Did the world end today?

Chapter 332 Backtracking
This is not the final answer.
Lin Xu certainly didn't expect this incantation to be the key to unlocking the final door, but judging from Jiang Xingye's description, this "incantation"...
The effect seems rather limited?

"How many worlds have been elevated to a higher dimension because of this spell?"

Lin Xu asked:
"Avoid using quantities; express them as percentages whenever possible."

Hearing his words, Jiang Xingye shrugged.

"In fact, even using percentages, we cannot accurately express the number of worlds affected by this spell."

"We can only quantify the effect of a spell through 'timeline integrity'."

"For example, this spell ultimately affects the integrity of our timeline by 2%."

2%
So is this considered a lot or a little?

Seemingly seeing through Lin Xu's doubts, Jiang Xingye continued speaking.

"2% may not seem like a large number, but for us, it's a breakthrough."

“Under your influence, we have gained new capabilities.”

"Of course, you could also say that this is an ability we already possessed, but it was only completed because of this spell."

As he spoke, Jiang Xingye waved his hand gently.

Before Lin Xu's eyes, a scroll painting resembling "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" instantly appeared.

"We have gained the ability to 'read the world's memories'."

“Through the memories of these worlds, we can glimpse how this spell exerted its influence on this world.”

"This might give you some new inspiration."

As soon as she finished speaking, the scene before her eyes began to change rapidly.

Lin Xu stared intently, and an ancient land began to unfold in the scroll.
On the desolate land, ancient people dressed in animal skins are trekking through the wind and snow.

The giant footprints left by mammoths guided them to migrate further south.

The extreme cold nearly destroyed the migrating caravan, but just the day before they collapsed on the ice field, faint traces of the exposed, dark yellow coating appeared on the distant horizon.

The ice and snow are melting, and the temperature is rising.

The surviving tribe found a cave left behind by wild beasts and lit the first bonfire of civilization.

The heat of the campfire cooked the food and also brought new information.

Within the flames, a message emerged like a divine oracle.

"Empty spaces are not empty."

This message is not conveyed through any language, any text, or any "image".

It was just a concept that took root in the minds of everyone around the campfire.

As if receiving a divine revelation, the ancient people sitting around the campfire stared at each other in a daze, communicating with each other using gestures and simple language about the miracle they had just experienced.

It wasn't until daylight that they confirmed what they had "seen".

As the sun rises and new prey is caught, a mural painted with animal blood and rock appears on the walls of the cave.

It was a ring.

The center of the ring contains even smaller rings, one after another, almost filling the entire circle.
The tribal era began after the ice and snow melted.

Outside a small hut with a thatched roof and rock walls, children with innocent faces listen to the teachings of a shaman priest whose head is adorned with feathers and whose skin is covered in tattoos.

"Though the wind is invisible and intangible, it brings sound and smell; the night sky, though seemingly empty, is filled with stars and changes; where the firelight of the tribe cannot reach, the shadow of the gods fills every void."

The child watched with curiosity the smoke rising from the shaman's hands as it was heated by the charcoal fire. When he inhaled the smoke, the pungent smell brought with it a dreamlike dizziness and disorientation.

In his hallucination, he seemed to see everything.

There is sound in the wind, form in the shadows, and movement within stillness.
The hollow wooden pipes played music, and the people of the tribe worshipped and danced wildly.

At that moment, he seemed to see the wonderful use of emptiness.

During meditation, the child entered a state of "emptiness" and saw the souls of his ancestors.

He described the afterlife in a dreamlike language, and the tribe gradually began to believe that death was not the end.

Every dissipation gives rise to a next level of existence; the concept of the soul emerges, and religion in its true sense shines forth for the first time in this world.

However, this flash of light seems to be vastly different from the "flash of light" that Lin Xu is familiar with.
Humans no longer fear the unseen, but actively explore them.

The rudiments of philosophy and science were quietly born. Before the "AD calendar" he was familiar with appeared, the people of this world had already learned to use furnaces.

The advent of iron tools accelerated human progress.

From the earliest musical instruments and hollow containers to kites, smelting furnaces, and cave echoes, innovation has been accelerated by the profound meaning of "emptiness".

Humans consciously observe and utilize the "invisible" air, airflow, flames, smells, and even emotions.

In the garden of a vast kingdom, the kingdom's apothecary carefully extracted sap from willow bark, straining his eyes to see the components within the sap that could relieve fever. He tried filtering the sap through layers of sieves to remove impurities, but no matter how many times he filtered it, even when the sap was as clear as water, it still produced completely different effects.

Through repeated experiments, he realized that the seemingly "empty" juice also contained things he could not understand.

This is something that cannot be achieved simply by "dissolving the drug".

In the unseen realm, there are even smaller things.

He called this thing a "molecule".

From this moment on, humanity officially transitioned from "alchemy" to "chemistry".

The person who initially drove all of this was simply a "pharmacist".

Of course, there is also that "axiom" that everyone is clearly aware of.

Empty spaces are not empty.

As chemistry began to modernize, modern physics also began to emerge on the historical stage.

In this world, the discovery of universal gravitation did not come from "the apple that fell on the physicist's head".

In fact, as early as ancient times, humans realized that objects lifted high would fall to the ground because of some invisible but real force pulling them down.

At first, they called this force "divine order," and later they called it "central force," meaning that all objects would fall toward the center of the universe, that is, the center of the earth.

Ultimately, this force was collectively referred to as "gravity".

Humanity gradually discovered that the planet they live on is not the center of the world, not the center of the universe, but just an ordinary planet that is nothing special.

The enormous disparity caused theology to collapse overnight, and even the so-called "divine oracle" that "emptiness is not empty" was widely questioned.

Humanity experienced a brief period of chaos until a scholar later known as the "father of higher-dimensional physics" stepped forward.

He put forward an unprecedented viewpoint.

"Oracles" do not come from gods, but from humankind itself.

Perhaps, in the "gaps" of theories we cannot yet comprehend, there is indeed a certain law that allows humanity to transcend time and space and transmit information to its past selves.

The world's research thus shifted, and when humanity became aware of the existence of "particles," they naturally turned their attention to those particles with special characteristics.

The discovery of wave-particle duality opened the door to quantum physics.
From quantum physics to the ultimate goal of dimensional ascension, humanity has spent a hundred years.

In the past century, humanity has proposed the "Dimensional Ascension Plan".

By using technology to integrate consciousness, spirit, and physical space, they began to explore higher dimensions.

Brain-computer interfaces, quantum communication, virtual reality, and soul programming.
Individuals and groups can experience and manipulate higher-dimensional phenomena that were originally hidden in the "empty space".

The boundaries between death, emptiness, spirit, matter, and energy are gradually becoming blurred.

The "information from the future" that "emptiness is not empty" has become the highest guide for humanity to leap towards multidimensional existence.

The development of civilization has a new goal.

They demand that they be able to operate in the material dimension and also leap to a higher level of consciousness, truly achieving "dimensional ascension".

However, the obstacles they encountered in this process were exactly the same as those encountered in Lin Xu's world.

Energy, limiters, and dimensional adaptation.
This world is a lucky world.

They tackled all the problems one by one at a relatively slow pace.

However, many other civilizations that received this message chose a more radical path because of it.

Ultimately, they were either annihilated by the uncontrolled fusion of negative energy, torn apart by the time storm caused by the failure of their limiters, or, before fully resolving their adaptability to dimensional ascension, they rashly attempted to ascend, ultimately vanishing completely like a drop of water in the information deluge of higher dimensions.
Only this world successfully entered the higher dimensions.

However, even this world is not a complete high-dimensional civilization.

They are too close to the end of the world, and their timeline is extremely limited.

Ultimately, they can only become "a part" that completes a civilization, and cannot become the true "masters" of a higher-dimensional civilization.
The image eventually disappeared.

Lin Xu let out a long breath, and the countdown timer appeared before his eyes.

Forty minutes had passed since he entered the bracelet world, and the surrounding projections had not yet begun to dissipate.

The power of the four-dimensional civilization is increasing, but it is still not enough.

He turned to Jiang Xingye and said:
“This spell does indeed have many problems.”

"The most important problem is that the power of this spell has decreased dramatically since the advent of modern physics."

"In ancient times, this spell propelled human development in a way that was like a game-changer."

"But once we enter the 'atomic age,' the information carried by the spell becomes completely ineffective."

"Perhaps we need to enhance the effectiveness of this aspect when casting the spell next time."

(End of this chapter)