My CPU Was About to Burn Out!

"Gold of Life!"

The beasts were startled once more. They knew full well how precious the Gold of Life was, and envy inevitably showed in their eyes. However, recalling the purpose of Zhu Wu's plan that Di Tian had mentioned earlier, they also understood some of its deeper implications.

This reward would not be easy to claim!

"Go over there. I'll stand guard for you." Di Tian pointed toward an open patch of ground nearby as he rose to his feet.

"Alright." Zhu Wu nodded and stood as well.

Soon, the two arrived at the clearing. With a swipe of his hand across his waist, Zhu Wu took the Gold of Life from his Soul Tool.

"Press the Gold of Life tightly against your brow, then use your spiritual power to envelop it," Di Tian instructed. "After that, you'll need to use your imagination as much as possible. That will speed up the expansion of your spiritual space and the evolution of the Real World, allowing the scenery within your spiritual space to take the form you imagine. Put simply, you must use your own will to drive the construction of the real spiritual space."

"Alright." Zhu Wu, already seated cross-legged, nodded. He pressed the Gold of Life to his brow and extended his spiritual power around it. This part was not difficult for someone who had already learned the Mental Shock skill. The next moment, he suddenly recalled the description of Huo Gua opening the Eye of Life in the sequel. His fingertips tightened instinctively, and he used the Gold of Life's edges to cut the skin of his brow, drawing blood.

As scarlet blood stained it, the azure light already blooming from the Gold of Life grew several times brighter. Vast life energy transformed into a rushing stream and burrowed fiercely into the wound. The bleeding stopped at once, but the wound did not heal. Instead, it writhed wildly beneath the impact of the life energy, bringing searing, tearing pain.

Zhu Wu's brow furrowed involuntarily, but he quickly immersed himself and forced his imagination into motion.

Like a flash of inspiration, he recalled a video he had watched on some site in his previous life—a simulation of the Big Bang.

Within boundless darkness, a streak of white light suddenly appeared. It flickered and swayed, as though it were already extremely unstable within. As time passed, the white light flashed more and more brilliantly, gradually becoming a dazzling starlight in the darkness. At some unknown moment, the white light suddenly burst forth and continued spreading outward. During the process, its edges began to change, as though some kind of reaction had occurred.

Other colors began to emerge at the edges.

Red, yellow, then every color imaginable.

His consciousness drew closer. The colors were like clouds and mist, boundless as they expanded and spread toward an unknowable direction, drifting ever farther away and gradually slowing, until time seemed to freeze in an instant.

No one knew how long passed before the clouds and mist seemed to be drawn by something. They surged abruptly and began to rotate.

Clusters of spiraling clouds and mist began to form. The distances between them widened, and darkness once again became the dominant color.

Within the boundless starry sky, clusters of nebulae slowly rotated and drifted.

His consciousness drew closer again. Inside one nebula, the colors that had once resembled clouds and mist had turned into tangible dust. They continually gathered, reassembled, and revolved.

Gradually, an irregular boulder appeared. As time passed, it became increasingly round until it turned into a dark gray planet. His consciousness drew closer once more, and the planet's surface was riddled with devastation. Closer still—canyons, towering peaks, and crimson lava everywhere. Black mist rose amid the scorching flames, gradually shrouding the sky, while a layer of clouds and mist slowly covered the planet's surface.

After an unknown length of time, snowflakes suddenly began to drift from the sky, layer upon layer spreading and accumulating across the earth.

In the end, they became snowy mountains and glaciers.

Then, one day, the clouds in the sky suddenly parted. Sunlight tore through the darkness and returned to the land, and the ice and snow began to melt. His view pulled back. As the years changed and the stars shifted, water rose in the planet's lowlands and gradually covered seventy percent of its surface.

Then, a hint of green emerged upon the land—clusters of moss.

With a thought, Zhu Wu's consciousness descended onto the surface like a god overlooking the world.

He could not help recalling the mountains he had once surveyed around Holy Soul Village, as well as the ancient, vigorous trees he had glimpsed in the Star Dou Great Forest. One tree after another, one patch after another, surfaced in his mind. As those images appeared, the surrounding moss suddenly began growing at an explosive rate.

Fragrant grass formed clusters, shrubs cast shade, and giant trees rose from the ground into the sky. A familiar forest appeared before his eyes, piece by piece.

This feels like I'm creating a world! Zhu Wu felt inexplicably stirred, sinking deeper into the experience as his thoughts fully ran wild.

With another thought, his field of view rose along with his consciousness. It was as though he were flying through the air, sweeping over the boundless land ahead. Wherever he passed, dense forests rose one after another.

"How can the Gold of Life be depleting so quickly?" Outside, Di Tian stared at the Gold of Life shrinking at a visible rate, astonishment on his face as doubt rose in his heart. Just what kind of world is Zhu Wu imagining?

The Gold of Life could only be depleting faster because the speed and level of detail of Zhu Wu's imagined creations were skyrocketing.

The next moment, the remaining Gold of Life seemed to be pulled by something. It began to sink whole into the wound on Zhu Wu's brow as an increasingly brilliant azure light burst forth. The surrounding skin was pushed apart and rapidly wriggled, gradually taking on a diamond-shaped outline.

From afar, it looked just like a vertical eye.

"What is that?" The beasts all looked astonished.

Before their eyes, as the Gold of Life completely submerged, a tiny black bead manifested and protruded from the center of the "vertical eye" on Zhu Wu's brow. Specks of starlight filled its interior like a river of stars. Then, a hazy, radiant white light spread from it.

From afar, it resembled a bright full moon.

At that very moment, inside the spiritual space, Zhu Wu looked up at the sky. A full moon was slowly rising into the air.

At last, it hung high overhead. Moonlight drifted down, laying a coat of silver frost across the forest.

With a thought, time seemed to accelerate abruptly. Clouds Come and Go, the full moon descended, and a touch of orange-yellow gradually emerged in the distant east.

But at that moment, his spirit suddenly trembled. Weariness swept over him, his consciousness abruptly drew back, and the view before his eyes changed drastically.

In his vision were bones, muscles, meridians, internal organs, and other bodily tissues veiled in a layer of azure. In his ears were faint sounds like trickling streams, as well as the thumping heartbeat that beat like a drum.

Looking closely, he could see blood flowing through his veins.

Is this the effect of the Eye of Life? The thought rose in his mind.

Then, the azure light gradually faded and merged completely into his bodily tissues.

Let's go back and look at the spiritual space. With that thought, his consciousness returned to the spiritual world once more.

Before him stretched a boundless starry sky. Below was a green planet slowly rotating. Thirty percent of it was land, divided into six continents. The largest was lush and covered in forests, while the other five were lifeless, filled only with bleak, bare ground. Seventy percent was a green ocean suffused with faint azure light. Beside the planet was a glowing white satellite orbiting it.

It's not bad to occasionally look at Earth and the Moon in my spiritual world. The details are different, but the outlines are pretty similar. What a pity I couldn't fully imagine the planet's environment. First, he had simply run out of new material in his head. Second, his spirit was truly exhausted. He had imagined too many detailed things at once, and the Gold of Life had cut off its supply. His graphics card immediately crashed, leaving it unable to render any further.

He felt like his brain's CPU was about to burn out.

There'll be other opportunities. Isn't there a Sky Dream Ice Silkworm outside, just waiting to provide a treasure that can drastically increase spiritual power in a short time? With that thought, his consciousness returned. When he opened his eyes, Di Tian was smiling at him.

"You actually opened the Eye of Life as well. Congratulations." His smile came from the heart, and his tone was equally sincere.