Eternal Night

Chapter 652 Absolute and Relativity

(PS: Only two updates today. This chapter took me a lot of time, but I finally managed to perfectly describe the content of the outline. It was worth all the revisions I made.)
"The origin of the Time-Space Spirit Civilization has never been revealed to date."

"We still don't know the origin of our civilization, how it came from that destroyed, two-dimensional world to the real, illusory, multi-world system. The process in between remains unknown."

Wu Pifu asked curiously, "Then just go and take a look. The Time Wheel should have the ability to teleport to directional time coordinates, right? I don't have that authority, but I don't believe none of you have it either."

The numerous spacetime crystals remained silent, and the First One also remained silent. After a long while, the female voice said, "It's not what you think. Please listen to what the First One has to say."

The first person of the Time and Space Spirit said, "Wu Pifu, I know you are proud and arrogant, but your strength is amazing and you have your own destiny. You are truly an unprecedented genius of our Time and Space Spirit. So today I have come to explain things to you in person, so that you can avoid many taboos, and at the same time, I want you to understand the difficulties we have to do this for."

"As you said, we can indeed return to the original source through the Chrono Wheel, but we cannot return to that original source; it's impossible."

Wu Pifu was stunned for a moment, then tentatively asked, "XXX can do it, so XXX can't do it?"

The numerous spacetime crystals remained silent, clearly not understanding what Wu Pifu was referring to. The first one remained silent for a long time, obviously also not understanding what Wu Pifu was talking about, so he could only assume it was some kind of quirk of this prodigy. He ignored it and continued, "As a prodigy of my clan, you should know that whether it's an absolute spacetime view or a relative spacetime view, there is actually a core concept, namely, observer determinism. Any ambiguous spacetime structure, as long as it has not been definitively observed, can be considered to possess omnipotent properties, so..."

"Wait a moment."

Wu Pifu raised his hand and said, "I don't understand. Speak human language."

The first person fell silent, but a sublimated spirit of time and space couldn't help but say, "Hey, don't be so presumptuous! The First Person himself is explaining things to you, aren't you being too arrogant?!"

Wu Pifu frowned and stared at the spacetime crystal. At this moment, the female voice said, "Let's assume that the spacetime structure is just a simple linear sequence like ABCDE, that is, event A leads to event B, which leads to event C... From the upstream and downstream relationship in time, A to B to C... Can you understand my description?"

Wu Pifu nodded naturally, and the female voice seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as she said, "We all know you have other opportunities, but as a unique extraordinary path we take along the way, you still need to understand and become familiar with it... In short, let's assume that A and C are facts that have been confirmed through observation, but B has not been observed, and the result from A to C is huge, incredible, and even completely illogical. Then we can assume that this unobserved process of B has the property of universal bonding, which can make A and C completely logical, causal, and fate, no matter how incredible the changes in between are, the process is reasonable."

Hearing this, Wu Pifu roughly understood, but he still didn't quite get it, so he asked directly, "Then just go and see for yourself! What's so difficult about that? Since B perfectly matches the change from A to C, no matter how unbelievable it may seem, then go and see for yourself! Didn't you all say that you'd be sure once you saw it, and not sure if you didn't? So why don't you go and see?"

The first person immediately said, "This is what we are going to explain to you now... No, Wu Pifu, as the number one genius of the Time and Space Spirit, your extraordinary path is not the Brain Muscle Extraordinary Path, is it?! These are the most basic common sense of our race and civilization."

Wu Pifu naturally wouldn't say that he wasn't a Time-Space Spirit at all, but thanks to the powerful Deception Orb title, these Time-Space Spirit Ascension beings had absolutely no doubts. So the first one continued, "Now, don't say anything! Otherwise, I'll get really angry... Anyway, here are a few facts we need to tell you: First, the origin of our race and civilization is still uncertain, existing in a state of flux between existence and non-existence. Second, we haven't yet definitively created the Hyperdimensional Wheel, nor do we know how to create it. Third, although we have confirmed the existence of 'Time,' the root of the relative time-space concept, we still haven't found out who the root of the absolute time-space concept truly is."

Wu Pifu was even more puzzled. He couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "Leaving aside the first question for now, what do the second and third questions mean? 'We haven't definitively created the Time-Space Wheel yet, and we don't know how to create it,' but aren't we already using the Time-Space Wheel continuously? Also, isn't the root of the Absolute Time-Space Concept the one you, the First Person, sublimated into the root?"

The numerous spacetime crystals fell silent once again, but this time the reason for their silence was not because Wu Pifu's question was too absurd, but because he had truly touched on the core issue.

After a long pause, the female voice finally spoke: "This is what I just explained. We are currently at point A, and the absolute spacetime concept originated at point C, while the time-space wheel originated at point D. We still do not know the process of point B, how we should sublimate the absolute spacetime concept, and how we should create the time-space wheel."

The first person also said, "We, the Spirits of Time and Space, possess the ability to move on the time and space plane. I think you, having gone through two trial missions, should already know what this means, right? Apart from us, the Spirits of Time and Space, no other being can perform similar time and space penetration, not even the ultimate transcendent bodies, or even the origins above 0.1%. They would be annihilated by the infinite power of time and space!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Pifu's lips twitched, because he had truly experienced the horror of time travel firsthand. Each time, he felt like he was being turned into minced meat, and he vomited again and again.

But... isn't that a bit of an exaggeration? He's already traversed through several times, and to say that neither the sublimated form nor the root can...

Uh, wait a minute…

Wu Pifu glanced subconsciously at his title of "commoner," then fell into deep thought... If, just if, when he performed time-space travel, he was actually being continuously damaged by attacks from more than five steps away...

All of them suffered a 50% reduction due to multiple superpositions, and the reduction was also a real defense reduction, which still made him feel so bad that he wanted to die.

That's indeed a terrifying damage characteristic.

The numerous Spacetime Spirits, naturally unaware of Wu Pifu's thoughts, continued speaking: "This characteristic allows our race to gain a certain degree of perspective on the spacetime plane after reaching the level of an Ascended Being. At the same time, it allows for limited interference with the spacetime plane. The appearance of the Hyperspace Wheel occurred when I reached the critical point of Ascending from the mortal realm. Upon contact with the Hyperspace Wheel, I immediately learned its origin and function. It is the supreme masterpiece of our civilization and race, and a companion artifact to the root of the Absolute Spacetime View. It follows the Absolute Spacetime View and can penetrate the Absolute Spacetime plane. However, it has not yet been born, and we still do not know how to bring it into existence."

Wu Pifu nodded and said, "Then you should become the absolute source of spacetime. Once you become it, you'll probably know how to create it."

The first person remained silent for a long time before saying in a bitter tone, "The key to the problem is... we can't find the absolute source of spacetime."

Wu Pifu asked dumbfoundedly, "What do you mean? Didn't they all say before that you had ascended to the Root? What do you mean by 'can't find'?"

The first person said, "Theoretically speaking, only I am qualified to ascend to become the Root, and I have indeed decided to become the Absolute Root of Spacetime, even at the cost of sacrificing myself to save my civilization and race. But the key is... the Root I have become is called 'Time,' a result that has been confirmed and observed, while we cannot observe the location of the Root of Absolute Spacetime." "That's still a Root... wait a minute, you've confused me. Let me sort this out..."

Wu Pifu fell into deep thought, and after a long while, he exclaimed in surprise, "Wait a minute, you've become the root of the relative spacetime concept, 'Time'? Instead of the root of the absolute spacetime concept, 'Absolute'? No, you've betrayed us!?"

The numerous spacetime crystals remained silent, while Wu Pifu felt utterly absurd, as ridiculous as asking, "Why did His Majesty usurp the throne?"

As the first leader of the Time and Space Spirit Civilization, and as the strongest sublimated body under the absolute time and space concept, he ended up becoming the Root of Time, the eternal enemy of the absolute time and space concept, after becoming the Root of Time.
This is absolutely hilarious!

After a long silence, the first person said, "This is why I haven't ascended yet, and even suppressed my own impulse to ascend. In terms of time, I should have ascended 4.2 billion years ago, but I dared not... However, the traitors, those spacetime spirits who will follow me to the relative spacetime view in the future, are constantly destroying the cause of my suppression of ascension in the entire spacetime structure, trying to achieve the effect of my ascension into the root 'Time'. I have come frankly this time, and this is also the fact I want to tell you: my ascension is inevitable. Once I ascend, I will become the root 'Time'. However, the root 'Absolute' of the absolute spacetime view has not yet appeared. This may lead to the relative spacetime view achieving final victory, and also cause the foundation of our spacetime spirits' origin, the foundation of the birth of the trans-spacetime wheel, to all vanish. The result is..."

"Our Time-Space Spirit civilization never existed from the beginning; we were never even born!"

All of this was so absurd, yet Wu Pifu actually understood it, and at the same time, the voice of the main brain in his mind kept appearing.

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete, information on the dream world's spacetime structure is being supplemented."

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete, information on the dream world's spacetime structure is being supplemented."

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete, information on the dream world's spacetime structure is being supplemented."

……

It rang at least a dozen times in a row, and I have no idea what the hell the mainframe computer had completed.

Wu Pifu asked, "So you came to me today to tell me all this because you hope I won't betray you and switch sides to the concept of relative spacetime, right?"

The female voice immediately said, "It's not just because of that, but also because of your excellent performance in the second round of the test. You felt the feedback, right?"

Wu Pifu nodded; he had indeed felt the feedback from the Time-Space Wheel.

The first person said, "This feedback is only a part of the gains from the perfect spacetime loop you achieved. The vast majority of the gains have been integrated into the essence of the Hyperspace Wheel to enhance the foundation of our race... In fact, unlike the outside world's perception, the absolute spacetime concept can also change the past, but this change requires two cores."

"The first type is the perfect closed-loop quantity. When all the spirits of time and space, or even other races, achieve a perfect closed-loop time and space through the Hyper-Time Wheel, the perfect closed-loop will bring a vast amount of reality to the Hyper-Time Wheel. This is a reality at the time and space level, which can repair time and space paradoxes and time and space islands. We call this the perfect closed-loop quantity. This is also why our sublimation test is a perfect time and space closed loop. This will certainly lead to the sublimation body of our civilization being weaker, but it can greatly increase the racial foundation, and... save our civilization."

"As long as there is enough perfect closed loop quantity, we can observe the original origin of our race and fix it to absolute, so that even those traitors of the relative spacetime concept cannot change it in the slightest. As long as there is enough perfect closed loop quantity, we can also change the result of my sublimation into 'time' and make me sublimate into 'absolute spacetime'. In this way, we can simultaneously possess the absolute spacetime concept and the relative spacetime concept, and become spacetime itself. And enough perfect closed loop quantity is also a necessary step to create the super-spacetime wheel and determine its birth!"

"To change the established fact of absolute spacetime, a perfect closed-loop quantity is essential, and then there is the second core... power!"

"To change the established absolute spacetime will cause tremors and backlashes in the spacetime structure itself, which will bring corresponding enemies. The more important the change, the stronger the enemy will be. Moreover, there is no limit to the number of enemies. Everything that existed in the past, exists now, and will exist in the future in the river of spacetime may become the enemy of the changer!"

"We need your strength. If you can pass the third test, you will not only obtain a massive amount of perfect closed-loop energy, but you will also become a super-powerful sublimation body no less than mine. Your strength is indispensable!"

Wu Pifu finally understood.

The so-called perfect closed-loop quantity is actually the true share of the Spacetime Spirit civilization, which is the same as the score of the Gaia human civilization.

At the same time, the reason why the Spirit of Time and Space pursues not self-perfection, but closed-loop perfection, is that this civilization and race are actually in a state of continuous non-existence. They must use the closed-loop perfection of time and space to offset the fact that they do not exist.

"or……"

The first person suddenly spoke again, saying, "You are the source of the absolute spacetime concept!"

"If that's the case, when you finish your third test, I look forward to a life-or-death battle with you, and then..."

"kill me."

(End of this chapter)