"Hidden existence?"
Chu Hao opened his eyes in the Endless Abyss, gazing at the city gradually being dragged into the mist of the abyss.
By now, the city had completely become a "trophy" of this idealistic world.
Chu Hao observed that while the city's buildings remained intact, the aliens inhabiting it were all dead.
Occasionally, a "lucky survivor" remained, but in reality, it had nothing to do with life itself.
They had been assimilated by the mist, transformed into minions parasitized by it.
Their life forms had shifted from ordinary creatures into something…
A collective embodiment of the deepest, most terrifying nightmares of living beings' inner minds.
"No absolute primary consciousness…"
Chu Hao frowned.
"They cannot communicate, cannot interact."
"Or perhaps these existences haven't yet developed to a stage capable of communication…"
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Chu Hao still hadn't uncovered all the rules governing the idealistic planes.
To him, these planes remained strange regions whose exact nature was unknown.
"And only this one idealistic plane manifests as mist. Other idealistic planes each have their own special environments."
"I need to expand the experiments and bring in some intelligent aliens."
With that, Chu Hao began the second round of experiments.
Unlike the first, simpler trial, this time he used more resources, more cities, and more populations, conducting a far more rigorous study.
In the second experiment, he even used his divine fire to sink a demon-inhabited region entirely into an idealistic plane.
Soon, the results appeared before him.
Chu Hao was somewhat surprised by the outcome.
Dozens of different scenes unfolded before him.
In the images, various cities, urban areas, and settlements were all captured by different idealistic planes.
Each of these regions, diverse in style and race, without exception, had become terrifying zones unsuitable for life under the influence of the idealistic planes.
Yes, these were areas where no ordinary living being could survive.
In some zones, normal buildings grew fangs and enormous mouths internally under the plane's influence, transforming into a nightmare land filled with tentacles and pustules.
Every building here was a creature preying selectively on living beings.
Other zones were perpetually falling, descending into an unknown depth without end, a barren land distorted by eternal descent.
Some planes displayed even more horrifying, unfathomable characteristics.
A city captured by an idealistic plane could see every living being survive the plane's effects.
No, more accurately, from a human perspective, they could never die again.
All life within the city—intelligent aliens, their pets, even bacteria, fungi, and viruses, anything theoretically possessing life—was fused together under the influence of the plane.
This merged entity had a grotesque form, unimaginable even in nightmares.
It screamed and wailed, continuously hunting any remaining living beings in the city.
Once contact was made, the victims were absorbed into it.
Chu Hao also observed that this creature, possibly composed of hidden existence, ignored the strength of those it captured.
No matter how powerful the victim, unless they ignited their heart-sea like Chu Hao, there was no way to escape its grasp.
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After these two rounds of experiments, Chu Hao finally had a general understanding of these idealistic planes.
In the Endless Abyss, located in low-dimensional space, these planes manifest such idealistic states.
If high-dimensional divine worlds in the hands of gods are filled with solid matter and stable order, the idealistic planes in Chu Hao's Endless Abyss are worlds of unstable matter and mental chaos.
Everything in these planes is terrifying.
Any living being captured by these planes could face a fate worse than death.
Time loses meaning; all suffering repeats endlessly.
Space loses meaning; all actions are fixed to random locations.
Memory, soul, body—all the ordinary possessions of living beings have no significance in low-dimensional space.
In these terrifying low-dimensional idealistic planes, only one thing matters: the mind.
Chu Hao observed that in idealistic planes, the spirit—or the heart-sea—was the only attribute with a positive effect.
The stronger the mind, the more ignited heart-seas, the easier it was to resist the "erosion" of the idealistic plane.
Such beings could maintain their essence, preserve their life forms, and avoid being dragged into the eternal nightmare of the plane.
But unless one, like Chu Hao, ignited divine fire to achieve godhood, all of this was meaningless.
At most, it only delayed their deformation; it could not allow escape under the idealistic state.
No matter the strength, unless it reached a peak, resistance was futile.
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After studying these idealistic planes, a thought struck Chu Hao like lightning, awakening him.
"Idealistic planes, heart-sea!"
The experiments showed that the heart-sea of life is a crucial "benchmark" ensuring the survival of life.
But more importantly…
Chu Hao remembered an experiment he had once observed.
Moira had attempted to ignite the heart-seas of demigod-level beings.
At the time, she had been trying persistently.
The significance of her actions, aside from studying the truth of infinite worlds…
Could there be another meaning?