booktalesy Chapter 576 What Does It Mean You Understand?
Chapter 576 What Does It Mean You Understand?
The pressure is mounting.
Jemin's soul trembled, struggling frantically on the verge of collapse.
The grand voice still echoed in his mind, each word like a mountain, making it hard for him to breathe.
The golden light of the Destiny System had dimmed to the point of almost extinguishing. Although the torrent of thoughts from the billions of black giants was still surging in, it was only a slightly more tenacious stream in the face of absolute silence, and it would be frozen sooner or later.
But strangely, Jemin's consciousness became increasingly clear.
That kind of lucidity was eerie.
It's like a person about to freeze to death in the freezing cold, who experiences a strange warmth and clarity just before death.
He knew it was a sign of impending death, but he couldn't control himself.
The information around him was still trying to get into his mind.
Every piece of information is an intrusion, and every intrusion is an assimilation.
They want to read his memories, analyze his knowledge, and then copy and spread it.
Jemin could clearly feel that he was now completely alone against the entire world.
Moreover, there exists a civilization in the middle of this world.
A civilization that has evolved for millions of years, possesses infinite computing power, and can violate the law of conservation of energy.
The grand voice rang out again, but this time, for the first time, a hint of doubt appeared in that eternally calm tone.
Why...?
Jemin was startled.
That sliver of doubt, like a ray of light, pierced through the chaotic fog in his mind.
He suddenly laughed.
The smile was light and faint, but it carried an indescribable sense of understanding.
"I see………"
Jemin muttered to himself.
In the process of constantly confronting the other side, he figured out many things.
The wizards had already studied what those information beings called the "entropy reduction cycle".
The conclusion is astonishing: they violate the law of conservation of energy, forming something akin to a perpetual motion machine.
Under normal physical rules, maintaining entropy reduction over a small area will inevitably lead to greater entropy increase over a larger area.
Just like a refrigerator cooling down, the internal temperature decreases while the external heat dissipation increases, so the overall entropy must increase.
But these information organisms are different.
Their entropy reduction cycle not only does not cause additional entropy increase, but also continuously absorbs external entropy increase and transforms it into its own entropy reduction.
This violates the second law of thermodynamics.
But in the extraordinary world, this is not impossible.
Using their racial talents, they achieved "creation from nothing" and gained limitless power without reaching level nine. However, due to the limitations of their racial nature, they had absolutely no desire to expand.
They simply exist, remain, and remain silent, like a stagnant pool of water that is forever still.
In a sense, the advice that the highest consensus algorithm gave to Jamin was not wrong.
If this were placed in the world of Jemin's previous life, a world without supernatural powers, then beings like information creatures would be nothing short of "gods" who would save the universe. They could absorb chaos, maintain order, bring everything back to balance, and avert the inevitable heat death of the universe.
pity.
This is not that world.
This is a world with extraordinary power, a world where beings can obtain infinite power.
Even more regrettable is...
Within Jemin's body lies extraordinary knowledge from another world.
"I see………"
Jemin murmured again, his voice carrying an indescribable clarity: "I understand..."
He felt the flow of information constantly trying to penetrate his soul, felt that silent assimilative power, and suddenly everything became clear. "The so-called mystery has always been in the open."
He raised his head, and although he couldn't see anything, his gaze seemed to pierce through the void, looking directly at the highest consensus algorithm hidden behind it.
"The foundation of everything you have is the entropy reduction cycle."
"You exposed this to us a long time ago."
The grand voice rang out again, this time with a strange allure.
"Join us and you will gain eternity."
"By merging with silence, you will no longer be tormented by chaos."
"Your knowledge, your memories, your existence will forever remain in the perfect entropy reduction cycle."
Jemin did not respond.
He just kept muttering to himself, as if he were talking to himself, or as if he were talking to some unseen being.
"The so-called silent darkness..."
"So they are beings trapped in an entropy reduction cycle."
He recalled the silent wizards that Martin had shown them when they first arrived at the battlefield.
Those people were neither dead nor unconscious.
Their minds are still working, their mental seas are still active, but they cannot transmit any information to the outside world; all outlets are blocked.
They are trapped in their own consciousness and can never have any impact on the outside world.
That is silence.
That is the state in which information beings are pulled into an entropy reduction cycle.
At this moment, the highest consensus algorithm is doing exactly the same thing to him as those wizards have experienced.
Jemin took a deep breath.
"fortunately."
A slight smile appeared on his lips.
"Fortunately, there is a higher level of order within me."
He understood things that normal wizards couldn't.
He can resist forces that normal wizards cannot resist.
It wasn't because his mental strength was stronger, nor because he had a destiny system, but because...
He possesses a knowledge system from another world.
The information creature used its own simulated "chaos" to oppress him, attempting to pull him into a cycle of entropy reduction.
Essentially, this is using a stronger order to oppress a weaker, chaotic one.
It's like smashing an egg with a hammer.
But Jemin is not only a wizard, but also a cultivator.
Cultivators are, in essence, a more greedy being than wizards.
Wizards seek to improve themselves, explore the unknown, and master the laws.
Cultivators dream of plundering the world for their own use.
The so-called "going against the heavens" is not for destruction, but to bring all the spiritual energy, laws, cause and effect, and fortune of this world under one's own control, and ultimately transcend this world.
But the plundered land and sky did not disappear.
It became the "internal circulation" within the cultivator's body, becoming the world that coexists with him.
This means that...
Cultivators themselves represent absolute entropy reduction.
An entropy-reducing existence that can take the entire universe for its own use.
Jemin's consciousness became clearer and clearer.
He felt the cultivation techniques within his body taking effect.
The incense and sacred path were operating frantically, absorbing the beliefs of the believers; the inner circulation cave was trembling violently, maintaining its connection with the outside world; the body tempering method was adaptively evolving, desperately increasing its resistance to silence.
These are all forms of "a stronger order".
They are resisting the invasion of the external order in a way unique to cultivators.
The stronger the resistance, the deeper the understanding.
The deeper the understanding, the stronger the resistance.
Jemin felt as if he were stepping on his own foot with his left, climbing upwards step by step under that terrifying pressure.
His understanding of incense and deities deepened, his manipulation of the destiny system became more refined, and his application of body-tempering techniques became more ingenious.
Even his understanding of the cultivation system itself underwent a qualitative change at this moment.
I see……
This is the true essence of cultivating immortality...
The grand voice continued to tempt him, but Jemin was no longer listening; he was completely absorbed in his own world.
Finally, in a moment of sudden enlightenment, he came to his senses.
The first thing Jemin did upon regaining his senses was to suddenly chuckle.
"ha."
The laughter carried a hint of absurdity and a touch of melancholy.
"Looks like I really do inherit the same traits as my mentor."
There was a time when he envied Senior Viola for relying on the Frost Dimension to strengthen herself, or perhaps he envied Mentor Clark for using a super-large abandoned dimension to verify his own Dao.
And now, without realizing it, he has also experienced something similar.
The words had barely left his mouth...
boom!
The virtual space trembled violently.
Countless cracks spread through the void, and blinding light poured in from the cracks.
The grayish-white flames that could turn everything into an elemental soup signified that Martin had led the high-ranking wizards in and stormed in!
"Jermin!"
Martin's roar echoed throughout the heavens and the earth.
The power of an eighth-level wizard was like a monstrous wave, instantly engulfing everything.
The virtual space has completely collapsed.
Jemin felt a blur before his eyes, and countless lights flashed around him.
When his vision returned, he had already returned to the information plane, back to the gradually dissipating absolute zero barrier.
Martin stood beside him, gray flames burning around him.
Surrounding them were a dozen level seven wizards, hundreds of level six wizards, and countless cannon fodder creatures.
On the other side, in that area that was once isolated by the barrier, countless information creatures were retreating frantically.
Jemin took a deep breath.
It feels so good to be alive.