Eternal Night

Chapter 524 Detailing the Ultimate True Civilization Plan

(PS: These two chapters contain a lot of information, so I'll be updating them together. I'll probably resume three updates a day or two after tomorrow, and then in a few more days I'll resume at least two extra updates a week. Thank you all for your understanding and support these next few days. I'm almost back to full strength!!!)

"I still have about 90% of my existence left. I must reserve about 30% to send you to my civilization. The remaining existence can answer three to five questions for you, depending on the depth and breadth of information you ask."

Per looked at Wu Pifu and said, "So, what are the key questions you want to know?"

Wu Pifu knew that this was the real beginning. He didn't ask any questions, but instead said seriously, "It is only through reciprocity that virtue is achieved. Since you have given me and my civilization everything you have, what do you want?"

Per showed an appreciative expression, then paused and said, "Mutual help... that's the nice way to put it. The harsh way to put it is that if my civilization still exists, I beg you to help them, to give them reality, so that my people and civilization will not be wiped out. That's the only thing I want."

Wu Pifu did not answer or make any promises immediately. He thought for a long time before saying, "I dare not make any promises to you now. I need to observe your race and civilization before I can decide whether I can help you. However, I can promise some other things. For example, I will not abandon your race and civilization because of their predicament, no matter how dangerous it is. I will only consider whether to help them or... exterminate them based on their behavior, their way of doing things, and whether they are human beings."

He said this with complete composure, and the key point was that Wu Pifu acted with such confidence that it stunned Po for several seconds. Then he laughed and said, "That's right, that's exactly the point. When I left, my civilization still had morality and conscience. If even that's gone, then it's only right that all of this should vanish into thin air. I have no objection!"

Now that this consensus had been reached, it was Wu Pifu's turn to ask questions. However, Wu Pifu had too many questions, and they were too disorganized. The key was that he was the only one in this space, and he hadn't brought his external brain with him. For a moment, he was at a loss. So, after thinking for a while, he said, "I have too many questions, but I don't know how much existence energy these questions will consume from you. So, how about this: what do you want to tell me? What information do you think is very important and must be known to me and my civilization? I'll leave all of this to you to choose for me, how about that?"

Per looked at Wu Pifu with surprise, then fell into deep thought. After a few seconds, he smiled and said, "You're really bold. You're letting me choose for you with such a good opportunity? Aren't you afraid I'll mislead you?"

Wu Pifu shook his head silently, remaining silent.

Strangely enough, he couldn't sense Per's emotions when he was outside, but after coming here, he could vaguely sense Per's emotions, so he wasn't afraid that Per was deceiving him.

Per stared at Wu Pifu for a long while, then laughed and said, "If that's the case, then I'll do it for you... Your civilization is currently in a 1.0 absolute reality world, which means that you and your civilization are not lacking in reality, but rather have a large and abundant amount of reality. At the same time, you have a superbrain, which means that your civilization has at least several powerful beings who are as strong as you or even surpass you. So I believe you when you say that you are not the leader of your tribe. This situation is truly beyond my imagination. I even suspect that you are the legendary ultimate reality civilization..."

After a moment's thought, Per said to Wu Pifu, "I think I know what I should tell you. The first thing I need to tell you is the Ultimate True Civilization Project. This concerns the entire world's格局 (geju, overall situation/structure), the strength of various forces, factions, and so on..."

Wu Pifu pretended to listen attentively, and Per continued calmly, "The so-called Ultimate True Civilization Project is a multi-civilization joint project that began to be implemented a very, very long time ago. As far as my race's exploration knows, it is a project that began to be implemented at least fifty eras ago."

"To date, it is impossible to verify how many real eras there have been. There may be countless civilizations that have fallen to the bottom or been lost halfway. In the exploration of my civilization, I discovered that there was a time when the sources of pollution were not so rampant and crazy, and most of the sources also possessed a certain degree of rationality. They were not ignorant and chaotic monsters. And the area below the source layer is not a place of complete despair."

"At that time, many powerful civilizations with roots united and implemented various plans. Some formed an alliance to explore areas deeper than the Zero-One World, some powerful roots searched for traces of lost civilizations and lost roots, and some captured powerful nightmares everywhere to modify them... In short, for a long time, roots did not mean monsters that caused despair, and civilizations existed below the root layer as well."

"Among these countless plans, there is one called the Ultimate True Civilization Project. Its core is to create a true civilization that can rival the source of pollution. After all, reality and illusion are the two poles of the world, and logically they can rival each other. Even if the illusion undergoes a drastic change and a source of pollution appears, the reality side may also undergo a drastic change and a similar source of reality may appear. This is the core of the plan."

Hearing this, Wu Pifu couldn't help but ask, "But how can this be done? Has there ever been a similar civilization throughout so many eras? I'm afraid not, otherwise the source of pollution would have been solved long ago, wouldn't it?"

Per nodded in agreement, saying, "Yes, my civilization and I thought so too at first. However, this plan is just one of countless plans within this powerful alliance. Its principle is to filter civilizations in the real world through countless iterations, and then, before they are targeted by the source of pollution, to spread a large amount of information about powerful sources and powerful civilizations to them, so that they have a certain degree of resistance to pollution from the beginning, and that their main race can cultivate multiple extraordinary paths..."

Wu Pifu couldn't help but interrupt Per again, saying, "But how is that possible? Before being targeted by the source of pollution, the dream world hadn't even appeared yet. The entire world didn't have any extraordinary power. The real civilization itself existed independently. Those roots couldn't possibly have spread information to the real civilization!" Per was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head solemnly, saying, "No, they could do it, at least partially. Under the combined power of a large number of powerful and ancient roots, they continuously spread the information of their respective civilizations and roots to the infinite real side. Without spreading it for the purpose of pollution and absorption, and while they also consumed a huge amount of reality, they redefined the real world, spreading their information as the underlying logic of the real world. As time went on, the entire real world changed... Three changes indicate that the final real civilization project really had an impact."

"The first change is that the real world is gradually shifting from a multi-form to a macrocosmic form... Long ago, when real civilizations were at the level of absolute reality, their universes were all different, including mountain-like structures, tree-like structures, network structures, multi-void structures, crystal wall systems, multi-level ascension structures, or even super-large planar world structures, and so on."

"However, with the implementation of the Ultimate True Civilization Project, the Absolute Truth Layer gradually became a simpler, more cosmic structure, namely stars, star systems, and multiple galaxies. At the same time, trillions of life-bearing planets could appear at once within this cosmic structure. Of these, one in ten thousand would give birth to intelligent life, one in ten thousand would evolve into a civilization, and one in ten thousand would evolve that civilization to a higher level... After countless iterations like this, in each era, there would be one civilization that was most infected by information that would survive alone, and then be targeted by the source of pollution, and ultimately fall as the true civilization of that era."

At this point, Per paused again before saying, "My civilization is a real civilization born in the grand universe, and through our exploration, tracing back from the era in which my civilization originated, there have been at least ten consecutive eras that were civilizations in the grand universe."

"The second change is the humanization of human form... Similarly, long ago, the true civilizations of various eras were not all in the form we are in now. Among the more famous ones are the demon race, the Buddhist race, the old and new angel races, the demon race, the Titan race... and so on. They were not in human form. However, with the implementation of the final true civilization plan and the iteration of eras, more and more true civilizations are approaching the human form, and this is especially true for later civilizations. According to my civilization's records, tracing back ten eras from my civilization's era, the main body of all true civilizations was human."

Upon hearing this, Wu Pifu was dumbfounded and also believed what Per said, because the alchemical civilization was also in human form, and when the alchemical civilization was at the level of the absolute real world, it was also a worldview of the universe.

Per continued, "The third change is that the further into the later the era, the more abundant the information about those ancient civilizations and their ancient origins becomes... Let me take my civilization as an example. My civilization has had myths, legends, religious stories, folk tales, and urban legends since ancient times, including gods, immortals, Buddhas, demons, monsters, and so on. When my civilization fell to a lower level, the ancient civilizations and powerful origins that I came into contact with and explored were almost like a reappearance of those myths and monsters!"

Wu Pifu narrowed his eyes.

This has always been his question. Back in the 0.9 world, he knew of the existence of the Eternal Mother, and he also learned that this terrifying being in the 0.2 dream world was actually Guanyin from mythology. The more he came into contact with the dream world, the stronger that ambiguous feeling became. The Seven Deadly Sins, the Buddhist Realm, the Heavenly Court, Western fantasy, Eastern fantasy, elves, dwarves, goblins, demons, monsters, dragons, magic, alchemy, curses... it was as if those myths and legends were being reenacted.

Only at this moment did he learn the reason from Per... All of this was due to the persistent manipulation of true information by those ancient civilizations and ancient origins. The birth of humanity, no, it should be Gaia humanity, was due to a plan, an experiment, by these countless ancient civilizations and ancient origins!

Per lowered his head slightly and said, "The reason I suspect that your civilization is the Ultimate True Civilization is because of the final result of the Ultimate True Civilization Project... A civilization that is still at the Absolute Truth level can give birth to almost all extraordinary paths, uncontaminated extraordinary paths... The superbrain in your civilization!"

Wu Pifu opened his mouth, but Per immediately interrupted him, saying, "Putting everything else aside, just look at your description of the unchanging past and the invincible present special superbrain. Do you really think this conforms to the absolute laws of physics? The unchanging past is just a powerful extraordinary path of causality, isn't it? And the invincibility of the present is just a powerful extraordinary path of spacetime, isn't it?! As for the infinite future you mentioned... that's an even more super extraordinary power that combines prophecy, fate, spacetime, causality, logic, and other extraordinary paths!"

"So...don't you really think that your civilization might be the ultimate, true civilization?!"

Wu Pifu remained silent for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "I don't know how to refute you, but regardless of whether it is true or not, Gaia humans are Gaia humans. I, and my civilization, just want to survive, it's that simple."

Perl laughed with admiration, and after a long while, he shook his head and said, "I haven't finished telling you all the information I have, nor have I finished introducing the contents of the Ultimate True Civilization Project. Now I'm going to tell you about the negative effects and harms of the Ultimate True Civilization Project..."

"As the Final True Civilization Project is implemented, the intervals between each era are getting shorter and shorter, the number of nightmares is increasing, the sources of pollution are becoming more active, and ancient civilizations and their roots are successively dormant, or becoming terrifying and grotesque, losing their rationality and intellect. At the same time... the most terrible thing has happened."

Per looked at Wu Pifu and said with extreme seriousness, "The source of pollution has shown a large number of different manifestations, including lost pollution..."

"This is merely one of the least harmful manifestations!!"

(End of this chapter)