Lin Mu remained seated, his breathing steady now, his body slowly returning to equilibrium as the Dominating Gravity Dao Embryo hovered above him.
The oppressive force that had once threatened to crush him was no longer overwhelming. It still existed, vast and imasurable, yet now it had beco sothing he could perceive without being consud.
Within his mind, Xukong continued.
"You could not have grasped this before," he said.
Lin Mu listened quietly.
"On a planet, gravity is singular in dominance. The world itself exerts the greatest pull. Everything else becos insignificant in comparison."
Lin Mu nodded faintly.
"That makes sense," he said. "The planet's gravity overwhelms all others."
"Yes," Xukong replied. "Even the sun's gravity is present there, yet it is buffered. Filtered through the planet's own mass. It becos sothing subtle, sothing your senses ignore."
Lin Mu thought back.
He had never once considered the sun's pull while standing on the Fox Scion world.
It had always been there.
Yet it had never been felt.
"Now," Xukong continued, "you have stepped beyond that environnt. You have co close enough to a star that its influence can no longer be ignored."
Lin Mu's gaze shifted slightly, though his eyes remained closed.
"The threshold," he murmured.
"Yes," Xukong confird. "You have crossed it."
There was a brief pause.
"I had been waiting for this mont." Xukong said.
Lin Mu understood imdiately.
"You knew this would happen."
"I did," Xukong said. "And I chose not to warn you."
Lin Mu did not react negatively.
Instead, he asked.
"Why?"
Xukong's answer was simple.
"Because you needed to experience it."
The words carried weight.
"Understanding cannot be given. It must be felt," Xukong continued. "Only when you feel the true might of a star pressing upon you will you comprehend what gravity truly is."
Lin Mu recalled the sensation.
The crushing pressure.
The helplessness.
The realization of how small he was in comparison.
"Yes..." he said softly.
"You felt it," Xukong said. "You felt how easily a star could reduce you to nothing."
Lin Mu did not deny it.
"That is the foundation," Xukong continued. "Without that, your comprehension
would remain shallow."
Lin Mu exhaled slowly.
"I understand."
There was no resentnt.
Only acceptance.
"And now?" Lin Mu asked. "How do I develop this further?"
Xukong's tone shifted slightly, carrying a hint of approval.
"Through what you've always done... practice."
Lin Mu expected that.
"You are in the perfect environnt," Xukong added. "The sun provides a constant gravitational background. Within it, other sources exist. You must
learn to distinguish them."
Lin Mu's thoughts sharpened.
"The planets."
"Yes," Xukong said. "Even millions of kiloters away, their gravity persists. Weak. Subtle. Yet present."
Lin Mu nodded.
"A normal cultivator would never sense it," Xukong continued. "But you are no longer limited in that way."
The Dominating Gravity Dao Embryo pulsed faintly above him.
"You have the ans," Xukong said.
Lin Mu opened his eyes briefly and looked toward Daoist Chu.
"I will focus on cultivating," he said. "Please handle the ship for now."
Daoist Chu nodded imdiately.
"Understood."
He stepped forward, taking control of the navigation arrays without hesitation. The others did not question Lin Mu. They had seen enough to
understand that sothing significant had occurred.
ng Bai looked curious.
Cattaleya crossed her arms, watching with interest.
Elyon remained silent, his gaze thoughtful.
The Saintess, hidden from sight, understood more than the others.
"He has advanced," she thought.
Her concern faded.
Instead, she extended her senses outward, observing the surrounding space
carefully. While Daoist Chu was capable, she chose to remain vigilant, ensuring no unexpected disturbances would interfere with Lin Mu's focus.
Lin Mu closed his eyes once more.
He turned inward.
Then outward.
His awareness expanded.
The sun's gravity was the first thing he felt.
It was imnse.
Dominating.
A constant pull that stretched across space, shaping the movent of
everything within its reach.
Lin Mu anchored himself within it.
Then...
He searched.
Xukong's words guided him.
"Find the disturbances."
At first, there was nothing.
Only the overwhelming presence of the sun.
Days passed.
Lin Mu remained seated, his body still, his mind active.
He refined his perception.
Filtered.
Separated.
Focused.
Gradually...
Sothing changed.
A faint variation.
A subtle distortion within the vast field.
Lin Mu concentrated on it.
It was weak.
Almost imperceptible.
Yet...
It was there.
He followed it.
Traced its origin. And then....
He recognized it.
"The fourth planet..." he murmured.
Though they had already passed it days ago, its gravitational influence still
reached them.
Faint.
But undeniable.
Lin Mu felt a sense of clarity.
"It exists..."
A small breakthrough.
But an important one. He continued.
Refining further.
Days turned into a week.
Then another.
His perception deepened.
The sun's gravity no longer overwheld him.
It beca a background.
A constant.
Within it, smaller influences began to erge.
And then...
He felt sothing else.
Far away.
Much farther than the fourth planet. A massive presence, slow and heavy. Lin
Mu's focus sharpened and he followed it.
And then understood.
"The gas giant..."
The one he had seen earlier in their journey. It was not visible to his eyes
now. Yet its gravity reached him. Its presence was undeniable.
Lin Mu remained still, absorbing the realization.
"This... is incredible."
He did not know the limits of this sense.
It did not function like sight.
Or hearing.
It was passive.
Dependent on the gravitational fields that reached him.
He tested it.
He tried to sense the ship beneath him.
Nothing.
He tried to sense the others nearby.
Still nothing. He frowned slightly.
"The scale is different..."
Xukong spoke again.
"You are perceiving large masses," he said. "Celestial bodies. Objects whose
gravitational influence extends across vast distances."
Lin Mu nodded.
"That is your current level."
The implication was clear.
He was not yet capable of sensing smaller sources.
Not the ship.
Not individual beings.
Only the imnse.
Lin Mu accepted it. "This will take ti." "Yes," Xukong said. "But you have begun."
Lin Mu exhaled slowly.
His awareness remained extended, his perception anchored within the invisible
web of gravity that stretched across space.
For the first ti...
He was not simply traveling through the cosmos.
He was beginning to feel it.
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