Speculation

Bibi Dong spoke just then.

"It's been so long. They should be gone by now. We should head back too."

Ye Xinyu immediately said upon hearing that.

"Mom, how about we leave tomorrow instead?"

Bibi Dong could not help but freeze for a moment.

"Why?"

After hesitating for a moment, Ye Xinyu still said,

"This is only my second time here too, but... I feel like the flow of time here is different from outside." Her tone was clearly uncertain when she said this.

"Hm?" A change appeared in Bibi Dong's expression upon hearing this.

"How is it different?"

Ye Xinyu thought for a moment before saying,

"The last time I came here was probably a month ago. There were no living creatures on the mountain then, but this time, the mountain is full of chickens. I haven't found any other animals. They must have multiplied from the one I left here last time."

As for the plants, she had considered that perhaps the chickens had not digested the grass seeds and tree seeds they ate, allowing them to take root and sprout here.

Perhaps that was the only explanation that made sense.

Bibi Dong pondered slightly.

No wonder there were only chicken soul beasts here. But if the flow of time in this space really differed from the outside world, then the value of this Chaos Pearl far exceeded imagination.

At that thought, Bibi Dong's expression instantly turned solemn. She stared straight at Ye Xinyu and said seriously,

"Remember this. From now on, you must never expose this thing, and you must not tell anyone about it."

Ye Xinyu nodded repeatedly.

"Mm-hm, I know."

She was not stupid. If they had not encountered danger today, she would never have exposed it. Though she did not know what other abilities it possessed, this enormous space alone was enough to make people covet it.

She understood the saying that possessing a jade invites trouble. Even though they could be considered citizens of Spirit City, once something like this was exposed, even Bibi Dong, the Pope, might try to seize it, right?

Bibi Dong could not help rubbing her forehead. She had not expected that her daughter's main precaution was against her.

Still, even knowing this, Bibi Dong did not explain.

It had been quite good to raise her daughter frugally these past years. At the very least, Qian Daoliu had not discovered her, and she had not developed the arrogance of a noble young lady.

Bibi Dong looked up at the sky. It was still noon, and there was plenty of daylight left.

"Fine, then. Since you haven't seen this place before and we have time, I'll take you around the mountain."

When she had first arrived here, she had already noticed that her spiritual power was greatly suppressed in this place. Even with the spiritual power of a Rank 98 Titled Douluo, she could not completely cover even this mountain.

There was no helping it. If she wanted to understand this space's environment, perhaps she could only see its full extent by reaching the mountaintop.

Ye Xinyu nodded. She was quite curious about this place as well.

Seeing her daughter nod, Bibi Dong directly took her hand and headed up the mountain.

Yes, they walked.

In this place, not only was spiritual power suppressed, even a Titled Douluo could not fly through the air.

The mountain path was rugged. Even though Bibi Dong was a Titled Douluo, it still took the two of them a full six hours to climb to the summit.

Standing atop the mountain, they could take in the surrounding scenery at a glance. Yet the more clearly Bibi Dong saw it, the more shocked she became. She had thought this space was merely a valley, and that having a few small hills would already have been impressive.

But she had never imagined that, from the summit, the distance revealed mountains towering tens of thousands of feet high, stretching on without end.

The mountain beneath her feet, which had originally seemed so lofty, now looked like nothing more than an insignificant little mound compared to the surrounding mountain ranges! Even after looking in every direction, all she could see were endless mountains.

"Just... how big is this place?"

Faced with everything before her, even Bibi Dong, as the Pope, could not help but exclaim in amazement.

Only then did the system's voice slowly sound.

"Ding. This system already said that this is the Great Thousand World within the Chaos Pearl. The host is the one who treated it as a small space."

Taking a deep breath, Bibi Dong said,

"You never explained it. How was I supposed to know what a Great Thousand World was? But just how big is this place? I suspect this space may already be nearly as large as the Douluo Continent."

"Ding. The Douluo Continent is merely a region of a small plane. This is a Great Thousand World. In terms of the plane's size alone, it should be roughly the size of several thousand Douluo Stars."

Bibi Dong was instantly speechless upon hearing that.

"No, impossible. How could that be possible? How can a little sphere contain such an enormous space?"

The system asked in return.

"Host, you should know how many people there are in the Douluo Continent in total, right?"

Bibi Dong pondered briefly before answering.

"Though there has not been a complete census, the two great empires should have around one to two hundred million people, right?"

"What? You don't know?"

The system's voice sounded again.

"No, you're wrong. There are actually nearly four hundred million people. However, nearly half of them are not on this continent."

Bibi Dong did not doubt it. After all, the Douluo Continent was surrounded by the sea, and no one had truly explored the overseas regions. No one knew whether there were people beyond the Douluo Continent.

"So what? What does that have to do with what you said?"

"Of course it is related. Then do you know how many people lived on Blue Star, where the previous host came from?"

Bibi Dong frowned slightly.

"How many?"

"Eight billion." The system's voice sounded again. Though its tone was extremely calm, Bibi Dong's delicate body could not help trembling when she heard it.

"Ei-eight billion? Th-that many?"

"Is that a lot? That is merely the standard for a Small Thousand World. Meanwhile, what the Chaos Pearl nurtures within it is a Great Thousand World, equivalent to one thousand Blue Stars. Do you understand now?"

At that moment, Bibi Dong did not know what to say.

After a long while, Bibi Dong finally calmed the turmoil in her heart. The corner of her mouth twitched as she said,

"So, in other words, my daughter carries several thousand Douluo Continents with her?"

"Mm. If the host puts it that way, that is not wrong."

After thinking for a moment, Bibi Dong could not help asking,

"Then does such a powerful treasure have any abilities besides this world?"

The system did not hesitate this time and immediately replied,

"No."

"No?" Bibi Dong's expression darkened again.

"Are you kidding me? Such an incredible treasure has no ability other than serving as a storage space?"

The system answered calmly.

"Mm. At present, that is the case. Because the plane's level is too low and she is too weak, she cannot fully use the Chaos Pearl."

Bibi Dong was rendered rather speechless by that explanation.

The ups and downs of life really came fast.

She had thought it was something incredible, only to find out that it was just an oversized storage space.

Of course, it still had its uses. They were just somewhat underwhelming.

To explain, the changes in the Douluo Continent were brought about by the Chaos Pearl. It was paired with the system and served as the protagonist's Golden Finger. However, because the system arrived too early, before the protagonist was even born, the silly system bound itself to the wrong person.

The Chaos Pearl's role here is only to aid development and cultivation; it has no offensive power. Anyone who has read about the Primordial Era knows that if the Chaos Pearl unleashed its weight, let alone the Douluo Continent, even the God Realm would explode.