Chu Ke placed a hand on Steve's head, briefly examined him with the Fundamental Forces, then withdrew his hand.
"That's a bit troublesome." Chu Ke frowned.
"I can unlock Creative Mode for you now, but if I do, you'll die too."
"Huh? It's fine, bro. I'm not a Hardcore Mode character. I can respawn if I die." Steve waved his hand, signaling for Chu Ke to go ahead. He could take it.
"That isn't what I mean. Your current [Mental] stat can't support your [Divinity]," Chu Ke explained.
Steve's current condition was somewhat like Lao Tang's in Dragon Raja, only even worse. As a transmigrator, Steve's few decades of life were like a little mound before a flood when faced with Creative Mode, which could control the three infinite worlds of "the Overworld, The End, and the Nether." One rush, and it would collapse.
When that happened, Steve would lose himself and completely break down into an emotionless god of "Creation."
Chu Ke could indeed extract Steve's soul, then stuff it back in after his body became divine, but the result would be no different.
The power of [Creative Mode] originated from divinity. Steve could either give up Creative Mode and slowly accumulate mental strength until he became a god naturally, or become an emotionless shell.
"Still, I should be able to unlock something for you now." As soon as Chu Ke finished speaking, Steve felt something flood into his mind.
"This? Holy shit?" Steve looked at his blocky hands in surprise.
"Quit acting all mysterious and say it already!" V had a fiery temper and couldn't stand Steve playing riddles, so he urged him on.
Steve scratched his head. "I think I can install mods?"
With that, he installed several mods, and the entire world began to tremble. It only settled down after a while.
"Damn it all!" V was so jealous he could die. He hurriedly turned to Chu Ke. "Chu Ge, I'm a game character too. Can I install mods?"
"Let me check." Chu Ke felt V's forehead, then shook his head. "Nope. Steve has Creative Mode as part of his established setting. The ability to install mods was actually separated from his Creative Mode by me. You don't have that function."
"Heaven is unfair!" V let out a wail and began fake crying. "One day, when I have a blade in hand, I'll slaughter every cheating bastard in the world!"
Chu Ke merely smiled and said nothing. After all, he was the biggest cheat of them all.
No, wait. If he'd forgotten to turn it off, how could that count as turning it on?
The banquet ended soon enough, and everyone went home full and satisfied.
Kaneki Ken was the sneakiest one. While everyone else was talking, he quietly kept eating and consumed enough for three people by himself.
Maybe it was because he hadn't been able to eat properly in so long. The poor kid had been starved for it.
On the way back, Chu Ke didn't return directly to Dragon Blood World. Instead, halfway through the portal, he tore open a spatial passage with the Fundamental Forces. A spatial torrent that wore away everything immediately surged out, lifting his hair.
He took one step forward and arrived within the Cosmic Sea.
As far as the eye could see, countless enormous bubbles drifted aimlessly through boundless nothingness. At every moment, bubbles burst while new ones were born.
These bubbles did not actually possess physical forms. The Fundamental Forces merely displayed them before Chu Ke in the way he found most beautiful. In essence, each was a different "Absolute Infinity" multiverse collection, containing countless multiverses with similar properties.
Chu Ke separated a thread of Fundamental Forces to search for the collection bubble containing the Marvel multiverse. Then, after finding a stretch of void with almost no bubbles, he released his own Fundamental Forces.
About a month had passed since he transmigrated and acquired the Fundamental Forces. Though its value had become enormous through daily multiplication and natural growth from use, it was still completely negligible within such a void.
But that wasn't a problem. His Fundamental Forces followed a mechanics-based path, not a stat-stacking path.
After appraising a randomly found bubble nearby, Chu Ke understood how to create an Absolute Infinity multiverse collection bubble. Under the impetus of the Fundamental Forces, a bubble with no concept of size appeared in the void.
To put it simply, he was building himself a home. The space inside possessed infinity in the absolute sense, and even Chu Ke could only fully explore it by using the Fundamental Forces to appraise its "tags."
Chu Ke had always envied Steve for having a world that belonged solely to him. What he was doing now was essentially bootlegging a plus-sized version of Steve's world. The difference was that this world's rank was higher than Steve's non-Absolute Infinity universe.
Once more, he randomly grabbed a bubble that lacked the concept of "life." Chu Ke separated a thread of Fundamental Forces to devour it, then transferred the multiplied Fundamental Forces into his own bubble and began converting them into matter.
"Mm, very good. This place will be called the Absolute Infinite Chu Ke Universe Collection from now on." Chu Ke nodded. He randomly selected one of its multiverses, merged it into a single universe, and then placed his Stationery Store inside.
Returning to the Cosmic Sea, Chu Ke used the Fundamental Forces to imitate its properties and create an urn, then placed his little bubble inside it.
"How auspicious. This little box is my eternal home."
There was no concept of time or space within the Cosmic Sea, so when Chu Ke returned to Dragon Blood World, he had to specifically locate the point in time when he left. Fortunately, the Fundamental Forces he had left in Lu Mingfei's and Caesar's gemstone necklaces served as markers, so it wasn't much trouble.
Worth mentioning was that beside his own Dragon Raja universe, Chu Ke saw many universes called Lu Mingfei Returns. There were ones where Lu Mingfei returned from cultivation, returned from Warhammer 40K, returned from Dream of the Red Chamber, returned from Landlord—there was everything.
Lu Mingfei really deserved an award. Maybe Best International Student.
"Holy crap, there are even ones from Haitang?!" Chu Ke rubbed his eyes, feeling sick. "I'm done for. I'm going to get pink eye."
Having learned his lesson, Chu Ke decided never to casually look at such bizarre worlds again.
Wearing a pink dress and a mascot head, Lu Mingfei knocked a robber flat with one punch, then sneezed.
"Who's talking shit about me?" After becoming a Magical Girl, Lu Mingfei's senses had become incomparably sharp. He could feel it if someone within five hundred meters so much as glanced at him, but this was the first time he had sensed someone talking shit about him. That showed just how deep that person's malice ran.
Dead Apostles weren't everywhere. They weren't some wild cockroach infestation. Fortunately, Lu Mingfei discovered that as long as he did things related to "justice," he could earn LP, so he expanded into the realm of vigilantism.
After school every day, he beat up a few thieves, caught a few robbers, helped old ladies cross the street. Life was pretty good.
At last, today, Lu Mingfei had collected fifty LP.
"Chu Ke, get me an Awakening Mode!" Lu Mingfei shouted the name of his familiar and laid out five copper coins—no, fifty LP.
Lu Mingfei still remembered that his current power wasn't his strongest. There was another power called Awakening Mode. Though it seemed that no one could even last three moves against him in his transformed state, Lu Mingfei still felt it was necessary to prepare for trouble before it came.
What if some final boss suddenly popped up one day? Wouldn't that be the end of him?
"OK!" With a bang, the pitch-black familiar Chu Ke appeared out of thin air, a Golden Hoop now in his hand.
"Come on, A-Fei. Once you put on this Golden Hoop, you can no longer touch even the slightest worldly love or desire. If you fall in love, the hoop will tighten more and more until the pain becomes unbearable."
"Chinese Odyssey, huh? Be careful or I'll sue you for copyright infringement." Lu Mingfei had seen the classic film Chinese Odyssey too. The corner of his mouth twitched, but he still moved closer.
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