Multiverse: Ragnarok's Beginning - The Hero King's Path

In the original Hebrew text, it is also called ???????, translated into English as Tree of Cabala/Kabala/Qabalah/Kabbalah. It is a mystical symbol used in Judaism, part of the philosophical tradition known as 'Kabbalah'.

Kabbalah uses this to describe the path to God, or the way God created the world from nothing.

The study of Kabbalistic thought is said to allow one to see the 'mysterious causal relationships of the universe' and understand the cosmos's secrets.

There is also a saying that the Tree of Life represents the vast universe, the human body as a microcosm, and the spiritual journey to reach the divine realm—these three are closely linked, forming the core of Kabbalistic thought.

In short, the Kabbalah Tree of Life is also heavily connected to creation, hence it is also called the World Tree.

Beyond these three types of World Trees, similar divine trees exist in almost every mythology.

For example, the cosmic tree in ancient Indian mythology.

For example, the celestial tree in ancient Egyptian mythology.

All of these can be called World Trees.

However, while they can be called World Trees, they are not World Trees in the true sense.

Rather, these divine trees in this world are parts of the true World Tree.

If they were the true World Tree, these mythologies would not be crammed into one universe; each would have its own independently operating universe.

What these World Trees do in so-called creation—producing universes and such—is actually just creating other dimensional spaces within the universe.

The true World Tree exists within the Cosmic Origin.

So now, the giant tree behind Bai Yue, in the direction of Xianyang, piercing the sky—is it a branch of the World Tree? Or the true World Tree?

It is the true World Tree. This World Tree was obtained as a reward upon reaching a certain progress in role-playing.

However, the reward was not directly the World Tree.

He obtained the World Tree through the reward item.

So what was the reward? It was an item reward—specifically, the Fusang Tree that the First Emperor sought in the Fate world.

When he obtained the Fusang Tree, Bai Yue himself was already beside another Fusang Tree, one belonging to the world he was reincarnated into—the Fusang Tree of this world's Immortal Realm.

How did he find the Fusang Tree? By investigating ancient times, he discovered a hidden entrance to the Immortal Realm.

Only after entering the Immortal Realm did he realize it was completely empty.

After some exploration, he found the Immortal Realm's Fusang Tree.

Then, using the rewarded Fusang Tree, he successfully claimed the Immortal Realm's Fusang Tree as his own, and unexpectedly synthesized it into the true World Tree—a seed.

It was upon contacting this Immortal Realm's Fusang Tree, through its Akashic Records of the Immortal Realm, that he understood why the Immortal Realm was empty: the Immortal Gods of that realm had already left this universe.

During the Yin-Shang period, the Immortal Gods of this world accidentally discovered a new universe. To keep it hidden from other mythological pantheons, they quietly moved away.

Of course, they did not completely abandon the humans under their rule.

During the Yin-Shang period, a brutal war broke out, and the Immortal Gods intervened—essentially using the war to cover up the transfer of population.

They took the high-quality humans with them.

Back to the question: he used the now-empty Immortal Realm as fertilizer to catalyze the World Tree Seed.

He melted and reforged this nearly ruined Immortal Realm space, forming a new Little Garden.

Chapter 041: Dual Role Simultaneous Play

Speaking of which, he is currently the character Xiang Yu, right?

Then why would the reward be the Fusang Tree?

Xiang Yu doesn't seem to have any connection to the Fusang Tree, does he?

If the Fusang Tree were a reward for role-playing the First Emperor, that would make more sense.

Because in Fate, the First Emperor came into contact with the Fusang Tree, analyzed it to obtain the method of ascension, and ultimately created artificial immortals.

In fact, although Xiang Yu is also one of the roles being played, the Fusang Tree was indeed not among his rewards.

His two rewards were the Kuaiji Zero Type design and the skill 'Future Precognition'.

The Fusang Tree was a reward obtained from the role played before entering Xiang Yu's role—that role was the First Emperor.

So doesn't this raise a problem?

The First Emperor and Xiang Yu are figures from roughly the same period.

In history, the First Emperor is recorded as living between 259 BC and 210 BC.

Xiang Yu is recorded as living between 232 BC and 202 BC.

Their lifespans overlap by over twenty years; they coexisted in the same era. So what's going on here?

Could it be that in the actual history of this world, the two did not live in the same period? That there was no overlap?

That before the First Emperor died, Xiang Yu did not actually exist in this world?

No, in fact, they are contemporaries.

The reason is that this time, dual role control was in effect.

Before the First Emperor's role ended, the system assigned him a second role—meaning he had to control two bodies simultaneously, splitting his focus. It was quite a test.

When acting as the First Emperor, after formally inheriting the throne, it wasn't long before he had fully seized power.

In fact, he could have launched campaigns against the Six Nations—Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi—earlier, without waiting until 230 BC.

Moreover, he believed it unnecessary to take nearly ten years.

All of this, he could have accomplished ahead of schedule.

The reason he didn't was concern that acting early might disrupt the role-playing progress bar.

He thought that if he actually did so, the progress bar likely wouldn't regress.

His partial adherence to history was a means to buy time.

The reason for buying time was his unexpected discovery of the entrance to the Immortal Realm, along with the Fusang Tree as a reward.

Then, he created the World Tree Seed, using the Immortal Realm as fertilizer to catalyze its growth, giving birth to a new space—one beyond the reach of this universe's Akashic Records, essentially the birth of a new universe.

This newborn universe was pitifully small, containing only a single sun and a single Earth.

But this new Earth was nearly identical in environment to the Main World's Earth, with all the same animals, except that humans did not exist.

This change came about through his adjustments using his own Akashic Records.

Furthermore, the relationship between the two universes was akin to microorganisms parasitizing a human body.

Humans know they have microorganisms on them, but they can't immediately pinpoint what new microbe has appeared, and likely won't notice unless the disturbance grows too great.

Thus, with such a Parallel World Earth, he dragged his feet.

Following the example of the Immortal Gods who had relocated long ago, he used a war as cover to quietly move, transferring a portion of humanity in a great migration.

But since the Gods of the Immortal Realm had already fled, was there still a need for such secrecy?

Absolutely necessary. The Immortal Realm's gods were gone, but the gods of other mythologies hadn't all vanished. He needed to prevent them from sensing the anomaly here.

Back in the Yin-Shang era, when the Immortal Realm's gods intervened, they had alarmed the gods of other pantheons.

But any god who intruded from outside was brutally slain by the Immortal Realm's forces, who also issued a stern warning: any god who crossed the boundary would be mercilessly reduced to cosmic dust.

Thus, the gods of other mythological systems were frightened by these mad Immortal Realm gods, and from that warning onward, they never again set foot in the human kingdoms under Immortal Realm jurisdiction.

Now, would the gods of other mythologies still abide by that agreement? Would someone unable to resist secretly cross the border?

That was what Bai Yue worried about.

Until all Six Nations were absorbed into Qin, no issues arose, and the relocated population numbered roughly three million.

It was only after the unification of the Six Nations that the Qin Dynasty was formally established. When he officially assumed the title of Emperor, the progress bar had just reached the percentage for the second reward.

The second reward was similar to Solomon's reward for developing Magic—it granted him understanding of how to use Immortal Arts to develop electronic technology.

So, after developing a few things based on Immortal Arts, he accelerated the Qin Dynasty's industrial revolution, steering it toward the machine age.

Of course, he had no intention of letting this universe's Qin truly enter the industrial age—that was impossible, as it would definitely alarm other mythologies.

Instead, he would carry this out within his own Little Garden.

But there was a problem: the Little Garden's initial productivity was far inferior to this side's, so he would first develop things here to a certain extent, then gradually transfer them into the Little Garden.

Later, the so-called fall of the Qin Dynasty was a plan carried out by a persona he controlled—Xiang Yu.

On the surface, it was the destruction of Qin, but in reality, it was about erasing traces that shouldn't exist in this era.

In short, during the period from the Qin Dynasty's rise to its fall, what troubled Bai Yue most was still the gods of other mythologies crossing the boundary.

One or two gods, he could handle. As long as they stepped into Xianyang, he wouldn't give them a chance—he'd instantly have the World Tree's branches from the Little Garden pierce through, drag them to the other side, and devour them as fertilizer.

But if too many gods came, it would be troublesome. And if too many gods vanished inexplicably, it might alert others. If they couldn't find them, they might use the Akashic Records to search.

Another headache was this world's Akashic Records.

Couldn't he just ask the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons for help? To avoid unnecessary complications, he abandoned that idea.

Besides, he didn't want the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons or even Berial to know certain secrets, nor did he want those secrets exposed.

If they were accidentally revealed, the entire Human History might end up under tight surveillance just to catch him.

So, his two major headaches were resolved when Brunhilde came knocking.

He was certain she would come!

Chapter 042: Using Brunhilde as a Network Cable?

How would Brunhilde's arrival solve his problems?

He intended to use Brunhilde to infiltrate the Main World's Akasha System, thereby disguising the Qin Dynasty within it.

How would he access that Akasha System? By using the Akasha System in his Little Garden to hack in.

That was why he needed Brunhilde.

Brunhilde's role was like a network data cable, connecting the physically isolated internal network of the Akasha System to an external network.

If that was the case, why had he let Brunhilde leave now?

Had he already secretly infiltrated the greater Akasha System through her without her knowledge?

No, he hadn't. To operate the Little Garden's Akasha System, he needed the identity of the First Emperor to be recognized. Right now, he was in the identity of Xiang Yu, which had no authority to operate it.

And the identity of the First Emperor—was it lost? At this point in time, it had indeed been terminated.

In historical records, the First Emperor had a clear end time. Once that time arrived, the role-playing period also came to a close, so he could no longer act under the identity of the First Emperor.

Now, as Xiang Yu, the authority he possessed was merely to imprint a mark on Brunhilde—a mark that would allow her to be recognized by this world.

With this mark applied, when Brunhilde stepped into Xianyang City of the Main World, the World Tree would not suddenly treat her as a harmful object, as a virus, and instantly attack her, turning her into fertilizer.

Back then, to avoid exposing the anomalies of the Qin Dynasty, the World Tree that had infiltrated the Main World would immediately attack if it detected any divine presence within the Qin sphere—specifically the sphere of Qin before it unified the Six Nations, not covering the entire Qin territory. So if Brunhilde were not marked, she might be pounced upon by the World Tree before he could react.

That raises a question: Brunhilde originally intended to use the Akasha System to travel to 221 BC. Why did she suddenly jump to this period of the so-called suicide at Wujiang?

Clearly, someone had tampered with this Akasha System, setting up a trigger program as if waiting for Brunhilde to attempt her journey to 221 BC, activating the setup and diverting her to 202 BC.

Who set up this program? Did he have one of the Supreme Four Pillars do it? No.

The one who tampered with this Akasha System and implanted this trigger program was himself.

Then it was a future version of him who secretly intruded? No.

The intrusion occurred at 221 BC, the very time Brunhilde was heading to—a hidden program left behind when he used her as a network data cable to infiltrate.

In fact, for him at this present time, this event had already happened. He had successfully camouflaged the Qin Dynasty from 259 BC to 210 BC.

So, after the camouflage and shielding were in place, if someone traveled to Xianyang via the Akashic Records, they would find no issues. Naturally, they would not be suddenly attacked by his World Tree as a harmful object and turned into fertilizer.

That being the case, there was no need for him to deliberately intercept Brunhilde at this time, right? Why not just let her go straight to that time?

Of course not, because this involves a Time Paradox.

It's like a person going back in time to kill his grandfather before his grandfather got married. If his grandfather died, there would be no father; without a father, there would be no him. Since he wouldn't exist, he couldn't go back in time to kill his grandfather.

Similarly, if he did not intercept Brunhilde in this era and instead let her jump directly to that time, she might accidentally become fertilizer for the World Tree. Then, naturally, the event of him invading the Akasha System would never occur, and the matter of the camouflage and shielding being in place would also not exist.