Volume 3 Chapter 276: Turning Point in Human History and Chaos Energy
"Output increased, the outer space barrier has been successfully crossed."
"Reaching the absolute vacuum zone, locking the coordinates of the target area."
"The autonomous mechanical aggregate is released and begins searching for the gathering point of high-dimensional power."
"The high-dimensional power vortex has been identified. Preliminary analysis shows that it is the dominant domain."
"The opponent tried to maneuver, and the autonomous mechanical aggregate began to capture it."
"Lock on, Space Crossing Fortress No. 2 begins to accelerate, we have caught the tail of the Overlord."
The Universe Crossing Fortress No. 1 has been stored in Lin Xu's personal space. The Universe Crossing Fortress No. 2, which has the latest technology, is more adept at operating in the absolute vacuum of the outer universe than the Universe Crossing Fortress No. 1.
A large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates that have been modified to be more suitable for operations in the outer universe are scattered all around Fortress No. 2, spreading out like tentacles.
At the same time, it also plays a role in amplifying the signal power of the high-dimensional force vortex positioning device.
So soon, it locked onto the vortex of high-dimensional power located outside the universe, in the vast nothingness.
In the ocean of the multiverse, only transcendent civilizations can form a vortex of high-dimensional power in the outer universe.
It can even be said that the vortex of high-dimensional power is one of the most important manifestations of transcendent civilization.
However, in the vast ocean of the multiverse, the number of transcendent civilizations is extremely rare. Even if there are hundreds of universes, it is not necessarily possible to give birth to a transcendent civilization.
Therefore, encountering a superior civilization in the outer universe is an extremely low-probability event.
And this vortex of high-dimensional power is located near the universe that Fortress No. 2 just broke out of.
If this isn't the master, then there must be something fishy going on.
Therefore, once the discovery was made, the Universe Crossing Fortress No. 2 had already begun to adjust its route. After the autonomous mechanical aggregate confirmed that the other party was indeed the master, the Universe Crossing Fortress No. 2 had already entered the acceleration phase.
The figure kept jumping and shuttling forward in the outer universe. Almost in the blink of an eye, a massive amount of high-dimensional power gathered into a ball and appeared in the field of vision.
When facing the entity that surpassed the realm of civilization for the first time, even Lin Xu was surprised by its huge scale.
The other party is in the outer universe, it is like a new born universe.
In the ocean of the multiverse, new universes are being born at any time, exploding from singularities to become brand new universes.
Such a newborn universe may not be large at the beginning, but it has extremely high mass and energy density. Then, with the Big Bang, the mass is continuously diluted, and eventually the universe becomes larger and larger until it becomes a behemoth spanning tens of billions of light years.
The entity of the dominating domain that now appeared in front of Lin Xu gave Lin Xu the feeling of a newborn universe.
Of course, the Dominant Realm will not expand, but the mass and energy density surging within it are very similar to those of the newborn universe.
The energy it contains may even exceed that of a newborn universe.
Moreover, this is the outer area of the dominance domain. In the last confrontation, it was almost stripped and exploded by Lin Xu.
"How spectacular!" Nanzhu exclaimed as he stared at the holographic projection of the huge main body of the Domination Domain in front of him, which was no smaller than the entire Milky Way.
"How does he gather so much high-dimensional power?" Mu Xiyue's eyes were full of disbelief.
Because in the main body of the dominant domain that is as vast as the galaxy, there is not only infinite mass and energy, but also an enormous amount of high-dimensional power.
Although it cannot be compared with the huge high-dimensional power that Lin Xu directly mobilized from the high dimension, such high-dimensional power is still massive.
Mu Xiyue really couldn't imagine where all these high-dimensional forces gathered from in the Dominant Domain.
No wonder a vortex of high-dimensional power can be formed in the outer universe.
No wonder it has the ability to capture and destroy the universe.
"He swallowed the universe. He swallowed the universe." Arisa on the side suddenly spoke.
"Swallow the universe?" Lu Yao, who was calculating something with a pen and paper, stopped writing the complicated formula for a moment and looked at Arisa in confusion.
"Yes, I remember what exactly is the wrong path that the Dominant Domain has taken, and why this type of transcendent civilization is constantly destroying the universe. Because it is devouring these universes, or in other words, it is devouring the high-dimensional power generated in the process of destroying these universes." Arisa seemed to be stimulated by the scene in front of her, or it triggered associations and she recalled some related things.
"Tell me about it in detail." Lin Xu also looked over with interest.
"Look here." Arisa stretched out her hand and magnified a certain part of the holographic projection in front of her.
Holographic projection is based on the mapping and projection of autonomous mechanical aggregates using high-dimensional forces, so the details displayed are even more detailed than what can be directly observed with the naked eye in outer space.
"This seems to be chaos energy? But, this is too much." Nanzhu's eyes widened instantly, looking at the perfect diamond-shaped crystals that were as big as planets. Isn't that chaos energy?
But, as big as a planet? And so many?
Lin Xu suddenly remembered the massive amount of chaotic energy that the earthlings had discovered on Jupiter. Those chaotic energies also indirectly led humans to embark on a desperate path of upgrading their dimensions.
Could it be that those chaotic energies were left behind by some advanced civilization?
And Arisa continued.
"We all know that bombarding certain weak points in space in the universe can potentially create connections with higher dimensions and generate chaotic energy. This is the main method for low-dimensional life to obtain chaotic energy."
"If that's the case, then when a universe is destroyed, how much chaotic energy will be born at the moment of its destruction?"
"Although the Transcendent Civilization claims to be a high-dimensional force, they are still low-dimensional life in essence. They cannot directly mobilize high-dimensional energy and can only rely on similar technical means to obtain high-dimensional energy."
"It's just that their scale is countless times larger than that of ordinary low-dimensional civilizations. For example, the Domination Domain directly relies on destroying the universe to obtain high-dimensional power, which is the most extreme form of it."
"Then, what about the disorder and filth produced by them extracting high-dimensional power from chaotic energy on such a large scale?" Nanzhu asked curiously.
Nanzhu had a very deep memory of disorder and filth. It was a catastrophe that trapped countless human families on the Great Wall of the Milky Way for a long time.
"This is also the reason why the further you go on this road, the less likely you are to reach higher dimensions," Arisa continued.
"Why?" Nanzhu was puzzled.
"The high-dimensional power created by the destruction of a universe is extremely powerful, but such high-dimensional power is impure, or even poisonous," Arisa continued.
"Poisonous? Do you mean that chaotic energy is poisonous? Is it disordered and filthy?" Nanzhu reacted all at once.
"Disorder and filth are a disaster for low-dimensional life, but they are not qualified to pollute high-dimensional forces." Arisa shook her head and said.
Extracting the higher-dimensional part from the chaotic energy is the higher-dimensional power.
The remaining residue will fall into a lower dimension and become a foul force that destroys all order.
"Do you know why there is disorder and filth in the chaotic energy instead of pure high-dimensional power?" Arisa asked back.
"I don't know." Nanzhu shook his head honestly.
"Because theoretically high-dimensional forces cannot exist in low dimensions, let alone condense into objects like crystals. Even if these crystals cannot be observed by low-dimensional intelligent life, they are still condensed into entities in low dimensions, so they must be mixed with some impurities. Disordered filth is such an impurity, which belongs to low-dimensional impurities." Arisa explained.
"Then why is it so difficult to ascend to higher dimensions while walking on this path?" Nanzhu continued to ask.
"Because the high-dimensional power extracted from the chaotic energy is still a high-dimensional power, but it has existed in the low-dimensional space for a period of time. Even if disorder and filth cannot pollute the high-dimensional power, the high-dimensional power's existence in the low-dimensional space makes the high-dimensional power extracted from the chaotic energy slightly different from the real high-dimensional power."
"The difference is very small and does not affect the use of high-dimensional power at all. But once you get used to this high-dimensional power, if you want to upgrade the dimension again, a slight mistake will lead to a huge error." Arisa explained in detail.
"So that's how it is. I thought it was because of disorder and filth that affected the dimensional ascension." Nanzhu said with sudden enlightenment.
“For a civilization that has reached the transcendent level, the impact of disorder and filth is already negligible. You can observe carefully that when the Overlord absorbed the high-dimensional power in the chaotic energy, it absorbed the disorder and filth together. Then it directly disposed of the disorder and filth, and it would not have any impact at all.” Arisa magnified a certain part of the holographic image and explained.
“So, cosmic-level disasters are no longer worth mentioning for transcendent civilizations, right?” Nanzhu said with some emotion.
"That's true." Arisa nodded.
Then he looked at Lin Xu and said, "Or you can ask Lord Lin Xu. He should have the most say."
"What do you want to ask?" Nanzhu was stunned.
"He should be able to feel the subtle difference between the high-dimensional power that he usually draws directly from the high-dimensional space and the high-dimensional power in the chaotic energy," Arisa replied.
"Lord Lin Xu, is it true?" Nanzhu looked at Lin Xu.
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have noticed it, but it's true. The high-dimensional power in the chaotic energy can still be used, but it's slightly different. Maybe this is the change that occurs after the high-dimensional power exists in a low-dimensional entity." After Lin Xu pondered for a moment, he nodded.
“Come to think of it, humans also used a lot of chaos energy back then, right?” Nanzhu suddenly thought of the key point and his eyes widened.
"Indeed, humans were not affected?" Lin Xu also became curious. Lin Xu didn't know much about the later history of mankind.
Before today, I had never noticed that the high-dimensional power within the chaotic energy actually had subtle differences.
Logically speaking, when humans were first starting out, they should have used a lot of the poisonous chaos energy that Arisa mentioned to catch up with technology.
But how did it successfully upgrade to a higher dimension?
"So, humans are really lucky. In the initial stage, they used the high-dimensional power in the chaotic energy to quickly improve their technical capabilities. And after realizing that there was something abnormal about the high-dimensional power in the chaotic energy, they decisively stopped using it." Arisa said with some emotion.
“Generally speaking, the toxicity of chaotic energy to intelligent life will only gradually become apparent after intelligent life reaches the stage beyond civilization and begins to have in-depth contact with high-dimensional forces. Before that, due to insufficient understanding of high-dimensional forces, for intelligent life, high-dimensional forces are just a means and method that can be used to guide the development of science and technology, more like a black box tool. Because they don’t understand the principles of the black box, they will not be affected by it.” Arisa continued.
"Lucky, maybe humans are really lucky." Lin Xu said with a smile.
"What luck? It's obviously strength. Why didn't you see that the Overlord gave up swallowing the universe and was still relying on the chaotic energy to accumulate high-dimensional power? Being willing to give up is a great wisdom." Nanzhu said confidently.
"Maybe you are right. It may be a kind of wisdom to give up the seemingly easy option and choose a more difficult path at certain moments." Arisa sighed. I don't know if she thought of her fellow tribesmen who are still trapped in the dimensional reduction channel.
They just can't bear to give up the dimensionality reduction channel, so they are trapped there until now.
"Since destroying the universe and devouring the resulting chaotic energy is a wrong path, what other paths are there? For example, we can directly obtain pure high-dimensional power instead of toxic and polluted chaotic energy." Nanzhu thought for a while and asked curiously.
"As for other paths, the only one I can think of right now is probably to devour civilization! Or in other words, to harvest civilization." Arisa said after thinking for a while.
"Harvest civilization? Can harvesting civilization also gain high-dimensional power? How to harvest?" Nanzhu asked.
"Of course ordinary civilizations are not allowed. However, those who are also transcendent civilizations, or those who are about to be promoted to transcendent civilizations, have extremely high talents, such as humans in the past." Arisa gave an example.
"If humans in the past encountered a powerful transcendent civilization, would they be likely to be harvested?" When it comes to humans, not only Nanzhu, but Lin Xu also felt the same way.
"Of course. As far as I know, there are even some advanced civilizations that will cultivate some potential civilizations on their own and then harvest them in the end." Arisa explained.
"Will there be no consequences?" Nanzhu asked.
"At least it's much smaller than the Devouring Universe," Arisa replied.
