158: Chapter 158 System Source

A blue light screen floated silently in the Void Realm.

The System watched Mo Yufei's solemn and tense expression, its cold electronic voice softening slightly.

"Do not worry."

"This Law fissure is not impossible to repair."

Mo Yufei looked up, the solemnity in his eyes not fading, waiting silently for the rest.

"The key to the repair lies in the level advancement of the Taoyuan Secret Realm itself."

"You only need to collect massive amounts of pure Origin energy, continuously infuse it into the Secret Realm core, and push the Secret Realm to constantly upgrade and iterate."

"Every time the Secret Realm Origin is updated and reshaped, it will automatically wash away the foreign imprints left by other planes."

"As the Secret Realm grade increases, this Origin fissure, caused by being forced to fuse with world fragments, will be smoothed out bit by bit and completely erased."

The voice paused, the System's tone becoming solemn once again.

"But you must remember one thing."

"From now on, absolutely do not actively contact or perform Fusion with any world cores or plane fragment Origins."

"You currently only have one fissure; it can be completely repaired by relying on Secret Realm energy upgrades."

"Once you add foreign Origin again, the cracks will stack and spiral out of control. Even if the Secret Realm upgrades repeatedly, it will never be able to fully patch the hidden Law, leading to endless future troubles."

Mo Yufei's heart relaxed slightly, but he firmly noted this bottom line.

Passive, accidental hidden dangers can still be remedied.

From now on, he would never touch any plane core Origin again.

The Void Realm light screen trembled slightly, and the cold electronic voice sounded again, carrying an even deeper, solemn warning.

"Also."

"Remember not to absorb all energy aimlessly."

"All energy can nourish the Secret Realm and push the Secret Realm Origin to upgrade and iterate. From the perspective of rules, there is no energy the Secret Realm cannot digest."

"However, just because it can upgrade the Secret Realm does not mean it is harmless to you."

Mo Yufei's gaze narrowed slightly as he listened intently.

"The life source you have been greedily absorbing in this plane is pure life energy."

"This kind of energy is the most special."

"Deep within every wisp of life source is tightly bound the life and death Karma of living beings, carrying with it massive amounts of murderous resentment left over from slaughter."

"These Karma and resentment will accumulate layer by layer, residing within your Origin."

"While you are in the current world, or retreating into the Taoyuan Secret Realm, all hidden dangers will be masked and shielded by the dual-layer rules."

"You cannot sense the backlash, cannot detect the anomaly, and appear perfectly fine."

"But once you travel across boundaries and step into other planes of the heavens, all hidden dangers will be instantly and completely exposed."

The System's tone turned suddenly cold and sharp, each word ringing like an alarm bell.

"The Heavenly Dao of the heavens all reject foreign anomalies."

"The life Karma and monstrous murderous Karma you have accumulated across worlds are extremely glaring under the scrutiny of the rules of a strange plane."

"You will be instinctively suppressed, locked onto, and continuously targeted by the foreign Heavenly Dao."

"Furthermore, countless native living beings and cultivation Systems of the planes cannot analyze the essence of your existence."

"In their eyes, you are covered in foreign Karma, carrying the life counts of thousands of living beings, having arrived from across boundaries."

"You will be directly regarded as a foreign Heavenly Demon who slaughters all life and causes chaos across boundaries."

As the voice finished, the blue light screen floating in mid-air slowly retracted, and the flowing data streams gradually fell into silence.

The cold electronic voice shed its previous solemnity, gaining a touch of casualness.

"Things have been said; I will take my leave now. Until we meet again."

"I am officially handing over this sub-System to your control."

As soon as the voice fell, a pale white halo spilled from the Void Realm, directly enveloping Mo Yufei.

As light and shadow swirled around him, a brand-new System interface suddenly unfolded.

[System refresh complete]

[Activated: Fear Collection System]

Lines of explanatory text appeared one after another:

[Ability Description: Automatically captures the fear emotions generated by surrounding living beings toward you and converts them into an equivalent amount of Fear Points.]

[Function Permissions: Fear Points can be used to enter the System Mall to exchange for various materials, treasures, and items of the current plane.]

Seeing that the main consciousness aura of the other party was fading, clearly about to leave completely, Mo Yufei immediately spoke up to call it back.

With a solemn expression, carrying a trace of caution and nervousness, he asked softly.

"I would like to ask one last question."

"Where do you Systems actually come from? And what is your true purpose?"

The Void Realm instantly fell into dead silence.

Data streams stopped, the light screen lost its light, and everything around was silent.

Mo Yufei held his breath and waited, even thinking that the other party had already left completely and would not respond again.

But the next instant, that cold, clear voice slowly resonated in his Sea of Consciousness once more.

"It can be considered fate that you were able to bind with No. 9 and then encounter me."

"Then I will make an exception and tell you a little bit about the top-level secrets of the heavens."

"You can understand it this way."

"The myriad worlds of the heavens where you reside, all planes, all living beings, and all rules, essentially belong to a virtual evolutionary world."

"And the Creator, who stands above all, possesses endless thoughts and myriad conceptions."

"Every strange thought and every sudden idea of the Creator can be directly materialized, turning into an independent System and being cast into this world."

"One thought forms a System; one thought descends into the heavens."

The System's voice was calm yet soul-shaking.

"Some Systems are of the observation variable type. They randomly select living beings in the world, bestow upon them what you call a Golden Finger, and grant them powers that transcend the conventional."

"The purpose is simply to see what kind of changes this anomalous variable will cause in the world it resides in, and what different endings will emerge."

"Others are correction-repair types, or task-guidance type Systems. They specialize in wandering through planes on the verge of collapse, guiding hosts to make choices, correcting world deviations, and forcibly pulling planes on the brink of destruction back onto the established track."

"No. 9 is one of them, and I am also one of them."

"We are all just one thought among the Creator's billions of thoughts, merely products after materialization."

Mo Yufei's mind was greatly shaken; all the doubts in his heart were suddenly cleared, yet endless horror also arose.

So the Systems that spread throughout the heavens and stand above all living beings had their source in merely a casual thought from a higher being.

The System continued to speak calmly.

"You do not need to overthink, nor do you need to be terrified."

"You are just an extremely ordinary one among billions of evolutionary variables."

"No one is specifically plotting against you, and no one is deliberately targeting you."

"As long as you have not made a major variable that overturns the Foundation of the world and triggers top-level chaos."

"Within these heavens, no matter how you grow, how you fight, or how you act, no one will pay attention or care."

Mo Yufei heard this and was about to ask again, but the voice in his Sea of Consciousness sounded at the right moment, interrupting his train of thought.

"You need not delve into matters of higher dimensions. That is the realm of the Creator and the Observer."

"The Creator created these myriad worlds of the heavens, but will not expend all energy here. Whether the world can be maintained for a long time depends entirely on the will of the Observer."

"Once the Creator and the Observer completely withdraw their gaze and no longer pay attention here, the entire world will collapse step by step and return to nothingness. In the end, the vast myriad worlds of the heavens will only turn into a thin text file, remaining behind."

As the voice finished, the tone added a touch of relief.

"This is the ultimate fate of the world. Since you are in it, it is enough to keep your own duty."