"…"
Chu Hao stood silently, observing everything before him.
A completely new formula—representing the fundamental rules of a world—was written on the blackboard.
The woman, as if utterly drained, collapsed onto the ground after finishing her work.
"This formula…"
Chu Hao approached, standing behind her, gazing at the blackboard.
Silence.
A long, heavy silence.
"It's wrong!" "It's wrong."
Across unknowable spans of time and distance, both of them—though separated by years and realms—seemed destined at this moment to reach the same conclusion: the formula was incorrect.
"So it really is wrong… or rather, it's meant to remain wrong!"
For reasons unknown, the woman abandoned her experiments on igniting life in beings' mind seas and redirected her focus toward world rules. She shifted her research to the foundational formulas that govern divine-world creatures.
"…"
The scene shifted again. Memory fragments began accelerating at a staggering rate. Where once they took dozens of minutes to unfold, now moments passed in seconds, like shards of a mirror etched with memories.
Chu Hao leapt from one fragment to another.
In each memory, the woman appeared before the blackboard, adjusting the formula and lingering, absorbed in it. Though Chu Hao could not see her expressions clearly, he felt the deep bitterness and despair emanating from her.
The atmosphere of her memories grew darker, heavier—suffocating even to an outsider.
Yet the blackboard's formula remained riddled with gaps. The day it would be complete still seemed impossibly distant.
As the fragments accelerated, Chu Hao began to feel a subtle change.
"Master, I've completed the design of the divine world and graduated! And I was first! Supernatural world! Divine fire over 7800, amazing, right?"
A young girl with yellow hair and white robes burst in joyfully, embracing the woman.
The woman paused for the first time, smiling and stroking the girl's head.
"Excellent, our Bai Chen is clever!"
"Bai Chen? That's the name of our current principal… Wait, this woman is Bai Chen's teacher?"
Before Chu Hao could process this revelation, the scene shifted again. The formula on the blackboard now advanced at a faster pace, as if the woman had found a key breakthrough. Bai Chen appeared intermittently, shining as the only light in the woman's otherwise bleak lab.
"Master, my divine fire is sufficient. I've become a lower-tier god!"
"Master, I found some resources in a small secret realm; I'll add new rules!"
"Master…"
Bai Chen was the woman's beacon of hope in her otherwise despairing existence.
Finally, the dark, oppressive period ended.
"Master, I can finally help perfect your formula! I've gained part of the Main God Sequence [Star God]'s divine office. Only one percent, but it's enough to help you gather answers in large secret realms!"
The woman's hands trembled slightly—subtle, but noticeable to Chu Hao.
"Impressive, Bai Chen. But I don't want you accompanying me to those secret realms…"
The scene ended, plunging into prolonged darkness.
At last, a final memory fragment emerged. The woman was using a discarded world core to externally forge a new divine world, identical to the Trial World. From her actions, Chu Hao inferred she might be a high-level proxy Main God.
When this future Trial World was completed, the woman approached the blackboard and wrote a new formula. This time, it was usable, correct—but only partially, perhaps less than half.
"Hey, are you watching?"
Suddenly, she spoke toward Chu Hao's position as if thunder had struck.
"Don't worry, I can't see you. I'm speaking to someone in the future who will view my memories. I will seal part of my memories using my divine essence in this world's core, and I'll assist the girl named Bai Chen in establishing Tianding University. My memories, along with a trace of my divine essence as a reward, will be sent to 'you' as the final prize of this Trial!"
"Though I don't know who you are—man or woman, what you look like—I can guess one thing…"
She sat on the stool, addressing the void, but clearly toward Chu Hao.
"You are ambitious, reckless, willing to risk the destruction of a divine world for the ultimate reward! Only someone like you deserves this memory!"
Her tone radiated arrogance and confidence, like a person atop a mountain speaking to a climber below.
"…" Chu Hao remained silent.
"You must be wondering what this formula is for. Don't bother guessing—I'll tell you."
"This formula is meant to perfect all types of divine worlds, converting them into…"
"A true infinite world!"
"This… is a rule formula that removes the limits of a divine world!"
"!!!!!!"