The Boundless Sea
[(Gold Badge): So I'll still participate in the Large Dungeon twenty days from now... I'll participate with Thirty Attributes.]
[(Gold Badge): So brave! No more worrying about combat power?]
[(Gold Badge): This is the perfect time. The second Large Dungeon is destined to offer the best balance of reward and risk. If the Large Dungeon and entry requirements remain unchanged, then Thirty Attributes will provide some self-protection. Plus, many Survival Worlds have already been destroyed, making this a guaranteed harvest... If the difficulty of the Large Dungeon is dynamic, like the previous Trial Instance, then we are destined to be among the top-tier combat forces...]
[(Gold Badge) Ye Zizhen: It is indeed the best time to reap the rewards. Some Survival Worlds have gone crazy for the survival of the world. Not only will the remaining Gold Badge enter Large Dungeons to look for opportunities, but a large number of strong Silver Badge will also enter Large Dungeons to survive and get a spot.]
[(Gold Badge): What's the point? Silver Badge players just barely made it through Large Dungeons by sheer numbers. Do you think they can clear the Career Advancement Dungeon before the fourth Continued Battle ends?]
[(Gold Badge) Su Luo: Yes, the Career Advancement Dungeon is indeed a welfare Dungeon. If you're not looking to improve your strength and are just trying to complete the system tasks, it's actually quite simple for Survivors... at least for the first batch of Survivors who cleared the Large Dungeons.]
[Jiang Mengrui (Gold Badge): It's really simple, isn't it? The Large Dungeon here is [Boundless Sea]. All I need to do is gain control of a section of the sea to advance my class. I haven't even started taking control yet because I have a feeling there's something very important here... Wait, I have something to take care of.]
On a boundless silver Ocean, countless phantoms play out on the surface, and countless possibilities of different worlds rise and fall in the bubbles.
A small, gilded boat sailed Jingjing on the Ocean. Jiang Mengrui stood Jingjing at the bow, as silver waves occasionally surged up and lapped against her bare, white insteps.
Besides the Ocean, waves, and phantom images, the Ocean also contains a large number of cards, dice, game pieces, and game coins...
Countless strokes of good and bad luck tumble here!
Every wave represents a possible timeline, and every drop of seawater represents the Future of a living being.
Just as Jiang Mengrui was watching the World Channel, a dark hole appeared on the sea surface, and the silver Ocean flowed out of the hole, manifesting as the endless Long River of Fate.
A figure, seemingly ethereal and otherworldly, calmly emerged from the cave entrance. The innate Xiantian Dao Treasure on his body transformed into a small boat radiating Spiritual Light and boundless Daoist charm, standing atop the silver Ocean. Completely ignoring Jiang Mengrui on the gilded boat, he looked around with his hands behind his back, exuding an aura of dominance!
"Is this the [source] above all realms? Seeing it today, it is utterly wretched."
Immortal Emperor Yunxiao shook his head in disappointment.
Immortal Emperor Yunxiao, starting from a mortal body, fought his way through countless battles, sweeping away the demonic forces of the Nine Heavens, shattering seventy-two ancient demonic mountains, and annihilating the rebellious Immortal Court. Amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he laid the foundation for an imperial dynasty. Finally, his grand plan to ascend to the Upper Realm, spanning ten thousand years, broke free from the shackles of the Immortal Dao's Reincarnation, tearing through barriers and soaring straight to the highest dome...
There's nothing much to see at the [source], it's a mess. The accompanying creature is as weak as a maggot, but it's not bad looking.
Though not as powerful as his emperor and empress, they were ultimately beings from the [source], perhaps possessing a unique charm.
Before Immortal Emperor Yunxiao could finish appreciating the scenery of the [Boundless Sea], Jiang Mengrui retrieved a gold coin from the sea and casually remarked.
"I'm willing to gamble my Life and Death with you."
Before Immortal Emperor Yunxiao could even process why he was gambling with his Life and Death, the surrounding seawater suddenly surged up, the layers of water droplets as heavy as the world itself.
If you guess right, I live; if you guess wrong, you die and I live.
Front or back?
Jiang Mengrui's cold voice reached the ears of Immortal Emperor Yunxiao, and the gold coins rose into the air and began to spin.
Immortal Emperor Yunxiao sensed the surrounding power and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Only an idiot would gamble on something like this!
The opponent must have a 100% chance of winning to gamble like that; isn't this a sure-fire way to lose?!
However, Immortal Emperor Yunxiao, having lived for countless years, instantly saw through Jiang Mengrui's naivety and deduced that she was likely afraid to communicate with him much.
"I disagree! I want to gamble with you on the real gamble of this Sea of Fate!"
As the surrounding pressure dissipated, Immortal Emperor Yunxiao realized he had guessed correctly; the information asymmetry the other side had exploited had flaws.
"If I win, I will take my Future! If I lose, you can do whatever you want with me!"
As the tide receded, Jiang Mengrui listlessly tossed away the gold coins.
The Boundless Sea is the source of Fate for all realms. If a being becomes powerful enough, it may come to try to alter its own Fate.
She even went to ask Scholars what the "Boundless Sea" was.
The Scholar said he didn't know and had never heard of it.
It is highly likely that it is a common Fate of a certain World Cluster, which can be considered a regional anomaly. The so-called "various realms" are just the closed understanding of the heavens by the beings in the World Cluster.
Jiang Mengrui's mission is to prevent these powerful beings from altering their Fate.
The Boundless Sea has its own rules.
The phantom of the bubble expanded in mid-air, and a false worldline flowed out. Something from Jiang Mengrui and Immortal Emperor Yunxiao was thrown into it, and they competed for victory from a common starting point in that false Future.
Immortal Emperor Yunxiao stood up with lingering fear, and once again stood with his hands behind his back.
The Celestial Emperor's invincible spirit made him fearless in any situation.
Jiang Mengrui, on the other hand, was staring at that fake world line.
The Essence of world lines exists in the [Boundless Sea] in the form of probability, and luck and probability are closely linked.
But luck is such a vague concept; in fact, the World Channel is constantly filled with Survivors chanting the name of Goddess of Luck.
Nothing more than taking advantage of good luck.
Jiang Mengrui developed a slight aversion to the vagueness and omnipotence of luck, stemming from its Uncontrollable.
People eventually grow up, and Jiang Mengrui began to have some different ideas about Talent.
What are the causal chains behind luck? If the course of events is already fixed, how does luck distort this chain? How extensive is this distortion? And what is the final cost?
Luck seemed to be all-powerful for Jiang Mengrui, but it was ultimately limited.
If luck hadn't existed, Jiang Mengrui wouldn't have entered the Survival Game at all, but would have been living happily before all of this happened.
If luck had no limits, then all the Survivors in Darkness Survival would be able to give up. Luck wouldn't let its goddess die, and No. 9527 Survival World would never shut down.
"Luck is ultimately limited. It may bring a bit of cleverness, but it's short-sighted and comes at a price."
"Perhaps the price won't fall on me before, but if I encounter a powerful being who can distort the world, disregard the environment, and even cause and effect, I'll just be a lucky lamb."
"They will most likely be raised as Meat Pigs for meat, or even directly..."