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Chapter 168 - Causality-Locked

According to the records, every single second, each Coordinated Foam in a Non-Static Global-Inflation 3D universe would give birth to 10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 new Coordinated Foams.

Once these newly birthed Coordinated Foams of a terrifying magnitude appear, they too would give birth every second to another 10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 new Coordinated Foams.

Then, this latest batch would repeat the process of their parents and grandparents, continuing to reproduce at a rate of 10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 per second, giving birth to another new batch.

And so, second after second, batch after batch, the entire universe undergoes uninterrupted, eternal inflation.

Furthermore, once any Coordinated Foam is born, its spatial distance in every direction from the nearest other Coordinated Foams will be permanently fixed at approximately 10^224 light-years.

In other words, with the appearance of every new foam, a massive vacuum distance of half of 10^224 light-years will abruptly inflate in every direction around it within a single second.

Take a Static 3D universe, for example, its overall diameter average is similarly 10^132 light-years.

This figure represents a distance already far beyond what an ordinary person can imagine.

Yet, compared to the terrifying vacuum of 10^224 light-years that serves as the average distance between Coordinated Foams in a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe, it is so insignificant it is almost non-existent.

Comparing the two, it might be difficult to form a concrete concept at first glance.

However, if one were to take piles upon piles of static-type universes and throw them into these massive vacuums, stringing them together like beads on a cord.

Using them as base units and continuously knotting them, extending toward the nearest Coordinated Foams at either end of the cord, it would take roughly 10^92 static-type universes just to barely span the distance.

From this, one can see just how immense 10^224 light-years truly is, it is far vaster than the boundless infinities vaguely described in many myths and legends.

But this vastness is occurring every single second within the incomprehensible, despair-inducing spatial corners of the Non-Static Global-Inflation universe, happening 10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 times every second.

This is the terror of eternal inflation: once it begins, it never stops, and as time progresses, every second becomes infinitely more terrifying than the one before.

If observed from an incredibly immense spatial scale, the entire Non-Static 3D Great Boundary would resemble a restless, boundless plain where countless mountain peaks continuously surge every second.

Each time a peak rises from the ground, it causes 10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 other peaks to similarly rise from corners near and far. And with every new peak, the boundless plain grows even larger, a process that never ends.

While these peaks all grow from the same plain, their color and height are entirely different. These variations in color and height represent the distinct physical constants and cosmic rules inherent to each peak (or Coordinated Foam).

Of course, these are merely illustrative descriptions, the inflation of a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe is far from being that shallow or simple. To fully understand the process, one must analyze it from the perspective of extremely complex and profound spatial structural modeling.

Within the data, there was a hypothesis that Seraphine strongly agreed with upon browsing it.

The hypothesis is:

If a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe exists for a sufficient amount of time, for instance, if it has been around for one Googol years, the number of Coordinated Foams within it will inevitably be so colossal that it becomes difficult to express even through scientific notation.

In such a massive cluster of Coordinated Foams, it is highly likely that two or even more foams, separated by immense distances, will be completely identical in terms of physical constants, subtle space-time structures, and various operational rules.

Even the number, size, mass, shape, and position of all galaxies within these two or more Coordinated Foams, as well as the countless civilizations, races, lives, and experts residing within, along with their historical threads, developmental evolutions, and life paths, might be perfectly similar.

This is an absolute certainty.

Because in the face of eternal inflation, which is madly accelerating toward the goal of being [Infinitely Large], any finite number becomes meaningless.

[Tending toward Infinitely Large], even when multiplied by the smallest probability, will always result in [Tending toward Infinitely Large].

Thus, in a sense, the infinite Coordinated Foams within a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe serve as parallel universes to any given Coordinated Foam, based purely on a spatial level.

Even more terrifying is that the massive Non-Static Global-Inflation 3D Great Boundary, which eternally inflates at a terrifying speed every second, also continuously splits and generates infinite parallel space-times every instant. These infinite space-times are all real, eternally inflating Non-Static Global-Inflation 3D Great Boundaries.

According to the data, the Ether activity in all space-time regions within a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe is significantly higher than in the various matter seas of a static universe at the dawn of their creation. Simultaneously, this universe seems to possess deep interconnections with various 4D, 5D, and even 6D spaces.

Consequently, it often gestates an immense number of powerful life forms, various 4D, 5D, and even pseudo-6D beings can be born there. And because it is so vast, few can truly explore and understand its full scope, and no one knows exactly how many experts reside within.

The data mentions that even String race members who are not powerful enough, even using the so-called All-Spectrum Eye, generally find it difficult to see through and fully perceive all the general situations within a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe. This is simply because the amount of information is too overwhelming.

For these reasons, the space-time structure of a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe is both restless and complex, yet incredibly stable. It is a rare lower-dimensional universe capable of hosting a 6D life form's true body while allowing for its continued existence.

Even though the high energy levels of a 6D being can easily incinerate 3D space, the pseudo-3D space of a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe, which possesses a faint multi-dimensional structure, can barely withstand it.

Even if the surface layer is incinerated, there is always a deeper layer beneath, and beneath that, an even deeper one. Even if all layers are burnt through, the continuously inflating space will rapidly patch and repair the hole in an instant.

Consequently, over vast stretches of time, Non-Static Global-Inflation universes have slowly become ideal lawless zones in the eyes of those with hidden agendas.

All sorts of people from 6D space, debtors, enemies, contract-breakers, criminals, the malicious, the misanthropic, even assassin organizations, drug syndicates, counterfeit groups, Anti-10^40 Government Frames, and even those mad, baseless anti-String race killers with strong self-destructive tendencies, all hide within Non-Static Global-Inflation universes. There, they engage in dark activities: manufacturing counterfeit Spirit Crystals, producing 6D drugs, forging inferior Sacred Descending Forms, training terrorists, and taking on assassination contracts.

This further deepens the danger of the Non-Static Global-Inflation universe. Even a King String generally would not dare dispatch a Sacred Descending Form into such a universe for too long, as they never know what they might encounter in the next moment.

"This is... the ultimate version of the Golden Triangle, and it's an infinitely inflating version at that," Seraphine mused leisurely. "However, the various traces of Earth culture revealed inside and out of the 6D String race, that's the strangest part."

Right then, a boundless, terrifying, and massive power suddenly descended, striking fiercely toward Seraphine.

"Idealistic Rotation: One Hundred Trillion Fold—Sea Sand Blast Punch!!!"

Seraphine reacted instantly, raising her boundless arm without a second thought. Clenching her hand into a fist, she struck back with a roar.

BOOM!!!!!

In an instant, the vast, dark 3D space-time was churned by the violent vibration, kicking up ten quadrillion-fold waves of radiant energy reaching heights of a hundred octillion light-years. Like an army of demons from another dimension, the energy shrieked and howled as it violently struck the surrounding void and the boundless deep space far beyond.

Wherever the energy rampaged through the vast void, any small matter sea, barely ten trillion light-years in diameter, or even giant matter seas spanning tens of quadrillion light-years, were instantly crushed and scattered into countless meaningless torrents of energy, vanishing forever.

At the point of impact, a massive space-time tear, larger than the Verdant Ancient Matter Sea, was forcibly ripped open. From it surged thick waves of negative dimension nothingness, along with hundreds of millions of singularity-like points naturally emerging from that void.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

As the inflation of those hundreds of millions of singularity-like points triggered a hundred-million-fold chain of Big Bangs, within the vast firmament a hundred quintillion light-years away from the nothingness region, a muscular figure barely two meters tall appeared in Seraphine's vision.

"Goo—"

Lavender puckered his lips, eyeing Seraphine's colossal, majestic body in the distance. He gave a jagged laugh. "Incredibly magnificent! Powerful! Let me introduce myself..."

"Too much slow, lingering nonsense."

In the distance, Seraphine had no intention of listening to his chatter. She immediately activated the Eye of Transcendence, intending to use this half-man, half-shark freak as her first grindstone for her Ultimate Kill.

But in the next instant, she discovered... this 3D Great Boundary was completely shrouded in a hazy, chaotic mist.

The Eye of Transcendence was unable to function.

Without hesitation, Seraphine instantly changed her technique.

"Rain of Final Annihilation."

HUM—

As her gaze shifted, 10^65 non-continuous 4D and 5D entities, each the size of a matter sea and swirling like chaotic vortexes, appeared out of thin air. With a series of violent CRACKS and ROARS, they bombarded Lavender, who stood in the distant void.

In response, Lavender merely mimicked a gesture, pointing two fingers toward Seraphine with a proud, sinister smirk:

"Idealistic Rotation: Shark Swallowing the Heavens!"

BOOM!!!

In a flash, 10^65 phantom giant sharks, each the size of a matter sea, appeared out of nowhere in the vast universe. With thunderous roars and lashing tails, they surged from every direction toward the countless incoming chaotic vortexes.

A radius of 10^66 light-years in the vast void was subjected to a large-scale bombardment unlike anything seen in the eons of this 3D Great Boundary's history.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!!

Infinite, brilliant radiance flickered and flared, carrying a heat far exceeding Planck temperature and an explosive force far surpassing the Big Bang. It blanketed every region of this colossal void.

From the macro to the micro, down to every Planck-scale space-time region, the vast universe was bombed into a boiling riot. Countless massive wormholes leading to unknown places were torn open, alongside countless patches of varying sizes of negative dimension nothingness.

The boundless void bordering these wormholes and nothingness, unable to withstand the extreme energy levels and fluctuations, suffered a sudden and malicious chain-reaction collapse of its underlying refined structures.

At that very instant, Seraphine struck again:

"Instant Time Compression."

HUM—

Suddenly, time stopped, and the universe turned a monochrome grey. Seraphine had activated her Virtual Time Domain.

SWOOSH—

In a blink, she arrived before Lavender, who stood motionless, still wearing his sinister smirk. She raised a finger, and at its tip, ten quadrillion singularity-like points manifested.

"Hmm, I don't know who you are..."

Seraphine slowly lowered her finger, aiming the tip directly at Lavender's body. "So, why don't you just die once first."

HUM—

A vibration, madly refined to the extreme, hummed from that cluster of singularity-like points.

"Wind of World-Piercing."

...

"What the hell is this place?!"

At that same instant, Lavender, who should have been a grey, motionless puppet, suddenly moved. He looked around in utter shock.

"Hell! This big thing really does have a secret technique. She actually forced out my secret weapon!"

As he muttered, his body leaped with extreme agility, flashing across a hundred quintillion light-years to barely evade that rapidly incoming strike.

As for that secret weapon, it was a passive ability of Lavender's——World-Stunning Wisdom.

Idealistic Rotation: World-Stunning Wisdom:

Can rapidly adapt to all sorts of strange environments, situations, scenes, and regions. When encountering a crisis, it requires no manual activation; it automatically employs illogical paths, methods, and techniques to escape current danger.

...

"He can still move?"

Seraphine was genuinely astonished to see Lavender suddenly wake up and evade the Wind of World-Piercing.

For a long time, she had considered that within these endless space-times, there would surely be a significant number of powerful beings immune to Instant Time Compression.

However, she hadn't expected to encounter such an expert so soon.

"Interesting power."

Suddenly, Seraphine felt a surge of intense interest toward this shark-headed assailant.

To be precise, she was interested in the power system he utilized.

"Since time is useless, then let's return to reality."

HUM—

At Seraphine's thought, the false time domain created by Instant Time Compression, which had lasted less than a second, shattered instantly.

The grey, hollowed-out cosmic environment returned to its original appearance.

Seraphine and Lavender, standing at opposite ends of the vast Dark Ocean, were pulled back into the true timeline.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

In the empty void countless light-years away, a terrifyingly violent and bloated energy beam erupted, surging toward the even vaster reaches of the firmament.

This was the result of the distortion caused by the false time domain overlaying the true timeline.

As for Lavender, who had inexplicably woken up within that domain thanks to his World-Stunning Wisdom, he was no longer wasting any time.

He immediately unleashed a secret technique:

"Woa! Idealistic Rotation: Purgatory War God! Come forth!!"

BOOM—

In a flash, within the four quadrants of the void surrounding Lavender, nine phantom Lavenders abruptly appeared, each half-man, half-shark, and each wearing the same sinister smirk.

Even more terrifying, these nine Lavenders, posed in various stances, possessed a surging, boundless aura identical to the original.

Indeed, these temporary clones cultivated through this idealistic secret technique were not a shred weaker than the original in combat power, and each was capable of using all of the original's skills and abilities.

"I don't know why the surroundings turned into that tasteless display just now, but it doesn't matter!"

The ten Lavenders barked in unison, laughing jaggedly. "I just need to beat you until you're on your knees begging for mercy, then force you back to see the Boss!"

The moment the words fell, the Lavenders' expressions hardened, and the ten muscular figures vanished instantly.

SWOOSH—

In the next blink, they appeared at an extremely close range, barely ten quintillion light-years from Seraphine.

The ten Lavenders spread their fingers wide. With furrowed brows and thunderous roars, they struck out toward Seraphine:

"Ya! Idealistic Rotation: Mother-f*cking Ten-Fold Level 150 Earthquake, BLAST!!!"

Seraphine, interested in his power, had no intention of evading, nor did she use the Authority of Change.

To research it, she had to experience it.

She chose to strike back head-on, directly confronting and fully accepting the opponent's power.

Without using any specific techniques, Seraphine simply mobilized the boundless, terrifying force throughout her body. Deploying her vast, immeasurable interference field, she crashed forward in a face-to-face collision.

BOOM!!!!!

In an instant, the vast void within a diameter of 10^68 light-years vibrated with frantic, mad violence.

Intense! Boiling! Violent! Surging!

The universe wailed, its fabric dissolving inch by inch.

Under the brutal trampling of these two terrifying forces, the massive 3D space was like fragile glass, large sections cracking and exploding directly. It ripped open a septillion space-time tears, each far larger than the Verdant Ancient Matter Sea.

Where tears formed, nothingness arrived. Where nothingness arrived, inflation followed.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Accompanied by the thunderous roar of countless simultaneous Big Bangs, an indescribably vast and massive chaotic tide erupted. It surged with an aura that seemed capable of grinding the entire multiverse into dust, thundering across the boundless ten directions of the heavens.

As for Seraphine herself, having taken the full impact of the Ten-Fold Level 150 Earthquake, her majestic body, tens of octillion light-years tall, suddenly fractured. Dense, crisscrossing cracks erupted across her form, gushing with boiling, radiant flows of energy.

This was the first time her body had actually been cracked and shattered to such an extent by an opponent.

As for the adversary, Lavender, who had been physically blasted away over 10^76 light-years, was in a terrible state.

The nine Purgatory War Gods he had manifested through his idealistic secret technique had vanished into thin air.

His High-End Custom Divine Grade Sacred Descending Form had its entire structural framework forcibly collapsed by Seraphine's terrifying attack. From its previous minute humanoid form, it had abruptly mutated and expanded into a massive chaotic vortex over ten trillion light-years in diameter.

It could be said that Lavender was now thoroughly beaten into a state of total incapacitation, unable to speak or move.

"Hoo——"

Seraphine exhaled a long breath of brilliant, radiant light-gas. "Such powerful force! To manifest reality through obsession rather than just warping it, I've already grasped a portion of it!"

Amidst her praise, she instantly stepped forward, crossing the 10^76 light-year distance in a flicker to arrive at Lavender's side.

But at that very moment, from the center of the chaotic vortex named Lavender, a complex, radiant firearm suddenly emerged, its barrel diameter alone as large as an observable universe.

The muzzle was aimed straight at Seraphine's head.

[Dimensional Light Cannon]: Strictly forbidden by String race military decree from entering the market. It integrates idealistic technology, Inflation Field reconstruction technology, and causality law locking technology into a unified driving framework. It utilizes a standard ammunition of 1.296 billion 3D, 4D, and 5D singularity-like crystals, structured in multi-dimensional combined or separated states with 1,500 different inflation rates and structural models. This military-grade, single-target sniping weapon can bypass space-time to strike directly at the enemy's Root, shattering their geometric structure, exhausting all internal energy, and annihilating their total life force.

This was Lavender's final, treacherous killing move.

BANG!!!!

Following a terrifying roar capable of shattering a hundred quintillion giant matter seas, each a hundred quintillion light-years in diameter, a hideous, colossal hole 10^26 light-years wide was blasted directly through the upper center of Seraphine's octillion-light-year-tall face.

The power of this single shot was so immense it knocked Seraphine's massive body back dozens of steps, nearly a nonillion light-years away.

Immediately after, Lavender fired again.

A hundred consecutive shots.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG...

A series of roars, each eruption of energy surpassing the Big Bang by countless magnitudes, rang out one after another. They physically shook the vast, hundred-nonillion-light-year void, vibrating open countless dimensional cracks.

As for Seraphine, her body now riddled with over a hundred hideous holes and fine fractures, she was forcibly blasted undecillion light-years away by these hundred shells.

It wasn't that she didn't want to evade, it was that the shells fired from this strange cannon had absolutely no trajectory.

The muzzle roared, and in an instant, the shot bypassed all distance to strike its target, with zero travel time.

Indeed, this was the weapon's special function: Causality-Locked Cross-Space-Time Sniping.

As long as accurate target information and space-time coordinates exist, it doesn't matter if the target is in the same universe or separated by countless parallel dimensions, the Dimensional Light Cannon ensures the hit happens the moment the shot is fired.

No matter how one blocks, no matter how one defends, it is useless.

Because the result of striking the enemy has already been locked in, the cause and the process are no longer important.

Even more terrifying, after being struck by this horrific weapon, large-scale, high-speed space-time annihilation erupted from each of Seraphine's wounds.

The more wounds there were, the more violent and rapid the overall collapse became. The combined space-time annihilation from a hundred and one wounds had already begun to completely dissolve nearly half of Seraphine's body.

This resulted in Seraphine feeling a violent paralysis and a stiff, powerless sensation for the first time. It was the consequence of deep structural damage to her multi-dimensional geometric form.

As the tide of space-time annihilation raged within Seraphine, the massive, surging energy and boundless life force inside and outside her body vanished into nothingness without a trace.

Furthermore, upon impact, each of these strange shells instantly bypassed all layers of defense to strike directly and fiercely at her Root Spirituality, which existed on a near-illusory level.

If it were a materialized Spirituality of ordinary quality, a single shot would cause it to dissipate instantly, a second shot wouldn't even be needed.

Even the highest quality materialized Spirituality, after enduring a hundred shots of this geometrically stacking power, would be helplessly annihilated in agony.

It was only because Seraphine's Divinity had reached a higher level after ascending to 6D that she remained intact, while the weapon's power was terrifying, it could not damage her core essence, which now transcended materialized Spirituality.

"What an incredible weapon! The application of idealistic technology, the manipulation and warping of the Inflation Field and causality, it's all state-of-the-art. And the customization and reconstruction of those singularity-like points are simply exquisite."

Riddled with gunshot wounds, Seraphine burst into laughter, thoroughly satisfied. "Is this the power of a 6D weapon? Excellent! Powerful! I'll take your technology!"

Indeed, just as she had intentionally taken the impact of the Ten-Fold Level 150 Earthquake, Seraphine had deliberately refrained from dodging the fire from this unknown weapon. Her goal was to reverse-engineer and study the basic structure and existential form of this high-dimensional weaponry.

To be affected is to be observable. Observation and interaction are eternal twin brothers.

Seraphine slowly steadied herself, ignoring the chaotic state of her internal systems, and meticulously felt the attack power of the giant cannon. After enduring a hundred shots, she felt she could already replicate a portion of its power.

"Huo-hahahaha! Hesitation leads to defeat! What era do you think this is, still playing with traditional martial arts? Today, cannons and guns rule the world!"

In the distance, the blob that was Lavender laughed arrogantly. "Your skills were impressive, but for now, it seems I am the stronger, more overbearing one! Gak-gak-gak-gak!!"

With that, he fired again.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG...

In an instant, another hundred rounds were fired.

But unlike before, Seraphine, having deciphered the principles, immediately activated the Authority of Change. She instantly erased the result that anchored the incoming shells to her body.

Consequently, the hundred shells fired from the Dimensional Light Cannon merely scattered randomly across the universe, unable to harm Seraphine in the slightest.

"Wh-What? How did every shot miss?"

Lavender was left utterly dumbfounded by the sight.

HUM—

The firmament vibrated, dimensions boiled.

Under Lavender's horrified gaze, the wounded Seraphine, undecillion light-years away, caused the surrounding void to surge violently. Out of thin air, over ten thousand Dimensional Light Cannons manifested, aimed leisurely toward him:

"It's been a long time coming. My turn."

Seraphine stared coldly into the distance, murmuring, "Authority of Change—lock the result of every shell onto the source of this Spirituality projection."

WHOOSH—

The ten thousand manifest Dimensional Light Cannons flared with brilliant light. At that moment, Lavender felt a bone-deep chill, as if the malice of infinite space-time had zeroed in on him.

It wasn't just this Spirituality projection.

His true body, located across hundreds of quintillions of space-time layers, shuddered. He felt as if he were about to be torn apart by this suffocating hatred.

"What's happening? This isn't right! I have to move!"

Deep within a Coordinated Foam of a Non-Static Global-Inflation universe, Lavender's true body, a 6D construct of radiant light, desperately opened a space-time gate to flee.

He linked to Heavenly Hegemon through a high-dimensional transmitter, screaming in terror: "Boss! Save me..."

In the next heartbeat, from across infinite space-time, Seraphine fired.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG...

The ten thousand shells followed the threads of causality. They bypassed infinite space-time and reached Lavender's universe, engulfing him without a moment's delay.

BOOM!!!!

Lavender was instantly obliterated, body and soul.

The surrounding duodecillion light-years of space were smashed into a chaotic space-time flow. At the center, the reinforced spatial fabric cracked, tearing open a massive abyss in the universe.

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