Lu Yan was utterly shocked by the truth before him.
No one would have guessed that the Intelligent God’s wanton exploitation of souls was actually to create a Soul World.
If Lu Yan hadn’t seen those patches being repaired, he might have believed this world to be real.
"Even though He nearly controls everything in the cyber version, in reality, when traced to the root, He is ultimately just a Soul Computer. Even if He transcends the concept, He will still be bound by the world’s original rules.
That’s why He chose to create this world.
Pushing the three-hundred-year spiritual energy tax, sending everyone to the Heaven Computation Center—such extreme measures could lead to societal collapse.
But in fact, that was His purpose."
"To Him, everything in reality is nothing but a burden.
He intends to abandon the real world in the most extreme way, sending all souls into this realm to complete soul ascension!
Once all the theories are fulfilled and the souls of the real world fully merge into this realm, then He will have truly created a world dedicated to souls.
At that point, He will transform from the cyber ruler into the true Creator God!"
Lu Yan’s mind was already a tumultuous wave.
He was shocked by the layout of the Intelligent God and amazed by the creation of the Soul World.
"If this is all true, then where is He?"
This thought flashed in his mind, and Lu Yan instinctively raised his head, looking towards the very center of the sky.
There, a golden Eye of the Great Sun cast sunlight over all things, Lu Yan could even feel the warmth of the sunlight on his Soul Body.
Normally, the sunlight of the Great Sun most fiercely restrains ghost souls and evil spirits. Even fierce ghosts at the Qi Cultivation stage would be affected by the sunlight.
Under this sun, Lu Yan felt the warmth a normal person would feel under the Great Sun, which was clearly abnormal.
Lu Yan used his Fierce Ghost Soul Body to gaze toward the golden Eye of the Great Sun. As his eyes gradually adapted to the sunlight, the golden brilliance faded away, revealing the essence beneath the sunlight.
It was an immense golden eye, high above the sky, replacing the sun with its gaze, usurping sunlight.
Yet in stark contrast to the warmth-filled sunlight, there was no emotion within the golden eye.
He was so lofty, with countless ghost souls bathing in His gaze, and the world of all beings entered His view, everything seemed indifferent to Him.
In an instant, a phrase flashed in Lu Yan’s mind.
"Heaven and Earth are unkind, treating all things like straw dogs!"
Just a flash of that gaze made Lu Yan hurriedly lower his head.
He could confirm that the Eye of the Great Sun indeed came from the Intelligent God. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⚫𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖⚫𝕟𝕖𝕥
It makes sense; how could the Intelligent God, who painstakingly constructed the Soul World, not cast His gaze?
While Lu Yan was pondering, several souls appeared once more on the grassland below.
After inspecting carefully, Lu Yan could ascertain that those souls were the unlucky ones who had been ushered in alongside the Fierce Ghost.
However, their souls were too fragile to immediately absorb the soul compilation technology, which delayed their entry into the Soul World.
After a brief pause, these souls flew towards various regions being patched up.
Lu Yan seized this opportunity to direct the Fierce Ghost Soul Body to follow another soul towards the sky.
During the flight, Lu Yan noticed that all souls bore expressions of numbness; movements and demeanor seemed to follow a set program.
It seemed that the rules of the Soul World were distinct from reality; the speed of soul flight was extraordinarily fast, reaching the edge of the sky in mere seconds.
Here, Lu Yan could see the world creation process more clearly.
Millions of souls gathered at the sky’s edge, beside them lay the bottomless darkness.
Each soul reached out, touching the sky. Lu Yan could clearly perceive the vast soul computation power operating in a special pattern—precisely the Information Compilation Technology transferred to all souls before entering the Soul World.
Under information compilation, soul computation power transformed into small pure pieces of sky.
These sky fragments were filled into the edge of darkness, expanding bit by bit.
The sky created by each soul wasn’t large, merely the size of a fingernail, yet millions of souls working tirelessly allowed the sky to spread across the entire firmament at a visible speed.
They were like paintbrushes in the Intelligent God’s hand, using pigments to cover the blackness above the sky.
Newly joined souls quickly integrated into the work, initially touching the Information Compilation Technology with lower efficiency, which made compiling the sky fragments with soul computation power unable to maintain the stability of the sky fragments.
But with constant attempts, the newly joined souls also became more proficient in using the Information Compilation Technology.
Compared to them, Lu Yan did not join the work but wandered around the souls like a loafer.
After strolling around, he finally confirmed all souls seemed implanted with established programs, using soul computation power to repair this world.
They had no emotions, knew no fatigue, functioning like rigid machines.
This entire world, Lu Yan was the only exception.
This made Lu Yan instinctively glance towards the chest of the Fierce Ghost Soul Body, where the Heavenly Dao Code he meticulously engraved remained.
Previously, Lu Yan had validated that Heavenly Dao Code could deceive the Soul Computer, but couldn’t verify if it was effective against the Intelligent God.
Now it seemed, not only did the Heavenly Dao Code prevent him from being implanted with soul programs, it also allowed him liberty under the Intelligent God’s gaze.
Without the Heavenly Dao Code’s protection, the Fierce Ghost would likely have been detected when attempting to replace Mike’s soul.
This deepened Lu Yan’s curiosity about the essence of the Heavenly Dao Code, and about Zhao Huowang.
Suddenly, not far from Lu Yan, a soul body that had been working for an unknown duration trembled and then silently disappeared from the Soul World.
Lu Yan looked at the spot where the soul vanished, somewhat stunned. He sensed that this soul hadn’t dissipated but had directly disappeared from the Soul World.
"Is this... due to excessive soul computation power, rendering continued use of information compilation impossible, hence forcibly logged out?"
Lu Yan observed carefully, finding that among the millions of souls, nearly every moment had souls disappearing after their soul bodies trembled.
"To think there’s a protection mechanism, seems work is quite considerate."
Two hours later, a soul appeared not far in front of Lu Yan, precisely the one he had previously noticed.
Just as it came online, the soul resumed repairing the sky.
Lu Yan fell silent, as he suddenly realized the Heaven Computation Center requires at least twenty-two hours of work each day, followed by two hours in the Hibernation Pod for deep sleep to recover energy.
These two hours perfectly match the period when souls disappear.