Heart-Bewildering Cave. In the real universe, Chen Yan slowly opened his eyes.
The mental drain of comprehending a supreme rule was far more violent than a high-intensity battle.
But that drain was worth it.
"Time to go online and take a look."
With a thought, Chen Yan sent an idea to Nine-Heads, far away on Blue Star.
The next second, a portable virtual network access device appeared before him through spatial teleportation.
This was the latest model from the Terra Cosmic Human Empire, designed specifically for powerhouses at the Stellar Life level. It could ignore most physical barriers and directly link one's consciousness to the virtual network covering the entire empire.
Chen Yan had used the East Continent Alliance's virtual world on Blue Star before. That thing was based on dream technology, constructing a relatively realistic virtual space.
He was quite curious what kind of virtual network the Human Empire, one of the universe's top forces, had created.
His consciousness sank into the device.
Buzz—
There was no familiar dizziness, nor any transition of entering a dream.
Chen Yan only felt his "perspective" being raised without limit, instantly leaving his body behind and merging into an ocean formed from endless data and streams of light.
At the bottom of this ocean surged a power both familiar and unfamiliar.
"The Illusory Rule..."
Chen Yan understood at once.
The foundation of the Terra Human Empire's virtual network was actually "Illusion," one of the nine supreme rules.
Using a supreme rule as the cornerstone to build an enormous network covering countless star domains.
The sheer scale of it was absurd.
"No wonder..."
Chen Yan instantly figured out many things.
A network directly monitored and operated by a supreme rule like this was almost impossible for outside forces to breach.
Any attempt to use