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With all preparations complete, deriving the world coordinates that constitute the "trinity" is not difficult; what we should really be concerned about is the coordinates of this "trinity" itself.
As the starting point of the retrospection, when Lin Yi uses this "trinity" method to deduce the origin world coordinates of the "fragment", the world coordinates of the location will inevitably be discovered. Given the limited knowledge of the power and system possessed by the "fragment", such a rash exposure is obviously extremely dangerous. Therefore, it is not feasible to place this deduction in the world controlled by the main god or to have the subject itself do it.
"That's why we need information media to step in."
Lin Yi didn't resist this situation, probably because she knew it would be like this from the beginning.
He didn't pay too much attention to the interactions between the angels, demons, and dragons—once the "Trinity" was completed, they would be thrown into another world by the main god and officially incorporated into the main god's space system only after their safety was confirmed. As for the other situation where their safety could not be confirmed... Lin Yi probably didn't need to worry about it.
A jumble of chaotic thoughts raced through my mind, but I finally suppressed them all with a deep breath.
They gathered the remaining information towards their hands and began to deduce it from the small amount of information left on the three otherworldly "gods".
The first connection was to the sixteen race worlds. Even though some time had passed since the war triggered by the "fragments" ended, the remaining information was still evident. At this point, Lin Yi was completely certain that the so-called "war between order and chaos" was a drama he had orchestrated himself. His real purpose was to use this seemingly opposing method to split the existing powerful races within the sixteen race worlds and then destroy this highly active world at the lowest possible cost.
"A common tactic."
The second connection is to the world of paradise.
Even though they couldn't set foot on that land in person, by tracing back the information from the "Archangel," they still managed to capture a world containing a large amount of residual positive energy. However, unlike the monotonous world they had imagined, this world, which should have belonged entirely to light and order, was gradually collapsing and disintegrating due to the intervention of the "fragments."
The third connection was to the Purgatory World, which was also the world that Lin Yi found most moving.
Before truly "seeing" Purgatory, Lin Yi habitually held the impression that such a world was like a place where lava flowed on the ground, chaos and slaughter were everywhere, and the naked law of the jungle where the strong preyed on the weak. But the Purgatory world he was now capturing through the "demon" information was completely the opposite of what he had imagined.
Although it has not yet expanded to the entire territory, the well-organized design has already begun to take shape. In order to reduce the severity of the environment of Purgatory itself, even the greening work has been done well. The most amazing thing is the "sun" in the sky.
On one side of that standard crimson sunset of the purgatory plane (which could only provide vitality but not heat), another sun, with a temperature and distance almost exactly the same as the one felt when looking up from Earth, was clearly present.
"Stellar-scale interdimensional teleportation?! No... it's just a simulated fake."
Having used up a small portion of the information to see through the authenticity of this "sun," Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief. If this "fragment" had already mastered this level of technology or power, the war might have to be stopped midway.
This is not Earth or the Moon, but an entire star—its volume and extent contain energy hundreds of thousands of times greater than Earth's. If even a unit of this size can be easily transferred, then it is indeed something that the current God Space cannot confront head-on. After all, with the power of the Gods, at most they can create a Dyson sphere or Cybertron, and they are still a long way from being able to pull a sun out of thin air to use as an energy source.
"Speaking of which, it seems that the main body also had similar ideas?"
Lin Yi didn't have much time to let his thoughts wander. As the remaining information belonging to the "fragments" within the three world coordinates was captured one by one, the "trinity" formed by this was officially established and began to trace back towards the "source" under the transmission of a large amount of activity.
It was at this moment that Lin Yi sensed something was amiss.
"Did you find it?"
There was no point in trying to find the source of this strange feeling, as even if one did, it would be futile, because the feeling did not come from the surroundings, but from another world separated by countless barriers.
Perhaps sensing the same pressure, the originally clear weather changed in an extremely bizarre way, with strong winds suddenly blowing and then turning into heavy snow. Even the "absolute zero" that should not exist in the natural ecosystem was once observed.
He casually opened a warp space, tossing several "movement coordinates" behind him into another world, ignoring the "words" from this active world. Without hesitation, Lin Yi stepped into the slowly opening rift in front of him: "Let me see what you really are."
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As an information entity, Lin Yi doesn't carry many memories, but the part related to "world transfer" is complete.
In the memories identical to those of the main body, Lin Yi clearly remembered the dizziness he felt when he first experienced the world transfer. However, as he grew stronger, this negative state gradually disappeared. Until the last time he relied on the power of the main god to perform the world transfer, the main body was able to actively observe the phenomenon of "world transfer" and explore its internal principles.
However, upon stepping into this "crack," Lin Yi experienced that almost forgotten feeling once again after a long time.
It was like the top and bottom were swapped, and the front and back were confused—repeated back and forth irregularly tens of thousands of times, and all within a short period of less than half a second. When Lin Yi stepped into this strange world from the other side of the crack with difficulty, the dazzling seven-colored light in front of him almost made him forget where he was.
Then, the seven-colored light struck him squarely.
[Encountered a rule-based attack; data collection in progress—]
The reminder from the Supreme God restored the flow of information within the information body, which had almost come to a standstill. Without time to fully grasp his current situation, Lin Yi instinctively created a warp space behind him and retreated—
"despair"
The footsteps made a clear sound as they stepped on the bluestone pavement, but the expected warp space showed no sign of appearing; all that remained was a stagnant, almost oppressive atmosphere.
At that moment, the seven-colored light in front of him had completely penetrated Lin Yi's body, but strangely, it did not bring any harm or negative effects. Instead, it disappeared without a trace as if it had never existed.
[Data collection complete, rule attribute determination: Pan-world causality strike]
Ragnarok: Chapter 438 Ragnarok (2)
Stepping on the stone slabs, each with an area of tens of thousands of square meters, Lin Yi looked up at the hall.
Judging from the general layout, this should be a place for species with body structures similar to humans to live in, but the premise is that the height, weight and overall shape of those "humans" are magnified to hundreds of times their original size.
At this moment, in this palace with a total area of nearly 100,000 square kilometers, apart from Lin Yi, who stood at the center as small as a speck of dust, there were no other moving objects. In Lin Yi's imagination, this "unprepared" situation was the best state he could foresee, but was it really "unprepared"?
[Pan-World Causality Strike: This rule can ignore the rules and activity differences of multi-dimensional worlds, allowing an individual to strike any other individual it is associated with.]
"...From the beginning of my freshman year, it wasn't targeting me, but the main body?"
"You guessed right, an alien god."
A vast and majestic voice came from the far end of the temple—outside the gate that was tens of thousands of meters high. As a tremor that could be classified as magnitude 8 on Earth followed, the temple gate slowly opened, and outside stood a magnificent figure whose height alone was close to that of the world's highest peak.
However, compared to its height and build, what really caught Lin Yi's attention were its wings—
Even though it was deliberately suppressed by its owner, the surging positive energy inside it still couldn't stop overflowing outwards, and there were as many as seventy-two of these wings, each nearly five thousand meters long, on its back...
Suddenly, Lin Yi realized where the divine qualities of those angels in Heaven had gone.
"Didn't the combined activity of the entire world overwhelm you?"
"How could any alien comprehend the power of the 'chief god'? Even if you are also called 'gods,' you are nothing but weak ants compared to us."
In terms of physique alone, this comparison is so convincing that it's impossible to refute.
Seeing Lin Yi fall silent, the seventy-two-winged god walked into the hall. With almost every step it took, its size shrank a little. In just ten steps, it stood in front of Lin Yi, its size reduced to that of an ordinary person: "But even if you are an ant, I should give you the respect you deserve for daring to enter the temple of the gods, you alien god."
"It seems your 'chief god' had already informed you of my existence beforehand?"
"Don't think too highly of yourself, you heretical gods. At most, you are just a tiny, insignificant obstacle on our path to the ultimate goal. We don't even need the 'main gods' to lift a finger; we can easily crush you within this temple."
Sensing the ever-increasing concentration of positive energy in the air, Lin Yi knew that the "nonsense" had to end. However, perhaps due to the lack of information, or perhaps because he understood his "ending," a certain emotion welled up in his heart and he couldn't help but sneer: "If you really thought that way, there should only be the two of us here now, instead of eleven peeping tom watching outside. Or are you the type who can't stand not being watched?"
"..."
The seventy-two-winged god remained indifferent. When it raised its hand, the entire divine realm witnessed the radiant light of retribution emanating from the Pantheon.
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Was this an accident?
Obviously not.
So it's a conspiracy?
That's not quite right. If we really have to force a categorization, it would probably just be "logical".
The "fragment" discovered itself, but not after Lin Yi had already deduced its origin world coordinates after completing the "Trinity," but a little earlier. It was probably around the time when he summoned Satania from Purgatory.
However, perhaps due to insufficient time, or perhaps because it was unnecessary, Lin Yi guessed that the greater possibility was information asymmetry. The "fragment" did not formulate corresponding countermeasures based on this situation, but instead directly allowed Lin Yi, the information body, to enter—or rather, be pulled into this world, and then used the "pan-world causality strike," a rule system that Lin Yi had never heard of before, to directly trace back to the world coordinates where the original body was located.
As for the information entities, they were directly handed over to the gods of the local world. However, judging from their appearance and speech, Lin Yi was more inclined to believe that these guys were similar to the "reincarnators" in the main god space. Only by squeezing and seizing the vitality of other worlds could they form the total energy of this specification. Otherwise, it would be too exaggerated for a single world to have multiple individuals that have compressed the energy of an entire highly active world to dominate it.
Ultimately, it's still the fault of information asymmetry.
Due to the information asymmetry, Lin Yi gained the upper hand—finding the origin world coordinates of the "fragment" first and successfully invading it.
However, due to the information asymmetry, Lin Yi lost his backup plan—after the invasion, the "fragments" used methods he could not have predicted to trace back the world coordinates of the main body.
In the world of Godslayer, the power of "Thunder Overlord," which could shake the heavens and earth, could only cause a small-scale thunderstorm. It couldn't even last 0.1 seconds before being pierced and torn apart by endless feathers of light, and the power of "Thunder Overlord" itself was directly shattered.
Using that 0.1 seconds, Lin Yi, whose spatial warp was completely blocked, avoided the large number of falling feathers through simple physical relative movement.
Countless feathers poured into the ground like threads, leaving behind a large area of completely annihilated hollow structures. It is conceivable that being hit by such an attack would not be much better for the information entity in its current state.
Moreover, Lin Yi has absolutely no intention of fighting this "fragment's" henchman right now.
"God, is it possible to sever the information connection between me and the main body?"
This possibility does not exist under objective conditions.
There was no time to discuss with the beings in his mind what the "objective conditions" were. After dodging the massive attack from the otherworldly god once again, Lin Yi suddenly spoke up: "What if I cut it off on my own initiative?"
[Feasible under subjective conditions]
"...God, I've discovered you're a real jinx. You just said it a short while ago and it's really going to turn out like this."
The main deity does not possess any decision-making power; all actions are entirely determined by the host.
"Yes, so you can comfortably be an observer without having to think too much, you can just keep watching..."
Looking up, endless layers of scorching white light pressed and overlapped, falling down with an overwhelming force. In this area where the space was completely sealed off and there were eleven other voyeurs around, Lin Yi suddenly noticed something.
"So that's what they were planning too."
[Restricted Area Liberated]
Ragnarok: Chapter 439 Ragnarok (3)
Humans are humans, therefore there are forbidden zones that humans cannot enter. Those who attempt to enter must pay a price—this is the essential principle of the forbidden zones of life. Lin Yi, who once entered this area, paid the price, sacrificing many of the "elements" that constitute him to gain superhuman power.
But when a person is no longer human, does this forbidden zone still exist?
The answer is yes. Humans have their own forbidden zones, and non-humans also have areas that non-humans cannot enter. Even if you haven't entered, it just means you haven't discovered its boundaries yet. If you keep moving forward, then the word "forbidden zone" will never leave your surroundings.
The forbidden zone for the concept of "information body" is information: the independent, action-thinking, combat-fighting, and integration of all concepts that can be accomplished in the same way as the subject.
Humans burn their genes to gain power, so information bodies can naturally achieve similar results by burning information. In general, Lin Yi has been doing this kind of burning since he stepped into the world of Godslayers. In order to summon gods from other worlds, verify the results, and then eliminate them, Lin Yi has consumed nearly half of the information in this body during these processes. But that is just consumption; it is the type that can be replenished if time allows.
It's roughly similar to human blood; even if it's lost, it can be restored as long as there's enough time and nutrition, unlike the irreversible process at the genetic level. But burning is different.
Even a short match can unleash a power to dispel all darkness when it burns.
Feeling the pull that compels everything that makes up this body—vitality, power, information—to squeeze towards the heart, a low, resonant sound audible only to oneself, and tiny energy particles begin to dissipate from the edges of the fingertips, but it's all worth it.
"—When I burn, what color light will I unleash?"
At the top of the temple, the god who had been indifferently looking down at the alien beings sealed by layers of light curtains suddenly changed his expression. Before his body could react, the vitality of an entire world compressed behind him actively slapped and pulled it out of that small space.
The next moment, the twisted cracks slowly closed from their original location, and through the broken space, the seventy-two-winged god could vaguely glimpse a shattered hand.
"Fool, how could you so easily give up your endless life?"
Even if it looked down on this alien god, the seventy-two-winged deity still had to be extremely vigilant towards the enemy in this state. Its seventy-two wings suddenly expanded, almost completely covering the vast temple. Only after successfully completing this task did it breathe a sigh of relief and say sarcastically, "So what if you shattered the spatial shackles of the temple? In this temple, on this land—in this endless world built on the foundation of the 'main god', you have nowhere to escape."
"Of course, I can't escape it."
"—!"
Half of the seventy-two wings of light detached and merged together, forming a nearly tangible beam of blazing white light that swept across the top of the temple. As a large amount of matter was annihilated by the high-purity active energy, the scene outside the temple appeared before Lin Yi for the first time.
"...So that's how it's structured."
"Bastard!"
Feeling deceived, the seventy-two-winged deity was enraged. Ignoring the warnings of the other eleven, it brought together its remaining thirty-six wings, pierced through the spatial shackles of the temple, and accurately struck the figure standing above.
At the moment of impact, it was somewhat incredulous, but then it was overjoyed. Just as it was about to use the power it had seized from the heavenly world to tear this alien god apart, it heard a furious and terrified voice.
[Fool, have you forgotten the "Chief God's" mission?!]
“————!!!”
After the roar, all the anger and ecstasy burst as easily as a bubble being touched, and the seventy-two-winged deity recalled the mission it had received from the "chief god".
First, contain the target, preventing it from seeing the world outside the temple, and even more importantly, preventing it from leaving the temple grounds.
Second, the target must not be killed.
"No, I didn't—I didn't do it!"
Anger and ecstasy were overwhelmed by terror. When the seventy-two-winged god tried to extricate itself, it discovered to despair that the source of its power—the seventy-two wings of positive energy—was tightly entangled on its target and unable to move. It was because of this situation that it finally understood why it had become so abnormal.
“The ‘emotions’ that have been burned away can affect others around you. Record this, God.”
[Record complete]
"at last."
Watching the seventy-two-winged god struggling to leave, Lin Yi suddenly felt puzzled. Normally, he should feel joy now—the satisfaction of being able to disgust the other side one last time. The problem was that this emotion had been burned up along with the "ecstasy" just now, so Lin Yi could only feel puzzled.
"It's all the same anyway."
Linked to the seventy-two wings that contained the vitality of an entire highly active world, Lin Yi burned away the last remaining remnant of the information body without any burden.
— Compassion, kindness.
On the temple where the gods resided, the blazing white light of retribution shone once more, but this time it was no longer confined to that "small" space. Instead, it spread across the entire top of the celestial realm amidst the delighted gazes of countless gods outside the temple.