The so-called Big Bang meant that the universe's initial form had been a singularity of infinite density, infinitesimal size, and infinite energy. Through the great explosion, countless colorful planets, soil, water, metal, and all matter and energy came into being.
Even now, 14 billion years later, humanity on Earth could still observe from Earth that the edge of the universe was continuing to expand outward at an extremely rapid rate.
Although this spherical universe had already shattered into nine pieces, its expansion still caused this "planet" to continuously increase its surface area, like a slowly inflating balloon. Yet now, it was reversing.
"The universe is rapidly collapsing; matter, return!"
Xu Zhi stared fixedly at Tu Xin's movements, learning with utmost humility and marveling in secret as he studied them. "This man is incredible. His methods are astonishing. He uses a special encrypted analytical method to process this immense amount of data, making the return and collapse far more efficient."
It was like a file-compression program.
This was absolutely not a simple process. It required a particular compression method to handle it, returning and collapsing in a spiral. Though the comparison to compressing files was quite inappropriate, it could still convey the difficulty involved.
How much data was contained in the universe? Far more than trillions upon trillions upon trillions of terabytes.
Compressing all that into a single point—one could only imagine how terrifying it was.
"Even if one treated one's own body as an ultra-miniature universe, containing every elemental substance of the universe within it and compressing it, it would be an immensely difficult task—countless times harder than compressing 1,000 GB into 1 KB!"
Xu Zhi's pupils widened slightly at the sight, and his shock deepened. "This fellow has actually deduced a perfect, detailed method for breaking through to the