Ninti went offline.
No big deal, let her be.
Just like that, we long ago ran out of stones to cross the river by, and now every step forward must rely on our own exploration.
The cocoon of quantum was completed. The upgrade in energy level was irrelevant; the main thing was that it truly could offset a bit of the Imaginary Tree's gravitational pull. In addition, this made the Sea of Quantum a very secure fallback option, removing any worry about the day we might ever need to evacuate the solar system. It was worth investing heavily in and accelerating development.
More crucially, hadn't we grasped the deeper principles of the cocoon? Armed with this experience, whether expanding the cocoon's coverage across the interstellar world or simply manufacturing a cocoon in another stellar region, both had become achievable.
Anyway, it was arguably the best news so far.
The mere fact that it could genuinely resist the Imaginary Tree's attraction, even if it failed to solve the problem, was already more worth celebrating than any demigod.
As for the last point, Finality Qi, do you really want to follow Yom down the Path of Nihility?
The Aeon of Nihility, the most powerful yet most mysterious Aeon.
He was the end of all things in the universe, a nihility more ultimate than Enigmata. But at the same time, His very existence was the ultimate interpretation of existence.
At the end where all things return to nothingness, an Aeon still existed; wasn't this the greatest rebuttal to Nihility?
Since the Aeon of Nihility could exist, could pseudo-gods unbound by the Imaginary Tree also exist?
Equally a paradox, equally a rebuttal to the ultimate rules, IX could pull it off, so why couldn't the Anqi Faction?
This sounded very philosophical, but the truth