metaverse evolution.

Chapter 1179 Another Battle Against the Chaos Beast

"This time, we need to do our best to kill a Chaos Beast. If we can't, we must at least severely injure one."

In the fleet, Chu Fei sat with the others, discussing the matter. In his arms, he held a crystal ball containing a miniature Elf Mother Tree. This was a blessing from the Goddess of Nature, meant for survival and also to prevent the Heavenly Emperor's avatar from doing anything.

Neither Chu Fei nor the Goddess of Nature had much trust in the Heavenly Emperor.

Of course, this is just a precaution. Given the current situation, with the Chaos Beasts holding the advantage, it's unlikely the Heavenly Emperor would turn against them.

Chu Fei spoke, and the group began to discuss. But the one truly in charge of military matters was Captain Huang Youlong.

Chu Fei merely made a request, not a demand. His reason for this request was to obtain the Heavenly Book from the Heavenly Emperor, which might be the only cultivation material for the Saint Realm that the Ascending Dragon Palace had any hope of acquiring.

Killing a Chaos Beast would be ideal, but even if that's not possible, disrupting its attack would still be considered a successful mission. The main purpose is to give the Heavenly Emperor and the saints of Changqing Heaven a chance to catch their breath and fully demonstrate the "united front value" of the Ascending Dragon Palace.

Huang Youlong organized tactical discussions, which had actually taken place many times before, but more were needed before the final battle. Even discovering a small problem in ten discussions might turn the tide in the final showdown.

If the seedlings calculate one more point, their chances of winning might increase tenfold.

During their discussion, Chu Fei and the others also pulled the Heavenly Emperor's avatar into the conversation. After all, it involved a war at the level of saints, and the Heavenly Emperor was now a direct participant and the employer, so they had to ask the Heavenly Emperor's avatar to participate no matter what.

During the discussion, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar's anger towards Chu Fei and the others gradually subsided. Although Chu Fei had been dragging his feet before setting off, after participating in the tactical discussion, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar clearly recognized the extraordinary qualities and seriousness of Chu Fei and the others, and also fully realized his own thoughtless behavior last time.

While tactics exist within the cultivation system, most battles remain straightforward. If the difference in cultivation levels is significant, a direct attack is sufficient; if they are roughly equal, resources are invested to acquire powerful magical artifacts. Only when these methods fail do tactics become relevant. In effect, tactics are relegated to the third level.

The method by which the Chaos Divine Beast attacked the Xuan Yang Domain this time was a skillful head-on collision—essentially still a head-on collision. But sometimes, it is precisely this kind of head-on collision that proves to be the only solution.

The chaotic divine beasts divided into ten groups, attacking in turn without haste or impatience. This embodies another combat method in the world of cultivators—endurance!

As long as I have even the slightest advantage, I will maximize that advantage. A single battle could last hundreds, thousands, or even longer. Let's see who gives up first.

Now, relying on its powerful defense and attack, the Chaos Beast has worn down four Quasi-Saints in a hundred years.

The discussion lasted only a month and a half before the Heavenly Emperor's avatar suddenly said, "We've arrived."

"So fast?" Chu Fei was surprised.

The Heavenly Emperor's clone: ​​"Compared to the last warships, this time there are a total of 160 ships, which makes the transportation much easier, so they arrived ahead of schedule."

Chu Fei extended his senses outside the warship and discovered that he had indeed arrived at the edge of the battlefield. Then, Chu Fei saw a battlefield that was completely different from the one he had seen before.

Last time I came here, the defenses of Xuan Yang Domain were only slightly dented and had minor cracks. The core battlefield covered an area of ​​hundreds of millions of kilometers and had an impact range of over 10 billion kilometers. But now the core battlefield covers an area of ​​10 billion kilometers and has an impact range of over 100 billion kilometers.

That's a distance of hundreds of billions of kilometers. Even if you traveled at the speed of light from one end of the battlefield to the other, it would still take an hour and a half.

The fighting on the scene was far more intense than when I last saw it.

The Chaos Beasts remained divided into ten groups, but their attack area had expanded significantly, and they had gained the upper hand. The Chaos Beasts constantly changed their attack directions, and the Xuan Yang Domain was already struggling to cope.

These chaotic divine beasts flickered, each flash allowing them to travel millions, tens of millions, or even more kilometers. It was clear that the chaotic divine beasts were becoming increasingly adapted to the laws and environment of the Evergreen Heaven!

The ability to learn is something that intelligent life generally possesses. Even dogs know to bark at strangers and wag their tails at their owners. The Chaos Divine Beast has been in Changqingtian for so long, it has clearly learned many skills.

The experts of Changqingtian are also learning and improving, but their progress seems to be slower than that of the Chaos Beasts; otherwise, the scale of the battlefield could not have expanded.

Those who frequently command legion wars know that, as the defending side, the larger the battlefield, the more passive one becomes.

The Heavenly Emperor's clone gave Chu Fei and the others an hour to observe and inquire about their chances of entering the battlefield.

This time, Chu Fei gave a firm reply: "Senior, you don't need to worry about us. We're going to fight alone this time. Don't worry, we wouldn't dare to do anything reckless, even for the sake of our own lives."

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar nodded, "Alright, then it's up to you."

The Heavenly Emperor wasn't worried at all about Chu Fei and the others playing tricks. Although Chu Fei had the Goddess of Nature protecting him, the other elites of the Ascending Dragon Palace didn't. Besides, if Chu Fei really did try something, even if he killed Chu Fei, the Goddess of Nature couldn't say anything.

Under the watchful eye of the Heavenly Emperor's avatar, the 160 warships of the Ascending Dragon Palace were activated and then disappeared into the vast void. The next moment, they reappeared 100,000 kilometers away, slightly closer to the battlefield.

The warship had barely started moving when it was locked onto by the Chaos Beast, and alarms were already sounding on board. This reconnaissance and sensing capability is a technology developed based on the observer effect, allowing it to keenly detect a sage's lock-on.

Chu Fei and the others remained calm and unhurried, as the Chaos Divine Beast was still billions of kilometers away.

Furthermore, information transmission in the void is delayed; a distance of billions of kilometers would take nine to ten minutes even at the speed of light. Even if a chaotic divine beast could instantly lock onto a warship, and even if a saint-level divine ability is faster than the speed of light, attacking and moving still require some time.

The warship calmly adjusted its position and moved more than 20,000 kilometers away. Sure enough, an inexplicable attack swept across its original location. The attack range was not small, with spatial fluctuations of tens of thousands of kilometers.

"Ten billion kilometers, from lock-on to attack takes 6 seconds, which is almost a hundred times the speed of light." The warship automatically calculated the time.

Chu Fei remained silent, but temporarily lent his perception and computing power to Huang Youlong through the metaverse domain. Huang Youlong then coordinated all the "brains of the cosmic brain" and took command from the center.

The fleet flickered again and began to drift erratically. Unpredictable; coupled with the unevenness of the surrounding space caused by the battle of the saints, the fleet became even more elusive.

In the vast void, in this battlefield spanning over a hundred billion kilometers, 160 warships, ranging in size from tens of thousands of kilometers to just over three thousand kilometers, are like a few specks of dust in a raging storm.

Yet this very "dust" attracted the attention of both sides in the battle. The Heavenly Emperor and other sages were watching, as were the chaotic divine beasts.

Attacks occasionally swept across the "fleet," but none of them could hit it! Huang Youlong made full use of the unevenness of space in the vast environment, as well as the characteristics of information and attack delays, to dance around the Chaos Beast.

The fleet's series of daring maneuvers attracted considerable attention from the Chaos Beasts, giving the Heavenly Emperor and other saints a brief respite.

In such an intense combat environment, even a moment's respite is precious.

The warships flickered in the void, continuing to attract attacks from many chaotic beasts. The attacks from the chaotic beasts became increasingly intense, but the fleet was like a bat flying in the dark, always easily avoiding the core of the attacks.

At this moment, the distance between the fleet and the Chaos Beast remained at 60 billion kilometers. The Chaos Beast's attack was primarily a form of spatial strangulation. Essentially, it was a projection of laws that would erupt upon reaching its destination, disrupting space and creating spatial strangulation that tore everything within its attack range apart. This attack method was similar to a vacuum energy bomb.

The Dragon Ascension Palace's warships only needed to avoid the core of the attack; the aftershocks, while having some impact, were minor and insufficient to breach the warships' defenses. Chu Fei and his group were fully prepared for the possibility of the Chaos Beast daring to provoke them again.

A day passed quietly, and the fleet remained intact, gradually approaching the Chaos Beast. The Chaos Beast's attacks became increasingly accurate, yet even the slightest miss resulted in a huge difference in outcome; it simply couldn't accurately lock onto the fleet. Although its accuracy continued to improve, it still couldn't hit its target.

It should be said that while the Chaos Beast was exploring and learning the fleet's patterns, the fleet was also exploring the Chaos Beast's patterns, and so on. Clearly, the learning efficiency of the people on the fleet side exceeded that of the Chaos Beast.

Because of this premise, although the Chaos Beasts' attack accuracy improved, their threat to the fleet actually decreased. Study hard, and you can change your destiny!

Huang Youlong personally oversaw the operation, single-handedly mobilizing 160 warships and tens of thousands of elite cosmic brains. Meanwhile, these cosmic brains were also operating autonomously. For example, Chu Fei's cosmic brain was surveying the surrounding environment and relaying the information back to Huang Youlong.

At the same time, Chu Fei will also provide advanced algorithms to supplement Huang Youlong's shortcomings. All 160 warships are equipped with the latest computers, boasting explosive computing power.

Over the past eight years, optical quantum computers have made further progress. Although there hasn't been a fundamental breakthrough, many new technologies have emerged, resulting in significant performance improvements. In those eight years, progress has been made in small, rapid steps, with as many as ten iterations. Each iteration improved computing power by 10% to 20%, resulting in a 400% increase in computing power across the ten iterations!

For powerful beings beyond the Quasi-Saint level, even a 1% increase in computing power is a qualitative leap, given their already formidable foundation. Yet, the Rising Dragon Palace, through technological means, increased the computing power of the ship's onboard computers by 400%!

The computing power has increased by 400%, but there are also structural optimizations, algorithm iterations, and dimensionality increases involved. The actual increase in computing power far exceeds 400%!

At this moment, countless pieces of information flashed through Huang Youlong's mind, and the powerful computing system of big data cultivation exploded to its limit.

Big data practitioners, with their interconnected and parallel computing capabilities, pushed the limits of their abilities, uniting tens of thousands of elites and 160 warships into a single entity. Humans became the soul of the warships; the warships became their steel bodies.

For more than a day, the fleet merely dodged, jumped, and moved, gradually approaching the battlefield and the Chaos Beast. Throughout the entire ordeal, the fleet did not launch a single attack.

At this moment, Huang Youlong was frantically calculating, trying to determine the "precision of the laws" of the Chaos Divine Beast!

The so-called "precision of the law" involves a technical theory of the Rising Dragon Palace.

The principles of a law are perfect. But when it comes to putting those principles into practice and turning them into concrete technical means, they are no longer perfect.

For example, when it comes to the value of pi (pi), it obviously cannot be used as an infinite non-repeating decimal in manufacturing. This involves the issue of precision.

The fact that the Ascending Dragon Palace recognized this problem stemmed from the experience gained from their first attack on a Chaos Beast using extreme ultraviolet lasers. The fact that concentrated extreme ultraviolet laser fire could actually harm a Chaos Beast meant that the Chaos Beast was not perfect.

Right now, Huang Youlong is calculating the limit of the precision of the laws of the Chaos Beast.

Through repeated provocations and data collection, through large-scale model calculations, and by employing recursive calculation methods, the calculation results are continuously narrowed down.

Provocation involves actively outputting data to guide the Chaos Beast's attack, thus obtaining valuable data. Of course, the entire process is still very dangerous, akin to dancing on a knife's edge.

As the saying goes, what looks dangerous is actually not safe at all.

Through continuous calculations, Huang Youlong gradually calculated the precision of the Chaos Beast's calculations, which was approximately -36 to the power of negative.

When Huang Youlong finally calculated the attack precision of the Chaos Beast, a smile appeared on his face. At this moment, Chu Fei and the others connected with Huang Youlong's cosmic brain and received the information immediately.

10的负36次方精度，是普朗克长度。普朗克长度是：1.6×10^-36m。

Matter is not infinitely divisible; when its length approaches the Planck length, it reaches the quantum scale. Quanta cannot be further divided.

Similarly, if the precision of an attack method reaches the Planck length, it means that "physical attack" is equivalent to "direct attack by law," which is unsolvable at the material level.

To illustrate further: if a knife's blade is sharp enough to penetrate between atoms, then materials like diamonds, carbon fibers, and graphene are less resilient than foam in the face of such a knife.

The Chaos Beast's attack precision, or the precision of its laws, reaches the Planck scale, meaning that its attacks can tear apart atomic nuclei, protons, and neutrons.

To defend against or counter such an attack, the "precision" of the countermeasures must be equal to or exceed this.

Chu Fei took over Huang Youlong's calculations and continued iterating, finally arriving at a precise result: As a Saint-level life form, the Chaos Beast's attack precision is approximately 1.2 × 10^-36 m, which is 25% higher than Planck's length! In other words, the Chaos Beast's foundation exceeds the material world by 25%!

Because the Chaos Beast's attacks exceed those of the material world by 25%, its defense is practically "unsolvable." The sages are somewhat stretched thin under the Chaos Beast's attacks.

If the Chaos Beast's defense is unbreakable, how did the Dragon Ascension Palace's previous concentrated ultraviolet laser attack cause any damage?

The answer is—Planck time!

The dimensions of the world include not only spatial dimensions, but also the time axis!

The size and precision of the Chaos Beasts exceed those of the material world, but their frequency does not.

普朗克时间是5.39×10^-44s，如果转变成为震动，意味着每秒需要振动超过1.855×10^43次，也就是1855亿亿亿亿亿次，5个“亿”。

Reaching that frequency seems incredibly difficult.

Therefore, the Chaos Beasts are not perfect; they have problems with the frequency of time. In fact, even saints don't pursue such extremes.

Even the Ascending Dragon Palace cannot achieve such extreme frequencies. Their technology is only at the Quasi-Saint level, and in terms of frequency control, they are inferior to Saints and Saint-level beings.

Another question arises: if the frequency of the Ascending Dragon Palace is not as high as that of the Chaos Divine Beast, how can it be attacked?

This involves the issue of common divisors and common multiples. As long as the frequencies match and resonance occurs, an effective attack can be launched.

As long as the attack hits the trough, that's enough. Even if it hits once out of ten times, it's fine; it doesn't have to hit every time.

The concentrated fire of the extreme ultraviolet laser inadvertently created a resonance, which pierced the Chaos Beast's defenses. There was an element of chance involved, but also an element of inevitability.

This so-called extreme ultraviolet attack also uses an algorithm called "ultraviolet catastrophe." This ultraviolet catastrophe can provide a near-infinite frequency.

Just like electromagnetic waves in communication, the effective bands are limited. As long as the computing power is sufficient, you can try them one by one.

This is roughly what happened during the previous attack by the warships.

Now, after continuous testing and calculation, Huang Youlong has finally attempted to launch his first attack.

Each of the 160 warships has tens of millions of laser emitters, totaling more than 16 billion laser emitters firing simultaneously, and it uses ultraviolet cataclysmic technology.

However, the first launch failed because the intense battle disrupted the smoothness of space, causing all the attacks to fly around like light refracted on the surface of water.

This was expected. In fact, this attack was itself a reconnaissance mission. The spatial situation was calculated based on the attack's effectiveness.

They then launched a dozen or so more attacks, collecting enough data. The warship's "Genesis Technology" was then activated.

A flawed virtual quantum field was activated—a field that could simulate a warship. This virtual field rapidly extended for six billion kilometers, just enough to cover a group of 32 Chaos Beasts.

The moment this virtual quantum field enveloped the Chaos Beast, the beast detected it and immediately activated its own aura to disrupt the quantum field. However, it was somewhat too late.

The 16 billion rays of extreme ultraviolet radiation struck almost simultaneously with the domain, splitting into 32 focal points that concentrated on the necks of the 32 Chaos Beasts.

"Whoosh..." A faint light flashed, and the necks of the 32 Chaos Beasts were instantly burned with holes that were tens of kilometers in diameter and thousands of kilometers deep—the Chaos Beasts were as long as 100,000 kilometers and their necks were three to five thousand kilometers thick.

A depth of over a thousand kilometers is only considered a below-average attack for a chaotic divine beast. But, oh dear!

Furthermore, this is the first time in the entire battle that we have suffered such a heavy blow, and the situation seems dire.

Suddenly, the 32 Chaos Beasts went into chaos, roaring in anger. Their previously stable formation could no longer be maintained, and immediately more than a dozen Chaos Beasts broke away from the formation and charged toward the warship.

On the warship, Huang Youlong and Chu Fei shared the results of the attack, expressing some regret.

Because the fire was concentrated from all directions, like the focal point under a magnifying glass, the light rays scattered after they intersected at the focal point, thus causing only a wound of a thousand kilometers.

However, under the guidance of the new algorithm and theory, the attack effect was really good, instantly damaging 32 Chaos Beasts, breaking up the formation of a group of Chaos Beasts, and thus causing the overall attack status of the Chaos Beasts to become chaotic.

Previously, the Chaos Beasts were divided into 10 groups, taking turns attacking and resting. Now, one group has been disrupted, creating a loophole in the Chaos Beasts' attack sequence.

Those saints and quasi-saints immediately seized the opportunity and launched a fierce counterattack.

However, these guys ignored the situation on the fleet's side, seemingly tacitly agreeing that the fleet was attracting the Chaos Beast's attack.

Chu Fei noticed this, but said nothing. He was definitely unhappy about it, but he endured it for the sake of the Heavenly Book!

Under Huang Youlong's command, the fleet had already moved away the moment the attack was launched, leaving behind a large number of vacuum energy bombs.

A dozen or so Chaos Beasts rushed forward, and a large number of vacuum energy bombs exploded, causing the void within a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers to collapse, disrupting the Chaos Beasts. However, it was only a disruption; the Chaos Beasts themselves could survive in chaos.

But before the Chaos Beasts could regroup, the fleet suddenly locked onto one of them.

The virtual quantum field extended, enveloping the chaotic beast, and 160 warships once again focused their fire. This time, the target of their concentrated fire was only one chaotic beast. In the blink of an eye, the number of concentrated fire attacks reached tens of thousands.

"Puff puff……"

In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of ripples formed by attacks appeared on the Chaos Beast that was being targeted, like pebbles falling into a lake.

The Chaos Beast roared, but this attack didn't seem to cause much serious damage. The Chaos Beast charged forward, braving the laser beams.

A spatial defense layer appeared on the surface of the Chaos Beast's body. This spatial defense scattered the concentrated laser fire!

The Chaos Beast is, after all, a Saint-level life form; it learned to defend against concentrated laser fire so quickly.

The fleet moved again, this time for a strategic move... that is... a retreat.

All that could be seen was the fleet accelerating wildly, leaving vacuum energy bombs behind to cover their retreat. Although the Chaos Beast could move freely in chaos, the vacuum energy bombs still had some effect.

After a dozen or so Chaos Beasts rushed through the chaos zone caused by the vacuum energy bomb, the fleet was already billions of kilometers away.

"Roar..." The chaotic divine beast roared, also communicating—to chase or not to chase.

Ultimately, the Chaos Beast was called back by the leader at the rear.

However, after the fleet circled around for half a month, it reappeared on the other side, ready to repeat the same trick.

The Chaos Beast immediately became alert, and the fleet hastily attacked twice before fleeing. After that, the fleet became like a persistent leech; whenever the Chaos Beast took it seriously, the fleet would run away; when the Chaos Beast ignored it, the fleet would launch a leisurely attack.

Now that the Chaos Beast has learned to defend itself, the fleet's attacks are unlikely to seriously injure it, but the impact is still very real.

Due to the fleet's interference, the Sage's side managed to compress the battlefield from a range of hundreds of billions of kilometers back to a range of tens of billions of kilometers.

The Heavenly Emperor was very satisfied. Although the Ascending Dragon Palace had not yet killed a single Chaos Beast, its fleet had already fully demonstrated its value. Very good.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Emperor was unaware that Chu Fei and the others were discussing a retreat.

After continuous high-intensity combat, including repeated impacts from vacuum energy bombs and the aftershocks of attacks from chaotic beasts, the warship's average health has dropped to around 90%.

Considering the war environment at the saint level, after assessment, everyone believed that it was already somewhat dangerous.

Fortunately, this battle has already tested the relevant technologies and yielded a large amount of data; it's time to retreat.

However, a hasty retreat was impossible; even the Heavenly Emperor would likely object to a complete withdrawal of the warships. After careful consideration, Chu Fei decided to pull off a big one.

"I plan to use myself as bait to try and kill a Chaos Beast. You all stay here with your clones to help, and don't cause any trouble with your main bodies."

Everyone:...

Although they really wanted to stay and help, everyone knew that Chu Fei was right. Staying would only be a hindrance.

A few minutes later, more than a dozen escape ships quietly departed. However, only one of these escape ships was real; the rest were fake.

Before this, Chu Fei had also contacted the Heavenly Emperor's avatar. Given Chu Fei's current cultivation level and the current technological level of the Ascending Dragon Palace, they would still need the help of a Sage to truly kill a Chaos Divine Beast.

For example, the sealing array flags once isolated a chaotic divine beast.

Ten hours later, after confirming that everyone was out of danger, Chu Fei took a deep breath and personally took control of all the warships, his mind focused on the battle plan left behind by Huang Youlong. (End of Chapter)