Upon hearing the voice in his mind, Zod was now filled with mixed emotions of sorrow and joy.
The sorrow stemmed from not knowing how long he would be trapped in this place, while the joy, naturally, was because he finally had something to rely on!
Although the initial reward from the System couldn't directly help him escape his predicament, at least for the time to come, he wouldn't have to sink into the dark silence.
"Receive!"
As Zod let out an excited shout in his heart, an unimaginably vast and terrifying torrent of information instantly surged into his consciousness.
Countless grand Dao sounds echoed in his consciousness for a long time, all of which were cultivation insights regarding this Imperial Scripture.
From a mortal who had not yet opened their Sea of Bitterness to a Great Emperor of the Ninth Heaven of the Immortal Terrace, every minor realm seemed to be vividly displayed before him.
Fortunately, the inheritance of this Imperial Scripture came from the System; otherwise, this mere information flow would probably have been enough to shock Zod into a fool.
After all, he had not yet been exposed to a yellow sun, and the treasure of his own physical potential had not yet been unearthed.
However, all of this was without danger; it was just that the Imperial Scripture's inheritance was too complex, and he had only digested a very small part of it. It would take a long time to fully digest it.
It's no exaggeration to say that if he were in the Sheltering Heavens World, with this complete inheritance, as long as he didn't encounter misfortune halfway, steadily cultivating to the Quasi-Emperor realm would be a sure thing.
And with the Saint Emperor Dao Seed, he wasn't afraid that the cultivation methods of the Sheltering Heavens World couldn't be practiced in the current world.
At this moment, in his consciousness space, the scriptures of the Sun True Scripture transformed into a great sun hanging high above, dispelling all the boundless darkness.
When he tried to visualize that great sun, he only felt his spirit suddenly shake, as if something had broken through its shackles.
Then he found that his consciousness could actually break through the ice crystals that sealed his body and see the outside situation through the hibernation pod.
"Is cultivation starting now? It seems I can already embark on a completely different path. A Kryptonian who cultivates techniques—it's truly something to look forward to!"
Zod's heart was surging at this moment, practically eager to break free from his confinement and then seek out a yellow sun to fully activate his Kryptonian bloodline.
"I wonder if the Kryptonian bloodline I possess now can compare to the so-called Divine Bodies or Saint Bodies?"
In this current world, although the overall worldview has mythology as its ultimate background, a large part of it also takes science fiction as its foundation.
Aside from special existences like mages, other beings such as gods, demons, aliens, and super-powered individuals are either born divine or undergo post-natal mutations.
Most of these beings are set in their power the moment they acquire it. Even if some continue to grow stronger later, it's highly probable that they are merely fully excavating the powers they already possess.
Among all these existences, Kryptonians are an exception, or more precisely, the Superman Clark Kent is an exception.
No matter how strong other Kryptonians are, they probably wouldn't be stronger than the Kryptonian creator hidden in Krypton's ancient history, Ra, the Sun God, who is the head of the four main gods, because he is the origin of all Kryptonians in the multiverse.
He created the Kryptonians and guided the early Kryptonian civilization. It can be said that the Kryptonians' physiological ability to grow stronger by bathing in a yellow sun also originated from him.
It's just that a long time ago, he chose to leave Krypton due to the Kryptonians' unrestrained and brutal colonial expansion in the universe.
As Krypton's highest military commander, Zod was able to learn some secret information that ordinary Kryptonians did not know.
Krypton had developed technology to an extremely high degree in its nearly hundred-thousand-year history. The ancient Kryptonian myths had long become history and were not widely known to the public.
But he knew that the Elder Council had never given up their reverence and offerings to the Sun God Ra.
Combining some information he learned in his previous life, Zod was ninety-nine percent sure that the Sun God should be real and might now be quietly observing the multiverse from somewhere.
"Now that I have this Myriad Worlds Transmigration System, I might someday surpass him. However, before that, I must be cautious and try not to attract too much attention."
"But for now, the most urgent matter is to get out of this damned place as soon as possible."
As if sensing Zod's thoughts, the System's prompt sounded in his mind:
"Ding! Detecting that the host is currently sealed, triggering the mission — Escape. Please break the seal and regain freedom as soon as possible. Reward: one roulette draw!"
"I can get a roulette draw just by escaping. I wonder what I'll be able to draw?"
At this moment, Zod had already begun to ponder what rewards he would receive.
Because if his predictions were correct, Krypton's destruction should be imminent.
He vaguely remembered that Krypton should be close to 27 light-years from Earth.
And the spaceship Superman took could fly at sub-light speed and had the ability to make ultra-long-distance wormhole jumps.
Calculated this way, Superman might arrive on Earth in less than a year, or even just a few months.
In the original plot, Zod explicitly stated upon arriving on Earth that he and his subordinates had wandered the universe for 33 years, just to find Superman's whereabouts.
This means that not long after they were exiled to the Phantom Zone, Krypton fell into destruction, and they were released as a result.
"Perhaps I can use this time to carefully sort through the contents of the Sun True Scripture."
Currently, Zod had no cultivation resources, nor had he activated his innate bloodline talent. He held no hope for opening his Sea of Bitterness, but this did not prevent him from attempting cultivation.
And the very beginning of cultivation is to sense one's Wheel of Life and then guide the vital essence within the Wheel of Life to impact the Sea of Bitterness.
Perhaps due to the fusion of his transmigration soul and the complete inheritance of the Sun True Scripture, Zod only took three days to sense the location of his Wheel of Life.
On the Wheel of Life, he saw dense, intricate marks. Counting them carefully, there were exactly eighty.
Combining his original body's memories, Zod also realized that this body was already eighty years old!
However, due to genetic modification, Kryptonians generally have a lifespan of 150 to over 200 years.
Krypton's genetic engineering was divided into high, medium, and low grades. High-grade genes, when they matured, became leaders in various fields. Zod and Jor-El were high-grade genes, and their natural lifespan could reach the theoretical limit, which was 200 years or even longer.
In other words, Zod was now in the prime of his life, but such an age was already very late for cultivation!
And when he couldn't help but prepare to try to mobilize the vital essence within the Wheel of Life to open the Sea of Bitterness, an inexplicable sense of crisis arose within him.
It seemed that his body's instinct was warning him, and then he seemed to think of something:
"That's right, this body hasn't been exposed to a yellow sun yet, and it's trapped in this place. The vital essence in the body cannot be replenished at all. If I rashly try to open the Sea of Bitterness, the probability of death will likely be extremely high."
"It seems everything cannot be rushed. Since I cannot open the Sea of Bitterness, then I can first try to continue visualizing the great sun in my consciousness to temper my spiritual power."
Although Zod wasn't truly on the path of cultivation yet, under the influence of the great sun in his consciousness, his spiritual power had already begun to undergo some changes, ahead of his physical body.
On the path of cultivation, the physical body and the soul are equally important.
Finding a suitable cultivation state for his current situation, Zod immediately calmed his mind and began to visualize the great sun in his consciousness.