Chapter 2018 - 887: Black Ring Seal_3
Rod nodded slightly, guided by the Book of Knowledge, he completed a special dream ritual. When the ritual was activated, his figure vanished directly into the air, leaving the Main Material World and entering the dream realm located in the high-level spirit realm.
This was Rod’s first time entering the dream realm with his physical self. This feeling was very complex, almost identical to every previous time, yet subtly different.
He turned his gaze and looked at the familiar buildings in the dream realm, the obelisk burning with divine fire, the shining Star Square, the soul altar filled with eerie vibes, the sacred Eternal Square, the mysterious House of God, the boundless Sea of Flowers, and the massive Moon Lake behind it. Everything made him feel both strange and familiar.
"Master!"
The Book of Knowledge fluttered its pages and ran to Rod’s feet, skillfully jumping onto his shoulder:
"From the high-level spirit realm to the starry sky, one must traverse immense spatial ruptures and plane barriers. You are a physical soul and need to overcome massive spatial potential pressure..."
Rod looked at the chattering Book of Knowledge, fiddled with it lightly twice, feeling no change. Even the Book of Knowledge’s screams were the same as before. At this moment, a doll appeared before him, its incomparable beauty causing Rod to lose focus briefly. But after touching its face, he felt quite disappointed, just like wood.
"Master, the starry sky is extremely dangerous, please be careful. The Shining Star Heart is likely an artifact from the earliest epoch, and during its acquisition, you might encounter enormous dangers."
Rod nodded slightly, his scattered thoughts dissipating like foam. He carefully noted each sentence from the Book of Knowledge—although he could hear it even after leaving the dream realm—then activated the [Spirit Realm Ship]. As the white mist enveloped him, he instantly disappeared within the dream realm.
A stinging sensation instantly pierced his soul. Although he possessed [Bloody Tears], without the divine power’s blessing, it didn’t offer such strong protection. The pollution in the spirit realm wasn’t inferior to that of the Main Material World, merely hidden beneath spirit realm matter, not as apparent.
The Fire Spirit Lamp hung from his waist extinguished quickly, and the rapid speed caused pollution to accumulate intensively, even bypassing the fire’s protection, directly eroding his soul, with humanity plummeting rapidly, soon reaching its limit.
At the same time, spirit realm matter was also corroding his body and soul. The corrosion strength of the high-level spirit realm was much greater than that of the lower spirit realm, but he was indeed a quasi-King, with a strong soul leading to a strong body. These corrosions could only harm his fine hairs.
What truly pressured Rod was the spatial potential. In the spirit realm, movement difficulty relied on the spatial potential difference between the starting and target points. The larger the potential difference, the harder the movement. In the Main Material World, this issue doesn’t exist because its space is continuous, and generally, the potential difference on the same plane is zero.
But in the spirit realm, it’s different. The spirit realm space is chaotic, movement can only rely on potential. Moving from the lower spirit realm to the higher one creates a huge potential difference. The higher the spirit realm level, the larger the potential difference, which is why few can reach the high-level spirit realm.
And the starry sky is a higher outer spirit realm than the high-level spirit realm; its potential difference increases sharply, and the higher Rod ascends, the greater the pressure he feels.
Soon, Rod felt he had rushed into a swamp, and the [Spirit Realm Ship]’s speed plummeted.
"Master, you’ve entered the plane barrier. This is the spatial rupture between the high-level spirit realm and the starry sky. You must concentrate all your strength to surpass it!"
Rod concentrated his mind, unleashing his full divine power. The [Spirit Boat] emitted extremely bright light, with mist continuously flowing from his body, causing the [Spirit Realm Ship] to flicker, unable to be stopped by the plane’s barrier, speeding up progressively. Suddenly, Rod felt light-bodied, arriving at an extremely vast, extremely thin area.
Here, there is almost no spirit realm matter, infinite space seemingly endless, and the distant view filled with infinitely deep darkness.
Is this the starry sky?
Rod murmured, here pollution was even lower than in the high-level spirit realm; he couldn’t even feel sting anymore.
The [Spirit Realm Ship]’s speed increased once more, flying in the direction guided by Asa.
However, Rod quickly realized, in the starry sky, the potential difference was far greater than in the high-level spirit realm, almost increasing exponentially. Each segment traveled differed by an order of magnitude in spatial potential.
units of divine power had been completely injected into the [Spirit Realm Ship], yet its speed continued slowing down. Soon, Rod crashed again after entering a spatial rupture.
"Master!" the Book of Knowledge shouted: "There are countless spatial ruptures and plane barriers in the starry sky, increasing in number and scale upwards. You must traverse them."
Rod focused all his spirit, once again bursting out with all his divine power. The [Spirit Realm Ship] flickered arduously amongst the spatial ruptures, expending great effort to cross them.
But this reached its limit. After crossing this spatial rupture, the [Spirit Realm Ship]’s speed had fallen below sound speed. Flying in the starry sky at this speed might take millions of years to reach the guiding position.
The Book of Knowledge regrettably said: "Master, your strength isn’t strong enough to support the [Spirit Realm Ship] traveling farther. Your absolute divine power is strong, but without additional spiritual energy augmentation, higher powers can’t be exerted."