Floating above his own creation, Alexander decided to check on the system itself next.

Reaching the white pedestal, he looked over everything that had happened in the meantime.

Not having used his Dao of Time, his world had not progressed much, however he thought about having an official name for this world.

Peeking into his world's population, he simply used the most common term they themselves used on a day to day basis.

'Three Wide Lands is it?... A bit underwhelming, but do I really care?'

Not sure on what to do, Alexander still wanted to absorb Celestial Qi, but this would mean needing to leave his world for even longer, maybe forever. He did not wish for its destruction, as it would be a shame, he thought.

'It's when stuff like this happen that I understand the potential of array masters. Without it, I can only use very basic barriers along some arrays I got from my long life.'

Waving his arm, Alexander's Star Qi exploded outwards, covering the entire world. Once completed, it repeated this cycle multiple times, creating each time a new barrier of pure Star Qi.

Plunging his hand inside his internal world, he retrieved many space rings, all filled to the brim with array plates, array flags and much more.

'I also need to go check on my internal world before that...'

With many things to do, Alexander disregarded them, throwing array plate after array plate all around his world, forming protections of all colors, shapes and sizes.

'This should do it.' His Dao of Space revolving around him, he vanished.

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Back on Ascended Galla, Alexander hesitated.

Firmly grasping his next course of actions within the next hour, he sternly teleported above Ascended Galla.

'They won't like this!' Chuckling, Alexander flicked his wrist, extracting pipes from his space ring.

Using the same process than on his Three Wide Lands, he used arrays and pipes to forcefully steal all energies from Ascended Galla, taking everything for himself.

For that he would need to connect them inside the Great Temple within the Grand Order's territory.

Reaching the Great Temple's periphery, a gigantic white temple, pillars and statues made from Heavenly Marble as a show of wealth, Alexander noticed countless guards in different attires.

'Classic city guards, from red armors all the way to purple ones, they are pretty weak, from the very first stage of the Grand Tribulation Realm to the peak of the Heavenly Venerable Realm. The problem is with these guard captains...'

Staring at the many cultivators in white armors, all of them adorning a different colored star on their chest.

'Azure-Star, Holy-Star and even Void-Star, all within the Divine Phantasm Realm... just these are enough to damage my pipes...'

Secretly flying around the Great Temple he unfortunately noticed guard commanders as well. From the first order all the way to the third.

'Including these, I have to worry about these Divine Phantasm Realm ones along the Dimensional Monarch Realm commanders. Luckily there are no guardians near.'

The only city inside Ascended Galla was truly enormous, requiring countless armies of guards to keep everything in check. Each cardinal direction even possessed a guardian at the city's extremity, all of them within the Primordial Divinity Realm, the same major realm as the left and right hands of Hu Guanting.

Not sure on how to proceed, Alexander sighed in resignation.

'Since they definitely won't let me do it and interfere as much as possible, I can only brute force this.'

Releasing his Divine Sense, encompassing the entire Great Temple and its surroundings, Alexander extended his arm, his palm facing upward.

On top of it, an eerie purple orb of light formed, squirming in a disgusting fashion.

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Suddenly, the orb exploded outward, submerging everything in a purple goo.

Having grasped the terrain, he realized that the Great Temple was quite isolated, as many barriers and arrays along walls separated the rest of the city from the temple itself and its surrounding area.

Aware of this, Alexander had only released the purple goo on every living being inside the closed perimeter.

This way, nobody would be alerted from his doings.

After a few sizzling sounds, all living creatures had turned purple, as if swamp monsters of purple goo. However, this only lasted for a few minutes before everything seemed to return back to normal, all living beings looking and acting completely normal.

Smiling, Alexander nodded from satisfaction.

'Great! Now that all of them are only puppets, I shouldn't have people troubling me when I install all of this, at least for now.'

Alexander had turned everything into a replica, all guards were now puppets that simply looked and acted just as before, except for their slave mind, following Alexander's orders to the teeth.

'I think it's the first time I've used this... what was it called... [Hive Mind Demonic Legion Technique]? I think that's the name.'

His thoughts drifting inside his soul, Alexander did not stop himself, building and connecting the pipe fairly quickly.

However, he soon found something unexpected.

Having connected the pipe inside the Great Temple, Alexander witnessed a gigantic hole dug inside of it, its depth going incredible far down within Ascended Galla.

'The hell is this?' Curious, Alexander released his Divine Sense, quickly diving inside the hole. Strange however, was his Divine Sense encountering a glaring issue.

'I can't extend it?! My Divine Sense, which is supposed to have reached the peak of the Universe, cannot dive inside this hole?!' Frowning deeply, he tried again, but this time having his Divine Sense also spread further outward, before diving deep inside Ascended Galla once more, and once more was the exact same result.

'I can barely get ten percent inside of it! Past that, it feels like a wall, a dangerous wall capable of tearing apart my powerful Divine Sense!'

While the Divine Sense could bypass most materials, nobody would actively spread it deep underground without a proper reason, as nothing but rocks would be seen. This was mainly why Alexander, and probably many others, had never uncovered this strange phenomenon.

Gulping from shock, Alexander tried to look inside the hole itself, using his acute vision capable of easily observing an ant multiple light years away in great detail.

But to no avail. Only darkness could be seen. Other than pure blackness, Alexander could see the tidal waves of energies freely flowing out of the hole, especially the Celestial Qi, countless times the amount that could be found outside.

'Let's see if I can go myself.'

Even the immortal Alexander had doubts upon such plans, as the possibility of getting stuck for a long time was prevalent.

Taking his courage while hoping not to end up stuck in one way or another, he jumped down the hole, floating down ever so slowly.

A few days later, Alexander found himself at a dead end.

'The closer I get to this weird sky-blue light, the harder it is to descend...'

Observing a blinding light from below, he could only give up, when an idea popped into his mind.

'Would this work?'

Unsure of the Celestial Qi's properties, Alexander tried to have his Divine Sense assimilate with it.

Getting back on the surface, under the temple's high roof, Alexander sat down cross-legged while releasing both his Divine Sense and Celestial Qi.

Merging the two together, not much happened. Not intending on giving up so early, Alexander tried doing experiments continuously, intrigued to no end by Ascended Galla's secrets.

Like this, years went by, then decades... millenniums...

In the end, millions of years flew away, like leaves on a dying tree, Alexander's Divine Sense never merging properly.

But one day, while Alexander's puppets were arguing with actual soldiers and guards, like always, he succeeded.

As after millions of years, his understanding of Celestial Qi had drastically improved, increasing his overall ability and cultivation by leaps and bounds.

While excited by his cultivation only a step away from another breakthrough, Alexander concentrated deeply onto the matter at hand.

His Divine Sense was showing signs of acceptance, fusing against its will with the Celestial Qi.

Watching his golden Divine Sense turn a slight sky-blue, he smiled.

'It's not a perfect fusion, but it's better than nothing!'

Happily releasing his newly upgraded Divine Sense all around, he discovered that not much had changed, if anything at all. It was only after he tried to push it further down that he understood the true benefits.

'It can pass through! Hahaha!' Laughing like a maniac, Alexander encompassed the entirety of Ascended Galla, giving him another incredible shock!

'Are you serious?! There is no fucking way! Does this mean?! But that also... and then.... what about that...' His mind a complete mess, Alexander uncovered the secret of Ascended Galla, sending his thoughts spinning into madness.

'Haha! Galla is not a world! It's a... wait... what is it?' Some confusion prevalent from his earlier shock, Alexander had thought after thought pass through his head, sending him into a frozen state of depth and vision, gifting him some revelations, understanding slightly more the potential that the Martial Dao possessed.

The reason was simple... yet astonishing, Alexander had managed to scan Ascended Galla fully, giving him insights on its structure and energy flow. What he saw truly baffled him to the core, as the entire world's structure that was Ascended Galla could be compared to...

...a Dantian !