High Martial Arts: Gains one point of health per second, sweeping across the heavens.

Su Jie's brows furrowed even deeper.

He examined the internal structure of the primordial universe again, and found nothing unusual about any boundary or energy flow.

The surface of the Heart of the Universe showed no cracks or blockages; everything operated smoothly and steadily, yet it remained stuck at an unseen threshold, refusing to budge.

He mentally shouted, "Commander, what's going on? Our basic combat strength has already reached one billion constant power, why is there still no movement?"

The system's electronic voice sounded leisurely, with a calm tone that said, "This system expected this to happen."

[As I told you before, transformation requires fuel, and your nascent primordial universe only has the amount needed to reach the threshold, but lacks the key to open that door.]

Su Jie's brow twitched slightly: "Fuel? What fuel?"

To advance to the twelfth rank, you need to sacrifice your physique; your Void Fate Body is the key.

Su Jie was stunned for a moment. Did he need to sacrifice the Void Body of Fate?

That physique that followed him ever since he awakened the Void Body of Destiny in the Tianyuan Universe, allowing him to conceal his whereabouts from the perception of countless powerful beings, and making him appear in the Chaos Sea like a stone that does not exist in the River of Destiny.

The system continued: "To advance from the eleventh-tier Ancient Supreme to the twelfth tier, you need to completely fuse one of your physiques into the nascent form of the primordial universe."

You previously sacrificed your talents and external multiplier bonuses, but your constitution has never been sacrificed.

Previously, the Void of Fate existed independently outside your original cosmic prototype. Its power, its characteristics, and everything it gave you, although connected to your soul, never truly became part of your foundation.

Now, you need to integrate it as well. Make it no longer just a physical trait, but an instinct.

Su Jie remained silent for a moment. He understood, but he needed to confirm a more important question.

"If I sacrifice the Void Body of Fate, will I still be able to move in the Voidwalker state afterward? Will my aura still be able to be completely concealed as it is now?"

The system answered decisively: "Yes, but the method will change. It will no longer be 'you have an outer layer,' but rather 'you yourself are nothingness.'"

The power of the void of destiny will merge into your original cosmic prototype, becoming an extension of your cosmic instincts.

You don't need to actively turn it on; it will always be there, as naturally as breathing.

Its power will not disappear; it will merely exist in a different form. You remain the most difficult being to lock onto in the Chaos Sea.

Su Jie stood still and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

The chaotic, dark gold patterns were faintly visible on his skin; they were traces left by the Void of Fate operating at its core.

He gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Let's go."

He felt the heartbeat of the universe deep within the primordial universe suddenly slow down, as if something had pressed down on its pulse.

An invisible force emanated from the surface of the Heart of the Universe, like an outstretched net, covering his entire outline of existence.

He felt his aura transforming from "existence" to "nothingness," and the layer that allowed him to merge into chaos, avoid cause and effect, and hide beyond all phenomena was being peeled away layer by layer.

From the surface of the skin, from the edge of the soul, from the entanglement of causal threads, it was drawn away, compressed, and condensed into a small cluster of dark silver light by that pulling force, and then slowly sank into the depths of the primordial universe's embryonic form, melting into the core of the heart of the universe.

The moment that power merged into the heart of the universe, Su Jie sensed the changes in his body.

He no longer needed to use his consciousness to maintain the state of the Voidwalker, because his existence itself had become a faint ripple, gently spreading out and merging into the surrounding chaotic airflow, just like a drop of water falling into water, leaving not even a trace.

After absorbing the dark silver light, the Heart of the Universe remained silent for a few breaths before suddenly pulsating.

The force of that pulsation was more intense than ever before. The entire nascent cosmos expanded violently in that instant, its boundaries pushing out into the distant void dozens of times wider, like a heart injected with new energy.

The basic combat power figure on the panel jumped suddenly, from 10 billion to 50 billion constant power.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the twelfth rank of Chaos Supreme! Current base combat strength: 50 billion constant power.]

[The Void of Fate has been completely integrated into the foundation of the primordial universe; its original characteristics have been transformed into cosmic instincts, and it will continue to be effective without active activation.]

Su Jie clenched his fist, feeling the more profound and solid power surging through his bones and meridians, like a river that had been widened several times over adapting to a new course.

With 50 billion constant power, he never expected that his basic combat power would increase with advancement, and that it would jump directly from 10 billion to 50 billion, a full five times.

This must be because after the Void of Fate was melted into the Heart of the Universe, its potential was stimulated by the primordial universe, like a spark hitting dry wood, igniting the Void of Fate's hidden potential that had never been released.

Before Su Jie could fully sense the surging power, an even deeper change rose from the depths of the primordial universe.

The dark silver light that had been melted into the heart of the universe did not completely disappear. The moment it merged into the heart of the universe, it cracked open with countless fine lines, like a shattered eggshell, from which a wisp of extremely thin light overflowed.

The ray of light spread outward from the boundary of the primordial universe, penetrating into his sea of ​​consciousness, like a drop of ink falling into clear water, slowly spreading on the calm surface of his sea of ​​consciousness, merging with his primordial spirit.

In that instant, his primordial spirit sensed something he had never experienced before, as if a hand had reached out from the depths of his soul and touched a level he had used for many years but had never truly understood.

He could sense how the life force of every chaotic void beast around him flowed through the chaotic energy flow, and he could see those gray energy veins extending from the depths of the beast horde to the beast king's body, like countless invisible threads connecting all the beasts into a whole.

He could also detect the subtle traces left by the energy flowing at the bottom, like water stains seeping from stones after the winter snow melts. These were the marks left by fate, the lines drawn by existence itself in the chaos.

His eleventh-level primordial spirit began to expand under the influence of this power, like a flower bud soaked by rainwater, unfolding layer by layer outwards.

The dark golden light deep within the sea of ​​consciousness grew brighter and more stable, eventually condensing into a complete disc radiating a dark silver halo, suspended in the center of the sea of ​​consciousness, slowly rotating.