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After leaving your own self-imposed limitations, you spent six months processing and releasing your emotions before returning to normal life.

[You intend to continue exploring the rules, but you quickly encounter a bottleneck. Your analysis of Fatuna has benefited you greatly, but it has also narrowed your perspective, confining your thinking within the cage woven by Fatuna.]

So you calmed down and turned your attention to the rules themselves.

At thirty, you revised Fontaine's laws from beginning to end, filling in any loopholes and updating and perfecting any incomplete mechanisms. When the new legal code was published, everyone in Fontaine was astonished, even the most famous lawyers were humbled and marveled at Grandpa Ryder's wisdom.

To commemorate your outstanding contributions, the people of Fontainebleau refer to the day the legal code is promulgated as the 'Festival of All Laws'.

At thirty-two, under your leadership, Fontaine's energy infrastructure underwent a complete overhaul, with over 90% of the energy zones now using 'compensated hybrid energy,' marking Fontaine's entry into a true new energy era.

At thirty-five, you once again enacted a series of general laws concerning Funina, proclaiming the supreme authority of the water god in Fontaine.

At thirty-six, you seem to have gained some insight, further refining the general law. With the promulgation and updating of the general law, you sense that the order of Fontaine is gradually being 'separated' from the natural order of Teyvat.

'Perhaps I can create a nation with an independent and complete system of rules,' you can't help but think.

[However, you later discovered that this wasn't actually a division, but rather the establishment of a unique order belonging to Fontaine based on a certain fundamental principle of natural law. You spent three years researching and determined that one important factor among the characteristics of this fundamental principle was stability.]

The natural order exists to maintain the stable operation of Teyvat; therefore, it is permissible for a system to create its own rules and order within the bounds of stability.

[At forty, you've been researching in this direction, and the long-stagnant template unlocking progress has finally made a step forward.]

[You spent nearly ten years perfecting Fontaine's unique order rules, ensuring its stable operation even without Funina, while still functioning around her as the core.]

At fifty years old, once you've completed all of this, the template unlock progress will reach 95%.

"It's stopped moving again."

In the logistics department office.

Staring at the "95% progress" mark on the unlocking progress, Su Chen shook his head helplessly after two months of research with no progress.

He leaned back in his chair, a growing sense of fatigue washing over him.

Although his appearance remained youthful due to the simulator, his physical functions were rapidly deteriorating.

In this era, the average human lifespan is only around seventy years old, so he has lived most of his life to this day.

"What should we do next...?"

Thinking about this question, I drifted off to sleep without realizing it.

Then, as if in a daze, Su Chen didn't know how long he had slept. It seemed to have been only a short while. When he opened his eyes again, he found that there was another person in the office.

As Funina was placing the tea and snacks on the coffee table, she saw Su Chen wake up and immediately urged, "Ryder, come here quickly."

"What time is it?" Su Chen asked.

"It's already past three o'clock, you can really sleep." Funina said with displeasure, "I heard you were here, so I specially changed my plans to have afternoon tea and meet with my subjects today. You idiot Ryder, you should be grateful for my noble deeds!"

Su Chen yawned: "Long live Lady Funina."

"Tch~ How perfunctory." As she spoke, Funina glanced at Su Chen, noticing the fatigue on his face, and asked suspiciously, "Have you been sleeping more lately?"

Su Chen stood up and casually asked, "Really?"

"Yeah, he's so young, but he sleeps all day at noon, like an old man." Funina put her hands on her hips, looking like she was scolding a bad student. "That won't do, Ryder. You need to straighten up. Staying in the logistics department all day slacking off, your brain is going to rust!"

Actually, it wasn't just this time; Fu Ningna often saw Su Chen suddenly become drowsy, just like the old man she saw while shopping, sitting in the park enjoying the sunshine and breeze, and then falling asleep.

But how could Ryder be an old man? He's just too lazy! ...Furina thought to herself that she would have to get Su Chen to exercise more in the future.

At 52, you notice significant changes in your body, with a noticeable decline in bodily functions. This causes you some anxiety. Although you're only 5% away from unlocking the template, many things fail at the final step.

This anxiety is making you a bit frustrated, which is actually hindering your understanding of the rules. Fortunately, Funina seems to have noticed this and comes to invite you every afternoon, even dragging you on a 'tour.' As a big star in Fontainebleau, she's more popular than anyone else right now.

After three months of adjustment, you gradually regained your footing. After much deliberation, you decided to start with the rule cards.

You spent three years optimizing the effects of the Divine Authority Card.

[Then you discover that the template unlocking progress has actually increased by 1%.]

[You understand, the key to unlocking it ultimately lies in the rule card. Perhaps once you truly create a card of transcendence, you'll be able to completely reveal the truth about the template.]

This was no easy task, so instead of rushing to create the Transcendent Card, you focused on the other Rule Cards outside the Divine Authority Card series, maximizing the effect of each Rule Card to its fullest potential.

When you turn around, you'll find that the template unlock progress has reached 99%.

"Just one last step!" Your excitement surges, but you quickly realize a problem: once the template is fully unlocked, the simulation will likely end.

[It's regrettable, but you know you can't stop here. You're already fifty-five, and many aspects of your health are not what they used to be. Your time is running out.]

To maintain your mental state, you begin to take care of your physical health, engaging in appropriate exercise, while also contemplating the creation of the Transcendence Card.

"What kind of card should we make? Or rather... what kind of card can break the final shackles?"

Su Chen already knew that the template for this simulation was definitely not simple; it was at least at the red level, and even higher than the level of the Thunder Flame Dragon Emperor.

To break free from the shackles of this level, ordinary rules are definitely not enough; it must be a special kind, and specifically, a transcendent power that can unleash the full potential of the rules.

To further evolve the courtroom?

I'm afraid it will be difficult.

The power level of the Tribunal has reached its limit, basically confirmed to be above the level of a fully-fledged dragon but below the level of the fourth ruling class, and it is impossible to improve it further.

Of course, if it's the Trial Court - Beyond, then that's a different story.

However, to create such rules, the existing divine authority card series would need to be overturned, which would be a huge undertaking with little hope of success.

Because if it surpasses it again, it means that the power of the Water God will change, and the previously established Fontaine rule system will be broken, affecting the whole system.

"I'm a little tired."

My health seems to be getting worse lately.

Su Chen has never had any serious illnesses, but everyone's physical condition is different. Although he takes care of himself, sometimes he has to use his brain for several hours or even a whole day to do research, which is very taxing on his body.

Just as Su Chen was about to take a nap, Fu Ningna's voice came from outside.

"Ryder! Ryder!... No sound again, is he sleeping again?"

A head poked in through the doorway.

Upon seeing Su Chen sitting in the office, Funina darted in.

"Old man Ryder, what are you doing here so leisurely? Hurry up and get ready to leave!"

Su Chen was taken aback: "Get ready? Where to?"

Funina was also stunned: "You haven't really turned into an old man, have you? Of course we should go find Navilet. Recently, hasn't there been a race called Melusin that has appeared and caused so much trouble? It seems that Navilet is also in trouble. He usually helps us a lot, so we should help him out now, right?"

"Hey, hey, hey, you really forgot? We clearly agreed this morning that we were going to have tea with Villette before three o'clock."

"Oh, this? I remember, I remember." Su Chen rubbed his temples. Actually, he had really forgotten. The memory of this body seemed to be quite worn out. There was no way around it; thinking about rules had quite a few side effects.

Or rather, even without those side effects, he's not young anymore.

Humanity... a mere century. He wished it could truly last a century.

"Phew~ I thought you really forgot." Funina patted her chest and then laughed. "You know what? When I came here just now, I heard people outside saying, 'Lord Ryder is probably sleeping again,' haha! Look at you, always slacking off, now everyone under you knows, right? The boss is slacking off, and the underlings are slacking off too. Let's see how you discipline your subordinates in the future."

Stupid Ryder.

But this is the best Ryder. This is the Ryder that makes people feel safe and not afraid.

Don't be obsessed with power, and don't always scheme and plot. You can quietly listen to her vent when she's troubled.

Without Su Chen, Fu Ningna felt she probably wouldn't have been able to hold on much longer.

Her wish now is very simple: to live with Su Chen like this forever. As long as things can stay this way, Fu Ningna feels that even if she plays the role for another hundred or two hundred years, she will not fall down.

Su Chen chuckled: "Don't worry, I'm perfectly fine."

"I know, I know, I just like to slack off, hmph~" Funina waved her hand, "Alright, let's hurry up and go."

"Well, let's go."

"Ta-da! Miss Shebeleda, lead the way!"

The Water God's grand tour has thrown the logistics department into chaos.

Watching Funina stride ahead, Su Chen suddenly felt a pang of reluctance and a sense of heartache.

This kind of life might not be bad.

Kofunina, I will eventually leave.

[Judgment: Card of Transcendence—???]

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Chapter 133 The Card of Transcendence—Let the World Forget [10,000 words, please vote!]

【Card of Transcendence: ???】

How can we surpass it?

What Su Chen couldn't understand was that he had painstakingly built Fengdan into an 'independent entity' within the Heavenly Principles order. As long as he didn't do anything reckless, the rule system built around Funina would be extremely stable. Funina was almost equivalent to the Heavenly Principles within Fengdan.

But now, in this final 1% of exploration, he is required to surpass the system he has established.

Is the goal to create stronger rules that go beyond the existing rule system?

From this perspective, this is almost an act of disrupting the stable system.

Su Chen dared not try it lightly, because failure would cause the existing stable order to collapse, and all his previous efforts would be in vain.

"Hey, Ryder, what are you thinking about? You've been distracted ever since."

Although she was walking and greeting her subjects warmly, playing the part of a water goddess in her daily life, Funina was still keeping an eye on Su Chen.