Everyone was furious and demanded that Fang Yuan be killed.
"But we can't find any trace of him..."
"Check, check the vehicles that passed by at the time. Activate satellite surveillance!"
...
On the third day, Fang Yuan wiped out an entire family from a large farm, including a police officer named Bai from the local station.
He wasn't targeting the Ji family, but only the Bai family.
"I'm doing this for you. You should be grateful to me!" Fang Yuan sneered as he sped towards Beijing.
On the fourth day, as Fang Yuan was racing along the road, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He realized that, despite traveling for some time, he hadn't encountered a single car; this stretch of road seemed to have been tampered with.
At that moment, a bomb suddenly flew toward him.
"Boom..."
A massive explosion sent Fang Yuan's vehicle flying, rolling across the ground before finally tumbling off the road and landing at the roadside.
Soon, someone approached to inspect the wreckage, but they found no one inside the vehicle.
At that moment, Fang Yuan had already hidden in the Steel Ball World, his face extremely grim. He had sensed the immense danger when the bomb was launched and immediately hid in the Steel Ball World.
"Is it from the Bai family? They've even resorted to using bombs. Truly a good move!" He mocked inwardly, though a hint of worry crept in. He wondered if the Steel Ball, the core of the world, would be discovered after he entered this place.
Just as that thought arose, Fang Yuan was stunned to find the Steel Ball still inside his mind. He had never sensed it before when entering the Steel Ball World and had assumed the Steel Ball would remain outside.
But now, he realized that once he entered the Steel Ball World, the Steel Ball would automatically come into his consciousness, leaving an external spatial node. When leaving, he could only pass through that node, unable to switch locations.
That spatial node, the place where he entered, was formed due to the connection with the Steel Ball, not naturally occurring. Once he left the Steel Ball World, that node would disappear.
In the Steel Ball World, Fang Yuan could not extract the Steel Ball—it was as though it had merged completely with him.
The Steel Ball World was inside the Steel Ball, connected as one, which made Fang Yuan and the world inseparable. This gave him absolute control over the world.
"So that's how it works!" Fang Yuan finally understood, resolving many questions that had puzzled him before.
The Steel Ball World was an unintended creation, and from the moment it came into existence, it was intertwined with him. Though he didn't understand how to create worlds, this accident made him an unconventional creator, and no one could deny that this world was his.
At that moment, Fang Yuan realized that although he was inside the Steel Ball World, his consciousness could connect with the outside world through the spatial node and scan a 100-meter radius around him.
Because the time in the Steel Ball World was 1,000 times slower than outside, Fang Yuan found that everything in the outside world had almost come to a halt. People were moving at an incredibly slow pace.
"The Bai family is going all out. I must accelerate my growth!"
Fang Yuan estimated that it would take about ten more days for his consciousness to fully transform into pure mental energy.
"I'll stay here for ten days. After all, ten days in here is only about ten minutes outside."
"In this short time, I can't do nothing. I need to speed up the evolution of my body!"
Fang Yuan's body evolution was accelerated by his innate consciousness cleansing, which triggered cell evolution. To fuel this process, his cells needed energy from food.
However, as soon as he took out a drop of his essence and merged it with his consciousness in the Steel Ball World, he felt an intense hunger.
Before he could eat, he noticed that the natural energy of the world was automatically integrating into his body, which was absorbed by his cells.
It felt as though the energy was actively being absorbed by him, in perfect harmony. He realized that this energy now truly belonged to him—if he left this world, it wouldn't return to the Steel Ball World.
"So that's how it works! To turn this energy into my own, I need to internalize it and bring it with me when I leave!" Fang Yuan suddenly understood, followed by overwhelming joy.
"With this, my body will strengthen much faster!"
Fang Yuan accelerated his assimilation of his essence, allowing his cells to rapidly absorb the world's energy, his strength growing with every moment.
He sensed that this world seemed to guide him toward higher evolutionary stages. As long as he continued, his body's power could one day rival an entire world!
Ten days quickly passed.
"Buzz!"
On the tenth day, Fang Yuan suddenly felt his consciousness quiver intensely, as though it was about to merge with the Steel Ball itself.
At that moment, his consciousness underwent a fundamental transformation, truly becoming mental energy. A feeling of absolute control overwhelmed him.
He realized that his control over the Steel Ball World had deepened even further. This control wasn't like before, where he could manipulate everything at will; now, he could even observe the internal structure of matter.
It was as though he could sense the thoughts of the living beings within the world, perceiving their desires with ease.
"This... This is what it truly means to create a world!" Fang Yuan gasped in amazement.
Inside his world, he could even perceive others' thoughts, and not just a few—he could comprehend the thoughts of many living beings in an instant.
If he wished, he could even forcibly read all the memories of a living being, though that would cause harm to them.
Fang Yuan sensed that as his mental power grew stronger, there would come a day when he could read someone's memories without causing harm, even without them knowing.
"This is true world control!" Fang Yuan exclaimed in excitement. "In just ten days, my mental power has fully transformed, and my physical strength has reached at least 100,000 pounds per arm. That's enough!"
He laughed loudly, stepped out, and left the Steel Ball World, returning to Earth, to the place where he had disappeared earlier.
He had entered the Steel Ball World when he sensed the bomb coming toward him, so when he reappeared, it was on the road, not inside the wrecked vehicle.
The people who had set the trap had already discovered the absence of the body and left.
Fang Yuan didn't chase after them. Instead, he released his mental power and scanned the 100-meter area around him, finding that he also had control over the external space.
Although this control was far less potent than in the Steel Ball World, it still gave him a sense of dominance.
The transformation of his mental energy hadn't expanded its range, which was still limited to 100 meters, but its power had increased at least tenfold.
"My mental control is now strong enough to lift objects weighing 500-600 pounds. Lifting myself should be no problem!"
Thinking this, Fang Yuan's body suddenly levitated and soared forward, rapidly gaining speed. Finally, he reached 30 meters per second.
Fang Yuan almost laughed out loud: "Now, can I teleport?"
With a thought, he controlled the 100-meter radius and vanished in an instant, reappearing 50 meters away. Then he vanished again and reappeared another 50 meters away.