A Glimpse of High Civilization

The things beyond our borders are bizarre and indescribable.

However, these civilizations are all within Li Qi's comprehension. They are all confined to the material realm. Their so-called wonders are merely different applications within the material realm. In the end, they all lead to the same goal through different paths.

Decades after the war began, Li Qi had the opportunity to witness a truly High Civilization.

The true ruler among countless extraterrestrial civilizations, an existence that walks alongside the world, and one of the allies of the Shaman Path this time.

Yes, they are true allies, not ordinary worlds that were coerced into joining.

The Second Rank World, the Middle-Micro Bird Realm.

This is a truly High Civilization, and its form of existence is completely different from the civilizations that Li Qi knows.

Li Qi's next operation will involve joining forces with the Middle-Micro Bird Realm to destroy the 'Great Wall'. This is a major operation involving several war zones and is of great importance.

Li Qi, due to his outstanding achievements, became the leader of this major operation. He will be responsible for leading the commanders and experts from other war zones to destroy a section of the Great Wall and break down the Human Path shell of that place.

However, finding the Middle-Micro Bird Realm is a very troublesome matter. High-level worlds each have their own unique characteristics, and even the world cannot replicate them.

The Middle-Micro Bird Realm, long after it became Second Rank World, was completely unknown to anyone, not even the world itself.

The powerful beings, unaware of their existence, would naturally not bother to search for them, and beings in other material worlds simply lack the ability to observe them.

Yes, they are that strange, unobservable, and unaffectable. They exist on a completely different level from material life. They cannot observe other life forms, and other life forms cannot observe them.

Because... they exist outside the rules of physics.

Yes, outside the rules of physics.

Because of his mission, Li Qi needed to come into contact with this civilization, and immediately applied to the third-rank member of the 'Alliance' to retrieve the data on the Middle-Micro Bird Realm.

He received approval three months later. The information on the Middle-Micro Bird Realm was classified, and Li Qi could only obtain a portion of it. But even this portion left Li Qi in awe.

The Middle-Micro Bird Realm was born after the 'Spreading Across the World'.

After the 'Spreading Across the World', a great war broke out in the universe, a super war between all the Dao Lineage.

This battle directly led to the shrinking of the divine path, the formation of the Nine Lands of the World structure, and... the weakening of the Great Dao of the universe itself, which can be gradually modified.

When cracks appear in the Great Way, something will naturally come to fill them.

What was ultimately born was the Middle-Micro Bird Realm.

This is not the world in the usual sense. The realm of the Middle-Micro Bird Realm- Middle-Micro Bird Realm. They are located in the gaps between the physical rules, where they are born and die. They are in the material world throughout their lives, but they do not have any impact on the material world.

Even if life in the Middle-Micro Bird Realm and life in the material world are face to face and overlap, there will be no interaction between them.

The Micro-Birds the moment they were born, they believed that the universe was empty and contained nothing but themselves. Thus, in the void, they groped their way and found Dao Path completely different from that of the material universe.

A Dao Path, with only gravity, without any air or other fundamental forces, only gravity.

That's right. The only force that can affect the Middle-Micro Bird Realm is gravity. Nothing else can touch them or interact with them. Light passes directly through them instead of reflecting off them. They don't even have 'qi', physical bodies, or souls. They are in an indescribable state.

We know nothing about them except that they exist.

They are beings of gravity, and gravity can penetrate all dimensions. In their world, there is nothing but gravity.

They even recognize people through gravity, since any object with mass has gravity, and they feed on gravity, causing gravitational fluctuations. The fact that the world cluster can be formed is also due to the existence of the Micro-Birds.

Originally, matter in the World Cluster was very scarce, and the gravity formed by this matter was far from enough to hold them together over such a large area. However, with the presence of the Micro-Birds, the gravity became much stronger, thus giving rise to the current World Cluster structure.

However, this very fact leads to changes in the gravitational constant, resulting in different data on gravity at the macroscopic and microscopic levels.

Ultimately, through the research of a highly accomplished Reason Way master, the existence of the Micro-Birds was discovered by observing this strange change in gravity.

At this moment, Li Qi was ordered to go and communicate with this inexplicable life form.

Li Qi held a compass in his hand, which could point to the point where gravity converged.

He has been gone for several months.

At this moment, a diviner in Li Qi's group said, "Captain, we have already traveled through 3,400 world clusters. This area is the most densely populated area of world clusters in the vicinity, and there is also an extraterrestrial wonder called the 'World Fountain'."

The World Fountain is an extremely vast star cluster covering millions of light-years in circumference. Its gravity is so immense that it attracts a large amount of matter.

So much matter collided and mixed under the influence of gravity, and then worlds were born. After the worlds were born, they were attracted to a super accretion disk located in the very center of the star cluster. Some of them were directly swallowed up, but most of them were flung out by the accretion disk and ejected outward from the two poles of the accretion disk.

Ultimately, the result is that infinite worlds gush forth from the star cluster, like a fountain.

The tens of millions of world clusters surrounding us were all born because of the World Fountain.

The massive star cluster spanning tens of millions of light-years, the countless worlds, and the gushing streams of light are spectacular even on an astronomical scale.

Li Qi used to think that this was just a place where matter was simply gathered. Because the matter was gathered too much, the mass was large. The large mass naturally became a place where gravity converged, thus attracting more matter. This snowball effect eventually gave birth to this extraterrestrial wonder.

But now it seems that this is clearly not the case.

The gravitational pull here is not due to matter, but because the Micro-Birds have built their 'nests' here.

Therefore, the extraordinary gravity here attracted countless substances, giving birth to a super Ruins, which in turn produced the 'World Fountain'.

According to available information, this super-ruin has an enormous mass, which is extremely rare even in the universe. Its viewpoint spans a terrifying 300,000 light-years, and its gravitational pull is enough to stretch tens of thousands of worlds.

Li Qi nodded slightly and said to his teammates around him, "Pay attention, that viewpoint of the Super Ruins is the 'nest' of the Micro-Birds. It's a comfortable environment for them, but not for us."

As he spoke, Li Qi pointed to the team members.

Including him, there were four people in total.

Wishing someone Li Qi, wishing someone Yan Cong, wishing someone You Xiong Gong, wishing someone Shao Chi.

Of the four people, apart from Yan Cong, the others were all top-tier fifth-rank individuals.

Although Yan Cong is not a top expert, he came as a technical expert. His lineage specializes in the study of spacetime and has a very deep understanding of gravity. He is the type of person who is most able to communicate with the Micro-Birds.

"The spacetime around us has begun to distort, and gravity has warped our path. We need to change our course slightly, otherwise we won't be able to travel in a straight line." At this moment, Yan Cong was checking the star map while instructing the crew to modify the spaceship's course.

When navigating outside our territory, we must be constantly vigilant, as even the slightest error can lead to disastrous consequences. Therefore, we need to make corrections at any time. In places where gravity can distort spacetime, we need to be even more careful.

"Yes, be careful, and remember to avoid the natives here," Li Qi reminded him.

"There are natives over there." The diviner in charge of observation pointed to the star map.

Everyone immediately looked in that direction, only to see a strange world and a strange flying boat.

In such an environment with immense gravity and distorted spacetime, it's impossible for any ordinary species to be born. It's a species similar to a slug or reptile, struggling to pilot their flying boats and explore this chaotic spacetime environment.

The gravity is so strong that only reptile-like creatures can survive, and they can't have bones, otherwise they would have shattered long ago.

If they were standing like Li Qi and the others, with their internal skeletons intact, they would simply turn into a pile of rotten flesh and die here.

So, it's better to be a pile of rotten flesh from the start, that way you can still survive.

"Their airships... can't get out. Once they reach the outside world, they'll disintegrate. The constant they're using is wrong," Zongren Shao Chi commented after glancing at the airship.

This is a very fair assessment. These airships were created specifically to suit such extreme environments and are completely incapable of navigating outside the environment; they would collapse as soon as they entered the outside world.

"I can see that. Look at the pile of ruins over there." Li Qi glanced at it and pointed out the edge of the gravitational distortion in the star map.

There were also detection reactions there, indicating that there was some floating matter.

Although it's just some data and lines, for people who frequently travel outside the region, these data and lines can help them determine exactly what's on that side.

Just like a spectrometer scan, what ordinary people see are just some incomprehensible data and lines, but professionals can analyze them at a glance to get the information they need and obtain intelligence.

Based on the fluctuations transmitted by the spaceship probe, Li Qi's team could draw a conclusion: this civilization had been launching these spaceships outwards, but each time they went and never returned. The wreckage of the spaceships had piled up at that boundary, making them clearly observable by the probe.

Clearly, they are constantly improving and modifying the composition of the airship in an attempt to break through this barrier.

Unfortunately, they kept failing. No matter how they modified the composition, as long as the underlying manufacturing principle remained unchanged, they could never leave this place, and the entire civilization's efforts were misguided.

Oh, not forever, because this region will gradually be sucked into that super Ruins. In a hundred or two hundred million years, if they are lucky enough not to be swallowed by the Ruins, but instead to be thrown out like the other worlds of the World Fountain, then they will experience a wave of civilization collapse, technological decline, and all cultivation methods and traditions based on the spacetime distortion environment will disappear.

They have to start from scratch on the outside.

But perhaps this civilization had already gone extinct before that. They seemed to be a very active civilization, but unfortunately, they were born here.

The four-person team didn't linger. In this area, civilization was everywhere, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy.

Continuing to fly forward, they accidentally crashed into a star-shaped sword formation.

After narrowly escaping the Sword Qi several times, Li Qi finally gave the order, "This place is relatively safe, let's stop here and rest for a bit."

With Li Qi's command, the other three also breathed a sigh of relief.

The astral sword formation they had just entered was indeed somewhat dangerous, even for them.

In the void, so much matter will come together to give birth to some unusual celestial bodies, such as supermassive stars.

These stars are rare in outer regions dominated by 'worlds', and are usually only seen within high-grade worlds.

Some third-grade worlds, which are hundreds of billions of light-years in size, contain star systems, but they are located outside the domain and generally exist as world clusters.

But here, because of that super-retrogression, the world barrier was directly destroyed, matter surged out, and these celestial bodies were created.

Supermassive stars will collapse after a period of time, producing a supernova explosion. This explosion is very similar to the Sword Qi of a high-level martial artist, so it is called Celestial Sword Energy.

It's all pure destruction.

Under certain extreme coincidences, these outbursts can intertwine to form a natural 'array'. If they are caught in it, even their airships may be damaged or destroyed.

Without the airship, they would have to fly on their own, and who knows how long that would take. So the airship must not be damaged.

"Phew, this trip was much more difficult than I imagined. This kind of work is really tiring." Youxiong Gong put down the Law Artifact in his hand and wiped his sweat.

The fact that he was able to dodge so many of the Celestial Sword Energy was thanks to the diviner; he had just been quite exhausted.

"Why do you think the Micro-Birds can't just come out and see us directly, instead of making us go to visit it?" Zongren Shao Chi relaxed and leaned back in his chair as he asked.

"Because we can't see them. They can't react with ordinary matter. Among the fundamental forces, they can only interact with gravity. Unless we go to a place where gravity warps spacetime, we simply can't see them," Zhu Renyan Cong said.

"By the way, technical expert, how do we contact Micro-Birds again?" Shao Chi asked.

"Sacrifice, sacrifice can communicate everything. We need to go to the viewpoint of that Ruins of Return and hold a grand ceremony to forcibly establish a deep connection with gravity through the distorted spacetime, so that we can detect the Micro-Birds," Yan Cong continued to explain.

This is the job of technical experts: to help everyone understand the specifics.

"Then why is it called the Micro-Birds?" Shao Chi's curiosity was very strong.

"It is said that because its shape is similar to a bird, but also resembles a fish, it was originally intended to be called Micro Flood Fish, but later it was thought that it did not sound good, so it was called Bird."

"As for the intermediate state, it comes from the nature of the other party. The intermediate state is a strange state that exists widely in the universe. It passes through our bodies every second without interacting with us, hence the name."