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In a daze, a non-existent "breeze" blew across the surface of the body, but was blocked by the thick active barrier on the body surface just before it was about to penetrate the body. However, the external "Imitation Asura" obviously did not receive such good treatment. But after a short second, the entire space-time warship with a mass of five million tons suddenly "shrank" by more than half. This was not only in terms of volume, but also in terms of weight—and even density.
It was through this situation that Lin Yi recognized the nature of the rule released by the "fragment".
"Molecular repulsion".
At the macroscopic level, the mass and volume of an object determine its density. However, from a microscopic perspective, the density of a substance is determined by its molecular weight and the gaps between molecules. This rule from the "fragments" intervenes in the density of the metal molecules that make up the Asura-like substance, striking directly at the microscopic level in a way that transcends common sense.
It's conceivable that if Lin Yi hadn't used the active barrier to block the attack, a large amount of the matter that constituted him would have been lost due to molecular repulsion. Even an activated metal with such astonishing density lost half of its matter; what about a living being?
Within 0.2 seconds, Lin Yi analyzed and connected the source of all the phenomena, and stepped back without hesitation.
(Now that we understand the rule of molecular repulsion, there must be another corresponding rule.)
[High molecular weight density field detected forming. Host, please take immediate evasive action!]
In the center of the "Asura-like" command center, a "black hole" with a radius of one micrometer quietly took shape.
Ragnarok: Chapter 443 Ragnarok (7)
Destruction is always easier than creation.
Against the silent backdrop of emptiness, the "imitation Asura," which had been activated and shaped over thirty seconds, completed the entire process of twisting, collapsing, and disappearing completely within three seconds, replaced by a black void at the center with a radius twice its original size.
Even though it is such a tiny object, it is still classified as one of the most dangerous natural objects in the world in the astronomical sense: a black hole.
Lin Yi only stopped slowly after he could no longer feel the powerful gravitational pull. Looking ahead, the warship that originally weighed millions of tons had vanished. The only remaining piece was a portion that Lin Yi had cut off when he separated from it. After the original "Imitation Asura" completely disappeared, this small piece of metal also lost its activity and became ordinary metal.
With his right index finger touching it, the "dead" metal was "resurrected" again. However, this time the remaining mass was significantly less than before. It was not only unable to reproduce a "replica Asura" level space battleship, but it could not even simulate a standard IS. Seeing this, Lin Yi simply let this small part of the activated metal stay a few centimeters behind him and began to construct a new power structure according to a blueprint provided by the main god.
While doing these things, Lin Yi did not relax his vigilance at all.
(Just as I expected, I've also grasped the rules of gravity, except for repulsion. Based on the generalized application of causality, it should be applicable even in different worlds.)
[The correct judgment is that the target possesses the ability to manipulate matter molecules at the microscopic level. This rule is widely applicable as long as the world at the 'molecule' level exists.]
The response from the Supreme God made Lin Yi's heart sink.
Lin Yi had encountered rule-based abilities before; in fact, compared to other systems, he had encountered the most rule-based abilities. Among them, the intricate and complex magic and spells in the magic world made a great contribution. So much so that after obtaining the "Eye of Root," Lin Yi spent a long time deciphering and reproducing these spells with traces of rules.
Putting everything else aside, the rule of "reversal of causality" can be reproduced using a relatively low-level Noble Phantasm in the magic world—the Piercing Thorn Spear. The problem is that this seemingly powerful rule can only be used within the magic world. In another world, it would either require spending a lot of time deciphering the rule again, or it would become a simple piercing attack. There is no third possibility.
But what about this "fragment" right now?
(...In the world I've encountered, it seems there isn't a world without the concept of "molecules," is there?)
[Correct judgment]
To put it simply, the key difference lies in their wide applicability.
One type of rule is a specific rule that can only exert its full effect in specific situations, under specific conditions, and against specific opponents. The other type of rule is a universal rule that can exert its full effect as long as the concept of "molecule" exists, regardless of the situation, conditions, or object. It is obvious which one is stronger.
After figuring out these unavoidable conditions, Lin Yi gave up the last thought of engaging in a decisive battle with his opponent in this place. Putting everything else aside, the three general rules that the place was displaying—causality, space, repulsion, and attraction—were enough to give Lin Yi a significant disadvantage. If the hidden tricks were to suddenly be unleashed, it would be absolutely disastrous.
(Leaving this place, and playing on away ground, the spatial blockade cannot be maintained for too long. It must either sacrifice breadth for length, or sacrifice length for breadth... There must be a focus.)
In the brief moment of thought, the enormous "Crimson Cube" had already crushed above, and at the same time, folded spaces of varying distances were also approaching from all around. Even though it knew that such actions would have no effect other than interference and would often result in massive losses, the "fragment" still did it without hesitation.
(Yes, it's just a bunch of numbers after all.)
The "fragments" may be insignificant, but Lin Yi, who is caught in the middle of it, has no choice but to respond.
Because of the spatial blockade, they could not use their expertise in warp to transfer or infiltrate, so they could only resort to what seemed like a relatively crude and inefficient method of direct destruction. Reaching out, they touched the side of a folded space, where a large amount of matter was being eroded by the spark source and was turning into a silvery-white metallic state. The once seamless barrier was now showing significant gaps.
After activating the metal in the gap, Lin Yi plunged into the folded space. However, instead of being greeted by flowers and wine, he was met with a barrage of active impacts that nearly overwhelmed his entire field of vision.
Two seconds later, crimson gravity particles emerged from the other side of the folded space, and a blurry silhouette trailing a blinding white light emerged from the opening, while the entire space behind it began to crumble in an unstable state...
But in those short two seconds, it was enough for the "fragment" to prepare for its third attack.
[High-density field approach detected, please evade immediately!]
Hearing the warning from the main god, Lin Yi showed no sign of stopping. Instead, he began to push the electromagnetic propulsion device on his back to increase his speed.
(direction!)
The current space is largely blocked, making it impossible to pinpoint the exact location.
—As expected, things went wrong.
Lin Yi, who was used to it, directly ignored the increasingly strong warning from the main god and changed direction in a near-vertical trajectory. Less than 0.1 seconds after completing this action, a "plane" of more than 10,000 square meters appeared in front of him. Because the obstruction was removed, it did not last long and disappeared without a trace after only a few seconds.
Although he had not personally come into contact with that "plane" and therefore could not analyze its properties and rules, Lin Yi had no intention of exploring it at all—at least not now.
Relying on "intuition" without even understanding the principles to evade attacks whose principles are equally unknown has its limits. As one of the eight subsystems that make up the entire electromagnetic propulsion device collapsed due to overload, Lin Yi, who was unable to dodge in time, was finally grazed by a "plane".
This time, the main god didn't fail again, and even provided the "answer" before Lin Yi asked the question.
[A highly dense molecular state, under high-speed operation, is judged to be capable of transforming into a strong gravitational field or a strong repulsive field.]
Lin Yi had just witnessed a miniature black hole with his own eyes, and was prepared to face it again, but what about the strong gravitational force?
Traces of similar doubts still lingered in my mind. From the moment my body, which was moving at 369 times the speed of sound, suddenly came to a standstill in front of the "plane," to the moment I was moving backward at 20 times the original speed, the whole process was already complete.
Ragnarok: Chapter 444 Ragnarok (8)
God is omnipotent, but God cannot create anything that He cannot lift.
In this paradoxical way, humanity has proven that God does not exist. Now, let's change the object of this paradox—can an object move faster than itself?
In most cases, this problem is not even worth considering. The preconditions for the problem, such as the velocity of the object, are not provided. How can we then calculate and compare these conditions to arrive at the answer?
However, the real answer exceeded everyone's expectations... including Lin Yi, who was once human.
An object can never move faster than itself.
After his body smashed through three space-time warships along the way and forcibly "dragged" the last one back several kilometers, Lin Yi, whose body was on the verge of collapse, came to this conclusion.
The starting point for this conclusion is that "plane" has transformed from a "highly dense molecular state" to a "strong repulsive force field".
Contrary to popular belief, the principle of the strong repulsive force from the "fragments" is not complicated; in some respects, it is even excessively simple. It operates under only one rule: mutual exclusion.
It's not a rebound, but a mutual exclusion.
Rebound is based on "contact". Only after contact can the same force be released at the point of application. However, mutual repulsion is a completely different concept. When you approach it at a certain speed, it will return the same amount of force to you. The closer you get to it, the more this force accumulates until you can no longer withstand the force and have to retreat.
Or, could you simply push your speed beyond the opponent's tolerance limit, thereby rendering the repulsive force ineffective?
It was this question that led Lin Yi to his conclusion.
An object cannot move faster than itself, and theoretically, breaking the 'mutually exclusive field' is not allowed unless it moves at a speed faster than itself.
The comparison of speed is based on two objects, either two completely different objects, or different conditions or time periods of the same object. However, under the same conditions and time periods, an object can never be faster than itself, because its speed is what it is. Moving at 1 m/s, you are moving at 1 m/s; moving at 10 m/s, you are moving at 10 m/s. It is impossible for you to move at 10.1 m/s while you are moving at 10 m/s. When you actually do that, the object of comparison becomes the one moving at 10.1 m/s.
(So, this rule isn't some random 'mutual exclusion' thing...)
Supporting himself as he climbed out of the dent at the bottom of the warship, Lin Yi gradually came to understand everything that had just happened after his mind returned to normal.
(The real name should be 'Paradox'.)
General rule: paradox.
Since an object cannot move faster than itself, Lin Yi, as an "object," is destined to be unable to move faster than itself. Thus, it can only be blocked on this side of the "stance" and is destined to be unable to break through the stance blockade in any way to reach the other side... No, if spatial warp could be used, it would be possible to bypass this paradoxical rule of "an object cannot move faster than itself" and reach the other side by warp. The problem is that this space was already blocked from the beginning.
"Causality, blockage, repulsion, gravity, paradox..."
Looking up, through the side of the warship with a huge tear in it, I could see countless shadows approaching.
Perhaps initially, the "Fragment" simply wanted to test the God Space. However, after discovering that the God Space was not as difficult to conquer as expected, it obviously changed its original plan and decided to eliminate the other "Fragment" holder from this world at all costs.
"Sometimes I really wonder, are you really on the same level as those 'fragments' that also come from an individual?"
The presence in his mind remained silent, and Lin Yi held no hope for it: "In terms of the completeness of the system, the Fire Source system is clearly superior, and in terms of planning and infiltration, the Immortal Execution Sword is probably no match for it... However, even they failed despite having an absolute advantage in intelligence, let alone you?"
Looking up at the void, surrounded by endless hostility, Lin Yi smiled: "Simply comparing the 'power' you possess, you should be the strongest of your kind that I've encountered. Even if I were to face you in my full strength, I would be destined to lose. Paradox—a rule that is not allowed to exist but does exist. Possessing this rule means you are destined to be invincible on the battlefield of rules. But who has ever said that the battlefield can only be held within 'rules'?"
Perhaps sensing the anomaly, the "fragment" suddenly intensified its spatial blockade of the void and the entire World Six behind the barrier. If before it was like pouring water in, now it was like mixing mud and sand into something.
Sensing this weight, Lin Yi's smile widened: "When you take the power of these rules for granted, have you forgotten something?"
As he said this, he tapped his head lightly with his fingertip: "These 'fragments' are not rules."
Just before the immense power known as "Rules" dissipated into countless molecular forms, the figure that should have disappeared along with it suddenly broke away—from this tightly sealed world.
Zero World.
When Lin Yi appeared in the vast underground laboratory, he, like the information body, felt that intense dizziness that he hadn't experienced in a long time.
"Forced relocation during a lockdown would have these negative consequences."
After recording this discovery, Lin Yi looked around at the scenery he hadn't seen in nearly ten years and remained silent for a moment: "...I never thought it would be used in this kind of place in the end."
Emergency evacuation mechanism.
Like the folded space, it is a protective mechanism under a special rule of the main god. In extremely dangerous situations, it can forcibly leave the world it is in and return to the origin world. When facing the "spiritual energy reversal", Lin Yi was so desperate to eliminate the other party. Part of the reason can be attributed to the fact that the other party's reversal was this "origin world" that he was forcibly leaving. Although it was later confirmed that this world was not his true origin, the coordinates of the forced departure were still fixed here.
Only three parties were aware of all of this.
The main god in his mind, the Immortal Execution Sword whose will had been erased, and Lin Yi himself.
It was precisely by taking advantage of this information asymmetry that Lin Yi successfully made the "fragment" mistakenly believe that World Six was its origin world, and that it would do anything to seal off and conquer that world, even if it exposed its biggest trump card, the "paradox rule," but then forcibly broke away just when everything was about to end.
Among the information contained in the "fragments," Lin Yi's origin world was World Six, so even a forced separation would be meaningless, but unexpectedly...
"Being homeless isn't all bad."
The coordinates leading to the origin world of "Fragments" are opened, and Lin Yi, holding the Zhuxian sword, steps into it.
Ragnarok: Chapter 445 Ragnarok (9)
Upon entering this world, Lin Yi witnessed the end of the world.
This is not an exaggerated embellishment, but a genuine apocalypse.
As the "fragments" transferred a large amount of power to World Six, the power that truly remained in this world of origin was not strong, at least compared to the power Lin Yi used to invade this world.
Of course, the "Fragment" had not been unaware of the possibility of the Origin World being attacked. It set up a temple with spatial sealing rules and twelve subordinate gods to guard against potential crises, at least to hold out for a while. However, it did not expect that the information entity would ultimately not choose to delay, but instead simply self-immolate...
It was this self-ignition that caused the "fragment" to lose its target at the last moment before it could find Lin Yi's main body. It had to spend a lot of time and energy on a wide-ranging search. After encountering the existence of the Time and Space Administration, it was unable to determine the other party's position. It then adopted a hostile stance and forcibly resisted. In the end, it was a desperate gamble, locking the entire World Six in that void, with the intention of shattering Lin Yi and that world itself.
“One wrong step leads to another. Our war is not actually that complicated. We can crush those we can with overwhelming force, and for those we can't, we can only resort to these ‘schemes and tricks’.”
At the edge of the sky, a huge, silvery-white star slowly descended, reflecting the devastated ruins left by the Reincarnators. To describe it as an "apocalypse" would be no exaggeration.
Standing beneath Cybertron, which had already fallen into most of this world, Lin Yi looked at the true location of the "fragment"—the great tree beneath his feet that supported countless worlds: "Thanks to the two I encountered before. Although they paid a heavy price, they taught me what the 'fragment war' is all about."
The earth beneath their feet trembled—not just the top-level divine realm, but also the middle-level human realm and the bottom-level underworld. Every world built on this "tree" was trembling. However, the "fragments" that projected most of their power onto the distant sixth world were still powerless and could only watch helplessly as the silver-white planet in the sky slowly sank... crushing each of the "leaves" that represented a landmass and overturning the "branches" that had evolved into small worlds, finally landing in the center of the "trunk".
The world collapsed under the impact of the planet, not because the world itself collapsed, but because the "trees" on which the world depended collapsed.
world Tree?
Lin Yi admitted that when he first saw the "fragment" in the residual viewpoint of the information body, he had this understanding, but after truly seeing its full picture, he directly overturned it.
Compared to the World Tree, a special species that can only support one world on its own, this third thing inhabited by the "fragment" should more accurately be called the "World-Tree".
The World Tree supports the existence of the world, but it can only survive within the world. In a sense, the World Tree and the world have a symbiotic relationship. The world may collapse without the World Tree, but it may also continue to exist. However, the World Tree will inevitably die if it does not have a place to reside in the world.
This is also the fundamental difference between "World Tree" and World Tree.
As the host of the "fragments", this tree does not support the existence of any world, nor does it need any world to exist independently. It simply uses itself as a fulcrum and its roots that spread endlessly into the void as a lever to draw "nutrients" from countless worlds, and then uses these "nutrients" to evolve and grow new "worlds" on its branches.
Therefore, it is not the World Tree. Rather, it is the "World-Tree," which created countless worlds and essentially opened up another world system outside the void world.
Each of its branches and leaves is a piece of land, where different civilizations have flourished.
Each of its branches is a new world, evolving into all sorts of different possibilities.
Its branches are the "void" itself, connecting every world and observing and governing every world.
It is a tree, but it is also the world.
Such a vast world system could not be destroyed by a mere "Cybertron". As dozens of "leaves" and three "branches" collapsed and fell, Cybertron, which fell to the middle of the "trunk", lost all its kinetic energy. Relying solely on the activated metal on it to destroy it, it would probably take several centuries to destroy this "world tree"...
At the top of the "World Tree," Lin Yi, looking down at the "big tree" below, frowned slightly.
From an ordinary person's perspective, it's impossible to see the whole picture of this "tree". Any leaf can make him lose his way. After all, in a material sense, its leaves are no different from a piece of land. But since the problem is the "tree" itself, you absolutely cannot be misled by these local things - how can you fight if you can't even see your enemy clearly?
Therefore, the prerequisite for defeating this "fragment" is being able to "see" it.
"Before the leap, I probably wouldn't even have been qualified to look at it?"
Bringing his wandering thoughts back, Lin Yi looked down at the large tree below, where a football-sized object was embedded in the "trunk," and calmly gave the command to the main god.