Volume 3 Chapter 182: The Universe Expands for 10,000 Years and 13.8 Billion Years
The temporary warship composed of autonomous mechanical aggregates traveled towards the sky at a thousand times the speed of light.
However, as the distance from the ground increases, the speed begins to slow down.
Although the speed of travel is still a thousand times the speed of light, the actual distance traveled is not far.
Naturally, the situation was reported to Lin Xu as soon as possible.
At this time, Lin Xu and his companions had just dealt with the old Taoist priest and several accomplices.
Looking at the practitioners in the dojo below who were in chaos because of the changes here, he did not intend to cause trouble for them.
After all, the old Taoist priest's purpose of setting up this Taoist temple was just to conceal his true identity, and he never really took the Taoist temple seriously. The disciples in the Taoist temple also did not know the old Taoist priest's true purpose.
Lin Xu naturally would not do anything to vent his anger on others.
So after dealing with the old Taoist priest and his group, they continued to fly straight towards Mount Buzhou.
At the same time, the situation encountered by autonomous mechanical aggregates was discussed.
"The space at high altitude is slowly solidifying, making the speed of curvature navigation slower and slower? It seems that the speed of light is also slowing down? What is going on?" Nanzhu frowned, realizing that things were not simple.
"It looks like that, but the details depend on the test results." Lin Xu nodded.
While they were talking, the temporary warship, which had already reached a very high position, had disintegrated into countless autonomous mechanical aggregates.
Then the on-site experiment began.
Soon, the experimental results were sent back, verifying the guesses of Lin Xu and others.
It was indeed as several people had guessed, in the high sky of the ancient times, the higher the altitude, the slower the speed of light.
Not only that, as the speed of light slows down, the space here is also changing, becoming more and more stable, and it is becoming more and more difficult to squeeze the space for curvature navigation.
This caused the speed of the temporary warship to begin to slow down.
"Since the speed has slowed down, why not try using thrusters to continue flying upwards?" Nanzhu suggested.
"Not for now. Even if the speed slows down, the speed of curvature navigation is still far beyond the speed that the thrusters can achieve." Lin Xu said as he glanced at Nanzhu who was swinging his tail.
"If it keeps slowing down like this, will the space become completely stable after reaching a certain height, and will we no longer be able to use curvature navigation? Will the speed of light also stagnate?" Nanzhu guessed.
"Then let's try to use the thrusters to break through the limit." Lin Xu agreed this time.
In this way, the autonomous mechanical aggregate in the sky reassembled into a temporary warship, sailing at curvature and continuing to strive to break through into the sky.
And this primordial universe is, after all, nothing more than a newborn universe. Although the size of the primordial universe has continued to expand and has been growing for tens of thousands of years, its size is still completely incomparable to the universe where the earth was born and has been expanding for 13.8 billion years.
Therefore, the temporary warship only explored upwards for about a day before it gradually approached the place where the space was completely stable and the speed of light stagnated.
At this point, the distance traveled by curvature sailing has gradually become almost the same as the distance traveled when the warship is pushed forward by normal thrusters.
"So, have we reached the boundary of the universe? The newborn universe is still a little small." Nanzhu sighed on a peak of Mount Buzhou.
At this time, Lin Xu and others were flying upwards along Mount Buzhou. Just after crossing a peak, they were blocked by thousands of auspicious rays of light in front of them.
It was already late at night, the sun had set, the stars were twinkling, and the full moon was hanging high in the sky.
Under the moonlight, the thousands of auspicious rays of light appear even brighter and more exceptional.
Lin Xu stood on the edge of the mountain with his back to the auspicious light and was not attracted by it at all.
Instead, he looked at the vast and desolate land below, which was as small as a chessboard, and then at the starry sky and the moon above his head, his eyes full of curiosity.
"These stars and the moon are very similar to the starry sky we see on Earth." Lin Xu said with emotion.
At the same time, Lin Xu could also see the images transmitted by the temporary warship in the sky through his consciousness.
The temporary warship that had just arrived at the edge of the primitive universe captured precious pictures at the edge of the primitive universe.
Countless celestial bodies as big as the Earth are embedded at the end of the sky and on the edge of the universe.
It’s just that because the sunlight was too bright before, these celestial bodies in the sky could not be seen by the naked eye on the ground.
Until the sun sets and the sky darkens.
Then these celestial bodies became like stars, lighting up the night sky.
It formed the vast Milky Way.
Moreover, the arrangement of the stars is exactly the same as the starry sky seen on Earth.
No wonder Lin Xu sighed.
It’s just that the stars here are all the size of planets and are embedded in the sky.
The celestial bodies we see on Earth are actually huge stars that are spread throughout the universe and are constantly moving.
Of course, the ancient starry sky is also moving, operating slowly according to certain rules.
Lin Xu didn't know whether this law was also the same as the law of the movement of the starry sky on Earth.
However, to know this, long-term observation is necessary. At least Lin Xu does not have the data to support his judgment now.
"Order some of the temporary warships to continue flying into the sky. If curvature navigation cannot be used, then switch to jet thrusters to continue flying. The other part of the warships will explore the starry sky to see what is on it." Lin Xu ordered.
So Yinghuo immediately started to execute. At the end of the primitive universe, the temporary warship that was already parallel to the starry sky was divided into two parts. One part continued to fly towards the limit of the sky, and even planned to cross the boundary of the primitive universe.
The other part scattered in all directions and explored the stars in all directions.
As we get closer to those celestial bodies, we can see that many of them have pavilions, towers, various buildings, and even immortals flying over them. Some of the immortals on the celestial bodies seem to have discovered the temporary warships and are looking at them in surprise.
As it continued to fly upwards, it soon reached above the stars and reached the boundary of the ancient universe where the speed of light dropped to zero and even light could not move.
This is an area that even immortals cannot explore, because the autonomous mechanical aggregates that have arrived here have discovered that after crossing the starry sky, the area above the starry sky has entered a zone without spiritual energy.
In other words, there are no nanorobots in this primitive border.
And immortals whose cultivation relies entirely on spiritual energy, that is, nanorobots, naturally cannot reach here, the primitive border above the starry sky.
Here, there is no spiritual energy and even light cannot move. It can be said that this is really the end of the universe.
“Although there are no nanorobots there, it should be no problem for the immortal to explore upwards relying on the nanorobots in his body. The most he cannot replenish from the surroundings.” Nanzhu said with a different opinion.
Until the temporary battleship sent back the latest experimental results.
Experiments have shown that the nanorobots in the ancient universe seem to be under some kind of restriction and cannot approach the boundary of the universe.
So even if the temporary warships try to carry the nanorobots from below the starry sky to above the starry sky, those nanorobots will still automatically return to below the starry sky.
It was as if there was an instruction targeting nanorobots, suppressing the nanorobots in the primitive universe and preventing them from entering the starry sky.
This means that even if an immortal wants to approach the edge of the universe relying solely on the nanorobots in his body, when he reaches above the starry sky, the nanorobots in his body will continue to flow away and return to below the starry sky.
In the perception of immortals, once they enter the starry sky, their power will probably begin to dissipate continuously.
In this way, naturally no immortal would dare to reach the starry sky.
Of course, the nanorobots that come with the temporary warships are completely fine when they are above the starry sky. In other words, this rule that nanorobots are not allowed to enter the starry sky is only effective for the nanorobots native to the prehistoric world.
The external nanorobots brought by Lin Xu were not affected.
This made Lin Xu want to try it. With his authority, he gave all the nanorobots in the prehistoric world a new instruction to allow them to enter the starry sky. What would happen?
But Lin Xu just thought about it and didn't do it.
He didn't want to disrupt the current balance of Honghuang, at least not before he figured out some things.
Otherwise, it would be disastrous if it caused chaos.
In short, the speed of light has stopped above the starry sky and nanorobots are prohibited from traveling.
So no immortal can explore here.
But temporary battleships are fine.
Therefore, this part of temporary warships continued to fly upwards relying on the propulsion device, gradually getting farther and farther away from the stars below.
It is also getting farther and farther away from the primitive land.
The temporary battleship crossed the boundary of the universe, and there was a dark void ahead, as if hiding secrets beyond the universe.
However, the speed of the temporary warships, which are now propelled by thrusters alone, is extremely slow compared to its previous speed of a thousand times the speed of light.
Therefore, it will probably take some time for this exploration to bear fruit.
But Lin Xu was not in a hurry. He stood halfway up Mount Buzhou and looked up at the dark night sky.
According to calculations, it has been known that a day in the ancient times lasted for twenty-four hours, exactly the same as a day on Earth.
Although the wilderness is so vast, a day is just as long as that on Earth. It must be said that humans ten thousand years ago were really nostalgic.
The exploration of the autonomous mechanical aggregates at the end of the sky is still ongoing, and some autonomous mechanical aggregates in the horizontal exploration of celestial bodies have attracted the attention of immortals living on some celestial bodies.
Halfway up Mount Buzhou, Lin Xu slowly turned around and looked at the colorful lights behind him that had finally changed.
In an instant, the originally blooming light instantly converged, and finally focused on an old vine hanging on the hillside of Mount Buzhou.
I saw a gourd on it that was shining with a faint light, and it was about to fall, as if it was ripe and about to fall to the ground .
"Huluwa?" Nanzhu looked at the gourd with a strange look in his eyes.
"What Calabash Brothers? This should be called a treasure from heaven and earth, right?" Lu Yao glanced at Nanzhu speechlessly.
"So the big guy next to him is the monster guarding the treasures of heaven and earth?" Mu Xiyue stepped forward and stood in front of Lin Xu, with a sword flashing in her hand.
Near the old vine hanging on the hillside of Mount Buzhou, a giant python that was a thousand meters long was seen circling around the old vine. It was drooling at the gourd that was about to fall from the old vine, while it was staring at Lin Xu and others here vigilantly, with a cold light flashing in its eyes.
"Hey, what kind of monster is this? You call it a monster? Do you look down on us monsters?" Nanzhu shook the fox tail behind him and the ears on his head, emphasizing his identity as a fox spirit, and glared at Mu Xiyue.
"Okay, okay, it's called a monster, a monster, okay?" Mu Xiyue was speechless, but still compromised.
At this time, the thousand-meter-long giant python's eyes wandered for a long time between the gourd that was about to fall and Lin Xu and his group on the nearby mountain, as if it was sure that the gourd would take a while to fall, and made a decision.
It has to eliminate the threats nearby first.
Then the thousand-meter-long giant python opened its blood-red mouth and bit towards the hill where Lin Xu and others were.
If it bites hard at once, it will probably tear the top of the mountain apart.
Unfortunately, before its snake head arrived, the giant python suddenly discovered that after a dazzling light, its sight was flying in the sky, and it could also see its own body.
It is normal to see its body. After all, its body is long enough and you can see its huge body just by turning your head.
But why was the body I saw this time falling towards Buzhou Mountain? And it was a headless corpse? The place where the snake's head should have been was still spurting blood?
Wait, snakehead?
The giant python then realized something.
But immediately afterwards, its snake head was shattered by another sword light slashed out by Mu Xiyue, and it completely lost consciousness.
Nanzhu lay on the edge of the mountain, looking at the body of the giant python falling down, with a bit of regret in his eyes.
"What a pity. I have never eaten such a big python. It would be nice if I could taste it."
"Here, eat it." Mu Xiyue said as she reached out and grabbed a piece of python meat that fell from mid-air and handed it to Nanzhu.
"Where's this meat from? It's disgusting." Nanzhu quickly took a few steps back and fanned his nose.
"It should be the meat on the neck. Don't you want to eat it?" Mu Xiyue continued to ask.
"Of course not." Nanzhu hid behind Lin Xu and kept winking at Lin Xu, as if accusing Mu Xiyue of bullying her.
"Tsk, Ye Gong loves dragons." Lu Yao complained bluntly.
At this moment, it was not known whether the fall of the giant python startled the old vine, so the gourd on the old vine suddenly fell off and fell down along Mount Buzhou.
Lin Xu looked at the falling gourd without any intention of catching it.
It was as if he was about to watch this rare treasure from heaven and earth fall into the mortal world.
Miss Qiu, Nanzhu, Mu Xiyue and Lu Yao beside Lin Xu were all unwilling to catch the gourd.
Just like that, the gourd became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared at the foot of Mount Buzhou. In the end, no one knew which lucky person would get the gift of this natural treasure.
At the same time, in a cave somewhere on Mount Buzhou, a figure with a young face but white hair and beard was meditating with his eyes closed as usual.
Suddenly, his heart moved and he opened his eyes. The sun, moon, stars and everything in the universe seemed to be contained in his eyes.
He just raised his hand and counted with his fingers, and his irritable mood came over him again.
"How is it possible? That is an extremely rare spiritual treasure from heaven and earth, but it can't attract the variable's heart? What does he want? If he doesn't even want the spiritual treasure, how can I lure him into the trap?"
The figure with white hair and beard frowned, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.
Lin Xu, who had just watched the gourd fall into the ravine, seemed to be thinking about something.
Several other people were also thinking about it.
"Lord Lin Xu, why did that gourd keep looking at you just now?" Nanzhu asked puzzledly.
Maybe ordinary people can’t see it, even the Golden Immortal can’t notice it.
But who are Lin Xu and his companions? How could they possibly hide matters related to nanorobots from them?
As early as when they just arrived at the mountain, when there were thousands of auspicious auras, several people noticed that the nanorobots gathered on the old vine had been secretly watching Lin Xu's location.
Those nanorobots seemed to be regarded as the body of a certain conscious being, and that conscious being used the nanorobots as its own body for survival.
But he didn't even notice that his body was unusually active when facing Lin Xu, just like a dog seeing its owner.
The consciousness itself did not react much, but its body was still very honest.
Then the nanorobots on the old vine condensed into the gourd, and the consciousness body also gathered into the gourd.
At the same time, it was keeping an eye on Lin Xu, as if waiting for Lin Xu to take it away.
Unfortunately, Lin Xu watched helplessly as the gourd and its consciousness fell into the mountain stream.
"Did you feel it? If we had taken the gourd just now, the many invisible threads made up of nanorobots in the space would seem to entangle us." Mu Xiyue also said.
This is also the reason why no one reached out to take the gourd.
"Indeed, it feels like there will be some kind of cause and effect if I take the gourd? My God, is there really such a thing as cause and effect? Why do I feel that this ancient world is becoming more and more mysterious?" Lu Yao couldn't help but complain.
"How can it be fantasy? It's obviously a fairy tale. This is a primitive universe built based on the fairy tale world." Nanzhu corrected.
"Okay, okay, but this is not the point. Is there really any cause and effect?" Lu Yao asked curiously.
Her curiosity was shared by everyone else, but even though they were curious, no one would rashly reach out without Lin Xu making the decision.
"Interesting." Lin Xu also felt extremely curious.
Then, the gourd had fallen far enough that it could not even be seen with the naked eye.
Suddenly, a giant ape hundreds of feet long jumped out from the halfway point of Buzhou Mountain below and raised its hand to grab the gourd.
Lin Xu also stretched out his hand at the same time.
A flick of the finger, and a thud.
It was as if the void was hit hard by a sledgehammer.
With a loud bang, the giant ape's huge body of a hundred feet collapsed in an instant, turning into a cloud of blood and flesh, falling towards the bottom of Mount Buzhou.
At the same time, the gourd flew upwards with a sound and was caught in Lin Xu's hand in the blink of an eye.
"Cause and effect, let's see what kind of cause and effect it is!" Lin Xu weighed the gourd in his hand and asked curiously.
At the same time, feeling the nanorobots everywhere around them, some of them seemed to have some kind of connection invisibly, like silk threads, wrapping Lin Xu and his group in a certain fate.
Of course, with Lin Xu's authority over nanorobots, he could easily sever this connection.
That is to say, it is easy to cut off the cause and effect, and no cause and effect will find him.
But Lin Xu did not. He allowed this invisible connection to occur because he had already realized that the appearance of this so-called gourd was as if some existence wanted to plot against him.
So Lin Xu wanted to see who was plotting against him.
At the same time, in a cave somewhere in Mount Buzhou, a figure with white hair and beard but a young face was just wondering why even the magic treasure could not attract that variable. But now his face suddenly changed again and he immediately started to calculate with his fingers.
The calculation was completed quickly and a smile appeared on his face.
"Sure enough, no one can resist the temptation of spiritual treasures. Now that you've fallen into my trap, you'll be my chess piece and work hard! A variable from outside the ancient times is a good chess piece. Hahahaha." The figure who never showed his emotions laughed out loud.
At the same time, at the end of the sky, the temporary warships that were exploring the stars turned around the stars as big as the earth and went to explore the misty area.
Finally, the temporary warship discovered a huge palace surrounded by countless celestial bodies.
It was a palace that was far larger than a planet. The palace complex alone was several times the size of the Earth.
The boundless palace hidden in the clouds, with layer upon layer and peaks upon peaks, is like a large fairy ship.
However, the fairy ship still has some traces of ships, after all, it has to sail in the universe.
But this palace is a real palace, without any trace of a ship.
This is a luxurious palace designed for living.
Or it can be called heaven.
That’s right, this is the heaven, the heaven above the vast earth.
Ten thousand immortals gather together and the Immortal Lord reigns over the ancient world, and this is not some puppet heaven created by the List of Gods.
At least, at this moment, this primitive world, which has just been born ten thousand years ago, has no plans for deification.
When the temporary warship discovered the Heavenly Palace and reported the existence of this huge palace to Lin Xu.
The being revered by all the immortals in heaven and called the Immortal Lord also received the news.
There are machines that appear to be technological creations coming from the lower world and are exploring the outskirts of heaven.
"A technological creation? Is it a creation from the technological universe? But aren't the creations from the technological universe simply unable to operate in my primitive world?" an immortal asked doubtfully.
"Who knows? But that thing does look like a technological creation."
"Could it be that some immortal imitated the creations of the technological universe and built a similar toy using mechanical techniques?" an immortal guessed.
"Why think so much? Just capture it and check it out and you will know."
"But if this is really the work of a fellow Taoist?"
"Humph, who cares if it's a game or not? Disturbing the Heavenly Palace is a serious crime. The Immortal Venerable already knows about this. Are you going to excuse him in front of the Immortal Venerable?"
Suddenly, no immortal dared to speak.
