Late at night, Cheng Yu sat beside Snow Spirit's bed, peeling back layer after layer as he analyzed the composition of the pan-universe consciousness.
No one could have imagined that, inside an utterly ordinary rented apartment, the core of this universe was being dissected alive.
At last, Cheng Yu rediscovered a little of the joy he had felt as a top student back in his school days.
"So the pan-universe consciousness is essentially an aggregate of the underlying basic rules. Unlike the will of the Heavenly Dao and things like that, it doesn't need a vessel.
"Or rather, its vessel doesn't exist on the material plane at all, but consists of everything that emerges from its autonomous operation: spacetime, fate, even something as subjective as emotions?
"Oh! So space and time form a dual unity within the laws governing the universe? Or is that just how this particular universe works?
"Irregular, shifting matrix fluctuations, along with corresponding spacetime anchor points. And those anchor points are like events destined to happen-they'll occur no matter what changes.
"So fate emerges from that, while the tides of laws in the Chaos Sea outside the universe affect the spacetime matrix fluctuations within this universe, destroying the spacetime anchor points.
"But because of the pan-universe consciousness's regulation... hmm, 'regulation' isn't quite the right word. 'Correction' would be better.
"The pan-universe consciousness's corrections restore the destroyed spacetime anchor points. But the destruction of those anchor points has already happened, so to prevent the spacetime matrix from collapsing, parallel universes emerge?
"But where does the matter and energy for those superimposed parallel universes come from?
"I don't quite understand that.
"And emotions-aren't they reflections of living beings' innate instincts? How...
"Hmm? The point emotions are mapped from originates in... a higher dimension?
"But if it's a mapping...