Inside the Dark Domain and outside the Dark Domain are two different worlds.
Lin Xiaohe’s spiritual energy transformed into a red beetle. After it made contact with Dong Yuxuan’s white pearl, accompanied by a humming sound, a small green-and-white circular disc appeared beneath the red beetle’s feet.
One of the threads from this disc connected to Dong Yuxuan’s white pearl.
It’s really hard to describe Lin Xiaohe’s state at that moment with words.
It felt as if her perspective had risen up high, yet at the same time, she was still trapped inside the red beetle.
A hypothesis from Blue Planet emerged in her mind.
[The human body is three-dimensional, while spiritual energy is four-dimensional.]
Right now, her state felt like she was stuck somewhere between three and four dimensions—unable to go up, unable to go down, and utterly uncomfortable all over.
Just then, dark specks surged all at once through the gaps in the white pearl.
But the thread connecting Dong Yuxuan and Lin Xiaohe curled up inside the white pearl into a tiny ball of yarn.
Countless dark specks that had poured into the white pearl were absorbed by this tiny yarn ball.
A quantitative change brought about a qualitative change: the yarn ball and the dark specks merged, forming a small swirl of black, white, blue, and green!
The connecting thread also turned into those very colors!
Lin Xiaohe had a gut feeling that Dong Yuxuan had succeeded.
Sure enough, tiny blue lights began to flicker on the surface of the white pearl’s shell, and the pearl itself became much more solid.
With Dong Yuxuan’s success as a reference, Lin Xiaohe guided her antennae toward Grandma Lin’s spiritual entity.
Grandma Lin’s spiritual entity was the largest, faintly glowing with a yellow light.
The dark specks covering her pearl were also far more numerous than those on the other pearls. At first glance, the entire pearl seemed surrounded by dark specks.
Lin Xiaohe extended her antennae and poked them inside. She met a little resistance, unlike the ease she had felt when poking Dong Yuxuan’s pearl.
But once she poked through, the little yarn ball formed by the thread began actively absorbing the dark specks all on its own!
Lin Xiaohe stared unblinkingly at Grandma Lin’s spiritual entity.
Grandma Lin’s spiritual entity had an amazing appetite, absorbing nearly twice as much stardust as Dong Yuxuan’s had. In the end, most of the swirl that formed was yellow.
The white pearl instantly transformed into a yellow pearl dotted with blue light.
Lin Xiaohe clicked her tongue in amazement. No wonder Grandma dared to sign up for the experiment—she had been hiding a little secret all along.
Using the same method, Lin Xiaohe helped Grandpa Lin and Su Xi evolve into stardust beings.
After all four pearls had gained a swirl inside them, they suddenly began to move, slowly floating up into the air and revolving gently around the red beetle.
A wave of exhaustion washed over Lin Xiaohe like a tide. She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was back in her own body.
Deafening cheers erupted inside the Hummingbird and the Taiyin Star observation room.
“We did it! We succeeded!”
Grandma Lin opened her palm, looking curiously at the lines on it.
She hadn’t become younger—her wrinkles were still there—but she could feel the strength in her body and her newfound affinity with the Dark Domain.
Old Brother Black led the medical team, crowding around the four individuals. After a series of meticulous examinations, they reached a conclusion.
“They’ve evolved! Grandma Lin’s physical strength exceeds 3S—can’t be measured—and her spiritual energy is SSS. Su Xi’s physical strength and spiritual energy are both above 3S. Dong Yuxuan and Grandpa Lin are both 3S in both categories!”
This was only the most surface-level evolution after incorporating stardust.
A Stardust Giant Sound Whale can use its tail fin to fling gravitational waves and create bubble-like warp bubbles. What kind of new abilities will Stardust Humans develop?
That’s something everyone will have to explore slowly.
After the success of the first experiment, the number of participants in the second experiment expanded to ten people.
Lin Jingqiu, Lin Chiyang, Lin Ye, and others were all on the list for the second experiment.
This time, Lin Xiaohe entered the state of spiritual dimension ascension with ease.
She didn’t dare poke all ten pearls at once. Instead, she took it slowly, one by one.
These ten pearls revolved slowly around the red beetle.
A total of fourteen threads were attached to the halo beneath the red beetle’s feet, spinning along with it.
Lin Xiaohe was really looking forward to seeing what changes would occur in higher-dimensional space once everyone had become stardust beings.
The consecutive successes of the first two experiments acted like a shot of adrenaline, shaking the resolve of those who had originally been unwilling to become stardust beings.
If they could have long enough lives, might they be able to witness the most splendid and beautiful moments of Kyushu Star?
After a vote among everyone, the [Star Lily Party Stardust Plan] was passed unanimously.
Within three years, all members of the Star Lily Party would actively incorporate stardust and strive to become stardust beings.
The entire plan would be carried out in five steps: 100 people in the first batch, 150 in the second, 200 in the third…
By the time the plan was completed, 1,203 people had successfully evolved into stardust beings, 15 had died, and 13 had failed.
From then on, within the Dark Domain, almost all Star Lily Party members were at least double 3S and above.
Thanks to this collective great leap forward, Lin Xiaohe found a safe place and prepared to break through into the fourth dimension!
In that familiar interstitial space, colorful threads, anchored by the green halo, crisscrossed to form a rotating, flattened, oval-shaped cocoon.
Inside the cocoon was a red beetle.
Lin Xiaohe took a deep breath and flew upward into the void above.
Under normal circumstances, the thickness of the universe is infinite.
No matter how far Lin Xiaohe flew, she would never reach the end.
But these weren’t normal circumstances. Just as she was on the verge of exhaustion, Lin Xiaohe finally touched that cold, thin membrane.
It had no shape or color, but the barrier was definitely there.
The green halo beneath Lin Xiaohe’s feet spun at extreme speed, causing over a thousand pearls and threads to whirl into afterimages.
In reality, everyone felt their minds jolt slightly. They had a vague sense that Lin Xiaohe needed their help.
As if guided by fate, a female voice seemed to whisper: “Relax. Entrust your bodies to me.”
Recognizing the familiar fluctuations of spiritual energy, they immediately let go of their control over their own bodies and spiritual energy without a second thought.
Over a thousand pearls nearly merged with the cocoon. Under Lin Xiaohe’s deliberate control, the spiritual energy was compressed and compressed again, until it became a long, slender, sharp needle.
That membrane seemed to bulge outward slightly, stretching and stretching, until—pop!—the membrane was pierced!
Lin Xiaohe spun and burst into the higher dimension. In an instant, countless mysterious forces rushed in, and her ears filled with the sound of unintelligible murmurs.
With a flash of green light, those murmurs were shut out.
Her spiritual energy, as if completely drained, could no longer maintain the shape of the needle. It scattered with a snap but was then pulled by the red beetle’s attraction to swirl around it.
Before the red beetle’s eyes floated a small, blank notebook, emitting a soft white glow.
Lin Xiaohe used her antennae to gently touch the notebook. Two familiar Chinese characters slowly appeared on the cover: [Sacred Code]!
The moment she made contact, a torrent of information flooded Lin Xiaohe’s mind.
[Sacred Code], First Level: Capable of guiding the evolutionary direction of a group!
…
In some dimension of the universe, a sleeping being seemed to sense something. It opened its eyes—crimson eyes the size of small planets.
It seemed to pierce through dimensions and space, focusing its attention on a certain location.
A powerful will, like ripples, spread out from it in all directions across the cosmos.
[Find her. Kill her!]
