Chapter 845: Failed Experimental Ground

"So that is how it is. To think that inside this Sea God's body, there are actually so many worlds of all sizes hidden."

Zhou Huai hovered in the dim Void Realm, his dark golden eyes shifting slightly. Through the Void Omniscience vision of the Void Lawkeeper Victor, he gazed at the dense clusters of black spheres surrounding him.

"What a grand gesture, Mr. Duan." Zhou Huai sneered.

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

"You want to evolve your own creation Law here?"

"In that case, I will come and see what kind of thing you have actually cobbled together."

Zhou Huai raised his eyes.

"Space Shift!"

Hum——!

Accompanied by a spatial fluctuation, Zhou Huai's figure disappeared from where he stood.

The next second, he crossed layers of high-dimensional mists and appeared in front of a giant black sphere dozens of kilometers away from him.

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

"What is going on?" Zhou Huai looked at the sphere before him, "In the vision of Void Omniscience, this black sphere has a massive volume capable of accommodating at least a city, but right now, viewed with the naked eye, it is actually only the size of a fingernail?"

"It hasn't gotten smaller." Zhou Huai saw through the clue within and sneered, "This is dimensional folding. Mr. Duan has completely distorted spatial coordinates within this Sea Gods Stomach. Under this high-dimensional compression, even a massive world will appear the size of a grain of sand."

Zhou Huai let out a cold hum, raising the abyssal blood dragon spear in his hand.

"Open for me!"

He let out a low shout, the muscles on his arms bulging, and fiercely thrust the dragon spear, which converged with violent thunder and the power of the Void, toward the outer shell of the black sphere.

"Sizzle——!"

A harsh tearing sound like ripping silk echoed in the Void Realm. The high-dimensional barrier on the surface of the black sphere was forcefully pried open with a breach under the armor-piercing judgment of the abyssal blood dragon spear.

Zhou Huai did not hesitate; his massive perceptual power surged in along that breach, covering every corner inside the black sphere and probing the full picture of this world.

"Hmm? This world…"

Zhou Huai frowned, analyzing the data transmitted back by his perception.

This world was not large either, its edges sealed by thick spatial barriers, spanning at most an area equivalent to about two Donghai Citys.

"The architectural style leans toward the heavy industrial civilization of the old era, with towering chimneys, bridges cast of steel, and densely packed factories everywhere." Zhou Huai swept his gaze across as he analyzed, "Not only that, there are also quite a few human civilizable buildings within, streets, residential areas, and even automated assembly lines that are currently operating."

But where are the people?

Zhou Huai's perceptual power combed through this city, finding no trace of humans.

Not even the breath of a living person or the faint beat of a heart existed.

Here, it was a giant empty city.

Zhou Huai withdrew his perception, his gaze sinking.

"Only dead objects, no living beings. What kind of creation is this?"

Zhou Huai pondered for a moment, his gaze turning to the other black spheres in the Void Realm, "Let's check the others. I refuse to believe that out of hundreds or thousands of worlds, every single one of them is an empty shell!"

He triggered Space Shift, transforming into a dark golden bolt of lightning, continuously shuttling through the Void Realm.

"Break!"

"Sizzle——!"

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

"Medieval castle style, with magnificent churches and sturdy city walls… But there is no life, an empty city!"

"Cyberpunk-style metal metropolis, neon lights are still flashing, hovering cars are parked mid-air… Still no life, an empty city!"

"An extreme cold wasteland covered by ice and snow, with only howling wind and snow and buildings like ice sculptures… Without exception, there is no life whatsoever!"

Zhou Huai watched the worlds of several black spheres in succession, and the conclusion he reached was surprisingly consistent.

"All the worlds are empty shells." Zhou Huai hovered in the Void Realm, his brows furrowing tightly, "This shows that Mr. Duan simply cannot create true life out of thin air within this petri dish."

Zhou Huai had a flash of realization, a bolt of lightning flashing through his mind.

Without any hesitation, he decisively turned around and locked onto the very first black sphere whose dome he had smashed open with a spear earlier.

Swish!

Zhou Huai's figure crossed the Void Realm, returning outside the dream world that originally belonged to him. Because its dome had been broken, that black sphere was slowly dissipating blue fragments of spiritual Law outward.

Zhou Huai probed his perceptual power into that dilapidated dome breach.

Just taking a single look, Zhou Huai drew in a sharp breath.

"This… how is this possible?"

Zhou Huai froze in place, his eyes wide open.

He had only left for a short while, at most taking the time to probe a few black spheres. Yet, the once extremely familiar playground before him had undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Where are those people?"

Zhou Huai's perception swept across the entire Donghai City.

Seeing the city that was originally full of life, the city that had plunged into extreme panic and was bustling with people because he broke the dome, had actually become completely deserted.

"Zhou Feng is gone, mother is gone, Ye Xi is also gone…" Zhou Huai murmured in a low voice, his voice echoing in the Void Realm, "No corpses, no traces of battle, as if they had never existed at all."

The cars on the street were still parked at the intersection, the doors of the shops were still wide open, and even the rubble on the class-transfer platform still retained the appearance from when he left.

However, life had vanished.

"This city has likewise turned into an empty city."

"So that's how it is. Mr. Duan, it seems the worlds you created are not complete!"

"You cannot endow them with a true Soul; everything you have done is nothing more than a slightly more Advanced sandbox simulation."

"Wanting to replace the Heavenly Dao and become a true creator god? Mr. Duan, you are still far from it!"

Just as Zhou Huai completely saw through Mr. Duan's creation flaw.

An ethereal yet urgent voice penetrated layers of high-dimensional barriers without warning, ringing directly deep within Zhou Huai's mind.

"Zhou Huai!"

That was Chun's voice.

"Stop analyzing those useless Laws in there! Find a way to get out of this monster's body!" Chun's voice was exceptionally weak, exuding anxiety, "You have already delayed eight days in here!"

This sudden voice transmission stunned Zhou Huai.

"What?!"

Zhou Huai frowned, his face full of bewilderment.

"Eight days?!"

"In that illusion, from the beginning of the class-transfer ceremony to breaking the dome, all things considered, it didn't even exceed a few hours. Coming out to probe these black spheres only took a moment."

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

Zhou Huai quickly suppressed the shock in his heart; the instinct of a powerhouse allowed him to calm down, his brain operating at high speed.

"It's the time flow rate!"

Zhou Huai gritted his teeth, figuring out the crucial part.

"This Sea Gods Stomach has been subjected to high-dimensional Law of Time by Mr. Duan! In this relatively closed space, time has been infinitely prolonged!"

"I originally thought that from being captured to my Awakening, it didn't spend much time at all. I didn't expect that eight days had already passed in the outside world!"

Zhou Huai's face sank like water, and the dark golden lightning all over his body began to crawl violently and uncontrollably.

Chun had sacrificed her main body at all costs just to forcibly hold back Mr. Duan, buying a precious ten-day breathing window for the present world.

Now, eight days were already gone!

"The countdown has less than two days left."

Zhou Huai gripped the abyssal blood dragon spear tightly, its tip pointing straight at the Void Realm.

"Mr. Duan, you intentionally dragged me into this time trap just to consume this ten-day buffer period, so that you could safely untie the shackles of the Origin Virus in the outside world!"

"I can't waste time here anymore."

Zhou Huai looked up towards the deepest part of this endless darkness; that was where the true boundary of the Sea Gods Stomach lay.

"If I don't get out soon, Mr. Duan will break free and come looking for me."