Chapter 485: Journey to the West: Heavenly Tribulation! A Universe Destined to Never Restart!

“I have heard that the number of heaven and earth is 129,600 years for one cycle, and that one cycle is divided into 12 periods, each of which is 1800 years. The sky was created in Zi, the earth was created in Chou, and human beings were born in Yin.”

Li Ang read out the opening chapter of Journey to the West to everyone present. In the explanation in Journey to the West, the so-called universe, space is called Yu, and time is called Zhou.

Each cycle of heaven and earth is called Yuan.

In the cosmology of Journey to the West, each cycle of twelve meetings is equivalent to a restart of the universe, and this period of time is one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years.

It is roughly equivalent to 13 years.

The sky opened at Zi, and at Chou hour the earth began to solidify. After Yin hour, all things came into being. At the turn of Xu and Hai, everything returned to a state of chaos and darkness.

That was the Dharma Ending Age, when matter and life between heaven and earth no longer existed. But after the turn of the year of Hai and Rat, the universe began a new cycle again.

The calamity that Tathagata Buddha told Sun Wukong about is the cycle of heaven and earth that occurs once every 13 years, and the Jade Emperor has avoided calamities in total.

Therefore, he is fully capable of taking on the position of the co-lord of Heaven.

As for the life span of the Jade Emperor, it cannot be simply calculated according to 1750 multiplied by 13, because by this calculation, the Jade Emperor would only have lived for 2.2 million years.

A mere 2.2 million years may not be a big deal in the history of the universe, but if we calculate it based on the reincarnation cycles of other universes, the average lifespan of each universe is 170 billion years.

The gold content of the Jade Emperor’s 2.2 million years is equivalent to an astonishing 30 trillion years!
This is definitely an old monster that is beyond the laws of the universe.

In fact, it is precisely because the Journey to the West universe has a reincarnation and restart mechanism that the top gods and leaders do not want to start competing on a new track with mortals.

So they each found their own way to avoid natural disasters, and continued to jump into the next reincarnation while preserving their own strength, and then ruled the world.

This is true for the Three Pure Ones of Taoism, the Buddha of the Western Paradise, and the Jade Emperor in Heaven.

After listening to Li Ang’s introduction to the reincarnation mechanism of the Journey to the West universe, the human staff present basically understood what their governor meant.

They were already familiar with “Journey to the West”, but many of them only read the general plot and chose to ignore the opening chapter which really played a guiding role.

Li Ang interpreted the reincarnation of the Journey to the West universe from this new perspective, which instantly enlightened them. The so-called three-day reincarnation of the universe seemed to have some similarities with the Journey to the West universe!
The human leaders around them seemed to be thinking about something, but some representatives from other civilizations seemed a little confused. They did not understand the deeper meaning.

One is a myth, the other is the conventional physical universe. How do the two find their common points?

However, Leon would not stop to explain to these alien civilizations, and could only let them learn the relevant knowledge points on their own afterwards.

He then said, “The reincarnation every 13 years is a predetermined natural disaster. If you want to survive this disaster, you must have a basic prerequisite, which is to survive.”

“So lifespan became the only hard currency in the Journey to the West universe.”

In order to help everyone better understand the importance of lifespan to the Journey to the West universe, Li Ang also asked AI Europa to prepare a map of the related industries of the gods.

The above records in detail the lifespan industry chain of each god.

“The Queen Mother’s Peach Garden is located in the Yaochi of Kunlun Mountain. It absorbs the essence and spiritual energy of heaven and earth and obtains the essential materials for mortals to practice.”

“Similar to the Peach Garden is the Wuzhuang Temple of Zhenyuan Daxian. The ginseng fruit also relies on the absorption of spiritual energy, and the water source comes from the fairy dew of Yaochi.”

“The sources of the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill of Taishang Laojun are many, including the world’s treasures, rare minerals, monsters, and mortals as ingredients for the pill. His grabbing of resources is the best in the Three Realms.”

“For example, the Kingdom of Daughters is one of the industrial chains of raw materials for Laojun’s alchemy, which improves the power of the elixir by refining the energy of infants.”

“As for the Jade Lotus Root Golden Pill, Fire Dates, and Jiao Pear produced by the Barefoot Immortal and the Longevity Star, they are all produced in Yingzhou Fairy Island and Penglai. These innate treasures are occupied by the gods and immortals, and mortals will never be able to get their hands on them.”

The metaphor that Li Ang mentioned couldn’t be more obvious. The gods in the Journey to the West universe rely on grabbing materials to ensure the extension of their own lifespans, so as to survive until the heavenly calamity comes.

The god-level civilization in the Three-Body Universe also follows this idea, relying on constantly grabbing matter to ensure the development of its own civilization, because the restart of the universe is an inevitable result.

Although the materials in the Garden of Eden are rich and beautiful, everyone knows that time will gradually erode everything, and those who don’t take action first will be the ones to suffer.

It can be said that the Dark Forest Law is the first truth since the birth of the Three-Body Universe, and it is also the truth that runs through it all!
At this moment, everyone present suddenly realized that this was the fundamental reason for the end of the pastoral era of the Three-Body Universe.

The inevitable outcome is that eleven dimensions will continue to decrease to zero dimensions, which means that every restart of the universe will become a cruel chicken-eating competition.

The first truth that the civilizations born in the Garden of Eden learned was not to live in harmony, but to madly kill their neighbors and occupy more resources.

While constantly transforming himself by dimensionality reduction, he also used dimensionality reduction attacks to kill his competitors. There were eleven rounds of brutal fighting like this!
During this period, it is also very likely that some second-round or even third-round contestants with memory and technological knowledge will seize the initiative.

In the original Three-Body Problem, the Nullifier civilization is clearly one of the best!
“In this way, each small universe is equivalent to the treasure land in the Journey to the West universe. Each god-level civilization avoids the heavenly calamity by occupying a small universe.”

“But there were too many small universes, which resulted in too many resources being taken from the large universe. The entire universe’s restart mechanism had problems, and it fell into an eternal state of death.”

As he thought more deeply, Ott Cunningham gradually realized the horror of the Three-Body Universe. If the secret to passing the Three-Body Universe is to create a small universe.

According to common sense, this should be an extremely rare and difficult technology, and there should be very few civilizations that know about it.

But the reality is that the number of small universes in the Three-Body Universe is so large that the big universe cannot be restarted, which can only mean one thing.

That is, there are many “old players” in the Three-Body Universe who have experienced the cycle of the universe!
Each of these civilizations were old hands who were well versed in the laws of the Dark Forest in their previous lives. These ace chicken-eating players who had survived from the Pastoral Era to the Dharma-Ending Era all had strength that was no weaker than that of the Zeroer Civilization.

But they never showed up…!
The invisible enemy is the most terrifying.

The Three-Body Universe, where the Universal Corporation is heading next, is home to multiple invisible god-level civilizations that have enough patience and decisive action.

It is no wonder that Governor Leon is on high alert. Once the star gates are opened frequently, causing these god-level civilizations to escape, it will definitely be a world-destroying disaster for the giant companies.

Perhaps there really is a “Jade Emperor Civilization” hidden in the Three-Body Universe that has survived more than a thousand natural disasters.

“That’s right. So the fundamental reason why the Three-Body Universe cannot be restarted is not because of Cheng Xin’s two kilograms of matter. On the contrary, humans are one of the few civilizations willing to return the matter.”

As for the character Cheng Xin, Li Ang never thought that she was a saint who only knew how to mindlessly love all living beings. In the cold and dark Three-Body Universe, she was one of the few touches of warmth.

It was not her who caused the end of the pastoral era in the Three-Body Universe, nor was it her who caused the universe to continue to reduce its dimensions and lower the speed of light, and it was not even Cheng Xin who caused the universe to be unable to complete its restart.

Therefore, there is no point in criticizing or condemning such a good person. The culprits who caused the collapse of everything are the silent “gods”.

Humans, Trisolarans, and even the Singer civilization that abused the two-dimensional foil to reduce dimensions were not as disgusting as these old Dengs who seized the matter of the small universe. Hearing this, the executives of the giant companies in the conference hall fell into silence. The complexity of this universe exceeded any universe they had seen before.

Even the powerful “Star Wars” universe does not contain as much information as the Three-Body Universe.

They will have a busy trip this time!

Small universe, doomsday catastrophe, avoiding reincarnation…

V, who had been silent for a long time, pondered for a long time before he slowly spoke: “I suddenly feel that the message transmitted by the Null Sector civilization using the super membrane broadcast does not seem like a righteous statement at all.”

“It’s more like a desperate complaint and a last-ditch struggle that won’t help.”

For civilizations that do not have the technology to master the microcosm, the broadcast statement of the Zeroers is a warning, but for civilizations that have mastered the microcosm and are prepared to safely survive the catastrophe, it is completely a noise that no one cares about.

After all, if the Zero-Returner civilization really has the ability and means to reclaim microcosmic matter from other advanced civilizations, then there is no need for them to go to the trouble of carrying out any super-membrane broadcasting.

Simply threaten the other party to return the material.

But the problem is that the current universe can no longer allow this war of physical laws to continue. With the improvement of the level of civilization, the cosmic battlefield can no longer withstand the continuation of the war.

The form of warfare in ancient civilizations was nothing but devastation and rivers of blood.

However, the form of war of the god-level civilization is the collapse of heaven and earth and the collapse of dimensions.

Every civilization that controls a small universe knows that someone must make sacrifices and return some matter to complete the restart, but without exception they place their hopes on others.

But it was unwilling to sacrifice its own interests, so the universe died.

“Then what can we do in the Three-Body Universe? These god-level civilizations will never return the matter. The universe is doomed to die.”

“But if we choose to accept them, will it cause other troubles? They are all civilizations that have experienced the reincarnation of the universe. In terms of wisdom and technological capabilities, they are not necessarily worse than us.”

Jack Wells expressed deep doubts. He did not want to take the risk of sending his troops to the Three-Body Universe, which would be a completely futile move.

To these dark reborn people, human moral values ​​may be no different from childish fairy tales.

“That’s why I spent countless dollars to build the Ether Phase Engine.”

Li Ang smiled and finally brought the topic to the greatest scientific research project results in the history of the world’s giant company.

The ultimate device to break the fourth wall – the Ether Engine!

As Leon finished speaking, AI Europa immediately projected the completion status of the Ether Engine project.

This ultimate megastructure, which was built by hollowing out nearly one-fifth of the matter in a universe, blowing up a universe to build a model, and experimenting with another universe to create, can finally be officially put into use.

In order to build this huge megastructure, Leon ordered the suspension of the construction of multiple colonies and plans for new megastructure projects.

Fortunately, they finally managed to build this key megastructure before entering the Three-Body Universe.

Otherwise, Leon would never have given the order to go to the Three-Body Universe for integration so easily.

Without sufficient backup force, it would be suicidal to rashly step into this dangerous universe.

The larger the empire, the more cautious the decisions made by those in power need to be, because the cost of turning back is too heavy.

“After entering the Trisolaran Universe, we must first capture some civilized species, unite others, and finally, if possible, initiate a dialogue with the god-level civilization.”

“Either you return the matter voluntarily and accept the rule of the giant corporation, or you will be drained of everything by the etheric engine.”

Li Ang had already made plans to unify the Three-Body Universe. The end of this universe must be restarted, and recovering the lost matter is a must.

However, he is not unwilling to give these god-level civilizations a chance.

As long as these gloomy old guys who take the Dark Forest Creed as their guiding principle are willing to cooperate, then everyone will have a bright future. But if they don’t accept the toast and drink the forfeit, then everything will be over.

Of course, Le Ang did not have any expectations or illusions about persuading the god-level civilization. He also felt that doing so might easily bring about hidden dangers and troubles.

He even hoped that the high and mighty god-level civilization would turn a deaf ear to his warnings and then be completely drained by his etheric engine.

“Now, I will personally lead this group of giant enterprise employees into the Three-Body Universe. The basic affairs of the Universal Giant Enterprise will be temporarily handed over to the Emperor for agency.”

Li Ang provided a list. This time when they went to the Three-Body Universe, they would at most carry one War Moon megastructure, which would carry some production bases and fleets.

As for the staff, we try to keep it as simple as possible.

Prior to this, Le Ang had already discussed this with many senior executives of large companies, so this decision was not opposed. Moreover, he also left some secret sentries to help supervise the Emperor and other senior executives.

“After arriving in the Trisolaran Universe, I will use the Xeelee night fighter to contact you, but this device cannot achieve the instantaneous speed of superluminal travel.”

“There will be a time difference of about 13 hours, so after you report your work, it will take at least 26 hours to receive the latest response.”

“So unless it’s an extremely urgent situation, try to handle it yourself as much as possible.”

Li Ang tried his best to make a series of follow-up arrangements. He didn’t want any trouble to arise in his rear area while he was dealing with the “Three-Body” universe.

“Yes!” All the executives of the giant companies responded in unison.

The “Three-Body” universe integrated by the global giant this time requires the least equipment, but it also has the greatest value.

The Moon of War, a large platform that brings together the cutting-edge warships of giant enterprises, scientific research teams, weapons and equipment, as well as the Ether Phase Engine that claims to drain everything.

Regardless of whether this integrated operation succeeds or fails, it will definitely be recorded in the history of the giant enterprise, just like when the giant enterprise launched its first great expedition to Pandora!

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(End of this chapter)