Chapter 14 Star Beast Jungle
The conquest of the Green Forest plane brought the Holy Terra Empire rich land and abundant resources, and also gained a large number of devout followers for the Cult of Life.
However, the most precious thing is that this new world provided Bai Zhe with an unparalleled testing ground, allowing him to accumulate rich experience in cross-dimensional warfare.
In general, the Green Forest plane has gradually stabilized, becoming part of the Holy Terra Empire, and continuously providing White Fold with faith power.
Bai Zhe, on the other hand, devoted his main energy to the research of spatial magic.
With the help of a lower-level deity in spatial magic, his research on capturing information in the void and locating coordinates in another world became increasingly in-depth.
That day, Bai Zhe sensed a strange fluctuation in information.
Originating from the depths of the void, faint and hidden, it would have been impossible for Bai Zhe to detect it if he hadn't possessed a lower-level divine status in spatial magic.
"This is... a new dimension?"
Bai Zhe's heart stirred, and he immediately focused his consciousness on the source of the fluctuation.
After some exploration, he discovered a completely new intermediate plane. This plane was dozens of times larger than the Green Forest World, contained far more energy, had a higher world energy level, and was surprisingly relatively open, making it easy to invade.
"It's actually a mid-level plane!" A hint of excitement flashed in Bai Zhe's eyes. "It's like finding a needle in a haystack, only to have it come to me effortlessly!"
He immediately began gathering information about this plane. Through spatial magic, he could capture some of the energy and information emanating from the plane and deduce some basic information about it.
This intermediate plane was named "Star Beast Jungle" by Bai Zhe.
The Star Beast Jungle World is a world full of mystery and danger.
By day, this place is a tranquil fairyland. The sky is azure, the sun shines brightly, and all sorts of exotic plants and animals thrive here. This world also has its own civilization, which worships "star beasts" that only appear at night. They build temples, hold sacrifices, and pray for the protection of the star beasts.
However, when night falls, the whole world undergoes a dramatic change.
The sky was no longer the sky, but had transformed into a deep, starry expanse. Within this expanse, countless stars twinkled with an eerie light—the eyes of powerful star beasts!
Those enormous stars each represent a powerful star beast. They descend from the stars to the earth and indiscriminately slaughter all living things on the ground.
These star beasts come in various forms, some like dragons, some like mammoths, some like phoenixes... but without exception, they all possess world-destroying power.
In the darkness of night, the Star Beasts devour life to their heart's content, only returning to the starry sky at dawn, leaving behind a world littered with corpses and shattered fragments. The native inhabitants of the Star Beast Jungle can only hide in their shelters, praying to escape the calamity and eke out a living.
"Is the length of one day/night equivalent to a month and a half in the world of gods? That means each time the star beasts descend, it lasts for nearly a month and a half..." Bai Zhe muttered to himself, "This is truly a cruel world."
Under the threat of the Star Beasts, the native inhabitants of the Star Beast Jungle have never been able to develop a powerful civilization. They can only establish some simple tribes and small countries, struggling to survive.
"Star Beasts… what exactly are these things?" Bai Zhe frowned. "Are they native species of this world? Or invaders from other dimensions? Or something even more mysterious?"
Bai Zhe vaguely felt that the secrets of the Star Beast Jungle World were more complex than he had imagined, and that such things seemed difficult to understand from the perspective of life itself.
However, this did not deter him. On the contrary, he was even more eager to conquer the world and unveil its mysteries.
"If we can conquer this plane, the power of faith will be immense! Moreover, the energy level of this world is higher, and the power that believers can provide is even greater... Hehehe, what a delicious piece of meat!"
...
Meanwhile, Bai Zhe's research on the essence of life has not lagged behind. Recently, he has begun to explore the power of the mind and is trying to derive new techniques from it.
At this moment, Bai Zhe was free from any material constraints, leaving only a vast mental space that gathered the thoughts and ideas of countless believers, weaving together a finely woven web of logic that slowly led Bai Zhe's spirit into a new dimension.
Bai Zhe began his brainstorming session:
"Once a Titan mammoth appears in the Wood Elf's perceptible world, it can only manifest itself as a phenomenon within the Wood Elf's five senses, or within the Wood Elf's calculations of danger levels, or within the Wood Elf's linguistic logic, or within the system of knowledge such as physics, chemistry, and biology. Therefore, the so-called real world is the absolute subjective domain built up from the language, knowledge, and surface phenomena perceived by intelligent beings." Bai Zhe murmured to himself, his thoughts drifting.
His thoughts suddenly expanded like lightning: "And this isn't even a philosophical problem, but a more practical physical one."
Take, for example, the "Eternal Thought Society," a research organization under the god of wisdom. This organization brings together countless scholars, including a great scientist named Einstein, who once proposed an amazing and self-consistent theory of spacetime.
Bai Zhe had once reviewed his research and quickly realized that although Einstein's spacetime theory had caused a sensation among Cauchinus, it was actually too limited.
This person's theories are all based on relativity: the relative relationship between gravity and mass in the curvature of spacetime, and velocity and time. However, he overlooked a most fundamental aspect—observation is interference.
Bai Zhe knew that for ordinary people, their perceptions would not change the structure of matter, but for individuals with extraordinary powers, their consciousness, observation, and cognition were like a boulder thrown into a lake, stirring up ripples and constantly interfering with the original order of heaven and earth.
Later, another thinker in the "Eternal Thought Society," Max Planck, proposed the fundamental principles of quantum physics, proving that even ordinary people's observational behavior can subtly interfere with reality.
This makes the situation of Einstein's theory even worse. The originally precise and rigorous knowledge structure has lost its practical application value and has been completely reduced to a kind of science fiction, becoming a tool for novelists to create fictional backgrounds for virtual worlds - ultimately only able to be embedded in those fictional fantasy worlds in novels where there are no supernatural powers and the world is not distorted by cognition.
For example, some novelists have created a rather fantastical world where they believe that, without the cognitive contamination brought by supernatural forces, the planes of the universe should be round, like spheres, rather than the current structure of flat ground with dimensional barriers. They even invented a plane called Earth to house their fantasy, which resulted in much incomprehension and ridicule: "If the world is a sphere, wouldn't the people living on it fall down?"
Bai Zhe couldn't help but feel sympathy for Einstein, because at that moment, his own thoughts seemed to be pulled by some immense force, struggling between reason and perception. He too began to sense the profound bewilderment Einstein felt when facing this world: if all perception, all reality, is merely a collection of language, knowledge, and superficial phenomena; if all of these are deeply polluted by cognition, preventing one from seeing the true essence of the world, then is there no true objectivity in this world? Is there still a trace of objectivity unaffected by us?
But at that moment, a sudden revelation flashed through his mind like a ray of light, breaking the heavy darkness in his thoughts.
"Hahahaha, I've had another epiphany!" Bai Zhe suddenly burst into laughter.
"So that's it, so that's it! The only objective existence in this world is my own mind itself!" His words were full of confidence and clarity: "My own mind is purely composed of my own thoughts and ideas, and only my mind can fully reveal everything about itself to me—completely and without disguise!"
At this moment, Bai Zhe finally conceived his new technique—the "Eternal Reincarnation Time-Space Worm Rebirth Divine Technique".
The core of this divine skill is to transform one's own life information structure into a subjective knowledge map and upload it to the depths of the objective mind. In essence, it is to alienate, worldify, and cognitively obstruct one's own life.
When Bai Zhe uses this technique, he records all his current life information, including his physical, psychological, and even spiritual state, as a subjective knowledge-edited life map. He incorporates this map into the thoughts and ideas that his objective mind is constantly producing. In this way, Bai Zhe can use his life editing ability to detach himself from his current state, return to any point in time, and restore his abilities and state at that time.
However, this ability is not limited to self-regression; its true application lies in the invasion of other worlds.
Through this divine skill, combined with Bai Zhe's spatial power, his clones that invaded other worlds could establish a constant connection with his main body in the world of gods, uploading the life information map of his clones to his main body at any time. This meant that no matter how his clones encountered death, Bai Zhe could still resurrect them infinitely with the power of his mind.
Moreover, the most ingenious aspect of this method is that the world Bai Zhe once perceived was essentially composed of a world distorted by his own perception. This "cognitive impairment" actually became the nail Bai Zhe was driven into the world.
When Bai Zhe casts a clone into another world, he only needs to take a casual stroll. The paths he walks become a process of mutual interference and confirmation between him and the world, like an ugly spacetime worm crawling in the past of this world. This "cognitive barrier" is originally an obstacle that prevents Bai Zhe from understanding the real world, but Bai Zhe's method uses "absolute objective spirit" to govern the "purely subjective world", editing the "cognitive barrier" he generated into spacetime anchors that he cast into the spacetime of the other world. It can truly be called a wonderful technique.
Moreover, after his clone is resurrected, he only needs to take a couple more steps to extend the size of the spacetime worm again, increasing the number of spacetime anchors to an infinite number. This is what is known as "eternal reincarnation".
However, Bai Zhe also realized that although the concept of this supernatural power was grand enough and its power was awe-inspiring enough, there were still many technical problems that had to be overcome in terms of its execution.
How can we make uploading more automated, even to the point where it happens automatically all the time?
"To accelerate upload efficiency, more spatiotemporal anchors should be deployed every second."
"How can this connection be maintained stably? Neither the clone nor the main body can completely guarantee the integrity of the life graph information structure during transmission."
Just as Bai Zhe was preparing to further overcome the many technical difficulties of the Eternal Reincarnation Time-Space Worm Rebirth Divine Art, a familiar power descended upon the Creation God Court.
Even from a great distance, Bai Zhe could feel the majesty and light contained within that power.
This is Ophelia, the goddess of light, in disguise, coming to invite him to a new round of the council of the gods.
"Is it time for the Council of Gods again so soon?" Bai Zhe frowned slightly.
More than a decade has passed since the last council of the gods. In these years, the gods have been busy digesting their newly acquired share of faith and consolidating their rule over the human world.
He had originally thought he had plenty of time to prepare his plan to invade the Star Beast Forest and to perfect his cultivation technique. But to his surprise, new challenges had arisen so quickly.
"What is she up to now?" Bai Zhe wondered to himself.
Although somewhat reluctant, he accepted Ophelia's invitation.
After all, we have to give them face.
Moreover, Bai Zhe also wanted to know what changes had occurred in the world of gods over the past ten years, and what new moves the other gods had made.
"Black Goat, guard the home." Bai Zhe instructed his followers before disappearing into the Divine Court of Creation.
"Hehehe, the Council of Gods, I, Bai Zhe, am here again."
...
The magnificent hall remained as solemn, dignified, and sacred as ever.
Around the enormous round table, the gods took their seats in turn, each radiating a powerful aura and representing different laws and authority.
Compared to the last council of the gods, the atmosphere this time was more tense, and the relationships between the gods were more delicate.
After all, during the last meeting, the gods had already fallen out over the division of the faith quota, and many grudges had been formed between them.
Although the gods have been busy digesting their newly acquired share of faith over the past decade without any major conflicts, undercurrents are still surging beneath the calm surface