André was eager to thoroughly research the mysteries of the "Dual Profound Transformation Great Method" and perfect it, but this obviously couldn't be completed in a short time. Not only did time not permit it, but the timing wasn't right either.
He still had more important matters to attend to. Before investing time and energy in studying the "Dual Profound Transformation Great Method," André had to repair the flaws in his mind.
In the thirty-six hours since the comprehensive cold weapon combat tournament, his consciousness sea was still filled with demonic thoughts. Even slightly larger emotional fluctuations threatened to pollute his soul, forcing André to invest enormous mental effort in suppressing his consciousness sea and maintaining a clean, clear, calm mind.
But this was definitely not a long-term solution. He had to quickly eliminate this threat that could cause him to fall into demonic deviation at any moment. He couldn't waste most of his mental energy on this aspect.
The abnormal desires he was experiencing also had to be resolved quickly.
André wasn't helpless about this - he actually had plenty of methods to solve this problem. Though they were all temporary measures, they were sufficient to buy him time and delay the problem until he repaired his primordial spirit.
Previously he hadn't dared act rashly because he didn't understand the original owner's situation. Only now, after experiencing a complete internal and external sensing examination, did André gradually form a plan.
After weighing his options for some time, he ultimately chose a secret technique from the Original Dome Realm called "Heavenly Heart Divine Illumination."
After merging with the original owner's residual soul, all the mental secret methods he had previously cultivated became completely ineffective, losing their foundation entirely. His current self had undergone a fundamental transformation, like a blank sheet of paper that could be painted on at will.
This "Heavenly Heart Divine Illumination" method could repair his mental flaws while also slightly strengthening his soul and magical power, even helping him break through his current cultivation realm - it was the optimal choice among all available options.
André hesitated repeatedly because although this secret method was ingenious and miraculous, capable of solving all his current problems, it also carried certain future troubles.
This was a method similar to self-hypnosis that made practitioners extremely self-centered and arrogant. If described in this world's language, terms like "megalomaniac" and "delusional" might accurately describe it.
This was because practitioners of this secret method had to truly believe from their hearts that consciousness preceded material existence, that their will was heaven's will, and that their actions conformed to heavenly dao principles to truly enter the method.
That is: "Heavenly heart is my heart, my intention is heaven's intention; divine will harmonizes with heaven, observing the world with heavenly heart!"
As for what "heavenly heart" was like, the "Dao De Jing" circulated in both the Original Dome Realm and this world explained it clearly - "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs!"
It would be fine if he could truly reach this realm. André worried about failing to carve a swan and ending up with a duck, or failing to paint a tiger and ending up with a dog - that would be rather embarrassing.
It was predictable that given his current mental state, this was a high-probability event. But he seemed to have no better alternatives now.
Thinking of this, André hesitated no more and immediately followed the method, entering a "meditative" state and beginning spirit observation and visualization.
Everything went as he expected. After half an hour, when he emerged from the mysterious contemplative state, he had directly entered the third stage of "Heavenly Heart Divine Illumination."
This "Heavenly Heart Divine Illumination" method had only five levels total.
The "Divine Sky Limitless Purple Void Immortal King's" lifetime dao cultivation was extraordinary. Even the remnant spirit after severe injury provided a foundation so solid that most tenth-level magical professionals in this realm couldn't match it.
When André opened his eyes again, his thoughts were cold as ice with almost no emotional fluctuations, while his eyes overflowed with divine light, observing his surroundings with a god-like bearing.
It seemed as if this heaven and earth, this entire world, was under his control.
In fact, at this moment all movements within twenty meters around him, even dust particles, were indeed reflected in minute detail in his consciousness.
André could sense that in the two rooms next door, the neighbor in room B-5 across from him - that fat guy was wearing headphones, bobbing his head, apparently enjoying music.
In another building beside the apartment, someone was holding what should be called a "thermal imaging device," peeping through the semi-basement window.
Then there was the enormous magical energy pervading heaven and earth - he could clearly "see" these things, perceive the flow of this magical energy, even its ebb and flow.
This was precisely the characteristic of the third level "Heavenly Heart Divine Illumination" - initially achieving harmony between divine will and heaven, observing the world with heavenly heart.
Immediately after, André began the next step. He again looked inward at his dantian and soul, but this time the situation was completely different from before.
A day ago he had only performed ordinary internal sensing; now he was using the "Heavenly Heart Divine Illumination" method to penetrate mysteries and illuminate distant realms.
After a moment, he sensed the "South Pole Deity" and "North Pole Deity" in his soul, along with the two corresponding stellar clusters in his dantian - careful observation would reveal they resembled the "Little Bear Constellation" and "North Pole Constellation."
André's eyes first showed disdain, then thunder and lightning suddenly arose within his soul.
This wasn't real but a product of André's imagination, yet it still had extremely strong destructive power, causing both "Yuan Chen Gods" in his consciousness sea to simultaneously shatter.
The so-called North Pole was the Purple Forbidden Star, ruled by the "Central Heaven North Pole Purple Forbidden Great Emperor," one of the Four Imperials, ranking just below the Jade Emperor as "lord of all stars, master of myriad phenomena." Located eternally motionless at the center of the starry sky, it was also the highest positioned star, hence most revered. It controlled heaven's meridians and earth's latitudes, commanded all stars throughout heaven, regulated ghosts, spirits, and thunder power. With vast authority, it could examine universal tribulations and fortunes, control the rise and fall of all under heaven, manage the promotion and demotion of immortals across the three realms, and determine the lifespan and death of all beings.
The Northern Dipper governed death but could only revolve around the North Pole.
The so-called South Pole, at the southern celestial pole, corresponded to the North Pole. Its star lord was the South Pole Longevity Emperor, also one of the Four Imperials, controlling the four seasons' climate transformations, capable of summoning wind and rain, determining the pivotal mechanisms of all things' fortune and generation. Legend said the "Nine Heavens Responding Origin Thunder Sound Universal Transformation Heavenly Honored One" was his incarnation, the ancestral root of the thunder deity department, simultaneously ranking first among the Divine Sky Nine Ministers Great Emperors. He mastered heaven's disasters and blessings, held the balance of all things, governed objects and people, controlled life and death, commanded thunder.
The Southern Dipper governed life but was under the South Pole Star's command.
In the Original Dome Realm, the "Astronomical Records" stated: "The South Pole enters the earth thirty-six degrees, the North Pole emerges from earth thirty-six degrees, heaven's form leans sideways. Half appears above ground, half returns underground. All ten thousand stars and ten thousand energies revolve leftward, only the South and North Pole axes remain motionless, thus heaven can rotate" - from this passage one could understand the status of these two poles.
No wonder the original André sought suffering - actually choosing South and North Poles! If this were placed in the Original Dome Realm, once he cultivated something significant, it would definitely mean imperial qi attached to his body, with momentum to overthrow the Langya Celestial Dynasty and ascend as emperor.
Unfortunately, the two Yuan Chen Gods the original owner cultivated had no "Heavenly Emperor" bearing whatsoever, earning his disdain.
Suffering the same fate were the "Little Bear Constellation" and "North Pole Constellation" in his dantian, both forcibly destroyed and scattered under the sudden appearance of true essence vortexes. These corresponded to the South and North Poles in Eastern star charts at the same positions - a convenient approach, but the original owner couldn't grasp the true meaning, only barely condensing "stellar dharma forms" to attempt advancement.
Fortunately his cultivation was still shallow now. Once this foundation solidified, there would be little room for future progress, stopping at the twelfth level for life.
As André meditated and visualized, after just three minutes, two completely new "South Pole Deity" and "North Pole Deity" reappeared in his consciousness sea. New star clusters also appeared in his dantian.
Still "Little Bear" and "North Pole," but if someone proficient in astrology were present, they would discover these two star clusters were almost reflections of those two constellations in the night sky, even clearer than the originals, containing countless mysteries and truths.
Moreover, they resonated with each other, closely connected, faintly showing interactive resonance.
In André's understanding, the celestial stars were reflections of myriad worlds projected onto the starry sky, manifestations of myriad worlds in this realm.
But this realm's starry sky was far inferior to that "boundless void"!
In America, the boundless void had another name - it was usually called the "Star Realm" or "Realm of Truth."
From the name alone one could know that America's magical practitioners generally believed it was the realm of stars, containing all truths and mysteries of this world.
Having personally spent four days drifting in the "boundless void," André undoubtedly understood the millions of stars in the sky better than many senior astrologers in this realm, or those great masters proficient in Purple Forbidden Astrology.
The next instant, a thunderous roar suddenly sounded in André's mind, his heart beating violently. As the two "constellations" and pair of "Yuan Chen Gods" took shape again in André's consciousness sea and dantian, they instantly triggered ocean-like magical energy surging over, washing through his body and limbs.
At this moment, some scenes suddenly arose in André's consciousness - in the vacant basement room to his left, a large patch of moss was silently growing, along with countless plants rapidly sprouting and growing; while to his right, beyond two walls, the couple still sleeping suddenly shivered, their faces turning blue from cold. The four walls and floor of this room had already formed a layer of ice.
As for room B-5 across from him, that fat neighbor was angrily fiddling with his radio, but no matter how hard he tried, only static came from the radio.
Above this apartment, in the dark clouds pervading Atlanta's sky, threads of lightning were gathering and flashing.
But André could no longer pay attention to these things, because within his body and consciousness sea, a vast and magnificent life-generating force was arising, along with another equally boundless deathly silence, rapidly forming a huge spiral—