Chapter 471: Shattering Expectations
Jack stood in a large, empty expanse. It resembled the vacuum of space, only filled with stardust—and, if one looked closely, they would find that its particles were shaped as fists. A massive purple fist also appeared below Jack, as if a large meteor hurtling through space, except it bafflingly didn’t seem to move—or, rather, it did move, but the entire inner world moved with it.
Jack felt his world’s boundaries reach a soft wall. He knew instinctively that it was exactly a thousand miles wide—the bare minimum an inner world needed to reach to be able to maintain itself. Making it this far meant he had succeeded. The only question was, how much more could he expand it?
Over half of his amassed energy had been used to develop his tenth fruit. In turn, that fruit stabilized his world, letting his system of laws approach perfection. He had no idea how these two facts would influence the final size of his inner world—and there was only one way to find out.
Filled with excitement, he pushed out his hands and shouted, “Expand!”
The world blasted outward. He could sense that it was perfect—expanding was an easy process consuming minimal energy, at least for now. Jack smiled and pushed.
He could not see the outside world, but they could see him. Inner worlds manifested themselves physically while forming, stealing a bit of the universe’s essence and using it to stabilize themselves. That was how, regardless of a cultivator’s specific Dao, their inner world would contain spacetime. It was also how the universe strangled those who approached nine thousand miles across—by denying them access to any more space.
The spectators saw Jack push out his hands and roar for the world to expand. They saw its walls gradually pushing outward, slowly increasing its size.
“So slow,” a cultivator muttered, shaking his head. “He did succeed, so congratulations to him, but this is a bit disappointing…”
“Well, let’s see,” another replied. “His speed is nothing compared to Brock’s, but if he can reach four thousand miles, he will still be an exceptional B-Grade.”