"I'm back."
Chen Ye let out a long breath and emerged from his cultivation.
He recalled what had happened this time and compared it with his previous experience.
When he had entered the Real World from the stone coffin, the female corpse had been there. The two clearly corresponded in some way.
But this time, she had not been there.
That meant the Real World and this world did not correspond one-to-one.
Remembering the murmurs he had heard before, Chen Ye suspected that this world and the Real World were synchronized in some way.
Chen Ye felt that he still had some strength left, so he activated the True Dragon Dao-Seeding Technique again and entered the Real World.
He stood once more on the beach, which looked no different from the first time he had seen it.
Chen Ye left the Real World, returned here, took five steps, then entered the Real World again.
To his surprise, he found himself standing in the middle of the island. He had shifted fifty or sixty fathoms; his position had changed.
Chen Ye repeated the test several times until he was utterly exhausted.
He found that wherever he entered the Real World, the surroundings differed.
Judging by how far his position changed, Chen Ye estimated that the Real World was at least thirty times larger than this world.
Beyond that, he could infer nothing else.
To unravel the mystery, he would have to keep exploring.
Ideally, he would meet someone alive in the Real World. He could ask them directly, which would be far better than guessing on his own.
But for some reason, every place he had entered in the Real World had been desolate, without a trace of human habitation.
Seeing no way forward, Chen Ye stopped dwelling on it.
He