This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 417 Causal Trap, Plot Accelerates

Ye Yang used the "Time-Space Rainbow Bridge" to quickly escape the space-sealed area at ten thousand times the speed of light, and then instantly disappeared, leaving behind the Lord of Guiyu and the Lord of Changjiu.

What he didn't know was that all of this was witnessed by the Golden Shadow Lord of the Machine Race, who happened to be nearby.

After reporting the news, the Lord of Golden Shadows cautiously approached the battleground, and then saw the Lord of Changjiu and the Lord of Guiyu vying for something—

"From the moment I suddenly bumped into the Lord of the Gui Palace, I had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but at the time the feeling was very weak and I didn't pay much attention to it."

"But the arrival of the Lord of Changjiu himself intensified this feeling considerably."

Ye Yang frowned.

While it's possible that this feeling of "uncontrollability" stems from things not going exactly as he envisioned, he doesn't think it's that simple.

Unfortunately, after ascending to the Golden Immortal realm, his consciousness became a thousand times more complex, and the original thought algorithm model could no longer accurately explain his own thought processes.

Before pushing the theory of thought algorithms to a higher level, Ye Yang was unable to reflect on the root cause of each thought.

"I can't stay in the Peak Realm any longer. My strongest combat clone will go directly to the spaceship."

Ye Yang decided on his next destination and flew to the wormhole entrance according to the route map.

In the cosmic ocean near the primordial universe, there is an area with dozens of wormholes, which can be described as the transportation hub of the cosmic ocean, allowing for rapid travel to various places via wormholes.

"My God! The Lord of the Strange Treasure Star has escaped. He's too fast; even with the spatial blockade, he can escape at ten thousand times the speed of light. I can't catch up at all. However, I obtained a Thread Map, which records some routes in the core area of ​​the Peak-Tilting Realm—"

Facing the rapidly approaching Fifth True Lord, Lord Guiyu spoke in a low voice.

"A diagram of silk threads?"

The Fifth True Lord took the map and his eyes lit up: "Indeed, there are many areas that the tribe has not yet explored. Gui Yu, I will consider your contribution a supreme treasure."

Lord Guiyu was overjoyed.

Now that the Lord of the Strange Treasure Star had escaped and a new map had been obtained, the Fifth True Lord began to consider returning to the inner domain of the Peak Realm to explore.

However, for some reason, when he thought of the legend of the Star Lord of the Extraordinary Treasure, the special means that the Lord of the Universe could use at ten thousand times the speed of light, and the extraordinary treasure whose nature was completely different from that of a normal supreme treasure, the Fifth True Lord narrowed his eyes.

"Is it possible that this guy has inherited some kind of ancient civilization's legacy?"

The Divine Eye Clan possesses such power because they obtained a mysterious ancient inheritance. Each of the seven True Lords can construct a unique form called the "Eternal True God," which is incredibly powerful. If the seven join forces, the "Eternal True God" they construct can even barely rival a tenth-tier being!

A strange object, suspected to be a relic or information from an ancient civilization, especially if it arouses curiosity, is worth the effort of the Fifth True God to investigate and track it down.

Within the primordial universe, the Dream Demon Ancestor, having learned of the whereabouts of the Star Lord of the Strange Treasure, was the first to set off, followed by the Mechanical Father God after careful consideration.

Behind each of them is a large clan, and if they could obtain a rare item, it would be a great boost to the clan as a whole.

Unfortunately, the Star Lord of the Strange Treasure possessed a special flight technique, which allowed him to break through the cosmic sea's limitation of a hundred times the speed of light and reach ten thousand times the speed of light. At that time, the Lord of Guiyu and the Lord of Changjiu were engaged in a battle over the chip that recorded the fragments of the Qingfeng Realm map, and were unable to catch up immediately.

The Golden Shadow Lord, who was lurking nearby, was also unable to catch up due to the spatial blockade.

"First, we'll go to the wormhole leading to the Peak Realm. Based on the distance, even if the Star Lord of the Strange Treasure chooses to leave the Peak Realm immediately, I'll be the one who arrives near the wormhole first."

"If he hasn't left the Qingfeng Realm, then I will personally enter the Qingfeng Realm to find him."

The silver serpent traveled at tens of thousands of times the speed of light through the cosmic sea, slapping aside layers of chaotic air currents.

The strongest beings in the universe can make their words law, distorting the laws governing external operations to a certain extent and transcending speed limits. Furthermore, if they are willing to expend a large amount of power, accelerating to hundreds of thousands of times the speed of light is not impossible.

While calculating how to block the path of the Strange Treasure Star Lord to leave the Peak Realm, the Dream Demon Ancestor flew at high speed.

At this moment, the Dream Demon Ancestor saw a huge metal sphere flying at high speed towards the Inclined Peak Realm from afar.

"Mechanical, are you going to the Peak Realm too?"

"Mengcha, you're going too? What a coincidence."

The two met and communicated from afar.

In that body of water, the Lord of Changjiu first discovered that the Lord of Yibao Star and the Lord of Guiyu were fighting, and then it also joined in to compete for the map chip. Finally, the Lord of the Golden Shadow of the Mechanical Race took a few small fragments.

The Dream Demon Ancestor already knew this information, so he was not surprised to see the Mechanical Father God.

"Mechanical, that Star Lord of the Strange Treasure is a great enemy of my demon race. You should not get involved this time," the Dream Demon Ancestor said coldly.

The mechanical father god chuckled, "Heh heh, that guy's slippery as a nutcase. You'd have a hard time catching him by yourself, wouldn't you?"

"If you're willing to give me that strange object he possesses, I can help you kill that clone of his, and I might even be able to suppress it and send it into a miniature universe to be processed."

The Dream Demon Ancestor scoffed: "Heh, no need, one of me is enough."

"Then it seems we'll have to rely on our own abilities then." The Mechanical Father God didn't want to fight the Dream Demon Ancestor right now, so he said this.

Two seventh-tier True Gods and one eighth-tier True God all rushed towards Ye Yang's location without prior arrangement.

An invisible net has been formed—and Ye Yang is unaware of all of this for the time being.

"Strange, why did Mengcha and the machine leave the primordial universe in such a hurry?"

In the silent starry sky, a white-robed figure, invisible and intangible like the laws governing the universe, stood and posed a question.

He could see any location in the virtual universe using its power, but the strongest being in the universe could make the laws governing the universe retreat, and also make the power of the virtual universe retreat, forming voids.

However, as the strongest beings in the universe move, the location of the "void" also changes, so this method can be used to determine the approximate location of the strongest beings of each race.

"Um?"

The white-robed figure shifted his expression again and reappeared within the primordial secret realm.

He looked at the black-haired, black-eyed youth before him and smiled: "This little guy is finally starting to break through."

Within the primeval secret realm of Qianbao River —

Above Luo Feng's palace, an endless, overwhelming pressure of cosmic laws descended. The phantom of the Sea of ​​Laws from the Origin Land formed an enormous vortex in the sky, and countless divine powers appeared out of thin air, pouring into the palace like rain, flowing into the endless dark sea within his inner world—

"Breaking free from shackles, achieving immortality. From this day forward, I am completely different."

Luo Feng was overjoyed and filled with pride as he successfully broke through the barrier.

He also wanted to be like his elder brother, to use his immortal body to slaughter the demon race's venerable ones, to roam the universe, and to establish a great and lasting legacy.

"I spent 30,000 years creating the secret technique, 40,000 years wandering the universe, and over 70,000 years before I finally succeeded. My elder brother also possesses a perfect genetic body, and his original core shackles are not much weaker than mine, yet he broke through in one go back then. There's really nothing I can do about it."

Luo Feng shook his head, no longer thinking about those things. He would go on to create his own glory.

First, I must pay my respects to Master Chaos City.

"Luo Feng has broken through?"

While one of his clones was traveling via high-frequency teleportation in the cosmic sea, Ye Yang was still able to devote most of his attention to cultivation, and receiving external information was also very easy.

However, upon seeing the news of Luo Feng's breakthrough, he showed a look of astonishment: "How many years is it now?"

Upon calculation, it turned out to be a big problem.

"The plot has been moved forward, almost ten thousand years!"

This news was like a thunderbolt, immediately connecting Ye Yang with the unusual feeling he had sensed earlier.

He seemed to have grasped some clue—

"Lord of the Extraordinary Treasures!"

At this moment, a voice filled with endless hatred rang out, temporarily interrupting Ye Yang's thoughts.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! ————

Ye Yang's clone, which was near the Peak Realm, was teleporting away from the Peak Realm at high frequency. Upon hearing this voice, he glanced at it and discovered that it was a Zerg Universe Lord.

Then he teleported away.

"What a coincidence? No, it's no longer a coincidence."

Even though his thoughts were interrupted, Ye Yang became certain of his suspicions.

He was tricked by "fate"!

A new round of plot revisions and fateful reversals is brewing, and may even have already become a major trend.

Actually, saying "set up" is a bit inappropriate, since this should be a natural phenomenon rather than a conscious act.

It exists widely in all the heavens and myriad worlds, and is a phenomenon that naturally occurs when the world of complete cause and effect falls into the world of freedom.

Just like throwing a stone into a pond, it will inevitably splash water.

"Lord of the Extraordinary Treasures, you're not getting away!!!"

"I have informed the Queen that if you dare to appear in the Cosmic Sea, you will regret it!"

A giant insect hive also teleported at high frequency, relentlessly following behind Ye Yang.

"This is troublesome. Although I've changed my physical form, several Zerg universe lords recognize the soul and divine power aura of this clone. And to make matters worse, I've run into a Zerg universe lord. Looks like this is a serious problem."

Ye Yang thought to himself, and immediately stopped cultivating on other physical bodies, focusing all his attention on this clone.

After advancing to the Golden Immortal Realm, Ye Yang's Divine Soul Dao was entrusted to the Black Hole Event Horizon. His thought speed was no longer limited by hardware. His thoughts and information spread in an entangled state, and the interaction speed on the surface of the Event Horizon exceeded the speed of light. The only thing limiting the speed of thought was software.

With Ye Yang's current state of mind, cultivation level, and Dao realm, he can support his consciousness speed to reach about four thousand times that of an ordinary universe master without his consciousness collapsing.

Normally, he cultivates and comprehends with his mind working at 2,000 times the normal speed, while using 1,000 times the normal speed to receive synchronized information from the Devouring World instance avatar's consciousness under a time flow rate of 100,000 times.

He has now stopped cultivating and is using all his mental speed to synchronize his consciousness information.

Although there is a diminishing return, this also caused the consciousness of the nine clones that devoured the world to instantly increase more than tenfold!

Teleportation is even faster!

brush!brush!brush!brush!

At the same time, he casually threw out a clump of fungal divine bodies to seal off space and hold back the Zerg universe lord.

"No matter how ingenious the arrangement, it can't withstand a powerful brick flying."

"The correction of fate is limited to cause and effect within the world. Once cause and effect from outside the world strongly interferes, then any kind of backlash will be distorted."

By entrusting his vision to the event horizon of the black hole, Ye Yang was able to access information about matter and spacetime from a more fundamental perspective, allowing his understanding of the law of cause and effect to advance by leaps and bounds.

This realization has also made him vaguely aware of the existence of the "causal force" in the world he is devouring.

Although the underlying laws of the two worlds differ, many concepts are the same, since both worlds share a fundamentally consistent logic.

Causality refers to the orderly interaction and connection between information; the former is dynamic causality, while the latter is static causality.

By utilizing static causality, a series of methods can be implemented, such as causal curse killing and causal tracing.

By observing dynamic cause and effect, one can gain insight into the general trend of the world and predict future trends. If the means are sufficient, it is even possible to influence the dynamic cause and effect in a large area, thereby influencing, interfering with, or even controlling the future trend!

In a dynamic causal process, there exists a "potential," and the difference between potentials multiplied by time can be abstracted as a kind of "causal potential energy."

Correspondingly, due to the magnitude of the causal potential energy, there are high points and low points.

High positions are naturally unstable and tend to fall towards the causal potential trap. This process is the dynamic change of cause and effect.

In Ye Yang's eyes now, a large number of causal trajectories are falling into an unknown abyss.

That is the general trend of the future, and also the future destiny that this world has ordained for Ye Yang.

If you fall into it, much of the impact he caused will be corrected.

"However, not all possible trajectories lead to that potential pit. By harnessing power from outside this world, I can go against the current!"

"Just avoid the most dangerous and turbulent areas, and take the gentlest roads—"

Stones only roll down the mountain, but people can not only go down the mountain with the help of the terrain, but also go against the current to climb to the top!

That's the difference.

"Haotian, Jiuku, carefully observe the causal trajectory around you now, and also help others to see. We are currently in the midst of a large-scale backlash of fate."

At the same time, Ye Yang was also sending him messages from the immortals who had entered the Devouring World.

However, they have not yet become Golden Immortals, and even the Heavenly Venerable of Salvation from Suffering, who has been immersed in the Dao of Cause and Effect for millions of years, may not be as perceptive as Ye Yang is now.

"The path out of the Peak Realm—will most likely lead to a causal trap—very dangerous!"

Ye Yang frowned, carefully sensing, observing, and analyzing.

In fact, he could obtain very little useful information. If he had discovered this during his battle with the Lord of the Gui Kingdom, he would have been able to obtain much more information.

However, because he is currently at the center of a vortex of cause and effect, with a large amount of cause and effect pushing him toward the abyss, Ye Yang was able to barely capture some useful information.

"Should we go back to the Peak Realm and find a place to hide?"

"Uh—it's almost certain we'll fall into that causal trap!"

"So, is there some super-powerful being watching me, tracking me down? If I stop, I'll almost certainly be caught."

"Should we take another wormhole route to Mount Liuchong?"

"It still doesn't work—"

Ye Yang observed and analyzed everything, and found that the endless chaotic air currents around him were filled with a very ominous aura.

His analysis of cause and effect was not about predicting the future, so he couldn't be sure whether his disguise and change of identity had saved him from disaster.

Hiding inside the World Ring, with other human universe lords carrying them?

This is also uncertain, because causal predictions do not involve observing future timelines and cannot be as detailed as this.

We can only roughly judge the probability of falling into a causal trap by taking different paths to different places.

We can only choose the direction that offers the best chance of breaking free from our constraints!

"Leave the Peak Realm directly and return to the Primal Universe."

Ye Yang identified his target and headed straight for the wormhole.