Astral God

Astral Gods or advance cosmic deities have a core called the “Order” many people call it the heavenly dao some call it the laws of the cosmos. Shaped like a strange ball, almost like a mini nova source, its surface flows with power. Troops form various patterns, coloring them in various colors. Its surface is covered in hexagonal holes that go deep into it making it look like honeycomb briquettes. Intangible power flows in from some hexagonal apertures and flows out from others. It never ends. It was the core essence of the cosmos and also the essence of all cultivators. Without it, there would be no fundamental cosmic forces.

With cosmic order as the foundation, being in control of power and forging oneself, that was an advanced cosmic deity. Once reaching the initiate cosmic deity phase, they were called gods, which actually meant gods above the sky. In the Ascension stage, they flew into the cosmos. After reaching a more advanced phase, they were known as astral gods, or astralsea divinities. One man would become a sea of stars. By order, man could control galaxies. In the first stage of the astralsea divinity phase, the key was for the divine will to enter the ordered sea. Thus, it was called the Order stage.

The moment a cultivator can use the human body to grasp the cosmic order, their body has started changing into a small cosmos.” Both divine wills and orders could control power, but there was a fundamental difference between the two. Although divine will was divine in nature, the body was still human and what it controlled was its own astral force. Order was formed when man and cosmos combined. With orders from the ordered sea, one could control the fundamental cosmic force with precision.

Transitioning to an advanced cosmic deity entails all sorts of transformations, and the first is the infusion of caelum into divine will, converting the divine will into order. That was only one aspect of it; the other was transforming the physical body from an albus-based astral physique to a heptastar cosmic physique. The small albi in the body would be converted into astrons during the process.

Once order enters the body, the cultivator uses a cosmic breathing technique to absorb gigantic amounts of nova source into the lungs, igniting them to start the conversion of the albi. Using order to control the large amounts of energy, the astralforce within the astral discs seeps into the albi and fully integrates, forming particles called astrons. The process is hugely transformative, and when it completes, the cultivator will no longer be human in the conventional sense. The body will no longer be made of flesh, but pure astrons. Divine will no longer has to dwell within albi to stabilize the astral discs, but instead, the power from the astral discs will have fused with what used to be the flesh.

Initiate cosmic lifeforms were considered to be preparing their bodies for cosmosis, the process of turning the body into a universe, with the four stages of the initiate phase funneling the power from mortal saint springs into albi. As for advanced cosmic lifeforms, that was when the body started the cosmosis process to convert the charged albi into stars. Once someone lost their fleshly body, they would no longer be considered human and be considered a god in the truest sense. The god stages were just the start that led to the cosmic deity stages!

A heptastar cosmic physique with astrons instead of albi looked and felt just like a fleshly body, with even reproductive functions and biological desires remaining unaffected. Instead, those impulses would be magnified. The reason for that was the new changes cosmosis brought to the body, resulting in the formation of new power nuclei called astral organs, known collectively as heptastar organs, which the physique was coined after.

Once albi were converted to astrons, it would give rise to a new power that congregated in seven parts within the body. Those organs were like star clusters in the wider universe, just like the one Ebonia was in. The first five organs took the place of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, five of the main bodily organs. The sixth was naturally the brain, which went without saying. It was the densest star cluster within the body, making it the prime nucleus of the heptastar cosmic physique. The last core organ was something Tianming hadn't expected: his reproductive organ, and that applied to women as well!

He was initially quite puzzled, but it made sense when he thought about it. The five main organs regulated the operation of the universe within the body. The brain was just like the sea of order that directly manipulated the body and determined the laws it moved according to. While all of that was important, reproduction and leaving a legacy was just as important, which was why it was only reasonable for the genitals to also be one of the heptastar organs.

Those in powerful Ebonian factions would usually only choose to procreate after reaching the Order stage because of that. Once the heptastar organs were formed, the kin they produced would almost certainly have the Infinitum Bloodline, not to mention a great chance of inheriting the talent of their parents. That was a key factor in how cultivators of established lines grew stronger with every generation.

Heptastar organs could only be achieved through cultivation, and their presence was the main factor for the retention of biological impulses even in advanced cosmic lifeforms. It was incredibly difficult for a normal god to engage in intercourse with an advanced cosmic deity because of the seventh organ, and if the normal god was male, he would be sucked completely dry.

To summarize, one could only be considered an advanced cosmic lifeform after obtaining order and a heptastar cosmic physique, and that order would reside within their heptastar organs. The distribution of order within the organs partly depended on the constitution and personality. The order of smart people usually resided in the brain. For passionate people, it resided in the heart. For people with strong desires, that usually resided in the unnamed seventh astral organ.

The location one's order dwelled in also led to different abilities and performance. Astral lungs controlled astral breathing techniques, which allowed one to convert nova source into usable energy many times faster than albi. If order resided within those, one's cultivation speed would be much faster! As the brain was part of the system with the body's nervous system, having order reside within it would grant amazing combat prowess. As for the heart, it was connected to all blood vessels in the body, so order residing there would grant one incredible constitution and vigor. The blood vessels themselves were formed from countless albi, after all. When Tianming was on his voyage, the streams of galaxies he had witnessed looked similar to blood vessels.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2153
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 2154
3. ↑ Chapter 2194
4. ↑ Chapter 2194
5. ↑ Chapter 2194