Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

Chapter 126 Hell Star

After arranging the affairs of the metaverse, Xia Jie sat up from the sofa, glanced again at the pure white space that even his current super-multidimensional power could not find its end, and calmly said:

"Space, I will challenge Hell Star."

The challenge is called Hell Star, but it is actually a bizarre and fantastical multiverse based on Junji Ito's horror manga.

However, it's not a big problem. With his current abilities, if he can't resolve it in a minute, it's considered a failed order.

Speaking of Junji Ito, before I transmigrated, I hadn't actually read many of his horror comics, so I couldn't be an all-knowing information master.

Fortunately, in the three worlds of One Person, Sun and Moon, and Curse Return, there are many fantasy works and creators that are no different from those before the transmigration. There was even a time when iivv and Lu Ziyun competed in the field. The reason was simply that iivv chose not to change a single frame when faced with Lao Lu's request to modify the ending of Mango Block.

The story of "Hell Star" was naturally included, allowing Xia Jie to supplement her information.

In other words, Xia Jie has an absolute advantage in terms of strength and intelligence, and he can directly overwhelm Xia Jie. How can Xia Jie possibly lose?

[Hint: The challenge can begin at any time. Since the selected participant has already met the requirements, a free option is now provided: "Do you need this space to continue providing assistance with language proficiency and worldview integration?"]

"whether"

Oh no, I set the goal too early.

Why would a seemingly ordinary basic aid project require his expanded intermediate-level spatial operation authority to intervene?

Xia Jie pinched her chin, realizing that things were not so simple.

First, we can rule out language issues. No, we can't completely rule that out either.

If we extrapolate the growth trajectory of someone's abilities based on the general idea of ​​how they become stronger after gaining access to a space, their strength will not increase slowly, but their knowledge, talents, and even their state of mind may not increase as rapidly as I have.

After all, he had become an all-around genius by taking out a loan to return to the world of curses, and he had also been the Alaya of the fake world that stole human history in the world of Sun and Moon Convergence.

Having mastered all human languages, even when faced with a world where unfamiliar languages ​​are used, this version of myself, who has abandoned external talents, can still quickly complete learning by relying on my profound knowledge and basically does not depend on language proficiency.

However, this does not mean that people who develop normally do not need it.

However, Xia Jie thought the second aid was the key.

To put it bluntly, the physical laws within the universe are not the same concept as the universe itself.

I can only easily rewrite and create the physical universe. Neither the first driving force that led to the birth of the universe nor the fundamental truth buried deep in the rules of the universe can be created by me.

Moreover, the primary driving force and underlying truth structure of different worlds in the myriad realms may not be the same, and compatibility issues need to be considered when using power across worlds.

In other words, if "worldview integration" is turned off, and one lacks a primary driving force and whose power system is incompatible with their worldview, the outcome would likely be...

"What exactly is this 'worldview integration' thing, this 'space'?"

As you think, as you desire.

"...I see. Then I choose no. Let's begin the challenge, Space."

Going south doesn't mean you have to be useless.

As long as Xia Jie continues on his path to becoming stronger, the compatibility between the First Cause and the worldview is something he can't avoid no matter what.

Xia Jie couldn't allow herself to avoid problems that she would have to face sooner or later; she had to deal with them early and consider them early.

The challenge began immediately, and the world in Xia Jie's eyes changed like a series of frames being skipped.

What follows is a huge sense of disparity in power levels.

In a futuristic metropolis not much different from modern local cities, an ordinary man dressed in casual clothes appears at the cold, damp alleyway between high-rise buildings.

The floating traffic flowed endlessly between the towering buildings, and on a huge screen similar to the Times Square screen in New York, a message that looked very familiar to Xia Jie was being broadcast.

Chapter 127 Black Vortex Town, Golden Whirlpool, Spiral Force

"Inhale, exhale—"

"Inhale, exhale—"

Xia Jie leaned against the wall at the alley entrance, her eyes unfocused, panting heavily.

Despite being perfectly healthy, the huge disparity in his strength caused him to have the psychological illusion that he was now extremely weak.

If we have to be honest, for a powerful being who can dominate the multiverse, falling to the level of an ordinary person is indeed a form of weakness.

What would it feel like to be forced into a world with completely different rules without considering compatibility?

The answer is: a dream, a bubble.

In the blink of an eye, everything vanishes.

According to Xia Jie's prediction, if force is likened to the air in a bubble, then the laws of physics are the water film in the bubble, and the worldview is the surface tension necessary for the existence of the "bubble" as a physical form.

After transmigrating, as a multi-dimensional bubble, even though he would turn back into air due to the disappearance of tension, he could still build a hard shell that did not rely on tension, thus avoiding the dissipation of his own power.

Even if this process results in the loss of 99% of the power, it doesn't matter; even one percent of infinity is still infinity.

Out of caution, he suspected the reality might be even worse.

For example, the world is a book, and a book is a world.

Strength is like the words on a book page; the more words there are, the greater the "quantity" of strength; the more beautiful the words, the higher the "quality" of strength.

The laws of physics are the ink itself, and the system of force is the pen that draws the ink. Without ink and pen, writing is out of the question.

However, given Xia Jie's abilities, creating his own writing materials and composing his own texts would be a piece of cake.

As for worldview, it is the concept of a book itself. In fact, this issue is not that big. Xia Jie's idealistic power is fully capable of bearing the responsibility of a book.

After all his theoretical discussions, Xia Jie resolutely chose to learn through practice. And after personally experiencing it, Xia Jie unsurprisingly suffered a severe setback.

The real problem is that the underlying worldviews of different worlds have narrative-level differences, and he is merely a phantom within the narrative, a prisoner of the narrative.

It wasn't about going from bubble to bubble, or from book to book; it was about his grandmother discovering during her college entrance exam that she received an alien exam paper that she couldn't even understand!

My worldview is a bubble, your worldview is a book, and his worldview is a piece of music. We simply don't have anything in common.

Xia Jie hadn't expected that the space's "language proficiency" included this.

While traversing through time, he must use his idealism to stop his own disappearance and strive to complete his observation of the world.

Starting with light that looks like electromagnetic waves but is no longer electromagnetic waves, he gradually sees and understands, until he barely masters the C language of this world and creates a human body that can function normally in this world.

God knows why this universe, which has light, water, humans, land, sky, and stars, and seems similar to the normal universe, has such different physical laws.

He's practically a fake person who looks like a human, but is nothing but an unknown entity beneath the surface!

After the human body is constructed and the five senses are restored, the power of idealism rapidly diminishes.

He should have realized sooner that his mental power was not truly "subjective idealism," but rather derived from a unique power system based on worldviews such as the Curse Return, and was an "objective idealism" based on worldviews.

Subjective idealism is the belief that if I think I can do it, I definitely can do it. It is true omnipotence, transcending the paradox of omnipotence within logic and being omnipotent above all logic.

Objective idealism, on the other hand, is based on the belief that I can do it and that my conviction is firm enough. Within the limits of my worldview, I can achieve it through sheer force of will, with its limit being a pseudo-omnipotence within the bounds of logic.

The former is me being my own master, the latter is the rules supporting me to be my own master.

Idealism based on a worldview will naturally be lost after leaving the original world.

Fortunately, Junji Itō's universe worldview acknowledges the power of the human mind to some extent, allowing Natsuki to retain a small amount of idealistic power compatible with that worldview.

Although extremely faint, but...

That's enough!

He helped Xia Jie, who had caught her breath, stand up straight and gave her a confident smile.

As long as he doesn't fall to the ground and immediately get trapped, he can still steam.

Absolutely, it's easy!

Xia Jie looked up and saw a live interview with Nobel laureate "Dr. Big Black" on a large screen between the flying hovercars.

Regardless of whether it's worth criticizing that this universe also has Nobel Prize winners, Xia Jie still managed to find information about Dr. Dahei—the female protagonist's father—from her brain, which had a large number of memories sealed due to hardware limitations.

Now the "Hell Planet" storyline begins. Perhaps because it has changed from a single theater to a multiverse, the story still begins in 2021 AD, but the level of technology is more advanced than the scene in his memory.

On screen, the dialogues between Big Black and others remain largely unchanged:

"Dr. Big Black, I heard that an unknown planet appeared in the wormhole you discovered 30 years ago."

"That planet came from another dimension, right?"

A man asked excitedly.

"Yes, I once predicted the existence of a wormhole in a corner of the Hydra constellation in the Milky Way..."

Wearing round-framed glasses, the young, dark-skinned Dr. Dahei, with a normal hairline, adjusted his glasses, his eyes filled with the same excitement as those in the audience.

His daughter, "Limina," standing beside him, pursed her lips, clearly feeling somewhat uneasy under the spotlight.

"...The planet's orbit is quite bizarre...In short, the appearance of this planet is a major event for the physics community..."

Having no intention of listening any further, Xia Jie turned and left after completing the initial comparison of the conversation and confirming that the general direction of the plot would not change.

He had a super-efficient version of the story in his mind that would follow.

Remina is the female protagonist who appears throughout the entire Hell Star arc.

As a child, Rina became introverted after her mother passed away.

From Xia Jie's perspective, while she was introverted and silent, her subsequent behavior was somewhat reminiscent of a fairy.

In 1991, Dr. Daikoku, Remina's father, discovered wormholes.

In 2005, Hellstar arrived in this universe, but it was not observed by humans due to the delay in the speed of light.

In 2021, Dr. Dahei observed a strange planet emerging from a wormhole and was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Because the day Hellstar appeared was his daughter's birthday, and because the observed Hellstar was exactly 16 light-years from Earth, he named this unnamed planet after his daughter, Limena.

Rem-Na star.

Yes, Hellstar is the name given by the comic book author, not by the character in the artwork, just like the protagonist in the movie The Shawshank Redemption isn't named Shawshank.

After that, Rimei became famous, and the attention from passersby made her feel overwhelmed.

Over the course of two years, Hellstar moved at varying speeds, sometimes faster than light and sometimes less than light, and planets in the areas it passed through mysteriously disappeared.

Actually, it was eaten.

2023 October.