The World Hidden Within the Flesh of a God

Silence.

No breath. No vibration.

Even the beating of the heart… felt forbidden.

Shen Mu walked alone through the Nameless Corridor.

An endless tunnel carved from a black material unknown to any other world.

The sky no longer existed.

Time… neither.

[Trial in Progress: Resist the Call of the Void]

Condition: Survive three days without thinking, moving, or yielding.

Time elapsed: 1 hour

At first, there was nothing.

Then… whispers. Faint. Distant.

Voices from within his own mind.

Some wore his face. Others, the faces of strangers. Others still… the masks of dead gods.

— Why do you move?

— You do not exist.

— Even your system is a fragment of forgetting.

— You are a shadow in a dream already erased.

Shen Mu closed his eyes. But the voices crept into the depths of his soul.

And then—he saw.

Before him stood a figure.

Seated in meditation at the center of a collapsed world.

Neither alive, nor dead.

Neither light, nor shadow.

Only… absolute presence.

The figure opened one eye. Just one.

And Shen Mu felt a complete vertigo.

That gaze… it was his own.

But far more ancient. Far colder.

 "You again…"

"You should not have returned…"

"But you will… again."

The figure vanished.

And the chains within his mind began to crack.

[Mental Stability: 38%]

[Cosmic Memory Fragments Detected]

Fusion Denied: Insufficient level of existence

 Warning: Soul collapse in 2 hours

Shen Mu dropped to his knees.

Blood streamed from his eyes, nose, and mouth.

His inner world screamed.

But one thought kept him from falling:

_ "I chose to descend… until even death denies me."

At those words...

Violet light burst from the depths of his soul.

A great black bell appeared above him.

Cracked. Ancient.

And at its base, a golden seed slowly fell.

[Trial Completed]

Inner World Seed obtained

Access to Forbidden Technique: Inverted Cycle of the Void – Sealed

New Attribute: Residual Existence (1%)

Your body will now be partially ignored by cosmic laws

The light faded.

The corridor disappeared.

And Shen Mu awoke… alone, at the bottom of a cavern of dark flames, surrounded by silence.

But something… had changed in the world.

The celestial karmic scrolls had been rewritten.