My Cheat Ability Really Does Have a Problem

After all, it was the first living creature in this world to communicate with him.

Although whether it truly counted as "communication" was still questionable, Lin Yu really couldn't bear to kill the living thing he had finally encountered after enduring so many hardships.

...I should just beat it into submission!

With that thought, Lin Yu smiled slightly and raised his clenched right fist.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

For the next five minutes, deafening explosions and the Unicorn Giant Beast's miserable wails rang continuously through the forest.

Five minutes later, the Unicorn Giant Beast knelt on all fours, sprawled on the ground, its massive, mountain-like body trembling uncontrollably.

Standing beside the giant beast's left ochre eye, Lin Yu smiled as he stroked its shattered scales.

"Be good. If you listen, I won't hit you anymore~"

"Roar~"

The Unicorn Giant Beast let out a weak, listless growl.

It was not because it understood Lin Yu's words. It was simply because it had failed to respond last time, causing Lin Yu to mistakenly think it had yet to submit, so he gave it another punch to the eye socket...

It was obvious the poor thing was truly terrified!

Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction, then turned around, placed his hands on his hips, and gazed spiritedly at the forest ahead.

"Next, I'll inspect my territory and find a suitable place to settle down!"

Over the next three days, Lin Yu rode his newly subdued little brother and traversed every inch of land within a radius of ten li.

After careful consideration, he ultimately chose to return to the original spot. Beside the hundred-meter-wide crater, he felled trees and built a house, constructing a fairly decent shelter.

Of course, with the dignity of his current true body, nothing in this world could harm him, nor did he need food or sleep.

The reason he chose to chop wood for a house and weave himself a grass skirt ultimately came down to the lingering influence of his memories from his human past life.

The power of habit was immense. Especially for the current Lin Yu, his memories of drifting eternally through the Endless Void had added another layer of beautifying filter to the past life he already missed dearly.

And so, during the days that followed, Lin Yu lived like a savage, ruling the forest and throwing his weight around as its king.

At first, the vibrant life force of this world and every blade of grass and tree in the forest filled him with boundless excitement.

But as time passed, he gradually grew accustomed to his circumstances and began longing for genuine communication.

Although he now had the beasts of the forest for company, these beasts had not developed intelligence. No matter how much Lin Yu tried to convince himself otherwise, deep down, he knew they were merely listening to him ramble one-sidedly.

At some point, Lin Yu began hoping that an intelligent lifeform would pass through his territory.

He was certain such beings existed in this world, because within the dense forest spanning ten li around him, there was a small woodland path bearing unmistakable wheel tracks.

Without a doubt, this was proof that humans—or rather, civilization—existed.

Unfortunately, the woodland path seemed to have been abandoned long ago.

Lin Yu waited by the roadside for several months, yet gained nothing.

In the seventh month after arriving in this world, Lin Yu rode the Unicorn Giant Beast he had named Rolycoly and, as usual, came to the edge of his ten-li territory, habitually waiting for possible visitors.

"Rumble—"

As the ground trembled, the thirty-meter-long Rolycoly lay down on the spot, lazily closed its eyes, and basked in the sunlight.

Wearing a grass skirt around his waist, Lin Yu sat cross-legged atop its head with his eyes closed, his consciousness sinking into the Internal Universe.

Since the Internal Universe had only been born recently, it was still in the initial stage of the Big Bang.

The matter within the universe could currently exist only in gaseous form. Blazing, dense energy gathered within the cramped newborn universe, propelling its space to expand continuously at superluminal speeds.

At this time, neither stars nor stellar systems had formed. The entire universe existed in conditions of extreme heat, extreme density, and extreme radiation.

In a place even more hellish than Hell, let alone matter, even Immortal-level powerhouses in the conventional sense of the Myriad Worlds could not possibly survive.

For that very reason, Lin Yu simply could not use the Internal Universe as Storage Space.

The matter he had devoured when he first entered this world had already been completely destroyed at the moment of devouring.

In the full seven months since transmigrating to this world, Lin Yu had merely stored some relatively mild external energy apart from that nearly infinite and terrifying energy source. He had made no changes to the universe as a whole.

If Lin Yu had drawn upon the energy that inherently belonged to the Internal Universe when dealing with Rolycoly, then the outward display would have been far more than simply beating Rolycoly into submission.

The entire planet might have been destroyed in an instant!

Getting back to the point, Lin Yu was observing the Internal Universe at this moment not because of its harsh environment, which he had long grown accustomed to, but because of a mysterious force that had suddenly drifted into the Internal Universe from the Endless Void a month ago.

This thing had neither form nor substance, yet it truly existed. Even the universe's Hell-like environment could not harm it in the slightest.

When it entered the Internal Universe from the Endless Void, Lin Yu noticed it immediately. He then sank his consciousness into the universe and, like now, cast his gaze upon it from a higher dimension.

To Lin Yu's surprise, the thing seemed to sense his presence. The instant his "gaze" fell upon it, it tore open space without hesitation and attempted to flee the universe.

Honestly, if time had been turned back to when Lin Yu had first fused with the world, it might truly have escaped.

But the current Lin Yu was no longer his former self. In order to move through the Endless Void, he had spent untold ages mastering his own authority and strengthening his control over the Internal Universe.

Therefore, the moment he discovered that this thing intended to flee, Lin Yu did not hesitate to act.

In the time it took for a single thought to arise and vanish, he firmly sealed that strand of mysterious power within the Internal Universe.

Afterward, he wielded his authority and observed it carefully from an even higher dimension, only to discover that its rank was quite strange. It seemed to fluctuate constantly.

Sometimes, its rank was equal to Lin Yu's. At other times, it was even loftier than his.

Of course, most of the time, its rank lay below Lin Yu's, roughly one level beneath the World Consciousness.

As Lin Yu silently observed it, the thing also seemed to realize that it could not escape. It decisively gave up struggling and instead took the initiative to merge into the Internal Universe, choosing to acknowledge Lin Yu as its master.

Do not misunderstand. This so-called acknowledgment was not merely Lin Yu's wishful thinking, but information the thing had actively conveyed when it chose to merge.

Lin Yu had already been very interested in it. On top of that, as the dignified Dimensional Demon God and World Consciousness, he feared neither Heaven nor Earth, so he happily accepted its acknowledgment.

However...

"It's been over a month already. Why hasn't this master-recognition process ended yet..."

Lin Yu opened his eyes and sat atop Rolycoly's head, muttering to himself, "Could it be because my true body is too enormous?"

"No, how could it possibly be my fault? It must be because this thing is too useless!"

"Come to think of it, what exactly are you? If you can acknowledge a master, then you're either some magical artifact or a cheat ability. Maybe you're even some kind of system..."

"Pah! You call yourself a system? You can't even finish acknowledging your master after a whole month. How did I end up stuck with such a weakling!"

Lin Yu sat atop Rolycoly's head, grumbling and muttering nonstop.

This habit of talking to himself had persisted for a long time, and even the little brother beneath him had long since grown used to it.

Rolycoly snorted, ignored the voice coming from above, and continued basking in the sunlight.

Just then, it suddenly opened its half-lidded eyes and stared fixedly at the woodland path ahead, opening its mouth to let out a wary growl.

"Roar!"

At the same time, Lin Yu's muttering came to an abrupt halt.

He sprang to his feet, his eyes shining as he stared ahead. His handsome face was filled with excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and agitation.

"Before coming here, I had wondered what exactly had happened in this forest..."

Accompanied by a surprised voice and the soft sound of footsteps, a young and beautiful White-robed Woman emerged from the woods. She looked with interest at the mountain-like giant beast before her and the youth atop its head.

"But this sight truly exceeds my expectations!"