Chapter 900 The Correct Cornerstone (5200)

If there were a life born with the authority corresponding to a certain Great Dao, but this authority remained dormant most of the time, and its awakening had nothing to do with its own will, could such a life be called 'special'?

In most universes and timelines, even in many multiversal foundations, such lives could be called special. They are naturally in harmony with the Dao and possess incredible divine power. Once awakened, they can be called gods, even God-Kings and Supreme Dao-Harmonizing Saints.

But here's the question: what if all life in this universe were like this?

Would they still be special?

The answer is, of course, no. After all, if everyone is special, it's the same as everyone being ordinary.

Only those who are different from ordinary people can be called extraordinary or monsters.

Ming Zhengde was astonished by the divine-devil essence that everyone in the Rhapsody Great World possessed. It was a divine power that even the Heavenly Emperor in the Perfect World needed to go further to obtain some characteristics of.

However, in this universe, awakening itself cannot be controlled by oneself.

Relying on one's own cultivation to gain power, 90% of people do not have good cultivation talent, and only one in a billion can become immortals, gods, and harmonise with the Dao.

Relying on luck and chance, one in a billion can become immortals, gods, and harmonise with the Dao.

The former is the case in most worlds, the latter in the Rhapsody Great Universe.

In the former, many people's efforts are in vain. No matter how much they refuse to accept their fate and struggle to defy the heavens, if it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be.

The latter is even simpler – if it's not yours, it's not yours.

Ming Zhengde naturally detests the latter.

As for why, the answer is simple.

[The result is not important, what's important is that there is a kind of hope... a hope that can kill, but also ignite and transform people]

After confirming the core essence of the Rhapsody Great Universe, the man couldn't help but sigh: [A faint hope, like a dim star in the darkness, seems likely to shine brightly, but most of the time, people will only get lost in the dark sea because of this star, and die silently]

[Only a few people can turn their stars into supernovas, illuminating the entire night sky and guiding many people forward]

[But in any case, at least everyone has their own dim star – but the Rhapsody Great Universe is different. Those with stars are bright, and those without stars are dark, unwilling to give even a glimmer of light]

[Such a world is truly evil]

Ming Zhengde spent 30,000 lifetimes, with Su Zhou's help, to make his starlight illuminate the world. This was a result that could only be obtained in the Perfect World.

Because he was originally just a mortal, the kind of ordinary person who could never make his star shine, weak, compromising, and always fantasizing that the enemy would treat him kindly, a simple, ignorant, fragile mortal who couldn't persevere.

It was change after change, pain, re-sublimation, like rebirth from the ashes, nirvana from death, that transformed him from a mortal into a phoenix pursuing perfection.

But if it were in the Rhapsody Great Universe, he would definitely lose.

Why?

Because he couldn't even become a god, at most a demigod. Three hundred million reincarnations wouldn't change the outcome.

However, even such a world is not without ways to change.

Just like now.

Inside the End Matrix, in addition to the incubation pods for humans, there are also a large number of mechanical bodies used for automatic maintenance. These mechanical bodies are similar to a walking bed. Based on the information from the incubation pods, they place the pods and the humans inside them on their bed-like testing platforms, and then perform repairs and tests.

Some of these humans die of old age in the incubation pods, or suffer brain death in the virtual space due to excessive mental stimulation. Their bodies are also removed from the incubation pods by these mechanical bodies for processing.

One by one, decaying or young bodies, like meat pigs, are carefully skinned, their flesh stripped, their internal organs removed, their bones crushed, and then these organic materials are made into the prototype of LCL, as well as the raw materials for nutrient solutions.

One person's nutrition can nurture another person. In human farms, the value of humans is not wasted.

From skin to bone, from will and wisdom to soul, everything becomes the power of the End Matrix.

That is, the Twilight Net – the power of the Starry Sky God-King.

The purpose of the End Matrix in raising humans is actually very simple: because in the Rhapsody Great Universe, everyone possesses notes, and their soul fluctuations essentially contain the Great Dao fluctuations represented by their notes.

The greater this fluctuation, the more likely it is to bring greater achievements. If the fluctuation reaches a certain point, exceeding a certain level, then in the next era, the holder of the note can become a new god.

No matter how much one defends against it, it is impossible to completely suppress the奏 (zòu) of notes. After all, the entire universe is a song... but obviously, in the Final Song Era, the Starry Sky God-King thought of a good way to control the degree to which each person's notes 奏 (zòu).

That is the virtual world.

By placing everyone in the virtual world, no matter how great their achievements, how ambitious their aspirations, it is all virtual in the end. Even if it can trigger the notes, it cannot exceed the limit of becoming a god.

At the same time, by absorbing these soul fluctuations containing the principles of the Great Dao, the Starry Sky God-King can also continuously increase and expand his power, using it to deal with the 烛昼 (Zhu Zhao) evil gods invading from outside the world.

In other words, all humans are resources.

In simpler terms, they are ammunition to fight against the enemy.

How perfect!

Not only can it prevent ordinary people from becoming powerful and replacing his position, but it can also obtain unique and valuable resources from the activities of ordinary people, becoming his own power... The Starry Sky God-King is indeed a powerhouse who has condensed the knowledge essence of past gods. This move is indeed a trump card for all the natives of the Rhapsody Great Universe.

[But there's me]

Ming Zhengde smiled. He could see that at this moment, Eve was already eagerly sending the 'Heavenly Devil Virus' into the matrix: [The multiverse is ultimately one, and no world can be isolated – so it is inevitable that the gods of the Rhapsody Great Universe will encounter us]

Instantly, one could see that the colorful, vein-like patterns floating on the surface of each construct, after a series of rapid flickers, all turned into the deepest cyan-purple.

With the construct where Eve was located as the center, this cyan-purple began to spread and expand rapidly. In contrast, there was also a buzzing sound, as if the computing core was operating to the extreme, so it began to glow and heat up.

Innovation, iteration, self-optimization – this is the only function of the Heavenly Devil Virus.

Constantly innovating, constantly removing the 'bad' side, optimizing the 'slow' part, eternally continuing to innovate, without ending, without rest, without forgiveness, without anything else.

Pure innovation is spreading in the End Matrix.

Therefore, it is a poison and a mistake.

[Pure innovation is a mistake]

Leading Eve out of the construct she was in, Ming Zhengde had her chant a ballad, using clothes constructed of light to cover her body. He guided the girl along the trajectory of the cyan-purple light, towards the core of the End Matrix.

One could see that after a brief resistance, the terminals were completely soaked in cyan-purple, becoming chickens controlled by innovation.

[Because pure innovation does not rest, does not allow the power brought about by correcting mistakes to settle]

Eve passed by a terminal. In it, there was a young woman, who looked a little older than Eve. This woman was dreaming in the virtual world. She should have been continuously immersed in her favorite elegant, soothing, rhythmic and pleasant life.

In such a life, the Great Dao notes belonging to this woman would 奏 (zòu), providing power for the entire End Matrix – humans would reap the life they craved, and the gods would get the eternity and power they wanted.

However, as the entire virtual world gradually collapsed, she began to realize that she could no longer continue to rest.

Due to the effect of the 'Heavenly Devil Virus Eternal Innovation', the End Matrix modified its maintenance algorithm. This woman will always, eternally, without any interruption, do what she likes the most.

If she likes to drink afternoon tea, she will keep drinking it, until she doesn't like it anymore.

Then she will rub cats, suck cats, continuously, until she is completely disgusted.

Play games until she throws up, turn entertainment into imprisonment, squeezing all the joy out of this woman, until she can't squeeze out any more fluctuations.

Buy clothes, shop, until the woman herself begins to doubt whether it's useful to buy so much, whether she can wear it all.

"What's wrong with this world?!"

Finally, the woman collapsed. She looked up at the sky, which had begun to shatter and turn cyan-purple, and said in shock and uncertainty, "Is all this fake?!"

"What kind of nightmare is this?!"

[Pure innovation does not wait, does not wait for those parts that cannot yet exert their effect, but will show their power in the future, to show their strength]

Eve passed by another terminal. She saw a diligent young man whose hobby was learning, enjoying the feeling of solidifying himself. He could endure all the dullness and boredom, endure all the ridicule and mockery.

Because thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, those who mock him now do not understand the weight of his current efforts. One day, he will complete his studies and amaze everyone.

However, with the invasion of the Innovation Virus, the young man will never have such an opportunity again – the young man's destined reincarnation should have been a set of processes of 'learning', 'being looked down upon', 'appreciating himself, making a decision, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river', 'working harder to learn', 'being slapped in the face', 'pretending to be forceful, slapping faces, amazing everyone'.

After completion, the End Matrix can collect his fluctuations, and the young man will begin another reincarnation.

"You could at least let me upgrade before resetting!!!"

But now, every time a period of time passes, the young man's life will be restarted, because his fluctuation feedback is too slow. The End Matrix cannot wait for long-term planning and returns, so it simply reduces all the young man's virtual resources. As a result, the number of restarts is too high. The young man, who can no longer suppress the feeling of deja vu, begins to suspiciously look around the world, and then sees the cyan-purple magic light flashing, filling the world.

[Pure innovation only blindly pursues speed, but does not know that slowness may occasionally have better results, and can have a better fault tolerance rate]

"Here... is the core of the End Matrix?"

Under Ming Zhengde's guidance, Eve witnessed the whole process of how the End Matrix bewitched humans, making them willingly immerse themselves in dreams, and also witnessed how the Innovation Virus broke through the End Matrix's algorithm, making the humans in it begin to doubt the authenticity of the virtual space.

And at this moment, she also came to a huge domed space.

Here, there is a huge, super-giant spherical mechanical structure, like a planet's core. It is tens of kilometers long. Eve stands in front of it, feeling like she is looking up at a mountain peak that she cannot see the end of. It is so huge that it seems to have a kind of gravity, making people want to approach it uncontrollably, and then worship it.

This is the core of [End Matrix·Hela]... the core hub called 'Heart of Hela'.

The surface of the spherical center is not regular, and is composed of regular polygons. The combination of smooth and solid crystal and metal plates flickers with colorful streamers. Streams of information gathered from thousands of constructs converge at the crystal port of this spherical body, summarizing the power of the Great Dao fluctuations provided by all humans.

"Can the Heavenly Devil Virus... really infect something like this?"

Eve couldn't help but shudder – she could sense that the core of the End Matrix possessed a terrifying divine power capable of tearing apart time and space and destroying all things.

Visible distortions of space-time lingered around the mother machine, which looked like the core of a planet. That was the gravitational shield, seemingly blurred, like an area covered by water vapor, but it was actually hundreds of thousands of different rates of spatial distortion points. Any material energy that approached would be directly torn to pieces, and then turned into nothingness in the rise and fall of time and space.

The End Matrix mother machine itself, which can manipulate time and space, is the most terrifying war star.

But...

The colorful rainbow light lingering around the mother machine also gradually began to turn cyan-purple.

Even... this light, fiercely, began to burn!

[Of course]

To Eve's confusion, Ming Zhengde just smiled calmly: [Eternal rest, not adapting to local conditions, not waiting for development trends, not predicting future trends, taking one step at a time, thinking one step at a time, are all mistakes, are all viruses]

[And this virus is extremely tempting, because it looks so enthusiastic, so correct, and never compromises, it sounds really like a hero]

[But in the end, it will only burn the operator... to ashes]

The cyan-purple flames completely enveloped the entire mother machine, the fire swept through the entire matrix space, and shot straight towards the dark ends in all directions, finally illuminating the seemingly endless darkness, causing the bright metal outer walls to reflect this brilliance, the entire matrix space was a blaze of light.

In the virtual space, after the Heavenly Devil Virus broke through the End Matrix mother machine,篡改 (cuàn gǎi) its fundamental algorithms, and completely lifted it from the control of the Twilight Net, all the cyan-purple flames turned into flying snow ashes and gradually dissipated.

And the world belonging to innovation was reborn in the virtual world with flames.

The humans imprisoned in the virtual space stared blankly at all of this. They did not know what the significance of all these anomalies represented, but instinctively, they knew that all of this was correct.

It could lead to a better future.

Eve and Ming Zhengde's will slowly walked under the reflection of the fire. The girl stared at all of this, and she raised her head thoughtfully, as if asking, and as if stating: "So, Mr. 烛昼 (Zhu Zhao)..."

"Are you trying to tell me that 'eternity' is also like this?"

"Blindly pursuing eternity, blindly pursuing longevity, blindly pursuing pure existence, infinite time... will only turn oneself into a monster like the gods?"

"For the sake of eternity, using any means, forgetting the original purpose and reason for being a god..."

"Becoming such a monster that raises humans, harvests souls, but thinks it is perfect..."

Ming Zhengde smiled without saying a word, because Eve had already answered his own doubts.

He raised his head and looked at the top of the dome.

[Su Zhou] the man murmured to himself: [Perhaps, is this what you hope for? Not just simply telling the truth, but expecting humans to get their own unique and correct enlightenment from every part of their lives?]

[Su Zhou, my Imperial Preceptor... you are walking even further than me, who is merely pursuing perfection]

At the same time.

"One must be in awe, one must know how to wait... do not think that because you seem to be chosen by 'eternity', ' 烛昼 (Zhu Zhao)', or other 'correct' things, you can be superior, and can regard others as lower than yourself."

"Be skeptical."

Eve, murmuring to herself, raised her hand: "To reach the correct, one must first learn to doubt."

Being a '眷属 (juàn shǔ)' only represents a willingness to follow this path, it does not mean that the correct pursuer can be more advanced than others.

Only because no one is truly correct, only constant innovation.

"Doubt innovation, doubt eternity, doubt perfection and destiny... doubt everything, and then you can think."

"Then you can find the road you want to take."

At this moment.

On her right thumb, a ring is condensing.

At the same time, in front of the End Matrix mother machine, as all the Heavenly Devil Viruses burn themselves out, endless ashes are also condensing in front of the mother machine, and finally vaguely condensing into a group of cyan-gray, majestic and strong humanoid.

That is the 'original form', 'demon god', 'humanity's heavenly demon' condensed from the will, soul, and Great Dao fluctuations of humans in the entire Final Song Era... or it can be said to be the 'soul primarch'.

One of the [Ten Elements] leading to the correct.

Its name is 'Doubt'.

The cyan-gray humanoid giant god has countless ancient runes on its surface, which are the doubts that have filled the hearts of humans since the ancient times when they began to look up at the starry sky.

He slowly opened his eyes, and star-like lights appeared in his jewel-like eyes.

[My King]

Facing Eve, who held the 'Ring of Doubt', the giant god bowed slightly, his voice like thunder: [I am 'Doubt', the cornerstone of truth]

[Fighting for the future of mankind]

——Final Song Era, Disordered Timeline.

Unknown timeline, under the command of the Twilight Net, End Matrix·Hela was broken through by an unknown attack.

The human rebel army, which had been dormant for a long time, was reorganized again, and obtained the cultivation methods called 'Primarch' and 'Prototype'.

This time, they possessed the power to resist the gods and resist the Net.

The miracle of chaos has finally descended on this fateful starry sky.

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