Nameless and the others descended in their true bodies through the Chaos Eater and discovered that the Fictional Stomach Sea was a world unto itself.
"Is this really a stomach?" Cheng Xuejie asked, looking up at the sky in disbelief.
Aries Palace took it in stride. "The ability to create a small world isn't uncommon, but Nuen's Fictional Stomach Sea is rather special. I can no longer sense where the Great Wilderness Special Zone is."
"Great God Power truly is incredible. To think it can even do something like this. I wonder... could cultivators of the past, before the Great Destruction, cultivate Great God Power too?" Nameless said.
Aries Palace shook his head. "I don't know. Much of the information from before the Great Fracture Event has vanished into the long, benighted ages. Historians and other scholars have done their utmost to study the cultivation methods from that time, but too little information remains."
The cultivation methods of the present had been created by gathering all manner of disparate knowledge from the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, slowly sorting through it, and building on what came before.
Most powerhouses above level 200 had carved out their own paths. Beyond where they stood, there were no paths left to follow.
They chatted as they walked across the sea as though it were level ground. A few minutes later, they reached an island. Nameless flicked a finger, and the Power of Return landed on the ground, taking Nuen's form in the blink of an eye.
"Take me to your treasury," Nameless said calmly.
Nuen had lost his "self" and now resembled a Deep Sea Apostle. At Nameless's command, he led the way, and the others followed.
The Fictional Stomach Sea contained many regions. The "stage," for instance, was the Imaginary Sea, where