CRACK—HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!
Inside Gu Changsheng’s dantian, at the exact center of Floor Nine. The final boundary separating Rank 9 Absolute Peak from the supreme Rank 10 Universe / Dao-Father Realm dissolved like morning mist under a warm summer sun!
For ten billion years, the Chief Author of Fate had preached that a Rank 10 Universe could only be constructed on a foundation of cold cosmic indifference. Where resources were finite, mortals were straw dogs, and every star had to cannibalize its neighbors to keep burning.
Because of that flawed, cruel architecture, the Chief Author’s universe was constantly decaying into entropy, requiring endless wars and massacres just to scrape together enough friction to keep the sky from collapsing.
Now, anchored around the Mud-Brick Kitchen Stove of the Frost-Pine Courtyard, Gu Changsheng’s one thousand inner galaxies fused seamlessly into a brand-new, self-sustaining, infinitely expanding Rank 10 Living Hearth-Universe!
As the golden canopy of this newborn inner cosmos unfurled across ten billion light-years of inner space, Four Supreme Dao-Father Laws engraved themselves into the very fabric of its stars, rivers, and cycles:
[SUPREME DAO-FATHER LAW #1: THREE WARM MEALS A DAY — ZERO ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY!]
In Gu Changsheng’s Living Hearth-Universe, spiritual vitality was not a hoarded treasure locked inside secret realms for protagonists to kill over. Instead, every time a family lit their kitchen stove, plowed an honest furrow, or shared a warm bowl of soup, the universe multiplied that warmth tenfold and rained it back down onto the soil!
