metaverse evolution.

"Our world might be inside a black hole?" The God of Rift looked at the research report, his eyes slightly glazed over.

Having been in contact with the Yanhuang civilization for so long, the God of Rift of the Void certainly knew what a black hole was. Moreover, the God of Rift of the Void also knew that the Yanhuang civilization had a theory of "black hole creation."

But the God of Rift never expected that the Yanhuang civilization could conduct scientific research during this war, and that the results of the research would actually prove this.

Long ago, the Yanhuang civilization had a theory, which was also a joke—if the world were a black hole, what would happen if we jumped into it? Also, why don't powerful life forms emerge from black holes?

At the time, I found this statement and theory quite laughable, but now, the God of Rending the Void can no longer laugh. As a Great Dao Saint, the God of Rending the Void is already qualified to pursue "ascension again."

The initial ascension is from the outer world to the inner world, from the minor world to the outer battlefield. Now it is from the inner world to the legendary higher-dimensional world.

But if the world is really inside a black hole, how can it continue to ascend?
The God of Rending the Void has seen the extreme environment of a black hole. Is it even possible for a human to escape from there?

However, the war continued. As time passed, the advantages of the Yanhuang civilization continued to increase.

Technology is advancing, whether it's cultivation techniques, weaponry, meme virus technology, spatial containment technology, or location technology, it's constantly working to crack the opponent's methods;

The number of people is increasing, the number of experts on the Yanhuang civilization side is increasing with each battle, and the speed at which saints are born is clearly accelerating;
Conversely, the total number of saints on the superego side is decreasing, especially due to the continuous iteration and development of the meme virus, which has an increasingly obvious impact.

During the battle, the God of Rift Sky actually saw a saint start coughing.

The superego faction certainly recognized the problem and wanted to break through. However, by this time, it was somewhat too late for the superego faction to break through.

In the vast void, tens of millions of warships formed "battle lines." These battle lines were all traces of creation. The Yanhuang civilization, while destroying the void and interrupting the teleportation and faster-than-light travel abilities of the sages, was also constructing its own laws.

The Superego faction did try its own creation methods, but when the two sides started competing on creation methods, the final competition was actually about computing power, to see whose creation method was better, more accurate, and faster in terms of refresh speed.

The Yanhuang civilization always managed to find ways to steer the war into its own rhythm. And once that phase began, the Yanhuang civilization could use its rich experience to overwhelm its opponents.

The Superego faction had probably never fought such a frustrating battle before. They possessed formidable abilities, yet they couldn't utilize them at all. Despite holding a sniper rifle, they could only use it as a melee weapon.

Of course, the Yanhuang civilization also paid a heavy price in the process of repeatedly thwarting the breakout of the Superego faction. Whenever a Great Dao Saint from the Superego faction attacked, the Yanhuang civilization had to rely on numbers to make up for the gap. But as long as they could stop the opponent's breakout, they could immediately launch a fierce counterattack.

However, as they saw themselves heading into a desperate situation, the superego faction became increasingly frantic.

The battle raged for over a decade when suddenly another intense alarm sounded. Then, the God of Rift witnessed an even more frenzied battle.

The Superego faction actually used their own injured (sick) saints as sacrifices, as alternative fuel, to activate formations, supernatural powers, and creation abilities, assisting hundreds of Great Dao Saints to erupt.

Because of the unique nature of big data cultivation, even if members of the superego faction wanted to perform sacrifices, they could only kill their own members, which caused some internal strife.

However, the superego camp no longer pursues a quick victory, but instead aims in one direction, constantly charging forward, preparing to "walk" out of this void step by step. This is a clumsy method, but it is also the most effective method at present.

While the Transcendental Alliance suffered significant losses, the Great Dao Saints remain unharmed. The Heavenly Dao Saints suffered relatively fewer losses; the main concern was the severe losses among ordinary, lower-level Saints. In other words, the core strength of the Transcendental Alliance did not suffer substantial losses.

Faced with this tactic, the Yanhuang civilization relied on its numerical advantage to hold off the attack.

The God of Rending the Sky witnessed the most brutal scene since the start of the battle. The sages of the Yanhuang civilization built a Great Wall of flesh and blood in front of them to block the breakout of the superego faction, while the rear opened fire indiscriminately, without distinguishing between friend and foe.

Saints from the Yanhuang civilization were repeatedly and severely injured in the attacks. The saints of the Yanhuang civilization used this method to obstruct the advance of the saints from the superego faction.

"Why are you so fearless?" The Sky-Splitting God was shocked, then broke out in a cold sweat, filled with lingering fear—thankfully, the Superego faction had courted disaster, forcing the Yanhuang civilization to rebel. If the Yanhuang civilization had remained in the Superego faction, he might have had to confront them directly.

Meanwhile, Chu Fei was equally surprised by the question posed by the Sky-Splitting God: "Why be afraid of death? Does being afraid of death mean you won't die? In war, how can people not die!"

God of Rending the Sky: ...

I always feel like we don't have much in common.

Chu Fei glanced at the Sky-Splitting God and shook his head slightly.

The fear of death is actually quite common. However, mature civilizations often cultivate a spirit of sacrifice. It's not about not being afraid of death, but about being willing to sacrifice; these are two different concepts.

However, in the world of cultivation, people often fail to grasp the concept of civilization. Or rather, each powerful individual is a civilization in themselves, a so-called individual civilization. This leads to a fear of death.

This phenomenon isn't limited to spiritual practice; it also exists within the wealth system. Once an individual awakens and acquires substantial wealth, they spontaneously detach themselves from their original social class, becoming part of a new one. Being in a new class, they naturally won't be willing to sacrifice for their former class. Therefore, the phrase "wealth breeds conscience" is inappropriate; it's more accurate to say "those who wear shoes"—those who wear shoes are afraid of getting them wet, and thus, they are compelled to act with conscience.

The Ascending Dragon Palace and the Yanhuang Civilization keenly perceived this problem during their development and took corrective measures. The most important thing was to promote cultivation among all citizens, provide education for all citizens, and popularize everything among all citizens, thus forming a system of collective honor.

Now that we've reached a critical moment in the battle, being afraid to die might actually lead to a faster and greater death.

Of course, the Yanhuang civilization also relied on the characteristics of big data cultivation. As long as the attack angle and method were calculated in advance, and both sides communicated and located each other before the attack to avoid the attack's brunt, the worst that could happen was serious injury rather than death. Of course, mistakes are inevitable in war, not to mention the chaotic spacetime on the ground. But those who died directly from their own side's attacks were extremely rare.

But regardless, the most tragic scene unfolded.

After trying every possible method, the Superego faction finally settled on this cumbersome approach: measuring the void step by step. Although slow, they were making progress every day, which ironically maintained morale—even while constantly hunting down their own wounded for sacrifice.

With over a hundred Great Dao Saints as the vanguard, one hundred thousand Heavenly Dao Saints as the central army, and the remaining ordinary Saints as supplements and foundation, the remaining four million Saints of the Transcendent Self camp began a difficult breakout.

Yes, only four million remain. They arrived with eight million, and after nearly thirty years of fighting, only four million are left. More than half have been killed or wounded.

It is thanks to the fact that those who can cultivate to the level of sainthood are all people of unwavering character that we have not collapsed.

In this head-on battle, endless debris appeared in the void. Spaceships were destroyed one after another, but the flags and magical artifacts of the Superego faction were also constantly shattered.

Saints continued to fall, and wind, rain, and rainbows appeared in the void. Large swaths of clouds appeared in the pitch-black void, and gradually, a large amount of matter gathered to form fragmented continents.

The amount of information contained within each sage is almost equivalent to a black hole. When a sage falls, the information within him undergoes a creation phase, evolving from information to quanta, then quanta to elementary particles, then to atoms, molecules, and so on, ultimately forming actual matter.

In the real world, the total amount of matter generated after the death of each saint, even if it doesn't become a black hole, would certainly be enough to create a planet.

Not all information of a sage will be transformed into matter after his death.

First, due to the issue of "horizon," efficiency is directly halved; then, for the world to expand, half of the remaining half must become the foundation of the world, and only the last quarter might transform into matter. During this transformation process, there are also instances of energy dissipation. Ultimately, only about one in ten might become matter.

Even so, several continents, some with diameters exceeding one million kilometers, have now appeared behind the battlefield.

The death of a saint, coinciding with the creation of the world, was vividly displayed in this battle.

A war involving thirty million sages became a costly experiment for the Yanhuang civilization. Fortunately, the experiment yielded positive results, resolving many, many questions.

Of the more than four million saints who died in the Superego faction, at least half were used by the Yanhuang civilization for experiments. The scientific data derived from feeding these four million saints is quite impressive.

The war continues. The Superego faction's strategic ideas are good, but hoping to break out of the encirclement of the Yanhuang civilization at this pace is pure wishful thinking.

Outside the battlefield, spaceships continuously delivered various equipment, and vacuum energy bombs exploded incessantly, disrupting the entire void; coupled with the activation of dimensional reduction technology, the saints on site were forced to engage in close combat.

In the midst of the fierce battle, Chu Fei could not remain completely hidden in the rear and needed to constantly launch attacks.

After resting again, Chu Fei began his seventh expedition. With a wave of his hand, countless memetic viruses suddenly appeared in the void, transforming into shackles of heaven and instantly locking onto each enemy.

Meme viruses can not only invade the bodies of saints, but also tamper with the laws of nature! Science and technology have never reached their limits.

At this moment, this void was disturbed, and the Yanhuang civilization took the opportunity to transform the world.

Then Chu Fei waved his hand again, and all the saints from the Superego faction trembled for a moment. But the saints of the Yanhuang civilization had already been notified and seized the opportunity to launch an attack.

The battle of the saints caused lightning and thunder to flash in the void, with the vast lightning extending for hundreds of millions of kilometers. Each bolt of lightning here was a chaotic torrent of laws.

The saints of the Superego faction unfolded their sacred bodies, each figure reaching tens of thousands of kilometers in height, with starlight flowing within them.

For the Holy Body, tens of thousands of kilometers is already quite small. The Holy Body can easily reach tens of millions of kilometers or even more, but now that the void is in chaos, larger bodies suffer from communication delays and other issues. To ensure sufficient combat power, everyone can only maintain a presence of tens of thousands of kilometers.

As for the sages of the Yanhuang civilization, they relied on the cosmic brain to complete the fusion, with dozens or even tens of thousands of experts merging into one to form a composite 'sacred body'!
If one-on-one isn't enough, then a group of us will take on you alone.

At this moment, Chu Fei directly merged with 100,000 saints to form a "composite saint body" with a height of 30,000 kilometers.

Within this sacred body, tens of thousands of starlight circulated, each starlight representing a saint. Together, they formed a unique method of creation. Under Chu Fei's leadership, these one hundred thousand saints simulated a miniature version of the Ziwei Saint. This Ziwei Saint possessed Chu Fei's face.

All that could be seen was Chu Fei, enveloped in endless lightning. With a wave of his hands, the heavens and earth trembled. A bolt of lightning, like a blade piercing the sky and earth, crashed down, tearing through millions of kilometers of void. At least a thousand saints from the Self-Mastery faction were within range of his attack, including seven Great Dao Saints.
These saints tried to dodge, but were locked on. Other "composite saint bodies + simulated Ziwei saints" were also attacking from the surrounding area.

These few thousand saints from the Self-Transcending Faction were no match for Chu Fei's 100,000 saints. As the blades fell, figures were sent flying, and a few vanguard members were cleaved in two.

The sacred body of a Great Dao Saint directly in front of him was cleaved open from head to tail.

But a sage is a sage; though cleaved in two, he immediately revived on the spot. It's reminiscent of trying to cut water with a knife, only to have it flow more freely. The Great Dao Sage is truly tenacious.

Chu Fei ignored his opponent, his blade flashing as it struck again, cleaving the Holy Body in two once more. During the tearing apart of the opponent's Holy Body, even more memetic viruses invaded. As the opponent "recovered," the memetic viruses embedded themselves into the opponent's laws.

Other sages nearby wanted to come to Chu Fei's aid, but they were blocked by even more sages from the Yanhuang civilization, creating a fleeting moment and opportunity for Chu Fei. This time was short, about the blink of an eye for an ordinary person.

But Chu Fei frantically cleaved through the air more than ten times in the blink of an eye, and then suddenly snapped his fingers. The Great Dao Saint's recovering body suddenly froze, endless cracks appeared on it, and then it collapsed with a deafening roar.

However, being a Great Dao Saint after all, after collapsing, he actually managed to condense his Saint Body again, but it collapsed once more after only half of it was condensed.

In the repeated collapses and reunions, the other party's figure continued to shrink, while Chu Fei conducted some kind of scientific research in the process.

After collapsing more than ten times, the foundation of this Great Dao Saint was finally completely exhausted, and he collapsed. But this time, the collapse did not produce any so-called creation phenomenon; it simply disappeared like fog under the blazing sun.

Chu Fei smiled instantly, "I see."

Just now, Chu Fei used meme invasion to forcefully "annihilate" a saint. This is also a traditional method of killing saints through cultivation. The so-called sealing to death is such a process, but Chu Fei accelerated this process using scientific theories.

Previously, the Yanhuang civilization destroyed the saints by using its overwhelming computing power to forcefully break the laws within the saints' bodies.

This process of annihilation is actually a process of devouring. This is how sages devoured each other in the past.

This so-called devouring is not a simple "eating" process, but more like alchemy. It refines the fragments into pure law fragments, which can be understood as isolated, pure algorithms used to supplement one's own foundation.

That's why the Goddess of Nature gradually broke free from the constraints of the Saint of Merit. The Chaos Trolls were the same; they were forcibly refined from low-level Chaos Trolls to a high-level state, almost reaching the level of a half-step Saint.

However, this process of attrition is a gradual refinement. What is a thousand cuts and ten thousand cuts compared to this? It's about refining each cell one by one.

Having considered these things, Chu Fei prepared to move on to his next target. Although Chu Fei was currently the only Great Dao Saint in the Yanhuang Civilization, relying on the method of "simulating the composite saint body of the Ziwei Saint," coupled with numerical and technological advantages, Chu Fei continued to kill one Great Dao Saint after another.

At that very moment, a tall, illusory figure appeared behind the Superego camp. It was an illusion, not the sacred body of a saint. The high-ranking officials of the Yanhuang civilization recognized this figure: Tianyan Daozun, Tianyan Ancestor, also known as the old bastard Tianyan that Chu Fei had mentioned.

A mighty voice echoed through the void: "Chu Fei, your Yanhuang civilization, do you really intend to fight us to the death?"

Chu Fei suddenly laughed, "No, no, no, we don't want a fight to the death. Because, you are the ones who will die! Kill them all, don't let a single one escape!"

Although Chu Fei had many questions in his mind—how the Yanhuang civilization had saved Tianyan Daozun and what secrets lay behind it—these were clearly not things that could be obtained through mere questioning. He needed to capture the other party and have a "thorough" exchange before they would be willing to reveal their secrets!

What followed was a battle that lasted for more than thirty years. Facing the Great Dao Saints in the Superego camp, the Yanhuang civilization did not back down an inch.

Faced with a life-or-death crisis, the saints of the superego camp went increasingly mad, but as the battle raged on, they gradually became more and more desperate.

The number of sages in the Yanhuang civilization increased with each battle, and their technology became more and more advanced, while the superego faction continued to weaken due to the meme virus.

Finally, after more than thirty years of continuous fighting and more than fifty years of conflict, the Yanhuang civilization, at the cost of millions of damaged spaceships and the deaths of more than 100,000 saints, nearly annihilated the more than eight million saints of the super-self camp.

The greatest achievement was that Chu Fei led hundreds of thousands of experts to surround and capture Tianyan Daozun alive. The battle was simple: he was killed more than a dozen times, and Tianyan Daozun was resurrected more than a dozen times, until finally he was captured alive after being infected with a meme virus.

Once upon a time, the Yanhuang civilization released the Heavenly Dao Venerable.

Now, the Yanhuang civilization has captured Tianyan Daozun again.

There's a saying that goes, "If you can release someone, you can bring them back." Although this process was lengthy and the Yanhuang civilization paid a heavy price, it still managed to complete this logical loop.

When Daoist Yan was brought before Chu Fei that day, he was completely dumbfounded, seemingly unable to believe the outcome. (End of Chapter)