I've already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and you're saying I didn't time travel?

Chapter 81 The Changes in the Heavenly Palace
Small meeting room.

Xiao Li was explaining the newly acquired report to the leaders below:
"...Since the fog began to expand outward, the illusory image of the celestial palace hanging high above the fog has also begun to change."

Its original location rose along with the expansion of the fog, and it has now officially entered outer space from the transition zone from the initial atmosphere to space. Currently, it can only be observed closely by satellites, orbital spacecraft, and rocket-powered aircraft.

Based on images transmitted from satellites, compared with the original data, the size of Tiangong has also increased threefold. However, this threefold increase is not a proportional enlargement. Instead, some previously difficult-to-observe shadowy buildings have quickly become clear and can now be observed by satellite.

It can be said that what we see now is the complete version of the Heavenly Palace.

However, the situation of the Heavenly Palace is very special; even if it can be observed, it is still difficult to get in touch with it.

We have tried dropping various experimental substances, and they all passed right through it.

There are currently two main speculations about the Heavenly Palace—

First, the real Heavenly Palace may be in a subspace and has not yet fully manifested. Considering its influence from the collapse of the sun, it may not fully take shape until the other three suns have also collapsed.

Secondly, the real Heavenly Palace is located on the floating continent. What we observe is merely a projection of the Heavenly Palace onto the outside world. We must enter the floating continent to have a chance to come into contact with it.

In addition, since the Heavenly Palace has become clearer, the plaque on the main hall of the Heavenly Palace is no longer as blurry as before. We can clearly see that there are five characters on the plaque. Based on the two characters "夺天" (meaning "to seize the heaven") given by Qi Xuan, we can determine that they belong to the same language family.

However, we currently have very little information on ancient seal script, so we cannot determine the exact meaning of these five characters. To unravel this mystery, we may have to wait until we make contact with the civilization on the floating continent…

Xiao Li went on to explain in detail a great deal, including the form and architectural style of the Heavenly Palace, various data, and experts' speculations about the uses of each hall.

As Liu Wang listened, he became somewhat distracted.

If Qi Xuan were still alive, with his continuous provision of information, the mystery of the Heavenly Palace script might be easily solved.

Unfortunately, fate is cruel to the talented; now all we can do is hope to obtain relevant information from that island.

……

The analysis report is still being listened to in the conference room, and images of the Tiangong script have already circulated online.

Astronomy enthusiasts from multiple countries used large-aperture telescopes to clearly observe the changes in the celestial palace's phantom image and the five enormous ancient seal characters on the plaque.

Upon seeing these pictures, netizens engaged in heated discussions:

"The king of heaven overshadows the tigers of the earth?"

"Pagoda suppresses the river demon!"

"Brilliant minds always seem to agree on the same thing!"

"Wake up! Although that thing looks like the Great Qian seal script, it only looks like it. Don't be fooled by its five characters; it might translate into more than a dozen characters."

"I disagree with that. The information density of Chinese characters is the highest in the world. Among the documents written by the United Nations in various languages, our Great Qian's documents are always the thinnest because they can express the most meaning with the fewest Chinese characters."

"It is indeed difficult to learn Chinese, but once you learn it, it is incredibly useful. Under normal circumstances, you only need to master 4000 commonly used characters to create new words, while English requires the constant creation of new words, resulting in a vocabulary that has now expanded to more than 200 million. Basically, if you look at a professional book from another major, you will find a bunch of technical terms that you will not recognize."

"Chinese technical terms can be quickly understood by breaking them down literally, such as quantum computing. But in English, you can only memorize technical terms by rote, such as photosynthesis."

Moreover, Chinese is highly efficient in terms of information processing, reducing computational complexity and requiring fewer tokens. This has led many Western AI systems to adopt Chinese as their internal logic language.

"So it's completely understandable why the Heavenly Palace uses ancient seal script, which is probably closer to our language family." "But without specific corresponding characters, it's very difficult to decipher. At present, we only know the two characters 【夺天】."

"It's a pity that Qi Shen died young. Otherwise, even if he didn't go out to explore, he could have gained a huge following just by teaching text through live streams every day."

"I believe in God Qi! God Qi will definitely not die so easily!"

"Don't mythologize individuals. Even if Qi Shen's combat power is far above that of ordinary people and he has cultivated all sorts of messy martial arts, he is still just a carbon-based life form. He has no chance of surviving such a huge crisis as the collapse of the sun."

"Although I also want Qi Shen to live, and want to see more of his live streams and his various adventures on the floating continent, this is just a beautiful wish. We have to accept the reality."

"Impossible! He must still be alive! He's performed so many miracles, how could he die so easily?"

"Forget it, look at the time. It's almost 11 p.m. and there's still no movement in the sky."

If Qi Shen were truly alive, he would have streamed live this afternoon. Even if he didn't stream it himself, there would have been some secretly filmed live streams.

But there's no live stream now, and no paparazzi footage... let's just accept the facts as soon as possible.

"Although I've never liked Qi Xuan, I have to admit that he did make a significant contribution this time."

Without the footage he filmed before his death, we might never have understood why the suspended fog suddenly expanded or why land fragments suddenly fell down.

From this perspective, even if the country were to award him a first-class merit, I would wholeheartedly support it.

"Respect for the dead is paramount. Let's not criticize him today. It's really hard to get used to not being able to hear him babbling in heaven anymore."

……

When Qi Xuan was mentioned, netizens were all very saddened.

Whether it was the joy he brought, the unknown world he showed, or his ability to remotely defeat those haters and internet celebrities, all of these things are fondly remembered by netizens.

Everyone lamented his untimely death, but there was nothing they could do; they could only sigh that heaven was jealous of his talent.

If this is true for netizens, it is even more true for close friends and family.

Overwhelmed with grief, Qi's mother fainted and was taken to the hospital.

Qi's father stood in the hospital corridor, smoking one cigarette after another, his wrinkles deepening.

Xue Cheng went to bars to drown his sorrows, and after finishing one, he staggered to the next.

Ji Yuwei sat alone in the dark bedroom, hugging her knees, her gaze fixed on the night sky outside the window, lost in thought.

……

Just as countless people were reminiscing about Qi Xuan.

Just as countless people were feeling saddened by this.

The seemingly gloomy and dark night sky in the Eastern Hemisphere was suddenly illuminated by countless light screens.

(End of this chapter)