Super God Academy: Kabuto

Deep in the vast universe, near the edge of the Merlo Celestial Court star system, an out-of-place old-fashioned spaceship hovered silently. Inside the cabin, Hua Ye and Ruoning were gazing at a star map.

Ruoning's eyes gleamed with vengeance and longing. She pointed to the planet on the star map that symbolized the core of the angelic civilization, her voice icy: "It's time. March towards the Heavenly Court of Merlo and reclaim everything that rightfully belongs to you, my king."

Hua Ye's face revealed his signature smile, a mixture of greed and arrogance. At his command, the dilapidated flagship, followed by dozens of Taotie warships and several wandering triangular entities emitting mental fluctuations, formed a bizarre yet powerful mixed fleet and began its long-planned advance towards the direction of the Merlo Heavenly Court.

Meanwhile, aboard the flagship Demon One, far from the main battlefield, Liang Bing and Qiangwei sat in a secluded little bar. The liquid in their glasses swayed, reflecting their thoughtful faces.

"The possibilities that spacetime genes can theoretically achieve are far broader than what you see now." Liang Bing swirled her wine glass, her eyes filled with a desire to explore the unknown. "It's not as simple as just moving an object from point A to point B."

Rose seemed thoughtful, then offered a bold conjecture: "Then... could it possibly alter time? Like... Qi Lin's brother, Lin Yu?"

"No, no, no, no," Liang Bing waved her hands repeatedly and began to explain the concept of spacetime she had learned in the Super God Academy system. "Time is just a virtual unit of measurement that we create to measure 'change.' Many people dream of time travel and going back to the past. But in reality, in the known universe, 'a certain moment in the past' does not just represent your personal moment, but the synchronous state of the entire universe at that moment."

She tried to make the concept more concrete: "For example, at the very moment you were born and cried, there might have been a million civilizations at war in the universe, and tens of billions of planets experiencing birth or destruction. That moment is a 'fixed' snapshot of the universe containing all the information. It is precisely because of this that astronomical computers, like the Great Clock, can perform near-perfect simulations and deductions by retracing the data from these 'fixed snapshots'."

"What deeper functions do those time-space genes have?" Rose pressed, sensing that Liang Bing was guiding her to think about some more fundamental questions.

Liang Bing put down her wine glass, stood up, and slowly paced around Qiangwei, like a professor guiding her best student:

"Karl, that pervert, was obsessed with studying the void; while I am more fascinated by the mysteries of spacetime. The vanished Space Principal, on the other hand, devoted his energy to anti-void research."

She mentioned the latest intelligence: "We recently received information that the 'Male Core' developed by Ge Xiaolun of Galaxy Force is a powerful void controller, a void weapon. However, it is still very crude and inefficient."

"And your Earth's 'god,' Lin Yu, his control over spacetime is clearly more prominent and bizarre. He can even go back to the past and make changes, which almost violates the fundamental laws of physics." Liang Bing's tone was inquisitive. "Back in the Super God Academy days, the Space Principal also ventured into the realm of spacetime. I'm not sure if Lin Yu is some kind of... backup plan left behind by the Principal."

She looked at Rose, her eyes becoming serious: "If you can gain some inspiration from him, or from his power system, it will greatly accelerate your growth and help you understand and control the spacetime gene more deeply."

Rose listened, somewhat bewildered: "I... still don't quite understand the connection."

Seeing Rose's confused look, Liang Bing decided to use a more direct method. She led Rose to her personal little clock.

"Look, this is my Void Universe Engine," Liang Bing explained. "Technology is constantly evolving, and many cutting-edge fields are actually being researched in parallel. The Great Clock isn't Karl's exclusive technology; it's more like an open-source platform. Keisha also has her version, which she calls the 'Knowledge Treasury,' hidden deep within her dark dimension. And mine," Liang Bing shrugged, "is relatively open and shared. Of course, we're all... 'low-end' versions of the Great Clock. To truly and fully drive the Great Clock requires unimaginable amounts of stellar energy."

Her tone deepened, tinged with a sense of crisis: "Lately, I've been thinking, especially after Keisha was 'destroyed' by Karl using those...unconventional methods. I've been wondering, where exactly are the boundaries between spacetime and the void? What kind of profound relationship exists between them?"

Rose seemed to have caught something: "You mean... when spacetime is controlled to its extreme, it will... become emptiness?"

"A conjecture that's very close to the essence!" Liang Bing looked at her admiringly. "When we can easily manipulate, define, and even reshape spacetime, then the nature of spacetime itself changes, and the characteristics it exhibits become infinitely close to our current understanding of 'void.' Unless... you can intervene in the timeline in a way that transcends existing physical laws, like Lin Yu, and not be rejected by the universe's self-correcting mechanism."

Her expression turned incredibly serious: "I don't know who will ultimately get these ultimate technologies—maybe Karl, maybe some other unknown entity. But we absolutely cannot fall behind!"

Liang Bing held Qiangwei's hand tightly, her gaze intense:

"Otherwise, standing at the forefront of this era of change, we could easily become fish on someone else's chopping block, the target of everyone's criticism! We must possess our own strength and our own understanding in order to take control of our own destiny in this cataclysmic transformation sweeping across the known universe!"