"So that's how it is. So the sea god's body actually contains so many worlds, large and small."

Zhou Huai hovered in the dark void, his dark golden eyes flickering slightly. Through the omniscient vision of Viktor, the Herrscher of the Void, he observed the densely packed black spheres around him.

"That's quite a generous gesture, Mr. Duan," Zhou Huai sneered.

"These must all be the products of your experiments, right?"

"Do you want to evolve your own laws of creation here?"

"In that case, I'll come and see what you've actually created."

Zhou Huai raised his eyes.

"Space jump!"

Buzz—!

With a spatial fluctuation, Zhou Huai's figure disappeared from the spot.

The next second, he traversed layers of high-dimensional mist and appeared in front of a huge black sphere tens of kilometers away from him.

However, when Zhou Huai approached the black sphere, the scene before him presented a visual contrast.

"What's going on?" Zhou Huai examined the sphere in front of him. "In the omniscient view of the void, this black sphere is at least the size of a city, but to the naked eye, it is only the size of a fingernail?"

“It didn’t shrink.” Zhou Huai saw through the trick and sneered, “This is dimensional folding. Mr. Duan completely distorted the spatial coordinates within this sea god’s stomach. Under this high-dimensional compression, even a vast world can appear as small as a grain of sand.”

Zhou Huai snorted coldly and raised the Abyss Blood Dragon Spear in his hand.

"Open it for me!"

He let out a low shout, his arm muscles bulged, and the spear, imbued with the power of raging lightning and the void, stabbed fiercely towards the outer shell of the black sphere.

"Sizzle—!"

A piercing sound, like tearing silk, echoed through the void. The high-dimensional barrier on the surface of the black sphere was forcefully breached by the armor-piercing judgment of the Abyss Blood Dragon Spear.

Without hesitation, Zhou Huai unleashed his immense perception through the opening, covering every corner of the black sphere and revealing the entirety of this world.

"Hmm? This world..."

Zhou Huai frowned as he analyzed the data transmitted back from his senses.

This world is not very big; its edges are sealed off by thick spatial barriers, and it is at most about the size of two Donghai Cities.

The architectural style leans towards the heavy industrial civilization of the old era, with towering chimneys, steel bridges, and densely packed factories everywhere. "Not only that, but there are also many human-made buildings, streets, residential areas, and even automated production lines in operation." Zhou Huai analyzed as he looked around.

But where are the people?

Zhou Huai's senses scanned the entire city, but found no trace of human activity.

There is not even a breath of a living person, nor a faint heartbeat.

This is a huge, empty city.

Zhou Huai withdrew his senses, and his gaze turned serious.

"There are only inanimate objects, no living things. What kind of creation is this?"

Zhou Huai pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to the other black spheres in the void. "Let's look at the others. I refuse to believe that hundreds or thousands of worlds are all empty shells!"

He initiated a spatial jump, transforming into a dark golden lightning bolt that continuously traversed the void.

"break!"

"Sizzle—!"

Zhou Huai successively pried open the outer shells of five or six black spheres, his perception probing into them time and time again.

"A medieval castle, with a magnificent church and sturdy walls... but lifeless, an empty city!"

"A cyberpunk-style metallic city, neon lights still flashing, hovercars hovering in mid-air... still lifeless, a ghost town!"

"The frigid wasteland, covered in ice and snow, is filled only with howling snow and ice sculptures... without exception, there is no life!"

Zhou Huai observed the world of several black spheres in succession and came to a surprisingly consistent conclusion.

“All worlds are empty shells.” Zhou Huai hovered in the void, his brows furrowed. “This means that Mr. Duan is simply unable to create life in the true sense of the word in this petri dish.”

Zhou Huai suddenly understood, and a flash of insight struck him.

Without any hesitation, he decisively turned around and locked onto the black sphere that he had initially smashed through the sky with his gun.

Whoosh!

Zhou Huai's figure traversed the void, returning to the world outside his original dream realm. The black sphere, shattered by the breaking of the heavens, was slowly releasing fragments of blue spiritual laws.

Zhou Huai probed his senses into the gaping hole in the broken sky.

Zhou Huai gasped after just one glance.

"How...is this possible?"

Zhou Huai stood there, stunned, his eyes wide open.

He had only walked for a short time, at most exploring a few black spheres. However, the once incredibly familiar playground before him had undergone a complete transformation.

"Where are those people?"

Zhou Huai's senses swept across the entire East Sea City.

The once vibrant city, the city that had been gripped by panic and teeming with people because he had shattered the heavens, was now completely deserted.

“Zhou Feng is gone, Mother is gone, Ye Xi is gone...” Zhou Huai murmured, his voice echoing in the void, “No bodies, no trace of battle, it’s as if they never existed.”

Cars were still parked at the intersection, shop doors were still open, and even the rubble on the job change platform remained exactly as it had been when he left.

But life was lost.

"This city has also become a ghost town."

"I see. Mr. Duan, it seems the world you [N O V E L I G H T] created is incomplete!"

"You can't give them a real soul; everything you do is just a more advanced sand table simulation."

"Want to replace the Heavenly Dao and become the true creator god? Mr. Duan, you're still far from it!"

Just as Zhou Huai had completely seen through Mr. Duan's flaws in creation.

A clear yet urgent voice pierced through layers of high-dimensional barriers without warning, resounding directly in the depths of Zhou Huai's mind.

"Zhou Huai!"

That was the sound of a tung tree.

"Stop analyzing those useless laws inside! Find a way to get out of this monster's body!" Chun's voice was unusually weak, filled with anxiety. "You've already wasted eight days here!"

This sudden telepathic transmission stunned Zhou Huai.

"What?!"

Zhou Huai frowned, his face full of astonishment.

Eight days?!

"In that illusion, from the start of the job change ceremony to breaking through the sky, it didn't take more than a few hours at most. It only took me a moment to come out and explore these black spheres."

"How come eight days have already passed in the outside world?!"

Zhou Huai quickly suppressed the shock in his heart. His instinct as a strong person calmed him down, and his brain worked at lightning speed.

"It's the flow of time!"

Zhou Huai gritted his teeth and figured out the key point.

"Mr. Duan has applied a high-dimensional time law to this sea god's stomach! In this relatively enclosed space, time has been stretched infinitely!"

"I originally thought that it hadn't taken much time from when I was captured to when I awakened, but I didn't expect that eight days had already passed in the outside world!"

Zhou Huai's face was ashen, and the dark golden lightning around his body began to rage uncontrollably.

Chun sacrificed her own body to forcibly hold off Mr. Duan, buying the world ten precious days of respite.

Now, eight days have passed!

"The countdown has started, with less than two days left."

Zhou Huai gripped the Blood Dragon Spear tightly, its tip pointing straight into the void.

"Mr. Duan, you deliberately dragged me into this time trap just to use up this ten-day buffer period so that you could safely unlock the shackles of the origin virus in the outside world!"

"We can't waste any more time here."

Zhou Huai looked up into the deepest part of this endless darkness, where the true boundary of the Sea God's stomach was located.

"If we don't get out soon, Mr. Duan will come looking for us."