Myriad Paths

But...it's limited to light cones.

Yes, even with this kind of observation method, what can be detected is only the things within the light cone, because if you can receive 'light', it means that everything is still within the speed of light.

The light cone has not been broken, and everything that can be observed is just the 'observable universe', not the real universe itself.

The observable universe is an area where light cannot escape. For example, for the lives in Guixu, the entire Guixu is their 'observable universe', because when it exceeds the horizon of Guixu, light cannot escape. To escape, everything they can observe and interfere with will be forcefully repulsed in front of the visual interface, making them unable to see, interfere, or even imagine.

Although the universe itself is isotropic, they have no way to verify this. Even if they calculate the curvature of space-time on a large scale, it is difficult to really detect it.

Although the distance of tens of billions of light years is unimaginably large for these civilizations, it is still just the tip of the iceberg of the universe, and the universe is still expanding at an unbelievably fast speed, far beyond the speed of light. It's like it's in a surge stage all the time.

The so-called inflation refers to the expansion of the original volumeless singularity in the universe, from far smaller than the size of a proton to the size of a galaxy in an instant.

In less than 10^-33 seconds, the universe expanded 2^100 times, and it did not stop, but continued to expand. Now it is unknown how many billions of years have passed.

The space brought by eternal inflation constitutes the "being" in the current universe. You can imagine how vast the universe is, and if you only observe a small distance like the "observable universe", it is really difficult to say What a great supernatural power.

certainly……

This is true for the entire universe, but for mortals, the observable universe is already terrifyingly large.

It’s just that Li Qi is far from ordinary.

Facing Zhong Minglou's observation, Li Qi quietly distorted the speed of light.

Changing the speed of light is already familiar to Level 5. They often use this to rush on their way, but this time Li Qi did the opposite.

Li Qi suppressed the speed of light to three meters per hour, which was within such a small circle around him.

In other words, the observable universe has also become smaller, becoming a ball around it, the law of cause and effect is limited to three meters, and at the same time, not only light, but also everything has slowed down.

As the speed of light slows down, electricity and magnetism will also slow down, the force propagating through matter will also slow down, and even the transmission of gravitational waves will slow down.

This is the suppression of the limit of heaven. All matter, cause and effect, energy, and force will be restricted to this limit, so that even the composition of the matter itself will undergo huge changes.

For Zhong Minglou, his feeling was that everything in front of him had turned black.

The entire observable universe has shrunk to such a small circle around it. Although it is still expanding, in Zhong Minglou's eyes, he felt an unprecedented oppression.

For him, the observable universe has not actually become smaller.

Because after the speed of light is reduced, the materials that make up his body will inevitably become slower, and his thinking and consciousness will also slow down equally. Then the time and difficulty for him to process information will not change in any way.

So, as far as his physical sense is concerned, nothing has changed.

This is a manifestation of his inability to break through the law of cause and effect, cannot exceed the speed of light, and cannot break through the limits of heaven, so what nature can perceive must be limited.

This is what Li Qi wants to show him, and it is also Li Qi's way of trying to persuade Zhong Minglou.

Zhong Minglou still has a grudge against the war. To be honest, although the two are good friends, he must have concerns about Li Qi, who personally started the war, and the main war faction behind him.

This is not a personal grudge, but a simple 'different way'.

Yes, even if they are both witches, it is still possible for them to have "different ways". For example, right now, Zhong Minglou is not worried because of his personal grudge with Li Qi, but because he is worried that if he helps, the war will end. The outburst becomes more intense, what should we do? And what if it affects his teacher, and even other living beings, including countless lives in the ordinary world?

Is his friendship with Li Qi comparable to the sacrifices of these creatures?

You know, even on the fifth-grade battlefield, every war has tens of billions of casualties. The scale of this war is really too great. In the eyes of Zhong Minglou, all these casualties, their The 'feelings' are actually similar to one's own.

Even if I am saddened by Miss Lan's death, then...how do those people feel when their civilization collapses, the world they know is completely destroyed, and their relatives and friends die in the war?

Li Qi's way is very clear. His attitude towards these people is to "let it go". As long as it does not affect the "balance of the overall situation", then Li Qi actually doesn't care much about them. Li Qi is neither good nor evil. This is also witchcraft. Among the sects with more people, it can be said that quite a few witches have this attitude.

They regard themselves as part of nature and regard the changes in nature as normal. As long as nature itself is still balanced, individual injuries are not important.

To put it in simpler terms, they value ‘the people’ but not ‘a certain people’.

They care about the whole, but don't care much about individual joys and sorrows. They believe that individuals should be responsible for individual joys and sorrows. Li Qi is responsible for Li Qi's own affairs, and passers-by of the ninth grade should also be responsible for their own affairs.

In this way, the balance of the whole is controlled, and as for the individual, that is what 'should be'.

But Zhong Minglou doesn’t think so. Although they have no differences in the core ideas of ‘Woodcraft’, they can still be regarded as fellow practitioners, but their attitudes towards individuals are different.

Zhong Minglou obviously feels that the strong should bear the responsibility to the weak. This responsibility is not unlimited, but it should be 'don't let others bear the responsibility for what the strong does'.

For example, wars are obviously caused by the strong, and they should be fully responsible. But in fact, the strong are fighting and watching the excitement, but the death rate is much lower than that of the weak.

Regarding this situation, some wizards, including Li Qi, believe that the weak must be responsible for their own safety.

But there are also many shamans who hold another view. Wu jins like Zhong Minglou believe that because they are the ones who started the war, they have reason and responsibility to bear the sacrifices of these weak people. Instead of just saying "naturally" and walking away.

But all arguments must be based on one premise.

That is... death is serious, destruction is real, and everything experienced is certain.

But is it really so?

This made Zhong Minglou fall into deep thought.

Around him, due to his thinking and the slowdown of the speed of light, the observable universe shrinks, so that the concentrated starlight of the universe appears on him.

He seemed to be floating on the sea, and the sea was calm and calm. It happened to be a dark and quiet night, and the stars and the Milky Way were clearly reflected on the sea, making his body look like it was hanging in the starry sky. .

At the same time, a golden sun also rose behind him, which was when his Tao Yun began to show. This so-called 'sun' is the manifestation of his Tao Yun, which can reflect the world in the observable universe. everything.

The mysterious patterns of the observable universe are mapped in the Tao Yun, and they appear extremely strange in the starlight.

But Zhong Minglou didn't care about all this.

In fact, he was thinking about what Li Qi said, and at the same time, he also felt the special situation brought about by the shortening of the observable universe due to the extreme change of heaven's law.

Zhong Minglou thought in his mind - if death is just a game and everything experienced is a fantasy, then it is meaningless to argue about this kind of thing. In this case, war is just some kind of game and can be overturned at any time. Building Blocks.

Imagine a mortal who spent his whole life making meritorious deeds on the battlefield, conquering countless worlds, and finally achieved immortality. He spent tens of thousands of years becoming the leader of hundreds of millions of armies, and even becoming the lord of the world.

At this time, he suddenly discovered the truth of ‘reality’. How should he think about it?

Everything he has experienced is fake. His battles, his legends, and his life's achievements are just dreams that can be erased by a great being that cannot be recognized. It is not an exaggeration to call it a game.

Can he not collapse? Can he not doubt his own existence?

Just like the little heavenly master, his Taoist heart is as firm as him. After realizing his illusion, he couldn't hold back and almost fell into the trap of illusion.

How many people are there who can admit that they are illusory, that they suddenly popped up in the last second, that history is false, and that the world is also false?

Most people would just think it’s “bullshit”.

They firmly believe in their 'memories', their 'experiences', and think that they know for certain that the world is solid and can be a big ship that can carry them.

But actually, this world is not.

The solid foundation of this world is ‘the existence of the law of cause and effect’.

This is a world based on the law of cause and effect. The premise of the law of cause and effect is that the world is real. It is precisely because we think the world is real that we think the law of cause and effect is the real law of the real world.

All representations in our world are interdependent in regular connections, and this connection is determined innately. No representation can exist independently and freely. Each representation has its own sufficient reason for existence. As long as there is a cause, there will be a corresponding result. Everything changes for a reason. The law of cause and effect dominates the movement and changes of all objects in the real world and is the law of sufficient reason for change.

The object of the law of causality is the object of the real world. To be precise, it corresponds to the object of the real world: change.

All changes in the real world have reasons. Material objects such as mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars, tables and benches all change according to the law of cause and effect. That is to say, as long as the cause appears, the result will definitely follow.

Correspondingly, as long as there is a result, there must be a corresponding cause.

Things don't appear or disappear out of thin air.

One of the important expressions is the ‘speed of light’.

A person will die only if he is born first, and a tree will grow only if it is planted first. This is the manifestation of the law of cause and effect, and it is also the limit of the speed of light.

Objects with a speed greater than the speed of light will directly destroy the causal connection. If calculated based on the speed of light, the time coordinate difference will be less than zero, and a negative number will appear.

To give a simple example, if a person plants a tree, and when the tree grows at super-light speed, then because the relationship between speed and time is deep-seated, a clock-slowing effect will occur, which will cause the tree to grow slower. , in fact the seeds have not been planted yet.

The effect has already appeared, but the cause has not yet appeared.

In order to satisfy the law of causality, neither the speed between reference systems nor the speed of an object with respect to the reference system can be greater than the speed of light, otherwise the causal connection will be destroyed.

This is the limit of heaven, and it is also the prison that binds all things that do not have reality.

If you do not have reality, your existence depends on the law of cause and effect. There must be a 'reason' for your birth. If you do not have this 'reason', you will disappear.

This is also the realization principle of the "Existence Erasure" technique. As long as the reason for your existence is erased, such as killing your parents before you are born, then the foundation of your existence will disappear, and you will die.

When you have preliminary reality, reach the fourth level, can exist alone without relying on things other than yourself, and break the speed of light and the law of cause and effect, at this time, your existence only depends on yourself, and you are your own. 'because'.

At this time, you will realize how fragile the matter in the real world that exists based on cause and effect is.

At the same time, these substances themselves are just things that disappear with a wave of hands.

But it's not that extreme.

A book can indeed be burned directly.

But being able to burn it does not mean that you can write this book. Although you have the ability to create any book, just like people have the ability to create any book, it does not mean that people can really write a book. Good books come.

Therefore, the real world...or in other words, all the things created and written by Haotian are still very important to existences with reality, at least they do not have the ability to copy such a delicate world.

However, just because they won’t burn it and start over doesn’t mean they don’t want to change the plot of the book. It’s like readers who are eager to take the pen from the author’s hand and correct what they feel is wrong.

This book should not have this plot. It can be changed for the better, so I will change it.

So is this change of behavior a higher-level manifestation of the war at hand?

In Zhong Minglou's thinking organ, countless pieces of information were compiled to outline a real picture of the war for him.