Wizard: I have ten trillion nanomachines

"We observed that the 'Final Punishment' did not instantly cover the entire divine realm," said the ancient survivor who called himself Mu Yao, his voice hoarse like the sound of ancient wood being rubbed, carrying the vicissitudes of countless eras. "It is more like a 'rewind' at the level of rules."

"You can think of the Divine Realm as an ever-expanding bubble, or a self-evolving closed universe." Mu Yao raised his hand, and a faint light appeared at his fingertips. Within the light, a shrinking and expanding phantom could be vaguely seen, which was the microcosm of the Divine Realm. "Professionals, dungeons, and those heavenly worlds that were forcibly drawn in all exist within this bubble."

"The outer layer of the bubble is a fault zone of absolute nothingness, and beyond the nothingness zone lies your starting point, the heavens, which are a cluster of countless freely evolving worlds."

"When an era comes to an end, the expansion of this bubble will suddenly stop."

As they communicated, the bubbles in the phantom image froze, and then began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Then, the rewind will begin."

"Starting from the boundary of the void zone at the outermost edge of the bubble, existence itself will be erased layer by layer. Note that this is not destruction or annihilation, but a complete return to zero."

"The rules, matter, and energy that constitute the world will be silently erased, returning to the original blank."

"How long does this process of rolling back from the edge to the core of the divine realm take?"

"Based on the fragmented information our entire group pieced together from countless catastrophes, the entire recovery process took about a year," Mu Yao gave a precise answer. "This year is what we survivors call the 'Year of Fading'."

"In the fading years, the outer region will return to nothingness at a uniform rate. No force can stop it. Even mythical-level professionals will be wiped out once they are truly swept into the swirling tide."

"It's better; it will leave some traces, which means it's a special copy. That's probably where the initial vulnerability came from."

"As the reversal progresses inward, all sorts of terrible things will gradually appear in the areas within the divine realm, and even time will become chaotic."

"Survivors like us, if we want to escape the final punishment, must find loopholes like these before the Fading Year begins, and then hide in them." Mu Yao pointed around, a hint of relief flashing in his eyes. "These loopholes are tiny deviations that occur when the rules of the divine realm are operating; they are bugs in the program. They exist outside the rules and are the only refuge."

"But vulnerabilities are not always safe."

"The Divine Realm itself is like a living entity with self-repairing capabilities; it constantly repairs its own vulnerabilities."

"At the end of each era and the beginning of a new era, the fundamental rules of the divine realm will undergo subtle adjustments."

"The loopholes that were perfectly secure in the previous era may very well be patched up by the rules in the next era. Those survivors who hid in the old loopholes will be wiped out into nothingness along with the loopholes."

"Therefore, we survivors must constantly seek out new loopholes in the gaps between each era, or do everything in our power to reinforce the old loopholes that have not yet been filled."

"This is a never-ending escape. We never know where the loophole in the next era will appear."

"Covering up the 'other self' to steal the origin and transform divinity is one of the few ways we have found during our long escape to slowly increase our strength in order to protect ourselves."

A survivor standing beside Mu Yao added, his aura slightly weaker than Mu Yao's, but also carrying the weight of time, "Within the Divine Realm, there is an invisible ceiling to level advancement; the Mythical level is the end."

"There are countless 'other selves' on different timelines, those selves who have taken different paths."

"We can project our own id onto the 'other self' in other timelines, thus achieving coverage and integration."

"Once the overwrite is successful, the level possessed by the 'other self' on the other timeline will be stolen by the 'true self' and transformed into pure divinity. This divinity is different from the power granted by the rules of the divine realm; it belongs to us and is not limited by levels."

"During the coverage process, we usually design some scripts and provide some conveniences to accelerate the growth of another version of ourselves."

This is the truth behind Lin Chen's "rebirth" that Luo Kunlun saw earlier. What could be more motivating than revenge?

"But this method also comes with huge risks."

"The projection of consciousness across timelines will produce extremely faint fluctuations. These fluctuations are usually difficult to detect, but once we frequently overlay them, the fluctuations will accumulate and may be detected by the Lord of the Divine Realm. He sees us as a virus, and once we are locked on, what awaits us is annihilation without any suspense."

Upon hearing this, Luo Kunlun finally asked the most crucial question: "Lord of the Divine Realm, how much do you know about Him?"

A brief, oppressive silence fell over the hidden space. The survivors exchanged glances, their eyes filled with confusion and a deep-seated sense of powerlessness.

After a long silence, a professional named Aldrin finally spoke, his voice filled with despair: "We know almost nothing about Him."

"We have never truly 'seen' Him, and we cannot even imagine His form or power," Aldrin said slowly. "We have only experienced the 'End of Days,' which is a direct manifestation of His will, or rather, a cleansing program built into the vast game of God's Realm. Every time the end comes, it is He reaping the divinity accumulated over an entire era."

"In the past, many survivors tried to glimpse His existence," Mu Yao added. "He is an indescribable being from the heavens. He transformed the divine realm into a vast nursery, or rather, an experimental field."

We, the beings living within the divine realm—including professionals, dungeon monsters, and even the myriad worlds we've been drawn into—are all 'crops' cultivated by Him.

"And His purpose in nurturing us is, of course, for divinity."

"We suspect that divinity is not the end of primordial energy. It should be like a sequence that can continuously sublimate."

"Low-level divinity can converge into high-level divinity, and high-level divinity may even advance to an even higher level, until it touches that ultimate form that is beyond comprehension."

"The Lord of the Divine Realm is probably also pursuing this ultimate form."

"He continuously harvests divinity within the divine realm through the cycle of reincarnation in order to promote his own ascension. This is also why He continues to tirelessly promote reincarnation to this day; He has not yet obtained what he desires."

"And that is why we insist on covering the 'other self' and constantly accumulating divinity."

"Although the divinity gained in this way is small and slow, and although the level has an insurmountable upper limit, the divinity accumulated in this way is pure and belongs to us. Our own power and abilities can no longer be measured by the level of the divine realm."

Survival is the top priority.

But in the endless escape and hiding, there will always be some unwilling souls.

Among the survivors, a widespread idea is circulating.

They believed that as long as they could elevate their divinity to that so-called final state, they might be able to break free from the shackles of the divine realm and truly escape this prison.

Some even harbored a more insane idea—perhaps, when divinity is sublimated to its ultimate level, they could possess the power to oppose the Lord of the Divine Realm, and in turn, completely destroy the Divine Realm, ending this endless cycle of reincarnation.

But everyone knew that this was nothing more than a slim, almost impossible hope.

The fact that the Lord of the Divine Realm is still calmly driving the cycle of eras and calmly reaping divinity is enough to prove that the difficulty of this goal is comparable to ascending to heaven.

Even such a faint hope sustained the survivors, preventing them from going completely mad or fading away during the long and dark years of hiding.

Having hope is better than having none.

Even if this hope is as faint as a firefly in the darkness, it is enough to light their way forward.

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After learning everything the survivors knew, Luo Kunlun withdrew from the vulnerability space and even from the divine realm.

At the East City training ground, Lin Chen from this timeline, under the intervention of the God of Destruction Lin Chen, quickly forgot what had happened before, and everything was as if nothing had ever happened.

The memories of his past life were indeed real. The difference was that Lin Chen, the Destroyer, did not die from a backstab. Instead, he killed his opponent and became a mythical figure in the years that followed.

Meanwhile, Luo Kunlun was also undergoing self-transformation.

As a quantum being, his quantum-based abilities are all based on principles.

The quantum body, capable of recombining its own body, exists outside the realm of conventional matter and energy, existing in a quantum state. Quanta itself possesses uncertainty and reconfigurability, thus it can disregard physical damage and freely reassemble itself.

Planck time is the smallest unit of time on the quantum scale. Thought and perception are directly anchored to this scale, which leads to quantum reactions.

The direction of the collapse of quantum superposition states determines the course of reality. By manipulating the outcome of this collapse, reality can be modified, and the probability of events can be intervened to make things develop according to one's own will.

...

All of these abilities are predicated on the fact that Luo Kunlun transformed himself into a quantum being.

As an individual that is transformed into a quantum life form later in life, it will be affected by the interference of the timeline.

For example, the opportunity for transformation and the key life milestones before transformation are all causal chains within a single timeline.

Once the past timeline is interfered with, such as erasing the conditions for Lokunlun's transformation or changing the key choices before the transformation, his quantum existence will lose its anchor point, either being pulled back to his original ordinary life state or collapsing at the level of existence due to the paradox of cause and effect.

Therefore, having the ability to be immune to cause and effect is crucial.

Through his exploration of the divine realm, Luo Kunlun came up with a solution.

It actively reconstructs its quantum existence mode from a linear time "trajectory state" to a nonlinear spacetime "topological state".

Like frame skipping, it extracts itself from the timeline and transforms it into a "space-time topology node" that is not attached to any timeline.

This node has no past, present, or future sequence; all the "self" of all time phases collapses into an indivisible whole.

When external forces attempt to interfere with the past timeline, they are essentially modifying the "projection" within a linear spacetime, rather than the nodes themselves.

It's like drawing countless straight lines on a piece of paper that pass through the same point. Even if you erase any one of the lines, that point will still remain.

Having completed this form of transformation, its existence no longer requires the support of a causal chain, because the topological node itself is an "inherent property" of spacetime, rather than a "product" extended from a certain causal chain.

Thus, even if someone were to return to the moment before his transformation and completely erase the opportunity for him to become a quantum life form, it would only make it appear as if "he never existed" in that timeline, but it would not be able to shake that point that has already transcended all timelines.

In this way, one gains immunity to causal factors.

Doing so was naturally very difficult, but fortunately, after experiencing the Primordial Great World, Luo Kunlun was already a four-dimensional quantum being.

This allows him to avoid building a foundation from scratch and simply complete a transformation.

From a point that can run on the timeline to a point that stands outside of time.

After that, as a singularity, Lokunlun could have tried to bring together all his timelines and possibilities.

What kind of amazing existence will he be then?