Dream Space

"Assimilation!"

"Gene replication!"

Lu Zhiyu could see that after he had set the gene template for the first cell, his brain's Deified Cells had loaded extraordinary abilities controlled by partial information.

As the loading of all Deified Cells was completed, Lu Zhiyu immediately felt a change in his Thought Space; his ability to grasp and control the four-dimensional space was completely different.

Countless cells could control massive amounts of information at any time to modify and adjust the entire Thought Space. Perhaps at this moment, it could no longer be called a Thought Space, but a Dream Space!

Lu Zhiyu stood within the Dream Space. The entire world was pitch black, with no up, down, left, or right, nor any time or matter. With a single thought from Lu Zhiyu, he saw the entire world seemingly changing according to his will.

Beneath Lu Zhiyu's feet, something began to spread. He could see a stretch of land appearing under his feet. Following his gaze, he saw buildings appearing in the Dream Space one by one, as if they were being woven by threads.

An ancient small town gradually emerged within Lu Zhiyu's dream. Lu Zhiyu glanced at the sky, where a red moon caught his eye. The entire world finally had a glimmer of light, but this blood-red moon gave the whole town an eerie and sinister hue!

Lu Zhiyu felt that continuing to create would be difficult. The amount of information his mental power could control had reached its limit at this point. To expand the Dream Space and make it more realistic and vivid, he would need more mental power.

"It really works! A world constructed purely of information, a Dream Space—I have succeeded!"

Lu Zhiyu felt a surge of excitement. Although the dream world he created this time was pitifully small and composed only of information, it was worlds apart from the Maria World he had created previously; there was simply no comparison!

However, this was a world Lu Zhiyu had created himself without relying on any external force. He knew how he had created it, understood its principles and structure, and knew everything about it, rather than operating it through the Universe Scroll and his own administrative privileges. The significance was entirely different!

Lu Zhiyu walked through the town in the dream world. There was not a single person in the entire world, and the night in the village was quiet. It was a town that looked ancient, with old wooden houses and packed-dirt streets. The town had only one main street, with the rest consisting of small farm courtyards.

On the street, there was a dilapidated tavern, a blacksmith shop, and a grocery store. The blacksmith shop was fully equipped with tools, hanging with a dazzling array of farm implements and kitchen knives. The grocery store was stocked with various daily necessities, and the tavern's kitchen was filled with food, with wine barrels stuffing the cellar.

Yet, there was not a single person in the entire world. This was Lu Zhiyu's dream world, the embryonic form of a world just formed.

Lu Zhiyu wandered alone through the entire dream world, observing his world bit by bit. The soil under his feet was exactly the same as the real thing, the buildings carried the scent of wood, and even the food was the same as in the real world.

Everything Lu Zhiyu had here was manifested entirely according to the information of the real world. Although it was not real, from the level of information, they were exactly the same as the real ones. In this world, you could never distinguish the boundary between reality and illusion!

"It's a bit monotonous and too small, but since it's feasible, it means my guesses and ideas were not wrong. I am walking on the right path!"

As he walked, Lu Zhiyu pondered, "There are still many areas that can be strengthened. The Deified Cells currently only have the ability to load control information; they must also be able to construct the ability to influence the outside world and possess the power to pull the consciousness of other intelligent creatures into the dream world. Otherwise, a mere dream world doesn't have much utility!"

Lu Zhiyu immediately made a note of it. The genes must not only have the ability to control information but must also possess the ability of information assimilation—to assimilate others and pull them into his dream world, unnoticed. Attacks from the information level were extremely difficult to guard against.

Lu Zhiyu exited the dream world, his consciousness regaining control of his body. He stood up from the library of the Space Castle, designed the gene for information assimilation, and loaded it onto himself. With this, Lu Zhiyu's dream control ability was largely completed; this was also Lu Zhiyu's first extraordinary ability.

However, this was only the first step. Lu Zhiyu still had a very long way to go. Loading gene fragments one by one like this would form a perfect life template. Lu Zhiyu had to find a way to forge his own mythological creature life template.

From entering the Universe Scroll, it took Lu Zhiyu several months to create Sakun, and another few months to research and observe it. A year had passed. It took Lu Zhiyu another year or more to develop the information control genes, debug the dream control cells, and finally perfect them. In the blink of an eye, Lu Zhiyu had already stayed in the Maria World for more than two years.

Lu Zhiyu was sitting in a chair reading when he suddenly closed his eyes. The whole world darkened instantly. In Lu Zhiyu's consciousness world, he immediately sensed that there were six Ant-Men within a two-hundred-square-meter radius nearby.

"Dream World, activate!"

Lu Zhiyu saw a wave of information radiate outward. His mental power surged immediately, pulling the consciousness of these few Ant-Men into the Dream Space.

In the small town, several white light spots appeared again instantly. In the village under the blood moon, several white light spots remained on the street, moving around in confusion and bewilderment!

The consciousness of these Ant-Men was very weak; they couldn't even manifest a basic form in the Dream Space. Lu Zhiyu could feel their confusion. These Ant-Men had low intelligence and did not know fear or terror; they were simply baffled as to why they had suddenly arrived here!

Lu Zhiyu released the dream control, and the consciousness of the few Ant-Men immediately returned to their bodies. Lu Zhiyu stood up. It seemed that the extraordinary ability he had developed, dream control, was very successful. However, this was only aimed at Ant-Men; Lu Zhiyu had to find some powerful creatures to test it on!

"The flow of time seems to have slowed down again!"

Ever since Lu Zhiyu created Sakun, the time flow of the entire Maria World had been affected again, and the world seemed to have become further perfected. Lu Zhiyu could feel that the original four-thousand-fold time flow had already dropped to less than three thousand times. The ratio of one day on Earth to the time flow in the Maria World had dropped to about eight years!

Lu Zhiyu had not expected that the appearance of a mythological creature would have such a great impact on the world. During this long period, Lu Zhiyu had not observed the changes in the Maria World. At this moment, he discovered that a large number of giant creatures and sea monster groups had appeared in the oceans of the Maria World, and the formation of most of these strange creatures was related to Sakun!

Lu Zhiyu prepared to set off to capture Sakun. First, he wanted to try out his newly developed extraordinary power, dream control, to see if his extraordinary ability could deal with deified creatures as he had guessed!