World Consciousness

The scammer's skills were poor, but their dedication to fraud was admirable. After Zuo Yi hung up, they called several more times without giving up, until Zuo Yi decisively added the number to his blacklist.

Although peace had been restored, Zuo Yi could not recover his earlier pleasant mood. He hurriedly finished dinner and returned to the living room.

"Master..."

The Giant Spirit Witch Slave still floated above the oil lamp. It had already completed the new task Zuo Yi had assigned it. Its burly body radiated a soft spiritual glow, dispelling the darkness shrouding the living room.

Ding!

A gleaming Law Coin flicked from Zuo Yi's fingers, tracing a beautiful arc through the air as it flew toward the Giant Spirit Witch Slave.

The giant slave opened its mouth and swallowed it. The indestructible Law Coin swiftly broke down within its body, instantly turning into specks of starlight that merged with it.

It bowed in thanks. "Master, thank you for your generosity!"

The Giant Spirit Witch Slave was also a creation of laws. Although it could work tirelessly without food or drink, casting low-level spells and maintaining its own existence required energy.

The energy it needed was precisely the power of laws. As a low-tier creation, it could not directly draw the power of laws from the Web of Laws and thus had to rely on its master's gifts.

Law Coins were the simplest and most readily available source of the power of laws. A single Law Coin was enough to support a Giant Spirit Witch Slave's daily consumption for three months. Devouring Law Coins and turning them into its own power was also one of the basic abilities of law creations like the giant slave.

A law of the Sadea World: only the power of laws could resist, destroy, assimilate, or merge with the power of laws!

This law also applied to every plane in the multiverse.

Zuo Yi waved his hand, and the Giant Spirit Witch Slave hovering in midair was instantly "sucked" back into the oil lamp's wick.

The living room immediately fell into darkness.

But darkness could not obstruct Zuo Yi's vision. He turned on the living room lights, and brightness instantly returned.

In the past, Zuo Yi often traveled abroad. He had developed the habit of keeping sufficient balances in his utility and phone accounts, so despite having been gone for three years, his home's water, electricity, and gas had not been cut off.

He left the living room and went up to the third floor.

The bedroom, study, and bathroom had all been thoroughly cleaned by the giant slave, and the air conditioner and appliances were working normally. Zuo Yi had no intention of going to bed yet, so he walked out onto the balcony connected to the bedroom.

The semi-open balcony was spacious and paved with beautiful tiles. Looking north from it, he could see the broad Qiantang River making a large bend nearby before surging eastward into the sea.

This had once been Zuo Yi's most familiar sight. Now, however, many more high-rises lined both banks of the river. Neon lights flickered in dazzling, surreal colors, displaying the prosperity of Hang City, this modern metropolis.

Zuo Yi's gaze swept over the clusters of city buildings and looked west toward the vast mountain ranges beneath the night sky.

He activated Spirit Sight.

Spirit Sight was a skill shared by knights and wizards, capable of perceiving the truth of the world. This skill was based on spiritual power; the stronger one's spirit, the wider the range Spirit Sight could cover and the more information it could uncover.

The next moment, an enormous net that covered heaven and earth, invisible, intangible, and omnipresent, appeared within Zuo Yi's spiritual vision.

The Web of Laws!

The Web of Laws was the manifestation of the multiverse's primordial power. Any plane inhabited by intelligent life and civilization would inevitably be covered by a formed Web of Laws. Planes without a formed Web of Laws were regarded as primitive wildernesses.

In different planar worlds, the Web of Laws went by different names, such as the Magic Net, Origin Net, Void Net, Origin Sea, and so on. Yet regardless of its name, its essence was entirely the same.

The Web of Laws was also the source of extraordinary power. Where laws existed, the extraordinary was born!

In Zuo Yi's perception, the Web of Laws covering Blue Star World was far less vast and robust than that of the Sadea World. It brimmed with vigorous life and vitality and had formed less than one epoch ago.

The Web of Laws in the Sadea World had existed for more than five epochs!

Yet Blue Star World undoubtedly possessed extraordinary power as well, and it was a low-dimensional plane currently on the rise.

Zuo Yi continued probing along the Web of Laws—he needed to learn more.

But an immense tree standing atop the Web of Laws suddenly appeared, blocking his spiritual vision!

A trace of surprise flashed through Zuo Yi's eyes.

According to the knowledge gathered by Sadea World wizards through their exploration of countless planes, the planes of the multiverse were divided into nine dimensions. The higher the dimension, the larger and more powerful the plane. The plane where Sadea was located was on the seventh level.

Comparing it with the information he had just obtained through Spirit Sight, the plane housing Blue Star World should have been a low-dimensional third-level plane. Yet he had actually seen a World Tree, something extremely rare in low-dimensional planes!

The World Tree was the embodiment of the World Consciousness. It normally appeared only in mid- and high-dimensional planar worlds. Zuo Yi had taken part in the conquest of hundreds of planar worlds, yet this was the first time he had seen a World Tree in a low-dimensional plane.

The existence of the World Tree indicated that Blue Star World's consciousness had gained considerable intelligence and was no longer in a primitive, ignorant state.

"Greetings, Your Excellency, extraordinary one returned from another world."

The next moment, a gentle and pleasant voice rang out within his spiritual space.

Zuo Yi drew a long breath and answered with his spiritual will, "Greetings, great World Consciousness."

Zuo Yi was not surprised, because a being like him would draw the attention of a World Consciousness upon entering any world unless he sealed his spirit and power. Not to mention that he had actively probed the Web of Laws.

And because Zuo Yi was a native-born Blue Star human, the World Consciousness did not regard him as an invader. Otherwise, such peaceful and friendly communication would never have taken place.

At the same time, it was only because of his strength that he had earned the right to communicate.

The voice of Blue Star World's consciousness within his spiritual space carried a faint note of joy. "Welcome home, Your Excellency. Are you willing to leave your true name in your own world?"

Zuo Yi smiled.

It was far too young. Had it been one of those ancient World Consciousnesses, even if it wanted something, it would never have been so direct and eager.

Leaving a true-name imprint within a World Consciousness meant treating that world as one's main world. The benefits were that one's compatibility with the world could reach a perfect level, and one would receive the World Consciousness's protection for the soul.

Moreover, a true-name imprint was equivalent to an anchor coordinate for a planar world. When entering other planes for battle, one would never lose one's way with that coordinate in place.

However, leaving a true-name imprint also meant taking on the responsibility of protecting the World Consciousness. When facing invasions from foreign realms, one had to step forward and could not easily flee from battle.

Zuo Yi's true-name imprint existed within the Sadea World's consciousness. Once he anchored a new main world, the original imprint would automatically disappear according to the laws of the multiverse.

This meant that it would basically be impossible for him to return to the Sadea World, and he would actively sever all ties with it.

Zuo Yi considered it for only one second before answering resolutely, "I am willing!"

Boom!

At the command of his will, the Knight's Heart hidden within his chest thundered. The imprints of faith in the eight virtues—order, honor, courage, promise-keeping, steadfastness, integrity, honesty, and compassion—surfaced together, instantly condensing into a sun imprint wreathed in flames.

This imprint containing Zuo Yi's true name flew straight toward the World Tree and was instantly absorbed by it.

The next moment, the enormous World Tree vanished from Zuo Yi's spiritual vision, and he heard the World Consciousness's final message: "May the laws always be with you!"

"May the laws endure!"

Zuo Yi clenched his right fist and struck it against his chest in a knight's salute, completing his resonance with the World Consciousness.

The reason he had left his true-name imprint without hesitation was that Blue Star was his homeland. It was the world that truly belonged to him, the resting place of his soul, and the native land he had dreamed of returning to countless times.

At this moment, Zuo Yi felt streams of pure faith power continuously flowing into the Knight's Heart. The power he had expended during his decisive battle with the Abyssal Lord Sol rapidly recovered!

Faith power was a special form of the power of laws, the source power cultivated by knights.

This was a gift from the World Consciousness.

Zuo Yi stood on the balcony in a daze, feeling the changes within himself, until his ringing phone jolted him awake.

He took out his phone and saw that he had received a new text message.

The contents of that message made Zuo Yi frown.

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