Simultaneous travel: City, infinite evolution

Chapter 456 Twelfth-Grade Tribulation Fire Lotus Platform Stellar Golden Core [Seeking monthly tickets and recommendation votes]

The eighth wave is the [Inner Demon Fire].

This fire, formless and intangible, stirred and amplified Chen Hong's deepest fears, obsessions, and demonic obstacles, creating countless illusions that plunged Chen Hong into the various illusions it wove.

There's the glitz and glamour of modern city skyscrapers, the pursuit of wealth, and the bitterness of being impoverished and having your pay docked for a simple boxed lunch.

There are also those who transform into mortals without qualifications in the world of immortals and heroes, living in the world of cultivation in the underworld, and are forced to kneel down in humiliation by a single sentence from a mere Qi Refining stage cultivator, offering their mother and sister for others to exploit.

There are also those who live in a world of doujinshi, where the whole world has gone mad, with all sorts of red-clad women everywhere, and various NTR scenarios unfolding, with one NTRing the other today, and the other NTRing the other tomorrow—a decadent and materialistic twisted world.

There's also the Heavenly Demon Realm, where you can transform into a powerful and arrogant protagonist, experience all sorts of chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur), and enjoy the thrill of being pursued by fairies, demons, and saints, as well as the satisfying world of villains showing off and getting their faces slapped.

The fire of inner demons stirred up the seven emotions and six desires, weaving all sorts of celestial demonic illusions in an attempt to wear down Chen Hong's will and drive him to self-destruction.

Unfortunately, Chen Hong cultivates both body and mind. Although his mental state can no longer keep up with the surge in power, it is still not something that can be shaken by mere inner demons.

Instead, Chen Hong used the fire of his inner demons to confront his desires and state of mind, make up for his shortcomings, and thereby temper and cultivate his mind and improve his state of mind.

Ultimately, one must overcome oneself and surpass oneself. No matter how much one's inner demons stir, one remains unmoved, like a gentle breeze caressing a hill, neither elated by external gains nor saddened by personal losses.

In the end, the fire of inner demons was subdued.

The ninth wave is the [Fire of the End of Calamity].

This is the end of the cosmic catastrophe, when all matter and energy are burned to ashes; first hell is burned, then Mount Sumeru is burned.

The fire of the end of the calamity represents entropy increase, collapse, destruction, and the great cataclysm of the universe, which can inflict the greatest damage and restraint on all living beings, including gods and immortals.

The instant the fire of the end of the calamity appeared, Chen Hong felt that all energy particles in the entire universe were boiling and moving in a disorderly manner.

The movement of particles is ceaseless, but completely random, without any pattern, and cannot be constrained by any laws or order.

The temperature is perfectly uniform everywhere, making it impossible to perform any useful work on the outside.

The entire universe was extremely silent, completely still, with all movement in all directions completely canceled out, and no clean energy flow.

Without the formation of structures, it can no longer drive any processes (such as life, star burning, etc.).

The universe is like a pot of soup that is even, thin, and neither too hot nor too cold.

This is what the cosmic void, shrouded in the fire of the end times, became.

Even the fire at the end of the calamity itself is not outwardly a ball of fire, but a pot of soup.

A pot of even, thin, lukewarm, and randomly moving particle soup.

All laws have failed, there is no order whatsoever, and even the mighty power of the Heavenly Dao has lost its restraining effect in the face of such an impending catastrophe.

Even space itself is being torn apart and dissolved under the power of calamity.

Faced with such terrifying fire of the end of the calamity, Chen Hong naturally dared not confront it head-on.

Having long ago used the 108 Transformations of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends to evade the calamity's lock, he jumped out of that space and observed from afar.

Try to draw upon a wisp of the power of the final flames of calamity, and carefully savor and comprehend it.

Chen Hong could sense that under the power of the fire at the end of the calamity, his magic power, physical body, and even his golden core and primordial spirit were all on the verge of collapse.

It transforms into a pot of uniform, disordered particle soup.

Energy and matter are completely dissolved, and even the soul and consciousness will dissipate.

Everything is absorbed into that chaotic soup of particles, unable to support orderly activities such as thinking and conscious thought.

Chen Hong was not surprised but delighted. This was another kind of being that could defeat immortals and gods, and could even threaten their immortal and indestructible primordial spirits, and even the Heavenly Dao they ruled.

Even if they cannot be completely annihilated by this calamity-ending power, they can still be severely injured.

Therefore, Chen Hong continuously comprehended this power of the end of the calamity, comparing it with the Destruction God Thunder he controlled, attempting to master the power of this fire of the end of the calamity.

However, this chaotic force is naturally in opposition to all orderly beings.

It is completely unrelated to the power of the laws of order.

Chen Hong was unable to master this power that was completely opposite to his own existence for a long time.

Ultimately, it seemed that the Heavenly Dao also wanted Chen Hong to master this power, to bridge the gap between himself and those ancient immortals and gods, and to increase his chances of winning.

Therefore, he took the initiative to help Chen Hong master this power.

The Heavenly Dao opened up its data records on this power to Chen Hong, guiding Chen Hong's consciousness to come into contact with this power, yet it was protected by the power of the Heavenly Dao so that it would not be destroyed.

Chen Hong used the idea that all things will eventually come to an end, all macroscopic activities will accelerate the increase of entropy, and that humanity itself is a high-entropy entity as an anchor point to begin to understand and control the power of entropy increase.

Even though humans clean rooms, build buildings, and manufacture all sorts of products, seemingly reducing entropy on a macro level, entropy actually increases on a micro level.

Because in order to reduce entropy on a macroscopic scale, humans consume more energy, sacrificing overall entropy to maintain local entropy reduction.

Humans feed on negative entropy, consuming highly ordered, low-entropy foods (complex organic matter, such as vegetables and meat), rather than directly consuming chaotic chemical substances.

This is how they maintain their orderly life activities. Then they expel high-entropy waste, such as carbon dioxide, water, waste heat, excrement, household garbage, and other high-entropy matter and energy.

Human civilization activities have not reduced entropy increase; on the contrary, they have greatly accelerated it.

Humans feed on negative entropy, excreting entropy everywhere in their living environment.

This applies to all civilizations and individuals who have failed to solve the ultimate problem of entropy increase.

Even a high-level life form like Chen Hong is no exception.

Because it has not yet achieved self-sufficiency, it is still demanding from the outside world and feeding on negative entropy, thus accelerating the increase of entropy.

Therefore, Chen Hong himself also experienced entropy increase and the fire of the end of the calamity.

Thus, with the help of the Heavenly Dao consciousness, Chen Hong, referring to the Fire of the End of the Calamity, comprehended his own entropy increase, extracted the disordered power of entropy increase, and refined his own [Fire of the End of the Calamity]!
Chen Hong's own entropy increase is no longer being dumped into the external cosmic system, thus increasing the chaos of the universe.

Instead, they were collected by themselves to strengthen the fire at the end of the calamity.

The entropy increase generated by Chen Hong himself continuously strengthens the fire at the end of the calamity.

The scent of entropy increase, disorder, and chaos appeared on its own final flames.

Chen Hong then made his own fire of the end of the calamity resonate with the fire of the end of the calamity in the outside world.

Thus, Chen Hong's final flames of catastrophe took on a flavor of collapse, destruction, dissolution, homogenization, and the great catastrophe of cosmic destruction.

This fire can inflict the greatest damage and restraint on all living beings, including immortals and gods.

Under this fire, all beings are equal!
The calamity of the fire is finally over.

The Heavenly Dao consciousness emitted waves of joy, seemingly pleased that Chen Hong had mastered this power.

Chen Hong will use the following fires: [Fire of the End of Calamity], [Fire of Inner Demons], [Fire of Nirvana], [Cyclone Star Fire], [Asura Ghost Fire], [Heavenly Gang Thunder Fire], [Five Elements True Fire], [Southern Bright Fire], and [Yin Fire].

He also fused together all the [Samadhi True Fire], [Sun True Fire], [Mysterious Yin Demon Fire], [Sea Heart Ice Flame], [Candle Dragon Fire], [Cause and Effect Demon Fire], [Nine Netherworld Fire], and [Red Lotus Karmic Fire] that he had previously mastered.

It was forged into a [Twelve-Petaled Lotus Platform of Calamity Fire].

After surviving the fire, Chen Hong's lifespan increased again, skyrocketing from 10 billion years to 50 billion!
This long lifespan is enough to overlook the rise and fall of planets, the cycle of eras, and the rise and extinction of countless species.

Chen Hong's physical body and primordial spirit also became stronger due to the tempering of various tribulations, resulting in a flawless and impermeable body.

Therefore, Chen Hong is now able to bear even greater power.

So Chen Hong decisively went to find various stars to absorb massive amounts of energy, and even began to swallow the sun whole to refine and extract massive amounts of energy.

The properties of Taiyi and the fire of the end of the calamity dissolve matter and refine massive amounts of energy.

Ultimately, Chen Hong's dantian space expanded from the size of the solar system to ten times the size of the solar system.

The golden elixir also grew from three thousand times the size of the sun to thirty thousand times the size of the sun.

The Thirty Thousand Times Solar Golden Core is a colossal planet that suppresses the entire vast dantian space.

A [Twelve-Grade Tribulation Fire Lotus Platform] was placed beneath the Golden Core, spinning rapidly, with flames rising and scorching the enormous Golden Core planet.

These flames even ignited a golden elixir 30,000 times the size of the sun.

It was ignited and transformed into a [Stellar Golden Core]!
It emitted dazzling flames of various colors.

Under immense pressure, the Stellar Golden Core was refined into an even purer form of immortal gold.

The enormous golden core, 30,000 times the size of the sun, was already 95% covered in gold!
According to Chen Hong's SkyNet [Attribute Panel], Chen Hong's Immortal Gold attribute progress is 95%.

Moreover, it occupies 95% of the star's core in terms of volume, not just area.

Furthermore, Chen Hong's immortal gold quality is already close to that of a Golden Immortal, and he is almost a true immortal gold.

It can be said that Chen Hong has already paved the way to becoming an Immortal Golden Immortal.

At this moment, Chen Hong's surging ocean of magical power, which filled a space ten times the size of the solar system, had transformed into a golden ocean, no longer the scattered golden light it had been before.

The entire ocean of magic was golden, crystal clear, and exuded a rich sense of immortality.

The magical power dragon transformed from the 30,000 times the power of the Golden Elixir of the Sun surged like a tidal wave, roaring and rushing into the meridians throughout the body, nourishing the whole body and strengthening the indestructible physical body.

The various law runes on the golden core began to piece together, and the same law runes pieced together fragments of law chains.

Just like splicing together the double helix of human DNA.

These fragments of laws are still autonomously aggregating and piecing together, with law runes constantly colliding and generating countless possible piecing schemes, which then self-eliminate and replace each other according to the survival of the fittest.

If Chen Hong calculates a new splicing scheme, the evolution can be artificially intervened.

Chen Hong will gain new insights into the laws, and will also generate new law runes, piecing together fragments of the law chain.

Once Chen Hong has a relatively complete understanding of a law, he should be able to piece together a complete chain of laws.

(End of this chapter)