Above The Sky

Chapter 2169: Chapter 63: Like Music, Inspiring Every Heart That Longs to Dance

The world has quieted down, because between heaven and earth, there is only the sound of the Aether flowing deep within the mind.

All life on the Whole Terra, even on the New Continent on the planet’s far side, can see that tower. It curves and spirals, towering unbelievably high, using the planetary continent as its base, piercing into the dark unknown space.

People in the cities stare in awe as they look up, the streetlights, electronics, terminals, and all sorts of tools relating to Domain of Void and Spirit Energy around them temporarily malfunction. They cannot hear the voices of others, cannot feel the connection with others, and the tools in their hands have turned into scrap metal. In the dark silence, the civilization they rely on seems unbelievably fragile.

At this moment, they feel as if they have been abandoned by the entire world, merely an isolated island in an infinite sea of silence.

Meanwhile, people in the mountains and fields raise their heads, no matter where they are, whether underground, within mountain bellies, deep in the sea, or at the bottom of lakes.

Citizens among the mountains can see it, citizens by the water’s edge can also see it—they always can see—a pure white high tower reaching out from a perspective beyond the material world, deep into the dark, gazing down at the world below from the vast, endless universe.

They can feel the tremble. The earth, rivers, mountain peaks, oceans, everything trembles slightly, fish leap out of the sea, birds swoop through the forest, all life collectively feels a fear.

It’s like Humans losing civilization and wisdom, like fish losing the sea and rivers, like birds losing the sky and branches, all life losing its grounding, losing its place to soar.

That is the fear of having the foundation of survival taken away.

But the truth is not so. Soon, everything came back, the frightened birds landed back on the branches, leaping fish returned to the sea to migrate, the lights of the world once again brightened, and after the silence, the noise returned to the earth.

The malfunction of the tools just now seemed to be an illusion, the human realm’s clamor is back in the ears.

They merely lost something that had existed since their birth, even before their birth, but those things were not necessary.

It is Aether.

Aether indeed allows more life to exist, but life itself does not need Aether. Or rather, what’s needed is not pure Aether, but some essence within Aether, something more fundamental, more original.

Its name is ’Spirit’.

——Ubiquitous, omnipresent, without beginning and without end, infinite and endless——

The planet trembles silently.

The Aether accumulated in Terra is extracted, which may be a kind of plundering in some sense, but for a planet burdened with too many loads, this may also be some sort of relief.

After all, no one has ever thought that Terra holds so much Aether, so vast.

[Perpetual Motion Machine - Endless Tide] has been continuously releasing Aether in the depths of Terra Planet for the past 1,600 years, enough to change the entire star system, soak the ’Tranquil Rim’.

Even if it hasn’t entered the working state, the mere maintenance-level release of Aether is enough to supply the needs of dozens of Fifth Energy Level individuals. The stronger a person is, the more they understand the power of the Aether Sea, which lies dormant like a dead sea but, if agitated, could swallow the world.

With Terra Planet as the base point of the Perpetual Motion Machine, it has been reinforced by extremely vast Aether, making it much more stable, not easily destroyed by the battles of Sublimators, and even if damaged, it can quickly repair.

This is the characteristic of the [Gaia Planet]—a planetary ecosystem fully supported by Aether that continuously repairs itself and can handle various disasters, sheltering the life within.

But such reinforced solidity, like a person inflating a balloon, is merely a sort of hard illusion.

In fact, if a Fifth Energy Level warrior fought with all strength and punctured the balloon of air, it could lead to a massive explosion instead.

This might connect with the reverberations of the Calamity of Heavenly Fall absorbed by the Thousand-Star Beast, causing an explosive magnitude far exceeding the Ancestral True Dragons’ Shattered Star War, turning the whole planet into a small supernova, completely transforming into interstellar fireworks.

So, after the Aether in Terra was extracted, the planet actually became more stable than before.

Because the person extracting Aether did not completely deplete Terra, but left a skeleton to support it.

Dense liquid metal is indeed solid, but it still flows and compresses, yet a simple metal skeleton can support more weight, withstand more impact—at this point, the Aether skeleton left on Terra Planet pervades, making it more stable, harder to destroy.

Especially after all Fifth Energy Level warriors left, the weakened Fourth Energy Level could not cause disastrous destruction as before.

The person at the top of the tower shapes all of this. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

For several years, Ian has been navigating, tracing back in the Aether Sea, crossing one milestone after another, leaping towards the beginning of history.

He has returned to the [Origin].

So, he knows that at the beginning of this world, there was a vast and infinite power that filled it, this power named [Spirit], shaped the initial Star God, and due to excessive concentration, made it impossible for ’weak’ life to appear.

Super high concentration of spiritual power created a truly infinite universe, but this universe only has the light of [Omniscience].