A God-like start: creating a super gene to become the Heavenly Emperor

"Karl, do you have any other tricks up your sleeve?" After dispelling the black hole-like structure, Lin Yu slowly stood up, identified a certain direction, and walked towards it step by step.

As Lin Yu moved, cracks began to appear in the surrounding space, which then crumbled inch by inch. The fragments of space that crumbled disappeared as if they were illusions.

The illusion space completely disappeared when Lin Yu stopped, and Lin Yu was already standing near Karl.

Carl frowned, looking at Lin Yu not far away with a puzzled expression, wondering what he was up to.

Illusionary Spiritual Death is a unique technique of Karl's, but no one expected that Lin Yu would be able to break it.

As a phantom, Karl doesn't really have many attack methods. Currently, the only thing that can put pressure on Lin Yu is the Great Clock.

However, Lin Yu had previously granted Karl the ability to form a steel body, which Karl had not yet been able to decipher.

He worried that using the large clock and Lin Yu's mutual intrusion would lead to the same situation as last time.

Last time it was a projection, but this time it's the real body, and he might really die.

With this in mind, Karl dared not make any rash moves and kept a watchful eye on Lin Yu.

"Whoosh!" Lin Yu reached out and drew the Heavenly Fiend Sword. Crimson gold flashed in his right eye, and the Heavenly Fiend Sword quickly shrank to the size of a thumb.

Then, in front of Karl, Lin Yu unleashed a flare attack on Ruoning, completely destroying her body and scattering her divine atoms in all directions.

The fourth-generation god Ruoning could not be completely killed by the power of god-slaying; she could recover given enough time.

However, Ruoning's genes have been almost completely destroyed by the power of the god-slaying. It would take at least ten thousand years to recover them. And that's just the genes. Before that, Ruoning needs to first integrate her divine body.

Ruoning's fourth-generation divine body was upgraded by Karl, and its technology is similar to Morgana's spacetime divine body.

This kind of divine body aggregation and the automatic positioning of the divine body are different. It mainly relies on computer computing power for transportation. Morgana has Demon Number One, but she would rather not have it.

Without external force, relying solely on the interaction forces between atoms, Ruoning is essentially unable to aggregate.

Not to mention, with the movement of various substances in the universe, Ruoning's divine atoms will eventually fall into stars or black holes, making the reunification even more distant.

“Your Majesty, I think we are more suited to cooperate.” Karl looked at Lin Yu, who was almost ignoring him, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn’t help but take the initiative to invite him.

If he'd rather die, so be it. He has backups anyway. Karl won't consider ethical issues like whether it's the real person or not.

"No, we're enemies, we can't cooperate at all," Lin Yu said with a smile as she walked towards Karl.

"Your Majesty, do you not wish to enter a higher level of life and pursue true eternity?" Karl stepped back without making a sound, maintaining his distance from Lin Yu.

Although he had considered that the technology Lin Yu used was interconnected through the backend, who knew if Lin Yu could use it at close range?

Just as Karl opened his heart to Ruoning and could directly connect to her backend, he was also afraid that Lin Yu would open her heart to him.

"Do you believe there are even higher levels of life?" Seeing Karl's little gesture, Lin Yu played with the Heavenly Fiend Sword floating in his palm and asked in return.

"The universe is constantly expanding. One day in the future, the universe will be torn apart. At that time, all matter will cease to exist, and only higher-level life will be able to survive."

Carl did not answer Lin Yu's question, but instead expressed his own thoughts.

Carl believed that the universe would continue to expand indefinitely, and the distance between celestial bodies would be constantly increasing.

The reason why matter and life still exist is that the four fundamental forces can still bind matter.

One day in the future, when the universe expands to a certain extent, the four fundamental forces will be unable to counteract the expansion.

Then matter would be split into elementary particles, and at some point, the universe itself would be torn apart.

Only when the spirit and consciousness are detached from their material form can they exist eternally, and the void can achieve this.

"Hmm... the Great Ripple, so higher levels of life aren't the point. You're just simply afraid of dying?" Lin Yu teased with a smile.

The term "higher level" now appears to have been coined by Karl himself, but a higher level and a more advanced civilization are not the same concept.

In Lin Yu's view, more advanced civilizations may indeed exist, but their existence would inevitably be subject to great limitations.

Only humans, as the dominant species in the known universe, represent the highest level of life.

Taking Earth as an example, humans can almost be considered the dominant species on Earth. Although we haven't fully understood Earth and aren't the strongest life form, the objective fact is that humans are the mainstream.

Deep in the ocean, in places like Antarctica, there may exist even longer-lived, enormous creatures with immense power that humans cannot even comprehend.

Unlike humans, they cannot appear anywhere on Earth through various means.

Therefore, their life level is not necessarily higher than that of humans. After all, how can life with environmental limitations be called a higher level of life?

The same principle applies to the known universe. Humans are the mainstream of the known universe and can go almost anywhere.

In the vast universe, it is indeed possible that there are more powerful life forms or civilizations, but their existence is very likely to be limited by environmental factors.

For example, if Karl suspects the existence of a possible void civilization, isn't that equivalent to being confined to the void?

Although Lin Yu has cracked the secrets of the void, the void is too vast. It corresponds to the universe, and whether civilization exists within it is impossible to verify.

For example, a space principal is now confined to the microscopic world, has no concept of time, and even finds it difficult to communicate with others.

Although he has the ability to change the macroscopic world, he is like a grain of sand in a lake compared to the known universe.

In Lin Yu's view, the human state is the highest level of life, with a life richer than the consciousness of the microscopic world and the spirit of the void world.

This kind of eternity where matter and spirit coexist is true eternity, and the prerequisite for pursuing eternity is at least maintaining immutability at the biological level.

To put it simply, in the pursuit of eternity, one must at least ensure that one is human and that one's gender remains unchanged.

Does something like Karl, who transcends gender and isn't even considered human, truly have any meaning in terms of eternity?

"Your Majesty, there are too many unknowns in this universe. Don't you want to explore them?"

Seeing Lin Yu's nonchalant attitude, Karl questioned her.

You two are both pursuing scientific research, so why don't you, Lin Yu, care?