468: Merging the Inner World

For instance, a thigh might suddenly sprout from someone's mouth, tearing the entire mouth apart.

Or perhaps wings and fangs would grow, and a multitude of mouths would appear all over the body, emitting frantic and hair-raising laughter.

Some people's heads split directly into three parts, each with its own independent consciousness, even biting and tearing at each other.

Alternatively, a large number of tentacles would crawl out from any opening in the body, quickly growing larger than the person themselves.

As for the other flora and fauna, some small flowers and grasses would directly come to life, their roots crawling out of the ground like legs, while tigers, leopards, jackals, and wolves all transformed into strange monsters.

Some became stronger, while others became weaker; there was no pattern or logic to speak of.

But they all shared one thing in common: they were short-lived. Not a single one could survive for long.

Like the life forms native to this place, they died after living for only a few breaths following their transformation.

And that was considered long; many died during the transformation process, while others perished the moment they were placed inside.

Chen De had tried to intervene, and under his manual influence, the monsters he looked after were able to survive for a bit longer.

However, they had no fixed form, mutating every single moment as if the mutations would never end.

According to his deductions, this absolutely could not be due to him comprehending too many laws.

Regardless of which laws one comprehended, the more laws and the higher the degree of comprehension, the more perfect the internal world would become, and its environment would grow closer to that of the outside world.

Even those extreme internal worlds with only one or two laws did not have such a massive environmental discrepancy with the outside world as Chen De's did.

With eighty-one law profundities, the internal world should, by all logic, be quite perfect.

Finally, Chen De reached a conclusion—the Evil God Essence!

This existence, which was the opposite of all living beings and fundamentally antithetical to the innate, was likely the primary reason his internal world had become like this.

In other words, Chen De's own internal world was almost impossible to manage; this environment was more extreme than even the most extreme environments.

Unless someone was interested in these unspeakable monsters.

But even if someone were interested, Chen De couldn't possibly sell them.

The Upper Plane had existences in the Divine Tribulation Realm, also known as Gods, and an Evil God was also a God.

Chen De didn't know where Evil Gods stood in the Upper Plane.

But this nature of being the opposite of everything made him feel that those in the Divine Tribulation Realm might not be very friendly toward Evil Gods.

While the power of the Evil God Essence was invincible in the Lower Plane, that wasn't necessarily true in the Upper Plane.

Don't forget, the Evil God had originally been sealed inside a box.

The Four Profound Heavens were fragments of the Upper Plane, which meant the box sealing the Evil God had come from the Upper Plane.

Later, it was somehow obtained by the Silver Scale Rhino King before eventually finding its way into Chen De's hands.

In other words, there must be existences in the Upper Plane capable of dealing with an Evil God.

Furthermore, they could deal with an Evil God in its prime, a true God-level state.

It wasn't something a heavily neutered larval form like Chen De could compare to.

Therefore, Chen De would avoid revealing the power of the Evil God Essence, including anything that might manifest his Evil God characteristics, as much as possible.

This would undoubtedly place certain constraints on Chen De, but he had lived this way back in the Four Profound Heavens as well.

However, the map of the Upper Plane was larger—so large that one couldn't see the edge at a glance, so large that even an Immortal Law Realm cultivator moving in one direction indefinitely might never touch its end.

Thus, his internal world could only be used as a backup energy storage and a production line for fodder in the future.

An internal world with an average three-dimensional scale of nearly nine hundred light-years—it was truly a pity for such a terrifying foundation.

Chen De stepped into his internal world and continued to observe for a long, long time... Finally, he chose to take out the internal world that belonged to Positive Separation.

Using the methods from Yuan Chen's memories, he released Positive Separation's world into his own internal world.

As one internal world merged into another, the merging world immediately fell into a state of violent upheaval.

Alien laws, alien matter, and vast amounts of alien energy surged into it.

Under the influence of a stabilizing power, even the mutation speed of the newly born monsters slowed down slightly, and they lived a bit longer than before.

However, as the power of Positive Separation's world was continuously converted and assimilated, the environment of Chen De's internal world began to revert to its original state once more.

After all, Positive Separation's internal world was now like floating duckweed without roots; once released by Chen De, it had no foundation to rely on.

Chen De's internal world was still being carried, supported, and supplied by Chen De himself.

Even if alien power surged in, it would be rapidly transformed into the likeness of his internal world.

According to Yuan Chen's memories, unless the internal worlds of both parties were extremely similar and there was active cooperation from the world's will, fusion was impossible.

Long ago, the second point was quite difficult. After all, merging one's own internal world into someone else's was almost like handing over the results of one's entire life of cultivation to another.

It meant losing one's immortal life and returning to silence and extinction from then on.

In the universe, even biological fathers and sons or people with the closest relationships would not do such a thing.

After all, in an immortal life, one could have many sons, but if one's own life was gone, it was truly gone.

Furthermore, by possessing an internal world, one had a chance to be resurrected even after death; at the very least, one could be an immortal and rule as a king within their own internal world.

But times were different now, and the latter point was actually the easiest to solve.

Some genius had created a method that greatly changed the original cultivation landscape.

After killing the opponent, one could take out their internal world and then transform the subjective will into a mechanical, intelligent objective will, making it cooperate actively.

Because of this, people nowadays would try to avoid laws that nearby immortals had already chosen, practicing non-repetitive laws instead.

Since those who became immortals first held a greater advantage, those who became immortals later would naturally and actively avoid laws similar to theirs.

This greatly reduced the probability of being raised like livestock, and one didn't have to worry too much about successors having such ideas.

Because if the other party chose the same path, I would likely strike first.

Another point was that the fusion of internal worlds could not involve a larger world merging into a smaller one, and natural small worlds could not be fused.

Chen De's attempt to merge Positive Separation's internal world into his own was undoubtedly very risky.

Chen De's internal world was not just dissimilar to Positive Separation's world; they were practically unrelated.

Among all those in the Immortal Realm, there was likely not a single person whose internal world differed from Positive Separation's as much as Chen De's did.

This was both a good thing and a bad thing.

Being rejected by everything also meant being accepted by everything.

Since the degree of rejection from all internal worlds was about the same for him, wouldn't merging any internal world be the same?

Just then...