Chapter 1188
[Crisis Sequence: I Have No Disciples!]
Chapter 1188 [Crisis Sequence: I Have No Disciples!]
As soon as Sean finished speaking, Rhodes fell silent, but his demeanor had changed.
It was a sense of oppression belonging to the [Miracle Workers].
The great spirituality begins to fluctuate, and a level of existence that can directly interfere with the spatial structure and causal path is provoked. When this level is ignited by emotions, the entire space will instinctively begin to distort and contract.
His gaze suddenly sharpened, as if some higher-dimensional being were looking down upon a lower-level being.
He acted subserviently in front of Hugh Abraham because the latter could truly humiliate him. But you, a ruler, dare to talk back to the Miracle Worker?!
I think you're courting death!
Lot simply raised one wing, and in the next instant, the entire space suddenly cracked open.
The [multiverse map] within Lode's body unfolded instantly, with countless superimposed spatial coordinates flipping like pages in a book. In the gaps between those intersecting coordinates, extremely sharp spatial rifts were directly "dragged out," forming a slash that was almost impossible to lock onto using conventional perception.
【Multiverse Map - Deciphering】
The space itself is being divided.
The cracks instantly overlapped like fragments, directly covering Sean's location along the shortest path. If the attack had hit completely, the result wouldn't have been a simple death, but rather being broken into irreparable multidimensional fragments.
However, at the very moment the attack was about to land, High Priestess Faira Antius also raised his scepter.
Her movements were not hurried, but rather leisurely. As she gently tapped the void with her scepter, six pitch-black spheres slowly emerged around her.
Those six black spheres were not simply energy aggregates.
They are more like the embodiment of six different rules.
Xia Xiu, who was watching the show from the sidelines, instantly saw through the essence of the six black spheres with his third eye on his forehead. They were themselves highly condensed metaphysical concept authorities made up of some kind of "spirit race runes".
Enhanced material and spatial erasure, anticipation of hostility, mental interference, causal rearrangement, and time delay.
This is the essence that Xia Xiu observed from these six black spheres. Moreover, in addition to these six abilities, these black spheres themselves also possess the strength of a [Miracle Wedge].
The strength here refers to physical strength; in layman's terms, it means they are... very hard.
Just as Rhodes' spatial rift slashed down, the six black spheres operated simultaneously. The black spheres that reinforced matter constructed a stable surface, while the black spheres that erased space directly swallowed the edge of the rift. Anticipating hostility, they locked onto the attack path in advance, and the rearrangement of cause and effect caused the originally certain strike to deviate from its logical trajectory for a moment.
next moment.
All the spatial rifts seemed to crash into an invisible structure, and then were completely dissolved.
Lot paused slightly.
Farah slowly lowered her scepter and looked at him coldly.
“You wand players are always used to treating ‘freedom to travel between worlds’ as a kind of capital, and then you meddle in areas that do not belong to you, without even being willing to understand the most basic taboos.”
The high priest clearly disapproved of the wand man's carefree and irresponsible attitude.
You bunch of stinking outsiders! When the Otto Eldar were the rulers of the universe, you stinking outsiders were probably begging for food somewhere!
The high priest, with the air of a seasoned veteran, addressed Lot:
"The death of that wandwitch number twelve was not a conspiracy, but the price she paid for crossing the line. She touched the forbidden structure set up by the great Eldar Fourth Saint Rakmule, destroying the defensive layout that should have lasted for several eras. This act itself was deadly enough."
Farah's gaze grew even colder.
"Moreover, her stupidity not only ended her own life, but also deprived Blackrock Fortress of a crucial defensive measure. If the situation hadn't developed to this point, we should have even held the wand man accountable, instead of explaining these things to you that don't need explaining."
Lot folded his wings slightly, his gaze falling on the scepter, a clear hint of apprehension flashing in his eyes.
"The Wandmen will remember everything that happened today, including your actions in this fortress, including your treatment of your fallen comrades. We are not in a hurry to settle scores now, but this debt will not simply disappear."
After listening, Farah simply raised his chin slightly.
Her tone remained completely unchanged.
"It doesn't matter."
She said it calmly.
"But you'd better remember one thing—even if the giants behind the wandmen personally intervene, even if the penguin behind you intervenes, they may not be willing to have a direct conflict with the Otto Eldar over such a matter, because in the higher order, the powers you rely on are not as important as you imagine."
Her gaze swept coldly over Rhodes.
"In other words, we never need to care whether you are dissatisfied."
Lot snorted. He didn't look at the high priest again, nor did he argue. He simply bent down and began to collect the corpse.
A tiny spatial rift opened silently, and a storage node made of an unknown material unfolded in his palm. Its interior was not a simple container, but a nested dimensional structure, like a miniature universe that had been folded and tamed.
He collected the body of Wandman Twelve and the map of the universe into his collection, and Rhodes officially completed his mission to find Wandman Twelve, although the process was somewhat tortuous.
The wand man sacrificed an emperor penguin and a chance to make a move, while also... incurring the wrath of the Otto Eldar.
Xia Xiu, who had been watching the show to his heart's content, summoned the [Heavenly Lever] and held it in his hand. He looked with great interest at the black sphere revolving around the ring behind the High Priest and said to him:
“Interesting. I’m quite curious about Otto’s view of our Heavenly Kingdom.”
As he spoke, he recalled the knowledge the think tank Eden had about the Eldar race. He seemed to have seen the name of a related document, but it was highly classified, and he was busy researching the ether at the time, so he hadn't opened it.
The high priestess, facing Xia Xiu, was noticeably less cold towards him than she had towards Rhodes; she smiled at Xia Xiu and said:
"The Kingdom of Heaven and the Wandman are not the same. The Kingdom of Heaven is the guardian of this generation's benchmark universe."
Xia Xiu, however, keenly caught a particular word in the other person's mouth.
"This generation of the universe?"
The high priest nodded and began to introduce the magnificent history of the Otto Spirit Clan to Xia Xiu.
"Beyond the history of all known civilizations, there once existed a universe known as the First Otto Era."
"That universe did not perish, nor did it collapse, but was swallowed up by some being from outside. Those beings had no name, or rather, no name could refer to them; they were called by the survivors—Wo Wutu."
"Voru, before everything existed, was Voru. The Voru people came from a sea of nothingness without concepts or laws. The First Otto World was completely destroyed by their erosion."
"When destruction came, a small number of beings escaped that final universe. They were neither human nor gods, but merely survivors who had not yet been devoured. They were the Otto Eldar."
"The Eldar traversed the collapsed reality and entered a new universe, which the Eldar affectionately called the Second Otto – which is our current baseline universe."
"To prevent destruction from happening again, these seven survivors made the same choice: they abandoned their original forms and, through some kind of ritual, forcibly elevated themselves to the status of 'gods' of the Eldar."
"They are no longer just life forms, but have become the nodes that maintain the structure of the universe. These seven beings are also known as the Seven Saints of the Eldar (Koru-teusa)."
"However, this ascension is incomplete; they still retain traces of what was once life. They bleed, but God cannot bleed."
"In order to maintain the existence of the Seven Saints, countless Spirit Race members began to offer their blood. Of course, this was not a sacrifice, but an act of maintaining reality—because as long as the Seven Saints perish, the universe itself will lose its defense mechanism, and then the Woowutu will invade again."
"As time went by, the Seven Saints died one by one over a long period of time. Some died in battle against Wo Wutu, some perished in an unspeakable internal strife within the Spirit Clan, some were forgotten, and some ultimately could not resist the void and chose to pass away peacefully."
"In the end, only one existence remained—the Fourth Saint: Rakmou-leusan."
“Unlike other gods, He does not sit on a high throne. He resides on a wound in the universe, a rift that runs through reality, known as—Voreik.”
"Of course, your Heavenly Kingdom has many names for him, but the three most commonly used names are: the Great Rift in the Warp, the Cancer of the Galaxy, or... the Eye of Fear."
"In the eyes of fear, the Wo Wutu is constantly trying to flood into reality, and the great Lakmule is using himself to plug that crack."
Upon hearing the words "Eye of Fear," Xia Xiu's expression finally showed a very subtle change. It wasn't surprise, but a belated feeling that "everything makes sense."
During the Green Sun Incident, he not only obtained the Solar Ship, but also received several coordinate data from a higher authority, including this Blackrock Fortress, and... the space node marked as a forbidden contact area—the Cardia Sector, which is also the coordinate location of the Eye of Fear.
It's all such a coincidence.
Mu had also told him that because a certain demon king's army cooperated with the Prince of Pleasure [Shalis], the Super Astronomical Department had blocked information about the Eye of Fear. He also said that Chaos was only hiding in the area outside the Eye of Fear. Now he finally understood one of the reasons why they were hiding around the Eye of Fear.
So it turns out that the Fourth Saint of the Spirit Race was ruling alone for eternity! However, Mu didn't mention this at the time. Instead, the old man said that the reason the Four Monarchs still allowed the Chaos Demons to cower around the Eye of Fear was because the Four Monarchs felt that the feed mills in the mortal world weren't big enough...
The old man definitely knew about the Fourth Saint, but he didn't mention him, which suggests that the Fourth Saint's absolute dominance across eternity wasn't just aimed at the Chaos Demon, or there might be another possibility...
"Those Wowutu you just mentioned, they shouldn't be Chaos Demons, right?"
The high priest nodded slightly.
"Indeed, it seems you are not entirely ignorant."
“Wo Wutu can indeed manifest as the chaotic demons you understand on certain levels, because after entering reality, they exhibit a series of characteristics such as distortion, erosion, disorder, and even conceptual pollution. However, chaotic demons are merely a result, or rather, a projection of them after being interpreted by reality.”
She paused slightly, as if considering how to express herself next.
"But they are not the same as that thing."
She raised her eyes and looked at Xia Xiu.
"Because—the Wolverines are not living beings. They have a great connection with the Spirit Race... but strictly speaking, they don't even qualify as beings."
Her voice remained calm, but began to gradually sink.
"They were born in a realm outside the universe, a realm called Void."
"But you shouldn't think of it as space, or some higher-dimensional void, because it is neither 'existence' nor 'non-existence'; it is a state that is closer to 'the concept itself has not yet been established'."
“I know this sounds complicated and contradictory, but that’s just how strange it is.”
“In the void, things neither truly exist nor completely disappear. Everything is in a cycle of constant generation and disintegration. It is not a process, but a state of being, a superposition of states without beginning or end.”
"According to a famous physicist, it is a cat that is constantly alternating between life and death, also known as Schrödinger's cat."
"And it is in this environment that certain structures begin to form."
Her tone remained unchanged, but the content gradually tightened.
"They have no stable form, no fixed rules, and no attributes that you can define, but in the long cycle, these structures gradually acquire a most basic tendency—they begin to yearn to exist, they yearn to collapse."
“Those structures that attempt to move from ‘non-being’ to ‘being’ are the ones that are Wo Wutu.”
She didn't pause, but continued speaking.
“Wo Wutu” are structures that come from “non-existence” and gain stability of existence by devouring reality.
The air seemed to tighten slightly at that moment.
"They have a fundamental problem."
"Because they originate from nothingness, they have no real structure and cannot maintain their existence for a long time. They will constantly collapse, just like a variable that cannot be defined and repeatedly fails in the process of trying to be written into reality."
"Schrödinger's cat, once observed, is destined to collapse and become fixed in one direction: life or death. That is, once the box is opened, the cat either lives or dies. Once observed, it will collapse into a result."
But the Wowutu are different; they have a box that can never be opened, or to put it more simply, it's something that just wants to crawl out of a Schrödinger's cat state.
"This thing... is just outrageous. It can't stay in a fixed collapsed state at all. Every time it crawls out, it's like it didn't crawl out at all. It's practically like it's crawling."
"It is always just a process like climbing, neither dying nor living, nor collapsing."
"What's even more problematic is that it expends energy while performing this crawling motion; you can think of it as eating to perform the crawling motion."
"When the Woven Ones come into contact with the universe, their behavior usually follows a relatively fixed process, which is a constant state of appearing and disappearing. This is how they feed."
"They do not distinguish between objects, matter, energy, information, or even concepts themselves; anything that can be defined as 'existing' will become their object."
"But after they finish eating, they quickly collapse into 'non-existence,' and their instincts cause them to want to collapse into 'existence,' which is a strange state of being unable to get enough to eat, yet not starving to death."
"What's worse is that the things that are swallowed up, because of their own strange collapse, completely cease to exist. They are the kind that only eat but don't excrete. They will be deleted from reality, and even the traces of their existence will disappear."
"The universe is as big as Wo Wutu's appetite. Moreover, when they have consumed a certain amount of entities, they can actually collapse into a relatively stable state. In other words, the more they devour, the closer they get to 'real existence,' and their structure will gradually stabilize and their scale will continue to expand."
"They will gradually grow from tiny structures into entities that can influence galaxies and even the entire universe."
"Of course, this cosmic-level entity will eventually collapse back into 'non-existence'. According to the time scale of the universe, this collapse process is actually quite long, and according to the scale of civilization, this collapse process is so long that it leads to utter despair."
Her voice was flat, but the content was heavy enough.
“Once upon a time, there was a man named Wo Wutu who completed this process.”
She looked at Xia Xiu.
"It devoured the entire First Ottoworld."
After listening to the entire explanation about "Wo Wu Tu", Xia Xiu did not speak immediately. He simply lowered his head slightly, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing the silver cane and slowly sliding down its shaft. The action seemed casual, but in fact, he was summarizing the information at an extremely fast speed.
According to this logic, there can be many kinds of Wowutu, and even the Four Monarchs can be categorized within a certain theoretical framework of Wowutu, because the Chaos Demon also needs to move from 'non-existence' to 'existence', and this process is a long tug-of-war between civilizations.
Even if the Chaos Demon descends to the mortal world, it will be banished back to the Aether by the Kingdom of Heaven. This tug-of-war process is really similar to that of the Wo Wutu.
According to this theory, there are at least four transformation processes for Wo Wutu.
Wo Wu (non-existent)
↓
Unstable existence.
↓
Stable Individual (Concrete God)
↓
? ? ? (Complete form at the cosmic level)
He stopped on this floor.
It's not because it can't be pushed forward, but because—going further down the line is no longer a theory, but something that already exists in reality.
Xia Xiu's gaze changed slightly at that moment.
His lips twitched slightly, and for the first time, his expression seemed a little strange, like someone who had already seen through the answer but was unwilling to admit it.
He exhaled softly, his tone no longer as casual as before, but carrying a very faint, tentative undertone that even he himself could not completely conceal.
According to your logic—
He spoke slowly, his voice not loud, but clear enough for everyone present to hear.
"From 'non-existence' to 'unstable existence,' and then to achieving self-stabilization by devouring reality, ultimately becoming an individual that can be defined and even called 'god'—this path is essentially about forcibly stuffing something that cannot exist into reality little by little."
He paused for a moment after saying this.
In that instant, his gaze was completely fixed on the high priest.
"What if it continues to go up?"
"If it's not just stable, but has completely closed itself off, and can even, in turn, influence, cover, or rewrite reality itself—"
His voice lowered slightly at that moment.
"The complete form that destroyed the first Otto world at the cosmic level..."
He paused, and the strange look in his eyes became even more obvious.
"Could it be... the Crimson King?"