The Endless Abyss…
A low-dimensional chaotic world with unique properties.
Since its creation by Chu Hao, it had displayed many traits absent in ordinary ordered worlds.
For instance, the ordinary rules within the Abyss were guided by extreme chaos, instinctively twisting their own properties.
As a result, the same rule could behave completely differently across planes.
Take gravity, for example:
In most planes, gravity was similar to ordinary worlds.
But in some special planes, it behaved differently. Some had almost no gravity at all, while others had gravity so immense it could crush everything.
Beyond rule differences, the Abyss had other unique characteristics:
Environmental instability.
Constantly shifting energy conversion formulas.
Most importantly: no apparent limit.
Testing showed the Abyss seemed to have no upper limit.
No matter how much Chu Hao poured into it—resources, rules, races, or other things—it could seemingly contain everything.
Yet the truly shocking discovery was the existence of several fully idealist planes within the Abyss.
Here, "idealist" did not mean the simple connection between thought and existence, like whether drinking water changes your body or identity.
Instead, it referred to a state that seemed independent of matter yet could affect it—or perhaps not even involve matter at all.
Chu Hao could not determine whether matter existed in these planes, or what form it took if it did.
Moreover, the beings in these idealist planes… what were they like? Could demons transform into other life forms within them?
All these questions demanded answers.
Despite repeatedly observing these planes, their bizarre landscapes revealed nothing comprehensible to him.
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Chu Hao sighed. The situation of these idealist planes was giving him a headache.
He had returned from the Exchange Hall, integrating the one hundred world-resource continents into the Abyss.
Countless star-like points were swiftly absorbed into the black-and-red vortex, creating minor ripples.
The Endless Abyss greedily devoured all one hundred continents—resources that could have overwhelmed most divine worlds—without even a burp.
The trader witnessing this was dumbfounded.
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Chu Hao said nothing, calmly moving to the rest area to monitor the Abyss.
Many continents became new Abyssal planes, quickly nurturing life and environments.
Others were shattered by the chaotic rules and distributed as nourishment across existing planes.
A few were sent to the Abyss's corruption pool to fuel the war engine and hatch more minor demons.
But the crucial concern for Chu Hao was the continents entering the idealist planes.
Each continent added a small but real increase to the Abyss's overall size—except those absorbed by idealist planes.
They provided no feedback: the Abyss's size neither grew nor shrank. It was as if these continents vanished into thin air.
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This pattern had repeated multiple times. Whenever new worlds were consumed, some resources mysteriously disappeared in these idealist planes.
The scale of the loss was growing as the idealist planes expanded. In this resupply alone, seven or eight entire continents had been absorbed.
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Chu Hao muttered, focusing his mind on the Abyss.
While I have some downtime, I need to personally investigate these idealist planes.
Since graduating from Tianding University, Chu Hao had explored many secret worlds but never had time to manage the idealist planes.
Now, with resources replenished, he could finally examine them directly.
With a thought, Chu Hao arrived at one such plane.
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Immediately…
Fog?
He was enveloped by an endless mist, colored not white, brown, or any ordinary shade, but the color of shadow itself.
Its reach seemed infinite.