Shen Yu was really fascinated with the Outer Gods and their strange existences. He decided to learn more about them in his free time, and Nancy was more than willing to disclose most of the things.

By then, he had breached the restrictions of the Divine Realm and entered the endless Void that contained the countless worlds and nurtured them.

A vast, endless expanse of darkness greeted him—cold and silent, stretching in every direction with no beginning or end in sight. Stars floated like scattered embers in the black, distant and indifferent. Planets spun in isolation, some glowing with strange energy, others dead and forgotten.

It was dead silent.

There was no Qi in the air, no Dao resonance, no spiritual rhythm. Even the Divine Realm felt warm compared to this place.

The only thing that existed here was the sheer emptiness—raw, suffocating, and endless.

Shen Yu stood suspended, his robes drifting slightly as if caught in some invisible current. The cold here wasn't enough to harm him, but he could feel the lifelessness in every direction. No pulse. No presence. No sound.

'So this is the Void... the outer space of the Realms.'

He activated his divine senses, and they spread for tens of thousands of kilometers… yet found almost nothing. A few ruined worlds. A collapsed star. A shattered Divine Realm fragment floating alone in silence.

[This is where forgotten things come to drift, Master.]

[Divine corpses, ruined Realms, and ancient remnants... all lost in the dark.]

Shen Yu frowned.

'It's hard to imagine anyone surviving out here. No Qi, no heat, no anchor...'

[Most can't. Only beings with self-contained realms or complete law mastery can move freely here. But even to them, it is tough.]

It felt like the outer space of Earth, like a normal universe, but he had a feeling that this was vastly different from that.

[It is different. You can find universes like that under the Divine Realm, but they are rare because of their ever-expanding nature.]

He nodded slowly.

The Void wasn't like the Divine Realm, where life thrived in excess. Here, even time felt thin. Like everything was on pause, waiting to be noticed again.

Still, Shen Yu wasn't afraid.

He looked into the distance—where a faint glimmer of light shimmered across the dark expanse.

Another Realm.

There were countless Realms scattered all around the Void. He was just going to add another one—something he would create for his experiments.

Though, he didn't plan to destroy it if it failed, because by then people would be living in it and he didn't want to commit genocide for no reason.

He looked down at the Divine Realm, which was like a vast, colorful dot on a dark canvas. It was distorting the space around it, as if contained but also expanding within it.

'What a beautiful piece of work!'

Shen Yu smiled and moved to a different location, far away from any other Realms. He wanted an isolated space where the new world would remain untouched.

'Hmm, there shouldn't be any direction in the Cosmos, right?'

[There isn't. Every location is near and far away at the same time. Past, present, future—everything is practically the same and different at the same time.]

Shen Yu nodded and finally stopped. Then, he took a deep breath, which he was able to do somehow.

He clicked his fingers and used various concepts like space, time, direction, order, and others to construct a plane suitable enough to be called a world.

He had studied Dawnland before coming here, and later the Divine Realm, so he had a clue on how to make a proper world. And wherever he was wrong, Nancy would help.

'Now this is Minecraft on a whole other level.'

[Master, you can just copy-paste, you know. That way, the changes would be more noticeable.]

Shen Yu stopped, considering her suggestion. Then, he changed his plans and made a replica world of Dawnland. The only difference was that it wasn't connected to any higher realm like a Divine Realm.

It was exactly the same—from minor locations to bigger areas made by humans... he erased that quickly, thinking of something. In fact, he changed stuff to make it look like a primitive world.

After introducing many animals and beasts on it, Shen Yu grinned and made dinosaurs who would live for millions of years.

[Earth?]

"History of Earth, to be precise."

He decided to use a different approach to make a modern version of Xianxia—and that was to let the world grow till it was ready. He would introduce the cultivation stuff on it then.

He thought of introducing an apocalypse on it, but it seemed too cruel, as too many people would die for no reason.

The path of cultivation would be arduous and dangerous, so he didn't want to add another thing for them. Besides, he knew they would create an apocalypse by themselves.

He knew humans that much at least.

After that, he set the things in motion which would eventually follow Earth's history and birth mortal humans, but he still gave enough freedom so that if the path deviated, it would be fine too.

Shen Yu clicked his fingers.

A thin blanket formed around the world, changing the time speed inside the world. It would take millions of years for things to progress, so this was a method he planned to use to observe it.

Once that was done, he looked at everything once again to check if he was forgetting anything—but everything seemed fine.

'Noice! Now, I can let this nurture on and wait to see how things go.'

He was looking forward to it.

Just then, he received a call from one of the communication jades he had given to his wives. By focusing on the connection, he saw that it was Ning Xi who was calling him.

He connected with her and asked,

"What happened?"

[Master, the Major Sects decided to hold the Sect Tournament.]

Shen Yu was confused hearing that and said,

"Really? That's surprising."

[Yes, it is unexpected, so I thought of informing you. They must be planning something.]