Netherworld Retrograde

"Dungeon?" Little Mad King pondered: "What do you mean? Like dungeons in video games?"

"That's right. You can think of it that way." Li Ye nodded: "In role-playing games, players assume the roles of characters in the story, entering a designed adventure journey. Every choice you make, every battle you fight, pushes the preset storyline forward."

Li Ye didn't play games much, but his little sister Li Yunyan stayed at home all day, either reading books or playing games. So he had some understanding.

"This analogy... it's very peculiar, but it does bear some similarities." Little Mad King mused, quickly grasping the concept, "Then, by obtaining the token and entering this place, are we equivalent to 'players'? And the 'storyline' we are supposed to advance... what is it?"

"There's too little information to say for sure yet." Li Ye shook his head, his gaze growing increasingly profound, "Moreover, this is ultimately just an analogy. Turning a real world into a predetermined script and arranging characters to push it forward... this is quite..."

He stopped his speech abruptly.

An idea struck him, the Book of Destiny.

Intervening and modifying at critical destiny nodes. It may be impossible to turn the entire world into its script, but by inserting the 'pieces' holding a token, it is entirely possible to powerfully interfere or even twist the original course of destiny of this world!

From this perspective, this place indeed becomes a "dungeon" serving the Book of Destiny, a stage operated by its cruel script.

From this perspective, they truly resemble players in a role-playing game.

"However, regardless of the original plans of the Book of Destiny, even if it is just a gathering of some sort, we cannot let them succeed." Li Ye said, "By the timeline, Yang Chen and the Doll should have already faced off against the walker, just don't know how it turned out."

"With the ranger's support, there shouldn't be any issues. Moreover, given that there is a time span, perhaps after we are done here, they've just started over there." Little Mad King responded and promptly said, "For now, let's deal with the trouble at hand."

"Partner, have you sensed any anomaly in this Void Realm?" Little Mad King inquired.

She spoke as she sat on the edge of the bed in the room. Turning her back to Li Ye, she began unfastening the clearly ill-fitting Wanfeng City battle armor.

The metal clasps made a subtle click as the shoulder and chest armor were removed one by one, casually placed aside.

In the process, the taut fabric outlined her smooth back, from the shoulder blades to the waistline in a lean and athletic manner.

This suit of armor indeed did not fit. Especially the battle skirt, which was supposed to cover down to the knees, only reached midway down the Little Mad King's thighs, resembling a short skirt.

At least the items confirming their 'identity' did not change with them.

Just like Li Ye's civilian work attire was a tight fit.

Yet no others seemed to notice any change in stature between Li Ye and Little Mad King, considering this point, this cognitive interference indeed seems like something from a dungeon.

"Void Realm? What do you mean?" Li Ye felt a bit confused and handed a piece of fitting clothing to Little Mad King before turning around and asking.

"Perhaps it's because you haven't advanced to Overlord." Little Mad King explained to Li Ye after changing out of the battle skirt and putting on clothes, "Once we entered this Core World, my foundation could no longer normally gather Divinity."

"Unable to gather Divinity?" Li Ye felt a stirring inside.

Though not an Overlord, Li Ye had observed the foundations of both the Doll and Little Mad King and had some understanding of the Overlord level.

Once the foundation gathers, it can generate Divinity, thus becoming a Divine Being.

On a life level, it directly corresponds to an adult Ancient Dragon, or even stronger!

Thus, the foundation is critically important. It is the root, the groundwork. It is the foundation determining whether one can step into Supreme or even reach King Level in the future. It is also the first step to becoming a Divine Being!

"Yes, in this Void Realm, the foundation struggles to generate Divinity, it's exceedingly bizarre." Little Mad King said, "Although the foundation still retains previous Divinity, it's essentially water without a source, using a bit lessens it. The efficiency of recovering Divinity is nearly just one-thousandth of the original."

"Can you discern what the oddity is?" Li Ye asked.

"No, I can only sense... the Void Realm seems to be locked." Little Mad King, after contemplating, provided the answer, "But it can be confirmed that under this influence. It's hard to say with bloodlines as powerful as the Ancient Dragon, but at least within our Spiritual Ability User system, Divine Beings wouldn't be fostered."

Indeed, the Void Realm is locked, which equates to locking the pathway for Spiritual Ability Users to advance.

Even systems like the Ancient Heavenly Court, without a curse, one must connect with the Void Realm when advancing to Unity of Heaven and Man (Divine Being) level.

Locking the Void Realm means those extraordinarily powerful creatures, aren't they unrestrained?

No wonder, that fellow Lou Su mentioned it would affect both Overlords and Supremes, it turns out the Void Realm is locked, even Supremes cannot normally recover Divinity.

Indeed, at the Supreme level, even without Divinity, there's at least Spiritual Energy, with high intensity. Though purely relying on the body could pummel enemies, it ultimately bears risk; it's no longer the peak.

"Ah, so even though the Champion entered the core, Venerable Wei Yang doesn't dare enter the core, fearing I would overturn Supremes?" Li Ye sneered, truly a pity, the walker is extremely cautious.

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