Chen Cheng looked at the pendant in his hand. He truly couldn't imagine that such a gemstone would one day transform into a beating heart of flesh and blood.
He also found it difficult to accept what the statue had just said—that the world would become alive as a living being.
Although people in his previous life had researched similar phenomena, such as the way certain ancient forests grew, displaying signs that made it seem as if the forest itself were alive, or even forming terrifying ghost forests, all of those belonged to objectively observable phenomena caused by human cognition.
To truly expand this into an entire world composed mostly of rock, the existence of something akin to a living consciousness was impossible.
Chen Cheng did not rush to refute the statue's words, nor did he believe them completely.
Perhaps this was the truth as the statue understood it, but perhaps this truth contained some kind of deviation.
The obvious issue was that if the world would become a living being, then the pendant in his hand was its heart. Yet given the vastness of the present world, if it truly became a living being, its size would be beyond imagination. In that case, could such a life-form's heart really be only the size of a fingernail? That was clearly unreasonable.
Not to mention, since it was already alive and possessed self-awareness and the will to survive, its heart was connected to its own life and safety. How could the World Heart possibly have been found by the people of the Ancient Civilization, who had even refined it?
Therefore, in Chen Cheng's eyes, there were problems with the statue's explanation in many places. Yet judging from everything he had experienced, the statue's claim also seemed largely sound.
Thus, Chen Cheng