Above The Sky

Chapter 2155 - 60: The Earliest Serenity (Center_7)

"No, there aren’t that many cradles..."

At this moment, Ian suddenly realized: "If I exist only in this universe, I can only see the Terra Cradle, can only see the lonely stars drifting in the universe, the few companions, moving with the same steps countless light-years away, utterly alone."

"However, I do not exist in a single universe."

"I am the result of Ian across infinite parallel space-times, I am a ’Demi-Star God’."

"Therefore, I can see... I can see the collection of all cradles in these infinite parallel space-times..."

"This true infinite entity... the Infinite Loop."

For beings with ordinary optical perspectives, they simply cannot see things beyond the light cone; when they see starlight, the star may have already exploded and vanished.

They can’t even see the boundary of the Terra Cradle.

For beings with an Aether Perspective, they can perceive ’the light released by a star a thousand years ago, arriving before my eyes a thousand years later,’ and can also perceive ’now, a supernova is erupting, releasing infinite light and heat,’ and even can perceive ’a thousand years from now, I am here, seeing the light of the supernova arriving before my eyes.’

Many Prophets are at this level, with fragmented Aether Perspectives, hence able to glimpse both past and future and the information of parallel space-times.

They can see the entirety of the Terra Cradle, even perceive the existence of ’other cradles.’

However, if truly transcending space-time, observing the existence of multiple universes and space-times at once... one can comprehend the grand ultimate structure spanning infinite parallel space-times of the Star Gods.

In different universes, at different space-times, different probability tributaries, different timelines and possibilities, different universal constants... moving along the same trajectory are infinite kinds of cradles, an Infinite Loop.

And at the center of this Infinite Loop, the Tranquil Rim...

Ian seemed to perceive something.

He lifted his head and looked toward the center of the Infinite Loop, which is also the ’center’ of the Aether Universe.

There was nothing there, only a [Void].

An incredible force, an infinite power led out by the Infinite Loop, pierced through all parallel space-times and universes.

How should it be described?

If a universe is a page of an infinitely thick book, then other pages are other infinite parallel universes.

An individual’s loop is one page of this infinitely thick book, a drop of ink seeped onto the next page or even the previous page, coloring a certain spot of the entire book with its own hue, reaching the infinite realm.

The Great Aether Circulation is wrapping the book in tape or something else, and The End is the inevitable decay of this book into ashes, merging all parallel space-times into one—even if that one is the end of ashes.

Then this Infinite Loop is the collection of all ink in this book, penetrating all pages like a nail piercing the entire book, connecting all pages originally separated, even...

Even the book and tape cannot stop it, cannot obstruct the ink, flowing to the [beyond the book]’s [end]!

That is the [Void]!

The Void present on all pages, penetrating all space-times, whenever ’ink’ flows here, it will leave the book, reaching the desktop, the ground, the soil, gravel, and any other unimaginable areas outside the book.

Reaching [other universes]

At this moment, because Ian excessively used Aether, his existence was indeed discovered by The End outside.

Alongside an incredibly terrifying yet indescribable darkness, The End reached toward Ian with its branch, that predetermined conclusion that no residents of this universe can escape or detach from, a certainty.

Unless never born, unless never existed, unless stayed solely at the origin and endpoint, neither affecting the universe nor creating anything, just waiting silently.

Unless...

[Leave this universe]

"I understand now..."

Ian murmured to himself; at last, he comprehended the meaning behind it all.

Gazing at the raging torrent of the cradle, his body was vanishing; he wouldn’t be caught by The End. Once discovered, he would self-destruct, and the other ’Ian’ would know all he saw: "The Star Gods haven’t fled, nor have they failed; they are still fighting, just not in the way we imagine."

"Not fighting in this universe."

"I see, so this is the cradle... no, what I see is still too small: the true cradle is this universe itself!"

"When the book becomes blank, even the book’s ashes are meaningless."

"And the blank book..."

"Can inscribe new Chapters!"

Ian beyond the cradle vanished, The End’s branch merely extended slightly along the Aether stream, without wisdom or motive, extending simply because there was conspicuous Aether there.

No malice, no thought, naturally wouldn’t doubt or show mercy.

It continued to cling to the wound of the Terra Cradle, waiting silently.

Within the cradle.

Terra.

Gantreignum.

Ian closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he already understood everything.

[So, this is how it is]

He softly spoke, then smiled: [So it is like this... The End will chase Aether... everything becomes clear]

"Ian?"

Panloss looked at the suddenly calm Ian, sensing a hint of danger: "Was the experiment successful?"

[Very successful]

Ian turned his head, gazing at this elder with only eleven years left, speaking calmly: [I have found a way to let Terra avoid The End, to save the world—also a way to save you all, allowing you to live another life]

"What?"

Panloss suspected he heard wrong—from the beginning of Ian’s experiment until now, not even five minutes had passed, how could he suddenly find a way to resolve everything?

And what Ian said next astonished him even further: [However, before that, I need to reshape the entire world]

[Panloss, Terra is sick, this world is sick. A starfield doesn’t need multiple Fifth Energy Levels; if there are multiple Fifth Energy Levels, it means a Sixth Echelon must appear to suppress these Fifth Energy Levels—those with the Perpetual Motion Machine’s Sixth Echelon]

[If there isn’t a Sixth Echelon possessing a Perpetual Motion Machine, then there shouldn’t be more than two Fifth Energy Levels, because their war will destroy everything, whether civilization or life, history or future]

[Terra is unfortunate, yet fortunate—unfortunate in that this planet has over thirty Fifth Energy Levels, enough that they could dismantle the entire planet twenty times over. Fortunate in that thirty Fifth Energy Levels have reached a balance, our world has remarkably remained stable for sixteen hundred years]

[Such a super cradle must have a Star God guarding it, but our Heavenly Father perished to protect us]

[Heavenly Father’s Aether created our world, forged Terra and the Domain of Void more solid than ordinary planets, created the Realm of Light and Semi-Perpetual Machine—even Prophets like me frequently appearing on Terra because Heavenly Father’s transcendent space-time Aether scattered all over the world]

"What exactly are you trying to say, Ian?!"

Panloss, hearing this, already felt an incomparably wonderful sensation—his wisdom informed him that Ian now was extremely dangerous, but his Fifth Energy Level time-space instinct indicated no threat.

[Terra no longer needs Fifth Energy Levels, Panloss!]

And Ian, with blazing eyes, glimpsed the whole world, speaking gravely: [Your voices are too loud, too vast, like a storm, drowning all sounds and wills of others]

[The storm roars, so no one can hear people’s cries... only tranquility, only a tranquil world can let people hear the sound of tears falling on the earth!]

[Only when the sound of tears resounds in everyone’s ears can Fifth Energy Level be born]

[And only in a future where tears no longer fall is Terra People worthy of truly possessing the ’Sixth Echelon’!]