Ye Ling and the inner demon stared at the densely packed white puppets, their faces mirroring each other, and a single thought arose in both their minds!
Run!!!
Without any hesitation, the inner demon grabbed Ye Ling, and Ye Ling, activating Absolute Divine Speed, teleported randomly, rapidly moving away from the area!
They had to remember that back in the Void Dark Realm, they had detonated the Star Core, nearly destroying the entire Void Dark Realm, just to barely kill one white puppet. Now, with a large number of white puppets appearing in the Pure White Realm, Ye Ling and the inner demon knew without a doubt that if they stayed, they would suffer the same fate as Zun – a dead end!
"Other me! We've really messed up this time! Those puppets are right behind us!"
The inner demon tightly gripped Ye Ling, who was continuously activating Absolute Divine Speed, and looked back at the pursuing puppets. A hint of fear flickered in its eyes!
"Inner demon, stop slacking off! Quickly think of a solution. In this damn place, karma skills seem to have a limit, and my Absolute Divine Speed can't last much longer!"
"What solution do you want me to think of? Do you want to look back? We can barely handle one, and the puppets chasing us are a dense mass, at least hundreds of thousands! Even if you sent me to stop them, I wouldn't last a second!" the inner demon shouted, trying to use Ten Breaths Annihilation against the white puppets, but it could only deal with one at a time, which was like a drop in the bucket!
If this continued, they were doomed!
"Ye Ling, over here!"
Just as Ye Ling was rapidly fleeing with the inner demon, a familiar voice reached Ye Ling's ears!
"Xuan Yu?"
Ye Ling looked in the direction of the voice and saw Xuan Yu standing in front of a white door, waving at him!
At this moment, Ye Ling didn't care if what he saw was Xuan Yu's illusion or not. He immediately took the inner demon and teleported to the door, then directly entered it!
Seeing Ye Ling and the inner demon enter, the white puppets became even more frenzied. They all accelerated and madly charged towards Xuan Yu!
Xuan Yu quickly retreated behind the door and slammed it shut!
*Bang!!!*
A deafening impact sound came from the other side of the door, making one worry that the door would be broken.
Fortunately, the impact sound didn't last long before it disappeared, and it gradually became quiet behind the door.
After waiting for the area behind the door to completely quiet down, Xuan Yu turned to Ye Ling and the inner demon and said, "Alright, they've left. We're safe."
Hearing Xuan Yu's words, Ye Ling and the inner demon breathed a sigh of relief. They instantly felt weak and sat on the ground back to back.
Although the life-and-death chase had only lasted a few seconds, Ye Ling and the inner demon had been infinitely close to death.
If Xuan Yu had appeared a second or two later, they might have met the same fate as Zun.
Xuan Yu looked at Ye Ling and the inner demon and couldn't help but say, "You two are truly amazing, to be able to leave the Void and force your way into the Pure White Realm... In the Void, besides my father and Evil, only you two can do this."
Ye Ling recovered and looked at Xuan Yu, asking, "After you left the Three Thousand Universes, have you been staying in the Pure White Realm all along?"
Xuan Yu nodded, "Yes... Not just me, but my aunt Zi You, and my younger brother Xiao Ling, they have also been in the Pure White Realm, and even your senior brother Xing Yu often visits."
The inner demon also asked, "Why did you choose to stay in such a desolate place instead of the Void? With your strength, no one in the Void should be able to threaten you, right?"
"I knew you would ask this," Xuan Yu said with a slight smile. "You two follow me, and you'll understand when you see."
Saying that, Xuan Yu started walking in a certain direction.
Ye Ling and the inner demon exchanged glances, then both stood up and followed Xuan Yu.
It was strange, in Ye Ling and the inner demon's eyes, everything around them was pure white, and they couldn't discern any direction. However, Xuan Yu seemed to have a clear destination and walked quickly.
After walking with Xuan Yu for a while, Ye Ling couldn't help but ask, "Xuan Yu, what were those white puppets that were chasing us earlier? They seemed to be very eager for our bodies."
Xuan Yu replied, "Those are called Phantom Puppets. They are illusions derived from the Pure White Realm and are not true life forms."
Ye Ling asked, "Those Phantom Puppets have no life? But we clearly sensed their emotions."
Xuan Yu chuckled, "Actually, white puppets are not difficult to deal with. Before they occupy a physical form, their strength is entirely dependent on one's imagination. If you think they are weak, they are weak; if you think they are invincible, then they are invincible."
"You previously destroyed a powerful Phantom Puppet with a physical form in the Void Dark Realm, so both you and Zun subconsciously assumed that every Phantom Puppet possessed that kind of strength. This led to the situation where you were chased by countless powerful Phantom Puppets just now."
"In reality, Phantom Puppets that occupy a host and possess physical forms are very rare in the Pure White Realm. Most of the powerful Phantom Puppets have already been dealt with by my father... However, Phantom Puppets are inexhaustible, so there will always be some that slip through the net, threatening various worldviews."
"Worldviews?" The inner demon noticed the information in Xuan Yu's words. "Is our Void just one of the countless worldviews in the Pure White Realm?"
"That's right..." Xuan Yu nodded. "The Void can be considered a complete worldview. Besides the Void, there are countless worldviews, large and small, in the Pure White Realm. However, I can't explain it clearly to you by just talking. You'll understand when you see it later."
Soon, Xuan Yu led Ye Ling and the inner demon to a magnificent palace.
"We're here... This is the Hall of Myriad Worlds. It was created by my father and Evil to collect and protect the various worldviews of the Pure White Realm."
With that, Xuan Yu pushed open the heavy doors of the Hall of Myriad Worlds, and ancient books imbued with powerful energy entered Ye Ling and the inner demon's sight.
The energy contained within each book displayed in this palace was beyond Ye Ling and the inner demon's imagination. It felt as if just touching one would completely erase them with the terrifying energy contained within.
"Come in."
Xuan Yu beckoned to Ye Ling and the inner demon, then led the two of them to an ancient book that was entirely black.
Ye Ling and the inner demon looked at the ancient book shrouded in black energy before them and simultaneously asked Xuan Yu, "What is this?"
Xuan Yu replied, "This is the Void... The world you inhabit, everything you have experienced, is within this book. This book... is the Void worldview. And every book displayed in this Hall of Myriad Worlds contains a worldview equivalent to, or even larger than, the Void."
Ye Ling and the inner demon were stunned, staring blankly at Xuan Yu, "So... we are people in a book? What about you?"
"I am too... However, I don't belong to this book. I come from that book," Xuan Yu said, pointing to another ancient book in the hall, shrouded in black and white energy.
Ye Ling looked at the book Xuan Yu pointed to and pursed his lips, saying incredulously, "If you are from another book... then all our previous interactions, wouldn't that be..."
Xuan Yu smiled and shook his head, "You're overthinking this. Except for my father and Evil, others who enter different books lose all memories of their original world and automatically become characters within the book. I only regained the memories of my previous world after returning to the Pure White Realm. I lived in the Void, and I actually don't know much more than you do."
"However, if I stay in the Void for too long, I will also completely forget the past and be assimilated by the Void... To slow down this process, my father also slightly modified the Void, changing a part of it to be similar to my original world."
"In fact, the Earth where Ye Ling lives, the Nine Heavens Realm you've seen, and even the structure of the Three Thousand Universes are all modeled after my original world. These things didn't exist in the Void worldview before, but after the long evolution of the Void worldview, Earth and the Three Thousand Universes... have become part of the Void."
Xuan Yu's words, with their immense information, plunged Ye Ling and the inner demon into confusion, their brains almost ceasing to function!
Ye Ling murmured, "If... everything in the Void is just the worldview of a book, then are we, people within the book... truly existing?"