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Chapter 1344 - 650
The Gang Wind howled as it swept across the high altitude.
Fang Cheng spread his arms, letting the strong air currents lift his body, quietly hovering thousands of meters above the clouds.
He lowered his head, his gaze falling like looking down at a miniature sand table, scrutinizing the world beneath him that had been created by his own will.
Over time, with the nourishment and evolution of vitality, this once barren land had undergone earth-shattering changes.
The dark brown rocky soil surface was now firmly covered by dense green vegetation.
The mountains were no longer barren and rugged; countless sturdy pines took root in the crevices, their canopies connecting to form a forest sea that swayed with the wind.
The river that traversed the island had also become wider, its waters rushing and never ceasing.
Fang Cheng moved his gaze to the edge of the island’s western corner.
The abandoned mental hospital, manifested from memory, had sprouted extensive green vines along its base.
The vines climbed through the cracks in the bricks, drilling into the decaying window frames, adding a touch of life to the building that exuded deathly silence.
Fang Cheng keenly sensed it.
The light barrier that blocked the chaotic black fog had advanced outward by several dozen meters.
The earth, amid the struggle between light and darkness, kept being annihilated and reborn, ultimately wrestling a new ring of soil from the void.
The island’s terrain had indeed expanded slightly, and its vitality was becoming increasingly vigorous.
Yet a trace of contemplation flashed in Fang Cheng’s eyes.
Apart from the lush vegetation and the expanded area, this Inner World seemed to enter a period of gradual accumulation.
There had been no special qualitative changes like species evolution or terrain reorganization.
"What exactly has changed..."
Fang Cheng murmured softly, his words quickly carried away by the wind.
He pondered briefly, then raised his right hand, lightly swiping towards the sky.
The golden sun hanging in the center of the sky roared into motion.
The blinding blaze quickly gathered inward, and the whole world instantly darkened.
Heavy, deep shadows rolled upward from the island’s boundaries, engulfing the entire sky in just a few seconds.
Behind the ridge, a crescent moon slowly rose.
The moonlight carried a faint taint of blood, casting a cold red light over the forest sea and water surface.
Next, on the pitch-black sky, dots of light started to twinkle in succession, arranged in staggered patterns as if a vast array of stars.
This was the star map on the dome of the great hall, projecting fully between this heaven and earth.
Every star was linked with an invisible mental thread, connecting to the Primordial Self at the source and corresponding to each Believer’s consciousness coordinate.
Fang Cheng stood atop the clouds, walking slowly, the night wind brushing against his clothes, his gaze slowly sweeping across the entire starry sky.
The stars most bright and stable in the center of the star field corresponded to the consciousness of Wen Xin, Xu Hao, and Xiao Shuai.
In the outer ring were the light points of Lin Chuqiao and the Professor.
Further out on the edges of the star field were mutants recently joined in the Illuminati.
The total number of stars hadn’t significantly changed, but a few new faint light points representing ordinary Believers had appeared sporadically.
A bit of doubt rose between Fang Cheng’s brows, about to retract his gaze, but his motion abruptly halted.
At the horizon at the far end of his field of view, he detected a distinct anomaly.
He stopped, his visual distance instantly closing under the enhancement of his spiritual power.
On the edge of the main starry sky, four stars hovered.
They were tightly clustered together, forming an independent small star cluster.
These four stars appeared particularly dim, seemingly on the verge of falling.
What surprised Fang Cheng more was the quality of light they emitted.
It wasn’t the soft white light of ordinary Believers, nor the pure golden light of fervent Believers, but a dark, turbid red.
Even from a great distance, one could sense within them
an extremely pure, even maddening survival instinct.
Fang Cheng felt a doubt in his heart.
He focused on the relatively brighter star among the four.
As thoughts flickered in his mind, a strand of concentrated spiritual power separated, turning into an invisible tendril.
The tendril extended forward, piercing through the void, attempting to establish a stable connection with that star.
"Buzz—"
The moment the mental tendril approached the star cluster, it suddenly collided with a hard and thick barrier.
Fang Cheng immediately felt a sharp pain emanating from deep within his brain.
This obstacle was completely different from the barriers within the mutants’ subconscious.
The mutants’ barriers originated from the bloodline’s source, imbued with the counter-will of high-dimensional existence.
They served both to protect the bloodline descendants and to enslave and confine them.
In contrast, the current obstacle exhibited absolute rejection.
It was as if two different worlds were forcibly pressed together, with violent space turbulence filled between them.
Every step the spiritual power advanced required tens of times the usual energy consumption.
The violent turbulence was like countless files constantly wearing down the edges of the mental tendril, with a hidden tendency to shred it.
Fang Cheng’s eyes slightly narrowed, and he promptly withdrew his consciousness, his form flickering.
The howling wind vanished from his ears, and a firm texture rose from beneath his feet.
He was already standing in the middle of the Golden Palace’s great hall.
Massive supporting columns stood majestically, their surfaces flowing with golden radiance.
Fang Cheng took a step, his boots making a dull echo on the obsidian-paved floor.
He walked along the broad passage up the steps, turned, and sat in the Golden Throne, arms naturally resting on the armrests.
Fang Cheng tilted his head, his gaze penetrating the palace’s towering dome, once again fixing on those four dark red stars.
"Since you’ve connected to the Sun Heart Net, there’s no reason to be barred outside."