As Jin Xinxin helped arrange living quarters for the newly born sun spirits, countless thoughts flashed through Ding Yun’s mind, along with constant simulations of changing plans and assessing their potential for success.
Half a month later.
The most likely path to success was deduced.
It still relied on her.
The new plan was as follows: Ding Yun would first split off billions upon billions of thoughts, each entering a different star in the entire universe. Then, her main body, holding the Scepter of the Sun Goddess, would enter the Cosmic Law Sea, attempting to directly comprehend the Taiyin Law. While comprehending it, she would also gradually integrate the understood Taiyin Law into her countless dispersed thoughts.
This had two benefits. Firstly, the innumerable thoughts would be sufficient to prevent her from being completely submerged and merged by the Cosmic Law Sea. It would be as if she were using all the stars in the universe to resist the merging force of the Cosmic Law Sea. With the assistance of the Scepter of the Sun Goddess, the probability of successfully resisting the Cosmic Law Sea and comprehending the Taiyin Law would exceed ninety percent.
Secondly, as the newly comprehended Taiyin Law was integrated into her thoughts, her thoughts remaining within the stars could transform into embryonic forms of innate deities in the shortest possible time. This would eliminate the need to enlighten each one individually after she had fully comprehended the Taiyin Law, saving her considerable time.
The only drawback was that because Ding Yun’s current laws only involved the Law of the Sun, she could only differentiate thoughts and send them into stars in the shortest time.
After all, she had a connection with all stars.
Sending thoughts into them was instantaneous.
However, it would take a much longer time to send thoughts into other planets, making it somewhat inefficient.
She had to forgo that for now.
Still, the number of stars was already vast. Controlling all of them and allowing them to transform into innate deities should be sufficient.
With the new plan in place, Ding Yun immediately notified Jin Xinxin, stating she had an idea but would need to enter a long period of secluded cultivation. She asked him to continue proceeding with the original plan, with the only change being to temporarily avoid the advanced civilizations and focus on conquering the universe’s low-level civilizations first, spreading her teachings among them.
As for the advanced civilizations.
They would be dealt with after her seclusion.
Of course, Ding Yun did not elaborate on the specifics of her secluded cultivation, mainly to prevent Jin Xinxin from objecting and staging emotional scenes. In any case, she was confident in her ability to succeed and ensure her own safety, so there was no need for further explanation.
Jin Xinxin, on the other hand, wanted to ask more.
But Ding Yun shut him down with a single word: "Confidential."
Following that, they parted ways. Jin Xinxin took over the tasks Ding Yun had been handling and continued with the original set of plans. Ding Yun, in turn, spent a few minutes splitting off billions upon billions of thoughts.
These entered all the stars in the entire universe.
Then, holding the Scepter of the Sun Goddess, she stepped into the Cosmic Law Sea. She began merging with the boundless Law of the Sun within the sea, while simultaneously forcibly drawing the Taiyin Law towards the vicinity of the Law of the Sun. Leveraging their mutually generating and restraining properties, she rapidly comprehended it.
Her merging with the Law of the Sun meant that this law now had an owner. The Taiyin Law, conversely, was ownerless. Using the established Law of the Sun to guide the unowned Taiyin Law was, overall, relatively easy.
At least the Taiyin Law offered little resistance.
The only difficulty remained the pressure from the Law Sea.
Upon entering the Law Sea, Ding Yun was constantly subjected to the terrifying pressure emanating from it.
And the erosion from countless surrounding laws.
The feeling was difficult to describe in words. While the laws within the Law Sea were relatively ethereal, they were incredibly dense. Every thread and wisp was comparable to the weight of countless neutron stars. While it didn’t crush Ding Yun to the point of breaking bones, it still placed immense pressure on her.
Every step she took sounded like her bones creaking.
Not to mention the inherent erosive power of the laws, which constantly corroded Ding Yun’s divine body, attempting to transform her from flesh and blood into a law-based lifeform.
Thus, condemning her to eternal existence within the Cosmic Law Sea.
Fortunately, the Scepter of the Sun Goddess proved truly effective. It had been protecting Ding Yun’s soul to a certain extent, allowing her to maintain consciousness. At this critical juncture, maintaining consciousness was paramount. Only by remaining lucid could she avoid being transformed by the Law Sea and rapidly comprehend the surrounding Taiyin Law.
When the Scepter of the Sun Goddess began to weaken, Ding Yun would immediately activate the numerous thoughts in the outside world, drawing a wisp of origin from each star and channeling it into the Scepter of the Sun Goddess to help it recover.
Simultaneously, she could use these wisps of origin to restore her energy, keeping herself at peak condition.
This ensured she remained conscious and avoided being transformed by the laws, while also allowing her to comprehend the Taiyin Law at the fastest possible rate.
Of course, at the same time, her dispersed thoughts were not without benefit. As the slivers of Taiyin Law that Ding Yun comprehended were continuously integrated into her thoughts, a trace of creation aura began to emerge within countless stars. Innumerable innate deity embryos started to gradually take shape.
Even in star systems without life-bearing planets, some changes began to occur due to this faint aura of creation. For instance, planetary orbits shifted, and some planets began to exhibit signs of life.
It was believed that with the passage of time.
Life-bearing planets might eventually emerge.
Creation was a wondrous energy. If innate deities could be created in the core of stars, it was hardly surprising that nearby planets, influenced by it, could become worlds capable of harboring life.
It was entirely normal…
However, these changes were slow and subtle, currently unnoticed by most. Even Jin Xinxin merely sensed that Ding Yun had done something, but as everything was progressing positively, he didn’t probe further.
He even took the initiative to help conceal these developments.
He also issued orders prohibiting anyone from damaging stars or ordinary planets that had begun to exhibit traces of life.
Time flowed by, minute by minute.
One year, two years, eight or nine decades, two or three decades.
A century passed in the blink of an eye.
On the ninth day of the seventh lunar month, a hundred years later, the Taiyin energy and dark energy throughout the entire universe began to surge and boil. Jin Xinxin could distinctly feel that the portion of the Taiyin Law he had painstakingly mastered was completely stripped away. This signified that the Lord of the Taiyin Law had returned.
Someone had attained the pinnacle of godhood by using the Taiyin Law to prove their Dao.
It was only then that he understood where Ding Yun had gone for her secluded cultivation and what she had accomplished. After all, he could not conceive of any other method besides directly comprehending laws within the Cosmic Law Sea that would allow for the complete mastery of the Taiyin Law within a mere century.
For a moment, Jin Xinxin’s emotions were incredibly complex.