Chapter 1370: Chapter 224: Timeline Lifeforms
To the outside, leaving the Star Prison Tianyu is no big deal; the main concerns are the Calamity of Light and the Demon of the Abyss, two formidable foes.
The Calamity of Light is manageable. Actually, as long as there’s phototransformation, there’s no need to fear it… The crucial point is that Ian must come up with a solution to leave the Star Prison Tianyu without damaging the space-time membrane, ensuring the Calamity of Light does not occur. Also, he needs to identify anyone besides himself who might damage the space-time membrane.
Finding even a hint to resolve the issue of the Demon of the Abyss is exceedingly difficult.
“Did I release a Fragment of the Doom Demon at that time? Hmm… possibly.”
Ian reflects upon the various details in his prophecies, coming to a realization: “The mass of the Terra Sun is substantial, but orchestrating such an explosive commotion is impossible without external interference.”
“Curiously, all stars disturbed by the Demon of the Abyss collapse and explode, becoming suns.”
“I strongly suspect that, during the Star Extinguishment, I used a Fragment of Doom Demon to detonate the sun—after all, I was about to escape, and the sun was a nuisance, so why not blow it up?”
“Moreover, since I was the one who caused the explosion, collapsing the sun into a black hole, the Demon of the Abyss wouldn’t focus on Terra anymore!”
“It’s a genius idea!”
Ian nods slightly, yet despite his brilliance, he’s troubled by one question.
——Why can the Demon of the Abyss detect him?
The Demon of the Abyss and the Star God have been battling for so long without truly understanding each other, each existing outside the other’s logical frameworks, essentially fighting blindly.
First of all, it’s not because of light.
If the Demon of the Abyss concentrated attention due to light, it would have acted a long time ago with the Calamity of Light being such a persistent phenomenon. Official source is novel•fire.net
Nor is it due to the Cradle’s damage… The space-time membrane can completely block the Demon of the Abyss’s perception, and ultimately the Demon didn’t shift focus because of the Terra Sun but due to the Light Dragon.
What is special about the Light Dragon that allows it to be detected by the Demon of the Abyss?
Ian ponders for a long time, raising his head to gaze at the center of Dragon Island.
The Demon of the Abyss is a phenomenon emerging from black holes.
Its actions and ‘war’ within the material universe are straightforward: transforming stars into black holes, nothing more.
“I have a hypothesis…”
Ian suddenly remarks, “Galewind Dragon King, do you know the structure within black holes?”
[Hmm? I do] The Dragon King raises his head, responding to Ian with a tinge of puzzlement: [What’s the matter?]
“Hmm… Just a hypothesis.” Ian nods lightly, thinking aloud, “Without the Aether, the inside and outside of the event horizon of black holes are actually two separate universes.”
“Outside the Event Horizon of Black Holes, in our ordinary universe, the time axis advances at a constant pace while spatial axis shifts with speed variations. Simply put, creatures in our universe inevitably move towards their end, but they can freely navigate the cosmos.”
“However, inside the Event Horizon of Black Holes, it’s a different story.”
“Due to the immense gravitational distortion of space-time, the time axis is affected, even… exchanging with the spatial axis.”
“The absolute gravity inside black holes dictates that material within the event horizon will coincide spatially with the singularity—mirroring the external world’s time axis.”
“Just as humans can’t defy time to revisit the past, matter can’t lever immense gravity to return to its former location outside the event horizon.”
“The shift of material inside the Event Horizon mirrors the irreversible, untraceable advancement of time beyond its bounds.”
“In the normal world outside the Event Horizon, material moves as the time axis advances, transitioning from one point on the spatial axis to another.”
“But inside the Event Horizon, material’s spatial axis follows a fixed trajectory toward the singularity, akin to external time; to move, material transitions from one point on the time axis to another, akin to external space.”
“Inside and outside the event horizon, the time axis and spatial axis have switched places.”
Ian gazes at the ‘core’ of Dragon Island’s center, slowly breaking ground: 「If ‘life’ exists within the event horizon of a black hole.」
“Then it must be a ‘time creature’—destined to fall into the singularity but able to traverse the ‘time axis’!”
Galewind Dragon King’s eyes widen slightly, struggling to comprehend: “[But if using Aether… we can transcend space-time to some extent, affecting the time axis, right? Wisdom doesn’t bind sentient beings to merely advance along the time axis…]”
“That’s due to the Aether! Without it, show me time reversal or a prophecy contradicting time!”
Ian, irritated, admonishes Dragon King’s naïveté, realizing his own error. The opponent is knowledgeable yet entrenched in the doctrines of the ‘Terra Universe’ or ‘Aether Universe,’ enmeshed entirely in Aether biases—they can’t even think without Aether!
Yet one can’t blame them; without Aether, dragons—those supreme beings—couldn’t exist.
It’s only himself, a traverser, who employs such non-Aether foundational logic in thought.