Zhou Yi rode the Hunter to the broken bridge at the sea floor.

Here, once again, grew the long-absent black hands, their wide and flat fingers slowly unfolding. This time, however, there were only eight fingers, as opposed to the previous twelve.

Zhou Yi activated consciousness synchronization.

It was Haruk.

He felt relieved.

The returning Breaker said, "Zhou Yi, I'm back! I ran into some trouble this time, so my return was delayed."

"No harm done."

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "But how come you have fewer fingers now?"

"The fewer branches on the energy projection, the higher and more concentrated the control over that energy, the stronger the original body."

"The strongest has only one finger?"

"Yes. At that level, you are no longer confined and can truly traverse the Boundary Gate to other worlds."

Haruk explained, "However, to achieve that level, one needs quite a few Life Cores, which is exceedingly difficult."

Zhou Yi now had a better idea.

The fewer the fingers, the stronger the force.

A single-fingered Breaker would be a Light Core Body.

From the perspective of [Alert], Zhou Yi noticed that Haruk's eight fingers were a deep purple, with small black dots floating within.

Around the Breaker, space itself showed signs of red distortion to a certain degree.

Even when interdimensional projection could only transmit 10% of the energy, Haruk was currently an A-Class lifeform.

"It's all thanks to the Life Cores."

Haruk spoke with a relaxed tone, "Zhou Yi, the Life Core you gave me allowed me to escape the previous cycle of destruction and enter the next growth cycle."

"We have two cycles: the first is a continuous growth period, and the second is a continuous weakening destruction period. Now I have escaped the destruction period and entered into the second growth cycle, ten times stronger than before!"

"Zhou Yi, how many cycles do you have?"

Without the pressure of survival, the Breaker seemed much more relaxed and began to show curiosity about the way of life in this world.

"Similar to yours, but our reproduction is a bit easier..."

Zhou Yi gave a brief explanation of the human situation.

Haruk was astonished.

"Your innate abilities are so powerful... We cannot reproduce on our own, we must merge with a Life Core to produce an offspring."

"In fact, it's a choice, whether to use the Life Core to continue one's own existence, escaping the cycle of destruction, or to use the Life Core to foster a brand new next generation."

"We generally choose to continue ourselves; reproduction is a very luxurious affair. Only the richest and most powerful have that luxury."

Then it spoke of the reason for its delay.

"After I returned, I began to absorb energy further to transcend the cycle. During this period, I was pursued and entangled by a destroyer and had to find a way to get rid of it."

"A destroyer is a Circular Flow Life that has entered the destruction cycle and is of my kind. However, because they are on the brink of destruction, they become very crazed and out of control, often randomly attacking other lifeforms of their kind."

Zhou Yi understood.

It was like a person with a terminal illness lashing out at society in a twisted revenge, harming others indiscriminately.

"I subdued it with another Second Life. We calmed the destroyer down."

"Second Life is how we refer to it. It's like me, having escaped the first cycle and entered into the second cycle. After several life cycles, we're called by the number of cycles we've been through. It's said that a Fourth Life can travel to other worlds."

Haruk gave a brief explanation of the terms from its homeland, then continued, "In the end, the destroyer came to its senses, realizing it couldn't continue and chose to self-detonate before going out of control. Before its self-destruction, it told me something."

"The destroyer said it was controlled by an invisible monster. It could feel the monster right beside it, but couldn't see or touch it. The monster was dominating its consciousness, making it crazed and murderous."

"I only knew before to keep a distance from my kind, to not look at each other or provoke, because this could easily lead to fights. Therefore, in my homeland, we all stay far away from each other to avoid trouble and falling into a vortex of death..."

"After interacting with Jideet—the Second Life that helped me subdue the destroyer—I came to realize that there's not just one kind of life in our world. There's also a terrifying monster known as 'Death Cult', which takes pleasure in killing and tormenting us."

Zhou Yi was a bit surprised, "There are no other life forms in the Circular Flow where you are?"

"No."

Haruk said, "At least I've never encountered any. The existence of Death Cult was only indirectly learned by Second and Third Lives after many destroyers went insane."

"They are stronger than us but seem to be a higher existence looming over our world... We are actually always being watched and controlled by them from behind. Knowing this has also shocked me greatly."

"Ordinary First Lives don't know any of this because knowing would be futile and would only increase panic and madness. Only at the level of Second Life do you have the right to be informed of this secret."

Zhou Yi immediately thought.

The current Wasteland Era on Earth seemed to have some similarities with Haruk's world.

He couldn't help asking, "Here, we have a group of Advanced Beings, the Heavenly People... Is your situation similar?"

Haruk pondered for a while, "It's different. If there were Heavenly People on our side, they would at least have to appear, but our side has the incomprehensible, unobservable Death Cult. I think these are two different groups."

Through this conversation, Zhou Yi and Haruk shared a sense of empathy.

Everyone's world was being manipulated by higher life forms behind the scenes.

Only here it was the Heavenly People, there it was the Death Cult.

"Survival is really not easy."

Haruk lamented, "I thought I had escaped the cycle of destruction, but what I found instead was another true face of the world... It seems I must strengthen my power, otherwise no matter which world I reach, it will ultimately be very difficult."

Zhou Yi agreed with this.

Everything still depended on oneself.

"Haruk, have any other Breakers come to your Circular Flow World?"

"Yes."

Haruk said without hesitation, "Breakers come to our side mainly for Firewood Mound. Because we don't have many, we can't use so much Firewood Mound; they're everywhere. The foreign Breakers really like them."

Zhou Yi fell into deep thought.

Spatial bubbles connected two world spaces; they were just fixed channels that would decay but wouldn't undergo spatial changes.

That is to say, the Death Cult World that Haruk was from was connected to this Wasteland World.

Haruk and others came from that side seeking Life Cores.

Those from this side going over were aiming for their Firewood Mound.

After Zhou Yi figured this out, he had an epiphany.

No wonder the Skywalkers here were trying to cross realms to project themselves there.

It was like going abroad to smuggle goods under the blockade of the Heavenly People.

Zhou Yi summoned the Second Unit, "Can collecting Firewood Mound from other worlds work too?"

Xiao Fu, after syncing the relevant information, said, "Of course it can. Firewood Mound is Firewood Mound, which is a conglomerate of highly concentrated information and material. As long as you can collect the necessary parts from it, that's all that matters."

"Circular Flow is a powerful high-level energy, and Firewood Mound is the informational plane caused by this energy breaking through dimensions. As long as you find Firewood Mound, you can enter the Inner World through it, thereby expanding the Conscious Key."

Zhou Yi was surprised, "You're talking more normally than before."

"Previously, I wasn't accustomed to your methods of information expression; I've been gradually learning about this world. In order to cooperate and coordinate better with you, I've been learning and adjusting my expression system."

Xiao Fu said seriously.

"No trouble at all."

"It's a trifle. We Reverse Flows are good at technical challenges. I've seen lots of civilizations, whether they're medium or high-level or low-level; we can decode their information systems. Circular Flow Technology now, that's truly high precision, extremely complex..."

It hadn't even been two sentences before it started boasting as usual.

Zhou Yi decisively shut it down.

He then turned his focus back to Haruk.

"Are there many Breakers from here going over to your place?"

"Not many."

Haruk wiggled it's eight fingers, "Mainly because they can't compete with us at the Boundary Gate. The Circular Flow intensity here is too weak, making most life forms here very weak. It's probably also why there are so many life forms existing here."

"After coming here I felt very uncomfortable. The energy density here is probably only about 2% of what it is on our side."

Zhou Yi was astonished.

Was the energy density of the Dead Light from the Death Cult World 50 times that of the Dead Sea here?

No wonder Haruk and its peers felt reaching Grade A was a breeze. Even Haruk, as impoverished as a First Life, had Skywalker strength.

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

Once Condenser and Bone Man Wu Yi arrive, they could try going to that world and, with Haruk's help, harvest Firewood Mound to enhance themselves. After all, there were plenty of Firewood Mounds there.

Zhou Yi shared his plan.

Haruk said it was no problem.

"Firewood Mounds are everywhere; they're not rare at all."

Hearing about the honor war on this side, the Breaker willingly volunteered to join, "If your enemies come near here, just give me a word, and I'll go take them out."

"Also, my ability to collect Light Seeds... no, Life Charts has greatly increased. I'll be able to gather the 50,000 Light Seeds I owe you soon."

It paused for a moment, cautiously asking, "After I've gathered enough, could you give me another Life Core?"

"Of course."

Zhou Yi raised a finger, "We agreed before, clear pricing, one Life Core for 100,000 Light Seeds. Our company doesn't just raise prices at will."

"That's great! I'm off to collect now!!!"

With that, the Breaker's body suddenly expanded, transforming into a massive black curtain and spreading out in all directions, starting to collect energy to create Light Seeds.

Seeing it working diligently, Zhou Yi was also very satisfied.

Deal sealed.

Time to head back for more hot pot.

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