Survival in Sequences: Eighteen Years Old, Slaying Monsters Like Horses

Xu Si held the dark red crystal core up to his eyes, his fingertips slowly stroking the fine lines on its surface.

"This thing... is not a creation. It is a seed."

Wanliuchun leaned half her body out of the dark building, her bare feet dangling above the sandy edge of the cliff, the gray mist churning beneath her feet like a living thing.

"Seeds? Whose seeds?"

"The seed of world consciousness." Xu Si's voice was steady, but his scarlet star-like eyes surged with an almost scalding light.

"I just extended my perception to the boundaries of the entire world, but the world consciousness did not launch any counterattack, not because it did not want to, but because it could no longer care about me."

No wonder he got in so easily.

Wanliuchun's eyebrows twitched suddenly, and her body subconsciously leaned forward half an inch.

"Are you sure?"

This guess is somewhat explosive.

"Confirmed. Then look, why isn't the world consciousness reacting at all?" Xu Si's aura of world consciousness was completely exposed to the sunlight, but as Xu Si said, the world consciousness did not react in the slightest.

Xu Si tightened his fingers, holding the crystal core in his palm, a dark red glow emanating from between his fingers.

"That gray mist is not chaos, or rather, it is more than just chaos. It is the remnant left behind after the world consciousness of this world collapsed, like a burned shell, still emitting the last embers."

The one on Earth is the same; it's the ashes left behind after the world's consciousness died.

"You mean the consciousness of this world is dead? Then why haven't the laws collapsed? And this world doesn't seem to be collapsing at all!"

Wanliuchun was aware of the tragic state of Earth, but this world was not like that.

"That's the problem!"

Xu Si stared at the crystal core in his hand.

"Because the world consciousness has not completely collapsed, it may have transformed into countless such crystal cores in order to protect itself, so that the world can still maintain normal operation, and therefore there are no flaws from the outside."

"But we only realized the sense of incongruity when we walked in!"

"Furthermore, do you think it's possible that the number and quality of individual life forms in a medieval world are even less than on Earth?"

The gray fog below the cliff churned more violently, and the outlines of the buildings that appeared and disappeared in the fog began to collapse at a visible speed. The spires twisted, folded, and sank into the fog like crumpled pieces of paper.

It was like a dream that had completely collapsed.

"If we take these crystal cores away, the consciousness of this world will collapse, the laws will gradually become disordered, the boundaries between matter and energy will become blurred, and eventually the entire planet will return to a primitive state, just like the gray fog under our feet."

"Doesn't that mean you can take whatever you want from the laws of this world?" This was the first thing that came to Wanliuchun's mind.

"Of course! I might actually be doing this world a great favor!" Xu Si said.

"What's the reasoning behind this?" Wan Liuchun asked, puzzled.

You take someone else's rules and expect them to thank you?

"A seed naturally needs suitable soil to germinate!"

"If this world continues in this state, these crystal cores will never regain their world consciousness; sooner or later, they will be completely annihilated!"

"The laws of this world are so abundant, but for these crystal cores, they are not nourishment, but rather a cage—a cage that restricts their growth and sprouting!"

Seeing that Wanliuchun only half understood, Xu Si continued.

"In other words, this world is too vast. Even if these seeds of world consciousness sprout, they cannot reclaim this world. Do you understand the saying 'a small horse pulling a large cart'?"

"Wouldn't that be a bargain for you? If you absorb all these laws, it will be downgraded to a minor world, this world consciousness core will sprout again, and this world will come back to life?"

"That's one way to understand it!" Xu Si said.

He never expected to find such a bargain!

"So, you're planning to make your move now?" Wan Liuchun's voice came from the dark building, carrying a hint of tension that even she herself didn't realize.

This is a law of the Middle Ages.

"Are you really sure? The laws of a medieval world, even if they are dying, are large enough to destroy your small world."

Xu Si did not answer immediately.

He looked down at the dark red crystal core in his palm, then gazed at the churning gray mist below the cliff.

"Too much? Not likely," he said in a low voice.

"Besides, I'm not going to swallow all the laws."

He had to leave some behind, after all, there were still many lives in this world.

He stretched out his hand, fingers spread, and pressed down on the gray fog.

Star power surged from his palm like a tide, and he first absorbed the fragments of laws that overflowed from this world contained in the gray mist.

These fragments of law are like treasures scattered in the cargo hold of a sunken ship; they are dispersed by the current but do not disappear.

The gray fog suddenly surged up.

The mist below the cliff seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand, and the outlines of the spires and arches shattered into tiny specks of light, which mixed with the mist to form a dark golden vortex that slowly rotated, like a millstone that had been awakened.

Xu Si's brows furrowed slightly.

He could feel the impact of those fragments of laws flowing into his small world.

The law of time is as cold and still as water, the law of space is as sharp as a blade, the law of life is as warm and gentle as dew, the law of matter is as heavy as a mountain, and the law of energy is as fiery as fire.

The five laws intertwined and surged in, like five rivers of different colors flowing into the same canyon, turbulent yet orderly.

Xu Si's lips twitched. He felt full even before he had started eating.

"Can you handle it?" Wan Liuchun's voice drifted out from the dark building, filled with obvious worry.

"It's alright." Xu Si's voice was a bit lower than before, but still relatively steady.

"These fragments of laws were originally scattered and do not belong to any complete structure. Although there are many of them, each one is very fragmented. His small world can swallow them up without much effort."

He closed his eyes, his consciousness completely sinking into the little world within his body that was being filled.

The edges of the laws, which originally had some fine cracks, are now being covered, soaked, and fused layer by layer by these dark golden law fragments.

The cracks, like a dried-up riverbed being flooded again by spring water, begin to shrink inward from the edges and are gradually filled with new material.

The nightmares poked their heads out from underground, feeling the dark golden light above them falling like raindrops. Their flat heads tilted slightly, and the dark red crystals on their foreheads flickered with each breath, as if trying to capture these gifts from the sky.

"Even they are benefiting." A faint sense of surprise rose in Xu Si's heart.

It seems that the perfection of the laws has a nourishing effect on life in the small world.

"The more stable and richer your little world is, the better its living environment will be. It's reciprocal." Wanliuchun now has some thoughts on the little world.

Xu Si nodded slightly, not paying attention in response.

His entire attention was drawn to the "absorption" process within his body.

The influx of fragments of laws was so numerous that it was like an endless downpour falling into an ever-expanding lake, with the water level rising slowly but steadily.

His little world was constantly expanding.