Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 2582: Chapter 2577: A World on an Egg

The words of His Excellency Destiny Snake ring true; humans can never truly break through the confines of their existence.

The Creator of Wisdom seems to exemplify the adage ”fools remain fools,” in action.

When Depth Two first appeared, he dared only to hide behind the door, claiming his notes almost revealed the answer.

Depth Three seemed to achieve a breakthrough, but in reality, it was merely the illusion of a puppet clown.

In comparison, the tool, Ah Fei, manifested the essence of Sword Dao...

Nonetheless, the departure was harmoniously executed.

As a return gesture, Fu Qian chose not to crash through walls but proceeded along the normal route, appreciating the scattered crystals around him.

Pondering the essence of the Creator of Wisdom seemed to yield some results.

Yet as the ancient saying goes, the more one knows, the less one understands.

Assuming some truth in those previous conjectures, the focus now inevitably shifts to the Crystal Lake or perhaps the Inverted Lake.

The materials for weaving come from it, thus might it be the source of the concept of crystallization?

At first glance, the logic seems sound, but one mustn’t forget the essence of crystallization established along the way—the intense concentration of pollution and error, the 3D printing material of the Supernatural Realm.

Has the Inverted Lake always been the Crystal Lake?

Could it be that crystallization for the Inverted Lake is also a mistake, a sort of remake version?

This is no baseless speculation or fabricated shock value.

Even for Fu Qian, there are multiple reasons for judging this way.

Firstly, the concept of crystallization concerning High-level Extraordinary pollution, seems to have been encountered before.

The example of Thorn Blood might not be compelling, but Fu Qian remembers vividly another scene—the Holy Infant Star.

One of the participants of the Tyrant assassination not long ago stirred an incident.

After dealing with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse associated with Him, he witnessed a peculiar scene towards the end of the mission—

Veins like threads stretching into time and space, drawing disaster from history, nurturing Him as nourishment.

The shape quite fitting the name, yet at the time, he had remarked that some veins seemed to exhibit crystalline calcification.

Yes, it was crystallization, with an art style even reminiscent of the current landscape.

If it wasn’t overthinking, perhaps the Holy Infant Star simply favored such a form.

As at least a First Phase Superior Being, known to exist since the Long Night, the implication behind that scene is far from simple.

If even such a character could be eroded by crystallization, why couldn’t the Inverted Lake also be a victim?

Secondly, the understanding of starting point and endpoint.

The Creator of Wisdom exhibits knowledge of these two concepts, leading to his prior performance; suppose this knowledge is genuine.

Apart from the Inverted Lake, the Whale and the storm are undoubtedly particularly unique elements.

The latter has been proven to possess a special attack effect on outsiders’ SAN Points, indeed bearing a slightly destructive posture.

So if the crystallization storm represents the concept of endpoints, then what of the starting point?

To answer this question, one could reference the Creator of Wisdom’s previous statement regarding what constitutes ”absolute correctness.”

As an extreme fundamentalist, if any change to the supernatural rules is deemed incorrect, then tracing backward seems to reveal an original order?

Could that order be considered the initial point of everything?

Further connecting the Whale and storm merging at a point, the former showing high unity with the lake water below, could the starting point denote the Inverted Lake?

Moreover, the closer to the storm, the more severely the Whale’s head crystallizes and breaks.

It seems possible to draw the conclusion that the starting point and endpoint signify the Inverted Lake and crystallization respectively?

The former symbolizes original purity at the Supernatural Level, the latter represents extreme corruption and error, located at concept’s ends.

The former forcibly seals the latter here, preventing or delaying the world’s fall.

This is why previously telling Ah Fei that his answer could be correct—the Inverted Lake becoming the Crystal Lake, the starting point already in the form of the endpoint.

The so-called authority of ”weaving correctness,” essentially provided by corruption and error.

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One must admit, there’s a touch of dark humor in this.

Even without Extraordinary Perception, Fu Qian’s thoughts quickly soar, organizing what is seen and heard.

As the subject of crystallization continuously integrates numerous data into orderly form, the eventual conclusion remains bleak.

It’s easy to imagine the fragility of this balance, with the supernatural finale always controlled this way?

The world practically stands on an eggshell.

The researchers here precisely chose a death topic.

Observing the silver points lining up with the Whale’s body suggests they found the right place and indeed achieved something.

Seemingly through active research, they released the crystallization pollution.

Ultimately, they undoubtedly met their demise, followed by the hapless group from the Academy.

And the self-destructive research organizations were not just two, don’t forget Blind Eye Association’s opening tune.

Related to crystallization pollution in the flesh, a melody unbelievably used as a password centuries ago.

Even if the users didn’t understand its true meaning, they seemed to have glimpsed something incredible with holes in their heads.

Indeed, human history is a history of courting death—wait, the Whale’s shape seems to be off.

While paying homage to the predecessors, Fu Qian, moving onward, found another realization.

The Lighthouse’s lookout tower lies not far away, and following the Whale’s body indeed led to this location; crystals still visible embedded throughout.

But through spatial composition ability, restoring them to a whole, Fu Qian easily discovers a peculiarity.

Firstly, it increasingly resembles not a tail; rather, starting from a certain point the head’s contours become clearer.

Secondly, this time the head’s outline, compared with the other end, is extremely bony, akin to a skeleton stripped of flesh.

A true ”double-headed whale”? One head possibly already dead?

Just pondering if a refreshing mythical creature exists, turns out too optimistic?

As Fu Qian modeled and compared traces, despite sentiment, he walked the final steps up, gazing at the lookout tower ahead.

Yes, indeed a double-headed whale.