Chapter 903: Space Created by Wutu

Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi seem to have some kind of connection.

However, this is also to be expected, as around them, space-time began to defy all logic.

The term 'Wu Tu' itself refers to time.

And space-time is one entity.

What Shen Shuibi first encountered was a problem related to space; after she was able to use fractals to achieve infinity within finitude, she became a Fourth Grade as a result.

This was not merely recognizing the principle of fractals, but directly mastering the ability to construct infinite fractals; she could use spells to differentiate infinity, constructing infinite structures within finite reality.

This was a power far beyond a Mortal's imagination, enough to elevate her to Fourth Grade.

However, there were still some missing pieces.

At this very moment, within the high-dimensional space constructed by Shen Shuibi, undulating network-like structures formed constantly descending valleys.

This was the general appearance of space as seen by Li Qi at present.

The current space could not be represented as a one-dimensional Euclidean space.

If the space they perceived were to be directly projected without any processing, it would only cause incomprehensible cognitive chaos.

If there was no way to obtain something to gaze upon, then it could only be replaced by formulaic descriptions.

The so-called 'formulas' were, in fact, merely Mortals using their wisdom to simulate the existence of the 'Dao'.

All data and calculations were but brief descriptions of the scenery within this indescribable conceptual space.

It was just like how Mortals could not truly perceive four-dimensional space but could describe it through mathematical language.

Unable to directly face the four-dimensional scenery, yet able to describe the four-dimensional situation.

But for the Wu Tu Sisters, things changed in a different way.

Countless constantly shifting planes formed slowly undulating fertile fields, with each 'plane' being a slice of time.

Yes, time slices, through the smallest unit of time set by Yang Ning, like 'frames' in an animation, separated into pieces, and then completed by fractals.

Then, under this construction... 'life' appeared.

That's right, life, and it was naturally born intelligent life.

They looked like a twisted Mane, with only local Euclidean space properties, while others had to be described using topology.

Within the high-dimensional fractals, naturally occurring life forms advanced in groups, interacting with each other, searching for 'negative entropy' in high-energy regions shaped like straw hats, and if they died, they would cascade down the valley like an avalanche.

The wilderness extended infinitely, constantly branching, exhibiting diversity, just like particles decaying in the Higgs field.

When cut on a certain time plane, the groups at the bottom of the straw hat-shaped valley became new species at that point in time.

They continuously branched, sinking deeper, and then formed 'cycloids' within the high-dimensional space.

If a charged particle falls statically in a magnetic field perpendicular to the gravitational field, and no other forces are involved, considering only the Lorentz force and gravity, the particle's trajectory is a cycloid.

This actually illustrates the particle's 'automatic' selection of the simplest way to reach its destination.

Nature itself will choose the simplest, most convenient answer.

All of this was natural.

The conclusion that the path of light is the shortest in time, and then it tells you that every point moving on a cycloid conforms to the change in speed when light refracts.

Differentiation combined with these two derivations will naturally lead to the conclusion that the cycloid is the brachistochrone curve.

Li Qi watched all of this.

He saw in it... another possibility.

The Universe's time and space are infinite, or more precisely, 'infinite time' and 'infinite space' are the inevitable outcomes of the Universe, because space-time is merely a description, not reality.

The entire fractal space of the Universe seemed to have a complex trend, different from what Li Qi had imagined before.

As a Third Grade, he was actually enlightened by a Fourth Grade and a Fifth Grade!

But Li Qi didn't dwell on that; he was just carefully observing Yang Ning's Breakthrough and the position of the Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method within it.

As is well known, the Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method is a fundamental method of a Second Grade.

And Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi were the 'Wu Tu' directly conceived by this Second Grade, inherently possessing special characteristics.

Now, Yang Ning, inspired by Li Qi, broke through to Fourth Grade, and the divine phenomenon displayed during this process... was a cosmic form that astonished Li Qi.

The difference from what Li Qi had previously believed was that Li Qi had always thought that life itself was a structure that appeared under specific conditions, and that life was not 'inevitable' but an 'accident'.

This is easy to understand; although intelligent life continues to be born in various harsh environments, there are ultimately places like 'life restricted zones,' especially when left unsupervised.

The early Universe's inflation, as well as various symmetry breakings and phase transitions, could all correspond to an 'era'; the earlier the era, the better for life.

In the earliest period of the Universe, massive stars were born, burned, and died; the Universe didn't even have physical rules yet, and everything propagated in the terrifying high temperature of Planck temperature, with infinite light speed and infinite dimensions, and only one 'force' called 'Superforce'.

All space-time and matter were one entity; at this point in time, all First Grades would simultaneously appear here.

Then, at this moment, it was the most prosperous and most 'Dao-approaching' instant of the Universe.

According to the history Li Qi knew, in this initial instant, there was only Haotian; Haotian was the only naturally born First Grade at this point in time.

But later, as other First Grades were born, the Universe was continuously traced back to this point in time, which meant that every time a First Grade was born, the Universe would return to this era and repeat itself.

After this initial glory, in the future, the end of each era, when the Universe presented a completely different stage, would see corresponding large-scale extinctions.

When the strong force and weak force separated, the first batch of 'Superforce life' became extinct; they lost their foundation of existence, unless they had advanced to Fourth Grade and could self-sustain.

When the weak force and electromagnetic force separated, the second batch of life followed suit, becoming extinct.

When the Four Great fundamental forces completely separated, another batch of life became extinct, and the Universe began to cool down from that extremely high-energy state; high-energy life completely lost its foundation, only able to exist around Guixu in an 'island-like' form.

Although intelligent species always found one way or another to survive, they could only slowly witness the Universe becoming increasingly cold without being able to change this major trend.

But in the high-dimensional space constructed by Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi, everything began as a single point.

Then, the Universe spontaneously began to become 'complex'.

Points became lines, lines became surfaces, surfaces became volumes, volumes became high-dimensional cubes; the Universe began to fractalize, spontaneously becoming complex.

Could the 'natural' state of the Universe actually be a complex mixture?

This was why the 'cycloid' just now surprised Li Qi.

“This… this is clearly a cycloid…” Li Qi muttered.

Yes, it's clearly a cycloid, which means that here, the lowest energy of the Higgs field is the same; matter will naturally fall, automatically settling at the lowest energy point.

The Universe will naturally fall back from a high-energy state to a low-energy state, becoming colder and sparser; the Superforce will naturally differentiate, symmetry will break, and vacuum decay will continuously occur.

This is a 'natural' occurrence; lower energy levels represent more stable states, but life will become extinct as a result.

Life feeds on negative entropy, and increasingly lower energy levels will make life increasingly difficult to be born and even harder to survive.

Superforce species born in an energetic, nascent Universe were naturally immortal.

But after it cooled down, baryonic life forms, such as ordinary carbon-based life, who could only survive on the faint cold light emitted by stars, naturally could not reach the innate talents of Superforce species.

These Superforce species are now referred to as 'gods'.

But it will fall even further, just as inorganic 'demons' find it difficult to achieve the talent of 'humans'.

As just mentioned, although intelligent species always found one way or another to survive, they could only slowly witness the Universe becoming increasingly cold without being able to change this major trend.

Therefore, as energy levels decrease, the birth of life becomes increasingly difficult, and the continuation of life itself becomes even harder.

Without intervention, the Universe will also become increasingly cold as a result; this is a natural rule, there is no 'why'.

If all stars eventually do not become Guixu or directly explode into supernovae, then they will collapse into a giant glass sphere made of baryonic elements, and they will not emit light.

At this time, just like the law of decreasing energy levels, their temperature will greatly decrease, even to the point where one can touch them without injury.

The unceasing evaporation process makes the starry sky even darker, and one can even hear the gentle crackling sounds coming from the pitch-black Universe.

This crackling sound is the sound of protons, the sound they make when they split into quarks—from an extremely long-term perspective, even baryons are unstable; they will continue to decay, and all things will inevitably become colder.

This is the inevitable demise that the Demon of Death lineage proposed many years ago.

Even if one could 'create something out of nothing' to create a brand new Universe, it would only be replacing the old with the new; the old things would ultimately be unable to prevent the outcome of gradual decline.

But—

In the hands of the Wu Tu Sisters, all of this was changed.

The power of nature transformed into a brand new form here; the space they created in this form would naturally differentiate into more complex, higher-energy situations.

Here, the life catalytic System can be born in places in the Universe unimaginable for their harshness.

This is not only limited to ordinary matter or lighter Qi, but also applies to more peculiar structures, such as defects in space-time itself.

That's right, defects in space-time itself, just like the cycloid mentioned earlier, naturally break down.

Each bulging Mexican hat-shaped manifold, whose cycloid itself is enough to form a negative entropy structure, meaning it has the potential to become a living being.

It turns out that more complex forms can also exist, and the Universe can spontaneously move towards a high-energy state.

Is this everything the Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method wants to reveal?

Indeed, Sun-Moon Orbit is not that simple.

Although observing from the side, Li Qi was not completely stunned; he had already reached out to shield all movements around him, bending and closing space-time so that no internal information could leak out.

Then, he sat there, unfolding his True Knowledge, watching the Wu Tu Sisters interact and expound the Dao.

That it could bring enlightenment to Li Qi was enough to demonstrate its extraordinary nature.

This was... another possibility.

It was a branch on the tree of possibilities.

The Wu Tu were merely the manifestation of all this, so... what was the power of Chen Ji itself? Was it really just an 'absolute reference frame'?

Although, an 'absolute reference frame' itself cannot be described with 'just'.

That's an absolute reference frame.

Li Qi quietly watched all of this.

Then, a wisp of his thought quietly entered the high-dimensional space around the Wu Tu Sisters.

Li Qi prepared to converse with these true high-dimensional beings.

Although, to them, Li Qi was the true high-dimensional being; Li Qi had long transcended spatial dimensions, becoming the definer of dimensions.

Li Qi quietly entered that high-dimensional space-time, coming into contact with those bizarre life forms that ordinary people could not comprehend.

The bodies of these life forms were Mane, meaning their bodies could be generalized and transformed.

Let's call them the Manifold Race.

Li Qi arrived in the space-time of the 'Manifold Race,' but he did not transform; he maintained his proper posture, merely entering to observe.

So, in the eyes of the 'Manifold Race,' their homeland appeared to have a special void, a side-profile of a low-dimensional space in a high-dimensional space.

It was like a two-dimensional plane appearing in a three-dimensional world; if one were to make an analogy, it would be a 'shadow'.

A shadow is a two-dimensional entity in a three-dimensional world, without thickness, merely a two-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional object.

A shadow without a light source appeared in the vision of the Manifold Race.

Saying 'vision' isn't quite right; they didn't rely on visual senses.

In high-dimensional space, the source of light is too complex to be a suitable sense.

As primitive organisms, their perception was a simpler, more convenient 'touch'.

Coupled with the Mane's changeable nature, one could even say these were 'insects,' only their bodies could fold more absurdly, folding themselves into high-dimensional Mane.

If a three-dimensional life form were to look at them, their bodies would resemble a group of curved homology, an infinitely twisted braid, constantly changing every moment, like a kaleidoscope, never showing the same pattern, and constantly disappearing and then reappearing.

Their 'language' was also formed through such distortions.

By touching the bodies of their own kind, then twisting the Mane, their bodies intertwining, the Mane would transform at an astonishing speed, thereby stimulating the touch of both parties, and finally separating, thus completing a 'conversation'.

And within such a kaleidoscope, a 'shadow' appeared.

This was something these high-energy high-dimensional life forms absolutely could not comprehend, thus causing a disturbance.