metaverse evolution.

Since you're already here, don't leave.

For the Yanhuang civilization to rise to prominence, it needs "victories." And right now, a large number of victories await the Yanhuang civilization to reap.

In interstellar warfare, the most important thing is to be able to escape. Once you can't escape, you're trapped like a turtle in a jar.

The more than eight million saints who invaded this time by the superego faction are the best results.

Saints are undoubtedly powerful and terrifying, but in the endless void, they are nothing more than that. Even if the "body" of the Purple Star Saint could reach several light-years, in the endless void, he would be nothing more than a tiny grain of sand.

The first step in defeating a sage is to cut off his means of escape.

The surrounding space within a five-light-year radius is now disrupted, rendering all supernatural abilities unusable. Even if they were to be used, their effective range would be extremely limited. Furthermore, the surrounding thirty-light-year radius could be turned into a quagmire at any moment.

Moreover, the Yanhuang civilization was also constantly "laying mines" around them, and the encirclement was rapidly expanding.

The previous deployment of traps with a range of thirty light-years was somewhat out of necessity, because there are no blind spots in outer space, and there are attack directions everywhere in all directions. Therefore, the only option was to expand and set up traps in all directions around the Yanhuang civilization's base.

Now, all the vacuum energy bomb production capacity can be deployed around the battlefield.

So, since these eight million sages have come, let them stay. Even if sages are powerful and not easy to kill, prey trapped in a trap and encirclement can be slowly processed.

However, the army of the Superego faction was not weak after all. Faced with the unprecedented trap set by the Yanhuang civilization, although the Superego faction was in chaos for a while, they were elites and quickly reacted, starting to organize effective defense or attack.

Numerous sages formed formations in groups, ranging from three or five to hundreds or thousands, creating battle arrays and readjusting their strategies. They used formations and magical artifacts to fight against the warships.

Relying on their advanced warship technology, the Yanhuang civilization employed guerrilla tactics and forcibly activated space jump technology in the chaotic void.

As the number of jumps accumulates and more data is collected, the spaceship's jump accuracy continues to improve—it can't achieve precise positioning, but the general direction is still correct, at least enough to escape the battle zone.

The situation on the battlefield is quite interesting now. The Yanhuang civilization has taken the initiative, with warships appearing and disappearing in a flash, taking less than a second from appearance to disappearance.

Such instantaneous appearances and disappearances are not very accurate. In the current chaotic environment, teleportation can only provide a general direction, and on average, it takes three teleportations to get close to the enemy once, and occasionally, one might even teleport into a trap.

But it wasn't a big problem. The Yanhuang civilization relied on long-range attacks for cover and teleportation to launch surprise attacks, preventing the enemy from forming a battle line.

Unable to establish a front, the Superego faction immediately switched to a guerrilla-style counterattack. However, the Superego faction proved to be a force to be reckoned with.

Within a range of approximately three light-years, nearly thirty million saints from both sides engaged in a frenzied battle.

However, due to the chaos in the void and the confusion of the laws, even the saints became half-blind—they could easily explore things a light-year or two away, but now they could only rely on their eyes to explore the void.

Chu Fei understood perfectly well that sages could detect existences a light-year or two away because they borrowed laws, or more precisely, utilized the information field inherent in the nature of the horizon, and specifically a particular algorithm within that information field. A specific algorithm can be understood as a law. Traditional cultivation methods may not necessarily recognize this "algorithm," but they ultimately lead to the same goal.

However, the Yanhuang civilization has now disrupted the foundation of spacetime, causing the laws to become chaotic and the whole world to be in a state of chaos. At this time, even sages are "short-sighted" and can only see the space around them.

Although a sage can see very far, his effective field of vision is limited by the speed of light and the speed of attacks between them, which is equivalent to only a few hundred thousand kilometers.

In this vast void, a visual distance of tens of thousands of kilometers is negligible.

On the contrary, the attack from warships, utilizing massive computing power and virtual creation technology, can instantly deploy a quantum field covering tens of millions of kilometers, then lock onto the target and project the attack.

After more than a month of this combat mode, the experts in the Superego faction changed their tactics again.

The Yanhuang civilization's spaceships teleport randomly, and experts from the Superego faction also form groups for random teleportation. It's a matter of who will collide with whom.

The two sides seem to be playing hide-and-seek.

The Yanhuang civilization has over 20 million sages, while the super-ego faction has over 8 million sages. Together, nearly 30 million experts are playing hide-and-seek within a three-light-year radius.

In a three-light-year-wide three-dimensional space, even if thirty million people were thrown into it, it would be no more than ten million grains of sand dropped into the desert.

In the game of hide-and-seek, the experts from the Superego faction attempted to escape the current area but were immediately discovered. The Yanhuang civilization, utilizing its numerical advantage, directly held off all the Superego faction experts.

An unprecedented battle erupted in the void, with both sides constantly flashing into existence.

The sages' cultivation levels meant that every clash between them lasted less than a second, then vanished in a flash. But once an opportunity arose, both sides would continuously deploy more experts, igniting a small-scale war.

The Yanhuang civilization had a large number of people, but the Self-Transcending faction had many experts, including hundreds of Great Dao Saints, who caused huge casualties to the Yanhuang civilization.

However, the Yanhuang civilization used its numerical advantage, the advantage of rapid killing, and its technological advantage to keep the super-ego faction firmly tied down in this space.

Although years of fighting have caused the chaotic area to gradually expand from three light-years to five light-years, not a single expert from the Superego faction has managed to escape this range.

With their numerical advantage, needless to say, the Yanhuang civilization could almost fight three against one.

Not to mention the technological advantages, which are the fundamental advantages of the Yanhuang civilization.

The most important factor is the speed of killing. Killing a saint is extremely difficult. If the Superego faction captures a master from the Yanhuang civilization, it might require three to five masters of the same level to suppress him, several days to seal him, and then decades to slowly wear him down; or a Great Dao Saint might have to intervene.

Because they were difficult to kill, the Yanhuang civilization actually had more time to attempt a rescue. As for traps, they were not afraid at all; they could simply focus their fire on them.

Conversely, once experts from the Superego faction are captured by the Yanhuang civilization, they are instantly reduced to ashes, with no time to rescue them.

Therefore, the speed of killing is also an advantage. Due to this difference in speed, the superego faction was terrified of being killed. However, now they can't even escape.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye, and the Sky-Splitting God Venerable who followed the fleet had truly broadened his horizons.

During this period, the Superego faction did organize large-scale counterattacks, but they were completely powerless to do so.

Once a large-scale attack is organized, the Yanhuang civilization will launch a massive concentrated attack. Taking advantage of the chaos in the void and the inability to teleport, the fleet can continuously output damage from a distance, which makes many experts in the Superego faction powerless and furious.

Ultimately, the Superego faction discovered that they could only engage in skirmishes, which gave them a slight advantage. Although the Yanhuang civilization had a larger number of people, their individual cultivation and combat experience were ultimately inferior to these veteran sages.

However, recently, the situation for these experts in the Superego camp has taken a sharp turn for the worse. This is because the meme virus has finally begun to take effect.

These meme viruses were initially ineffective, and only after several adjustments did they gradually show noticeable results. This was also because several prisoners were captured, and adjustments were made based on their training progress.

Furthermore, the meme virus, scattered across such a vast expanse of space, has very poor effects. It also needs to be discreet, avoiding detection by numerous sages, and not be too obvious.

Now, after five years of "immersion," it has finally become terminally ill and is gradually showing signs of disease.

By the time many saints from the superego camp sensed something was wrong, it was already too late.

This is like being sick; when you realize you're sick, then you're definitely sick. That logic is sound.

These memeviruses also have a localization effect. When an enemy becomes ill, it means that the memevirus has formed a certain structure in these people's bodies, starting to interfere with the enemy's foundation, and at the same time triggering the localization effect.

Furthermore, a meme virus itself is like a nail; this nail can guide an attack and can be remotely activated.

The battle suddenly took a turn.

During the battles against the masters of the Yanhuang civilization, the saints of the Superego faction will experience various problems, such as sudden stomach aches, lapses in concentration, inaccurate attacks, delayed attacks, and interference with their internal laws. The specific effects depend on the memetic virus and interference methods they are infected with.

Because it can be located, the battle can result in a one-sided massacre.

The warships stopped appearing in a flash and instead suddenly appeared in groups of more than a dozen warships and hundreds or thousands of big data cultivation experts, surrounding and killing dozens of saints from the superego camp.

The battle is turning into a one-sided massacre, and the Superego faction is simply powerless to stop it.

During this period, experts from the Yanhuang civilization also died one after another. Some Great Dao Saints and powerful Heavenly Dao Saints from the Superego camp would also hunt them down, but the experts from the Yanhuang civilization did not back down in the slightest.

Moreover, as the battle progressed, the number of experts in the Superego faction decreased, while the number of sages on the Yanhuang civilization side increased.

More than a decade into the war, the Yanhuang civilization had lost over ten thousand saints, yet hundreds of thousands more were replaced. Conversely, the super-ego faction had suffered the slaughter of millions of saints without any replacements.

The scales of war are tipping rapidly.

The Sky-Splitting God was sweating profusely. At this moment, he vaguely understood why Chu Fei had so enthusiastically invited him to "oversee the army." Damn it, this wasn't overseeing the army, it was a show of force!
Because he was in the same command hall as Chu Fei, the God of Rift was very clear about the changes in the Yanhuang civilization over the years—in the more than ten years of fighting, the Yanhuang civilization had produced more than 700,000 saints, of whom more than 100,000 were sent to the battlefield.

The effect of this saint's birth can be described as the speed of a saint's production line.

Furthermore, the warship technology, attack technology, and memetic virus technology of the Yanhuang civilization are still iterating rapidly. New technologies emerge almost every day.

On the other hand, the Superego faction, after so many years of fighting, has had its various formations and techniques thoroughly figured out by the Yanhuang civilization, yet the formations and techniques they use remain largely unchanged. Not to mention, they've been infected with a meme virus, making them vulnerable to being locked onto, located, and interfered with in battle, which has led to their decline and made progress increasingly difficult.

Nowadays, saints in the superego camp are gradually starting to flee without a fight. Anyone who frequently runs away knows that once this happens, it will happen ten or a hundred times.

That day, the fleet captured over a hundred more saints and threw them into the "furnace." Amidst the saints' desperate cries, the furnace was activated, while scientists conducted "data tracking" research.

Over the years, due to the mass killing of saints, Chu Fei and many other researchers accidentally discovered some strange phenomena and began to study them. In their research, they discovered even more peculiarities. For example, they discovered the flow of information after a saint's death!
Those who frequently study science know that information is indestructible. One of the first challenges scientists encountered when studying black holes was figuring out where the information inside the black hole went. This led to the development of the anti-de Sitter space theory.

This situation has also emerged when people study the deaths of saints.

We already know that the core of the cultivation system is actually the evolution of wisdom and information. Every powerful person has an incredibly terrifying "information content" within them; if we only consider information content, a saint is almost equivalent to a small black hole.

In this situation, where does the vast amount of information within a saint's body go after his death?
As a large number of saints were killed, scientists from the Yanhuang civilization gradually tracked down this situation.

Strange phenomena appeared in the world. The information within the sage's body, which manifested as matter, was only a part of the information within him—to be precise, half. The other half vanished into thin air.

But as the research progressed, people gradually discovered that it did not disappear into thin air, but rather merged into spacetime.

After this discovery, an even more interesting phenomenon emerged. This pattern is identical to the logic behind current research on black holes!

When a black hole absorbs matter, the information contained within that matter is projected onto the event horizon, which is the anti-de Sitter space theory.

This leads to a situation where the information content at the event horizon is the same as the information content inside the black hole. This means that half of the information inside the black hole is at the surface, and half is inside, but these two parts of information are identical, like the inside and outside of a mirror. This is a state of entanglement.

One way to understand it is that after a saint dies, his body transforms into matter, while his soul is swallowed up by the world.

Now, after hundreds more saints have been killed, scientists have detected even clearer and more distinct signals. All these signals point to a possible reality—our world may indeed be inside a black hole!

This can also explain a theory—fortune. Every life form (collective information) has a corresponding projection on the horizon, and these projections move with the movement of the world; this is fortune. This movement could be like the rotation of a black hole, or it could be like the movement of an atmospheric storm.

We can use abstract thinking to imagine the information within each person as an "information cloud," and the world as a larger information atmosphere, within which everyone moves. This trend of movement is what we call fortune.

An individual's information cloud can be improved through learning, personal effort, and even by having their own motivation, enabling them to go against the tide.

In short, while alive, the projection on the horizon and the body within the world are in an entangled state, influencing each other and progressing together. Upon death, this entanglement breaks, the flesh and blood return to the heavens and earth, while the soul (information) is devoured by the horizon.

As the horizon absorbs information, it expands, and the whole world grows.

Next, the Yanhuang civilization captured many sages for experiments, but all the research results pointed to one truth: we really do live inside a black hole!

We live inside black holes, but our world also contains black holes. Is this world an infinite nesting doll?
So here's the question: if we're really inside a black hole, then ascending to the surface would be equivalent to escaping the black hole, right? So how do we leave a black hole?
Besides, there's still a black hole outside a black hole, so what's the point of ascension?

This conclusion left Chu Fei somewhat stunned, but the concrete research data rendered him speechless. (End of Chapter)