Chapter 1149: Process

The return of Yi Mang reinvigorated the spirit of the entire tribe.

Gradually, the older generation also found a purpose for their lives.

For them, living in a chaotic and empty primal universe, having something to do every day and having a pursuit in life were paramount.

The tribe's population seemed to grow again, and people became more confident in their ability to become deities!

This was the inspiring goal that uplifted their spirits.

“Oh, I had already considered dying. Life was simply too boring. With no sculpting or cultivation to engage in, I just didn't know what to do each day. I just stayed in my dwelling, looking outside, as the days passed in repetitive monotony!”

“Now, I want to become a deity!”

“Yes, I really want to know what it's like to become a four-dimensional being and traverse one's own past and future!”

“That must be very interesting.”

“I remember when I was a child, I often sought out turbulent spacetime where dimensions could be reduced, becoming one-dimensional or two-dimensional, and found those worlds so fascinating.”

“The world of a four-dimensional being must also be interesting.”

For them, this kind of activity was one of the few childhood pleasures in this world, much like going to a park with friends to swing. However, after a few years, or even a decade or more, they grew bored.

At this moment, everything seemed to be restored, but Yi Mang still maintained a strong sense of crisis.

He sat in his palace.

“Although a new path has now emerged, once they reach the Eighth-Tier Deity stage, they will begin to feel bored, perhaps even more so....”

He clearly knew what it felt like to control one's own timeline and become a four-dimensional being.

It meant having even more abundant time: a hundred years in a day, a thousand years in a day, ten thousand years in a day....

They already found it monotonous and dull, and in this primordial era, a chaos without a calendar, time felt like an endless torment, with so much abundant time still stretching before them...

“I fear that at the next stage, the previous scenario will repeat itself.”

“But this time, I can advance to the next growth stage before they cultivate to this realm again...” He took a deep breath.

He also knew that continuing this way, by constantly finding things for them to do, would not solve the fundamental problem.

He then recalled a fleeting thought he had earlier:

Why isn't the universe orderly?

If it were orderly, it would surely be structured and neat.

Sand and energy would be clearly separated, heaven and earth would be clear and ordered, and it would certainly be prosperous and vibrant, preventing boredom even over vast periods of time.

Many things could be researched, and many activities could bring joy.

But that was too distant a prospect; he still focused on becoming stronger and entering the next growth phase.

“Perhaps, when my power becomes truly immense, I could use it to make this entire world interesting? Orderly?”

As he pondered, his breathing quickened.

That would be a truly great endeavor!

To allow the entire tribe to live more happily and transform this vast, primeval, wild world into a habitable place.

He inexplicably thought of that mysterious figure again, behind whom was the Big Bang of the universe and countless dazzling phantoms, holding him in their palm.

“Who... was that?”

As he pondered, sitting in his palace chair, his hands unconsciously sculpted a clay figure after a while.

It was remarkably lifelike.

It was a humanoid figure with two hands and two feet, long black hair draped over its shoulders, and a faint green glow flickering in its eyes. Its face was blurry and impossible to look at directly, yet it exuded an ineffable sense of ancient holiness.

“Unconsciously, I sculpted this...” He was slightly stunned, and after a moment's thought, decided not to destroy it, finding it very mysterious. He carried the statue out of the palace and placed it in the square outside.

“Chief, what is this?” a young tribesperson from afar asked. They felt this type of humanoid figure was unprecedented, and moreover, the statue of this figure even held their young ancestor in one hand.

Yi Mang pondered for a moment and, without hiding anything, mused: “After I became a four-dimensional being and observed the origin of life, I saw a deity in a dream.”

After saying this, he returned to his palace with a peaceful expression to continue his research.

Meanwhile, several young people were entranced by what they heard, finding it very strange.

They began to discuss it animatedly, thinking it was very peculiar. This world was simple and wild, with darkness stretching everywhere, yet it seemed to hold some mystery, making them even more eager to become four-dimensional beings.

At the same time, they became enthusiastic and began to emulate the statue's form, sculpting their own works.

“I'll sculpt one with short hair.”

“There must be a child version; I'll sculpt a child version.”

For a time, it actually sparked a trend.

The primeval gods and demons, who originally lived idle lives in the chaotic primordial universe, had a fondness for sculpting art to pass the time. Suddenly, everyone began to sculpt.

Throughout the universe, prismatic, circular, triangular, and even oddly shaped sculptures all transformed into towering humanoid statues.

These humanoid sculptures, like planets, permeated the universe, resembling a cosmic sculpture exhibition of indescribable grandeur.

Back in his palace, Yi Mang was still in deep thought.

“Theoretically, I am already a four-dimensional life form. For the next growth stage, no matter how much time it takes, I can advance my own timeline to reach a future hundreds of millions, or even tens of billions of years from now in my life! According to this rule, I no longer need to worry about my cultivation speed.”

“As a four-dimensional life form, theoretically, I can advance my timeline to swiftly reach the strongest form of my life!”

However, it was also clear that the time he advanced still had to be genuinely experienced.

Whether it was a hundred years in a day or a thousand years in a day, he still had to genuinely live through that period of time.

“I must endure.”

He began to accelerate his life, cultivating furiously to hasten his ‘growth period.’ Sure enough, his cultivation rapidly increased.

In Xu Zhi's eyes, he quickly reached the Mid-Tier Deity and High-Tier Deity stages.

This was not strange to him; in fact, it was quite normal.

Because a deity cultivating in high-dimensional spacetime could experience a very long time in just a few days. It was true that one could become a deity in three months of high-dimensional spacetime and then fall.

Xu Zhi's expression was calm as he ate fruit and looked down, saying, “In the primal era, the high-dimensional spacetime of deities indeed had no limits.

A hundred years in a day, a thousand years, ten thousand years—there was no upper limit; one could reach the end of their life in an instant.

But for the other party, this was transcending the rules of reality, and I had to bear the pressure of the grand universe.... Currently, with only one individual entering this flow rate, I already feel immense pressure countering the grand universe's assimilation....

This is still with a low multiplier rate for him. If he were to enter a rate of a hundred million years per day, the disparity with the grand universe's laws would be too great, and I wouldn't be able to withstand such even more terrifying assimilation!”

Fortunately, he wouldn't be so bored as to choose a hundred million years per day; only a madman would do such a thing.

“The deities of the primeval era, who traversed their own past and future, were truly powerful four-dimensional beings—this is what befits the title of a deity.... I wonder what happened for later generations of deities to be so emasculated, merely bearing the name of Eighth-Tier Deities.” Xu Zhi shook his head.

However, with such an insane flow rate in high-dimensional spacetime, if Xu Zhi was not mistaken, Dao Attainers would soon emerge, and even those who proved the Dao would appear.

After the universe's brief preliminary accumulation following the Big Bang, soon, with the official emergence of that batch of primeval gods and demons, the greatest transformation of the primordial era would be ushered in!