Aeon smiled warmly at the tiny fairy’s unbridled enthusiasm. Raising his hand, he gently rubbed his index finger against her head, making her giggle as her shimmering wings fluttered in place.
"It’s good to see you too, Emma," Aeon said softly, his voice dropping into a gentle tone. "Did you really miss me that much?"
Emma, the resident fairy of his pocket dimension, was the ultimate custodian of this private realm. While Aeon’s Infinite-rank authority technically allowed him to manage every microscopic law and resource within the domain himself, a true apex strategist understood the value of delegation.
Why spend precious cognitive energy micro-managing an entire reality when you possessed a flawlessly loyal, hyper-efficient companion who could handle the logistics while you relaxed and focused on ascending?
Emma let go of Aeon’s cheek, leaning her tiny head into the rhythm of his finger rub as she happily looked up at him.
"Yes, Master! It gets incredibly lonely here when you are away," she pleaded softly, her large blue eyes shimmering with a hopeful, desperate request.
"Please, take me out with you this time! I can safely leave the boundaries of this dimension, and technically no one will be able to perceive my presence or see me except you."
Hearing her earnest, heartfelt request, Aeon’s smile widened. He couldn’t find a single rational reason to deny her.
"Alright, Emma. There’s no reason for me to refuse," Aeon agreed, his tone carrying a rare trace of profound warmth. "I have no intention of leaving you trapped in isolation here. No one in any universe likes to be truly lonely."
The moment the promise left his lips, Emma literally leaped into the air, flying in ecstatic, looping circles around his head before diving back down to plant another tight, tiny hug against his cheek.
"Thank you, Master! You truly are the absolute best!" she cheered, her voice ringing like silver bells.
Aeon lifted his chin in a playfully mock-arrogant posture, puffing out his chest as he boasted, "Of course I am."
Emma released his cheek, her bright blue eyes locking onto his golden-and-purple gaze for a brief second before both of them broke out into a shared, lighthearted laughter.
"Hahaha!"
After their heartfelt moment faded, Aeon smoothly pivoted his focus back onto the primary reason for his arrival. The dimension itself.
The Infinite Omniverse Dimension was an Infinite-rank, annual sign-in reward that he had unlocked exactly one week prior to his official Awakening Ceremony.
Even with his limitless comprehension, the sheer, reality-breaking magnitude of this pocket world left him deeply astounded every single time he analyzed its properties.
[Infinite Omniverse Dimension]
[Rank: Infinite]
[Description: An eternal, conceptual dimension that completely transcends all existing realities, localized timelines, universes, multiverses, and omniverses. It exists entirely beyond the jurisdiction of physical space, linear time, causality, abstract concepts, and heavenly laws.]
[Boundless in size and infinite in potential, it serves as the absolute, uncontested domain of its master, containing endless sub-worlds, dimensions, raw energies, and primal resources. Within this isolated realm, all things can be flawlessly created, sustained, altered, evolved, or entirely erased according to the absolute will of the owner.]
It was a literal, private omniverse existing exclusively for his personal utility. Best of all, it was populated by an infinite number of worlds packed with endless cosmic resources.
During his brief exploratory excursions over the past week, Aeon had discovered entire sectors filled with absolute mountains of Peak-grade Cosmic Crystals. A
legendary currency that any powerhouse on Nexos Earth would gladly slaughter entire cities or empire to obtain.
On Nexos Earth, Cosmic Crystals served as both the primary high-tier currency and sometimes foundational energy resource for advanced cultivators.
They were essentially condensed, hardened cosmic energy that naturally formed over millennia within deep planetary veins. The economic scale operated on a strict decimal tier:
Low, Medium, High, and Peak. The conversion rate was highly standardized;
100 low-quality crystals equaled 1 medium-quality crystal, scaling upward through the ranks.
But currency was merely the surface of his treasury. He possessed sub-worlds packed with rare, mythical ore veins that would drive the finest Dwarven blacksmiths to tears of envy, and entire planetary ecosystems overflowing with ancient, untouched herbs designed to fuel an Alchemist’s wildest dreams.
There was even one specific, deeply bizarre world that was filled to the absolute horizon with endless, uniquely patterned eggs.
When he had initially questioned Emma about that specific sector, her explanation had shocked him to his very core.
"Those are the unhatched lineages of Auspicious, Magical, and Calamity beasts, Master," she had explained flawlessly. "They are entities that have either gone completely extinct in the outside universe, or represent species that have never been seen before by mortal eyes."
In the wider cosmos, Magical Beasts were standard fauna that had undergone rapid, forced evolution after absorbing ambient cosmic energy, transforming into deadly predators that possessed raw power, elements, and cellular durability.
They held everything human cultivators possessed, save for human intelligence, complex physiques, and distinct cultivation paths.
Auspicious Beasts, however, existed on an entirely separate paradigm. Not only did they command immense destructive power and high-tier human intelligence, but they were born carrying the abstract concept of unimaginable Luck .
Anyone who successfully managed to tame an Auspicious Beast would have the very laws of fortune bend in their favor.
However, obtaining their submission was notoriously difficult. Unless you successfully formed a soul contract with them the exact second they hatched, or earned their absolute, unconditional respect through sheer power, they would choose death over bondage.
Their hyper-intelligent minds were defined by an ancient, untamable arrogance that looked down on all of creation.
Yet, regardless of their immense luck, intelligence, and raw power, both species lacked one critical biological trait. The ability to assume a humanoid form.
No matter how strong they grew, they were eternally locked into their primal, animalistic anatomy. This biological boundary was the exact reason they were officially classified as beasts.
The final category. Calamity Beasts, were the most terrifying anomalies in existence.
True to their titles, they did not begin life with blank, unrefined bodies. They were born into the cosmos already wielding fully developed, apocalyptic strength.
Furthermore, they did not rely on standard meditation to grow; their biological engines grew exponentially stronger and more refined the more destruction they inflicted upon reality.
In the 19,500 years since Earth was first forcibly integrated into this high-fantasy universe, humanity had only ever encountered a Calamity Beast once.
That single entity had unleashed a wave of apocalyptic devastation that nearly erased an entire faction from the map.
And now, Aeon possessed an entire world holding an infinite, untouched nursery of all three god-like species, completely waiting for him to step in and claim them.
Pushing the staggering thought aside for the moment, Aeon marched purposefully through the palace grounds, stepping out into a breathtaking courtyard.
Resting directly in the center of a sea of vibrant, multi-colored spiritual flowers was a massive, pristine marble platform configured exactly like an ancient martial arts arena.
Aeon stepped onto the stage, dropping smoothly into a cross-legged meditative posture. A fierce, unyielding excitement flared within his gold-and-purple eyes as he prepared to initialize his true path.
"It’s finally time to begin cultivating," Aeon whispered, his chest expanding as he took a deep, focused breath. "Oh, Man. I feel like I’ve been waiting an eternity for this single moment."
Even during his past life on Earth, back when he was nothing more than an ordinary human reading fantasy web novels, he had constantly fantasized about what it would feel like to cultivate, shatter mortal limitations, and travel across the stars while building a flawless, beautiful harem.
"I mean, let’s be entirely realistic here," Aeon muttered with a low chuckle, gesturing with his hand as if breaking down undeniable facts to an invisible audience.
"What vivid web novel or fantasy lover hasn’t daydreamed about doing exactly this?"
Emma merely tilted her golden head to the side, her blue eyes blinking in pure confusion, completely unable to comprehend what strange, alien concepts her master was talking about.
Ignoring her confusion, Aeon closed his eyes, locking down his consciousness and entirely severing his mind from the outside world.
’First, let’s adjust the local time-dilation parameters of this domain,’ Aeon commanded mentally. ’At its current baseline setting, this dimension can stretch a single external day into a full, uninterrupted year of internal time. Unfortunately, this is merely the Level 1 setting of the Infinite Omniverse Dimension. The system documentation states that this realm possesses five distinct developmental tiers.’
[ Domain Interface: Time-Dilation Tiers ]
Level 1: 1 External Day : 1 Internal Year
Level 2: 1 External Day : 10 Internal Years
Level 3: 1 External Day : 100 Internal Years
Level 4: 1 External Day : 10,00 Internal Years
Level 5: 1 External Day : 100,000 Internal Years.
’I still have absolutely no idea what hidden requirements are needed to unlock the higher tiers,’ Aeon noted, a trace of mild frustration passing through his thoughts.
’My cheat system refuses to answer the prompt, and Emma doesn’t possess the clearance code in her database.’
Letting out a soft, controlled breath, he quickly dismissed the irritation. ’Forget it. It’s completely greedy of me to demand more when I’m already holding unimaginable cheat. I will simply focus entirely on what I command right now and utilize this single year to its absolute, limitless maximum.’
With a sharp mental command, he initialized the 1 Day : 1 Year time-dilation function. The air around the marble platform rippled subtly as the temporal flow severed itself from the outside universe.
"Alright," Aeon declared, his eyes flashing open with an ironclad resolve. "Let’s cultivate."
Aeon immediately summoned the complex, primordial memory blueprints of the [Omni-Genesis Cosmos Technique] from the depths of his mind. While this absolute manual was designed to allow a cultivator to seamlessly walk all three major paths simultaneously, Aeon’s true Infinite Talent allowed him to analyze and comprehend the scripture at a level the original creators could never have conceived.
He decided to dedicate his very first temporal cycle to the Warrior Path.
At its core, the baseline mechanics of the Warrior Path within the Omni-Genesis manual didn’t differ structurally from the standard manuals found on Nexos Earth.
To achieve a breakthrough, a normal cultivator had to absorb raw cosmic energy directly through their skin pores, navigate the volatile energy through their internal meridian pathways, and safely compress it into their dantian to forge a solid Cosmic Core.
The only reason the Omni-Genesis technique stood at Origin-rank was its unique multi-path synchronization, granting exponential multipliers, raw kinetic power, and unyielding structural effects to each individual path as they grew.
But Aeon had absolutely no intention of following a standard script. Utilizing his Infinite Comprehension, he decided to completely dismantle and re-engineer the manual’s operational parameters from scratch.
On Nexos Earth, the hierarchy of the Mortal realm scaled through a highly rigid sequence:
F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, and finally, EX.
Furthermore, each individual rank was strictly partitioned into three distinct sub-stages: F-, F, F+, which represented Low, Medium, and High proficiency respectively.
In the initial F-rank, a cultivator’s absolute priority was the complete, meticulous refinement of their physical body.
To build an unshakeable foundation capable of handling the violent stress of higher tiers, a warrior had to methodically saturate and temper the nine most critical structural components of their anatomy:
[ The 9 Core Body Refinement Components ]
Skin, Internal Organs, Tendons &Ligaments, Blood Stream & Nerves, Skeletal Bones, Veins & Meridians, Muscle Tissue, Bone Marrow, and The Cosmic Core.
The standard method prescribed by the Omni-Genesis Cosmos Technique was incredibly extreme.
Instead of allowing a cultivator to passively sit in meditation and gently saturate these nine components with cosmic energy, the manual utilized a brutal regime of specialized kinetic movements, martial exercises, and forced internal collisions.
This process was designed to deliberately fracture and destroy the cultivator’s physical tissue at a cellular level, forcing the incoming cosmic energy to aggressively rebuild the anatomy from the ground up, making it twice as dense.
Aeon analyzed the brutal process and instantly found a way to make it infinitely more terrifying.
He decided to throw away the physical exercise movements entirely, replacing the kinetic system with the absolute laws of Runes.
Thanks to his previous system reward, [Primordial Dragon Language Mastery], he already commanded a flawless, instinctual understanding of foundational runes.
Combined with the five years of advanced magic circle theory he had meticulously studied under his mother, his Infinite Talent Passive effects will allow him to construct a completely unprecedented, hyper-optimized runic matrix.
He forged four distinct, custom-designed runes, programming each to execute a highly specialized, absolute function within his body:
• The Rune of Absolute Destruction: Fueled directly by the massive influx of absorbed cosmic energy, this rune was programmed to violently atomize and reduce any targeted anatomical component Aeon selected down to absolute nothingness.
• The Rune of Cosmic Genesis: Instead of utilizing the standard, broken biological cellular debris to slowly rebuild the tissue, this rune was designed to draw directly from the pure, untamed cosmic energy of the omniverse to materialize entirely new, flawless anatomical structures from scratch, far surpassing the quality of his original dragon anatomy.
• The Rune of Endless Evolution: Operating as the primary engine of the matrix, this rune was explicitly programmed to automate and repeat the destruction-and-creation loop millions of times over within the span of mere minutes.
• The Rune of Primal Life: Functioning as the absolute ultimate fail-safe, this rune anchored his soul and life force directly to the dimension, ensuring his consciousness remained entirely stable and preventing his physical shell from undergoing true biological death during the process.
To put the absolute horror of his custom system into perspective. If Aeon decided to activate the Rune of Absolute Destruction directly onto his skeletal structure, his entire skeletal framework would be instantly atomized into absolute dust within seconds.
Immediately after, the Rune of Cosmic Genesis would instantly synthesize a brand-new, advanced skeletal matrix using pure cosmic energy, while the Rune of Endless Evolution would aggressively force that exact same catastrophic cycle to repeat thousands of times over within the span of a few minutes.
The result of this radical process would be bones that were hundreds of times stronger, if not millions of times denser than those of any other cultivator.
However, engineering a conceptual matrix of this magnitude was an agonizingly difficult task.
It took Aeon countless grueling attempts, microscopic mathematical adjustments, and an immense investment of time to properly align the runes without causing a fatal spiritual collapse.
Even with his Infinite Talent steering his mind, he had to meticulously map out every energy pathway to ensure the Rune of Destruction and the Rune of Cosmic Genesis didn’t conflict and tear his soul apart.
For three uninterrupted months of internal time, Aeon never once moved from his meditative stance on the marble platform. He sat completely frozen, his consciousness pushed to its absolute limits as he refined, debugged, and optimized the newborn runic technique.
At the exact conclusion of the third month, his unyielding dedication and agonizing hard work finally paid off. A crisp, glowing red interface snapped open across his closed eyelids, accompanied by the familiar mechanical ring of his system.
[DING]
[Warning! The Master has successfully generated a completely unprecedented cultivation template by overwriting the laws of the universe.]
[Synthesizing new pathway metrics..]
[Congratulations! You have created a brand-new, customized Cultivation Technique.]
[Name: ???????]
[Rank: Origin]
[Current Completion Status: Incomplete(1%)]
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