A World Unto Itself

"We Abyss People prefer to call it a flute, rather than what outsiders call a whistle, because it has multiple holes."

Riko grabbed the climbing rope, put on the safety harness and descender, and skillfully descended to the protruding platform 20 meters below the cave entrance.

When Zhou Qing and Tang San came down, Riko took the whistle in her hand and pointed to the four small holes on each side, saying, "Although it is shorter than a flute, it has multiple holes. When you blow it, you can play beautiful music by closing different holes with your thumb and by pressing the button at different frequencies."

"At the same time, the color of the flute also represents the Explorer's rank."

"Red, like me, is the beginner, the Red Whistle, then the Black Whistle, then the Purple Whistle, then the Yellow Whistle, and finally the White Whistle that the strongest explorers can wear."

"It is said that the White Whistle is very special. It is a treasure formed under the influence of special energy covering the entire Abyss Ruins. It is extremely rare and it recognizes its owner. That is to say, only the first person to obtain the White Whistle can use it. If the owner dies, the White Whistle will lose its magical properties and become a more solid ordinary flute."

Red Whistle, Black Whistle, Purple Whistle, Yellow Whistle, White Whistle.

Isn't this just reversing the colors of the Soul Ring?

Zhou Qing seemed thoughtful, then asked, "Different flutes, and the users, must have different Soul Power Level, right? How exactly are they classified...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Qing froze.

When Zhou Qing was sensing his own Soul Power, he suddenly discovered that he could not clearly sense his own Soul Power Level, and could only barely perceive which major realm his Soul Power was in.

This situation didn't just occur after entering the Abyss; in fact, it had already appeared when they entered Abyss Town, but Zhou Qing didn't pay attention to it at the time.

Tang San was also a little unaccustomed to this situation, as if he had returned to the state of cultivating Internal Energy in his previous life.

Aside from being able to sense the depth of one's skill, one cannot accurately judge the specific level of Internal Energy, and therefore does not know the extent of one's own strength.

"Soul Power Level?"

Riko frowned, then suddenly realized and said, "Our teacher said that Explorer outside are called Soul Master. They prefer fighting to exploring. Their levels are distinguished by Martial Soul, Soul Ring, and Soul Power. However, we have never understood what Martial Soul is, nor do we know why people outside divide Soul Power into so many levels, and we don't know how those levels are specifically divided... Can you tell me?"

"People outside only have a vague understanding of this."

Zhou Qing raised his hand, unable to resist the urge to pat the girl's head, but then, remembering that she was already fifteen years old, he immediately withdrew his hand and said, "As for levels, although we are in the same world, the rules of the outside world may not be able to affect us here."

Tang San nodded slightly.

Perhaps this environment is the normal world, while outside, the rules of the Douluo Continent—

When Soul Beast dies, it will produce Soul Ring, and there's even a chance it will drop Soul Bone...

Although Soul Master can awaken their Martial Soul, they cannot break through their bottlenecks without Soul Ring...

All of this is clearly abnormal.

"Natural rules?" The girl was surprised and puzzled that natural rules could be different in the same world.

"How should I put it? This might be because some being has become so powerful that it has influenced the laws of nature to some extent...?"

That's what they say, but Zhou Qing felt that it must be the influence of some kind of force, that is, it appeared to be tampering with the rules, but in reality it was not a direct change to the rules.

Just like the movie he had seen in his previous life: "Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters", that Godzilla's Life Level was so strong that it affected the entire ecology of the earth, causing all the plants and animals on the earth to begin to evolve and transform in order to adapt to Godzilla.

In short, this is how a completely new Earth ecosystem was established with Godzilla as the focal point!

In this process, do the various physical and chemical rules on Earth undergo fundamental changes?

No.

At most, it's just that the ecosystem was affected by Godzilla's influence, and in order to survive, it had to forcibly evolve in a direction that adapted to Godzilla.

Similarly, in this Planet worldview, if God Level power were to truly alter the rules of nature, it would theoretically have to do so in this manner, rather than forcibly changing the laws of the world.

After all, no matter how powerful the Dragon God is, he cannot change the most basic physical laws of nature and the universe.

Can it be changed?

That's allowed by the rules.

Otherwise, the universe, this "server," will either crash directly or try every possible way to "kill the virus." If it fails to kill the virus, it will eventually crash and everything will return to Void.

"Oh~"

Riko seemed to understand, but didn't ask any more questions, and continued to lead Zhou Qing and Tang San downwards.

The girl looked small, but she was quite strong. In just over twenty minutes, she led the two of them down nearly two hundred meters.

After passing through the clouds, the darkness instantly dissipated, and daytime returned.

Looking up, there was no sun in the sky, and the light was as gentle as natural light. However, Zhou Qing was able to determine the time of the first level based on the operation of the Innate Internal Scripture Chart: eight o'clock in the morning.

Although the specific perception of Soul Power Level disappeared in this strange region, it made Zhou Qing's perception of nature more accurate, and even brought him closer to nature.

Indeed, external rules, to some extent, hinder humanity's perception and understanding of nature... Allowing people to perceive the specific level of Soul Power and see progress is indeed good, but it also guides people's thoughts towards accumulating energy and cultivating power, while ignoring the fundamental cycles and operating rules of the world...

After realizing this, Zhou Qing began to believe Tang San's guess, thinking that this place might be a normal world unaffected by the main cultivation system of external Soul Master, and also the original world.

Of course, it's possible that some being from 20,000 years ago, in a moment of wild imagination, created or imitated a world before it was influenced by the power of the Dragon God and the gods of the Divine Realm, thus finding an alternative path to escape the influence of the Divine Realm...

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Half an hour later, Riko led Zhou Qing and Tang San to the bottom, which was the first floor.

The grass is lush and green!

A warm breeze is blowing!

It resembles a paradise on earth.

"Is this the Abyss First Layer? I thought there would be quite a few monsters." Zhou Qing took a deep breath, his lungs expanded, and his whole body seemed to relax.

Thump thump!

With each heartbeat and the constant dilation and contraction of blood vessels, it felt as if every cell in the body was coming alive, greedily enjoying the feeling of being one with nature.

At this moment, Zhou Qing felt that he had returned to his true "home". In the outside world, although he was also in the world, there was always an inexplicable barrier that prevented him from having a real close connection with nature.

"The Heaven and Earth Energy here is so rich!"

Tang San took a breath and couldn't help but exclaim, "If I could cultivate here, I might become Soul Douluo in less than ten years!"