Chapter 487: Visiting the Green Dragon Realm
Jack’s clone flew through the wormhole, surrounded by dancing colors on all sides. They weren’t really colors—that was just the best way his human brain could translate the chaos of the dimensional sea. In truth, it was a place where spacetime lost all meaning, a place existing on a higher dimension than Jack could comprehend.
He imagined that, if a higher-dimensional creature existed, and if it was watching him right now, it might see him as a drawing jumping from one piece of paper to another. It was a mind-twister. He wondered if he’d ever have the power to actually enter the dimensional sea instead of cheating his way through.
Maybe not. Even the Old Gods of Space and Time couldn’t perform such a feat. Still, Jack could hope. As he’d recently realized, the cultivation world occupied a tiny fraction of a fraction of the universe. They were basically infants at the start of their journey. Who knew how far they could reach given a few billion years.
One step a generation… he thought, watching the end of the tunnel approach. He popped right through. A familiar sky welcomed him, containing the occasional flying beast. He watched a bird seemingly made of vines cross the air. As soon as it caught sight of him, it swooped in, releasing a low squawk. Jack laughed and petted its head.
As the master of this realm, the native creatures weren’t aggressive towards him. They felt the same kind of respect and excitement one would feel towards their father. The fluctuations of the Realm Heart rippled out of him, cultivating a sense of camaraderie in their hearts.
He could sense their souls aligned to his.
The flying vine creature buried its head in Jack’s chest, rubbing against him like a puppy. Ironically, the creature’s head alone was larger than Jack, but it wasn’t bothered. Neither was he. The hard vines, which would have torn a mortal apart, couldn’t even scratch his skin.
Looking at the creature confirmed one of Jack’s suspicions, and he was very glad for it. He couldn’t use the System to inspect it.
The last time he was here, this entire realm had counted as System space. The System had seeped in through the previous portal and claimed it. However, after losing contact with the wider System for so long, whatever constituted System space had faded, returning this realm to the virgin state it had always existed in.