metaverse evolution.

Chapter 1184 Chu Fei, you have no sense of respect!

"Senior, I recently made a game to help you pass the time."

Chu Fei watched the Goddess of Nature leisurely drinking tea and thought of a half-baked solution: to try to subtly hint to the Goddess of Nature that she was "thinking" of the crisis through a game.

The game is simple, borrowing from the "Farmer Crossing the River" game, but instead of crossing the sea by boat, there is an evil god in the sea.

On this ship, there was an experienced captain familiar with the hydrographic conditions, an engineer in charge of ship maintenance, a navigator in charge of navigation, combat personnel in charge of armed forces, distinguished passengers, and "former crew members" who had already found other ways to make a living.

The ship is now caught in a storm caused by an evil god, and it needs to be sacrificed to the sea to ensure its safe arrival. The best sacrifice is the crew.

Different crew members can earn different amounts of safe time.

The entire game is controlled by artificial intelligence, which makes it quite interesting.

After playing the Goddess of Nature for a while without completing the game, her competitive spirit kicked in, and she continued playing, finding it quite interesting.

In the game, the goddess of nature discovers that sacrificing to the old captain is most effective, and the evil god remains quiet for the longest time. However, without the captain, the ship will run aground.

A navigator is secondary, but without a navigator, you'll get lost.

The captain and navigator are unique; there is only one person, and there are no substitutes.

Next were the distinguished guests; there were many of them, so a few could be lost. But without the distinguished guests, everyone would be arrested after landing.

They sacrificed their distinguished guests to the sea in exchange for survival, but they could not escape the judgment of noble laws. Except for a few remaining distinguished guests, all the members were drowned at sea!

The remaining most expensive guests would not appreciate or plead for mercy, because these guests had all escaped death. When they chose to sacrifice themselves to the sea, each of them lost their dignity and became a sacrificial offering, and they lost control of their own lives. This was a great enmity!

Combat personnel cannot be sacrificed to the sea indiscriminately; besides evil gods, the ocean holds many dangers. Without combat personnel, it is equally unsafe.

After much deliberation, the only way to secure a "half" chance of reaching the shore was to offer sacrifices to the "former crew members," but this was the only option.

Although there is only a 50% chance of reaching the shore, all the remaining personnel are heroes as long as they manage to reach the shore.

The goddess of nature played one game, then another, and yet another…

Sigh, it feels like the game is actually me!

Suddenly, the goddess of nature stopped, looked up abruptly, and stared intently at Chu Fei. "Am I so easily fooled?"

Chu Fei remained calm. "Why are you suddenly saying this, senior? Who would dare to lie to you?"

"You! Who else could it be but you! Chu Fei, as a quasi-saint, you lack the respect due to a saint!" The Goddess of Nature shut down the game and snorted coldly, "What are your plans?"

Chu Fei sent a wave of digital signals.

The Goddess of Nature paused for a moment, then used her newly acquired big data skills to decipher the message, quickly completing the analysis. The message was simple: it was the Dragon Ascension Palace's self-introduction, a form of communication test.

The goddess of nature immediately responded in the same way. This was the first time since learning about big data technology that the goddess of nature had used such a "less sophisticated" means of communication.

But after realizing the danger, the goddess of nature learned to bow her head.

Chu Fei gave a detailed account of the recent analysis from the Ascending Dragon Palace. It wasn't exactly research, and nothing had been found yet; it was just analysis. However, this analysis was enough to alert the Goddess of Nature.

After the exchange, the goddess of nature asked, "How do you plan to deal with this?"

Chu Fei: "Of course we'll leave Changqingtian. A tree dies when transplanted, but a person thrives. However, the migration of so many of us can't be kept secret from the Sage; we'll probably need some methods."

The goddess of nature pondered for a long time before saying, "If it's just a few people, I can take them away directly; they can't stop me."

Chu Fei: "Is it possible that you've already been placed under surveillance by those saints? If you want to leave, senior, we might have to put in a lot of effort."

The Goddess of Nature: "Then let's just leave now. Why bother with all this scheming? Are we going to wait until the other sages have made their arrangements and cut off our retreat before we act?"

Chu Fei: "In principle, the faster the better. But what if? What if the other side has already made some preparations in advance?"

Our research suggests we need a safety net. If things go smoothly, great; if not, well… let's flip the table!

Of course, I don't deny that we also have greed, wanting to take this opportunity to gain more. This kind of opportunity might only come once.

The goddess of nature nodded slightly and began to think.

After a while, the Goddess of Nature said, "I can roughly guess the methods of the sages. They joined forces to seal off heaven and earth and divert the disaster eastward."

However, the specific methods are uncertain. After all, my understanding of them dates back to a time ago.

Based on what you just said, I deduce that they must have captured or killed a living Chaos Beast before making their move against us.

Saints are very greedy!

Chu Fei blinked. "Senior, are you sure our analysis is correct?"

The goddess of nature snorted and remained silent.

Chu Fei then asked, "Senior, what methods do you have that can influence a Sage?"

The Goddess of Nature shook her head: "I have the means, but it's impossible to keep it a secret. I can only prepare my attack methods in advance and accumulate strength so that I can unleash a powerful attack when the time comes. The specific methods are up to you."

Chu Fei nodded again, and then the entire Ascending Dragon Hall sprang into action.

Meanwhile, the Heavenly Emperor, with a new batch of warships and his own personnel, has already joined the war. This time, the Heavenly Emperor has learned his lesson and will no longer interfere, letting the personnel trained by the Ascending Dragon Palace operate on their own.

However, quickly developing a new fighting style isn't so easy. The Rising Dragon Palace's training always held back a few tricks.

However, thanks to the advice from the Ascending Dragon Palace, the Chaos Beast seemed to have learned its lesson and stopped fighting to the death, causing the battle to reach a stalemate once again.

No, it's not a real stalemate. The Heavenly Emperor and other sages are plotting to capture a Chaos Beast alive.

The goddess of nature, who was lying flat, began to work, secretly monitoring the actions of the other saints, and sure enough, she discovered quite a few small tricks.

While those sages plotted against the Chaos Beasts, their avatars were capturing spirits!

Long, long ago, the Elven race was shattered and scattered across the world. After the Goddess of Nature returned, the Ascending Dragon Palace helped relocate some Elves, but it is estimated that less than 20% of the entire Elven race actually completed the relocation.

The main problem was the tight schedule, coupled with the fact that the crisis was triggered prematurely by the Ascending Dragon Palace, which also caused the Elven migration to be suspended.

Even now, many elven tribes still live scattered throughout the land, and the Goddess of Nature is too lazy to search for them all.

However, the spirits that the goddess of nature was too lazy to search for one by one were found by the other saints and placed on different continents. These continents, piecemeal, form a winding dotted line that stretches from the current battlefield towards the direction of the Ascending Dragon Palace.

These matters were supposed to be kept secret, and naturally, even the goddess couldn't detect them. However, because the artificial intelligence at the Ascending Dragon Palace seemed to be outside the "scope of fortune-telling," it slipped through the net, causing a serious flaw in the saints' plans.

Chu Fei found this matter very interesting. At first, everyone's thoughts and perceptions were blocked, and they didn't even think in that direction, completely unaware of its existence. But once it was noticed, the Goddess of Nature quickly found clues.

This situation is very similar to the advanced secrecy measures of the Rising Dragon Palace—the best secrecy is to ensure that the enemy has no idea that the thing exists, not even its name. In this case, even if you walk right past the enemy openly, they will not perceive any danger.

For example, before the plane crashed into the Twin Towers, the terrorists exhibited many strange behaviors, such as only learning how to fly without learning how to land. The relevant departments of a certain country had already received this intelligence but completely ignored it, allowing the terrorists to run rampant right under their noses. Only after the disaster struck did everyone finally realize—those guys who only learned how to fly were actually quite ruthless.

Simply put, this is a problem of insufficient understanding.

The Goddess of Nature is currently in the same situation. After confirming that the other saints had problems and might be targeting her, the Goddess of Nature purposefully searched for relevant clues and finally discovered this "pathway".

Currently, the avatars of the relevant sages are still on the move, constantly transferring spirits and concealing heavenly secrets.

Currently, there are already hundreds of groups of elves that have been assigned to this area. These groups have formed a clear dotted line that stretches from the direction of the Xuan Yang Domain battlefield all the way to the center of the Xuan Long Domain. The front end is only a dozen light-years away from the Sheng Long Palace.

A distance of more than ten light-years is just a sprint for a saint.

This "dotted line" runs through most of the Changqing Heaven, which is enough to show that the other sages were involved and joined forces to cover up the secrets of heaven.

Unfortunately, it was eventually discovered by some emotionless technology in the Rising Dragon Palace.

This indirectly proves a truth—the world is constantly evolving, and those who fail to keep up with the times will fall behind.

The Goddess of Nature discussed all the details with Chu Fei alone, and the entire conversation was conducted via digital signals.

After explaining the situation in detail, the Goddess of Nature concluded, "These avatars of the saints are still migrating the elves. It is estimated that it will take more than two hundred small groups of elves to connect the aura of the elves into a single line. Only then will it be possible to connect with my laws, hold me back, and make me the target of the Chaos Beasts."

At the current rate of migration, it will take at least another hundred years.

Chu Fei: "Now that we've discovered this, will those sages know about it?"

The goddess of nature smiled and said, "No! I won't let them know that we've discovered these things!"

That smile held an indescribable chill.

After carefully communicating with the Goddess of Nature, Chu Fei finalized the general situation. Further details would require careful consideration from the General Staff.

The days that followed were calm on the surface, but undercurrents were turbulent beneath.

The battle at the Saint level continued, and Chu Fei did not tell Zhao Weiguang or Pixiu Xuanxiao about the intricacies of the situation.

Regardless of whether previous actions revealed anything, it's all in the past. Since it has already happened, don't try to correct it! If you correct it and then get suspected again, you're completely finished.

It's fine as it is now, let's just make the best of a bad situation.

The Chaos Beast's attacks became more varied, frequently venturing out in all directions. Although within the Evergreen Heaven, the Sages controlled the heavens and earth, hindering the Chaos Beast's movement and causing it to expend considerable energy; however, practice proved that its constant movement placed even greater pressure on the Sages. Especially after the Sages acquired the warships provided by the Ascending Dragon Palace, the Chaos Beast was forced to change its strategy.

On the other side, Chu Fei also explained to Zhao Weiguang the theory behind the warship's attack on the Chaos Beast—the logic of concentrated fire, attack precision, and common divisors and multiples. It's also simple for the Chaos Beast to counter it: don't let its attack precision remain consistently "precise."

Sometimes, being too precise can be problematic. Taking a break now and then can be beneficial.

Furthermore, the most important aspect of warship attacks is concentrated fire; without it, the ships are essentially toys. The best way to counter concentrated fire from warships is to disrupt space, which is an instinct inherent to the Chaos Beasts.

Chu Fei felt terrible. He sold top-tier warships to the saints while simultaneously instructing the Chaos Beasts on how to deal with the warship attacks.

As the sages and the chaotic divine beasts fought each other, more than thirty years passed in the blink of an eye.

For a saint, it might be just a blink of an eye. But the research on "artificial black hole" technology at the Ascending Dragon Palace has finally made progress.

Within the Changqingtian region and the entire inner world's legal environment, creating a black hole seems even simpler, as there are massive continents everywhere.

It seems that as long as the balance of positive and negative curvature can be affected, a massive continent can be made to collapse on its own.

Of course, this only seems simple; the reality is far more complex. The Rising Dragon Palace researched this for over thirty years before finally finding a feasible solution.

The method is the same old technique: dimensionality reduction. In fact, the balance between positive and negative curvature is very fragile and easily broken.

However, the entire inner world has a powerful ability to correct errors; any minor imbalances will be quickly corrected.

To avoid being corrected, it's quite simple: sever the connection between the mainland and the surrounding space—that's the purpose of a vacuum energy bomb.

Simply put, by placing a ring of vacuum energy bombs around the continent of Youyun District and detonating them all at the same time, the connection between the continent and the inner world space can be temporarily severed.

Then, a dimensional reduction technique is activated to disrupt the balance. Once the balance is broken, gravity automatically takes effect, and the gravitational effect will automatically cause the continents to collapse, forming a black hole.

Once a black hole forms, a completely new state of equilibrium is established, which is difficult to alter. The appearance of a black hole will inevitably disrupt the laws of the entire Changqing Heaven.

If the laws of the Everlasting Heaven change, it's equivalent to stripping the saint of their holy status for a short period of time.

As soon as the sainthood is stripped away, the saint immediately falls to the quasi-saint stage.

Only a saint like the Goddess of Nature, who has one foot beyond the Evergreen Heaven, is a mature saint. Even if the laws of the Evergreen Heaven are in chaos, the Goddess of Nature will not be greatly affected and will still be a saint.

At that time, the goddess of nature was the most powerful being in this world!

However, this is only in theory.

The foundations of the other saints are not necessarily bad, and the influence of the black hole may not be that great. The inner world has a powerful error correction ability and may be able to eliminate the black hole soon.

The goddess of nature's transcendence is only half complete; there's no guarantee she won't falter at the crucial moment.

Therefore, we must make thorough preparations.

To completely surround the entire Youyun District continent, over a hundred million vacuum energy bombs would be needed. The Ascending Dragon Palace is working overtime to produce them, daring not to relax their efforts in the slightest.

Furthermore, since the migration is to a desolate land, more warships and a large amount of industrial equipment need to be prepared.

The entire Rising Dragon Hall began to bustle with activity, and the technology was also making rapid progress.

However, one problem remained unresolved: how to relocate everyone in the Rising Dragon Palace to a safe area without arousing suspicion. Besides personnel, there were also numerous industrial facilities. These were all issues.

Now, the Ascension Palace cannot do anything that might arouse suspicion, nor can it let those saints know that the Ascension Palace has discovered their plans. Only by striking unexpectedly can they escape!

For the time being, Chu Fei had no good solution and could only comfort himself and everyone else: the preparations for the Ascending Dragon Palace still needed time, a lot of time; with his current level of technology as a newly ascended Quasi-Saint, he had to be extremely careful in fighting against multiple Saints.

That day, Chu Fei was exchanging cultivation ideas with everyone, organizing the answers provided by various cultivators, and enriching the knowledge base and research materials of the Ascending Dragon Hall.

The Goddess of Nature suddenly spoke up, "Chu Fei, according to the world calendar of Changqingtian, my 'Christmas Day' is just around the corner. Your Ascending Dragon Palace should show some respect."

Chu Fei: ...

Goddess of Nature: "Do you think it's proper for me, a saint, to live in your villa every day? Shouldn't you build me a palace?"

Chu Fei was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened suddenly.

Holy crap, I didn't even think of that!

Yes, building a palace for the goddess of nature, a modern, high-tech palace, would make everything logical and natural!

This palace must not only be built, but it must be built on a grand scale and with the utmost luxury!

[Note: Christmas, originally, was a celebration festival for various deities in ancient my country.] (End of Chapter)