Chapter 595: A Catastrophe That Could Destroy the World
Jiang Li recalled that Houtu Huangqi had once mentioned there are eight fundamental rules in the world, and everything operates according to these eight rules.
Among these eight fundamental rules, three are related to the current topic: the rules of space, time, and possibility.
These three fundamental rules correspond respectively to the myriad heavens and worlds, the River of Time, and the Convergence of Possibilities.
“What I research are all surface-level things. The content the Rulers study is much more profound than this.”
“When we observe your world from the void, we discovered your world has a huge missing piece. Do you know how this happened?”
Speaking of this topic, the Meteor Group CEO clearly became tense. He used some method to temporarily block the three Rulers’ monitoring.
He lowered his voice and said: “I hadn’t been born yet when that incident occurred. I only know it happened over six hundred years ago. An enormous world almost collided with ours, then somehow the two worlds passed by each other, and our world seemed to have a chunk carved out by something massive.”
The Meteor Group CEO materialized half a watermelon and scooped out the center with a spoon: “It was roughly like this.”
“That was a major disaster that affected over one hundred Mother Stars. Everyone in that area died.”
“The three Rulers classified this matter as taboo. No one is allowed to discuss it.”
“Everything I know, I learned through indirect questioning from my seniors. But the seniors don’t know much either, and all the Unity Stage cultivators who personally witnessed that disaster went mad. The only ones who know the complete story are the three Rulers.”
“My grandfather was an eyewitness to that disaster. After he returned, he kept babbling madly, repeating that this doesn’t follow the rules, the world is going to be destroyed, this doesn’t follow the rules, the world is going to be destroyed.”
“When I questioned him in detail, he just kept repeating those two phrases.”
“And what about him now…”
“He’s already dead. Died by suicide.” When the Meteor Group CEO said this, there was no sadness in his tone, only deep puzzlement.
But there are many puzzling things in the world. Otherwise, where would the three Rulers get so many research topics? They call themselves observers and constantly observe precisely to solve all unsolved mysteries?
He firmly believes that there are no unsolvable mysteries in the world.
If they can’t solve something now, it only means they haven’t observed enough data.
“Do you know where the three Rulers are?”
The Meteor Group CEO shook his head: “No idea. The three Rulers’ whereabouts are difficult to track. They only appear when someone advances to Unity Stage, completes a research topic, or when great demons cross boundaries.”
“But in ten days, someone will meet the standards to become a Unity Stage cultivator. The Entropy Increase Ruler will hold an advancement ceremony on the First Mother Star.”
The Meteor Group CEO gave the three of them an address.
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“This spaceship ticket is expensive enough to make someone reach Core Formation Stage.” Bai Hongtu felt heartache over the ticket price.
Jiang Li rolled his eyes: “Weren’t you the one who said spaceships were novel and wanted to try one? Now you’re complaining about the ticket price. If you think it’s expensive, the three of us can tear through space and reach the First Mother Star right now.”
Yu Yin also said: “Besides, the ticket money isn’t even yours.”
When Bai Hongtu suggested taking the spaceship, the Meteor Group CEO generously provided the ticket money.
The three sat in the VIP cabin. Someone who heard Bai Hongtu’s complaint laughed and said: “The expensive ticket naturally has its reasons.”
“My name is Growth. Are you three traveling through a spatial passage for the first time?”
“Indeed.”
“The high ticket price isn’t due to the spaceship itself, but because we need to pass through the spatial passage. The spatial passage has tremendous tearing force. Only by using energy barriers can we safely pass through. Moreover, the spatial passages are built using star cores as foundations, making them extremely expensive to construct, with high annual maintenance costs too.”
The Observer World has established countless spatial passages. As long as you have money, people can freely travel to other planets.
If you don’t have money, sorry, you can only wander around your Mother Star.
The spaceship was actually the body of a Core Formation Stage cultivator. As they spoke, the spaceship started up, and the Captain deployed the barrier.
The three saw a light screen directly ahead of the spaceship – a purely technological product, a fixed spatial passage.
“The spatial passage still isn’t stable enough. A truly stable spatial passage wouldn’t have any tearing force.”
Jiang Li scanned with his spiritual sense and immediately saw that the light screen’s tearing force was enough to seriously injure a Core Formation Stage cultivator.
Meanwhile, the spatial passages established by Brahma Tower could even be traversed freely by ordinary mortals without any danger.
Growth said: “This is already the limit. Technology may be infinite, but human wisdom has limits. The three Rulers haven’t found a better method yet.”
“We could bring this technology to our place.” Bai Hongtu could see there was significant room for improvement in the spatial passages here.
Before the upgrade, Brahma Tower could only maintain twenty spatial passages – ten slots used within the Nine Provinces to strengthen connections, and ten slots used to connect with other worlds.
Even now that Brahma Tower can maintain forty spatial passages, it’s still too few for the Nine Provinces World.
If they could improve the Observer World’s spatial passages into stable ones without tearing force, the Nine Provinces World could freely build passages without quantity restrictions, achieving true distance-free communication.
This would allow them to use all forty spatial passages to connect with other worlds.
“The pity is that the spatial passages here can’t cross the void to connect with other worlds.”
The difficulty of building cross-world spatial passages versus cross-universe spatial passages differs by dozens of times. To cross worlds, you need to at least be related to the concept of “immortal,” such as the immortal artifact Brahma Tower, or the Celestial Ascension Ladder.
Having nothing better to do, Jiang Li chatted with Growth beside him. They got along well, with Jiang Li occasionally asking about the three Rulers.
“I’m just a scientist. I don’t know anything about the three Rulers. I’m going to the First Mother Star to attend an academic conference.” Growth spread his hands, indicating he was just an ordinary scientist.
The spaceship headed toward the light screen, disappearing from the Ninth Mother Star’s light screen, crossing ten thousand light years, and emerging from the First Mother Star’s light screen.
“Who are you people?” A female flight attendant’s scream broke the cabin’s quiet.
Thugs violently pushed aside the female flight attendant and entered the VIP cabin, shouting fiercely: “Nobody move! Whoever moves gets shot!”
The thugs, being Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, had entirely metallic bodies. Their arms transformed, fists retracting and turning into dark cannon barrels.
Their chest nuclear power sources lit up, the cannon barrels charging up, ready to fire as they threatened the Captain: “If you want to live, contact the government for us!”
The Captain had no choice. Facing these desperate criminals, he could only do as they said.
Soon a government official’s three-dimensional projection appeared in the cabin.
“State your demands.”
Two thugs used their arms to choke the hostages’ necks, aiming cannon barrels at their heads, threatening: “Quickly release our boss! If we discover you haven’t released our boss within half an hour, we’ll kill these two hostages first!”
“What are both your names?” The thugs prodded the two hostages’ heads with their cannon barrels.
“My name is Jiang Li.”
“My name is Bai Hongtu.”
The two hostages obediently confessed.
“That’s right! If you don’t release our boss, we’ll kill Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu first! That woman is your companion, right? I’ll kill her too!” In the thugs’ view, passengers capable of cross-space travel were either wealthy or noble, and those sitting in the VIP cabin were the highest status passengers on the entire ship – perfect for threatening the government.
The two hostages trembled with fear.
Yu Yin cracked melon seeds, expressing great concern for the two hostages’ safety.