Although it requires great effort, the goal can ultimately be achieved.
However, this effort is indeed necessary and unavoidable.
There is no other way.
Who told Fang Ming that he currently has no fourteen-star expert to assist him?
If he had the help of a fourteen-star expert, who could directly incapacitate the strongest ancient sage, Fang Ming could naturally ascend to the fourteen-star level with ease.
Unfortunately, Fang Ming does not have such an expert to help him.
Furthermore, he cannot venture into the deep sea to find an expert of that caliber to assist him.
He likely wouldn't even be able to descend to that depth in the sea, let alone find a fourteen-star Infinite Box-level expert.
The deeper one goes into the Void Sea, the more dangers are encountered, and Fang Ming has no confidence in his ability to swim that far down.
Moreover, what expert would be so friendly with him as to be willing to help?
This is an impossible scenario.
Therefore, even though Fang Ming knows that the best course of action for his energy converter would be to find an expert to help, and that the protagonists of the past likely sought help from stronger individuals to defeat and suppress their enemies when the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms conquered the Supreme Primordial Chaos, Fang Ming cannot use this method.
Even if it is less efficient, it is still better than exposing himself.
"What a pity..."
Fang Ming stood by the window, gazing at the bright moon and stars, then turned around and went to sleep.
It was already late at night.
Daylight had not yet arrived.
If he woke up in the middle of the night, he should naturally go back to sleep.
He just didn't know which of his avatars he would dream about this time.
The flow of time often differs between one world and another.
Within a single fictional universe, across the myriad realms, the temporal flow of each world may not be the same.
Let alone between two different fictional universes.
Fang Ming vaguely recalled that in order to experiment with his avatar of a mythical Great Luo, he had used the fate of protagonists from that world as a test.
However, before the test had progressed much, his dream had ended.
As for whether he would dream of events in that world again in the future.
Fang Ming could only wait and see.
After all, at present, he could not grasp which world he had dreamt about.
And given the differing temporal flows within different fictional universes, as well as the fact that his many avatars could transcend time in various worlds.
He, currently in the divine realm, might dream of a world's future before dreaming of its past.
...
The Void Sea.
In an unknown world.
One of Fang Ming's avatars had arrived in another world.
"This is... a Xianxia world?"
This avatar of Fang Ming, possessing a cultivation of Qi Yuan Stage One, extended its True Power, completely analyzing this Xianxia world.
This Xianxia world was not particularly large in scale.
Its cultivation system was also relatively ordinary, consisting of seven major realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation, Dao Integration, and Longevity.
Cultivators refine their spiritual energy into liquid form, and then transform it from liquid to solid.
The three forms of Qi, liquid, and solid represent the distinctions between Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core respectively.
As for the subsequent realms of Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation, they were similar to those in ordinary worlds, merely involving the breaking of the core to form a nascent soul, and then transforming the nascent soul into a primordial spirit.
The Divine Transformation realm was only a five-star cultivator, capable of being considered a surface-level combatant, but not a star-destroying level combatant.
Above Divine Transformation was Dao Integration, which differed somewhat from typical immortal cultivation worlds.
In Fang Ming's knowledge, after Divine Transformation in typical immortal cultivation worlds, there should be the Void Refining or Return to Void realms.
However, in this world's cultivation method, a cultivator at the peak of Divine Transformation would seek out a small world and merge with its Heavenly Dao consciousness, thus achieving the Dao Integration realm.
This Xianxia world comprised three thousand small worlds and one great world.
Dao Integration realm cultivators were not uncommon.
And depending on the world they merged with, the lifespan of Dao Integration realm cultivators varied.
Ordinary small worlds experienced a cycle of destruction and rebirth every one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years.
A Divine Transformation realm cultivator, upon reaching the Dao Integration realm, although theoretically possessing infinite lifespan by merging with the Heavenly Dao of a small world, would still face the end of the small world after one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years, forcing them to seek life from death, which meant restarting the world.
Only by restarting the world and resetting the internal temporal point of the small world back to the beginning of creation could this world survive eternally.
This was the cycle of the world.
Every one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years marked a cycle of the world.
A world theoretically had an infinite lifespan, because whenever it faced destruction, it would not truly be destroyed, but would instead choose to undergo a world cycle, restarting, and thus extending its own lifespan back to its origin.
In the void, this world still existed eternally.
However, the Heavenly Dao within it, after experiencing the world cycle, was no longer the original Heavenly Dao.
Perhaps it was related to the original Heavenly Dao, but after the world cycle, it was no longer that original Heavenly Dao, more like its son.
Or like a new life born from a corpse or ruins.
As a result, the Dao Integration realm cultivator who merged with the Heavenly Dao could naturally not survive the tribulation of the world's restart.
Their maximum lifespan was merely one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years, after which they would perish.
Although their lifespan seemed infinite, the world had cycles of restart, and they did not achieve true longevity.
Therefore, above Dao Integration, there was the Longevity realm.
A Longevity realm cultivator was immortal even through world restarts, remaining unharmed no matter how the world restarted.
Thus, they could achieve true "longevity."
"Longevity realm?"
Fang Ming's divine sense swept over everything, naturally noticing the lifespan issue of Dao Integration realm cultivators.
Dao Integration realm cultivators who merged with the Heavenly Dao of a small world theoretically possessed a maximum lifespan of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years, but this meant they had to merge with the Dao immediately in the first year of the world cycle.
No cultivator could achieve this.
The lifespan of a Dao Integration realm cultivator actually depended on how many years remained until the world cycle when they achieved Dao Integration.
If they began the Dao Integration only a thousand years before the world cycle, then this Dao Integration realm cultivator's lifespan would be even shorter than that of a Divine Transformation realm cultivator.
At least, Divine Transformation realm cultivators could leave the world and enter other worlds when facing the world cycle.
However, Dao Integration realm cultivators could only remain trapped in the world they had merged with the Dao, awaiting the arrival of the end.
Of course, the probability of a Dao Integration realm cultivator being foolish enough to merge with the Dao when the world was clearly nearing destruction was infinitely close to zero.
Therefore, Dao Integration realm cultivators generally lived longer than Divine Transformation realm cultivators, with their lifespans almost always being at least fifty times greater.
Compared to Divine Transformation cultivators, they were exceptionally long-lived.
This was the situation caused by merging with the Heavenly Dao of a small world.