Soon, he returned to the Sun, but he didn't enter it. He merely converted his energy to that of the Realm of Order and started breaking through to reach the Heavencosmic stage. His body wouldn't grow that much going from the twelfth level of the Microcosmic stage to the Heavencosmic stage. Instead, he would undergo a process called cosmotization where his middlekin astrons would split into far smaller ones, increasing their total number in his body at least tenfold! Those with high upper limits might end up with even more of them. Cosmotization was akin to building a foundation for the Primocosmic stage, during which the split astrons would expand in size and transform even more furiously.

"How many times did your astrons multiply when you did it?" Tianming asked before he started.

"Ninety-two times," Mu Qingqing said.

"Is that considered high?"

"The limit in the Realm of Chaos is a hundred times. Those that achieve ninety-four and above stand a chance of becoming imperatores."

Tianming had a feeling that this limit was similar to the number of totems or lifebound beasts in the Realm of Order. If he used those as benchmarks, he would easily reach a hundredfold. "What about Li Tianzi?"

"This is actually a secret. Not many people in the Realm of Chaos know about it," Mu Qingqing said with a most respectful look on her face.

"Just give it to me straight," Tianming said, impatient about starting.

"Three hundred and eighty," she said, gritting her teeth.

"Are you sure you heard that right?"

"I'm sure."

"Then why isn't he suppressing the other so-called imperatores?"

"Well..." Mu Qingqing seemed troubled. "According to your grandparents, he has a unique weakness, not to mention, he's still rather young, at least in comparison to the imperatores. Primocosmic gods live up to half a million years. Li Tianzi's current age would be equivalent to when you were eighteen in the Vermillion Bird Kingdom."

"What about my dad and grandparents? Do they have weaknesses too?" Tianming asked.

"This isn't something I would dare to ask. I don't know how many times their astrons multiplied during cosmotization either," Mu Qingqing weakly said.

"Oh..." Tianming suddenly recalled that gigantic portrait of him. Turning silently to her, he asked, "I became a heavencosmic god a hundred thousand years ago, right? What was my limit?"

She knew he would ask that and gave him a solemn look. "That was how you became regarded as a miracle among miracles."

"Number please."

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine," she said, her voice shaking.

"Oh?" Considering his dual legacies he inherited from the Flameyellow Imperator, didn't that mean he could easily surpass the limit by ten times? It might seem like a low number, but it was ten times the universal limit! Back in the Lower Star Ruins, he was already a deca beastmaster, and he was also ten times more talented than the likes of those in the Eightpart Pantheons. That was the gap between the valley lord and the scion of the wonderians!

It seemed that the Tianming of the Realm of Chaos was perfect and without a weakness, which was why he was remembered so fondly. He began to wonder how high he could go during cosmotization. No longer hesitating, he started immediately. "Body, begin separating!"

He had looked forward to this for too long. As time passed, he glowed brighter and brighter, before every pair of astrons within him fused together into one, halving his total number. Then, the fused pairs fused with each other once more! He was about to lose it. "What the fuck! Everyone else's astrons are separating, so why are mine fusing?"

Mu Qingqing looked blankly at him. "I don't know... Don't tell me you're turning back into an astral god and then a normal ascendant?"

Tianming had no idea what was happening. He couldn't even control it! His astrons continued fusing exponentially until his entire being became a singular star.

"This is wild!" Who could've imagined that a person would actually have a singular, gigantic middlekin astron?! His organs had blended together and nothing was left, not even his facial features! The fusion happened faster than he could react. "It's over! I'm being screwed!" 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Mu Qingqing was panicking so hard that she broke out in tears. "What's going on?! Where are you?! Are you still a person?!"

Fortunately, Tianming's gigantic astron form seemed to settle down after it returned to a primordial state. The separation finally kickstarted, turning his singular astron into a cosmic-god embryo and eventually an infant, child, and adult. His entire body glowed with sacred light throughout the process. Mu Qingqing felt like a woman who watched her child grow into adulthood right after being born, stimulating her maternal instincts.

"Is this what it truly means to be born again and transformed?" Every single division Tianming experienced was followed by a wave of light. Mu Qingqing watched with her mouth agape and heart pumping nonstop until Tianming reached 999 divisions. And finally, another wave of light was seen as Tianming reached his thousandth, achieving a fullness like never before.