leonardwarren #518 - They are the majority [Important plot]
#518 - They are the majority [Important plot]
Dong.
Wang Daoshi was caught off guard, the dim space before him already enveloped by water.
He himself seemed to have stiffened.
Only a wisp of his Nascent Soul floated out of his body, facing the figure ahead head-on.
"We meet again."
That familiar voice echoed around Wang Ji Xuan's Nascent Soul.
The illusory figure in front of him changed again, transforming into a blurry figure draped in a cloak.
It seemed somewhat different from the last time they met.
Wang Ji Xuan simply decided to drop the pretense of innocence and kindness.
Peony and Senior White Bone had both said that the Heavenly Dao should be able to perceive the past and the future, belonging to a life form that transcends the current dimension;
The moment they caused such a commotion here, Wang Ji Xuan's path here would inevitably be impossible to hide from the Heavenly Dao.
His Nascent Soul sat before his body;
In order to seize the initiative in the conversation, Wang Daoshi decided to use a more unconventional line of thinking to catch the other party off guard.
"Can't you directly kill me?" the Daoshi asked.
The Heavenly Dao's will calmly nodded: "I cannot directly interfere with the trajectory of any speck of dust in the world."
"But you use the Heavenly Dao Stone Tablet to directly issue commands, even commands to annihilate a region's cultivation world."
"This is a normal form of harmonization."
The Heavenly Dao's will slowly raised its head, revealing an unremarkable young face, which then subtly changed, becoming somewhat similar to Wang Ji Xuan.
His gaze was incomparably profound as he slowly said:
"Dao friend, you are now a billion times more dangerous than when we last met."
"This is what your subordinates forced me to do," Wang Ji Xuan shrugged slightly, "Once upon a time, I also wanted to honestly listen to your arrangements, nurture Peony, increase computing power, and let Peony gradually deduce the great calamity of the future, seeking a way to break the situation. This is also what you instructed me to do last time... But what happened later? Your people, or rather, the Vice-Alliance Leader of Tianluo, wanted to kill me."
"I cannot directly influence the will of living beings, otherwise the related Great Daos would collapse."
The Heavenly Dao's will gazed at Wang Ji Xuan:
"My creation of the Dark Church and Tianluo was inherently a form of containment of living beings."
"Is that so? You can't control Golden Immortals and Great Luo, so you turn around and deal with us, these weak living beings?"
"Although your words are harsh, that is indeed the case."
"Beautiful," Wang Ji Xuan chuckled as well, "The weak wielding a knife at the weaker, you have truly comprehended all the darkness of humanity."
"I am not here to argue or debate."
The Heavenly Dao's will stared at Wang Ji Xuan:
"Your current path is very dangerous."
"I hope you can give the heavens and earth another chance."
Wang Ji Xuan: ...
What the heck?
The Heavenly Dao's will was very sincere.
Wang Ji Xuan was confused.
What would he do next?
Good heavens, could it be that he and Peony are truly the immeasurable calamity of the Immortal Realm?
What they are doing with the mechanical army could be causing the Heavenly Dao to fear?
That doesn't make sense... no matter how Wang Ji Xuan and Peony deduce it, the mechanical army would be unilaterally slaughtered when facing True Immortal Realm combat power.
Even if they created super-powerful fleets and naval guns, a Heavenly Immortal could easily destroy these fleets by constantly boarding and fighting.
Wang Ji Xuan had seen a glimpse of the battle between Great Luo, which was truly about shattering the heavens and earth, and destroying the universe and time...
If there was a threat, then surely the Great Luo's threat to the heavens and earth would be greater, right?
'It might be trying to mislead me, in order to achieve some goal.'
Wang Daoshi was vigilant enough and did not take the initiative to respond, only meeting the Heavenly Dao's will's gaze.
Then he discovered...
Besides sincerity, the other party was still sincere.
"I really don't understand what you're saying," Wang Ji Xuan chuckled awkwardly, "If I didn't have Senior White Bone protecting me, it would be effortless for you to crush me to death. Rather than saying that I am threatening you, it would be better to say that Senior White Bone is threatening you."
"The Master of the Moon God Palace has not threatened me, my existence is unaffected."
"The present world?"
"Yes, the present world. The baseline of the present world will always fluctuate within a certain range. This fluctuation is temporarily controllable because you are far enough away from stepping onto the node of time travel."
The Heavenly Dao's will explained unhurriedly:
"Therefore, the Great Dao of Karma and the Great Dao of Time have enough time to restore everything and keep the present world stable.
"Although the Master of the Moon God Palace is a Great Luo Golden Immortal who achieved his position through the Great Dao of Time, he himself is also bound by the Great Dao of Time.
"Although this fluctuation will accumulate more and more until the entire system of time and karma completely collapses, a collapsed area will appear in the material universe, and then the collapse will continuously spread towards the universe, eventually causing the entire material universe to dissipate like an avalanche.
"But all of this is controllable, and the probability of it happening is extremely small.
"Compared to what you are about to do, these effects are not worth mentioning.
"The Master of the Moon God Palace who is currently protecting you has already realized these things, and he himself can eliminate these negative effects."
Wang Ji Xuan was indeed piqued with curiosity: "No, you keep saying what I am about to do, what am I going to do? I am a righteous cultivator, and I am saying this very seriously."
The Heavenly Dao's will was calm and silent.
Wang Ji Xuan said indifferently: "If you don't say it, how will I pay attention later? I just want to survive. If you use the Heavenly Dao Stone Tablet to issue an order, forbidding Tianluo and the Dark Church from chasing me, I naturally won't resort to extreme measures."
"I can, is this your condition?"
"One of the conditions, the second condition is... stop speaking in riddles, speak plainly!"
"If I tell you in person, it is actually indirectly telling you what I fear."
The Heavenly Dao's will calmly narrated:
"And if I don't tell you, there is also a high probability that this will happen later.
"Therefore, whether I tell you or not, this thing has a probability of happening, and your subjective will is now an effective force to prevent this thing from happening.
"Come with me."
It seemed to have figured it out.
"Huh?"
Before Wang Ji Xuan could react, the starlight in front of him suddenly exploded.
A wisp of his Nascent Soul was dragged into the starry sky.
Wang Ji Xuan looked down and saw a vast and boundless land beneath his feet. Above the land floated immortal islands, and within the four seas was endless water.
The Immortal Realm!
On the periphery of this world, there were 'pipelines' composed of colorful clouds, extending infinitely towards the land of brilliant stars, and subtle changes had occurred in the universe and time here.
Wang Ji Xuan felt something and turned around to look, seeing the even more distant surroundings of the Immortal Realm.
The starlight suddenly disappeared, and clusters of gray air enveloped the Immortal Realm.
The Great Dao of Time no longer existed, and the Great Dao of Universe became incomparably chaotic... No, the Great Dao of Time was still there, but Wang Ji Xuan's Dao realm was too low to perceive it, and both Time and Universe had become fragmented and disordered here.
Every wisp of aura here contained endless time and mass.
The Chaos Sea!
"I have protected you with the power of the Heavenly Dao, allowing you to briefly sense the Chaos Sea. This is an experience that only a Grand Unity Golden Immortal can have."
The Heavenly Dao's will's voice came.
Wang Ji Xuan turned around to look, and the Heavenly Dao's will had already taken off its cloak.
It walked forward, and its form began to constantly change, sometimes transforming into an old woman, sometimes into a beautiful young girl, sometimes into an old man, and sometimes into that graceful young man.
The only thing that remained unchanged was its eyes, which were eternally present and unmoved by anything.
The Heavenly Dao's will flicked its finger, and the Chaos Sea surged again, and a simple diagram appeared in front of Wang Ji Xuan.
On the far left was a fist-sized black hole, which suddenly expanded, transforming into a pot of hot porridge.
"This is not just a change in space, but a simultaneous change in time and space."
The Heavenly Dao's will said.
Its form solidified into that of an old man wearing a white coat, with disheveled hair and a slightly large nose.
It somewhat resembled the Earth civilization's great scientist, Albert Einstein, in Wang Ji Xuan's impression.
The Heavenly Dao's will continued to explain:
"We are now in this hot porridge. The Immortal Realm is located in the spacetime where the earliest celestial bodies in the universe formed.
"The Immortal Realm has become the meeting point of all rules and Great Daos.
"It is because of the existence of the Immortal Realm that living beings have the opportunity to sense these rules and gradually master them, becoming extraordinary individuals.
"This is actually the romance of the universe.
"However, individual transcendence is destined to be an incredibly difficult path, because the power of an individual is limited, but living beings, or rather, civilizations, are extremely intelligent."
The Heavenly Dao's will flicked its finger again.
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After the Immortal Realm, stars filled the sky.
Each star was a huge elliptical galaxy, and many elliptical galaxies had nebulae interconnected with each other.
The growth and death of the stars were concretely presented to Wang Ji Xuan at this moment.
The Heavenly Dao's will slowly said: "Look, the first civilization to ascend collectively has appeared."
Wang Ji Xuan shifted his gaze to the corner of the universe, where a faint flash appeared.
In the flash, a group of phantoms slowly detached from the galaxy.
This phantom initially looked like a human brain, gradually becoming spherical, like a single-celled organism, yet containing endless complex light and shadow.
The phantom enveloped the entire galaxy, rapidly absorbing energy, and stars were extinguished one by one.
And when the energy it controlled exceeded the limit that the current universe could withstand, countless Great Daos trembled simultaneously, and it lightly jumped and disappeared.
"After collective ascension, the civilization became an extraordinary collective, entering a higher spatial dimension."
The Heavenly Dao's will said softly:
“Look at the Chaos Sea again.”
Wang Jixuan turned his head to look, and a bulge appeared in the Chaos Sea. This bulge was shaking gently, and then turned into a monster with hundreds of tentacles, wandering in the Chaos Sea.
Wang Jixuan was stunned: “This…”
“The laws of the Dao inside are very complex, I can only simply summarize and explain them to you.”
The Heavenly Dao's will continued:
“The Chaos Sea you see actually has six stages. Now is the sixth stage. In the space-time where the Immortal Realm exists, the Chaos Sea surrounds the Immortal Realm and interacts with it.”
“That is, the Sixth Epoch.”
“Those transcendent civilizations born after collective ascension, even if they enter higher dimensions, need to absorb energy from the material universe to maintain their existence.”
“Mortals must ingest food, cultivators must ingest spiritual power, and they are the same.”
“So they use projections in the Chaos Sea to expand themselves and draw strength.”
“Their thinking is in a higher dimension, watching this universe like gods, and their existence is also a potential threat to the Immortal Realm, so the great powers and great divine beings of the ancient Immortal Realm joined forces to try to encircle and suppress them.”
Wang Jixuan asked: “Did the Immortal Realm win?”
“Neither won nor lost, the two sides can't do anything to each other.”
The Heavenly Dao's will said slowly:
“If classified, it is actually the ultimate products of individual transcendence and collective transcendence, these two evolutionary paths, competing for survival.”
“I was already born at that time, and I was quietly watching all of this.”
“Living beings are also part of the heaven and earth, and the power of living beings is also a kind of power of heaven and earth, so I initially regarded these collisions as simple energy collisions.”
“That is indeed the essence.”
Wang Jixuan frowned and asked: “What does this have to do with me?”
“Of course it has something to do with you. Don't you think your Peony will become one of them?”
The Heavenly Dao's will pointed to the Chaos Sea.
Inside, one after another 'monster' of various shapes appeared.
Each monster is a civilization that has completed collective ascension.
The universe is too big, and after hundreds of billions of years, the number of monsters that have appeared in the Chaos Sea has exceeded a thousand.
They are called monsters because Wang Jixuan cannot understand this aesthetic. This is the distortion that occurs when the high-dimensional world projects into the three-dimensional material world.
Wang Jixuan: …
Peony, collective civilization ascension, super civilization becoming a high-dimensional world individual, projection in the Chaos Sea, threat to the Immortal Realm.
“Aren't there so many mon… collective wills? What will happen if Peony becomes one of them?”
“Peony is different from them.”
The Heavenly Dao's will said in a low voice:
“At the level of the Great Dao, the Golden Immortals of the Immortal Realm should be existences of the same level as these will bodies.”
“However, the Golden Immortals heavily rely on the environment of the Immortal Realm. When they enter the Chaos Sea, they can only create a small area.”
“The thinking and logic of other collectively ascended transcendent life forms are based on the original civilization and are completely different from the thinking and logic of individual life forms.”
“But Peony is a pure mechanical civilization… Generally speaking, these collectively ascended civilizations will experience this stage at some point before ascension, constructing extremely complex thinking networks. The more complex this thinking network, the more it can resist energy shocks.”
“Peony realized this a long time ago, and she is looking for a purer path.”
“The time she comprehended me, I was forced to respond, because she really comprehended the principles of my operation.”
“And now, when the Moon God Palace Master walks side by side with you, and the Moon God Palace Master gives you a wisp of the Dao rhythm of the Great Dao of Time, Peony has begun to passively analyze the Great Dao of Time.”
“In other words, she will complete her sublimation through the path of collective ascension, and this collective transcendent life form led by Peony will have thinking, logic, and even emotions similar to those of individual life forms in the three-dimensional world.”
“Emotions are terrible things, they can sway reason.”
“And all of this will happen in my foreseeable future…”
“In the future, you will witness the disciples of Wangxian Valley being slaughtered by the Dark Sect, be furious, ignore persuasion, fight with the Dark Sect, and eventually be seriously injured and taken to the Immortal Realm by the Moon God Palace Master.”
“You will work hard to cultivate in the Immortal Realm, but the hatred in your heart cannot be suppressed. This will lead you step by step to the opposite side of the Dark Sect. In your conflict with the Dark Sect, the Tianluo Society will help you and then betray you. You will die tragically in the fierce battle of the Great Luo.”
“Peony will completely lose control at this time.”
“She will hide in time to avoid my pursuit, and then step by step, bit by bit, create a huge and terrifying mechanical civilization, and then she will devour that civilization to complete the collective ascension led by individual will.”
“Look, this is what the future of the Immortal Realm looks like under this timeline.”
“When I discovered you in the current Wangxian Valley time and space, I automatically deduced this scene.”
The Heavenly Dao raised his hand and pointed.
A colorful light curtain appeared in front of Wang Jixuan.
Inside the light curtain:
The vast land was covered by a gray aura, and everything was collapsing. Horrible and indescribable monsters were dissecting the land, and behind these monsters, the huge outline of a human female was quietly sitting in the depths of the Chaos Sea.
“Interesting, isn't it?”
The Heavenly Dao's will sighed softly:
“The original Quantity Tribulation was not your Peony, but compared to the Quantity Tribulation, she is even more terrifying.”
“Then why don't you destroy her?”
“I cannot destroy a cluster of electronic data that can be infinitely copied and travel through time, and…”
The Heavenly Dao's will raised his chin and sighed:
“Haven't you noticed? Compared to these transcendent life forms born from collective ascension, the Golden Immortals of the Immortal Realm are far inferior in both number and power.”
“They are the majority.”
“The Immortal Realm is just an accident, a magical continent existing in a strange space-time.”
“The reason why these collectively ascended transcendent life forms do not actively destroy the Immortal Realm is because they also have competition with each other in the high-dimensional world, and they relatively respect the… biodiversity in the native universe.”