"The world's origin had indeed died, but what was going on with these remaining rules?"
When Zhang Chen spread out his consciousness, given that the fusion of his ghostly entity and human body had reached the Return to Origin state, it should have been no problem for his consciousness to extend ten thousand meters even in the environment of Ling. Yet now, one hundred meters was already his limit. If he insisted on expanding the area covered by his consciousness, his body would immediately be suppressed by this world.
"This must once have been a long-formed, completely stable independent world, just as Bodhi Patriarch described. All its world rules had been established, and it operated in an orderly fashion like the real world. Even though the world core had shattered, were the former rules still preserved?"
"Not only that, but the lifeforms in this world probably still existed here as well. Or rather, perhaps a few exceptionally powerful beings remained."
"I'd better proceed carefully. The opportunity Xing Shi mentioned should need to be slowly sought out here."
After Zhang Chen's body reached the Return to Origin state, even if he only gave off a human aura, ordinary living beings would find it difficult to notice him as long as he did not make any major movements.
"Were these mountains deliberately shaped this way to isolate and protect the digestion pool, preventing outsiders from approaching? I wonder what the scene outside the central mountain range looks like. That super jump just now probably drew the attention of quite a few things. I should be more cautious from here on."
Zhang Chen kept his speed at a relatively low level, moving through the winding valleys at twenty meters per second.
After traveling roughly five thousand meters, Zhang Chen saw the valley's exit.