Chapter 261: A New World
Chapter 261: A New World
Zuo Meng left the small room, stepping into chaos for the second time. He brought no companions this time. Ye Chen and the appointed Saints needed to guide living beings while exploring how to advance toward the Origin World. Zuo Meng’s current task also required traveling light—his main purpose was to resolve personal karma.
His master Zuo Han Sheng and Junior Sister Zuo Qiu remained mysteries in his memory.
Where did they originate?
Where had they vanished?
Why had they coexisted with him temporarily?
Could their presence relate to his awakening as a Creator?
“My pursuit of Master was interrupted by Old Ancestor last time. This journey won’t repeat that mistake.”
Within chaos, Zuo Meng extracted a wisp of Zuo Han Sheng’s aura from time’s river. A fingertip tap on the energy strand birthed a spiraling portal before him.
As Creator of the vast world, his current power dwarfed past capabilities.
A single aura fragment sufficed to trace origins, pinpointing his target’s world.
“Something’s wrong with this realm…”
Frowning at the portal’s emanating energy, Zuo Meng still advanced without hesitation. He stepped through the passageway.
Though having infiltrated worlds like Yuan Wu World and Dou Qi World before, this passage felt alien. An incomprehensible texture brushed his perception during transit—countless phantom threads grazing his form yet vanishing upon inspection.
“Beyond my understanding?”
“What manner of world is this?”
Zuo Meng forced his eyes open to endless chaos.
The encroaching world’s radiation intensity betrayed its nature—Origin World!
“An entirely foreign system.”
Resistance thickened as he progressed, unprecedented opposition even for a vast world’s Creator.
“No wonder previous searches failed. This realm’s energy tier overwhelms.”
Past encounters with Old Ancestor and the Giant Snake’s chess game now seemed less coincidence than manipulation by this superior world’s influence.
Forward he pressed.
Movement decelerated over immeasurable time until even thoughts dragged. Origin World’s pressure defied full resistance, revealing why born-world Creators held inherent advantages. Zuo Meng’s prior Origin World access stemmed from native status, explaining Dream Realm’s later entanglement.
At step one thousand, cognition lagged behind physical motion.
*Buzz!*
Contemplating retreat, Zuo Meng suddenly faced invasive foreign energy. Consciousness clashed violently before the force hurled him worldward—helpless.
The unknown Origin World!
Zuo Meng slowly regained control of his body after an unknown period.
He found himself collapsed in a deep forest, surrounded by towering ancient trees. Thick mist enveloped the distant woods, hiding any visible boundaries.
This was an ancient Black Forest stretching beyond sight.
“Fallen into a world?”
Zuo Meng felt the rules binding him – now reduced to an existence governed by this world’s laws like all its native creatures.
“This Origin World can even restrict my Creator essence!”
Previously, Zuo Meng had always entered worlds voluntarily. In those states, he could negotiate with worlds as a transcendent High Person whose essence surpassed theirs. But this time he’d been dragged in forcibly, his essence suppressed beneath this world’s framework.
“Completely unfamiliar rule structures.”
Zuo Meng tried resisting the rules but failed.
All his mastered powers – cultivation, game systems, combat energies – became meaningless illusions here, rejected by this world.
“So this is what Origin means?”
A suspicion flashed through Zuo Meng’s mind.
While Creators normally surpassed worlds, everything depended on hierarchy.
Creating tribal laws made one the supreme legal authority in primitive society. But if tribal enforcers tried applying those laws in modern civilization, they’d be arrested as criminals.
Zuo Meng resembled such tribal lawmakers.
The Origin World contained the real world’s fundamental laws!
Though lawmakers should theoretically stand above laws, what if these laws weren’t yours to begin with?
“Then I must study this world’s systems to trace its rule patterns.”
Zuo Meng stood up, finding his basic physical strength remained intact.
Like force application.
Though puzzled, his essential abilities still functioned.
“Unstable gravity… like tidal fluctuations.”
After taking several steps, Zuo Meng gradually understood this world’s gravitational rules.
Comprehension brought control.
Adjusting his perception, Zuo Meng pointed at the air.
“Gravity: Solidify.”
A new ability stabilized his gravitational mastery.
“Gravity, friction, elements – all different. Abstract laws like life and death or yin and yang remain incomprehensible.” Multiple attempts with basic rules ended in failure.
“So gravity’s my only usable power now.”
When Zuo Meng tested the tenth fundamental rule, darkness suddenly swallowed the sky.
CRACK!
Before his eleventh attempt, lightning struck him down.
Thunderfire ignited the parched forest.
“Heavenly punishment already?”
Zuo Meng crawled from flames, face charred and robes reduced to rags – the disheveled image of a beggar. When had the great master Zuo ever suffered such humiliation?
This lightning clearly served as the world’s warning.
What happens when ordinary people constantly test real-world laws? Endless police trouble! Zuo Meng’s rule experiments mirrored such legal provocations – how could the Origin World not react?