Wizard: I have ten trillion nanomachines

Deep within the divine canopy, Miss's will abruptly halted amidst the torrent of data. The string of numbers that had just passed by sank like a boulder into an abyss, with no further data feedback.

The location disappeared, the source energy fluctuations vanished, and even the faint imprint of the divine domain's rules disappeared without a trace in space and time, as if the professional had never existed in this game.

A barely perceptible sense of surprise rippled from the ocean of divinity. Miss's consciousness retraced its steps for a moment, retrieving a snapshot of the last instant in that region's spacetime.

On the battlefield, the source light spots slowly dissipated, except for one spacetime fold that was fainter than usual, so faint that it almost blended into the background rules of the divine realm, without any trace of external tearing, and it was not the loophole jump method commonly used by survivors.

"Hidden within a vulnerability?"

The icy will swept across the entire area's network of rules, thoroughly examining the physical judgments, source energy traction, and level shackles of the divine realm, yet found no trace of abnormal alteration.

The disappearance of that figure was like a drop of water returning to the sea; it dissolved naturally along the gaps in the rules, rather than being forcibly broken through.

Mis marked the string of numbers as unknown and out of contact, but did not immediately investigate further.

Since the birth of the Divine Realm, there have been occasional instances where samples that have reached the level cap have lost contact due to the leakage of source matter or self-disintegration. To him, this figure is just an ordinary one among thousands of high-value samples, far less important than those loopholes.

Not to mention, there is a 90% chance that this abnormal individual is related to those viruses and is their isotope.

Therefore, Mis did not delve into the matter. He merely made minor adjustments to the monitoring rules of the area before shifting his attention back to the more "threatening" targets. The last vestige of doubt in his heart was also diluted by the stagnant divine barrier within him.

At this moment, in that faint, almost invisible fold of spacetime in the battlefield of the divine realm, Luo Kunlun's consciousness was enveloping that body and transferring it.

The nascent divine essence within the body has condensed into a light core the size of a fingertip, suspended in the center of the Sea of ​​Origin. The surrounding fragments of Origin are merging into it at a steady rate. The originally rigid energy layer has been completely broken, transforming into an orderly flow ring rotating around the light core.

After leaving the divine realm, the spacetime bubble unfolded, enveloping the body that carried the nascent form of divinity.

Inside the bubble, the Sea of ​​Origin Matter continued to converge toward the Divine Light Core. The presence of that light grew increasingly profound, even beginning to subtly draw in the presence of the countless other beings that Luo Kunlun gathered outside the bubble. The fusion of the two further accelerated the growth of the divine nature.

In a short while, the game character that Luo Kunlun had created collapsed inward into that point of pure divinity.

Later, in order to study this more thoroughly, Luo Kunlun stored it in his soul space.

But the instant one enters the soul space, from that point of divinity, wisps of memory emerge and transform into an abstract stream of data.

Is this a "memory" originating from this divine aspect?

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The Mother River is the collection of information about all dimensions, time, space, laws, and existence; it is the source and carrier of all worlds.

It has no concrete form; it is not flowing water, not a galaxy, not any "thing" that can be understood by life.

The birth and annihilation of a grain of dust.

The burning and annihilation of a star.

The rise and fall of a civilization.

A ripple from a dimensional collapse.

The birth and revision of a law.

All things known, unknown, to be known, and forever unknowable are settled, flowed, and intertwined in this boundless sea of ​​information.

The Mother River is neither a thing, nor a force, nor a field.

It is the unity of "recorder" and "carrier", the foundation of the existence of all things, and proof of the eternal flow of information.

But where does the Mother River come from?

Fragments of divine memory provide the answer.

The primordial universe.

The primordial universe is not a single universe, nor is it a product of any particular dimension, spacetime, or level.

It is everything itself.

There is no distinction between "internal" and "external" because the concept of "distinction" has not yet been born.

It lacks a measure of "big" and "small" because the law of "measurement" does not yet exist.

It has no past, present, or future flow, because time itself is curled up on a certain "side" of the primordial universe, not yet unfolded into a linear river.

In the primordial universe, existence and non-existence intermingled.

Everything that can be imagined to "exist" is but a tiny speck of dust in the infinite possibilities of the primordial universe.

As for "non-existence," those things that have not yet been born, will never be born, and are logically impossible to exist, they also have their "place" in the primordial universe. Rather than saying they "do not exist," it is more accurate to say they are "existences that have not yet been expressed."

Laws and chaos permeate each other.

Any law, rule, or principle is just one of countless possible expressions in the primordial universe.

There, the speed of light can be easily surpassed, cause and effect can be reversed, and one plus one may not equal two.

It's not because it's "wrong," but because the relationship of "equal to two" is just one of an infinite number of mathematical structures.

There are no boundaries between the known and the unknown. For lower-dimensional life, the "unknown" means unexplored territory.

But in the primordial universe, the "unknown" itself was an observable and manipulable "entity".

The unknown is not a lack of knowledge, but rather another form of existence.

Dimensions are meaningless here.

The primordial universe can be imagined as a superstructure with infinite dimensions, but the concept of "dimension" is still too small and too limited.

The primordial universe contained all possible dimensional configurations, including "states" before dimensions were born, and "forms" that transcended all mathematical descriptions.

It is the sum total of everything.

It is the common source of all things in the infinite.

Within the primordial universe, countless individuals were born during an immeasurable evolutionary process.

These individuals are born powerful and continue to grow, collide, merge, and transcend in the primordial universe.

Their development reached an incredible level:

It is possible to create a complete universe structure containing infinite dimensions and infinite timelines at will.

It is possible to directly modify the underlying laws, just like programming, to write the existence attributes of something and then "compile" it into reality.

It can even redefine the logical foundation.

As individual development reached its extreme, a certain "saturation state" gradually formed within the primordial universe.

All possible expressions have been pushed to their limits.

All individuals have reached the growth limit within the "primordial universe".

To go further, one must break through the primordial universe itself.

But the primordial universe is "everything" itself, so what does breaking through it mean?

Individuals began to explore this ultimate question and made attempts.

These attempts triggered a series of disturbances.

These disturbances were originally just normal fluctuations within the primordial universe, but some of them seem to have attracted attention from the outside.

The information about the outside world in the fragments of divine memory is extremely vague, fragmented, and full of contradictions.

It seems that even individuals in the primordial universe cannot fully comprehend the nature of "outsiders".

The primordial universe is "everything" itself.

This means that, by definition, there should be nothing "outside the primordial universe".

But the existence of "outsiders" completely overturned this definition.

They come from "outside of everything".

This "outside" is not the outside in a spatial sense, not the upper level in a dimensional sense, and not before or after in a temporal sense.

Rather, it is a kind of "non-original" in an absolute sense.

It is not part of the primordial universe, it is not an existence that can be encompassed by the possibilities of the primordial universe, and it is not an entity that can be described by any primordial law.

Existence itself is a denial of the primordial universe.

The process by which outsiders "enter" the primordial universe cannot be described by any logic.

It's not about "crossing the boundary"—because the primordial universe had no boundaries.

It is not an "arrival"—because the primordial universe had no beginning or end.

It is not "manifestation"—because the primordial universe already contained all possible manifestations.

Their existence "suddenly became a reality".

It's like a complete painting suddenly having an extra stroke of "color" that doesn't belong to the painter, the paint, or the canvas itself.

This color wasn't "added" to the painting; it was already there, you just hadn't seen it before.

But the original artist knew perfectly well that this stroke did not exist before.

Because the laws of the primordial universe cannot apply to outsiders.

Time cannot affect them, space cannot contain them, causality cannot connect them, and logic cannot describe them.

The fragments of divine memory vaguely indicate that there are three different outsiders.

They are different from each other, but they all share the same "externality".

After entering the primordial universe, they began to observe.

This kind of observation is not perceived with the eyes or consciousness, but a more fundamental "contact".

The outsider "observed" immeasurable primordial time in the primordial universe.

During this time, the individuals in the primordial universe attempted to communicate, make contact, understand, and even confront the outsiders.

But all attempts ended in failure.

Just as powerful entities don't care about individuals they consider NPCs, outsiders don't care about them either.

Then, the primordial universe shattered.

Then came the final "explosion".

This is neither an energy explosion nor a matter explosion.

It is an explosion of "existence itself".

All remaining dimensional structures were completely pulverized.

All remaining systems of laws were completely dismantled.

All information that has not yet been lost has been completely released.

All individuals who were still struggling were completely annihilated.

Then, existence was redefined, the seeds of new laws were sown, information flow began to form, and time and space were rewoven.

This explosion opened up new possibilities in the "remains" of the primordial universe.

At the moment the primordial universe shattered, countless fragments carrying different information scattered, collided, and merged in all directions.

Those relatively intact primordial fragments, carrying a massive amount of fundamental laws and spacetime information, condensed into star realms over a long period of evolution.

The fragmented information and dust that spewed out after the primordial universe shattered wove together to form the Mother River.

As for divinity, it originates from powerful entities in the primordial universe.

Almost all the individuals in the primordial universe were annihilated in this catastrophe.

Only a very few of the most powerful individuals left behind fragments before their annihilation.

These core fragments, carrying parts of an individual's essence, memories, and power, shattered and scattered, eventually becoming pure primordial fragments that dispersed between the astral plane and the Mother River. This is the true source of the primordial substance.

They carry the imprint of the original rules, the essence of existence, and memories; they are the legacy of the primordial universe.

Within Luo Kunlun's soul space, wisps of data continued to emanate from the divine light core. His consciousness was immersed in them, tracing back through these fragmented memories, as if he had glimpsed the moment when the primordial universe shattered.

It was a geometric paradoxical object whose tip emitted ripples of increasing entropy.

After that, everything disappeared.

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The fragments of divine memory had settled completely in his consciousness.

Luo Kunlun "saw" the ultimate glory of the primordial universe, and also "saw" the absolute terror of the outsiders.

At the same time, he also realized several key facts:

The Mother River is not a natural product: its formation process stems from the influence of outsiders.

The source matter and divinity originate from the most powerful forces in the primordial universe, and they will absolutely try as long as there is any possibility of existence.

They may have simply transformed their form of existence and remain lurking in some level of the Mother River or the Star Realm.

There was a reason why the primordial universe was destroyed by outsiders.

In addition to that, there is another problem.

"Why...how do I know these things?"

After the fragments of divine memory settled in his consciousness, Luo Kunlun "saw" the ultimate glory of the primordial universe, and also "saw" the absolute terror of the outsiders.

Those are beings that even the strongest beings of the primordial era dare not easily covet; the slightest thought will be detected, let alone touching upon memories related to them.

But he not only glimpsed it, but also received such a complete account of the beginning and end of the primordial shattering, and even clearly perceived the three "non-primordial" figures, as well as the geometric paradox of the entropy-increasing ripples.

Why?

This question weighed heavily on his heart, causing him far more anxiety than reconstructing divinity or gaining insight into the origins of the Mother River.

Such powerful beings, let alone directly confront memories, would surely capture the thoughts of even lower-dimensional beings who merely conjure them up in their minds, bringing about their annihilation.

The fact that he could accept these fragments without any hindrance, and even revisit the original moment of shattering, could not possibly be a coincidence.