The Gentleman at the End

The guest room is suffused with the miasma of death, the decor predominantly black, with a giant painting named "Island of Death" by the artist Bocklin hanging at the head of the bed.

There's also a thoughtfully designed consecration compartment here, inside of which is a crude wooden shrine platform, upon which guests can place the corresponding divine statue.

"Interesting…"

Yi Chen can sense a distinct affinity with death, even hearing the sound of ocean waves crashing.

However, he currently has no intention of conversing with death. For the past two years, he has spent about 70% of his time in the Dead Sea, communicating quite a lot already.

What's more important now is to understand the layout of the main material plane and the evil he is about to face.

He found a seat by the window,

The twin chair made of black wood faced each other, and Yi Chen directly exhaled the purple lung onto the chair opposite, forming the Heavenly Venerate embodiment immediately.

The two sat across from each other, their eyes simultaneously looking out to the clouds and below to the Body City.

"Yi Chen is, after all, one of us. With your understanding, I'll keep it brief and give you a simple introduction to the plane layout, world's ecosystem, and ways to handle malice.

If you have any questions, interrupt me directly.

You and Lorrian are both of the highest-ranking outside entities, you will soon be dealing with extremely dangerous malicious carriers."

"Stop wasting time, get to it already."

"You can regard the plane spaces of all worlds as a standard 'metal top.'"

Most worlds and the main material plane are located on the widest surface of the top, different world spaces are filled by 'irregular', 'unstable', 'completely chaotic' subspaces, completely isolated from one another, with no interference."

"The main material plane occupies the center of the surface and serves as a 'connecting' part. It's also the place in the universe where materials are most abundant and talents are most easily born."

"Of course, the sick focus you are in needs to be discussed separately; even a simple historical overview of the main material plane cannot find a special world similar to the sick focus."

"The reason why it can continually grow at the edges of the plane, without relying on divine status to give birth to strong figures like you, is likely related to the trait of 'world parasitism' inherent in the sick focus."

"Why did you suddenly deviate from the topic, old man, the upper part of the top should be the dwelling of your so-called gods, right? Is it a single god's world or multiple ones?"

"You're a bit anxious."

The Heavenly Venerate embodiment breathed out, the airflow directly penetrating the room to build and shape the clouds outside, depicting four entirely different three-dimensional world's thumbnails.

1. A divine world layered like a seven-tiered pure white heaven overlapping – [Seven-tier Heaven]

2. The world's cities are filled with palaces, tower views, lecture halls, exquisite cottages, pagodas; wild lands rise with cloud-clad peaks and cave heavens blessed lands only seen in scroll paintings – [Jile Realm and Three Pure Heavens]

3. The terrain here is majestic and intimidating, with knife-like high mountains, bottomless fjords littered with bones, and cities of gold adorned with great statues and covered with warfare weaponry – [Avalon – Hero's Hometown]

4. The whole world presents a balance structure, one side is a world full of yellow sand, pyramids, floating cities, and huge beast-headed sculptures moving, the other is a world of black sand reversed, where many deceased are buried – [Life and Death Balance].

"The thumbnails you see correspond to four stable and over ten-thousand-year-operating divine realms, where 90% of divine status holders mainly reside."

"Of course, those who haven't obtained divine status but are favored by divinity can also enter, such as many of my inner sect disciples.

"These are merely thumbnails created from my personal impressions; many features of the divine realms aren't expressed."

"Given the chance, you can come and take a look, it will definitely overturn your understanding of the word 'world.'"

Yi Chen, however, isn't particularly interested; after all, no matter how prosperous, these so-called gods are already panicking, as malice is engulfing like waves.

"What about the 10% of gods?"

"Some are eccentric in character but are quite skilled, they can wander in subspaces opening their own little worlds, or they can 'freely downgrade', living as ordinary people across different worlds."

Evil gods also occupy part of it."

"Is there a huge difference between gods? There should be similar level disparities as within a plague."

"Of course, even though the names differ among divine realms, the essence is the same, basically divided into lower, middle, upper divine ranks."

"Of these, the divine status we create can at most reach the 'middle' divine rank."

"Only those who become gods on their own can even have a slight chance to touch the 'upper', becoming the supreme existence, also known as 'Supreme God.'

"Sounds quite impressive."

"It's inevitable. The number of Supreme Gods is extremely small, countable on fingers~ reaching this level can already glimpse the lowest logic of planes and worlds."

"Then why can't they resist the spread of malice?"

"Precisely because they've glimpsed the lowest logic and uncovered the root of the material world's mechanics, thus rendering them incapable…"

Yi Chen shows a shallow smile, "You finally said something insightful, then what's below the 'top'?"

"Below the top, usually generalized as 'lower planes', where substances are relatively scarce, unable to autonomously form a world. But such vast plane spaces shouldn't be wasted, with us advancing technologically, we use lower planes to create simulated worlds, including the world where Yi Chen was born."

"An experimental space?"

The Heavenly Venerate embodiment didn't directly answer but continued his narrative, "The accumulation of malice also precipitates to the lowest point, beginning to show at the bottom end of the top, starting from the lowest simulated world manifesting related malicious carriers like books, images, etc., presenting literature in a more terrifying form."

"Currently, the entire lower plane is basically corroded, the spread of malice has reached the middle of the top, some worlds related to the main material plane are already affected."

"The situation is extremely urgent, otherwise, we wouldn't have run to such a far edge and contradictory sick focus for recruitment."

"Estimate in three days, someone will contact you actively to formally start the mission of suppressing evil."

"That's roughly the situation, let's pause here~ maintaining this already abandoned embodiment takes quite a bit of effort, just as the sick focus's screening has completed, I must lead them for a collective inspection."

You can visit my Heavenly Venerate mansion when you have time, and even improve your breathing technique."

"Which patients came over?"

The Heavenly Venerate embodiment exhaled etched 'six names' on the tabletop, including familiar faces Yi Chen knew.

Then the embodiment disintegrated, turning into a purple lung form and flying back into Yi Chen's body.

Just when Yi Chen was thinking about what next step to take…knock-knock-knock~ suddenly the door was knocked.

At the very moment the Heavenly Venerate left, knocking at the door, Yi Chen wouldn't think this was a coincidence.

Little grape transformed eyes manifest in the brow, Yi Chen instantaneously peered through to see the detailed situation outside the door, finding nothing in the dim passage, airflow completely stable.

However, through the vision provided by little grape, Yi Chen noticed a detail.

He opened the door,

Yi Chen grabbed a very secretive note from under the carpet as if the person knew Yi Chen would definitely find it, with only a sequence of numbers [1910] written ambiguously.

"Room number…or world code?"

"Who has such a brilliant method, managing to deliver a note at the very instant of the Heavenly Venerate's embodiment disappearing, sneakily under my watch without leaving a trace."

"Or maybe the person knew I'd stay in this room, and placed it here in advance?"