Chapter 2720: The White Spiritual World

Xu Huo walked over, first passing through the younger version of himself—this personality formed from years of pain and oppression, then crossed the portal and went through his teenage self—who was divided from past and present due to drastic changes, and finally his childhood self—a child who became cruel after accepting Doctor Zhang’s training at a naive age...

With each door he passed through, these personalities merged into his body, with subtle yet distinct forces coursing through him, either staying or flowing away, eventually calming the turbulent Spiritual World.

White spread from beneath his feet, gradually replacing the original black, until the entire world turned pure white.

Meanwhile, Xu Huo himself began to fade, first his clothes, then his props and instruments, and finally his skin and hair, gradually becoming transparent until he merged into the white world.

The silent white silently flowed further like a calm ocean, unobtrusively eroding everything around it—it spread over rugged underground passages, luminous colorful mines, covering all kinds of mutant plants, traversing the vast underground world, following the airflow and wind, reaching the sky pit exit...

But this state did not last long, as the white ocean began to recede, gradually returning to where Xu Huo originally stood, forming a square white table.

Four people sat by the table again, with nothing in front of the childhood personality, a red Heart’s Ace playing card before the teenage personality, and a sheathed dagger before the young adult personality.

In Xu Huo’s spot, there was only a white book.

The three personalities sat quietly for a moment, the white Psychic Power once again spread along the table to the surroundings, the vanished spiral staircase reappeared, followed by the library building, but that wasn’t all—a complete library building surrounded the spiral staircase, and new circular library buildings arose from a distance of dozens of meters, layer upon layer, in an instant, hundreds of circular library buildings sprang up, expanding the original core world a thousand times over!

As these library buildings took shape, the rooms of different floors drew out like drawers, suspended, and detached from their original positions, starting to freely exchange with the rooms of the library buildings front and back, left and right—they could even be pulled out entirely, replacing them by reducing or increasing rooms—these chaotic combinations transformed this library core world into a truly free world, with no one able to grasp its patterns.

Xu Huo appeared from a central library building, and the moment he paused in the hallway, the floor beneath him became a spiral staircase, leading him downward as surrounding library buildings stepped aside, until he arrived at the desk, and sitting down, the entire Spirit Core World calmed down.

Xu Huo opened the book before him, the first time revealing a dagger illustration inside, the second time flipping through a playing card illustration, and the third time black occupied the page without forming any pattern.

He looked at the childhood personality, who had lost its former innocence, calmly nodding at him.

The teenage personality and young adult personality also showcased some of their traits, no longer devoid of emotion as before.

Of course, they are all parts of Xu Huo, essentially Xu Huo himself.

However, many emotions had already calmed down before the white Spiritual World gathered, what Xu Huo always wanted to know had already grasped the key when the game world appeared, and today, the answer finally lay before him.

He closed the book, disappearing in front of the square table along with the other three personalities.

Xu Huo opened his eyes, finding himself surrounded by a blinding white; he hadn’t moved from his previous position. Only the growth of the King Fungus wasn’t entirely an illusion, and his protective suit had long been corroded by some plants, with his injuries also stemming from them—yet after the rapid reproduction of the King Fungus, it cleared these toxins while occupying the growth soil of the mutant plants.

Pulling the fungus and leftover mutant plants off his face, he stood up, moving his limbs to ensure everything was fine before stepping out of the almost cocoon-like white nest.

Yan Jiayu and Pu Yu couldn’t be seen, unsure whether they had unknowingly separated or been relocated by mutant plants or other things, but just when the Spiritual World expanded, he did notice something else.

Step by step, walking through the underground passage to ten thousand meters away, he waved his hand to sweep away the dense mutant plants, revealing a metal box below.

Seeing the somewhat familiar strange plant patterns, the specially constructed metal structure with spatial properties, different from ordinary containers yet unable to be stored in the prop column but could fit into a luggage compartment...

Xu Huo also had such a box, because he feared it might contain something bizarre, he had never opened it, and due to the box, he had even been hunted by bounty hunters—judging by the eye-like plant pattern on the box, it seemed to have some connection with this district.

Re-wearing the protective suit, he opened the box before him, unexpectedly finding three people inside.

As the box opened, a man lying on the farthest side opened his eyes, with several hidden weapons and a strong impact blowing Xu Huo and the lid away, and the three inside jumped out one after another, but did not continue attacking, instead facing Xu Huo.

"You guys seem in bad shape, can you still hold it together?" Xu Huo was not in a hurry, speaking slowly.

The three indeed struggled to focus; they seemed momentarily unable to confirm their state, trying hard to widen their bloodshot eyes, seemingly fixed on Xu Huo, but upon closer inspection, their gazes appeared unfocused.

However, there was a familiar face—standing at the forefront—the Golden-Eyed Player, who had previously tracked him across multiple districts, issuing him an invitation after the Ember Girl Copy ended.

The three, somewhat sluggish and belatedly activated their protective suits, but soon one lost his sanity, holding a prop uselessly, hammering the air viciously, shouting frantically.

The Golden-Eyed Player returned to knock the man unconscious, tossing him back into the box, pulling over the lid, looking at Xu Huo, "We all stumbled in by mistake, there’s no deep-seated hatred, as you see, the box is merely our hiding place, nothing else inside, why not go our separate ways, interfering with no one."

Xu Huo raised an eyebrow slightly, "You don’t want to leave?"

Reduced to hiding inside a box, stubbornly refusing to leave, wanting to stay, seemed unusual.

He chuckled, "You can’t possibly be here looking for something as well!"