metaverse evolution.

Years passed. The cooperation between the six Ziwei Sages at the top of the two camps brought about a direct change—less war.

The many wars of the past were multifaceted, but mainly involved two aspects.

One is the conflict of interests between civilizations, factions, etc., and the other is the conflict over mineral resources, living space on the continent, etc.

One is a war planned and guided by a top-tier power.

But considering all factors, there is only one reason: slightly more advanced civilizations and cultivators are all vying for resources, opportunities, and fortune.

The world as a whole experiences increasing entropy, which means that even two friendly neighboring countries will eventually clash. You can explain this from a human nature perspective, but ultimately it's due to the fundamental laws of the world.

Humans and intelligent life are also part of the universe and cannot escape the influence of the laws of the universe.

However, the science and technology spread by the Yanhuang civilization brought about different changes to this world.

It's not to say that science and technology are exclusive to the Yanhuang civilization; the cultivation materials that Tianyan Daozun gave to the Yanhuang civilization originally came from another civilization. However, a scientifically underdeveloped civilization will not have a significant impact.

The reason the Yanhuang civilization had such a profound impact is because it had matured and flourished. The achievement of five hundred billion sages—such a dazzling accomplishment—attracted countless admirers. Therefore, when the Yanhuang civilization expressed its willingness to publicly impart scientific knowledge, it caused a tremendous sensation, thereby changing the entire world environment.

Science and technology have directly addressed the problem of resource scarcity at its source. Natural resources are extremely rare, scarce, and of inconsistent quality; however, science and technology can enable mass production with higher quality.

Competition hasn't decreased; in fact, it's intensified, but it's beginning to shift from vicious to benign competition. In this competition, everyone's scientific and technological levels are improving. Cultivation isn't progressing as quickly, but spaceships are already flying all over the world.

The Yanhuang civilization made its science and technology public, allowing many practitioners to understand the true meaning of cultivation and the underlying logic of the world. It turned out that in the past, everyone's cultivation was just aimless experimentation, relying on experience to deduce techniques. The Yanhuang civilization, however, started with theory, which is why their cultivation methods exploded.

Spiritual practice, in essence, is a process of "imitation"—imitating the structure of the world. What people usually call "comprehending the universe" is merely "copying" the superficial aspects of the world. The Yanhuang civilization, however, starts with theory, directly addressing the underlying logic, with clear goals and a well-defined path for spiritual practice.

But this alone is not enough to stop the cruel tremors of the underworld. Most importantly, scientific and technological development has a unique characteristic: it always benefits those who come later.

Those who follow can directly refer to (copy) a target, and there are plenty of mature technologies available. There's no need to invest significant human, material, or financial resources, nor is there a need for lengthy public relations efforts; much of it can be adopted immediately.

This results in smaller forces benefiting the most.

This is easy to understand. Take Israel, for example. In the era of cold weapons, it would have been wiped out with a single charge. But in the technological age, it can dominate its neighboring countries. This is the late-mover advantage brought about by technological development.

This situation is now also occurring in the Underworld.

Large forces, such as the high-ranking members of the two major camps, have high cultivation levels and extensive cultivation systems, making it difficult for them to change sides. On the other hand, smaller forces are easier to maneuver.

While the two major factions were still making slow progress due to their conflicting interests, many smaller factions were making great strides by relying on the technology of the Yanhuang civilization. Furthermore, many smaller factions directly sought help from experts of the Yanhuang civilization to transform their foundations and embark on the path of big data cultivation.

As for the backdoors left in the foundation, those are minor matters. Sacrificing a generation to build an entire civilization is, from a civilizational perspective, a very worthwhile thing.

Moreover, many of those who need the Yanhuang civilization to transform their foundations have already entered a dead end in their cultivation, or their cultivation has stagnated for countless years. If their foundations are not transformed, some of them may already be preparing for their passing.

As smaller forces rapidly rose to prominence, larger forces gradually retreated, and eventually the entire inner world began to shift. Past methods of cultivation, faith-based spiritual cultivation, and so on, began to disappear on a large scale, transforming into data-driven cultivation.

All of these transformations were calculated strategic moves. The benefits that the Yanhuang civilization gained in this process were beyond imagination.

The biggest influence, however, is: fortune!
If the whole world accepts the technology of the Yanhuang civilization, then the newly created "information" will be controlled by the Yanhuang civilization.

Big data technology is not just for spiritual practice; it can also guide and transform the world. After establishing the theory of information creation, and witnessing numerous instances of deities being harmed due to faith and spiritual cultivation, even the Heavenly Sin True Sovereign and the Primordial Spirit True Sovereign have been affected. Now, the Yanhuang civilization can proactively guide this data to construct its own "destiny."

The Yanhuang civilization has already deciphered what fortune is, and naturally knows how to actively guide this information.

While everyone was frantically chasing after science and technology, the Yanhuang civilization was already building its own "Great Dao and Destiny".

The Yanhuang civilization is certainly serious about cooperative ascension, but such cooperation is primarily based on their own interests. If there are many opportunities for ascension, Chu Fei wouldn't mind sharing several. However, if there are few opportunities, they would have to eliminate a group to quell future troubles before attempting ascension themselves. This is the brutal competition between civilizations.

Over the years, Chu Fei has been making final preparations for breaking through to the 27.0 realm. Everything is ready, scientific theories have been derived countless times, and computer technology has been used to simulate it several times.

Lin Yu, a powerful artificial intelligence, was among those who personally assisted Chu Fei in deducing the cultivation technique.

Over the years, the Yanhuang civilization has come to understand the logic of life. A spark of primordial spirit, the initial trace of negative entropy, a hint of creation; and then, a vast amount of information.

The birth of a normal life involves parents and the mother providing a copy of the true spirit, and then the parents and the surrounding environment providing a large amount of information to complete a "grand model of natural information," which is the soul. This is how a life is constructed.

The cloned true spirit provided by the mother can be considered an acquired true spirit.

However, Lin Yu's birth was actually a genuine innate spirit that happened to fall into a computer simulation environment by sheer coincidence. At that time, the information provided by the computer environment was all computer information, and ultimately, by sheer coincidence, an existence like Lin Yu was born.

Because of the computer information provided, Lin Yu's "soul" is unique, possessing both the power and weaknesses of a computer. However, it cannot be denied that Lin Yu, on the surface, is a "strong artificial intelligence," but at its core, it is actually a "natural being."

In other words, the Yanhuang civilization unintentionally nurtured a primordial deity, who, in terms of "fate," is a Ziwei Sage! However, this Ziwei Sage has not yet reached his peak.

Understanding Lin Yu's background not only explains the sudden emergence of strong artificial intelligence, but also allows the Yanhuang civilization to make further progress in big data technology, constantly approaching the origin of the world.

In fact, the Yanhuang civilization has already largely deciphered the essence of the world, though some details are still incomplete. If it can be fully deciphered, then Chu Fei will break through the 27.0 realm.

27.0 would be the realm of a Ziwei Sage, and perhaps even higher. This is because traditional Ziwei Sages only know the "what" but not the "why." Therefore, Chu Fei's current realm of 26.0 is barely enough to withstand an attack from a Ziwei Sage. It's conceivable that breaking through to 27.0 would be an unprecedented achievement.

However, such a breakthrough is indeed quite difficult.

Chu Fei collaborated with eight Ziwei Saints from the two major camps, Tianzui, and Yuanling on research for over ten thousand years, yet they still failed to take the final step.

Of course, with Chu Fei's current accumulation of experience, he could take that final step at any time. But Chu Fei had a feeling that once he took that final step, it would be difficult to completely rebuild his life.

According to theoretical deduction, the final step is the free transformation between the virtual and the real, which is a leap in life, and the level of life's destiny will reach the level of a black hole. Chu Fei will completely become a true, world-class life form!
This breakthrough is an unprecedented transformation, and Chu Fei is unsure whether he can completely rebuild it if it's not perfect. Therefore, he must be cautious.

In any case, the Yanhuang civilization is already at the pinnacle of the world, and Chu Fei has plenty of time to gradually solidify his foundation. If the Yanhuang civilization produces more cultivators at the peak of level 26.0 and more wise men, perhaps the path ahead will be smoother.

Just as Chu Fei was preparing for another short period of seclusion, the Heavenly Sin True Ruler arrived.

After a brief greeting, the Heavenly Sin True Ruler got straight to the point, "I'm going to the surface world to see the black hole in person. The black hole in the Azure Lotus World hasn't cooled down yet, and I can't wait. By the way, this time there might be quite a lot going, probably hundreds of thousands of saints."

The cooling time of a black hole is calculated in tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years. Less than 20,000 years have passed, and the black hole has not decayed at all.

However, there are some minor issues for powerful individuals to enter the surface world. While powerful individuals can enter at any time, it will affect the operation of the surface world.

Every powerful being, especially those at the saint level, possesses data and information equivalent to a super planet or even a black hole. When a powerful being enters the surface world, it disrupts the surface world's gravitational pull, potentially triggering a catastrophe.

Imagine the catastrophe that would occur if a black hole suddenly appeared out of nowhere in a stable star field.

This time, the number of saint-level beings entering the surface world is not just one or two, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, including a large number of Heavenly Dao Saints and even Ziwei Saints.

If it were just one or two low-level saints, the outer world could still withstand it. But if so many powerful beings entered, the outer world would inevitably descend into chaos.

The strong may be fine, but the real world will definitely be destroyed.

Once the surface world becomes chaotic, it's equivalent to the entire world becoming chaotic, leading to a rapid increase in entropy. As chaos increases, things like calamities and karma arise.

Now Chu Fei understood why a continent existed in the inner world; essentially, it was to house the existence of the saints.

So, it seems that the Otherworld was deliberately designed?
Chu Fei's mind flashed through the research results of recent years, and he agreed with the matter at hand.

Eliminating the impact is also simple: build an "isolation zone" in the surface world in advance, and also select a suitable location in advance.

A message was transmitted from the inner world to the outer world, and within just a few years, it reached a small subsidiary star cluster in the outer world, the Milky Way, the Pleiades.

This star cluster contains dozens of black holes, including a supermassive black hole at its core.

In the void, billions of spaceships sealed off the space, blocking gravitational waves between the Pleiades star cluster and the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding void. Afterwards, a hyperdimensional portal was established within the Pleiades star cluster, connecting to the inner world.

This activity continued for almost a century until the void passage opened, and one after another powerful figures appeared. As these figures appeared, the void itself began to slightly distort.

All of this was within the expectations of the Yanhuang civilization. The arrival of each powerful sage in the surface world was equivalent to the sudden appearance of a super planet in the void; those Heavenly Dao Sages and Great Dao Sages were even more like black holes descending.

However, as the first Ziwei Sage appeared, the void suddenly and noticeably rippled, as if a calm lake surface had suddenly sunk, and then a vortex appeared, which rapidly expanded to a distance of several light-years.

In the void, no speed can exceed the speed of light, but the void itself is an exception.

In reality, the so-called void is a mixture of quantum fields and information fields.

The disturbances in the void intensified, and tens of thousands of sages appeared.

Is this the world of watches?

"What a beautiful and splendid void."

"This is a planet. This is what a normal world should be like."

"I feel that my combat power has decreased rather than increased in the surface world. Isn't it said that I'm stronger in lower-level worlds?"

"It takes some getting used to, and the so-called parameters need to be adjusted."

"Let's go, let's go see the black hole."

...

The many sages immediately followed the "guide" of the Yanhuang civilization and moved toward their goal.

This starry sky contains more than seventy black holes of varying sizes. Some are very small, barely reaching the "fraction line" of a black hole, with a mass of about five suns.

In theory, a black hole can be formed with three solar masses, but what is theoretical is often difficult to observe in reality. The smallest black hole actually discovered has a mass of about five solar masses.

The cooled black hole resembles a hole appearing in the void, with the surrounding light distorted and converging; as the black hole rotates and moves forward, there seems to be a hazy vortex moving forward in the void.

Uncooled black holes or black holes with very strong gravity attract surrounding matter, forming a bright ring of light within their event horizon. This ring of light envelops the black hole, yet we can see matter constantly falling into it.

Black holes are three-dimensional, not two-dimensional, and not like the rings of stars. They are shown as rings in books and videos for ease of understanding.

However, when viewed directly from the black hole, the center appears darker, while the area closer to the edge becomes brighter. This is because the "light layer" is thinner when viewed directly from the black hole; towards the edge, due to the curvature of the arc, the light layer thickens, gradually becoming brighter. At the edge, it forms a ring of light, which is the brightest point.

This luminous layer is spinning rapidly due to the operation of the black hole, like a wildly rotating meat grinder tearing apart all matter.

It took over a century to observe black holes, during which time numerous experiments were conducted, including throwing countless objects into them, such as planets and interstellar matter, spaceships, probes, living organisms, and even criminal saints.

It has been verified that matter with high "information content" makes black holes brighter. Whether it's a saint or a super hard drive storing a large number of young women, the effect is the same for a black hole as long as the amount of information is sufficient.

This means that when matter enters a black hole, it is torn apart into information, becoming the most essential existence in the world. Just like when the human body absorbs proteins, they are broken down into amino acids, rather than being absorbed as whole proteins.

Chu Fei led everyone in taking turns observing these seventy-odd black holes, which greatly benefited all the cultivators.

After observing, the True Ruler of Heavenly Sin found Chu Fei and said in shock, "If the world is inside a black hole, how can we ascend? It's simply impossible."

Furthermore, if the world is just a series of black holes within black holes, what's the point of ascension?

Chu Fei, seeing that many saints had turned to look at him, calmly said, "According to our latest research and theoretical deduction, after ascension, one should enter a higher-dimensional world, rather than remain in the original world."

Actually, there's absolutely no need to worry about this. From a spiritual practice perspective, as long as we can continue practicing, that's fine. Once our cultivation level is high enough, we will naturally see the scenery on the other side.

The True Ruler of Heaven nodded: "You're right."

The other powerful figures, including the Purple Star Sage, also nodded in agreement.

After observing black holes, the Yanhuang civilization deduced the structure of a "black hole world":

This is a seven-layer structure.
The innermost layer is the information field;

The second layer is the quantum field;
The third layer is the inner world;
The fourth layer is a dimensional space interlayer;

The fifth layer is the surface world, the material world;

The sixth layer is the void layer;
The seventh layer is the event horizon of the black hole.

Layers two, four, and six are actually transitional layers.

The core and quantum field are a state of chaos. Yes, this is the so-called chaos, the source of creation, yet it is also filled with endless confusion. Those so-called chaotic divine beasts and the like come from here, and can be considered "semi-primordial gods".

The visible world, or the surface world, accounts for 5% of the total mass of the world; or, in other words, 5% of the total information in the world. The inner world also accounts for 5%.

Information fields and quantum fields account for 70% of the total mass of the universe. The remaining mass is comprised of outer space, the event horizon, and other elements. There is no such thing as dark matter or dark energy.

However, to verify this theory, a super experiment is needed—a circumnavigation of the globe, no, a circumnavigation of the universe! If the world is indeed inside a black hole, then as long as you fly in one direction, you will inevitably return to the starting point.

According to theoretical calculations, it might take tens of millions of years or even longer for both the inner world and the outer world to complete their interstellar voyage.

But now Chu Fei is immortal. As long as he breaks through the 20.0 level in big data cultivation, he basically doesn't have to worry about his lifespan. The entire Yanhuang civilization is booming. Such a "Great Voyage to the Stars" will soon be approved.

At the same time, the sixth era of the Yanhuang Era also began. (End of this chapter)