Huo Yuhao was stunned.
"How is that possible? Elder Yi, didn't you say a half-plane couldn't exist within a primary plane? That the Plane Will would expel it? The Bright Half-Plane you just created was clearly in the Alternate Space!"
Huo Yuhao asked in confusion. He had always assumed he was in the Alternate Space, but after hearing Elder Yi's words and seeing his solemn expression, Huo Yuhao finally realized how serious the situation was.
The Bright Half-Plane had not only appeared on Douluo Star, but had also manifested within his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. It was simply unbelievable.
"Yes. That's why I suspect something has gone wrong with your world's Plane Will."
"Not only did it refrain from expelling this Bright Half-Plane of yours, it even took the initiative to draw it into the Douluo Continent. Such a thing would have been unimaginable to me when I was alive."
"A greater world allowing a smaller world to exist inside it is a sign of relinquishing authority. It means it agrees to let you compete with it for territory. That should be impossible in any plane."
With that, Electrolux sank into thought. Much of his excitement over creating the Bright Half-Plane had faded. This was the first time he had encountered something he could not explain, and he felt he ought to take it seriously.
Huo Yuhao was much the same. The CPU in his brain was working overtime. Combining the information Electrolux had revealed with the plot he knew, he considered even more possibilities than Electrolux did.
The Douluo Plane's Plane Will had ceded authority to him, a former child of destiny. That could only prove one thing: the alteration of the thread of fate had not been thorough. At the very least, the Douluo Plane's Plane Will still retained a tiny impression of him.
Besides, the behavior of Douluo Star's Plane Will in the original story had been rather strange. It had produced not only a Human Race child of destiny—him—
But also, during this same period, a child of destiny among the Soul Beast Clan: the Emperor Auspicious Beast. Although she had been born three thousand years before the Human Race child of destiny, given the rigid constraints of Soul Beast cultivation cycles, the two children of destiny had effectively been born in the same era.
Was it to guard against the Abyss? Or had the Douluo Plane's will noticed someone scheming against it and sent forth two children of destiny to prepare its defenses in advance?
If it was the latter, Huo Yuhao could only tell Douluo Star's planar will that it was far too young and naïve. Little Scumbag had not only seen through its scheme, but had also played both children of destiny in the palm of his hand, holding Douluo Star's fortune firmly in his grasp. All he had to do was let time wear away at it until Douluo Star's planar will collapsed on its own.
In the end, ten thousand years later, he had successfully had his father, Tang Hao, completely replace Douluo Star's vanished Plane Will and become the master of Douluo. Among all the deities in the Divine Realm who had left their home planets, Tang Hao had become the only one to gain complete control over his own.
Yet the Great Dao numbered fifty, heaven unfolded forty-nine, and one escaped. He was that escaping one.
Had the Plane Will recognized that he, the former child of destiny, was the sole person who could break this deadlock? Was that why it had drawn his Bright Half-Plane onto Douluo Star? But what was it trying to do?
No matter how hard Huo Yuhao thought, he could not make sense of it.
Suddenly, Elder Yi's aged voice rang out, interrupting Huo Yuhao's thoughts.
"Trouble, Yuhao. Someone's stealing our territory." Electrolux abruptly emerged from his contemplation, a flicker of anger crossing his face.
Who was Electrolux? The Holy Necromancer, the Undead Calamity, a man who had created countless half-planes throughout his life. Yet this was the first time he had ever seen someone steal his home out from under him.
In truth, Huo Yuhao needed no warning from Electrolux. He had reacted immediately as well, because a tiny, rainbow-colored golden dragon had just appeared from who knew where and swallowed his Divine Sense Orb in a single gulp, right before his eyes. Then it had plunged into the golden ocean and vanished without a trace.
"Holy shit, what the fuck was that?"
Huo Yuhao and Electrolux stared at each other.
"Yuhao, this may sound a little bizarre, but I sensed the aura of Douluo Star's Plane Will from that Little Rainbow Dragon. However, it wasn't complete. It's either an avatar of the Plane Will or its hatchling."
"Still, it's quite clever. It snatched your key outright. It seems it intends to expel us, then slowly refine this Bright Half-Plane and use its planar power to gradually transform this place into a true plane."
As soon as Electrolux finished speaking, Huo Yuhao was dumbfounded, because the Bright Half-Plane really did forcibly squeeze them out. The two figures stood alone in the pitch-black, empty Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
Sure enough, the Douluo Plane's will had been behind the Bright Half-Plane's manifestation on Douluo Star. Just as the two of them were "squeezed out" of the Bright Half-Plane, it too was "squeezed out of Douluo Star," returning to some unknown Alternate Space.
"Elder Yi, did someone actually manage to steal our home?" Huo Yuhao asked with an amused expression.
"It certainly looks that way! That Little Rainbow Dragon of Douluo Star's Plane Will has already begun merging with the Bright Half-Plane." Electrolux wore the same amused expression. After all, he had created the Bright Half-Plane himself. Although Huo Yuhao held its access rights, Electrolux could enter and leave whenever he pleased. This Plane Dragon's actions were utterly meaningless.
"Elder Yi, do you think Douluo Star's Plane Will can still manifest the Bright Half-Plane on Douluo Star like it just did?" Huo Yuhao asked unhurriedly.
Electrolux gave a disdainful chuckle.
"Generally speaking, unless something has happened to a primary plane, it would never tolerate another plane taking up residence within it, much less actively draw one in. Any half-plane that happens to appear within its boundaries will be forcibly expelled.
"Besides, that manifestation depended on a number of coincidences. First, the Bright Half-Plane had only just been born, so its planar aura wasn't strong. Second, I created it between Douluo Star and a spatial rift. When it first came into existence, it was still connected to your Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. That was what allowed it to succeed.
"But there won't be a next time. With a fully formed plane, especially one whose location is unknown, even a true deity would have no way of manifesting it within a primary plane, let alone a mere Plane Will."
"Moreover, earlier I was only speculating, but its actions now have told me very clearly that its main body has encountered serious trouble.
"Your Douluo Star's Plane Will has gone so far as to split itself and force its way into a half-plane, attempting to let a part of itself escape Douluo Star. There are only two possibilities."
"When the owner of a home is forced to injure himself to escape it, either the house is on fire, or a malicious guest has come knocking."
"A malicious guest? Could Tang Hao have started moving against the Plane Will this early, only succeeding ten thousand years later?"
Huo Yuhao could not help thinking of Tang Hao, the Plane Master ten thousand years in the future.
After receiving Electrolux's definitive answer, Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief. This was his own perfectly good private space. If someone else could summon it and send it away at will, he would not have felt comfortable about it.
But as they recalled everything that had just happened, he and Electrolux suddenly exchanged a glance, then both burst out laughing.
"Elder Yi, as Douluo Star's Plane Will, why couldn't it sense that this key was actually my Martial Soul?"
Sensing the Divine Sense Orb within him, which was gradually growing stronger yet could still be summoned at any moment, Huo Yuhao found the absurd behavior of this Little Rainbow Dragon of the planar will downright hilarious.
And even setting him aside, Electrolux could enter and leave the Bright Half-Plane at will. Everything that had happened today was like a farce.
"Perhaps it was only just born!"
Huo Yuhao: "..."
"Yuhao, I'm not joking. Either this little dragon of the Plane Will only just split off and hasn't received its main body's memories, or your Martial Soul is so unusual that even a Plane Will can't tell whether it actually is a Martial Soul."
"In any case, let's leave the Bright Half-Plane alone for now. It takes at least ten million years for a planet to give birth to a Plane Will. This little dragon's arrival has saved you all that time. It's practically a windfall dropping from the heavens."
"The Bright Half-Plane has been firmly in our hands from the very beginning.
"Once it fuses with your Divine Sense Orb, it will become the Bright Half-Plane's will. At that point, your Bright Half-Plane will finally be complete. Then we can go and take possession of the completed Bright Half-Plane. So don't summon your Divine Sense Orb during this period."
Huo Yuhao smiled faintly. His strength was not limited to his Martial Soul. Besides, his Psychic Power was still at a low level, and its effects were not as powerful as his stacked bursts. Going without it for a while would not affect his performance at all.
Still, Douluo Star's Plane Will had certainly treated him, a former child of destiny, generously, delivering such a lavish gift.
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