Everyone in the Imperial Capital fell into the most peaceful slumber under Chen Luo's "Praise of Light."
Under the power of light and life, all illnesses, aging, and imperfections on everyone's bodies disappeared.
The fourth special effect, "Gift of the High-Ranked," transformed Chen Luo's natural invasive power towards the weak into an optimization for the weak within the same race.
The base stats, in a sense, also reflected Chen Luo's evolutionary level as a life form.
As the fundamental reason for the world's level increase, the world had already done its utmost to boost Chen Luo's base stats.
However, unfortunately, even with a significant boost, Chen Luo's already terrifyingly high base stats only increased by 2 points.
In fact, his frighteningly high base stats had essentially created reproductive isolation from ordinary humans.
While he could enjoy the pleasures of intimacy, it was almost impossible for ordinary humans to conceive with him.
However, as the current strongest within the same race, his gift was an excellent optimization for the weaker members of his own kind.
Through this optimization, everyone's strength, agility, physique, and even appearance saw varying degrees of improvement.
While everyone was constantly improving themselves in their sleep thanks to this power,
Chen Luo sat cross-legged on the Silver Hand, sensing a seven-colored seed appearing in his sea of consciousness.
[Completed Abyss-level challenge mission, successfully killed Abyss Lord of the Undead - Theodore]
[Reward obtained: Seed of Domain]
[Seed of Domain]: The path to transcendence for all spirits begins here.
The Seed of Domain appeared to be no larger than an apple. Described as seven-colored, it actually pulsed with all the colors of the world.
The moment the mission was completed, this seed automatically appeared in Chen Luo's sea of consciousness.
Not far from it, the drop of golden dragon blood, mixed with various bloodlines, was still pulsing.
And at this moment, all matters had come to a conclusion.
Chen Luo's consciousness body floated beside the seed. After careful observation, he was surprised to discover that the so-called Seed of Domain was not entirely within his sea of consciousness.
Its state was somewhere between solid and ethereal.
The vital energy of his physical body, and the surging spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness (which, when converted from professional power and projected outwards, became mana), were now connected to this seed.
His consciousness body reached out, attempting to grasp the wondrous Seed of Domain, but his palm passed right through it:
"Interesting. My spiritual energy is clearly connected, yet my spiritual body cannot touch it."
After observing for a while longer, Chen Luo noticed that his vital energy and spiritual energy seemed to be drawn by an unseen force, flowing and constantly passing through this wondrous seed.
And with each passage, the connection between his vital energy and spiritual energy seemed to grow even tighter.
This seed also seemed to be gradually growing stronger in this process.
"Seed of Domain... this seed uses my vital energy and spirit as soil. What kind of fruit will it bear later?"
...
Just as Chen Luo was exploring the Seed of Domain and his body, which had been further enhanced after true transformation,
The entire world was undergoing an extremely terrifying transformation.
As the third planet from the Sun in the solar system,
Although Blue Star appeared quite small in volume compared to the other gas giants in the solar system,
In fact, Blue Star was the terrestrial planet with the largest diameter, mass, and density within the entire solar system.
And its volume and mass parameters precisely determined its distance relationships with other planets and even the Sun, a star.
But at this moment, with the completion of the world level increase,
The land, oceans, and sky continued to expand.
Once the solidified power disappeared, the entire world's expansion truly began.
All cities protected by the light barrier remained unchanged, not even feeling a tremor.
But outside the cities, the heavens and earth suddenly became vast!
Mountains grew taller, rivers became wider,
Countless plants, under an inexplicable great power, seemed to have aged through countless years and instantly matured.
The entire world's volume had expanded tenfold in a very short period!
The sky became even higher, and beyond the sky, those man-made satellites were now directly brought within Blue Star's gravitational capture range.
Unlike the sleeping Imperial Capital, the high-ranking officials of other countries were going mad.
"The gravitational parameters are increasing! Everything is becoming heavier! We'll be crushed!!"
"Don't be afraid! With the increase in base stats, even at level 0, we can adapt to the increased gravity!"
"Damn it! The world has gotten bigger!!! The satellites are going to crash!!"
In the despairing eyes of the high-ranking officials of various countries, streaks of fiery meteors descended from the sky towards the earth.
Since the start of the Doomsday Game,
Except for a certain dragon, who, out of displeasure, directly blasted a meteor,
The game itself and the monsters had generally not targeted satellites in the sky.
Therefore, various countries could still rely on satellites for extremely convenient communication and observation.
However, at this moment, that convenience had completely vanished.
Furthermore, stronger gravity would bring about many problems.
The effective range and power of projectile weapons would be greatly reduced due to gravity.
And former means of transportation would also encounter various structural and usage issues because of gravity.
Of course, humans could naturally use science as a tool to re-understand the changed world and create weapons suitable for this new world.
However, before that, humans themselves, having become stronger, were the only reliance for survival.
From the perspective of the solar system,
Blue Star's volume had expanded tenfold.
Originally, Blue Star was the fifth largest planet in the solar system by volume.
At that time, Jupiter, the largest of the eight planets, was 1317 times the volume of Blue Star!
After expanding tenfold, it was still only the fifth largest planet.
After all, Neptune, which was previously the fourth largest, was as much as 57 times the size of the former Blue Star.
However, considering that Blue Star's diameter, density, and mass were ranked first among the eight planets,
The sudden tenfold expansion now, from a physics perspective, would cause massive changes in Blue Star's orbit and other issues, potentially even leading to human extinction.
But very unscientifically, from the perspective of the solar system, Blue Star had only grown larger, and its rotation speed had slightly increased; everything else remained unchanged.
In the face of the system's great power, scientific reasoning was naturally pale.
At this time, the sun had risen high in the sky.
The citizens of the Imperial Capital, who had slept for half a day, and the people from the Starfire City-States summoned by Chen Luo, were also gradually waking up.
And Chen Luo also slowly opened his eyes.
With his True Sight, Chen Luo took in the entirety of the changing world. He showed no surprise at all, instead nodding with satisfaction:
"It's the same as the intelligence Theodore provided. An increase in racial evaluation will drive the world's own improvement."
"And this is the first step of 'Genesis': The Creation of Heaven!"