# Chapter 8: Faster-Than-Light Information Transmission
In the research and deductions of numerous scholars in the Mycroft World, when a transcendent being reaches the Legendary realm, every increment of their power growth becomes intricately connected to the fundamental theorems of the world.
These so-called "fundamental theorems" are certainly not superficial or overly conceptual things like "Laws of Fire" or "Domain of Light." They are concrete data—such as the speed of light in a vacuum, gravitational constants, the masses of protons, electrons, and neutrons, and so on. Of course, these are merely some physical constants; there are also many other concepts that belong to fundamental theorems, such as the thinking algorithms of intelligent life, the specific processes of nuclear fission and fusion, the formation of macromolecular polymers, and so forth.
In fact, even how a civilized society is established and how it remains stable is considered one of the fundamental theorems in the eyes of transcendent beings in the Mycroft World. In other words, any data, techniques, axioms, theorems, or even social research can promote the enhancement of a transcendent being's power. For them, how to convert this "knowledge" into tangible "power" is the most important step in cultivation.
Joshua was currently in the midst of such cultivation.
His avatar stood beneath the silver giant cocoon at the center of the Myriad Realms Sacrificial Ground, but his consciousness had already submerged into the cocoon, controlling its movement. Thus, one could see the silver giant cocoon, over two hundred meters in diameter and resembling a small mountain, beginning to slowly ascend into the air. Ripples of space-time spread around it, as if it intended to leave the Myriad Realms Sacrificial Ground. The Dominant Will of the Myriad Realms Sacrificial Ground silently watched the cocoon depart until it entered the void.
In the void outside the world, around the Myriad Realms Sacrificial Ground.
Joshua's mental projection appeared within the giant cocoon. He watched the steel nebula within his body rotate, contract, and finally slowly condense at the gleaming silver crystal. The void around this crystal was completely warped and twisted, as if shattered, making its physical form invisible. Yet strange light still emanated from the warped edges, proclaiming its existence.
Generally speaking, as an existential force between matter and energy, Steel Force should have no physical form. It only materializes when it decays and converts into matter. But now, a pure crystal had taken shape. If anyone could witness the scene of a world's birth, or had recently witnessed the moment countless star-forming nebulae were born at the Void Great Maelstrom, they would know that this silver crystal was actually the product of Steel Force condensed to its extreme. It was incomparably beautiful, completely indescribable in words, as if it contained all the mysteries of the world.
At the moment of observing this crystal, a flash of understanding arose in Joshua's heart: from this point forward, he would have three paths to choose from—paths related to Steel Force that had once appeared in this multiverse.
The first path was the path of life. The transcendent being would use this Steel Force crystal as a life core, deriving the purest and most extreme life form. This was the path of He Er La Si, the path of the Void Behemoths. Its endpoint was a galactic-scale life form tens or hundreds of times the volume of a standard star. Such immense mass would cause self-collapse, finally splitting into countless fragmented Steel Force crystals.
Some of these crystals would generate new worlds, breeding complete ecosystems. Others would become new Void Behemoths. This was the reproduction and cycle of the behemoths. But unlike those naturally born Void Behemoths, transcendent beings who achieved this through sublimation were far stronger than them.
The second path was the path of creation. The transcendent being would use this Steel Force crystal as an energy core, constructing the most exquisite and complex model of all things. They would master the power to create all things, enough to spontaneously generate an entire ecosystem from nothing. This was the path taken by countless ancient dragons. Its endpoint was countless worlds, the Creator in countless myths and legends. As long as their Steel Force reserves were sufficient, they could even create a living plane from the void.
Perhaps some living planes in the multiverse were indeed created by "Creator"-level beings. They drifted through the void, passing one dead world after another, sowing the seeds of life, causing race after race and civilization after civilization to be born... Of course, to date, no civilization has ever observed a "Creator"-level existence. The life-creating power possessed by ancient dragons was already the limit.
The third path was the path of worlds.
A transcendent being who reached this step would use this Steel Force crystal as a core to create a small world. The size of the world would be determined by the transcendent being's Steel Force reserves... However, beyond this, Joshua knew nothing about it.
Indeed, compared to the first and second paths, which had precedents, similar situations, and practitioners, the third path was filled with the unknown. Joshua didn't know if anyone had walked this path, nor what it would be like at its extreme. He wasn't even sure what he himself would become after creating this world.
Perhaps the creator would become a new Steel Serpent? Or a "Creator" of the primary level? Who knows.
However, Steel Serpents only existed after worlds and civilizations were born. They were not the creators of worlds, but merely the self-derived will of the world itself. Even the Fairy Empresses were closer to the third path than the Steel Serpents. They used their own power to maintain an artificial plane in the void, constantly transforming it toward a normal world. This was the only practitioner of something similar to the third path that Joshua knew of.
"If I have time, I really should visit the fairies."
Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but feel some emotion. "These transcendent races, born with the ability to grasp energy, have gone much further than humans in this regard."
Yes, Joshua did not choose the first or second paths, which had precedents and practitioners. Almost without any hesitation, he chose the third path, which approached the unknown—a path no one had ever walked, whose endpoint no one knew.
The reason was simple: the power that the first and second paths could provide was known and certain. But even if this power reached its limit, becoming a true interstellar super-lifeform or a Creator capable of casually creating planes, it might not achieve the goals in Joshua's heart.
The goals Joshua wanted to achieve were too many, too far-reaching, and too vast. He wanted to eradicate the Evil Gods and understand why they were born. He wanted to go to the center of the multiverse, find the Sage, and ask about their goals. He wanted to explore the sorrowful cycle of order and chaos in the multiverse and understand the reasons behind them.
And there was also the warrior's most naive, most arrogant goal.
He wanted to change this multiverse.
This multiverse was too dark and gloomy. The more Joshua traveled between different worlds, the more clearly he could perceive this. Behemoths drifting through the void, bringing terror and disaster at any moment. Evil Gods patrolling with the magic tide, devouring civilized worlds. The Abyss, already destroyed yet dragging its undead body to linger on, even invading other civilizations. And countless void disasters, born from who knows what causes, cutting off the World Star River, preventing the light of flame from illuminating the distance.
Joshua recalled many things: the Void Behemoth Leviathan of the Chronos World, the projection of the Calamity Evil God seen in the Ilgena World, the Abyss allied forces that invaded the Mycroft World in his past life, and the supernova explosion seen in the memories of the Eye Demon Lord Haier Mu that pushed a planet into a sun. These were all real and true. The warrior could be certain that these scenes were definitely playing out everywhere in the multiverse.
But in such a terrible environment, order against order, civilization against civilization were still killing each other. Not to mention those contenders who came from who knows where to fight for the power of ancient dragons, the civilization of the Siberia World was almost destroyed by its own strongest being. A civilization and a powerful being with considerable potential, who might have become a force to resist the Chaos Evil Gods, became an enemy that locked the future due to unavoidable reasons. Experiencing such a thing even once was extremely depressing.
So Joshua wanted to change this multiverse. Not simply by eradicating Evil Gods and demons, but more fundamentally, by completely erasing the foundation of chaos and the Abyss. The power of the Sage that Carlis spoke of, the realm of adding a completely new transcendent force to the multiverse, provided Joshua with a glimmer of possible hope.
Since the Sage could create Holy Light, a universally applicable transcendent power, from nothing, why couldn't he go from something to nothing, completely erasing all sources of destruction?
One day, his flame would burn across the multiverse, illuminating all civilizations and order!
Of course, Joshua knew that this third path might not necessarily give him the power he needed. Even if it could, it would be a long time from now. What he needed to do now was to create this small world and take the first step.
Inside the giant cocoon was a completely isolated independent void. Fatlervi's method of controlling the time of the Siberia World had greatly benefited Joshua, so he deliberately used his own body as a wall to enclose a piece of void. And in this void, which had only one observer and where all information was completely controlled by him, it was undoubtedly the best place for a new world to be born.
One could see the silver nebula spinning rapidly. At the center of this nebula was a crystal between illusion and reality, neither matter nor energy, but merely "existence." This was the absolute Steel Force core, containing 98% of the material energy of Joshua's main body.
Everything in the world has mass. And with mass comes gravity. Even the smallest elementary particle has gravity. Its field energy warps space-time, forming a depression. This depression is the essence of gravity. The greater the mass, the more severe the warping and depression, and naturally, the greater the gravity.
The Steel Force crystal was not degenerate matter, nor a black hole. But its mere existence caused the void to cave inward, twisting into a funnel shape. This was not because it had an extremely large mass, but because it was the depression itself. Although, if this Steel Force crystal decayed into matter, it would also have the mass to cause void depression, it was not the same thing.
Steel Force was the power of creation. When it decayed, it formed the elementary particles that make up all things in the world. Before decay, it could also transform into various strange authorities through the will of its holder. As long as this power existed, it would constantly warp the world and even the void. High-concentration Steel Force condensates could even directly trigger creation phenomena.
What Joshua needed to do was to induce a creation phenomenon, causing this distortion to completely collapse, making this "funnel" depression completely close, becoming an independent space with the "crystal" as its central core—the prototype of a new world.
"But it's not enough. The concentration of Steel Force hasn't reached the level to induce a creation phenomenon."
Perceiving the current state of the crystal, Joshua's mental projection shook his head.
Actually, this was normal. What had brought the warrior to his current achievement was the large-scale creation phenomenon of the Void Great Maelstrom. At that time, the entity formed by countless Steel particles seemed to treat Joshua as a world prototype, frantically pouring high-concentration Steel Force into him. If Joshua hadn't resisted at that time, he would have lost his self-will by now, transformed into a world prototype, and drifted along with the maelstrom's currents.
It was precisely because Joshua decisively cut off the infusion of Steel Force at that time that he preserved his self-will and gained the opportunity to control the creation process with his own will. But precisely because of this, Joshua's current reserves were insufficient, temporarily unable to complete the creation.
However, the warrior had already thought of this. That was why he sent his main body's giant cocoon into the void, using it to collect the countless ownerless Steel particles drifting in the Great Magic Tide, slowly enriching his reserves.
On the outer wall of the Mycroft World, due to the world's own immense mass, the endless mist of the Great Magic Tide was gathering toward the world's surface. These energy tides from the center of the multiverse, perhaps the remains of other dead worlds, were slowly seeping into the world, making the energy concentration within the world increasingly dense.
And not far from the world's outer wall, there was a silver cocoon. It drifted in the place where the energy mist was thickest, beating like the heart of a living creature. With each beat, it inhaled a large amount of the Great Magic Tide's energy mist, filtered out the Steel particles within, and then expelled the residual energy. One could see that because of the silver cocoon's continuous exhalation, the energy mist gathering around it became increasingly thick, even to the point of being invisible.
"Speaking of which, by absorbing a large amount of Steel particles from the magic tide like this, it seems I can also slow down the awakening of authorities within the world, making the awakening process smoother."
Joshua controlled the silver cocoon to orbit around the Mycroft World like a small satellite. He couldn't help but think of the authority awakeners on the continent who hadn't yet attracted much attention, and couldn't help but chuckle. "An unexpected gain, indeed."
After determining the orbit of the silver cocoon around the world and planning the subsequent absorption actions, Joshua no longer paid attention to his main body. His will returned to the avatar located in the Myriad Realms Sacrificial Ground.
Without an environment like the Void Great Maelstrom, absorbing Steel particles was a rather lengthy process. But overall, the power gained this way was easier to control, laying a good foundation for the warrior's future creation actions.
Moreover, Joshua had not come away empty-handed.
In the Myriad Realms Sacrificial Ground, Joshua's avatar raised both hands. In the palms of his left and right hands, two translucent glass crystals appeared simultaneously. Joshua gazed at these two glass crystals, then mobilized energy to light up the crystal in his right hand, causing it to emit a blazing white light.
At the exact same moment, the glass crystal in the warrior's left palm also lit up at the same time. And this so-called "same time" was not "roughly the same," but "completely simultaneous"!
One must understand that even light takes time to cross a distance of one meter. Most events that appear simultaneous in the real world have a sequence on extremely tiny time scales. "Completely simultaneous" almost never exists.
Almost.
"Not bad... It seems that before the creation succeeds, I can still take a little advance payment."
Looking at the scene occurring in both his hands, Joshua nodded with satisfaction.
The Steel Force crystal within the warrior's main body, although not yet at the level to induce a creation phenomenon, was already sufficient to distort part of reality. This allowed Joshua, based on the various theorems and knowledge he knew, to create within his own body certain unconventional theorems that did not conform to the common sense of the greater world, but only took effect within his own body.
And the first thing Joshua created was a substance that did not exist in the real world.
A brand new particle that perfectly conformed to the "quantum entanglement phenomenon," capable of achieving faster-than-light information transmission!