I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1488 - 1054: Lasting Consequences

Crack—

A crisp sound rang out as Zheng Yichen looked at a crystal in his hand. This piece was sturdier than others, but beyond that, had no distinct characteristics.

Yet, after Zheng Yichen removed it, the Unifying engine that emitted a dark red light dimmed.

This triggered a chain reaction, with red explosions erupting continuously in other areas.

It was like the countless sparks that emerge when a robot goes out of control.

Without any hesitation, Zheng Yichen decisively stored the door-sized dark red crystal, smashing his weapon against the ground, shattering large chunks of the dark red crystal.

It’s a pity this crystal wasn’t typical earth; otherwise, the Earth Devourer could have handled it more easily.

Among the dense dark red explosions, Zheng Yichen continued to rapidly destroy the intact parts of the crystal, collecting what he could, smashing what he couldn’t.

Shattered crystals wouldn’t cause an overly intense explosion; they’d burn quickly like unsealed gunpowder.

When only a quarter of the Unifying engine’s shell was left intact, that part was directly pulled away by the Devouring Sky Pillar, reduced to powder and dissipated before it could explode.

Zheng Yichen looked at the large pale ball of light, nodded after confirming there were no issues with it: "So, what will this world become now?"

Feeling his manifested phenomenon being squeezed, the distance between Zheng Yichen and the World Tree instantly shortened.

Every leaf of the World Tree now shone brightly, with the abundant World Origin Force putting the World Tree in a flourishing state, almost ready to bloom.

However, Zheng Yichen didn’t retain this portion of the Origin Force, dispersing the extracted power before reclaiming the World Tree.

After all, the power was obtained using the Devourers’ Devouring Sky Pillar, and he didn’t want to be considered troublesome by Dusk.

Without Dusk’s restrictions, Zheng Yichen could have established his own Devouring Faction by now.

Lilith obtained detailed information about the Devouring Sky Pillar, and the Fantasy Great Array Formation manifested Devouring Sky Pillar was no different from the real one.

"The chance to get rich quick is gone..." Zheng Yichen sighed, as the World Origin Force dispersed by the World Tree far exceeded the power Zheng Yichen had previously collected from the earth.

"Boss, we’ve already gained the greatest harvest." Lilith’s silhouette appeared, maintaining her chibi form as she sat on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder.

"Hmm..." Nodding, Zheng Yichen looked at the World Origin Core.

After the phenomenon manifestation was lifted, the light from the World Origin Core dispelled the surrounding darkness.

The surroundings became faintly blurred as the pale ball of light began to "descend."

As it descended, Zheng Yichen saw the Dusk Territory.

The Dusk Territory lay within the main layer of the Convergence Space. After the World Origin Core wrapped by the Unifying engine was released, it should return to its original place.

Which for each world is the heart-core planet.

However, this world was already divided into ’corpse pieces’, so the place where the World Origin Core submerged wasn’t a planet but a complete independent space.

This world did not recover due to the collapse of the Unifying engine; it remains as it was.

Sighing, Zheng Yichen descended from the air, looking up at the sky.

The sky here no longer showed a sun, and the sky now displayed colors undergoing synchronization.

The place where the ’sun’ once was in the sky was now replaced by a massive base, which lost motive force and fell not long after Zheng Yichen’s descent.

Crashing heavily to the ground, it didn’t explode, but the resulting dust and impact still caused widespread destruction.

Several Proxy Agents emerged awkwardly from the wreckage, their faces filled with gloom. They had avoided slaughter, controlling the indigenous people through preservation, but due to the base’s fall, most were directly killed.

Withdrawing his gaze, Zheng Yichen returned first to the Dusk Territory. After entering the Dusk Cathedral, the injuries on his body rapidly healed, as the effects of Parallel Differentiation disappeared with the complete failure of the Unifying engine.

"The task is more than half done now, right?"

Tia nodded, responding in her usual monotone: "You now have unlimited time to address the subsequent issues."

"Unlimited time?" Zheng Yichen was taken aback by her words, considering a possibility.

Since it was unlimited time, as long as he stayed in this world, he wouldn’t need to fulfill the responsibilities of a Proxy Agent, right?

But will this world have a normal future? Unless Zheng Yichen imitates the Ancient Venerable and earnestly serves as an architect to reorganize this world.

"What will this world ultimately become once the problem is solved?"

"Similar spaces will recombine while significantly different spaces will remain independent, eventually stabilizing into sixty large parallel spaces."

Zheng Yichen nodded; Tia’s explanation made him realize that although the world was divided into corpse pieces, some parts could still regrow together.

During the regrowth process, those corpse pieces would fully grow into independent parts, thus becoming fixed parallel spaces.

"How long will this take?"

"Two days."

"Huh? So soon?" Zheng Yichen was taken aback, he thought it would be a long process, but it turned out to be such a short time?

"Then next is the final cleanup."

Zheng Yichen walked out of the Dusk Cathedral, some Proxy Agents had already returned here, they did not have Zheng Yichen’s regenerative ability, and came back with injuries.

Some bewildered original inhabitants also appeared nearby, as the parallel spaces converged, original inhabitants from other space levels began appearing in a unified place.

They looked around in confusion, some soon showing expressions of pain, either returning to normal amidst the pain or disappearing entirely.

Once their parallel self appeared here, there was a situation of mutual compaction. Those who returned to normal equated to winning in this compacting process.

The ones who disappeared were naturally those whose selves were integrated by the winners.

If their main self was here, there should not be a situation of losing, but because of the Project Immortality, the original inhabitants of this world had long lost what could be considered a main self.

Every existing self was a parallel entity of one another.

Zheng Yichen glanced at the information on the communication platform; only those from the base that fell from the sky had what could be considered a main self.

The ’civilian’ original inhabitants outside the base can all be considered worker ants, with no special attributes.

However, the fall of the base directly shook and killed many original inhabitants retaining a main self.

Their main target from here on is those people.

The Unifying Engine collapsed, yet the world didn’t collapse, and the Project Immortality still existed, just without a control panel, unable to effect any changes in the future.

The world regained its normalcy and freedom, but this return to freedom was akin to a modified human.

Emerging from the controller’s dominion to become a free person, yet the marks of modification would not disappear simply because of regained freedom.

The Project Immortality equates to these modification marks, even if the Unifying Engine collapsed and the base of the highest local power came down, the modification still functioned.

However, without a large number of parallel spaces overlapping with one another and deliberately created parallel entities, the ’Undying and Indestructible’ nature owned by the original inhabitants of this world won’t be that useful now.

Whether it can function as normal now is questionable.

Through Extraordinary mental perception, Zheng Yichen found a few original inhabitants suitable for tests, after inflicting some wounds, these original inhabitants did not undergo rapid recovery.

Unlike those encountered before, who could quickly regenerate even if killed.

"What’s going on?" The wounded original inhabitants looked at their injuries in confusion, completely unlike the state they have long grown used to.

When they looked towards Zheng Yichen, fear filled their eyes, unaware of what had happened to them, the current change was evidently related to the young man before them.

These demons, from outside their world trying to destroy their Project Immortality, seemed to have achieved their aim.

The original inhabitants could only dare to be angry but not speak out.

The ones chosen by Zheng Yichen were naturally scum, bullying the weak and fearing the strong; Zheng Yichen had no qualms about using them as test subjects.

"You guys can be a bit angrier, so I can kill you and further test something."

"..." The original inhabitants used as test subjects became even more silent, trembling all over, trying not to draw Zheng Yichen’s attention like ostriches burying their heads in sand.

Zheng Yichen shook his head, waved to impose restrictions on these original inhabitants, left them there, and continued approaching the distant base.

There were new battle marks here. Zheng Yichen observed and found it wasn’t a struggle where Proxy Agents got suppressed to death, rather a one-sided battle.

He also discovered the corpse of a Red Shadow Warrior on site.

The battle that occurred this time did not allow the deceased Red Shadow Warrior to ’regenerate’.

Zheng Yichen looked at the base larger than major cities, waved to release the small white dragon that had long been eager.

Sitting on the transformed white dragon, he took a high-altitude view of this fallen base.

On it, traces of life could still be seen, but the people remaining seemed bewildered.

In Extraordinary mental perception, Zheng Yichen sensed a lot of negative spirits. They were full of resentment towards the Proxy Agents, and clueless about why they did this.

Not standing on Dusk’s side, these original inhabitants indeed seemed quite innocent, progressing well with a promising future, suddenly disrupted by outsiders from the native world.

Entirely destroying their future, who would feel well about that?

But Zheng Yichen’s stance was with Dusk and also with humanity; however, the future development of this world depends on the destruction of more worlds.

They seem innocent now, but they would create more innocent victims in the future.

Zheng Yichen shook his head, not thinking about this anymore. What the Proxy Agents did was to eliminate someone who hasn’t yet committed a crime but can be determined to inevitably commit one in the future...