To return to the Real Universe, the Three Ultimate Civilizations had made countless efforts after learning their true identities.
They did not want to build up enough resources through the dark-side universe, only to find themselves unable to return and vanish with the Great Reboot.
They could survive the dark-side universe's iterations, ensuring that the Three Ultimate Civilizations and their people appeared in every one.
But from within the dark-side universe, they could do nothing to influence the Great Reboot of the Real Universe.
So they kept trying.
The dark-side universe had gone through four iterations in all.
The Three Ultimate Civilizations had lived and died, then died and lived again, four times.
During the second dark-side iteration, they created the Information Materialization Device.
Its name said exactly what it did.
The Information Materialization Device was meant to bring the dark-side universe back into the Real Universe.
They had tried to activate it during the second dark-side iteration.
But the attempt failed. They lacked an information carrier from the Real Universe's current iteration; with only the dark-side universe's information state, they could not establish a connection to reality.
So the Three Ultimate Civilizations came up with a solution.
They would alter the underlying laws of the next dark-side iteration so that the dark-side universe of the third iteration projected itself into the Real Universe.
They had created the dark-side universes themselves. Changing the underlying laws posed little difficulty.
It worked. They obtained some information carriers from the Real Universe: a group of individuals who came from there.
That dark-side universe projection was none other than "Star Sea," the Immersive Full-Dive Game Han Xiao had played on Earth before his Transmigration.
They thought they were playing a game. In truth, they were acting in another world.
And those individuals from the