Internal Universe

The sun had already set, and crimson clouds blanketed the mountaintops, illuminating the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

Suddenly, a violent disturbance erupted from within the forest. Countless birds took flight from the trees, circling uneasily overhead.

Looking toward the source of the commotion, one could see an open space that had abruptly appeared in the dense forest—or rather, a massive crater over a hundred meters in diameter.

No, calling it a meteor crater was not quite accurate.

There was no meteorite in the pit, nor were there any traces of a heavy object striking the ground.

The entire crater formed a flawless hemisphere.

Whether it was the dirt and gravel, the roots of grass and trees, or the Crushed Stones embedded in the walls of the pit, every cross-section was incomparably smooth, as though they had not been blasted away, but swallowed by some unknown entity.

And that was indeed the case. Centered on the middle of the crater's cross-section, every bit of matter within a hundred-meter radius had vanished.

Only a speck of silver light floated at the center, seemingly shrinking and expanding with the passage of time, flickering in and out.

Then, at a certain instant, the air above the crater abruptly twisted. The silver light, once merely a point, stretched and shifted, gradually taking on a human shape beneath the dim sunlight.

Before long, the silver glow withdrew, revealing a tall human body.

He stood around one meter eighty-five in height. His face was delicate and youthful, while every muscle across his body was clearly defined, stacked in perfect proportion like a flawless sculpture crafted according to the golden ratio.

Yet those overly perfect proportions instead made him seem somewhat unreal. In particular, the exposed skin on his youthful face and body was so smooth that it could be called utterly flawless.

These were absolutely not traits a human could possess.

At that moment, the inhuman youth floated steadily in the air, limbs outstretched and eyes closed. His black hair moved without wind, while an indescribable aura radiated from his entire body.

The moment the youth descended, that aura rapidly spread, sweeping across a radius of ten miles in an instant.

Every living creature that sensed it, from ants building nests in the soil to massive beasts dozens of meters long, helplessly prostrated themselves upon the ground, trembling amid fear and confusion.

Until, at a certain moment, the youth floating in the air finally opened his eyes.

In an instant, the terrifying aura covering the surrounding ten miles rolled back and disappeared.

All the creatures lying prone on the ground froze. They cautiously raised their heads and surveyed their surroundings with bewildered gazes, seemingly unable to understand what had happened.

"What is this..."

"A new world?!!"

Gazing at the thriving, dense forest before him, the youth's previously confused eyes gradually lit up. Uncontrollable excitement and joy surged across his delicate face.

"Finally... I finally got in!"

The youth danced about in excitement.

At the same time, the silver light around his body completely withdrew. The force keeping him afloat suddenly vanished, turning his joyous shout from the previous second into an unexpected cry of alarm in the next.

"Ah—huh?!"

The expected dull thud never came.

The completely naked youth climbed up from the bottom of the fifty-meter-deep crater, patted his backside, and turned around in surprise.

Sure enough, the bottom of the crater was still a smooth stone wall, without the slightest trace of impact, as though his body possessed no weight whatsoever.

But that was impossible, because he could clearly feel the gravitational pull of the planet beneath his feet...

The youth fell into thought. Then, he suddenly discovered that the world within his body seemed to have gained an extremely faint trace of foreign energy from nowhere.

His heart stirred, and he immediately closed his eyes, sinking his consciousness into his Internal Universe.

A moment later, the youth opened his eyes, and a distinct smile appeared on his delicate face.

"So that's how it is..."

The youth's name was Lin Yu, a transmigrator who had experienced transmigration twice.

During his first transmigration, he had accidentally collided with a world that had just been born. From then on, he fused with that newborn world, his soul replacing the world's will while his body became the vessel of a universe.

To a certain extent, Lin Yu had already become an existence comparable to a Dimensional Demon God.

But he only possessed a little over twenty years of memories from his previous life and knew nothing about his own existence.

Though he possessed an extremely lofty status, he could only drift eternally through the Void Sea on the Outer side of the world...

The endless Void Sea was silent and dark. For Lin Yu, who possessed the memories of an Earthling, it was undoubtedly a prison of despair.

He refused to accept this, so he sank his consciousness into his Internal Universe, attempting to understand and control the powers that had always belonged to him.

Gradually, Lin Yu gained an initial grasp of some of his own authority.

Relying on those authorities, he could actively command his Internal Universe and travel through this Endless Void.

After discovering this, Lin Yu was overjoyed and could not wait to begin his journey in search of the Myriad Worlds.

But at the time, he did not know that this void possessed spacetime laws completely different from those of the Myriad Worlds.

Here, spacetime did not exist linearly, but in an extremely chaotic state.

Conventional concepts such as direction and distance held no meaning in the void.

The ends of the earth could be within arm's reach, and something within arm's reach could lie at the ends of the earth.

As Lin Yu guided his Internal Universe through the void, he might cross hundreds of millions of spacetime units in an instant, or spend a long time moving only to remain in the same place.

Even more terrifyingly, the void itself was constantly changing, without any discernible pattern.

This made it impossible for Lin Yu to return along his original route. Even if he remained motionless, the surrounding void continued to shift without end.

In such a chaotic place, finding another world was like searching for a needle in the sea.

Fortunately, Lin Yu alone was a world. He carried his entire home with him and had no need to worry about losing his way back.

He gritted his teeth and drifted through the Endless Void. Who knew how much time passed before he finally discovered a silver orb of light shining amid that dead darkness.

The instant he saw that orb, Lin Yu immediately sensed the abundant vitality filling it.

Without question, the world represented by that orb was a brand-new world!

Lin Yu was both shocked and delighted.

He feared that the world he had found with such difficulty would be "refreshed" away by the ever-changing void, so he charged toward it without hesitation.

But this world did not seem particularly welcoming toward him. As he forcibly entered it, a great power originating from the world itself suddenly emerged, fiercely resisting his entry.

How could that possibly be acceptable?!

Lin Yu had long since had enough of the void's darkness and silence. He hardened his heart and swore that he would see this world no matter what.

And so, he contended with that power from the world itself for a long time.

In the end, under Lin Yu's reckless "assault," the world gave in first and retreated a step, allowing Lin Yu's true body to force its way into this world!

There was no need to repeat what happened afterward. In short, after sensing that faint new trace of energy within his Internal Universe, Lin Yu finally understood why his fall had made no sound just now.

It was because, at the moment of his fall, all energy—including kinetic energy—had surged into Lin Yu's Internal Universe!

"So, is this an energy-absorption ability that comes with my true body?"

Feeling the faint energy that had appeared from nowhere within his Internal Universe, Lin Yu fell into thought.

The next second, he raised his hand and pointed forward with his index finger.

"Boom!"

In an instant, all the kinetic energy converted from his fall from fifty meters in the air erupted forth, stirring the air touched by his fingertip and transforming it into streams of wind that blasted in every direction.

"I really can expel it!"

A powerful gust rushed toward him, yet Lin Yu smiled.

In just a few seconds, he had already gained an initial grasp of this ability. He could even set the types and thresholds of energy absorption himself, and once again enjoy the long-missed feeling of a breeze brushing against his face.

"If that's the case, what about gravity?"

Lin Yu closed his eyes again and sank his consciousness into his Internal Universe.

Before long, his black hair, lifted by the airflow, gradually became fixed in the air.

Although Lin Yu himself still stood where he was, the gravity and all other gravitational forces acting upon his body had vanished, leaving his entire body in a suspended state unaffected by any external force.

"It worked!"

Lin Yu opened his eyes and raised his head, his gaze burning brightly.

The next second, energy flooded into his Internal Universe and erupted from beneath his feet.

"Ha ha!"

Amid his hearty laughter, Lin Yu's body shot into the sky, flying out of the crater in the blink of an eye.

From above, a figure wrapped in airflow was accelerating toward the sky at 10 m/s.

The air resistance rushing head-on could not affect him in the slightest. Like gravity, it was absorbed by the universe within his body, continuously replenishing the energy he was releasing.

"Whoosh, whoosh—"

The air currents roared, but Lin Yu himself remained unaffected. Even his fluttering black hair did not move in the slightest.

This made his flight appear somewhat unreal, as though he were a glitched game character continuously sliding through the air in a manner that defied physics.

This method of flight did not bring the exhilarating freedom of soaring through the sky that he had imagined. Instead, it reminded Lin Yu of his arduous journey through the Endless Void.

Compared with those unpleasant memories, Lin Yu actually missed the grounded feeling of being human.

So he stopped absorbing gravity and resistance. Like a missile that had run out of fuel, his body abruptly turned in midair and crashed toward the ground in an extremely unstable posture.

Just as Lin Yu had expected, this fall still did not produce the sound a fall should have made.

All the kinetic energy converted from gravitational potential energy flowed into his Internal Universe.

But one thing still exceeded Lin Yu's expectations—

The landing spot of this fall!

About ten miles away from the crater, Lin Yu's naked body floated dozens of meters in the air in a "wood" shape. His pitch-black eyes were wide open as he stared, as though he had seen a ghost, at the invisible barrier before him.

"...What the hell is this?"

"An invisible wall?!"