Otherworldly Desert Dust

Chapter 193 - 153: Ascension to Hua Chen

Wu Hen had never expected that his two naive little brother and sister were actually Ascended Heavenly Brilliances.

How strange, why didn’t they tell him that by just lifting their heads they could see their exclusive stars?

Or was it that the confidence of the Ancient Clan within the Scroll Realm had been completely crushed, to the point that ascending was not worth bragging about, or did they also assume that they, too, were Ascended Heavenly Brilliances?

"Damn, that’s kind of cool as hell. Once you’re strong enough, you can transform into a star in the sky, shining over the entire Otherworldly Dust and illuminating all realms of the heavens—it can actually be done!" Wang Rui said excitedly, his face flushing red.

Wu Hen, on the other hand, began to feel ashamed.

In the Scroll Realm, Du Mao and Gong Qin sincerely reported their own Star Names, which should have been a sign of enough respect, but he didn’t understand what that meant at all and came up with something called Happy Planet...

Alas, two great ones, my apologies. I hope you can forgive me for the days I treated you like beasts of burden.

"No matter what, the night sky is full of brilliant stars, and even Hua Chen is just one of the Star Radiance among them," Wu Hen said.

"Exactly, Otherworldly Dust is too vast. Even a Hua Chen is just competing with tens of thousands of other stars, which is why even a Hua Chen has different levels of brilliance."

"Brilliance levels?" Wu Hen asked.

"Yes, the difference between various Hua Chen Heavenly Brilliances is significant. In fact, in our astronomy, we classified the stars quite early on. Interestingly, these stars, observed with the naked eye at different brightness levels, correspond exactly to the strength of Hua Chen life," Chief Li said.

"Using the astronomical star brightness chart?" Wu Hen was quite surprised.

"Star magnitudes. We use the star magnitudes from traditional astronomy to classify them, with a total of six categories. The first-class star is the brightest, and the sixth-class star is the dimmest visible to the naked eye."

"I learned about this in astronomy class, and I remember there was a list of the top 100 stars. The brightest star we can see with the naked eye is Sirius," Wang Rui immediately showed great interest.

He was an amateur astronomy enthusiast himself and could even recite the names of the top 100 stars.

"That’s right, that’s the supreme and strongest presence in Otherworldly Dust, ranked first, with the Star Name Sirius."

"And the Divine Python Earth Vein that almost engulfed our entire world is what we often refer to in astronomy as Gemini, ranked seventeenth."

Wu Hen was so shocked that his jaw dropped!

Gemini!

He had encountered such a vast constellation visible to the naked eye!

And it turns out to be the seventeenth primogenitor existence in the whole Otherworldly Dust!!

Suddenly, Wu Hen understood why the uncle from Chongli Mountain both disliked and admired him.

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A person who survived an encounter with the seventeenth most formidable creature in Otherworldly Dust had indeed proven himself to be a chosen one!

"The Female and Male Dragon – are they really that incredible? Then I have a very, very long way to go before I can avenge my grievance," Wu Hen felt deeply moved.

"That’s why our Nuwa Divine Duan Lineage is extremely unlucky. In the vast Otherworldly Dust, other civilizations have an infinitely small chance of encountering a sixth-class star compared to their own self-destruction, but we not only encountered one, we met a first-class star..." Chief Li sighed deeply.

The more Li Feng understood about Otherworldly Dust, the more powerless and shocked he felt.

There are far too many horrors that humanity has yet to recognize. They are no longer the romantic brilliant stars lighting the night for humanity but real cosmic giants, Predators that feed on one civilization after another!

"Also, how did my aunt just disappear like that... Could it be that the body I interacted with wasn’t her real body, and like me, she was logged into someone else’s account?" The more Wu Hen thought about it, the more confused he became.

His aunt’s identity seemed complicated too!

But how could he find her again without a single clue?

Auntie, Hen Bao misses you...

I hope that one day, I too can become a star in the sky, brightening your window no matter how distant the civilization you are in.

"Hey, hey, what are you spacing out for?" Wang Rui nudged Wu Hen, who had fallen into reminiscence.

"It’s nothing, just something Chief Li said made me think of a lot of things that I couldn’t understand before," Wu Hen replied.

"It is commonly accepted that the top six classes of stars are listed in the Star Dome, but you also know that the majority of civilizations cannot reach that realm, so in private, they have mimicked the Hua Chen Realm and divided Star Radiance into six levels as well," Li Feng continued.

"Sixth-class Heavenly Brilliance, Fifth-class Heavenly Brilliance, Fourth-class Heavenly Brilliance, Third-class Heavenly Brilliance, Second-class Heavenly Brilliance, First-class Heavenly Brilliance—is it really that straightforward?" Wu Hen asked.

"Yes, and as you know, most Star Radiance are imitations of Hua Chen’s Divine Power Law and do not truly possess the Divine Power Law. So the difference between each class is mostly a direct gap in Combat Power, but there are also some imitations that are so perfect they crush other Star Radiance with Divine Power Law," Li Feng explained.

"I see, Star Radiance is a mixed bag, with some having formidable strength very close to Hua Chen, and others with pure Combat Power so ferocious that even Hua Chen cannot cope without using Laws... Hence there are Pseudo Heavenly Brilliance and True Heavenly Brilliance playing against each other making it hard to discern truth from deception. Eventually, the division of realms became a saying, not necessarily the absolute measure of strength," Wu Hen nodded in understanding.

A Hua Chen could easily disguise as Star Radiance, effortlessly leave after a successful hunt.

At that moment, people would not be able to discern his realm, let alone whether the Divine Power Law he wielded was genuine or fake.

In Desert Dust, the truly powerful beings do not easily expose themselves.

Indeed, amongst fish of various colors swimming in the stream in search of food, or competing in ponds, very few can leap over the real waterfall once they face it. Only those are the true Hua Chen and Star Radiance!

"The reason we do not advise you to take action against the Poison Sub-humans is because their genius has reached the level of Fourth-class Heavenly Brilliance. Don’t be fooled by only being two levels higher; the gap in pure Combat Power is vast. Personally, I think that without a clever strategy to defeat him, responding to force with force can be very detrimental to our plans moving forward," Chief Li stated.

"I see," Wu Hen now understood Chief Li’s concerns.

All Star Radiance are potential Hua Chen.

And whether one is Hua Chen or not has nothing to do with reaching a certain class of Heavenly Brilliance.

A Sixth-class Heavenly Brilliance may find their own Evolution Chain Gate and ascend to Hua Chen directly.

While a First-class Heavenly Brilliance might never ascend to Hua Chen in their lifetime. Strong in battle they may be, capable of taking on ten or a hundred, but faced with a Hua Chen wielding Divine Power Law, they are certain to die!

"You could think of it this way: before Hua Chen, strength is additive. After Hua Chen, strength becomes multiplicative," Li Feng offered his perspective.

Upon hearing this, Wu Hen suddenly felt as if his DNA had shifted.

It seemed that his fusion with Little Yi was not additive, but closer to multiplicative!

And Little Yi’s multiplier was actually quite significant.

The problem was, his own base number was too low!

"Alright, I thought my weak physique was my biggest weakness in strength."

"Turns out, I am Little Yi’s biggest shortcoming!"