Mastermind Awareness

A terrifyingly massive energy existed beyond the multiverse of the imaginary world.

It was an indescribably colossal energy, so horrifyingly immense that it exceeded Bai Ge's imagination.

One had to understand that the imaginary world was, by nature, Bai Ge's realm of imagination. How could anything here possibly exceed his imagination?

"I can't control it. This is the energy of reality! How... how is it in my imaginary world?"

Bai Ge was stunned. He said, "What else is there in my imaginary world that I don't know about?"

"Only that. It is the sole thing that exists in your imaginary world without any known origin," Bell said.

"Then how do you know about it?"

"Inertia of thought."

"What do you mean?"

Bell explained, "I am a part of you, but the greatest difference between us is that you are an Earthling."

"Your inertia of thought assumes that beyond the multiverse of the imaginary world lies reality... So although you travel through the imaginary world, you have never discovered or sensed this energy of reality, because it exists beyond the multiverse while also being within your imagination."

"But I'm different. You set me as the Great Dao. I am the embodiment of your subconscious mind combined with part of your settings, so I will not overlook it."

Bai Ge quickly understood. "I see. I've already shared it..."

He understood what was happening. Put simply, this energy existed within the realm of Non-existence.

The multiverse had been set by him. When he arrived, there had already been a universe here, created by his subconscious settings.

This inertia of thought made him believe that the imaginary world contained only the multiverse, and he had equated the two.

That was not entirely accurate, however. The imaginary world was truly infinite. Imagination had no limits, so neither did the imaginary world.

The multiverse, by comparison, was different. It was relatively limited.

And yet, there was an energy beyond the multiverse. It was a product of reality, so powerful that it exceeded imagination—something his will could not affect.

Indeed, although he could affect inanimate objects in reality, doing so required expending his physical energy.

Clearly, his physical energy was insufficient to affect such terrifying energy, which was why he had been completely unable to react to or sense it.

That was precisely why it could forcibly remain in the place Bai Ge believed did not exist...

Put simply, Bai Ge's conscious mind did not know that there was another "place" beyond the multiverse.

"Could it be that my imaginary world was opened by it...?"

This thought was almost inevitable, because that mysterious energy was unbelievably vast.

"I don't know," Bell said honestly.

"Forget it. Energy of this magnitude is something I couldn't possibly affect..."

Bai Ge simply stopped thinking about it and turned back to studying information.

"Everything known to you is known to me. In fact, I can learn all information that exists within the imaginary world... except for that energy."

"So that means..."

In an instant, Bai Ge acquired all the knowledge he had gathered earlier.

Soon, he solved the advanced mathematics problem and arrived at the same answer as Bell.

"I'll verify it..."

Suppressing his excitement, Bai Ge returned to reality and searched online for the answer to the problem.

After checking it line by line, he finally smiled.

"The answer is correct... I actually solved a math problem like this."

It was obvious that Bai Ge had discovered an incredible divine skill.

For a moment, his imagination ran wild, and he thought of countless applications based on this.

Aside from conventionally learning knowledge and becoming an authority in various fields...

Its greatest wonder was that it could shorten the learning process.

Take martial arts for the simplest example.

How long would it take to master a proper fighting art in reality?

It might take decades. Even a genius couldn't become a master in just a few days, right?

But Bai Ge could...

Because information could be shared in one direction...

Bai Ge began searching online for information about Taijiquan, including all kinds of videos.

Of course, he was not looking for simple exercise routines, but genuine Chen-style Tai Chi.

Bai Ge brought it into the imaginary world.

Without a doubt, both Bai Ge and Bell had completely mastered it in an instant. One could even say they had reached the level of perfection.

Of course, that did not mean his Tai Chi had truly reached perfection. It was only perfection based on this information, whose authenticity was unknown.

Because there was no such thing as mastering eighty or ninety percent for him. Once he knew it... he knew it at one hundred percent.

"Is this Chen-style Tai Chi really effective? How powerful is it?"

As he spoke, Bai Ge performed a set himself.

The moment he raised his hands, the entire immortal-xia universe shook.

The stars moved at his fingertips. With a single opening movement, he directly stirred up the Sea of Stars.

The spiritual energy in the universe returned to its origin and transformed toward the Four Symbols. If Bai Ge continued performing this set, the universe might turn into the Two Principles and return to primordial chaos...

"What the hell?" Bai Ge was startled and immediately stopped.

"I didn't ask you to filter out wild associations... All right, I understand. In this immortal-xia universe, this set of boxing is actually the most supreme Sacred Path Ultimate Skill..."

Bell said, "That's right. It isn't because the rules have been altered again. Rather, the natural laws already present in this immortal-xia universe adapted to this boxing style and classified it as... the highest-level Cultivation Method. With your Earthling body using this 'Sacred Path Ultimate Skill,' it naturally caused the stars to be swept up and the elements of the world to be reforged..."

Bai Ge smiled bitterly. He understood the cause of it all in an instant.

Put simply, compared with reality, the universe he had created was far too childish...

Don't be fooled by the fact that people here could cultivate immortality, live forever, and casually destroy heaven and earth. In truth, the universe's highest-level immortal cultivation methods were, in essence, at most equivalent to an ordinary fighting art in the real world.

This was measured against Bai Ge himself. He had studied combat at the Police Academy, and his "level" represented the highest level of this universe.

It was only because this was the imaginary world that its outward manifestations could be set however he wished.

So, could the combat training he had practiced at school compare with Chen-style Tai Chi? Obviously, it was far inferior.

Thus, after reality's information invaded, the immortal-xia universe adapted to Chen-style Tai Chi and manifested it as... "a stronger ultimate art many times more powerful than the strongest ultimate art."

That was what had caused the current situation.

"Looks like I can't demonstrate it here. I'll still have to go to reality."

After learning that he did not have a terminal illness and opening his imaginary world, Bai Ge's mindset became excellent again.

Early the next morning, he went to the park for his morning exercises.

Actually, he had once had a habit of exercising in the morning as well, though it consisted only of jogging and practicing grappling techniques.

Today, however, he performed a set of Tai Chi—not slow, gentle calisthenics, but actual boxing.

"As expected, it's a genuine fighting art. Even though my physical abilities haven't changed, if I fought the old me, I'd finish it in one move..."

Bai Ge performed one set after another, even improvising and inserting transformations as circumstances required.

This was to let his body adapt to Tai Chi and develop muscle memory.

After all, his mastery existed in his consciousness... as if he had painstakingly trained for decades.

His body, however, remained the same as before.

Even so, Bai Ge was confident he could take on ten men alone.

He had already been good at fighting. Now that he had "master-level awareness," he could at least be considered half a master. What was more, Chen-style Tai Chi seemed to be a king-tier fighting style.

"My movements are much smoother. There's also breathing coordination involved. I haven't felt tired at all after practicing for so long—in fact, I feel even more energetic..."

As he practiced over and over, Bai Ge was both excited and disappointed.

He was excited, naturally, because his ability to protect himself had risen dramatically out of nowhere.

What disappointed him was that even after reaching perfection, no supernatural phenomenon had appeared.

The True Qi from novels was even more nonexistent.

The facts proved that reality was reality. This was merely a martial art combining combat and health maintenance.

"sigh, I originally wanted to cultivate immortality..." After recognizing that reality had no Mystic Side, Bai Ge could only give up for the time being.

After practicing for a while and getting a feel for it, Bai Ge returned to his residence.

His residence also served as his "shopfront."

There was no signboard and no means of advertising. His clients learned about the existence of Bai Ge's Office only through word of mouth.

In short, the office was not very legitimate, and Bai Ge did not like becoming famous. He was perfectly content to quietly collect money and get things done.

Before, if he had nothing to do, he would have to go out looking for work, carrying his little notebook and checking who urgently needed his help before volunteering himself.

Now, however, Bai Ge was no longer under the pressure of a terminal illness, so he was in no hurry to seek new clients.

Instead, he had fallen in love with martial arts.

He was a martial-arts enthusiast. Although he knew that reality held no such miraculous martial arts, now that he had the opportunity, he still could not resist learning them.

These days, one could find all kinds of "manuals" online.

If someone wanted to learn a boxing routine, they could search directly for videos.

Of course, the true essentials still required a master's guidance, but Bai Ge was able to skip that step.

Experience was no longer so important. He had no gradual learning process. As long as the information was detailed enough, whatever Bai Ge learned, he learned completely! He learned it to the limit!

It was either zero or one hundred percent.

After all, within the imaginary world, there were only two kinds of things for Bai Ge: things created through settings, and the settings themselves.

No matter how profound a real-world martial art was, even if it could destroy the universe in the imaginary world, so what? It was still merely a "set object," and it could not compare with the settings themselves!

A Cultivation Method for slaying gods was trash.

A Cultivation Method for slaughtering a million gods was merely slightly more formidable trash.

As the absolute ruler, complexity, difficulty, obscurity, and the like simply did not exist for him.

That was because he retained passive omniscience over the imaginary world.

Of course, as exaggerated as that sounded, it was limited to the imaginary world.

If he came to reality, those non-real martial arts would be worse than trash...

So, if Bai Ge wanted to learn anything, he would only learn real-world martial arts.

Soon, two months passed. Bai Ge had practically learned all the more authoritative martial-arts knowledge available online.

This included fighting techniques from ancient and modern times, from China and abroad, from every corner of the world.

In the fields of combat and martial arts... Bai Ge had become a true "keyboard king"!

His consciousness was equivalent to the combined accomplishments of hundreds of martial artists from different schools, each with decades of experience.

In terms of fighting styles alone, the breadth of his knowledge was already rare in the world and without equal.

This was an extremely terrifying consciousness, enough to make up for Bai Ge's physical shortcomings.

However, when it came to actual combat, he had never truly tested himself even once, so Bai Ge did not know how powerful he had become...

"It's a pity. In this day and age, learning to this level doesn't seem very useful."

"I'd probably still be taken down by a single bullet."

P.S. Of course I know all the ways to use the imaginary world, but I can't write about that many things all at once. This ability hasn't been fully explained yet.