her words finished, she had already closed those eyes which contained the wisdom of ice and snow.
Not only she—Lurik and the others beside her, almost at the same instant, closed their eyes in tacit unison.
Their expressions were focused and solemn, as though welcoming a sacred baptism.
"Hey, hey! What are you all doing? Why are you suddenly closing your eyes? Did you feel something special?"
Bobo stared at her companions’ sudden movement, even more at a loss, anxiously spinning in circles on the spot like an ant on a hot pan.
Was she... missing out on something?
That feeling was not pleasant at all.