"How could you be this reckless?"
Li Heng's hand passed through the white sheet draped over his body and gently stroked Feng Xi's fiery red hair.
All around him lay countless corpses of various forms: Three-Legged Golden Crows with crimson-gold bodies, entirely dark-blue water monsters, and beings shaped like refrigerators, fans, armed helicopters, and the like.
Before their deaths, these Fifth Order information lifeforms had been "knowledge-poisoned lunatics" mass-produced by Li Heng—so-called mad scientists and steadfast seekers of the Dao.
The moment they transcended, they saw truth laid out directly before them and went mad. Ignoring fear's warnings, they charged straight into the Truth Gate, then became decorations adorning this world.
Rare birds and exotic beasts were better than human specimens. He did not like decorating the place where he lived like some horror wax museum.
Every one of them emitted an utterly terrifying aura: radiation containing infinite information.
Like Gravitational Waves and thermal radiation, the corpses left behind by those beings who had died challenging truth would naturally emit radiation even without anyone controlling them.
Only, what they radiated was pure information that formed the origin of the universe, somewhat similar to the Hilling Empire's Information Perturbation power, except countless times greater in both strength and range.
These information radiations could be used by Fifth Order information lifeforms, transformed into infinite matter and energy, instantly creating infinitely vast Material Universes within the Quantum Bit Ocean.
This information radiation had no effect on Li Heng whatsoever, even though he was not using the information-filtering function the Infinite Information Network provided every user.
This body of his was different from those of other information lifeforms, and different from those corpses that had entered the Infinite Domain.
The stronger he became, the more obvious that difference grew.
The Infinite Domain was not