Ye Yun's entire consciousness was now absorbed by the galaxy filling the sky of his dantian. Within this galaxy, Ye Yun discovered that his divine sense was no longer bound by space between the star fields of the Ten Directions Cosmos, allowing him to roam freely within it.
In other words, with just a thought, Ye Yun could appear anywhere within the Ten Directions Cosmos!
His divine sense began from the tenth direction of the cosmos and continued to expand outwards. The ninth direction, the eighth direction...
As Ye Yun's divine sense swept through, he found that starting from the eighth direction, more and more star fields were forming alliances. In the seventh direction, he even discovered an allied legion with hundreds of billions of members!
The rumors of the Ten Directions Empire and the Futian Empire's rulers vying for dominance through the game world had already sent shivers through all living beings in the Ten Directions Cosmos.
Star fields not yet incorporated into either power's territory either directly surrendered to the Futian Empire or formed resistance alliances with other star fields unwilling to be colonized, hoping to use this as leverage for a higher status.
Therefore, once such an alliance was formed, it would gain momentum like a snowball. As long as a Heavenly Dao contract was signed, there was no need to worry about one's own interests within the collective. Each star field only needed to dispatch around two hundred million soldiers, which was a mere trifle for a star field with a population of hundreds of billions.
Ye Yun's divine sense swept past this massive legion of hundreds of billions and headed directly towards the sixth direction.
Although these legions numbered in the hundreds of billions, their cultivation realms were almost exclusively at the Sun Realm. Those above the Half-Saint realm numbered just over a hundred million!
With such strength, the legions under Ye Yun or those of the Demonic Butterfly could easily crush them. Once strength reached a certain level, it could no longer be compensated for by sheer numbers.
Take Ye Yun himself, for instance. Cultivators of this caliber, even if there were trillions, would be dealt with by a mere thought.
Ye Yun's divine sense passed through the sixth direction, where he saw two hundred million soldiers above the Saint Realm constructing spatial barriers, and in the fifth direction, the Snow Clan, being blockaded at two domain gates by five hundred million Half-Saint soldiers.
Ye Yun continued his exploration deeper without any significant pause. He discovered that wherever his divine sense passed, the nebulae seemed to record everything, depicting it all into vast, three-dimensional maps.
Fourth direction...
Third direction...
Ye Yun's divine sense, as if endless, instantly pierced through the barriers of the second and first directions.
*Dong...*
As soon as his divine sense entered the first direction, Ye Yun felt a terrifying, suffocating spiritual energy permeating the air. This dense spiritual energy even caused the expansion speed of his divine sense to falter slightly.
"As expected of the first direction. The spiritual energy in mere star fields bordering the second direction is already so terrifying. I can't imagine how potent the spiritual energy must be in the star field of the Demonic Butterfly, which is said to be the closest to the Upper Realm!"
Having explored from the fifth direction all the way, Ye Yun witnessed the miserable state of the star fields colonized by the Demonic Butterfly.
The Futian Empire's army was like bandits. Wherever they went, almost all property was plundered. Afterward, the inhabitants were forcibly registered and became the lowest-class citizens of the empire.
Once registered, they became the empire's "blood-generating machines," periodically required to pay a certain amount of tribute. If they failed to meet the quota, they would be enslaved and sold by the empire to various factions within the empire, becoming "Heavenly Dao Slaves" to these powers.
Even though Ye Yun had tried his best to imagine the Demonic Butterfly's tyranny, this situation still far exceeded his expectations.
As his divine sense swept across one star field after another, countless dim star fields within his dantian's galaxy were illuminated, making the entire dantian twinkle with stars.
"Hmm?"
"This is the first domain of the first direction? This is too terrifying!"
At a certain moment, Ye Yun's divine sense suddenly trembled. He felt an infinite amount of spiritual energy that was almost liquid. At the same time, Ye Yun's divine sense discovered that in this vast star field, similar to the human star field, there was only one planet!
Of course, the surface area of this planet was more than ten thousand times larger than that of Blue Star!
It could be said that the sheer volume of this single planet alone surpassed the sum of the surface areas of all planets within any other star field!!
The stability of space reached over a hundred times that of the human star field, and even the spatial gravity was five times that of the human star field!
Ye Yun's expression turned grim as his divine sense scanned this planet inch by inch.
Over a billion cultivators at the High God Realm, a hundred million at the Monarch Realm, several hundred at the Supreme Realm, and even three at the Quasi-Emperor cultivation level!
Ye Yun finally understood why legends circulated in the Ten Directions Cosmos about being born at the Great Saint cultivation level. Here, even a dog could reproduce for a few generations, and its offspring could be born as Great Saints!
Firstly, in the center of this incredibly vast continent, there was an Endless Great River spanning over fifty million square kilometers. It was filled with countless treasures. Ye Yun even discovered hundreds of multi-million-year-old divine medicines in the center of this river. However, it was guarded by thousands of cultivators at the peak Monarch Realm and several at the Supreme Realm, and there was even a Dragon King at the Quasi-Emperor cultivation level!
Secondly, on this continent, there was an ocean comparable in size to the entire Blue Star! And the water in this ocean was not water in the true sense, but spiritual liquid!
Spiritual liquid!! That was the product of liquefied spiritual energy! It could be said that even a sip, without any refinement, would provide better results than half a month of cultivation for an ordinary cultivator! In other star fields, even a liter of this substance would cause a riot!
And here? An entire ocean of it!
"I wonder if eating seafood here will make one an immortal."
Ye Yun could only offer a bitter smile, unsure how to describe his inner anguish. This place, let alone compared to the tenth direction, was more than ten times inferior even to the second direction! It was indeed the closest place to the Upper Realm!
The third difference was that Ye Yun sensed the presence of laws within this star field!
That's right, this space was filled with a faint presence of laws! And these laws were the same as the laws of life in the medicinal garden of Ye Yun's Nine Dragon Yang Void Palace!
If cultivators practiced in such an environment for a long time, as long as they crossed the threshold of the Supreme Realm, they could almost comprehend the laws of life in a very short period and had a high probability of directly mastering them!
To be honest, even the current Ye Yun felt a tinge of jealousy. Setting aside everything else, the mere presence of the laws of life was enough to make Ye Yun envious and resentful.
It's important to know that the laws of life, along with the laws of time and space, are known as the three great laws. Their comprehension difficulty is hundreds of times greater than other laws, yet here, they were standard for Supreme Realm powerhouses!
"Since we are already on opposing sides! Since I've discovered this, I won't just do the minimum; I'll go all out!"
Ye Yun looked at the Demonic Butterfly, who was seated in her Imperial Palace wearing a Nine Phoenix Imperial Crown, and couldn't help but smile coldly. Then, his divine sense withdrew from the first star field, and countless spatial forces began to converge under the guidance of Ye Yun's divine sense.