Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 23 Quark-Gluon Plasma is Also Slime Glue (6k, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)
Slimes, widely present in various worlds as magical creatures, also known as Oozes, are extraordinary beings with diverse origins, forms, types, and subspecies.
Generally, slimes are magical colloids that naturally gather under the influence of some kind of magic, commonly found in swamps or rainy areas rich in plants. Depending on the region and world culture, they can be seen as a type of food or a filthy evil.
However, slimes also have other origins: for example, peculiar pro-magical multicellular organisms; a mass of congealed flesh; or even simply the embryonic form of some primary elemental spirit.
Just like its own variable and amorphous structure, its origin is equally uncertain.
For example, Yala—the Serpent Spirit—in her early days, when her power was insufficient, also transformed into a stress ball form for convenience, which looked very similar to a slime.
But if Yala were regarded as the source of slimes, she would do as she is doing to Su Zhou now, whacking him on the head with her tail in anger.
Smack, smack, smack, smack.
"Get it right, okay? Slimes have nothing to do with ever-changing! If you have to say something, it's just because their structure is relatively simple, so they are more adaptable to the environment, resulting in a large number of individuals and subspecies!"
"In other words, they are simply weak, which is why they can achieve these characteristics."
The crimson Serpent Spirit coiled around Su Zhou's neck, its extended tail tapping Su Zhou's head. She complained, "This is not the same concept as your Zhuzhou's 'innovation' and 'indefinite'! Don't go astray!"
Although it felt like she was angry, Yala's advice was indeed very reasonable.
Indeed, generally speaking, although slimes can transform, they can't transform into just anything.
After all, at the end of the day, they are just weak, low-level magical creatures, mere gelatinous bodies. If you really want them to mimic giant beasts with bones, leather, and scales, it would be somewhat difficult for the slimes no matter how you think about it.
But Su Zhou was different.
Facing Yala's complaint, he shook his head: "I'm just taking the meaning of slime, I'm not saying I'm really turning my Machine God Body into a large slime."
"What's more, is the potential of slimes really that small? For example, if I use living metal to create a 'variable spherical universal Machine God Body', that's also a slime. In terms of combat power, it's not inferior to an ordinary Machine God. If I were to control and strengthen it, ascending to the position of Celestial Venerable would not be difficult."
"I just suddenly felt that although my Zhuzhou body already has many forms, and its power encompasses everything, most of them are 're-creations' rather than 'optimizations'."
At this point, Su Zhou lowered his head. He looked at the cyan-purple slime phantom that was constantly rotating and floating in the air in his palm. He chuckled and said, "I collect many modules, modify them to be better, and then re-integrate them into a brand new and better appearance... this is a type of innovation, smashing a city and then rebuilding brand new skyscrapers in the ashes and ruins."
"But is there another kind? That is, building new buildings on the basis of the original city, preserving the ancient heritage and culture, without losing the new technology, compared to the new city, it has a bit of historical precipitation?"
Innovation requires a comparison between the new and the old.
Some bad things naturally have to be completely destroyed, and the ruins are a reflection of the comparison.
But some things that are not bad may not necessarily be preserved.
For example, in terms of artistic design, ancient architecture is not inferior to modern architecture. The difference is only the solid structure brought about by modern engineering.
Sometimes, destroying these ancient buildings and turning them into new reinforced concrete buildings is naturally a kind of progress and innovation, swift and decisive, without any future troubles.
But if someone can strengthen the internal structure while preserving the historical and artistic appearance, both retaining its excellent appearance and having a solid interior, this is naturally also a kind of innovation.
Su Zhou often takes the former method, and the worlds he has been to indeed need such a fiery and violent method to reform.
From the Divine Tree World to the Aean World, it was the same. There were obvious errors in those worlds.
But now, he intends to take the latter approach.
It's like in this World of Creation, facing the methods by which the gods rule the world, he can't pick out any faults for a while, and can only try to think about how to make the Divine Power Network and the God system better.
"What's more, the limit of the slime form is far more than that."
Saying so, the youth's tone was confident: "Look, Yala."
Saying so, Su Zhou held up the spiritual power slime form in his hand, showing its details.
In an instant, its essence was revealed under the review of the Divine Power Network, and it was being tested and registered as a brand new cultivation method.
The slime form created by Su Zhou, although it looks like it is gelatinous, is actually a very cohesive aggregate of pure life force.
Expressed in the material universe, it is like a constantly burning active plasma, like a fire, which can continuously produce a large amount of activated negative entropy, activating everything around it.
When it comes into contact with these streams of light, if it is rock, it will become rock element, if it is water, it will become water element, if it is colloid, it will become arcane slime, if it is a car, it will become a Transforming Steel...
Well, the last one is more difficult.
If you really want to activate mechanical creations, turning cars, fighter jets, or excavators into activated combat constructs, it is not something that this newly created cultivation method can do. At the very least, you have to wait until the Commander level to try.
At the Awakening level, the biggest effect of this temporarily unnamed cultivation method is actually 'enhancement'.
Pouring a large amount of pure life spiritual energy into oneself or others, stimulating the sublimation of the essence of life, greatly increasing physical fitness and regeneration ability in a short period of time, allowing people to achieve the ability to regenerate severed limbs in a short period of time.
Long-term use can even permanently improve physical fitness. If there is any powerful bloodline in the body, there is also a certain chance that it can be activated and catalyzed, becoming more pure.
Although it cannot control wind, nor can it control water, and has no other superfluous divine abilities, this cultivation method is actually very suitable for martial cultivators, and can be combined with various combat spiritual techniques to exert an effect greater than one plus one equals two.
Moreover, at the Awakening level, where everyone is a rookie, fancy elemental manipulation is at most using that pitiful spiritual energy to smear people's faces. It often happens that after fighting for a long time, the result is still an embarrassing situation where a punch is better.
When you want to cause damage, you still have to rely on your fists, so increasing your physical fitness is actually the best.
And when it comes to the Transcendent level, this set of cultivation methods can achieve 'temporary evolution', using powerful life force and spiritual power to create various targeted armaments for oneself like a slime, depending on the situation on the battlefield at the time.
For example, when facing an enemy wielding a sharp blade, catalyze your flesh and blood, fine-tuning the special ability of 'stone scale skin' to become smooth scales with a deflection angle.
For example, when facing an enemy with a heavy hammer, make your body soft and unyielding, so that no matter how you hammer it, you cannot cause serious damage.
Even, according to Su Zhou's ideas, this cultivation method can allow races that originally did not have wings to grow wings, and allow races that did not have gills to dive underwater. In short, it is to retain their own characteristics and use adaptability as a weapon to fight.
"Let's call it 'Flame of Evolution'." Thinking so, the young man gave this cultivation method a name.
"Um, Flame of Evolution, not bad indeed. So, it's really just borrowing the 'true meaning' of slime, and not really turning into a slime, still retaining considerable combat power."
Seeing this, Yala also nodded, acknowledging that Su Zhou's concept was good.
But soon, she picked up on the flaws again: "But, these are all aspects of flesh and blood, right? Facing silicon-based life, metal constructs, or spiritual life, how can your cultivation method take effect?"
"In that case, you need to reverse your cultivation!"
Speaking of this, Su Zhou immediately became energetic.
It can be seen that the cyan-purple flame slime in Su Zhou's hand, after a burst of spiritual power vortex flashing, immediately changed color and became pure, flawless cyan-blue.
The original life aura disappeared, followed by the purest 'Pure Spirit Light'.
This spirit light was burning fiercely, like a flame, but in fact, if this flame were ignited, then no matter what life it was, even an ordinary steel knife without life, would be reborn and become a spiritual weapon capable of slaying ghosts!
As everyone knows, even ordinary things without any spiritual energy, if they have spent hundreds or thousands of years immersed in spiritual energy, then even if they originally had no divine abilities, they would possess various special powers.
A beheading knife that has killed thousands of people, even if it is just ordinary steel, but if there is a vow curse attached to it, this beheading knife can even transform into an evil and fierce thing, causing disaster to one side.
The pure spirit light condensed by Su Zhou is the strongest of this series of powers.
As long as it is ignited by it, any object that originally had a little spirituality can be awakened and become a newborn little demon.
And the original little demon, or those non-flesh and blood lives that Yala said who practice this method, can also gradually add many divine buff states to themselves to fight the enemy.
One cultivation method, two forms, one transforming spiritual energy into life force, and one transforming life force into spiritual energy, are both the same principle.
"Moreover, just the true meaning of slime? Not really! In my planned plan, when I cultivate this method to the Spirit Machine God Body, and even the Creation Machine God realm, I can return to the basics and achieve the 'Myriad Ease True Body'!"
At this time, Su Zhou was already a little excited.
It can be seen that after the Divine Power Network finished its testing, the flame slime in his hand instantly became countless times more intense, and the energy sufficient to completely dissociate all matter and even basic units gathered in the youth's palm.
At the beginning of the universe explosion, the purest light appeared.
"Look!"
He smiled, like a child showing off a new toy: "This is quark-gluon plasma!"
Yala: "...Don't play on puns, this quark-gluon plasma and the slime's gum are not the same thing at all."
Obviously, Su Zhou also knew that puns would cost money, but he really wasn't playing on puns.
In fact, according to the youth's deduction, this is indeed the last step of the 'Flame of Evolution' cultivation method.
Whether it is flesh and blood or machinery, when it reaches the extreme, it is the same path.
When the 'Flame of Evolution' burns to the limit, then no power in the world can bear its 'enhancement'. Whether it is flesh and blood or machinery, it will be disassembled by the most immaculate and pure spirit light. Even the atomic nucleus, protons, and neutrons will all be separated and become a ball of extremely hot 'quark-gluon plasma'.
A kind of zero-friction 'perfect liquid'.
Look, slime is a colloidal liquid, and quark-gluon plasma is also a perfect liquid.
Slime is ever-changing, quark-gluon is the basic building block of all things, and it can also be ever-changing.
Slime has many origins, and there are many ways to split protons and neutrons. Some universes do not have basic particles, but they have similar 'basic spiritual power', so there are also many origins.
Omitting the following levels of proof, it is sufficient to prove that slime = quark-gluon aggregate.
In short, when the Flame of Evolution is deduced to the end, it will be transformed into the original matter of the universe. Quark-gluon plasma, a divine object born in an instant after the Big Bang, is essentially a very rare spiritual object of heaven and earth, which can naturally shape all things and can also strengthen all things.
It is also a coincidence - the reason why Su Zhou had this inspiration was because of the Void Hierarch.
As the original stardust life of the universe, the Void Hierarch's stardust power also has a similar effect, which can shape all the matter in the universe. In detail, these two forces are inherently in the same line.
And the free and ever-changing form of stardust life also conforms to the definition.
In other words, how can slime be such an inconvenient thing?
Stardust life is also slime!
Just after Yala said "eep", the Divine Power Network also displayed the rating of the cultivation method that Su Zhou had shown before.
[Flame of Evolution: Brand new special cultivation method, physical enhancement, life enhancement, survival-based, leaning towards precision]
[Novelty: 9 points]
[Practicality: 7.5 points]
[Refinement: 9.5 points]
[Evaluation: A+]
[Divine Power Point feedback is estimated to be: Divine Power Points, please confirm the upload of this cultivation method and accept the Divine Power Points]
It's not a full-level S, and Su Zhou is not surprised by this.
After all, the power of the Flame of Evolution cultivation method can only be fully displayed in the later stages. It is a purely late-stage cultivation method, and the requirements for the cultivator's proficiency are also very high.
However, relatively speaking, this cultivation method is also quite easy to get started with. It is easy to understand but difficult to master. It doesn't rely too much on talent, but it requires a lot of inspiration - so the practicality score will be lower.
"In the end, the World of Creation is also a million-year-old powerful world. Countless planetary civilizations, tens of thousands of Machine Gods and Creation Machine Gods, and many Dao Harmonization experts. With such a long heritage, it's already pretty good that my cultivation method can get an A+."
Click upload, and receive a sum of Divine Power Points that is legal and has no hidden issues.
Su Zhou never minds his cultivation methods being obtained by others, especially after he achieves immortality, he even hopes that the entire multiverse has things like the Divine Power Network. That way, the speed at which his immortal factors spread can be said to be flying.
Ordinary gods don't even encounter such a good thing!
After doing these things, Su Zhou got up.
He plans to go back to his settlement in Disc Port first, and then make plans for the future.
And just as Su Zhou left the restaurant and observed the world along the way.
Far away in the depths of time and space.
New Primacy Order Holy Temple.
The Holy Temple located in the subspace is a stronghold that the reformist Primacy Order gods rebuilt in the subspace after losing their original Holy Temple.
With the Dao Harmonization Armed - Truth Judgment as the center, the gods have created an absolute domain in the subspace as the central hub of the current New Primacy Order.
Primacy Order Center, Central Information Processing Server, a god is orderly linking information terminals in his workstation, using his computing power to sweep all the information within the Primacy Order's sphere of influence.
Most of the information that constantly refreshes in these databases and pours down like a waterfall is meaningless garbage, most of which is pure communication noise, or some worthless ordinary exchanges.
There is nothing that is truly meaningful.
But this god doesn't care about this - because simply learning to handle the impact of this garbage information itself is a kind of tempering, especially since this information spans countless planets, originates from different civilizations and races, and has various languages. If you can fluently identify this information one by one and classify it in an orderly manner, it is enough to show that the soul of this god has reached the point where he can know the world with a single thought.
An ordinary day. For this god, today's work has no surprises.
Most mortals think that the days are new, but for the gods who have witnessed countless times, it is just a slightly changed posture, or even a posture that has not changed much, and yesterday is reproduced.
[Start retrieving information related to Ruimu Star... Start performing detection and analysis operations]
Calmly starting work, the will of the god swept through countless pieces of information.
Everything is as usual, nothing special.
The climate of Ruimu Star is suitable, the collective will is stable, the population of the entire planet is well-fed and clothed, and there are no abnormalities.
'As expected'.
Thinking so, this god thought that this work would end uneventfully again.
Until He saw a new cultivation method upload notification when checking the information related to the 'Divine Power Network'.
[Basic cultivation method for the initial creation stage... Flame of Evolution... Rating A+]
[...]
[A+?]
At first, there was no reaction.
When He really saw it clearly, this god suddenly widened his four eyes, He said in shock: [An A-level evaluation in the initial creation stage? How long has it been since this kind of thing happened?]
As everyone knows, the Divine Power Network's rating is very rigorous. How much the rating is means how high the achievement this cultivation method can ultimately reach under big data calculation.
According to the data inherited by the Divine Power Network for countless years, this calculation can basically be regarded as a prediction and will not have any errors.
An A+ rating means that this cultivation method is destined to achieve a god ascension in the future, and is only one step away from the position of a Machine God.
And in general, the rating of a novice's initial creation stage cultivation method can exceed C, which is worth the attention of the gods.
After all, just starting to practice and creating on your own can directly create a cultivation method that can be cultivated to a perpetual thing. What else can be said other than genius?
And creating a cultivation method that directly leads to the god ascension stage in preliminary cultivation... Either it is a reincarnation of a god, or it is a genuine cultivation monster. Achieving a Machine God in the future, it is estimated that a Creation Machine God is not impossible.
All of this is common sense for the people of the World of Creation.
Of course, except for people from other worlds.
[Everyone, come and see, I found a genius that is rare in ten thousand years!]
Feeling excited and surprised about this, this god of the Primacy Order began to call his friends over: [When was the last time we encountered this level of mortal genius? At least it was before the third universe root exploration, right?]
[Oh, it's really remarkable! Even in the entire World of Creation, the most recent one was a mortal genius from the Wheel Order seven hundred years ago, who is now the 'Far Peak Machine God', the Creation Lord Royer - it is said that this Lord may even be able to look forward to Dao Harmonization God Selection in the future!]
[That's really good, it seems that our New Primacy Order really upholds the principle of balance, that's why such a genius has emerged]
For a time, all the Machine Gods who came to watch praised one after another. They sincerely offered their blessings, and looked very much hoping that such a genius would join them and become one of them.
Until the end, the Creation Machine God in charge of this area heard the news and arrived here.
[Ruimu Star, that place... troublesome]
Compared with the other excited Machine Gods, this Lord frowned tightly, looking like he was worried about something.
He stared at the information clusters flowing in the light curtain, and then shook his head, saying without any emotional color: [Although theoretically it will not be affected, the implementation area of the 'transfer plan' is next to the Ruimu Starfield... recently this is being implemented, and there are not enough people to observe that genius]
[Forget it]
After thinking for a while, this Lord thought to himself: [Anyway, the person is on the planet and will not run away. Let's go and observe him after the plan is over]