Nexus Ascension: My Comprehension Defies the Heaven

Chapter 517: Second Stage of Fifth Rank

”I should probably step into the Frequential Helix realm now,” Grey muttered, a sharp grin tugging at his lips.

His foundation wasn’t just restored; it was utterly flawless. Thanks to his Endless Potential Physique, a grueling recovery that would have cost other prodigies decades, or even centuries, had taken him mere days. And he hadn’t even needed to dip into his stash of Foundation Keys to artificially accelerate the process.

”Speaking of Foundation Keys...” Grey asked, casually glancing at the empty air beside him. ”Where do they even come from?”

”They naturally fall from the World Tree,” Eterna replied, materializing smoothly beside him.

”The World Tree?” Grey raised an eyebrow, his interest instantly piqued. ”Now that sounds like a place absolutely worth visiting.”

The World Tree was the ancestral cradle of the Elven race, a mythical place dripping with ancient secrets. Grey reached out with his mind. ’What exactly are you hiding in that tree, Origin Will?’

’Hell if I know. I’m certainly not sure myself,’ the Origin Will’s lazy, ancient voice echoed directly in his head. ’That thing existed long before I was even born. I cannot enter it. I cannot even accurately sense the true depths of its power.’

Grey’s eyes widened a fraction. ’You cannot sense it? And it predates you? Now that is fascinating.’

’It is vastly more than just a massive tree,’ the Origin Will continued. ’Its roots are plunged deep into the very foundational fabric of our reality. If you were to stand in the absolute chaos outside that binds our plane of existence together, our entire world would look like nothing more than a giant, shimmering projection of its green canopy. Its presence is literally everywhere. The Elf Alliance merely guards its head. That’s why Foundation Keys are found randomly scattered across the world, as they naturally detach from the hidden roots and drop into reality.’

’Even the ancient elves admit they cannot fully access the inner sanctum of the tree,’ the Origin Will added. ’Every single branch it possesses is said to contain an entire self-sustaining world.’

”Oh?” Grey chuckled, his eyes gleaming with unbridled ambition. ”Looks like we’re officially taking a trip to the Elf Alliance after my breakthrough.”

This tree was far more than just a landmark; it felt like a supreme, conceptual artifact. Was it something akin to the Chaos Source Codex that belonged to the legendary Chaos Emperor? He would find out soon enough.

After briefly informing the others of his intentions, Grey slipped away, isolating himself entirely within the absolute, suffocating silence of a sealed sub-dimension. He sat cross-legged, suspended effortlessly in the dark void, and drew out several glowing, high-tier Origin treasures.

He calmly closed his eyes.

Then, he ignited.

BOOM!

Nexus frequential energy violently erupted from his core, instantly painting the sterile sub-dimension in a blinding, kaleidoscopic light. The very air began to physically shriek from the sheer pressure.

He forcefully focused the raging torrent, driving the pure, undiluted frequential energy straight into his very first Nexus cell. The microscopic realm within him violently stirred. Directed flawlessly by the intricate blueprint of his Nexus evolutionary path, the cell began to warp, twisting and rapidly restructuring itself into a radiant, spiraling, DNA-like structure.

The exact moment the structure locked into place, the incoming Nexus frequency violently collided with it, causing the cell to rapidly, explosively expand.

VROOOM!

A terrifying shockwave of raw aura blasted outward as his very first Frequential Helix materialized. But for Grey, constantly fueled by the Endless Potential Physique, a single helix was nothing but a warm-up joke. He didn’t stop. He was going to push this Nexus cell to its absolute breaking point.

He forced the floodgates completely open. The frequency surged, instantly igniting a second helix. Then a third.

The power wasn’t just linearly stacking; it was multiplying uncontrollably. Ten. Fifteen. Twenty.

At exactly twenty-five Frequential Helixes, the single Nexus cell finally reached absolute saturation, burning like a raging miniature sun within his body. The sheer, terrifyingly compressed mass of energy violently cascaded from his source, pouring through the cell and violently purging outward into the physical world.

CRACK!

A deafening, terrifying fracture echoed through the void. The sub-dimension itself groaned in agony, jagged black fissures spider-webbing across the artificial reality as the very space buckled under his suffocating pressure. His aura became an untamed, raging beast, tearing effortlessly past the 5th, 6th, and 7th levels of the Sixth Rank, before finally slamming directly into the terrifying baseline of the Eighth Rank.

This was the true, unadulterated horror of the Frequential Helix. It wasn’t just a simple container; it was an absolute, lossless multiplier. A minuscule drop of Nexus frequency was being violently multiplied twenty-five times over, scaling his destructive output to god-like proportions without a single drop of quality degrading.

Suspended amidst the violently cracking dimension and roaring energy, Grey opened his glowing eyes.

His raw power had reached the upper threshold of the 6th rank with just the first level of the Frequential Helix realm. It was simply amazing, to say the least.

In the outside world, specifically within the secret realm designated for the gods, everyone’s divinity began to rapidly fall entirely out of control as Grey unknowingly unleashed his power.

His pure Nexus power fundamentally overwhelmed theirs, and they could not resist it one bit.

In the central tower, Melissa, Wang Lin, Angela, and Anderson sat together. The instant they felt that suffocating power, their faces paled for a split second.

”This power... is it Grey?”

Their figures instantly flickered. Along with them, Lia, Valeria, Kaelith, the bewildered gods, and others also descended into the sky to see a being donned in swirling, purple-colored energy standing suspended in mid-air. He was actively unleashing a dense amount of raw power, easily enough to completely erase this entire planet from existence.

The citizens of the Nexus Domain, along with the patrol spaceships and law enforcement squads, all looked up at that single, terrifying point in the sky.

”This power... is this the legendary Frequential Helix realm?” One of the 5th rankers diligently following the Aether evolution path couldn’t help but gasp in pure awe upon sensing the familiar yet terrifyingly amplified powers.