"Is it … an illusion?"
Li Yao mumbled to himself. "I feel that my capability is more than a hundred times higher in this virtual world, and my level is unbelievably high, too.
"I am a cloud in the sky, a blade of grass on the ground, a stream flowing in the mountains, and a butterfly dancing among the flowers. I can appear next to the people in thousands of towns at the same time and communicate with them in their dreams. As long as I have enough computational ability, I will be omnipresent and unstoppable!
"I am not transparent. Instead, I have been completely melted into this world. As long as I want to, nobody will be able to discover me. Even Fuxi cannot detect my existence.
"But I have mastered the fundamental laws of this world. As long as I want to, the sky and the earth will collapse for me, the lightning will dance around me, and everything in the world will shudder in fear under my fury. What is picking the stars and the moon? What is bringing the dead back to life? The thousands of mysterious techniques are nothing more than the flow and disturbance of data for me.
"What — what an amazing level this is! I feel like a real god!
"It is impossible for a Divinity Distinguishing Stage expert to achieve such a thing. This is the ultimate path that only those above the Void Refining Stage or the Dongxu Stage can appreciate!"
"It is not an illusion. In the past few days, we have figured out part of Fuxi's data model through Lu Qingchen's self-detonation and grasped some of the rules of the virtual world that he created. Naturally, we can change or even destroy this place easily," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "If the thought center of Fuxi is a virtual world, this place will be a virtual world within a virtual world. Such a 'world within a world' has a very low dimension. We are essentially a high-dimensional life that has invaded this place. We are the real deities!
"Well …"
Deep in thought, Li Yao perceived the mountains, rivers, flowers, grasses, and other creatures in this world with his heart, as well as the complicated, vigorous, and automatically deduced and upgraded data hidden behind everything.
With a thought, he slightly modified the environmental data. The originally clear sky with blue skies and white clouds immediately rumbled with thunder. Large amounts of dark clouds gathered, as if ten thousand horses were galloping, shaking the heavens and earth.
"The higher the dimension of a world, the higher the degree of realism, and the harder it is to control and surpass its laws. The lower the dimension of a world, the lower the degree of realism, and the higher the degree of realism, the simpler the laws, and the easier it is to invade and control them. Then, one can do whatever they want in that world, just like a God or Demon."
The mental devil went on with its explanation. "For a loser who is absolutely useless in the real world, as long as he starts a virtual game, he can still summon the wind and summon the rain in the game and grasp all kinds of unbelievable techniques.
"If the background characters and the 'non-player characters' in the game have self-awareness and feelings, wouldn't they consider the losers in reality as deities or invaders from the high-dimensional universe?
"Therefore, we have just touched the edge of the Divinity Branching Stage in the real world, but in this' world within a world 'that is highly simulated, we can boast the strength to destroy or create a new world. We are strong enough to compete with Fuxi at a certain point in time and on a certain level!"
"How can a virtual game character boast self-awareness?"
Li Yao asked.
"Then, in your opinion, do the people living in the virtual world that Fuxi created boast self-awareness and count as' human beings'?"
The mental devil asked back. Without waiting for Li Yao's reply, it simply went on. "I don't know whether or not they have self-awareness, and whether or not they can be counted as human beings, but I'm certain that they do have feelings. They feel fear, they feel pain, and they feel joy and happiness. If you unleash lightning and fire, destroy the world, and slaughter countless' virtual people ', you will certainly hear their cries and desperate roars.
"You can consider everything to be fake and made by Fuxi with data, but what is' real 'exactly? Are the human beings made of data necessarily lower and more unreal than the human beings made of cells? Are their pain and desperation not real pain and desperation, and are their happiness and happiness worthless? "
"I — I don't know."
Li Yao was somewhat in a trance. "To be honest, what is real and what is false? What is high-dimensional and what is low-dimensional? I'm confused again. It happens every time. Every time I think that I've found the ultimate 'real', I often see greater and deeper falsehood behind the real. It's so difficult to see through falsehood!"
"Perhaps, truth and falsehood are not absolute concepts but relative concepts. There is no absolute truth and falsehood. There is only the difference between 'relatively real' and 'relatively fake'."
The mental devil pondered for a moment and said, "Take the virtual world that we are in right now, which is made of data in the crystal processors, for example. It has a relatively low dimension, which means that it is' relatively fake ', but it does not mean that it does not have a real side.
"The so-called real world that we are talking about is nothing more than the glue of electrons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, and all kinds of forces. As intelligent lives living in it, we naturally believe that it is real, unbreakable, and unchangeable. But if there is a certain intelligent life in four dimensions who can change the fundamental laws of our universe at will, is it qualified to consider our three-dimensional universe to be fake, too? Is it just a joke, a game, or even a lousy novel?
"However, the intelligent life in four dimensions need not be happy yet. Since the people in the virtual world can still establish their own virtual world, there must be universes of higher dimensions beyond the high-dimensional universe. Reality and falsehood are like two ends of an infinitely extending path. Reality has no end, and falsehood has no end. Nobody is qualified to say that they are absolutely real. Everybody has to train themselves to reach a higher level of reality. Even so, we will never reach our destination. We can only run as fast as we can."
"…"
Li Yao was silent. His soul was reflected in the lightning and thunder in the sky like subtle ripples.
"You know what I mean, don't you?"
The mental devil asked.
"Of course. I know what you mean."
Li Yao said, "I've been thinking about the analogy you made just now. The loser who is absolutely useless in the real world is dominating and destroying the world like a deity in the virtual world."
"Is there anything wrong with the analogy?"
The mental devil was slightly dazed.
"There's nothing wrong with it. If anything, it is very appropriate. It even reveals a certain … truth of the multiverse."
Li Yao mumbled. His nonexistent brain vaguely hurt again. In the extreme agony, more hot streams of data and information were spurting out, making the ripples of his soul brighter and brighter. Infinite enlightenment illuminated his belief like a bolt of lightning in the sky.
"Assuming that you are right, the more virtual a world is, the more 'unreal' it is, and the simpler the fundamental law is, the easier it is to be broken. Therefore, it is easier for the ever-changing techniques, colorful spells, and even the bizarre, inexplicable 'magic' to emerge. Not just the invaders of the high-dimensional universe, even the natives of this world are likely to break the rules and grasp the techniques, spells, and 'magic'."
Li Yao said, "For a certain world or universe, the more 'real' it is, the more complicated and solid the fundamental laws will be, and the less likely it will be to be broken through. The fewer invaders of the universe from higher dimensions and the natives who have awakened their techniques will be, and the less likely it will be that there will be spells, weapons, 'magic', 'fighting aura', and so on. At first glance, the world or universe will appear more ordinary, won't it?"
"Theoretically speaking, yes."
The mental devil thought for a moment and said, "For example, the lower the difficulty of a game, the more virtual it is, and the more spells and skills the players will be able to use. The higher the difficulty, the more real it will be. Naturally, the players will not be able to 'break the rules'. So?"
"So, what is' Earth 'exactly?"
Li Yao said, "We thought that the so-called 'secret arts of the Cultivators' were closely related to 'spiritual energy' and that only a world with intense spiritual energy could perform spells freely. Earth, on the other hand, is a place where spiritual energy has run dry. That's why there are no supernatural phenomena, secret arts, magic, or fighting aura on Earth.
"But it doesn't make sense.
"If Earth does not have spiritual energy and is just a plain pebble in the sea of stars or the multiverse, how can it be the center of the Flood? How can it trap billions of experts and make their souls mired in an endless loop?
"Therefore, can you explain it according to your theory of 'reality'? Earth is actually a high-dimensional universe, or even a 'high-high-dimensional universe', which is countless times higher than the dimensions of the worlds in the forty thousand years of Cultivation. Perhaps, it is also countless times higher than the dimensions of most of the multiverse such as the magical universes. It means that Earth is more 'real', and its fundamental law is more solid and harder to be broken. It is like an indestructible cage!
"It is not that the earthlings are incapable of performing techniques or spells. They simply cannot perform them on Earth. Once they enter the low-dimensional universes such as the Pangu universe, the magical universe, and so on, they will immediately gain the advantage of 'dimensionality reduction' and become the center of the low-dimensional universe. They will be blessed by thousands of fortunes, adored by countless girls, and experienced all kinds of soul-stirring adventures. They will become unparalleled legends, just like me!"
"…"
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