High Above

An (a split of the Beast of Thousand Stars mentioned above, Son of Thousand Stars) had a dream.

He was hurtling through the endless vacuum of darkness.

The spherical body looks flat, but actually has billions of facets. Starlight flashes in the center of each dark facet, dragging out touches of light that are hundreds of thousands of kilometers long.

Space-time contracts and expands with the swing of the tentacles, and matter also compresses with the contraction of space-time, and is condensed into a form similar to the beginning of the creation of the universe. The huge force released by the controllable expansion process propels the behemoth gliding on the string of time and space to fly all the way, accelerating without limit.

speed of light. It is an iron law of the 'normal physical universe' that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. But where does this normality come from? Can the universe that can be recognized and understood by human logic be called normal? And are those universes that are beyond human understanding, or that can only be conceived by humans as fantasies, "abnormal" and "should not exist"?

it's not true. The universe contains infinite possibilities. The body that seems to contain thousands of stars is not located in the "baryon universe" that cannot exceed the speed of light, but in the "tachyon universe" whose base speed is the speed of light. Here, it is like trying to Just as it takes infinite energy to accelerate matter to the speed of light, it also requires infinite energy to slow down matter to the speed of light.

Relying on the etherification, the large group of thousands of stars shakes space and time, just like shaking water waves. Its shadow passes through the vacuum, bringing with it unstable and chaotic curvature of space and time.

Starlight shines in every aspect of the group of thousands of stars. He loves the bright, shining and tiny stars that shine in the darkness so much that He engraves everything on His body and turns Himself into a small universe to store it. All the lives He has ever seen, all the lives He has touched.

He was supposed to be the Star God.

When the swarm of thousands of stars has mastered the symmetry of time and space and can drive itself to move backward in the timeline, it has mastered the most basic 'perpetual motion ring' and mastered 'its own reality'. It can rely on this to At one point, he connected to the great ether circulation and became the Star God of that generation.

He was supposed to be the Star God.

But Daqun felt, "That shouldn't happen now".

[——Creator, the time for us to become Star Gods is not now——]

[——Even if we become Star Gods and become one of you, we cannot fight against the end. The number of Star Gods does not matter. We are all exploring the countless possibilities and the countless future directions of the universe— —]

[——It may be the past, it may be the future. We foresee the possibility of chaos, where there are areas that are unpredictable and unreachable, so we choose to go there——]

【——To promote unpredictable miracles——】

【——Let us be the cradle, the cradle of miracles, the cradle of the future, the cradle of strife, the cradle of eternity——】

【——Eternal silence, the cradle of infinity——】

They heard the voice.

And the voice that sounded from the infinite high sky asked: "Even if the price is death?" 】

——Even if the price is death.

——Even if the price is to die in nothingness.

So, it was agreed.

At the moment when their destiny was pushed into chaos, the infinite possibilities of thousands of stars came to an end. They were defeated and died, becoming another civilization defeated by the hand of the end in this space and time.

Only their fire flies through time and space, endlessly.

Passing by hundreds, thousands of planets, billions of planets, and endless possibilities.

An watched in his dream.

This is the dream of 'mother', the memory of mother, and they, they, they and they, are all children of mother.

No, is it really a child?

[The Thousand Stars Group and the Son of the Thousand Stars are the relationship between son and mother? 】

This is a question that all Sons of a Thousand Stars find difficult to answer.

——What is the difference between heirs and elders?

The heir is the fusion and re-creation of the elders, using the original genetic genes of the elders to shape themselves. This is how both sexes produce offspring.

But the Beast of Thousand Stars is a complete individual. He is a large group, one and all. He breeds his own offspring. Those endless, encompassing thousands of stars but never the same offspring. How were they born?

An closed his eyes. She recalled the beginning of her birth. The dark ocean contains infinite possibilities and logics, countless axioms and concepts.

She is a tree. A tree of justice growing out of the deep and infinite nothingness. She is self-selected, born of logic, strong and huge, majestic and majestic.

And around her, there are many, endless trees of the same justice. They are weak, slender, unable to grow and develop, and can only maintain a simple form of existence.

An An couldn't help but suddenly thought of a metaphor: a planet as complex and strong as Terra, containing countless kinds of life, and a pure water planet composed entirely of hydrogen and oxygen.

Even if they have the same mass and the same number of atoms in the universe, the possibilities for them to be conceived are completely different. They may indeed originate from the same 'selection node', and they are also originally hydrogen and oxygen. , but one constitutes Terra, and the other constitutes a huge water ball.

A theorem with many graces emerging from its axioms, a tenuous and single one.

It is precisely because she is such a complete tree of justice that she can be born.

And the difference between her and the mother body, that large group of thousands of stars, is that...

She is based on some kind of [incomplete theorem].

It is a theorem that is undecidable and cannot be deduced from an infinite set, so it can be deduced from its entirety.

In this universe, there are some things that are "really true" that cannot be touched, reached, proven and analyzed by human logic and artificially constructed logical systems.

Mathematics is such a logical system. Mathematics, as a man-made tool, is not a system inherent in the universe, but behind mathematics there is still a 'mathematical idea universe' and a 'prototype universe' that transcends human logic and even all logic.

A kind of truth.

Human beings are a race that cannot see the truth and cannot touch the avenue. Humans living in the universe can see electromagnetic waves, touch collections of matter, hear the oscillation of waves, feel the activity and slowdown of molecules, and smell the characteristics of specific molecular structures...but this is too little, too little.

To the universe, humans remain blind.

Although mathematics is only a human-constructed logical system, it can serve as a guiding stick in the hands of blind people, guiding humans to explore some situations in the "idea world".

But precisely because it is an incomplete tool, human mathematics will discover that there is such a mathematical truth with practical significance. Its paradigm transcends any established formal system, and its existence itself can reveal the tools of logic. Its own limitations are that it cannot be constructed based on axioms alone and cannot be constructed using some basic logical rules to prove or determine all other propositions.

A set of mathematical theories must have some kind of undecidable proposition. A set of mathematical logic can only prove part of the mathematical truth, and "complete mathematics" itself is inexhaustible.

And within this endless theoretical sequence, as long as you take a part at random, you can produce a certain kind of "explanation" of the truth.

Take, for example, the continuum hypothesis.

There are many sets that are infinite. And between 0 and 1, there are many real numbers scattered like stars in the sky.

Real numbers are uncountable and are larger than the set of integers. Is there an infinite set between the set of real numbers and the set of integers?

This question cannot be determined in a logically simple system like set theory, and additional assumptions must be added.

And through such assumptions, these ‘maybe true, maybe false’ axioms can be used to obtain many different versions of ‘mathematics’.

——The universe is such a ‘solution’.

In some universes born from uncountable mathematics, just like the 'tachyon space-time' adopted by Thousand Stars Fire, the speed of light is the lower limit, there is no speed limit, and space distance and time evolution cannot be marked by motion.

In some universes, there is no conventional—conventional in human logic—space-time basis. They are a transcendent whole, a group of mutually inclusive superstructures.

There are also some universes that are static from the beginning, and everything is an established process, as real as a rock.

There are also universes in which everything is static and is a three-dimensional cross-section arranged in four dimensions.

There are also some universes, including their infinite parallel space-times, that are a complete integration, in which all events have a definite ‘value’.

It has no past, present and future, or in other words, its past, present and future realities are all equivalent.

There are even some universes where there is only one 'monad' from beginning to end. The consciousness of this monad is itself a ring, an endless reincarnation.

From the beginning to the source, the Star God constructed the most basic logic of existence and non-existence, and then used this logic to construct countless universes and obtained infinite and uncountable solutions.

That is, the truly infinite universe, and their independent infinite parallel space-times.

And there is life in all these universes.

Very different from human beings, but still life.

This is reflected in the ‘thousands of stars’, which is ‘breeding different generations of descendants’.

In Thousand Stars of Fire there is an incomplete catalog of metamathematical variations. By selecting and calculating it, countless different solutions can be obtained through the "undecidable hypothesis".

——Life is such a ‘solution’.

A logical system cannot become complete by including enough simple arithmetic axioms. These axioms can always construct statements that can neither be proved nor falsified. By enriching yourself with these statements as additional axioms, you can obtain countless This kind of solution "comes from oneself, but is different from oneself".

That is, infinite seed heirs.

Because all of this is incomplete, infinite different versions of mathematics will stretch out like a 'tree', continuing its branches, and every 'Son of a Thousand Stars' is born from the fire of a thousand stars. 'Tree of Axioms'.

They are life forms that are consistent with this "Terra Etheric Universe" and can definitely survive and thrive in it. They are a life form that has already made a choice before it was born.

Thousand Stars Fire is such a huge and self-superimposed complete logical system directory. Using this screening method, it breeds heirs that originate from oneself but are completely different from oneself.

The Beast of Thousand Stars really imitated the form of the Star God incubating the universe, and built its own original body, the fire that hatched thousands of stars.

The universe is the son of the Star God. The Star God stands 'outside the logical universe', on the Hedao weapon called the 'Great Ether Gyre', which surrounds all existence. They are the founders who live outside logic. , the first driving force.

An is the son of Qianxing, but the fire of Qianxing has tended to die out, and the 'fire' corresponding to the Star God has disappeared. And the body of the 'Thousand Planets' corresponding to the universe - now known as the 'Thousand Planets Beast' - lost control, or in other words.

become free.

And in her dream, she will be watching - watching her mother, her source, the beast that gave birth to all the thousand stars being sealed.

In other words, guide it to grow in the direction it wants.

Yanjiang Holy Land, Meditation Sea Blue Cave, Huaiguang Holy Mountain.

This 'triangular land' built around the Sea of ​​Meditation is the 'big hole' caused by the Beast of Thousand Stars falling into Terra. Under this land, there is a huge underground cavity, which holds up the entire continent of Terra, and the Beast of Thousand Stars sleeps in it.

Yanjiang·Holy Land.

This is the place where the world-destroying fire god 'Karin's Flower', which caused the apocalypse and almost destroyed Yanjiang, and the many demons it spawned were finally sealed. However, the scenery is extraordinary and beautiful, and it seems to be stained with blood. On the red earth, smoky purple mountains and forests pile up in layers, and the rising sun brings endless glow in the sky, reflecting the sky and the earth, forming a picturesque scene.

Just like a painting board with interlaced paint, walking into it feels like stepping into a dream. If you don't resist the devil's whispers that ring out in the mountains and forests all the time, you may really fall into a dream.

The leader of the Suming Cult, an invisible soul stood in the middle of the mountain forest and the glow, and then slowly condensed into a black-haired woman with ivory-white skin. There was a blood-red mark between her eyebrows, and His eyes were as deep as the abyss.

[Underworld Walker], the Notary of Ten Thousand Souls chose to act in the form of a 'mother', because the one she wants to seal next is also a mother, not just the mother of one clan and one star, but the mother of thousands of stars.

"Ready."

She raised her hand, and countless ethers overflowed from the tower. The void condensed into a huge wedge of pure white ethers. It was tens of thousands of meters long, and could become longer at any time, going straight into the depths of the planet. at.

"Ian." On the eve of the action, she asked the ubiquitous ether: "This action, I understand, is not so much about sealing, but about reactivating the 'Beast of a Thousand Stars'."

"Today's Beast of Thousand Stars is a remnant that has experienced several huge changes. It has withstood most of the impacts of falling spaceships for Terra. It has long been fragmented. The changes of Thousand Stars in the past are not so much awakening as they are caused by Instinctively self-healing from too much pain.”

"And you plan to use the purest ether to repair the damage to the Beast of Thousand Planets, and then allow it to 'restart'. Oh, the same is true for the system of the pre-era civilization. If you encounter a computer problem that cannot be solved, then reinstall it. Reinstalling can solve 90% of the problems.”

"But here's the problem."

Having said this, the Notary of Ten Thousand Souls raised a question: "If the Beast of Thousand Stars is restarted, it will not become the cornerstone of the 'Ring of Tranquility' as you thought. It will be derived from the ether structure you left behind and become the 'Ring of Silence'." What about Section'?"

"After all, you are no longer a prophet."

“Prophets are nothing but soothsayers of destiny.”

And Ian's voice answered her: "And I am the ruler of fate. Notary, I know your concerns, but the beast of a thousand stars will not lose control."

"Because later, I will talk directly to the Beast of Thousand Stars - if he agrees with my opinion and makes a contract, then he cannot go back on it, and if he does not agree..."

——I will kill His freedom and create another consciousness to become His master.

Sea of ​​Meditation·Crystalline Blue Hole.

[The leader of all spirits], the sentient beings lead the way silently into the deepest part of the Blue Cave, where the ancient crystallized Dragon King once lived.

Here, the power of the magnetic field of the entire planet was once gathered, interfering and suppressing the power of the beast of a thousand stars in the depths of the sea. The black tide of flesh and blood would expand from the deepest cavity of the blue hole at any time.

But the ordinary guide who looked like an ordinary human being now crystallized bit by bit. Not long after, he also turned into a crystal dragon and began to imitate the power of the old crystal dragon king to guide the power of the planet. Suppress this place.

"so."

He also called out the ether and condensed the wedge. He was also talking to Ian: "Why do you think you are qualified to kill Him? Ian, I am not against you, I just want to know your thoughts."

"Because I was shaped this way by the world."

Ian replied with a humorous tone: "I was born in Terra, so I became a Terran. Aren't all Terrans like this?"

"We kill each other, take each other, create more tears to stop each other's tears... and I fight against the world to stop all tears."

"Friends, killing is just a vocabulary for us humans. The beast of a thousand stars is a universal ether converter with infinite life modes. Is his life and death really beyond the imagination of us humans?"

"What I call killing Him is probably the same as beating someone up to make him change his mind."

Huaiguang, holy mountain.

[Pope Huaiguang], ‘Huaiguangguang’, the large leaping group moved slowly, and the entire holy mountain was shaking slightly.

Without Ian's help, the entire Holy Mountain and the Huaiguang group itself are wedges and seals facing thousands of stars.

--Ready.

They are silent. Ian, it's time to get started.

You don’t need to explain anything, because there are already too many people in this world who are dreaming about how to transform it, but only you have the power to truly transform it.

——In that case, let’s do it.

——Let us take steps towards the future.

The wedges fell from three different directions.

And in the next moment, the pure white ether light burst out from the deepest part of the earth, penetrating through the fragile gaps in the earth, stone and rock shell, piercing every gap in the earth in a turbulent and harmless way. It was like thousands of sharp swords rising from the ground, like a wall, and like a miracle.

They cut through the clouds in the sky and formed a white 'circle' based on the three initial core places.

The first seal has been laid.

What comes next is the second seal.

A larger triangle emerges from the three fulcrums of the continent.

The capital of learning·Kongji Port.

The Psychic Order, [Machine Soul Sacrifice], and Unbounded Brain Fanar pressed the wedge.

The huge computing power was pushed forward, and countless ether lines like tree diagrams spread towards the entire planet in an extremely complex extended structure. It spread rapidly, covering the entire planet in just a few seconds.

Yanjiang·Jueran Plateau.

The Fairy Queen pressed the wedge.

The virtual realm merged with reality, and the dazzling light lit up, turning into countless cloud patterns, wind patterns, countless rain, wind and frost. The totems and marks of nature were activated, penetrating the inside and outside of the world.

Jiuhan Silent Mountain·Central Oasis.

[Lord of the Death Mountain Kingdom], the death-stealing mechanical dragon pressed the wedge.

The mountains, which were constantly experiencing intense volcanic movements due to the strange movements of the Thousand Stars Beast, suddenly stopped. This moment of stillness gave all life living here an illusion - everything was just the calm before the storm. Soon, an even more violent earthquake occurred. and volcanic activity will occur.

But no, with the spread of the huge magic circle that stretched for hundreds or thousands, or even encompassed the entire planet, the fierce crustal movement was stopped, and everything returned to peace, and this will be the case for thousands of years to come.

What they built was the boundary of the beast of a thousand stars.

The second huge ring appeared between heaven and earth. If you look down at Terra from the universe, you can see that starting from the inner circle around the initial Meditation Sea, layers of concentric ripples are like water waves, moving toward the outermost The circle spread out, and then closed inward, forming a flowing 'grand array' with the entire continent of Terra as its base.

And Ian stands in the center of the entire Terra continent, at the junction of the Ushtalaf Mountains and the Karan Mountains.

He saw the waves of light sweeping across the grasslands, over the mountains, layer upon layer, like a never-ending tide,

Ian smiled and stood, then stepped lightly on the ground.

Circle after circle of earth's ether is like a wave, penetrating through the earth's crust and rock, passing to the deepest place, and then turning around again.

As an immovable city in the past, what he is best at now is still controlling the earth.

When the etheric echo ended, he raised his hand, and the narrowest and sharpest wedge appeared in front of him, like a sharp sword.

Ian inserted it into the deepest part of the earth and touched the body of the giant beast at the core of the earth, the body of a thousand stars.

This body is shaking. It is the true core of the entire Terra. It has penetrated deep into the mantle lava, and its roots are spreading endlessly, seeming to wrap up the entire core and planet - if it were not restricted by the powerful people of Terra over the years, I am afraid that on the first day of its movement, the Beast of Thousand Planets will be able to spread its tentacles all over the planet.

But even if it has been restricted and sealed, one thousand six hundred years later, it has become the real base of the planet Terra, the real Gaia - the reason why the ether overflowing from the perpetual motion machine can be stored unlimitedly is With the help of the Beast of Thousand Stars, Ian's 'etheric skeleton' that fixes the entire planet Terra also relies on its structure throughout the stars to exist.

And now.

Ian talks to the Beast of a Thousand Planets.

"Who are you?"

The breath of darkness, the light of darkness.

Broken souls, countless opened eyes lit up. After thousands of years, people with enough qualifications finally came here. They could transcend all the countless layers of logic and endured one after another at a speed and pain beyond the light. century of existential communication.

Who is He?

who I am?

I am……

[I am the cradle, the future, the dead, the destined cradle]

[I am the apostle of the Creator, the foundation of a thousand stars - visitor, I am the cradle of the future and miracles]

"You lost yourself under the impact of the skyfall and caused damage to the entire planet."

[This is beyond my control. The fall from the sky has destroyed my subjectivity. Now I need a creator, or the 'eyes' of someone like you who is close to the realm of the creator, so that I can be shaped by your subjectivity. Myself】

[I am chaos, the possibility of darkness. Only when I face those who can see a thousand stars without losing myself can I have wisdom]

"Is that so...I see."

Ian understood that the self-consciousness of Qianxing had been shattered by the disaster of falling from the sky, and even the level of time and space was shattered. He was a broken mirror. Only those who were strong enough came here to interact with the fragments of countless mirrors. 'By communicating at the same time, you can barely summarize your own consciousness.

And ordinary strong people, even if they can communicate with thousands of stars, will be torn apart by countless different consciousnesses of thousands of stars and turn into madmen.

To put it simply, he was in a forced state of being the Grand Duke of Junling Castle, and it was even more serious.

Only super life forms like the Huaiguang Group, which were not originally human, and descendants like the Sons of Thousand Stars can communicate with Him.

And if the Son of Thousand Stars grows to the fifth energy level, he may have the ability to close the lens bit by bit and reshape the consciousness of Thousand Stars.

The Capital of Knowledge is cultivating some Sons of Thousand Planets, but before they have grown to the fifth level, Ian has broken through the most difficult level and has the qualifications to talk to the Beast of Thousand Planets.

After a moment of silence, Ian raised his eyes. His eyes penetrated time and space, staring at the beast of a thousand stars in front of him: "I originally wanted to restart it directly for you and re-melt the mirror - but if you say it yourself, you are willing to let The son of a thousand stars grows up and becomes a new you, or should I say..."

【I am the cradle】

The consciousness of the Beast of Thousand Stars replied: [The cradle should give birth to new things... No matter what, I don’t want to continue to exist now, this broken me]

[Let me die, from the ashes, seeds will sprout, new life will come, and the same will be true in the future]

[Do what you want, creator of new life, the children of a thousand stars are my children, the seeds I used for self-recovery in the past, but they can also grow into the cradle of new things]

"good."

Ian nodded slightly: "I understand."

He stretched out his hand and introduced countless dark mirrors into the virtual realm: "I will seal your body until the Ring of Tranquility can begin to be constructed in the future and introduce your fragments into the virtual realm."

"If in the future, a new Son of Thousand Stars grows up to bear your responsibilities and is willing to become the Foundation of Thousand Stars, then he will replace you. If not, then you will be awakened."

"Thousand Stars, the oldest fire...now, sleep."

The pitch-black darkness that poured into the virtual world, and the deep shadows originally contained countless twinkling eyes, like starlight, and like countless facets on a diamond. They were tumbling, surging, merging, and expanding, like chaos that was simply incomprehensible.

He was originally complete, but was broken due to disaster and in order to protect Terra.

However, after hearing Ian's words, every starlight shrank, dimmed, and went out.

Finally - finally someone can take on this responsibility.

Finally, He fell asleep.

And the body of the Thousand Stars Beast, which had lost its shattered consciousness, finally calmed down completely.

The double seal of Terra limits the expansion of the Thousand Planet Beast's body, but one day, this ancient fire that contains everything will completely assimilate the entire Terra into a true 'omnipotent planet' - and then , it is time for the construction of the 'Ring of Silence' to begin.

Terra will be disintegrated and become the core of the 'Ring World'.

The goblins and the four orthodox religions are the creators and guardians of this great cause.

An looked at it all, she saw it all, knew it all.

She looked at Ian who turned his head inadvertently. Those blue eyes were imprinted in the deepest part of her soul.

"Work hard." He said: "This is also Qianxing's wish."

last of the last.

Dragon Island.

The four dragon kings and Carlos, who inherited the soul of the dragon king, are waiting for Ian here.

[If you do this, you are more likely to die than survive]

Facing the flood that descended in front of them, the Dragon King said unceremoniously: [The future I can see is void and dark, and occasionally chaotic and inexplicable - either it means that the picture cannot be seen, or it means that we are dead]

"It's really dangerous."

Ian nodded. He didn't like to deceive people on this point: "That's why I did it."

"Dragon Kings, the dragon soul of the ancestral true dragon will never wear out, but can each generation wait for a suitable successor?"

He shook his head and said: "As a prophet, I dare not predict that as long as one day the inheritance is out of order, the seal will be broken and the final fragment will be freed."

"If I don't take advantage of the generation I'm still in, which is the most powerful era in Terra's history, with dozens of fifth-level people, to completely solve this problem, am I going to leave the bomb for future generations?"

He said this with a relaxed tone and unparalleled confidence: "Don't worry, I have seen the future of finally breaking through the cradle - in fact, it is nothing, it is just the sun extinguishing."

"Nowadays, many fifth-level powerhouses have spread their seeds to every corner of Terra. Even if the worst happens... they will not all be wiped out. There is still hope after all."

Ian said seriously: "What's more, with me here, it will never fall into the worst ending."

He is so confident.

The four dragons looked at each other in confusion.

At this point, no dragon or person would doubt Ian.

[It's up to you] Ji Feng Dragon King, who had been laying ashes on the moon for five years with the Grand Duke of Junling Castle, sighed: [No matter what, we still have the 'fire' made from the cradle to send out - if everything goes as you said, There are other cradles besides the cradle, even an infinite number of cradles,]

[Then, those safe cradles may be willing to accept the last remnants of our failed cradle citizens]

"Will do."

And Ian said without any hesitation: "They will definitely do it."

"I really don't know where your confidence comes from." Carlos, the only human being except Ian, who also became the 'First Emperor', clicked his tongue, and then laughed: "But with an attitude like yours... Well, at least everyone is more relaxed."

"Yes, there is no point in worrying about this. In any case, now is the time when Terra is at its strongest. If you don't solve the problem, you are just deceiving yourself and others by blindly leaving the problem to future generations."

He raised his hand, and Ian smiled and high-fived him: "Then let's get started."

"Unlock the seal of Dragon Island and let me...actually come into contact with the 'end'."

【As you wish】

The dragon kings responded in unison, and they bowed their heads slightly: [Our...pioneer]

Dragon Island.

The huge metal island begins to deconstruct.

Accompanied by splendid haloes of light and roars of metal, the entire Dragon Island was like a Rubik's Cube disintegrating, constantly being styled, peeled off, and then dismantled, exposing the core of it.

It's like the flowers made of steel were pushed aside layer by layer, and a completely black dot emerged in the 'heart of the flower', in the vacuum of the universe surrounded by light.

That is the ‘Dragon Island Black Hole’.

Five blazing etheric lights surround it, which are the 'souls of the true ancestors' supported by the four dragon kings and Carlos. They are always on guard to take precautions.

If something unexpected happened, they would not hesitate to seal Ian in it.

Ian likes this steady style very much, as even though he is full of confidence and hope now, he is still ready for any 'reincarnation'.

——We have lost so many times. Although we don’t want to lose again, we must be prepared for failure.

He stepped towards the black hole, which was only about the size of a ping pong ball, and the surging 'ether' poured out.

As if it sensed the bait, and seemed to be pure instinct, the 'tree'-shaped shadow spread out and quickly climbed out of the black hole along the ether.

However, it is ultimately different from the outside world.

This shadow had pitch black as its main trunk, but the branches and trunks were covered with starlight. The lights that looked like fruits and leaves shone, making Ian slightly stunned.

"Although I had already guessed..." He lowered his eyes and stared at the stars: "But as expected, the Heavenly Father used himself as the original seal to suppress the final fragment."

Before the fragments could spread and follow the ether to counterattack him, Ian took a step forward and 'caught' the fragments.

But he wasn't using ether.

But ‘spiritual power’.

Spiritual power is the original power of the Star God Universe, and it is probably the power that will eventually be possessed.

This power is so powerful that it can make both the Star God and the Final World infinitely more powerful, but it also restricts their respective positions.

Just like some creatures can only live in water, and some creatures can only live on the mainland. They are unmatched in their respective worlds and fields. They possess incredible divine power, but no one will want to invade. the other party’s domain.

Unless, someone creates a tool.

Those in the sea made moisturizing suits for exploring the continent, and those on the mainland made diving suits for exploring the ocean.

In this way, they can penetrate into each other's territory...

Then they touch each other.

The outbreak of war.

Ether is such a universal tool created based on spiritual power. Whether it is modifying the cosmological constant or even modifying mathematical laws, reshaping the universe or creating the universe, it is within the scope of its capabilities.

It is too omnipotent and cannot be used as a tool of restriction. On the contrary, it seems to have more possibilities of 'spiritual power', because it contains many mysteries that Ian cannot find out for a while, and those that seem to have other requirements. Limiting' and 'restraining', so in turn can strengthen the nature of the black hole, allowing it to restrain the 'final fragment' in its hands.

This then allows Ian to directly resonate with the ‘Final Fragment’ and sense its source!

For a moment, it seemed like eternity again. When Ian's will rushed into the final fragment, he indeed experienced the time of 'a moment and eternity'.

It was like a black hole, like the end - in his eyes, the cyan light was spinning. Ian 'saw the whole of Dayan' in an instant. It was obviously just a blink of an eye, but the entire universe was coming to an end, falling into the final stage. 'ending'.

Surrounded by countless stars, Ian indeed saw the ‘ending’.

The many ‘ends’ of the universe.

The heat-dead [Cloud of Nirvana] squirms in the quiet darkness, waiting in this eternal moment without time.

The torn [infinite void], the radiance of countless stars separated into the distance, until the universe stagnated in eternal motion and was about to return to complete emptiness.

The shattered [chaotic tree diagram] of the timeline, the interlacing and merging of time and space in infinite parallel universes, and the complete destruction of one parallel universe after another brought huge amounts of energy, but what this energy gave birth to was not new life, but There are countless chaotic, indescribable high-energy universes that cannot be defined by any method. There is no time, no space, no vectors, only rising energy levels and ultimate destruction.

Everything returns to the super giant black hole [Return to a Big Star]. All matter is torn apart by gravity and melted into the same black hole. Everything is disrupted under the extreme gravity. The time axis is disrupted and time is reversed. A moment is eternity.

The universe originated from the movement of a monad, and when the monad came to a standstill, everything was the dream of the monad, the drive of the monad, and the will of Yin Delaixi... And he chose to stagnate. , the great illusion is stopped, so the universe dies and everything returns to ruins.

Many, many...

The constantly chaotic [Crazy Sky], the symmetry broken and repaired [Unborn Egg], the [Nirvana Time Wheel] trapped in infinite iterations of time and space...

Just like the Star Gods can use countless ways to create the universe, whether it is a universe with an infinite upper speed limit, a universe with a reverse flow of time, a universe with a viscous speed of light, a universe where all physical laws have been artificially modified, so that the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than unity Universes of one hundred and eighty degrees and less than one hundred and eighty degrees, alien universes that are completely independent of the mother universe and have completely abnormal mathematical laws, they can all create and cultivate life in them.

And the end is the ‘end’ of all ‘creation’.

Everything happens in a flash.

In Terra, the power set of natural numbers based on the definition of Cartesian product, the inverted Kabbalah that cannot be reached from the bottom up using the four arithmetic operations, the first tree of axioms that the Star God has always been shaping with the end, this every time An infinite game of complete information is carried out on the Susslin tree in which both the chain (branch) and the counter-chain are at most countable.

When the final victory is achieved, the Terran Universe will fall into the only ending of the smallest element. On the contrary, if the Star God wins, then the number of bifurcations (possibility) of the universe is infinite.

This is their war, which has no beginning, no end, and is endless. It is as wrong as a moment, but it is also eternity.

Just like a dream.

Ian could sense that all of this was as ethereal as a dream...but more real than reality.

Ian even saw the end of the Cradle of Terra.

Different from the grand endings of the universe above, the ending of the Cradle is very simple - the star goes out, the black hole drags all the matter towards itself, and the grand shattering and the burning of the accretion disk all come to an end. The spark in the process.

Until the end, all the light fades and everything that is bright returns to nothingness. This is the end called [Great Darkness].

It is incredible that each 'cradle' seems to be regarded as a separate universe, with its own separate end and ending. This may be because the 'cradle' itself is a 'pocket universe' created by the Star God. Although its mass is limited, it also enjoys infinite qualities through infinite parallel time and space, so it is equivalent to the universe in terms of the end.

"I understand...Thank you, Heavenly Father. If it weren't for your guidance, I might have needed to observe for a long time before I could see these 'essences'."

Looking around at all these dark endings, and the 'starlight' that guided him towards these endings, Ian finally realized: "The end is the universe itself..."

"In the end, it is [created thing]!"

Everything originates from nothingness, a place of silence where nothing exists. That is the source of truth and the great road, a nothingness that transcends emptiness.

Star gods were born from it. They were the first ray of light that illuminated nothingness, the first dust condensed in the wind, the first peaceful sleep and dreams, and the first notes and words that sung the praises of destiny.

The radiance illuminates Youmeng, they created everything, and their creation is the infinite universe itself.

Whether it is the [Pure Universe] with only the soul and infinite possibilities, the [Royal Book] whose trajectory is described and set by fate, the [Old Sea] where life and death rotate, the [Human World] where most life is settled, and the vast majority of abnormal universes lingering The [False Realm], or the [Foolish Place] where everything is indescribable.

These are [created things], everything is it. Light, shadow, flame, running water, dust, boulders, wind, frost and snow, people, animals, intelligent and unintelligent, everything that can be described in words and everything that cannot be described, everything with a name and everything without a name, everything Existence is all this [created thing].

Humanity was born in it. When human beings see this created thing, they call it the universe. It is endless and eternal, has no boundaries and is eternal. part of its collection.

Except for one thing.

That is ‘nothingness’ itself.

All tangible, intangible, and metaphysical existences will eventually have to fight against the 'nothingness' after the eternal future. When [created things] are created, they have this inevitable fate, even if this fate is not until the infinitely distant future. occurring.

But since it will happen, it means it has happened.

That is [Endgame].

[Endgame] was originally just a possibility. Just like when a person is born, everyone will say, "He will die." It is a boring prophecy and a meaningless conclusion.

Yes, no matter who it is, even the most powerful existence, I am afraid that one day he will die (at least be sealed), but how much 'process' will he go through in the middle?

The average person may die before the age of 100, but what if this person happens to encounter the explosion of biotechnology before adulthood and receives gene technology treatment, and can live to be 400 years old?

During this period of four hundred years, if he encounters a great development in mechanical transformation technology and the machine ascends to its own level, how many thousands of years can he live?

If during these thousands of years, he encounters another technological breakthrough of perfect etherification, how many years can he live?

Unconsciously, a life that was less than a hundred years has been extended to hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years.

Infinite possibilities shine.

If you are lucky enough, if this individual is strong enough, even if [his end] does exist, it will never become [real] - this is the importance of the process. No one can determine whether there will be sudden luck. Or a [miracle] that no one could predict.

Before death actually comes, life is always a beating note.

But here comes the problem.

--if.

——What if there is a kind of power, a kind of magical power that sounds very convenient, a kind of powerful power that can "skip" all the "processes" and reach the end?

"Star God, and Ether..."

At this moment, Ian was really speechless: "Oh my god, what I calculated in the past was really correct. It was really the Star God himself who sent the ether into the End!"

"But it's different from what I thought at that time. Star God is doing something bigger!"

The end of the Terra universe is the "Gui Da Star", a living black hole that absorbs everything. It is the representative of all wisdom, truth and power in this universe. But this is only the Terra universe, not other universes. It is the image seen by Ian in other universes.

The power of ether transcends time and space. This is something that Ian has known for a long time. However, the power of ether can actually transcend infinite time and space and directly use [Extreme Way] to reach the 'infinitely distant future' and bring about the 'final ending' of the entire universe. That is to say, the 'finality' has been transformed into reality, which is really something beyond Ian's imagination.

But it’s not surprising if you think about it carefully.

The universe also has a lifespan, but it will also be reborn, just like a ring.

It naturally has an [end], but the universe with intelligent life in general, before the universe can reach the [end], has already given some anti-entropy technology, time jumping technology, and time retrograde technology like the Star God. full.

Just like a person who is obviously only a hundred years old, but through the continuous development of life extension technology, he will never die - because of the existence of intelligent life, the end of the universe will never come.

This is all the processes arranged by the Star Gods with their amazing wisdom: the universe breeds life, life continues in the universe, the universe breeds more life, and life continues in the universe for a longer time, and even breaks through into Star Gods, creating a new The universe begins its next reincarnation... All of this is just like the infinite iterations of the infinite ring. As long as it continues, the universe will never come to an end.

But the Star Gods who created the [True Ether] that can transcend all time and space have probably forgotten one thing - they may be able to modify many meaningless processes by jumping through the ether.

But skipping these processes will lead to a "boring and inevitable ending".

It's like reading a book straight to the end.

It's like skipping to the end of a movie.

It's like a game that's fully opened and kills the boss with a knife without even watching the plot... No, there's something wrong with this analogy.

It should be a game. Just after choosing a character and squeezing the face, the boss didn’t even leave the door. In the end, the BOSS came directly to knock on the door.

It's like a person who can live for tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years, but someone directly brings the "end of death" to him when he was young.

How does one deal with death?

He can cope with death because he has encountered several technological revolutions in his hundreds of thousands of years of life.

Don't let him go through the 'process' and jump directly to the 'result', of course it will be [annihilate everything in the end]!

——When a monster is killed, it will die.

——If a person is killed, of course he will die!

The sea will change, and one day, the sea will turn into mountains, and the mountains will turn into the sea. Perhaps the animals living in the sea at that time have transformed into creatures on land, but suddenly the sea will turn into mountains in an instant, and all fish will have to be Fuck to death.

Therefore, in the face of endless different and extremely powerful terminals, the Star Gods will inevitably retreat, because their means of defeating those terminals are still in the future - they cannot even figure out which attacks are issued by terminals. , or some natural phenomenon they encountered.

They are delusional.

"So I said, you can't fast forward casually... Compared with the ending, the process is the most important."

Ian shook his head helplessly, sighed, and then returned to his smile: "Fortunately, the 'Big Dark Sky' is not difficult to deal with - it is nothing more than a variant of Small Heat Death, and the sun has to be extinguished first. As long as I can take away the fragments of the end, Then lead the outside world away, and the inside of the cradle will be safe."

Bang.

Everything is just a moment.

In the eyes of the four dragon kings and Carlos, Ian only came into contact with the final fragment for a moment, and then stuffed it back into the black hole.

The black hole also seems to have changed somewhat. Under the influence of spiritual power, the black hole seems to become deeper, with many different meanings, concepts and symbols.

When Ian picked up the black hole, it was as simple as picking up a golf ball and holding it in the palm of his hand.

He raised his head and looked around the entire Terran solar system.

What a huge, yet small cage.

Throughout the ages, all human wisdom, all human love and hatred, all human virtues and devotion, ugliness and hatred, all sparks of genius, and the deeds of fools.

Those emperors and great men who once illuminated an era, those great scholars and geniuses who inspired human history, and those unknown ordinary people, those who just spent their lives peacefully.

As a matter of fact, the 'civilization' and 'planet' itself that brings together all of the above people includes even more unintelligent beasts and ants.

Most of them will die silently, perish, and become extinct in a solar system.

If we don’t go out and look into the distance, then all the palaces of civilization created by mankind will eventually be destined to be buried in meaningless nothingness.

Only [Exploration] can defeat [Nothingness].

so……

Ian stepped forward.

He left the screaming Dragon Kings behind and strode toward the gap in the Heavenly Prison.

"I don't care at all how people in this world live."

"I don't care whether they have enough to eat, whether they have warm clothing and shelter, whether they have dreams and hopes."

"I don't care what they like or hate."

"Whether you hate me or love me, I just hope, I just hope that everything has meaning, even if it is really about to enter the end, to enter the ending, to face the end."

"I only hope that everyone can embrace love, so that they can be full of courage, without regrets, and completely from the heart, towards their own end."

"And my end..."

——That's high in the sky.

The Seventh Planet Sutton.

Lifting the black hole, Ian came to this gas giant, which was the largest giant in Terra after the sixth planet Deus. Like Deus, it had the potential to evolve into a brown dwarf.

There used to be some gaseous planetary beasts native to Terra and some large blue cosmic jellyfish living here, but when Ian assigned the seal just now, he sent these cosmic jellyfish to Deus—— The Deus side is as blue as the sky, while Sutton has a touch of gold. The golden jellyfish will turn into blue jellyfish, but I don't think it will have much impact.

"I'm sorry, Sutton, but I'll be with you to your end."

Ian will apologize.

As for now, what he has to do is simple.

Ian sent the black hole in his hand into Sutton, expanding its gravity.

This dark seed sank into the core of the planet.

Then, there was a slow roar.

The entire light golden gaseous giant began to collapse and shrink with rumbling roars. All of this was controllable. It was not a sudden collapse. Naturally, it would not cause ultra-high-scale nuclear fusion caused by the light-speed material flow hitting the metal core. As a result, a small-scale supernova exploded, and the entire Sutton star lit up with a dazzling water-colored streamer, like a hug.

Soon, the entire Sutton star collapsed to the size of a human head, becoming a pitch-black star that did not reflect any light.

The appearance of a quantum black star is actually a real black hole at its core.

However, there is light seeping out from the interior of this dark star.

That is the purest ether, the purest light.

That is the remnant left by the Father, the final seal of the Father.

It's no longer needed.

Because Ian himself is enough.

【Who are you……】

There was such a voice coming out.

"Shh." The young explorer replied gently: "Next, we are going to play a chase scene with the end."

"We burst out the ether together, letting our light shine like stars, overshadowing all brilliance."

[Haha] Then the voice understood, and he laughed, relieved and pleased: [What's so difficult about this? my compatriots]

[We are the Star Gods]

【We are the brightest light】

So, above Terra.

Everyone saw it. A cyan light that transcended time and space, exceeded the speed of light, and transcended all distances and processes lit up, hanging in the center of the sky, at the top of the ether tower.

It is dazzling but not dazzling, as if it is just for people to see everything clearly and to guide them gently.

——If the tower collapses, it can be rebuilt.

Yinhui led and all the mountain people raised their heads and stared at this scene.

——The stars are extinguished and can hang in the sky again.

All the citizens of Silver Peak were watching this scene, staring at the familiar cyan light,

——If you don’t know where you are going in the future, then please look up.

Because the [guiding] stars are always telling you the direction you should take!

"he's gone."

On the top of the deserted lord's castle, friends stared at the star.

The girl with dragon horns asked curiously: "Will he come back?"

They didn't feel the separation was painful because Ian had given them a part of himself and he was always with them all.

"Of course." The blond young man said calmly: "And what we have to do is to do everything we should do before he comes back."

"Yes." The elf girl nodded slightly: "All the high walls that strong people and those who want to change the world have encountered, all the difficulties and obstacles have been smoothed away. We should have succeeded."

The white-haired researcher was a little hesitant. He didn't dare to speak.

Now that everyone is so ambitious, should he reveal the fact that Ian actually left a spiritual communicator to report the situation?

Ian doesn't have the habit of not making phone calls when traveling far away, and no one says you can't chat with friends back home when you're traveling far away, right? I always feel like everyone seems to have misunderstood something...

The white-haired researcher was supposed to say it yesterday, but he forgot about it after working overtime for so long... I'm a little embarrassed.

At this moment, Ian has already set off.

With the black hole, the flowing light, the fragments of the end and the fragments of the Heavenly Father, the pioneers of Terra, born in this land, moved towards the end of their journey.

And outside the cradle, the pitch-black 'End' also squirmed slightly, 'looking' in the direction of the dazzling 'ether'.

…

Terra, Empire, Southridge, Port Harrison.

The new city back then is now an old commercial street in the old city.

A small grocery store.

Bottles and jars are sealed in dust, old and faded drawings are still hanging on the wall, desktop parts are scattered, and the pen tip placed aside is filled with ink, soaking into the cover of the book.

There is a small telescope in a crystal box.

This telescope is not exquisite, it is just a hand-carved gift by an old man for his favorite disciple.

Without any lofty encouragement, without any formal encouragement, without any blessings, without any expectations or hopes.

Just because the old man knew that the disciple would like it, he did it with heart and gave it away with confidence.

And the disciple accepted it happily and felt truly happy.

——You will absolutely love it.

——I really like it!

Sounds from the past echo through time.

A light came on and he gently took it away.

He will carry it to the finish line.

Like all love does.