169: Chapter 169 Fate Net, High-Level, Harvest Processing

Wang An unleashed the Purple Mansion Divine Ability [Return-to-One Heavenly River]. As soon as this silver galaxy barrier appeared, it sealed off the entire area.

In an instant, the Star Beast, previously focused on fusing its body, felt its mind freeze and lost all perception of the outside world.

This was the "Sealing" ability of the [Return-to-One Heavenly River]. From its original reliance on cold water to seal energy and freeze thoughts, it had evolved to the point where it could now completely incapacitate life forms still at the initial stage without any preparation or resistance.

The Incarnation stepped out from the Dark Universe.

"Step… step… step…"

Upon approaching, he used the [Great Forest Wood] Dao Foundation minor ability, [Green Forest Qi Connection], to hook and capture the Star Beast's fate veins.

This time, Wang An had plenty of time to make arrangements. From the perspective of a higher-level mindset and status, he began to weave the Star Beast's thoughts, logic, emotions, and fate in a comprehensive manner.

It was unlike the last battle, where he could only briefly guide a small portion of its behavior.

"Since you beast have killed so many people here and caused me such great losses, you must be put to good use."

Watching the Star Beast, already stained with the resentment of countless living beings and possessing an extremely dark fate, Wang An felt a sense of disgust.

Finally, after setting up the great net of fate, the Incarnation used his divine ability to hide in the vicinity.

The Star Beast, Turas, regained his consciousness and continued his previous fusion plan.

Even though he still possessed a mid-tier status and incomplete talents, he could not detect any abnormalities under the influence of the fate net.

Turas thought about returning to the mid-tier to slaughter and devour every Transcendent Life here.

He even intended to use those Transcendent Life forms to advance further.

The more he thought about it, the happier he became, eventually laughing arrogantly.

Finally, after a day had passed, the bodies of the four Star Beasts successfully fused, and his aura reached the mid-tier level.

However, since his status already existed, the Great Universe would not descend laws to forge a mid-tier body for him upon his return to the mid-tier.

Looking at his 20-kilometer-long body and his return to his previous Star Beast form, a look of satisfaction flashed in Turas's eyes.

"It is a pity, though; to restore my incomplete talents, I must devour more Transcendent Life to replenish them."

Although his body had completely fused, the process of fusing his spiritual cores required great caution and was much slower.

The four cores within his brain were already in contact and slowly fusing.

What he could not perceive—or rather, what he could not even think to consider—was that the fate network surrounding these four spiritual cores had already begun to interweave, forming an even larger net.

It was guiding his thoughts, logic, habits, and even his spiritual consciousness.

Finally, once the mid-tier Star Beast core was formed, the external fate network instantly eroded and took control.

The Purple Mansion Divine Ability [Return-to-One Heavenly River], which had been lurking in the Dark Universe, manifested once more.

It completely sealed all of the Star Beast's ability to act, causing even his thoughts to rapidly stagnate.

Watching this scene, Turas's eyes widened, his last remaining strength struggling to resist.

"How is this possible?"

After the fate network had completely invaded and eroded his consciousness, Turas's expression suddenly changed, and he respectfully bowed to the Incarnation who had stepped out from the Dark Universe.

"Turas of the Harvester race greets you, My Lord."

"Tell me all about the inherited memories of your Star Beast race."

"This… My Lord. Most of the inherited memories cannot be put into words."

"Then tell me what you can, and demonstrate the methods for those you cannot."

"Yes."

First, he shared knowledge regarding the mid-tier level with Wang An, including some secrets involving promotion to the high-tier.

"The most critical aspect of advancing from the mid-tier is fusing your cultivated law prototypes to prove a complete law to the Great Universe, or inheriting the laws of other high-tier existences. Only then is there a possibility of advancing further."

Hearing this, Wang An pondered.

"It is quite similar to the description of my [Heaven-Bearing Law-Creating Divine Purple Gold Mansion]. It seems I have not taken the wrong path."

"Why is it necessary to fuse laws and prove them to the Great Universe? What is the reasoning behind this?"

"My Lord, given the growth rate of a single law prototype, it usually requires countless years of continuous relay cultivation and development before it can fully grow into a complete law. However, by fusing them together, one can combine them to create laws of a higher conceptual form. Although such laws are looser and their quality is not as high, the probability of advancement is at least greater."

Wang An quickly digested this information, while also identifying the key to it.

"So, the closer it is to cosmic laws—or the more 'real' it is—the greater the difficulty. The closer it is to the 'void' or abstract, the easier it is."

After being controlled by Wang An, the Star Beast Turas merely believed that he was a Lord of the Harvester race whom he needed to obey, but he still retained his own cognitive abilities.

"Yes, My Lord, you are truly gifted. There is a saying in the universe: the more 'real' a law is, the more difficult it is for a life form to prove it. Conversely, the Great Universe prefers brand new, illusory conceptual laws. Every one of us Transcendent Life forms is like a laborer for the Great Universe, working to perfect various laws."

Hearing this, Wang An pondered.

"If that is the case, then gathering the five Dao Foundation Purple Mansion Divine Abilities to cultivate the Golden Nature, and using that to form a Yin Five Elements law, should be feasible. Each civilization has a different understanding of what the Five Elements represent. I can first Focus on breadth, then conduct in-depth research, and these laws will naturally be perfected."

The rest were secret techniques created by Turas himself, which held only minor reference value for Wang An.

What surprised him the most was the promotion and talent system of the Star Beast race.

"Our Star Beast race, and indeed most Transcendent paths that cultivate the physique, develop a new talent at every tier. Our cultivation method consists of digging into the laws within our own bloodlines and constantly strengthening them."

"Oh… that is interesting. It is somewhat similar to the physical divine abilities of body-refining cultivators, which also involve digging inward."

The Incarnation saved this information and asked a few more questions, only to discover that the Star Beast named Turas no longer possessed any valuable information.

He immediately used the [Return-to-One Heavenly River] to cover and invade his body, completely suppressing his ability to resist.

He used his Purple Mansion mana to manifest the [Moon Yin God-Slaying Blade], turning it into a thin, silver-white needle that pierced into his spiritual core.

Upon piercing the core, he saw a vast amount of information regarding inherited memories. However, just as the Incarnation recorded a secret technique called [Star Celestial Phenomena], the law judgment rooted within his spiritual core immediately took effect.

[Non-Star Beast life form has invaded inherited knowledge; self-destruct sequence initiated.]

In an instant, this mid-tier spiritual core was destroyed and dissipated.

"What a pity. I didn't expect that entering via an attack would also be judged as an invasion. Fortunately, I managed to record at least one complete secret technique, so it can be considered a small harvest."

Back in the outside world, after the spiritual core collapsed, the Star Beast's body began to undergo Dao-ification.

Such mid-tier materials were naturally extremely precious. Given the current situation, cultivating them would be quite difficult and time-consuming.

Fortunately, Wang An's first Purple Mansion Divine Ability was a realm-type ability. Within this ability, he was in his own domain, and external laws could not interfere for the time being.

He operated the [Return-to-One Heavenly River] at full power, halting the trend of the body's Dao-ification.

As for the residual spiritual fragments rooted within the countless lives on Blue Star, they were naturally easy to resolve with the Incarnation's Purple Mansion abilities.

However, Wang An had a headache regarding the various types of resentment and death energy lingering on the Star Beast's body, as he had no good way to deal with them.

Subsequently, he looked down at Australia beneath his feet, where a large number of deceased spirits were wandering.

"Perhaps I should go to the Yin Underworld domain to take a look; there might be a solution there."