Within the Original Realm, Zhang Xiaoman sat at Panxi, suspended in the void.

In front of him, floated the spherical corpse of the Shadow Demon King Nai Wenmo’er. After a month of absorption, now only a trace of essence remained in the corpse, with only one step left before it was completely absorbed by this world.

All these days, Zhang Xiaoman has stayed in the Original Realm, on one hand consolidating his realm and familiarizing himself with his strength, on the other, constantly perceiving the changes this essence brought to the universe.

He never expected that the direct absorption would bring such a tremendous enhancement to space.

Compared to converting it into points and then exchanging through the World Tree for Star Dust to expand the space of the Original Realm, directly absorbing the essence of Alien Species proved far more efficient than Star Dust.

The space gains from a Transcendent Shadow Demon were enormous, according to Zhang Xiaoman’s perception, surpassing tenfold the previous size.

This is the total volume, which instantly made the size of the Original Realm exceed that of the Milky Way containing the Water Blue Star.

Finally, after another two days passed, the last trace of essence disappeared completely, and the space of the Original Realm further expanded.

According to Zhang Xiaoman’s experience, the speed of space expansion will increase along with the size of the space, which is the same as when using ordinary Star Dust to expand.

A Transcendent corpse has elevated the Boundary Value of the Original Realm significantly, although still far from reaching the territory of the First Universe or Second Universe, it is, however, a very promising beginning for Zhang Xiaoman.

Additionally, he made other attempts; ordinary Alien Species corpses fail to take effect in this space, possibly due to the restrictions of cosmic laws. The Original Realm seems uninterested in these ordinary Alien Species corpses.

"Only Transcendent levels work, huh..."

Zhang Xiaoman was slightly disappointed.

Transcendent beings are not as common as cabbages, rather they are very rare. Even with his current enhancements, dealing with them would be exceedingly challenging.

This time he encountered the recently transformed Nai Wenmo’er, and his transformation process was interrupted by members of the Star Alliance, his power dropping significantly. If it were a Transcendent at its peak state, he wouldn’t stand a chance with his current strength.

"I have to quickly enhance my strength... The exploration of Plague Relics is imperative, it would be great if I could acquire abilities regarding the Divine Domain from it..."

Zhang Xiaoman murmured to himself, adding a touch more anticipation to the upcoming otherworld journey.

Now there are only ten days left until the day he agreed with Lan Gu, and he has already made all necessary preparations, just waiting for the right moment to depart.

"Ah ah ah!!"

At this moment, a series of shrill, painful screams emerged, as the Shadow Demon corpse disappeared completely. Countless faces of anguish suddenly floated out from the black essence sphere before him, continually screaming around him. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Zhang Xiaoman was startled by the sudden scene but soon regained his composure, carefully observing the semi-transparent faces.

There are many faces, roughly at least a million, although they are referred to as human faces, in reality, they include other races besides humans. Some were animals Zhang Xiaoman had encountered, while others were strange species with names beyond recognition.

"These are... souls...?"

Zhang Xiaoman recognized the identity of these entities before him, surprisingly, they were over a million constantly wailing souls.

He couldn’t help but show a hint of interest.

This was the first time he saw what real souls look like, though he had dealt with souls before; seeing them in such a straightforward manner was unprecedented.

This doesn’t mean Zhang Xiaoman is inexperienced, even though souls are rare and there aren’t many Magic Techniques related to them, after years of adventures he has had some exposure to them, for example, the Undead Magic he created has close ties to souls, as well as the Evil Spirit Magic used previously by Hillna and others also specializes in dealing with souls.

However, whether it’s Undead Magic or Evil Spirit Magic, even though they manipulate the souls of the deceased, they have never displayed souls so vividly before Zhang Xiaoman’s eyes like now.

According to Zhang Xiaoman’s deduction, souls are not like the semi-transparent shapes seen in childhood television shows.

Real souls are shapeless; they only emerge under certain conditions and cannot exist independently outside of a vessel.

Simply put, a soul is a piece of information; information, naturally, has no form but can be manifested, for instance, when housed within a corpse, it forms the most common Undead Warrior.

Ordinarily, Undead Warriors don’t have souls, or their soul information is extremely lacking, only enough to enable them to control the body to move, possessing basic killing instincts. The higher order the undead, the more complete the soul information they possess, naturally making them stronger.

These are the rules of the First Universe and Second Universe; both universes in their Fusion Stage share astounding similarities, in most cases their laws are interchangeable.