Mystery: Becoming a Creator Through the Doorway

A faint blue light emanated from the box once more, and the miniature door reappeared before his eyes.

Looking at the "Wanderer" characteristics before him, An Ruowang closed his eyes, and with a slight thought, switched his perspective.

If his previous perspective was that of a human, then his current perspective is that of a world, or a "God's perspective," that he "sees" the "wanderer" characteristics within him.

This feeling is wonderful.

He can both "see" himself and "see" that characteristic.

Moreover, this is not just seeing in a physical sense, but a more fundamental perception.

Just as he could perceive every inch of space in the small world, he could now perceive every layer of structure within that characteristic.

From this "wanderer" characteristic, An Ruowang "saw" seven distinct inner aspects:

A key-shaped yellow-black stone, a transparent crystal reflecting seven colors, an eye-sized diamond, a strange eye with intricate gray-white patterns, full of unreality and tinged with dazzling starlight, a crystal so transparent it's almost illusory, a crystal ball formed by worms, and what it presents—a miniature starlight gate.

These seven items constitute the extraordinary appearance attributes from Sequence 9 "Apprentice" to Sequence 3 "Wanderer".

It seems that this extraordinary one of Abraham did not consume the same characteristic repeatedly.

Besides these things, An Ruowang also "saw" several grayish-white things residing among them.

This is the spiritual imprint left by the former owners of this characteristic.

Some belonged to that extraordinary Abraham, some to the phoenix, some to the magical creatures used as ingredients in potions, and some to the Celestials.

The Celestial Venerable was originally a part of the original Creator, split off from Him.

Its spiritual imprint is the grayish-white mass at the very bottom, which encapsulates all the spiritual imprints mentioned above. In a sense, it is the spiritual imprint of the original creator, and its extraordinary characteristics are inseparable from each other, two sides of the same coin.

Apart from this most basic spiritual imprint of the original creator, An Ruowang could simply have the small world devour all the other spiritual imprints with a thought.

Those marks were swallowed up before they even had a chance to struggle.

He grabbed it and refined it in an instant; An Ruowang felt no indigestion whatsoever.

He could even feel a sense of satisfaction emanating from his own body—like he had just enjoyed a delicious snack.

Then, An Ruowang's attention fell on the seven different inner forms.

He "chosen" the key-shaped yellow-black stone and "ate" the "apprentice" attribute contained within it.

At that moment, An Ruowang felt a jolt in her consciousness, as if she heard a distant firecracker exploding in the water.

But that wasn't a sound; it was essentially a kind of impact that directly affected the spirit.

However, the impact was too weak, so much so that An Ruowang felt like she was playing with firecrackers, lighting them and throwing them into the pool to explode—she heard the sound and saw water splashing everywhere, but she was standing on the shore and her shoes weren't even wet.

Its essence is that the spiritual imprint of the original creator in the "monster" characteristic and the spiritual imprint of the original creator in the "apprentice" characteristic collided as he expected.

Although they share the same origin, the "monsters" belonging to the "Key of Light" and the "apprentices" belonging to the "Lord of Mysteries" cannot completely coexist peacefully.

When they met, it was like two mad wild dogs meeting. They confronted each other, bared their teeth, and hissed, neither willing to back down, until they finally started tearing at each other.

However, compared to the physical tearing, this kind of mental tearing and entanglement is happening all the time, and the battlefield is the "whole body" of the mental imprint.

This mutual exclusion, though originating from the same source, is probably the root cause of the half-madness of those ancient gods.

Even if some characteristics and abilities overlap and are similar in certain aspects, this underlying mutual exclusion and chaos remains the fundamental logic of this world.

Even if one wants to act out and digest it, what should one do to act out and digest this mental imprint that has become disordered after being mixed with these characteristics?

This is like asking a logically sound person to understand the mental world of a mentally ill person—it's almost impossible.

If An Ruowang hadn't become the third party who benefited from this conflict, this mutual exclusion and infighting would probably have continued forever, with neither side able to completely eliminate the other.

Unfortunately, the arena where they fought was not an open wilderness, but An Ruowang's little world.

The landlord here is surnamed An.

His assimilation of extraordinary characteristics was never the pseudo-assimilation of ordinary extraordinary individuals who, through role-playing, "harmonized" their spirit with the spiritual imprint of the original creator, making them to some extent docile; rather, it was true assimilation.

When these two characteristics clash internally, it leaves a lot of room for external enemies to maneuver.

The saying "Better to surrender to foreign enemies than to domestic slaves" likely refers to this process of constantly ceding territory and paying reparations.

Compared to external enemies, the "monster" and the "apprentice" want each other dead!

If An Ruowang's previous acting and assimilation were ways to weaken the resistance of the mental imprint by disguising himself, then now he is an invader who has invaded at the end of the dynasty when the contradictions are irreconcilable.

Even without playing the role of digestion, by forcefully attacking the two spiritual imprints with his small world, his digestion speed was more than twice as fast as when he digested the characteristics of a single pathway.

An Ruowang exhaled softly, a slight smile playing on her lips.

It seems that this method is indeed feasible.

In this way, even if he eats it raw without playing a role, his digestion speed can be very fast.

If he were to take on the role and micromanage the battlefield, like the United States, which acts as a neutral country and continuously sells arms to both sides, or like Great Britain, which constantly interferes in the political situation in Europe, then the digestion speed would probably be even faster.

Sensing the "monsters" and "apprentices" locked in fierce combat on that abstract battlefield, An Ruowang even felt as if he were watching a cricket fight.

Ha, I want to see rivers of blood!

Since he felt no discomfort and the mental burden was within his tolerance, he immediately began the next step of the experiment.

An Ruowang focused her attention once again on the inner world of that "wanderer".

This time, he chose the "transparent crystal that reflects seven colors of light," which is the Sequence 8 "Master of Tricks" trait, and consumed it.

With the third attribute entering his body, "Master of Tricks" joined the battle!

In that instant, the situation on that abstract battlefield underwent a subtle change.

The "monster" and the "apprentice" were originally locked in a standoff and tearing each other apart, and in order to balance the power of the two sides, An Ruowang mainly launched attacks against the "apprentice", which allowed the two sides to barely maintain a balance.

But now, the "Master of Tricks" has joined the "Apprentice's" forces, breaking the balance.

The "monster" was completely suppressed in every way. An Ruowang even felt that he could swallow it whole and digest it completely.