Chapter 869 - 339: "Not Bad.

Chen Mang nodded lightly: "Your logic is quite clear."

"Naturally, I’m not like that fool. You don’t know how long I had to persuade her before she finally agreed to share resources. I nearly wore out my tongue."

"Are you really from a Divine-level Civilization?"

Chen Mang slightly furrowed his brow and asked, "For a Divine-level Civilization, finding you shouldn’t be a difficult task, right?"

"No..."

Qiuya shook his head: "Divine-level Civilizations are indeed very strong, but their strength is within the Cosmic Rules. For example, finding me would take a lot of time. The universe is so vast; finding one person is very difficult. Moreover, I cut off all connections and anchors before I left."

"Secondly."

"How should I put it, there is no war in Divine-level Civilizations."

"Everyone is very harmonious."

"And everyone is striving for a single goal."

"To leave the Cosmos."

"Leave the Cosmos?"

"Leave?"

"Yes." Qiuya nodded again and explained: "As far as I know, once a civilization reaches level seven, it possesses Dimension Reduction methods. It’s easy for them to reduce an entire cosmic space to two dimensions."

"This kind of attack method, even if your armor is Level 1000, you can’t defend against it."

"This is a strike at the level of rules."

"However, dimension ascension is extremely difficult."

"Before I left, I knew that no civilization possessed the means to ascend dimensions into the fourth dimensional civilization. Many civilizations have the ability to return to the past, but none has the ability to see the future."

"And a Divine-level Civilization means omnipotence, but evidently, Divine-level Civilizations can’t achieve these two points."

"Thus..."

"Divine-level Civilizations formed a consensus. The universe is continuously expanding, at a speed much faster than the speed of light. Cosmic Rules restrict, within this area, nothing can exceed the speed of light, and at the edge of the universe, space is in such a chaotic state that wormholes cannot be established."

"This means that even for Divine-level Civilizations, they cannot outpace the cosmic expansion to leave the universe."

"Everyone agreed..."

"Outside the universe, perhaps is a real four-dimensional world, where time holds no meaning, past and future can be traversed freely."

"All Divine-level Civilizations are striving for this goal."

Qiuya paused, then took a small sip from a cup beside him before continuing: "What I’m about to say next is a bit deep, and I’m not sure if you can understand it. For a Second-level Civilization, these things are somewhat far off, but since you want to know, I can say it."

"Firstly."

"Even the power of Divine-level Civilizations is limited by Cosmic Rules."

"If one wishes to leave the universe, they must break the limitations of Cosmic Rules."

"Within this..."

"There is a need for something called ’Cosmic Forbidden Items’."

"Anything that inadvertently falls into a Time Rift and returns to the past becomes a ’Cosmic Forbidden Item’."

"And if one day—"

"This object that fell back to the past meets the object on the current timeline, it would cause the universe’s rules to be disrupted to some extent."

"This is a kind of bug."

"Ideally, ’Time Rifts’ should not exist in the cosmos; this is a bug within the universe."

"Thus."

"Divine-level Civilizations began to extensively search for various Time Rifts, throwing in all sorts of things to manually create Cosmic Forbidden Items. At first, they tried using the ’Goblin Civilization’ to throw items in and bring them back out, but realized that it had to be thrown in and then meet the original entity on a future day."

"Achieving this is extremely difficult."

"To give an example."

"You have a telescope in your hand, now you..."

"Wait, why use a telescope as an example."

"Uh... I saw a telescope on the table next to you."

"Continue."

"Alright, say you’ve just created a telescope, and there happens to be a Time Rift nearby that you plan to throw it into. The entire process takes ten seconds, and your ’telescope’ only exists on the current timeline for those ten seconds. It must, within these ten seconds, appear in front of you from the ’past timeline’."

"The meeting of the two will cause ’rule chaos’."

"It’s a very short time, isn’t it."

"And you can’t ensure that the telescope, thrown into the past, will appear before you at this exact point in time."

"..."

Chen Mang didn’t respond immediately; he had been pondering over this for a long time, always feeling something was off. After a long silence, he finally spoke: "I know a thing or two about what you’re talking about."

"And I roughly understand the logic."

"But there has always been a question I couldn’t grasp."

"Before I throw something into a ’Time Rift’, it wouldn’t exist in the past, so how could I possibly wait for it to return from the past and appear in front of me? But if I throw it in, it exists in the past, yet I no longer have it now."

"Isn’t this a logical paradox?"

"The past and the present can’t exist simultaneously."

"Yes." Qiuya suddenly laughed: "This is why it causes ’rule chaos’, the fundamental principle. In the Nia Star System, there are quite a few Time Rifts. Have you tried throwing things into them?"

"I have."

"Have you later seen the item you once threw to the past?"

"I have."

"I knew it, after all, the Time Rifts in the Nia Star System are all on a single planet, so the chance of encountering them is quite high." Qiuya nodded and continued: "Now think back."