"Just as I thought, just as I thought!" Fang Zheng was delighted.
"The rules of two completely different worlds can interact with each other, so there must be some overlap. You can destroy my blocks, but nowhere does it say I can't turn you into blocks!"
This meant—"I really might be able to continuously obtain matter from this Xianxia World and acquire it infinitely through Creative Mode!"
"Come to think of it..."
Fang Zheng suddenly grew curious. "If this Xianxia World has some currency like spirit stones or spirit marrow, then once I enter that city, wouldn't I be able to buy whatever I wanted?"
"I could buy out every item in the entire city and just toss them around for fun?"
"Or maybe there's something like Chaos Iron or copper from Mount Shou—high-grade materials only immortals can use. Could I wholesale them as I pleased and hand them out to even the weakest Qi Cultivation cultivators to build houses with?"
After letting his imagination run wild for a while, Fang Zheng carefully examined the extra Iron Bucket in his Creative Mode Inventory. He was somewhat surprised. "The name of this bucket is actually gibberish? Looks like I can rename it."
After thinking for a moment, he decided to call it the "White Tiger Vermilion Bird Law Bucket" for now.
Knock, knock, knock...
As the knocking continued, Fang Zheng filled the gaps in the golden-red substance with End Portal Frames.
Those viscous, dense Rune Chains could not damage them in the slightest, no matter how powerful their attacks might have been.
With the End Portal Frames, Fang Zheng quickly constructed a small room one hundred blocks wide and one hundred blocks tall, giving himself enough space to move without getting stuck.
End Portal Frames differed from other blocks. Their shapes were relatively flat, and when placed and stacked together, they did not fit seamlessly, leaving small gaps between them.
However, although those small gaps existed, water and lava in Minecraft could not pass through them. Likewise, the Rune Chains could not pass through those seemingly wide cracks.
Through the gaps, Fang Zheng could see the Rune Chains churning within the golden-red substance outside the openings occupied by the End Portal Frames. They were growing increasingly violent, treating the room made of End Portal Frames as their target and launching frenzied attacks.
Yet no matter how they attacked, they still dealt 0 damage.
Arriving at the center of the room, Fang Zheng took out the newly added bucket from his Inventory. "If the laws of different worlds can merge with one another, then you should be able to flow endlessly just like lava and water, right?"
Then, he placed a brand-new White Tiger Vermilion Bird Lava Bucket.
Boom!
With a deafening explosion, as if a Supernova had erupted, an enormous amount of Rune Chains explosively gushed forth from the point where the End Portal Frame room's bucket had been placed.
The unimaginably dense Rune Chains seemed to pour endlessly out of nothingness, continuously filling the room.
In an instant, the infinitely dense Vermilion Bird Divine Fire and White Tiger Slaughter Power nearly condensed into physical substance.
Yet even so, the eruption at the source did not stop. It continued spewing out Rune Chains of excessive density.
Watching the Rune Chains burst forth like a fountain, Fang Zheng was somewhat surprised. "Even though I turned it into a block, aside from taking on the form of a block, the material flowing out still follows its original nature and flow rate—and it isn't limited by a block's flow range?"
In just a few seconds, the entire small room was completely filled with Rune Chains of the same density.
Once the density had become completely uniform, it was like placing the outlet of a high-pressure water pipe in the deep sea—the pressure inside and outside reached equilibrium.
The Vermilion Bird White Tiger Law Cube he had initially placed finally stopped its endless eruption.
"Just as I thought!" Fang Zheng let out a sigh of relief.
From what he had observed so far, he knew very clearly that those Rune Chains trying to attack and suppress him would not disappear out of thin air.
Then what if there were differences in rune density?
Based on his observations, high-density Rune Chains would not actively gather in a particular area to increase their density when they had no target like him.
Instead, they would spread into low-density areas, like water flowing downhill or high energy levels falling toward lower ones.
If the block he had placed truly inherited some of Minecraft's infinite properties, then as long as the density of Rune Chains in the surrounding matter was lower than the Rune Chain density within the block itself, it should continue erupting until the rune density in every surrounding area became uniform.
By now, Fang Zheng had realized that he was trapped within some kind of formation.
This formation regarded him as its target, transforming its most powerful killing force into Rune Chains and concentrating them extremely densely within a limited area around him.
If the formation imprisoning him were compared to a powerful nation—
Then in a normal nation, aside from farmers, merchants, administrators, and other personnel needed to keep the country functioning, when the entire nation mobilized its power to fight an enemy, at least half of its armed forces should be concentrated across the various fronts, excluding logistics personnel and some soldiers not stationed on the front lines, right?
No matter how powerful that nation's military was, aside from the front-line regions involved in total war, its remaining fifty percent of forces could only be spread across the rest of its vast territory, no matter how one looked at it, right?
Surely, a nation that had fully committed to advancing its front lines and did not need to consider defense would not send less than five percent of its armed forces to the front, would it?
So, let's suppose.
Suppose some god suddenly played a huge joke and copied the fifty percent of military forces fully deployed on the front lines out of thin air, multiplying their numbers by two, three, four...
Other than the explosive increase in front-line forces, none of the logistics, equipment, or resources kept up.
The soldiers fighting on the front lines would have no logistical support, no weapons or equipment—only a continuously growing population more outrageous than the nation's entire civilian population.
What would happen to that country?
Would it perhaps...
Bang!
"A formation, huh? If these Rune Chains really are components of the formation, then they should be like code in a computer program or parts inside a machine, right?"
Fang Zheng continued pondering.
"Code serves different functions in different places, and parts have to be assembled to form more complete functions. If I directly copied hundreds or thousands of incomplete lines of code and stuffed them into a program, or shoved hundreds of thousands of parts into a well-functioning machine..."
"Heh!"
Fang Zheng grinned.
"Let's give it a try!"
He broke the End Portal Frame beside him, allowing the ultra-high-density Rune Chains, whose density had already balanced out and stopped erupting, to surge out through the gap once more and merge with the Rune Chains outside that were frantically attacking him.
The Rune Chains, thick as lava, fused into the Rune Chains outside without obstruction, causing the golden-red substance to emit a brilliant glow.
Faint, chaotic sounds began to come from all directions.
Fang Zheng could tell what they were—it was the Vermilion Bird's cry and the White Tiger's roar he had heard before.
Only, this time, the sounds varied in pitch. They were no longer as pleasant or majestic as before. Instead, like a poor signal, their tones slowly yet steadily became increasingly disordered.
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