Chenyu pushed the door open and came in, "Awake?"

Josh looked at the person who entered, with a puzzled expression, "Chenyu? I remember I wasn’t in the instance..."

She tried to recall her last memory; it seemed that she had used the Infinite Dream to pull all the monsters into the dreamscape. While flipping through the compressed time in the dream, it was as if she got swept into some strange place, surrounded by darkness, with starlight streaming around...

And before losing consciousness, the voice she heard... was it Chenyu’s?

Chenyu seemed to know what she was thinking, nodding, "I already spoke out to stop you, why didn’t you listen?"

Josh frowned slightly, recalling the situation at that time, "I wanted to try compressing time in the dream..."

"Don’t make such dangerous attempts," Chenyu said.

Josh looked at him, still puzzled, "Why?"

Chenyu: "Compressing time is an ability of gods. You’re not a god right now; attempting it rashly, you could easily be swept into a time stream and lost beyond the void."

Upon hearing this, Josh recalled that she indeed seemed to have seen something akin to a time stream before.

Suddenly, a strange memory surfaced in her mind, one where she fell into the time streams of several places.

In these time streams, she saw the world of Emperor Shanwu, a Cultivation World similar to her master’s sect.

In that world, Emperor Shanwu was an immensely powerful being, almost god-like. However, because Emperor Shanwu committed a grave violation against the laws of the plane, he was punished and captured in the Madman Prison.

Besides Emperor Shanwu, she also saw the Catman. The Catman seemed to have had a negative impact on the harmony of the Catmen world.

Originally, after leaving that world, Catmen and humans had begun living harmoniously and moved to a new city to build a new world together.

But the appearance of one Catman disrupted the original harmony, causing renewed conflict between cats and humans.

This Catman, who caused the discord, was also captured in the Madman Prison.

And several individuals Josh had encountered in prison, who understood the world’s background, had all seen their respective worlds.

From this, perhaps as Chenyu said, different worlds exist harmoniously together.

The world where her master’s sect exists is an independent world, just as the Federation Planet she’s on now is an independent world.

There are many different worlds, all existing independently, with their own operational laws and world characteristics.

Whether people inside or outside the instance, perhaps they all truly exist...

She looked at Chenyu, "Thank you."

Chenyu smiled faintly, "No need to thank me; I did it for Yuze."

Josh turned over and got out of bed, "Then I..."

Chenyu interrupted her, "Take a bit more rest. Go back once you’re well. Yuze came looking for you just now, but your consciousness was still wandering in the time stream, and I wasn’t sure I could bring you back. So I didn’t let him know you were here; he was quite worried. Wait until you’re healed to see him."

Josh nodded at his words.

If Yuze saw the injuries in her Spiritual Sea, he would surely know what she had done, and then she would be in for a scolding again.

Josh sat down and began to meditate.

Chenyu watched the strange energy field emanating from her, his eyes flickering, "What are you doing?"

Josh, "Oh, nothing... just yoga, meditating to adjust my spirit."

She was careless, not expecting Chenyu to be able to see the changes in the spiritual power around her.

Hearing this, Chenyu said nothing further, merely placing her Smart Brain beside her, "Rest well, don’t worry about the game. I opened a little backdoor for you; consider it a promotion."

Josh, hearing this, looked at him curiously, "There’s even a backdoor?"

Chenyu chuckled, "You’re Yuze’s Master An; giving you a little backdoor, isn’t it reasonable?"

Josh shook her head, "Very reasonable."

She added, "You deliberately put me in that instance to tell me something, right?"

Chenyu didn’t answer directly, just asked, "So, what did you learn?"

Josh, "That instance is actually a real world, right? That prison."

Chenyu nodded.

Josh continued, "You manage that prison? It’s holding people from different worlds."

"Are you trying to tell me that there are many different small worlds, and if people in those worlds do something severely harmful, they’d be captured and brought here?"

Chenyu nodded slightly, "You’re not too dumb."

Josh added, "Then why the monsters inside?"

Chenyu, "The prison holds souls, not without death, just dispersal. Unfulfilled wishes sustain them. However, the prison is limited, unable to contain so many people."

Josh comprehended, nodding; some needed to die, hence releasing monsters to consume a portion each night.

The red light used during releases was likely some kind of energy, influencing them, causing them to kill each other.

Josh asked further, "So are you implying that the place I come from is also one of these worlds?"

Chenyu gazed deeply at her, "Not just the world you came from; every world we’re in is among these worlds."

Josh pondered for a moment, then asked, "Do you mean all those instances are also real worlds?"

Chenyu instead asked her, "Do you know how gods are formed?"

Josh shook her head; she knew about gods in the Cultivation World, but not in this world.

As she thought this, a sense of familiarity hit her, like she had encountered the topic before.

Chenyu said, "Gods need to constantly train in various worlds, experiencing various hardships, understanding the lives and hardships of different beings. Only in this way does spiritual power get constantly refined and become more resilient and pure, like a gemstone that needs constant cutting and polishing to finally shine brilliantly."

Josh’s eyes lit up, finally understanding.

This is the principle behind the God Creation Game.

They send so-called players into different worlds to experience events with a gaming mindset, growing through suffering.

Josh couldn’t help but ask, "But... we can enter different worlds repeatedly..."

Chenyu looked at her, with eyes like an abyss, "This is the power of a god: time compression and reversal."

Josh, upon hearing this, understood something. No wonder he said not to try such things lightly within dreamscapes.

It turns out it truly is divine power. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

If one could control time and space, it would equate to mastering the Universe, is that it?

Chenyu looked at her, "You are still too immature; these are things you shouldn’t attempt lightly."

Josh suddenly thought of something, eyes lighting up, "Since you can use the game to send us into different worlds, can you send me back to my previous world? You should know I’ve been to other worlds before?"

Chenyu, "I know, but I can’t send you over."

Josh became a bit anxious, "Why? How is sending me there different from sending everyone into instances to clear them?"

Chenyu looked at her, "I think you misunderstood something. It wasn’t me who sent them there, but the God Creation Program.

The God Creation Program only captures worlds that are riddled with holes, on the brink of collapse, and already twisted and mutated, so you can experience hardships within them. If it were a normal world, should you be able to enter as a player, wouldn’t those worlds fall into chaos?"

Josh was stunned at these words; so, not all worlds are accessible. The God Creation Game keeps coming up with new instance updates, not because there’s some schemer behind it, but because the program detects new, collapsing, and twisted worlds, hence opening those breaches and sending players in...

In the end, becoming a god is necessary. Only by becoming a god can one possess the power to compress and loop time, tearing open a breach to return to that normal plane.

Circling round and round seemed to lead back to the starting point again.

Initially, when she knew some instances were real worlds, she held onto that hope, thinking she might get back.

Later, seeing the Mermaid King shuttling back and forth between different worlds, it further solidified her belief.

She thought if she found the Mermaid King, she could plead with him to send her back.

After much circling, she was back at the starting point again.

Only by becoming a god could she open the time-space breach to leave here...