metaverse evolution.

Chu Fei's conversation with the goddess of nature taught him a lesson: life is full of pitfalls!

The old folks always say, "Don't be greedy, it'll lead to trouble." But the "king" says, "He who steals a kingdom becomes a lord!"

How did Chu Fei interpret it?

Chu Fei believed that it is human nature to take from the poor to give to the rich, and that greed is inherent in human nature. Perhaps this is thanks to the education Chu Fei received at Dawn Academy.

Cao Liwen told Chu Fei back then that willpower is an upgraded version of greed. Although Chu Fei made some self-corrections later, the influence could never be completely erased. The initial imprint cannot be removed!
In short, Chu Fei believes that greed is not a mistake; the mistake lies in being mindless.

When you encounter someone who catches your eye, you're bound to make a move, otherwise what's the point of having hands and feet? But before making a move, be prepared for failure and see if you can bear the consequences.

Over the years, the Ascending Dragon Palace has resorted to increasingly greedy methods in its external exchanges, with arms sales often yielding profits of dozens of times the initial investment. Otherwise, there would be no "Heavenly Book," no current cultivation level for Chu Fei, and no big data cultivation technique at the current 24.0 level.

Of course, Chu Fei also admitted that greed was accompanied by death; the entire process was a dance on the edge of a knife. But the gains were also very real.

When interacting with other ethnic groups, it all comes down to whether it's about strength or intellect.

But greed itself is something that must be guarded against.

Just like the vast world of Changqingtian, if one is not greedy, one can hide well. But because of greed, powerful beings from the outside world have found Changqingtian.

If Changqingtian hadn't been greedy and hadn't actively absorbed those low-level beings, even if it ultimately couldn't escape the fate of invasion, it would have been delayed for many years.

For example, this time, if the Sun God hadn't been greedy and "stole" the Creation Jade Disc from the Ascending Dragon Palace, it wouldn't have been exposed in advance.

But then again, life instinctively demands all resources. Even the eternal heavens need to develop. So reality is like this, a complex web of contradictions.

Chu Fei pondered, glancing at the gradually disappearing Chang Qingtian behind him, and sighed softly. He didn't want to run away, but he had no choice.

But after only a moment of reflection, Chu Fei was busy again. There were too many things to do on the fleet now; no one could be idle. Even the Goddess of Nature needed to be vigilant about the surrounding void, with a warning range of about one light-year.

A light-year might be insignificant to a Saint-level being, but for the Ascending Dragon Palace, it's enough to gain several days of preparation time, potentially turning the tide of battle.

Chu Fei contacted Zhao Weiguang again, hoping to confirm the direction. This was a little troublesome.

In the pitch-black void, precise location is extremely complex. Didn't you see that even though the Chaos Beast knew the approximate location of Changqingtian, it still took over five hundred years to search for it bit by bit?

Fortunately, Chu Fei has now entered the extraterritorial battlefield and no longer needs to go through the Chaos Divine Beast as a transit point, so he can contact Zhao Weiguang directly.

The only difference is that the communication between the two is through quantum signals, which represent a logical relationship and are theoretically impossible to intercept.

Through extreme enhancement of the observer effect and the addition of technologies such as the virtual quantum realm, the researchers at the Rising Dragon Palace finally determined the general direction after repeated attempts and tests.

Thanks to Chu Fei, whose 24.0 technology, after gaining the ability to create the world, was able to barely capture the quantum signal.

Even so, only a general direction was determined, not the exact one. This is because the spacetime in the other world is not smooth, and the fleet must recalibrate its direction periodically.

When the fleet finally determined its direction, it was already half a month later. At this time, the fleet was still circling near Changqingtian, having traveled less than 50 billion kilometers.

They dared not leave, partly due to the issue of positioning, and partly because they were unfamiliar with the surrounding space and needed to conduct reconnaissance.

During this period, the fleet surveyed the space within hundreds of light-years, detecting the surrounding void by receiving light, radiation, gravitational waves, electromagnetic radiation, and so on from outer space.

Through this exploration, many hidden continents and small celestial realms of varying sizes were discovered. These continents basically revolve around the Evergreen Sky.

According to Chu Fei's investigation, the accretion disk of Changqingtian is about ten light-years wide, and its gravitational influence extends over a hundred light-years. Most of the strange beasts that invaded Changqingtian at that time came from the world surrounding Changqingtian.

The Rising Dragon Palace fleet had no interest in exploring these small worlds. Now that they had determined their direction and calculated their route, the fleet immediately activated its faster-than-light travel technology.

More than a month after the fleet left, some cultivators and strange beasts at least at the Golden Immortal level appeared here. Everyone looked in the direction where the fleet had disappeared, still feeling lingering fear—the saintly aura of the Goddess of Nature made them dare not move.

Then these guys looked in Chang Qingtian's direction, seemingly lost in thought.

In the void, the fleet raced wildly. However, because the fleet was completely unfamiliar with the environment of the inner world, it would advance a certain distance, then scout the surroundings before continuing. Even so, it was thanks to the technical expertise provided by the Temple of War and others that it was able to keep up.

Traveling faster than light in the vast void is extremely dangerous. This means that if there is any danger ahead, it may be impossible to detect it in advance. Therefore, stopping to survey the surrounding environment is essential.

Another issue is that the spacetime in the other world is not smooth, which means that the fundamental laws of spacetime may have slight differences. These differences are very subtle, but if one wants to travel tens of thousands of light-years, they will need to be constantly adjusted.

Meanwhile, Chu Fei, seeing that the fleet had stabilized, could finally focus on studying other things, such as the flesh and blood of the Chaos Beast.

As soon as he started the research program, Chu Fei was shocked by the flesh and blood structure of the Chaos Divine Beast.

What is the structure of the flesh and blood of a Saint-level being?

Chu Fei was very curious. The last time he saw it was when the Goddess of Nature was in a state of "partial sealing". However, at that time, Chu Fei only glanced at it briefly and did not study it carefully - to study it carefully or to analyze it in pieces would be insulting.

Now, the body of the Chaos Beast provides the answer—it's not a common structure at all.

Common substances include, but are not limited to, the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth), plants, flesh, organic matter, crystalline and amorphous substances, vapor, plasma, strong light radiation, and electromagnetic fields. The Dragon Palace also now includes nanomaterials and hadron materials. All of these substances are "matter" and are real entities.

However, the corpse of the Chaos Beast after its death exhibited characteristics of being "dreamlike and illusory".

Inside the dimensional capsule storing the Chaos Beast, the corpse of the Chaos Beast can be seen "degrading".

Because the Chaos Beast was too large, the Ascending Dragon Palace could only cut up and preserve its corpse, which made the "degradation" speed of the Chaos Beast somewhat uncontrollable.

The products of degradation, however, are all kinds of basic substances, from hydrogen to heavy metals. It should be said that the "flesh and blood" of the chaotic beast first degrades into quanta, then transforms into elementary particles, and the elementary particles combine to form various protons and neutrons, ultimately forming matter.

Fortunately, the process was very slow and released not much energy, otherwise the entire dimensional space would have exploded.

The flesh and blood of the Chaos Beast are actually in a "high-dimensional state", or a "quantum field state".

The mortal eye obviously cannot directly see the true nature of the chaotic divine beast's flesh and blood. The dreamlike and illusory characteristics that we see are actually phenomena of the degradation process. Just like the rainbow we see is actually a phenomenon of sunlight scattering (degradation).

Chu Fei understood after a brief analysis. The "flesh and blood" of the Chaos Beast had a "granularity/precision" of 1.2 × 10^-36 m, which is 125% of the Planck scale, or the quantum scale. This means that the physical structure of the Chaos Beast is incomprehensible from the perspective of the conventional world.

This "flawless" structure is like spacetime. Ordinary people can't see or touch spacetime, even though we live in it.

Saint-level beings possess a physical structure and level that are at least equivalent to the spacetime structure.

Another point is that although the structure of spacetime is invisible and intangible, the "hardness" of spacetime is very high.

The "hardness" of spacetime is derived from the spacetime distortion caused by massive objects, and its hardness is about 10^32 times that of homogeneous steel!
The hardness of this spacetime is roughly equivalent to the physical strength of a Chaos Beast or a Saint-level life form. This is why ordinary methods cannot break through its defenses.

Such hardness actually exceeds the limits that ordinary humans can imagine. Similarly, upon seeing the body of the Chaos Beast, Chu Fei was unable to effectively observe its structure for a time.

But Chu Fei is Chu Fei; he immediately switched to the metaverse domain. Chu Fei's metaverse domain had already completed the foundation for creation, that is, it had already constructed an information field.

The information field is continuous. By using the information field to observe the body structure of the Chaos Beast and then using the "Ultraviolet Cataclysm" algorithm to improve the observation accuracy, Chu Fei was able to barely observe the body structure of the Chaos Beast—perfect and radiant.

This is not flesh and blood at all; it is a compressed quantum field!
At this moment, the Chaos Beast died and lost the restraint of its consciousness. Its "flesh and blood" were gradually assimilated, interfered with, polluted and degraded by the external environment. The quantum field was downgraded to quantum and entered the "creation" stage.

Because the Chaos Beast itself is "continuous," its transformation into "discontinuous matter," coupled with the shift from high pressure (high dimension) to low pressure (low dimension), would cause its volume to explode. This explosion is roughly equivalent to sending liquid air into the space environment, resulting in an increase of billions of times.

The amount of matter generated after the death of a chaotic divine beast is enough to form a continent!
After observing for a long time, Chu Fei had only one thought in his mind: "The legend that Pangu turned into the world after his death is really true! The total amount of matter that a complete Chaos Beast turns into after its death may be equivalent to a star!"
It was shocking, but there was also an interesting situation.

If the total amount of matter that the Chaos Beast transformed into after its death is equivalent to that of a star, then it means that the amount of information within its body is equivalent to that of a star.

This brings us back to the two paths to becoming a sacred life form: one is like a black hole, where mass accumulates infinitely; the other is like humanity, where wisdom and information accumulate infinitely.

However, mass cannot actually accumulate indefinitely. Accumulating to a certain point results in extreme celestial bodies such as stars, neutron stars, and black holes. These extremely chaotic and volatile entities can easily destroy consciousness. This explains why the "Chaos Devourer," the origin of the Chaos Beasts, lacks intelligence.

Therefore, there is only one path for a lower life form to become a saint-level life form: the accumulation of information, the path of wisdom.

If information outweighs wisdom, it is faith and spiritual practice; if wisdom outweighs simple information accumulation, it is spiritual cultivation. This is the fundamental reason why spiritual cultivation has an aura.

For now, the most extensive information and wisdom available to the Rising Dragon Palace is scientific knowledge and scientific wisdom.

Chu Fei pondered the matter and discussed it with the researchers around him. Unfortunately, the researchers were somewhat at a loss.

The Chaos Beast is a Saint-level life form, Chu Fei is a Quasi-Saint, and the other researchers are at most at the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. There's a two-level difference; they are truly "invisible" and completely impossible to study.

Left with no other option, Chu Fei had to bring the Goddess of Nature over. But the Goddess of Nature wasn't interested.

The Goddess of Nature always felt that Chu Fei wanted to operate on her. The more she interacted with the researchers, the more she sensed their madness; there was nothing they wouldn't operate on, including herself.

Unfortunately, Chu Fei had no choice but to suspend his research. However, this close-up observation of the Chaos Divine Beast's "flesh and blood" had yielded considerable results, enough for his short-term scientific and cultivation research.

Saint-level life forms can also be viewed as "quantum field life forms." This single understanding is sufficient.

After leaving the space capsule, Chu Fei had nothing to do again and found that he could only chat with the Goddess of Nature, mainly to discuss cultivation and to get some benefits from her.

Chu Fei had many problems, but thankfully, the Goddess of Nature had a genuinely good personality. Perhaps because she had been sealed away for so long, finding someone she could talk to wasn't easy. And within the fleet, Chu Fei was the only one who could chat with the Goddess of Nature.

Through their continued conversation, Chu Fei finally managed to inquire about the consciousness and soul of the Chaos Beast. This was the question Chu Fei was most concerned about.

Faced with Chu Fei's question, the Goddess of Nature looked at Chu Fei for a while, then suddenly smiled and said with a hint of pride, "I ate it!"

"Ah..." This answer left Chu Fei a little dumbfounded.

The Goddess of Nature grew increasingly smug: "The consciousnesses of those chaotic divine beasts reached the Saint level in quality, but their total quantity was only Quasi-Saint, which is just within my devouring ability."

"I told you long ago, Saint-level beings devour each other. It's no different from you eating brains. Those are Chaos Beasts, beasts, not saints."

Chu Fei blinked, somewhat speechless, and said, "I knew you were so enthusiastic on the battlefield. But these Chaos Beasts must have been tampered with by powerful beings, right? Don't they have backdoors in their souls?"

"You eat raw brains, huh? Those control methods are easy to remove. Hmm... this so-called ease is because I learned some of your techniques. Although the learning process was a little painful, it's still quite good to use."

Unfortunately, my current foundation cannot be reformulated and rebuilt; I've had to switch to studying big data.

Chu Fei gave an "oh" and continued to press for details about the Chaos Divine Beast's soul and consciousness. Or rather, the intelligence of a "Saint-level life form."

The Goddess of Nature had previously stated that a Saint-level life form is one that imbues the "Sacred Body" with life. The Sacred Body is the body that the Goddess of Nature unfolds, resembling a body composed of starlight, and is also the powerful body of a Chaos Divine Beast. This body itself is a "world-class body."

Chu Fei now understands that it is a quantum field life structure. The life structure of a sage is completely different from that of a quasi-sage or earlier. Before becoming a quasi-sage, it was matter; after becoming a sage, it is a quantum field.

But how can consciousness be driven by such a physical structure? Chu Fei couldn't understand it at the moment.

But that's alright, the more we talk, the more we'll gain. As our ancestors said, "Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear!"
The Goddess of Nature, however, patiently continued her explanation. This time, Chu Fei had a more solid foundation, and with the corpse of the Chaos Beast as research material, he gained a deeper understanding of the existence of Saint-level life forms.

Saint-level beings are world-level beings. Therefore, the way in which the consciousness of saint-level beings exists is similar to the way the Heavenly Dao of the Everlasting Heaven exists.

Its consciousness can be vast, encompassing heaven and earth, or it can be tiny, hidden within a mesentery.

But the goddess of nature still couldn't explain what consciousness and soul truly were. In her understanding, the soul was simply the soul, and consciousness depended on the soul for its existence.

However, Chu Fei and the researchers of the Ascending Dragon Palace, as well as the entire scientific system of the Yanhuang civilization, have been trying to interpret "what is the essence of the soul".

Today, the soul is explained as: negative entropy, order, a higher cosmic brain, memetic life, etc. Each explanation contains something, but none is complete.

Chu Fei discussed with the Goddess of Nature for a long time, finally resolving some questions, but also adding "a billion" more. As anyone involved in scientific research knows, as you solve problems, your perspective expands, and you discover even more issues.

It's like being a frog in a well, only seeing the sky as big as the well opening. Now, it has climbed out of the well (solved the problem) and seen a much bigger sky.

Then Chu Fei inquired about the situation of the "extraterritorial battlefield".

This information had been exchanged many times, but now, in the context of an extraterritorial battlefield, asking again would allow the Goddess of Nature to explain it more clearly, and Chu Fei and the others to understand it more deeply.

Through continuous communication, the fleet sped toward its target.

Until... I stumbled into a "world".

This "world" was completely invisible; the fleet's reconnaissance systems failed to detect it, nor did the Goddess of Nature. The fleet continued flying for a long time after entering this world, only becoming aware of it after a computer error occurred!
Modern computers utilize quantum computing, which is based on two fundamental principles: "the speed of light is constant" and "at the speed of light, the photon time is zero".

Although the spacetime in the inner world is not smooth, the changes are very subtle, and the fleet can continuously adjust the basic parameters.

But now they suddenly found themselves in an unknown space. The computer's underlying logic hadn't been adjusted in time, causing the computer to malfunction. Only then did everyone realize that they had entered an unfamiliar environment.

Technicians immediately began adjusting the parameters, while other personnel scouted the surrounding area. However, it was completely dark; there seemed to be nothing there.

After observing for a long time, the Goddess of Nature said thoughtfully, "Perhaps, possibly, we have entered the realm of a great being. According to you, this realm's 'dimensionality' is slightly higher, just above ours, which is why we did not notice it."

Speaking of which, even saints have different ranks.

"I'm not really sure about titles like the Merit Saint, the Three Corpses Severing Saint, the Heavenly Dao Saint, the Great Dao Saint, or the Ziwei Saint."

Chu Fei remained silent for a while before asking, "Then what do we do?"

"This sage may be in seclusion or asleep. In this way, let everyone swear an oath to 'the Great Dao is above' and not to reveal the other party's whereabouts."

No one dared to be careless. Dozens of oaths were immediately sent out within the fleet, with the main structure being: "By the Great Dao, I, XX, swear that I will never leak this matter, and if I break this oath, so shall I be punished."

Even the goddess of nature has sworn an oath.

After the oath was sworn, there was no thunder or lightning, no aura of divine intervention, and everything remained calm and peaceful. The fleet dared not initiate faster-than-light travel and continued its current speed quietly.

Two days later, the fleet successfully flew out of this strange area, and the parameters returned to normal.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Until the emotionless artificial intelligence issued another alarm:
"Warning: There is an extra person on the 'Temple' that cannot be locked onto!"

In that instant, Chu Fei felt a chill run down his spine!

Chinese-style horror is coming!

As a large amount of data came in, Chu Fei learned the specific situation: counting the number of people one by one, there were no problems; but after the data was compiled, there was an extra person on the list, there would be duplicate names, and each time the duplicate name was different.

This is like a homeroom teacher taking attendance one by one, which is normal. But after taking attendance, the total number of students recorded is one more than expected!
The scene was too bizarre.

Furthermore, this is a computer roll call, so there's no possibility of someone "forgetting" their turn. The computer has been checked and verified multiple times to ensure it's not a program error. It's simply that there was an extra person.

At the critical moment, Chu Fei stepped forward, taking the initiative to say, "If you've had enough fun, senior, please show yourself."

An immediate thought echoed in everyone's minds: "Huh, we were discovered so quickly? Interesting! Come find me, and I'll give you a reward if you do." (End of Chapter)