novel-bin Chapter 184 Candidates for Ruler of the Heavens?
Chapter 184 Candidates for Ruler of the Heavens?
Chapter 184 Candidates for Ruler of the Heavens?
"This is it." Holding the token, looking at the large building in front of him, Ye Yang took a deep breath and walked into the building's lobby.
"License plate ending in 284? Come with me." A staff member found Ye Yang and took him away.
"I guide the selection process for students with special talents, and today it's your turn," the guide said.
The first step was to conduct various tests, including tests on compatibility with [space and time], spiritual characteristics, magical power characteristics, cultivation level, Dao realm, and cultivation foundation.
It took more than ten hours to finish.
"Oh, young man, you're quite good. In the past seven years, I've mentored more than 2000 students with special talents. In terms of natural talent, you're in the top five. In terms of accumulated knowledge of the laws, you're in the top three. You have a very good chance."
Ye Yang's selection guide smiled and said, "Let's go, next we'll go to the interviews. The three judges are also resident professors in the Qiming Project."
The selection process naturally involves interviewing the judges.
Fortunately, the interview didn't take up too much time; the conversation ended in about an hour.
"They didn't ask about any professional matters related to cultivation or studies; it felt like a normal chat?"
Ye Yang came out somewhat puzzled, unsure of the selection criteria.
"Alright, there's one last item."
The guide, who had been waiting for Ye Yang outside the meeting room, stood up and said, "Young man, the next one is also the most important one for you. It's the only project that will allow you, as a student with special talents, to differentiate yourself from other competitors."
Ye Yang immediately nodded, becoming serious and stopping thinking about the interview.
Following the guide, we arrived at a door. The door looked very ordinary; it was just a thin, simple, carved wooden door.
"Behind this door lies the special bonus program for students like you with [Space-Time] talents," the guide chuckled. "Your task is to summon the projection of the Gate of All Heavens as quickly as possible within the passage."
"What do you mean?" Ye Yang frowned.
The guide cast a spell, opening the carved wooden door. Instantly, spiritual light emanated from the walls of the surrounding corridor, triggering the protective restrictions.
Ye Yang's expression suddenly changed. He felt spacetime distorting wildly, forming a huge gravitational force that was trying to pull him into the corridor.
Fortunately, although the force was immense, reaching hundreds of thousands of times the gravity of an ordinary planet, Ye Yang still managed to maintain his balance with his magic power and did not fall in.
"This is."
Looking behind the door, Ye Yang saw a corridor, but the immense gravitational pull was forward, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a vertical shaft.
"A passage. All you have to do is go in and keep summoning projections of the Gates of Heaven!"
The guide said:
"The further away from the bottom you are from successfully summoning, the higher your score. If you reach the very bottom of the passage and still fail to summon, the event is considered a failure."
You've lost your bonus points too.
"In short, just go in. Time flows more slowly inside. You have at most a year in the outside world, but inside, it might only be a month or even a few days, depending on how deep you can go."
Ye Yang nodded and entered.
"The Gate to All Heavens?"
Ye Yang resisted the downward pull of gravity, hovering at the top of the passage, thinking to himself:
"What is the connection between the special bonus points for students with the [Time and Space] talent category and the Gate of All Heavens?"
He sensed the curvature of spacetime and the gravitational gradient around him, and quickly drew a conclusion:
"If this enormous gravity were naturally formed, it could only be a neutron star or a black hole, but the gravitational gradient is very small, indicating that its volume or event horizon is very large."
"Then the only answer is—the galactic center black hole!"
Ye Yang's eyelids twitched. He was actually near the galactic black hole?
That's too dangerous.
Black holes are not white holes. White holes constantly eject mass and energy outwards, and as long as you are not directly hit by the jet, you will generally be fine.
But a black hole—once you're sucked in, you're truly doomed!
"A black hole? The gate to the heavens!"
"The celestial gates projected throughout the entire Milky Way, and the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, which pulls the entire galaxy together by gravity—between these two..."
Is there any special connection?
Countless thoughts raced through Ye Yang's mind, but in the end, only one conjecture remained:
"Could the true form of the Gate to All Heavens be located within the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?!"
He felt that this conjecture was reasonable.
If the Gate of All Heavens is truly located within the Milky Way's central black hole, then it makes perfect sense that even the Celestial Venerables cannot fully control it.
Inside the black hole, the Gate of All Heavens is not only completely undamaged, but also ignores the chaotic spacetime within the event horizon, providing services to the entire Milky Way!
Even the Celestial Venerables cannot open black holes, so it is indeed unlikely that they could control the gates of the heavens through the event horizon.
Ye Yang looked down at the seemingly endless passage, his expression grave: "No matter what, we'll find out by trying."
Many thoughts flashed through my mind, but they were fleeting, lasting less than a second.
At the very top of the passage, Ye Yang began to attempt to summon the projection of the Gate of All Heavens.
As a result, this operation, which had been performed many times before, failed.
"No, it didn't fail. It's just that the inverted spacetime inside the black hole disrupted the request, and my thoughts couldn't be transmitted at all."
"The phantom of the Gates of Heaven that I sensed deep within my consciousness is actually affected by the external spacetime environment—how amazing! Why is that? This has never happened near the white hole before."
Although Ye Yang was surprised, he understood.
To successfully summon someone, you must have an extremely high affinity for spacetime in order to sense the right moment to send the request!
The spacetime here is violently distorted and fluctuates, and these fluctuations have peaks and troughs.
The right time is neither the peak nor the trough, but the "midpoint" between the two.
Sensing the fluctuations in spacetime, it finds a path at the 'midpoint' and throws its divine consciousness, carrying its request, into the black hole!
This was the only solution Ye Yang could come up with.
In the spacetime near a black hole, divine consciousness travels downwards quickly but returns extremely slowly.
He tried for two whole days at the top of the tunnel and could clearly feel that the probability of success over such a long distance was very, very small.
We can only go deeper.
So he kept trying as he fell, and after falling 600 million kilometers, he finally succeeded!
brush!
A very familiar projection of the Gate of All Heavens appeared before Ye Yang.
However—unlike other times, this time, a message also appeared along with it.
This information appeared directly in Ye Yang's consciousness:
Registration successful!
"What registration?" Ye Yang asked, looking puzzled.
The next second, deep within Ye Yang's consciousness.
The phantom of the Gate of All Heavens, which had appeared after successfully resonating with the world of "Swallowed Star" but had not changed on its own, suddenly changed!
Above the gate deep within consciousness, an interface appeared, displaying the following content:
Welcome, Ye Yang.
Identity: Selected Civilization 042 - Leader Candidate No.0.1
Connection weight: 8.348 * 10^142
Fate Points Reserves: 197.24 trillion
.....
'In charge of candidate rankings'
No. 0.1 - Ye Yang - 8.348*10~142
『NO.2 - Luo Yunru - 3.494*10~79』
『NO.3 - Lin Si - 1.932*10~72』
Within his sea of consciousness, Ye Yang's condensed form appeared, staring intently at the suddenly appearing interface.
"Taking charge of the candidates! Taking charge of the candidates! What on earth is this?!"
His expression was very unpleasant.
In fact, you can roughly guess from the name that it refers to a candidate who will be in charge of something.
So, what is in charge?
The Gate of All Heavens?
Seeing that so-called ranking made his scalp tingle.
"You are the candidate to take charge of the Gate of the Heavens (number 042). Your priority is 1."
Ye Yang opened his mouth, not expecting that the Gate of All Heavens would actually answer his question.
He quickly realized what was happening and hurriedly asked, "Do you have intelligence? Or are you a spirit of an artifact?"
『Gates numbered 001 through 999 have no spirit, only rudimentary intelligence; therefore, Gate 042 only possesses rudimentary intelligence.』
Ye Yang quickly asked about the thing he cared about most:
"Is this ranking synchronized with all candidates in real time?"
"Can I hide my ranking? Or cancel my registration?"
He's already being targeted by the Void Sect. If he's also being envied and targeted by people like Luo Yunru and Lin Si, who were originally ranked higher, within the Immortal Alliance because of this ranking issue, it will be even more troublesome.
The rankings are updated annually, with the next update scheduled for 38 days. This is not real-time synchronization.
Candidates can choose to hide their ranking or fabricate a ranking, but the weight will be reduced to one ten-thousandth of the original, and it will only affect those with lower rankings. Therefore, the true No. 1 candidate can view all real rankings.
"Cancelling a candidate's registration is an illegal operation!"
Ye Yang continued, "Am I truly the No. 1 candidate?"
'Querying the real information of the No. 1 candidate is an illegal operation!'
"All right·-"
Ye Yang frowned deeply, and quickly communicated with the intelligence of the Gate of All Heavens to complete the operation.
There were 34 candidates in total, and Ye Yang faked his ranking to be 999th.
This should be considered a good, but not top-tier, result, right?
In short, don't be too flashy.
"The ability to fake and hide one's ranking is good, but it's also bad. Am I really number one?"
Ye Yang still felt a sense of unease: "If I'm not the real No. 1 candidate, the real No. 1 will definitely be able to ignore my fabrication."
"My weight is very, very high, but we cannot rule out the possibility that because of my extremely high weight, I might threaten the real No. 1 and be seen as the only threat."
Ye Yang guessed that the 'connection weight' he possessed was probably brought about by the dungeon world of 'Swallowing the Stars'.
It's 63 orders of magnitude higher than Luo Yunru, who is No. 0.2, which is indeed terrifyingly large.
After re-faking his ranking, Ye Yang asked the AI of the Gate of All Heavens many questions.
However, the vast majority of these were "illegal operations," meaning the information was not accessible to candidates with the necessary permissions.
However, Ye Yang also learned about the essence of the [Gate of All Heavens] and the creator's reasons for making it.
The Gate of All Heavens is essentially a world searcher and connector.
Its purpose is simple: to collect the causal energy represented by 'Destiny Points'.
Every world with a complete cause and effect exists in the phenomenon of "fate convergence," which is the power to correct the plot.
Even outsiders cannot change what has already been established!
However, the Gate of All Heavens can forcibly intercept this power, which is "causal energy," and convert it into "destiny points."
Ye Yang was able to alter the trajectory of the "Swallowed Star" world despite the plot correction force because the Gate of All Heavens had already taken the majority of the binding force.
The myriad worlds are divided into two categories: worlds with complete causality (story-driven worlds) and worlds with incomplete causality (free worlds).
The fictional world exists eternally, while the free world is constantly on the path to destruction. For the civilization of the free world to continue forever, there are only two paths: migration, or allowing the free world to "feed."
Everything is based on Destiny Points.
one-
This is a direct quote from the Intelligence of the Gate of All Heavens.
"The candidate has ten tasks; each completed task increases their weight by a billion times. Completing all tasks will grant them control of the Gate of All Heavens!"
"To control the gates of all heavens?" In reality, Ye Yang gave a wry smile: "I'd need to have that kind of strength myself."
He hasn't even achieved true immortality yet; he's just a tiny little thing in the Nascent Soul stage.
That's too far away.
However, as a candidate to lead the Gate of All Heavens, Ye Yang also gained numerous benefits:
1. All Fate Points gained in your own instance world by altering the storyline will be increased tenfold!
2. Open the third, fourth and more respawn points. The cost increases by a factor of one hundred trillion for each new respawn point.
3. You can summon a projection of the Gate of All Heavens at any time, without needing to be on any planet.
4. Greater freedom to manipulate the relative time flow between the main world and the instance world.
The minimum time in the instance world can be frozen, while the maximum free acceleration of the instance world's time flow can be up to 10 times.
A speed of 10 times or more requires the consumption of Fate Points, and the higher the flow rate, the more Fate Points are consumed.