The Empire XI - The Root's growth, A concerned Mother

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Shi Changmao woke up and saw that he was again within the Strange Space filled with purple Qi, but this time he felt like he could move!

Time passed and Changmao crossed regions where the purple Qi formed complex patterns other ones where it formed a fog so deep one couldn't see one's own hand and regions that were devoid of the purple Qi.

It was very fascinating to observe it, sometimes he would come about a gigantic plane made out of the purple Qi covered by a thin fog, but whenever he tried to reach it, it would disperse like a mirage. He wondered if it was the same plane that he saw in the visions the last time he was here.

Sometimes Changmao tried to touch the purple Qi but his hand would phase through it. It made him feel like he was some sort of spirit watching the world.

Suddenly the Qi in front of him a parted as if it wanted to guide him, 'This is new!' he thought and got exited, who knew where this path would lead him? He followed it for so long he was sure it was already longer than all the time he had spent here before.

The path made turns so often he had long since lost his sense of direction and the constant reformation of the purple Qi made it even more confusing. If he looked away for a moment the Qi behind him had already taken another form.

Finally, he reached the end, and the plane was once again before him. This time it felt real, not like the other times where it dispersed. The path behind him vanished and Changmao moved forwards.

The plane still was there! He continued to move forward for a short while and turned around. The View was mesmerizing. The changing forms had once again captured his attention. As he wanted to see more of them at the same time he moved backwards, his eyes still on the everchanging wall of purple Qi at the edge of the plane.

Suddenly he felt resistance! He couldn't move backwards anymore! It shook him out the Qi's spell and he turned around. His body had hit the plane's ground! He tried to move his hand through it, but it wouldn't! For the first time in only the Heavens know he felt the sensation of touch!

'Why can I touch it?' he questioned while trying to walk. His feet met the plane's ground, he lifted his right one, put it forward and suck it. Slowly at first, he began walking across the plane. (Gravity is a Lie and the Earth is flat! If you want to know how walking on the plane works, ask a flat earther other than me!)

It was nice to have the sensation of touch, it gave him he feeling he was "real" and not just a simple observer. An observer can only watch and see how things happen but not influence how the events play out.

While he enjoyed observing, he also wanted to be a part of… the story influenced by his own and other's choices as well as fate and destiny.

He did not know how far he had already walked when he noticed that there was a slight upwards slope the further one moved inwards as well as a difference between the "ceiling" above the plane and the edge where there was the purple Qi. At the "ceiling" he would sometimes see bright flashes of purple-whitish color, each flash would light up gigantic, connected, structures larger than any he had seen before, sadly the fog covering the plane prevented him from seeing the structures clearer. He had tried to move upwards, but for some reason it became harder and harder to move upwards the further he moved towards the planes center. So, he had to contend himself with just walking, but he had nothing against that. (move upwards = flying; but as he had no point of reference, I used the former and will continue for now)

Changmao continued on, he wondered how long it would take him to reach the plane's center, if it even had one. He remembered when he was crossing the Red Dessert Territory all those years ago, it was quite similar but this time he was not chased and had no place of retreat.

Slowly he began to make out a shape in the fog. Even though the fog of purple Qi was quite thin, in this near endless plane over gigantic distances the fog made it quite hard to see. He was already so far in he could no longer see the edge where the sea of Qi began!

What he saw was gigantic, its width alone was wider than his field of View and he was still so far away! It reached beyond the structures he saw sometimes when flashes of light illuminated them.

Was this the Root?! This dimension had massive amounts of the Qi that was quite similar to the one generated by the Spirit Stone Root, and the Root had fused with him. But were then was the dimension? Was it within his body? While pondering about these questions he continued moving towards the gigantic structure he thought was the Root.

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"Lei! Lei!" the second princes shock her husband, but he didn't move. "Wait my Daughter, he is adapting to the Lord Realm's power. Once he has, he will wake up. I myself also was asleep for a few years." "What about the children? What shall I tell them? That their Father has gone on an adventure and will only return in a few years? Do you think they will believe me?" tears formed in her eyes. "You could tell them he…" the Dynasty's ruler stopped himself halfway '…went to get sacred milk from another Dynasty? Hm…'

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I had to make the milk joke…