Chapter 2339

Xiao Feng used seven days to adjust himself, restoring the Li Ti origin and his mental will to peak condition.

He again extended his will into the World Heart, searching for his companions' traces.

Relying solely on fixed-point monitoring search, they could no longer be found, because Han Zichen and the others had already moved far from their original location.

However, Xiao Feng transmitted his thoughts, directly searching for Han Zichen's whereabouts; the World Heart could still give him some feedback, letting him know where Han Zichen had gone.

Subsequently, an image appeared in his sea of consciousness, and he "saw" Han Zichen and Xue Ningzhen and the others once again.

Their party had departed from the Abyssal Battlefield, not returning to Xieyue City, but instead boarding the flying ship Dragon Soul, speeding along, not knowing where they were headed.

The flying ship's speed was still not as fast as the master's instantaneous teleportation. In seven days, they had not yet reached their destination.

"They must have gone into the game to look for me, but I can't contact anyone……"

Xiao Feng felt somewhat helpless; in this situation, he himself was in greater danger than his friends.

Although this place was safe, he could not leave; leaving would be fatal, extremely dangerous.

Speaking of returning to the main universe……

The glass-like barrier beneath his feet should be formed from highly condensed spatial source substance; even the primal qi of all things cannot penetrate it, so he cannot simply return this way.

Moreover, the eight roots of the World Heart possess strong suction; if he tried to run back in the opposite direction, the difficulty would likely be considerable, and he might be sucked right back as soon as he burrowed through.

Compared to that, that "bold idea" is far more feasible!

"Let's give it a try; if it succeeds, everything will be safe. If it fails, we'll find another way to return to the main universe from the roots," Xiao Feng thought to himself.

He again adjusted his state, letting himself recover to the utmost peak.

It has already recovered to its utmost peak.

Thereafter, using his will as a guide, he began to analyze the structure of the purple crystal.

To become the sovereign of a universe, one must first have an extremely thorough understanding of the universe.

He did not know how long Chen Jie's father had spent to discern the entire material universe; he only knew that the Infinite Continent was immensely vast to him, requiring at least decades of preparation, possibly even centuries.

But to have such an opportunity, let alone a hundred years—even a thousand years would be worth it!

The purple crystal World Heart is the bridge that communicates the entire Infinite Continent, and at the same time it is the necessary path to control the small universe.

Xiao Feng first sought to understand its structure.

The structure of this purple crystal is very special; it is neither primal qi of all things nor spatial source substance, but rather a higher-grade entity.

Xiao Feng slowly examined it part by part, analyzing it to understand it.

It took several days before he could finally figure out the origin of this thing.

It is the aggregation of all laws; Xiao Feng sensed within it the existence of primal qi of all things, spatial source substance, underlying temporal source substance, the source of Qi Luck, and the soul medium.

It possesses all five supreme laws.

It is the universe itself!

Precisely because it possesses these five most fundamental cosmic origins, the Infinite Continent can exist in its present form.

Temporal source substance grants the Infinite Continent its scale of growth—from weakness to prosperity, then to decline—this is indispensable.

Even if it itself did not wish to possess it, the cosmic creators of higher-dimensional worlds would still engender it.

The underlying temporal rule reigns supreme over all; without the most fundamental time, the universe's existence would be meaningless—no past or future, no growth or destruction, and thus no proof of its existence.

Spatial source substance then constitutes the universe's outer shell, a container.

It becomes the universe's outer shell, a vessel.

It is neither round nor square, lacking a concrete form or size. Because it transcends "shape," up, down, four directions, length, shortness, largeness, smallness—all are merely its derivatives, insufficient to describe it.

Beings inside the universe can use centimeters, meters, kilometers, light-years to describe the distance between one place and another.

But to measure the magnitude of spatial source substance, one must go outside the universe; the light-year unit loses meaning. As long as the universe consents, a distance of one light-year can be stretched to ten light-years, ten billion light-years.

This is the controllable range of spatial source substance; if one masters the laws of space, similar operations can also be performed.

As for Qi Luck and the soul, they pertain to all sentient beings.

Qi Luck determines the developmental trajectory of local sentient beings over a span of underlying temporal scale; the more one has, the better that local sentient beings can develop.

It is a controllable resource; one is born with a portion, and then one can plunder others to gain more, aiding the clan's development.

The soul medium is rather mysterious and elusive; it has no form, cannot be seen, and even mental will cannot detect it.

But without the soul medium, mental will would have nowhere to abide, could not exist, and would instantly dissipate.

The virtual universe is a special dimension constructed with the soul medium as its main body; there, no material substance exists, and the primal qi of all things that Xiao Feng used in the game is false, not truly existent.

These five cosmic origins are interwoven within the purple crystal, together forming the entire world of the Infinite Continent.

Xiao Feng examined and analyzed each one in turn, seeking to master them.

But aside from primal qi of all things, which he was relatively familiar with, the other four were completely inaccessible to him—not only could he not control them, he could not even fully comprehend them.

He is fairly familiar with source qi, but the other four kinds he cannot even get a foothold in, let alone master—indeed he cannot even fully comprehend them.

Helpless, Xiao Feng could only settle for second best, by permeating the primal qi origin embryo of the World Heart, to obtain affinity with the World Heart.

One day, two days, three days……

Time passed quickly.

After half a month, Xiao Feng had roughly come to understand the World Heart; he could alter his own aura to become very similar to the World Heart, thereby bluffing his way through and gaining its acknowledgment.

Now he can, with the identity of "one of our own," activate the World Heart's inspection privilege to monitor the entire Infinite Continent.

But this is limited to conducting surveillance; he cannot open the temporal dimension to examine past and future events.

As for Qi Luck and the soul, he has absolutely no control over them.

However, it's no problem; having this start makes the subsequent matters easy to discuss.

Xiao Feng began to use the World Heart to understand the Infinite Continent.

Starting from the edge of this universe, he examined bit by bit the categories of soil, sky, living beings, and so on.

The Infinite Continent is vast; its land length is 6.24 light-years, width 5.76 light-years, forming an irregular rectangle.

Moreover, a large area there was dug out by some force, appearing as a fan-shaped blank region with a radius of 2.7 light-years and an angle of 120 degrees.

Xing Kong is larger than land, with the Boundless Continent as its center, the depth of outer Xing Kong being 1280 light-years in diameter; to say it's small is not small, but to say it's large is also not large.

After all, the Milky Way Galaxy's diameter is 100,000 light-years; the Boundless Continent, as a small universe, only has this much space, which can be said to be very tiny.

But precisely because it is tiny, it will

been spared by the Main Universe

Otherwise, it would have long been mobilized by the Cosmic Will, sending an army of living beings, sparing no expense to utterly annihilate it.