While Guan Liyuan resolved the Chimera Ant crisis, Liu Maoxing had quickly risen from obscurity to the top 100 chefs in the world by virtue of several "food battles", and received the invitation to the "Food Festival" as he wished.

At the "Food Festival", the top 100 chefs will gather together and re-determine the ranking of the top 100 through multiple rounds of competition!

However, the one-year period of the Hunter World is about to end. When you come back a year later, you can have fun. Whether it is exploring the Dark Continent or winning the Food Festival, you have to put it on the next world tour.

However, just when Guan Liyuan wanted to let it go, Penguin suddenly reminded Guan Liyuan of something... There is something inexplicable

about the relationship between the human world, the food world, the Hunter Continent, and the Dark Continent, and why the laws favored by the will of the universe are a bit inexplicable... Penguin has found the answer!

[To some extent, the evolution law of this world is closer to individual evolution. If this world is a "human", then the location of the food world is its muscle, and the location of the dark continent is its sea of ​​consciousness...】

Guan Liyuan: ???

【Wait! What do you mean? Are you saying... this universe is alive? 】

【No, the universe will not have its own will, unless "it" completely separates itself from the will of the universe. However, any will of the universe has the instinct to develop in a benign way, so behaviors that are beneficial to the universe as a whole can increase the favor of the will of the universe. 】 Penguin added.

【Develop in a benign way? Then for this universe...】

【Practice! Similar to individual practice, the advent of the "food demon" is similar to the generation of power beyond matter from the muscles. Whether it is refining essence into qi or internal force, it is equivalent to the will of the universe completing a step of practice without subjective consciousness... Similarly, the plane

where the chimera ants originally lived also belongs to the muscle level, so the "Queen Ant" itself is a ray of opportunity for the will of the universe to practice "unity of spirit and flesh". The ability that Naniga possesses to realize his wishes comes from the will of the universe, and the will of the universe will not allow "its own" power to kill the "opportunity" for his advancement.

It is easy to understand that when practitioners of any system feel that they are about to break through, they will definitely maintain this feeling carefully, and there is no reason to actively extinguish it.

Although the will of the universe has no self-awareness, it will have the same reaction in instinct.

As for the fact that the ant king was later eliminated by other forces, it means that this breakthrough method will not work, but there is no need to worry about the revenge of the will of the universe without subjective consciousness.

Neferpitou is Guan Liyuan's "artificial" breakthrough opportunity, which is equivalent to helping the universe explore the steps of "spiritual unity". Therefore, after achieving it, Guan Liyuan is particularly favored by the will of the universe, and Neferpitou is also immune to Naniga's power because of his identity as a "breakthrough opportunity".

As for Guan Liyuan and Liu Maoxing...

because they are just outsiders, no matter what they do (sound), if it is just their own breakthrough, it has nothing to do with the advancement of the universe, so they will not be treated specially.

However, when Guan Liyuan reconciled the three forces of matter, energy, and self, it gave great inspiration to the will of the universe, causing the will of the universe to instinctively focus on Guan Liyuan. Guan Liyuan, who was "highly concerned", also gained the blessing of the world's great power.

[Why do you say... as if the entire universe could "become a spirit" at any time? ] Guan Liyuan muttered.

Before this, the most amazing origin in Guan Liyuan's cognition was brother Boom, who became a spirit from the Big Bang.

If the entire universe became a spirit, wouldn't it be much more amazing than brother Boom's origin?

But Penguin also corrected Guan Liyuan again and again at this time, the stronger the individual consciousness is, the farther it is from the will of the universe, and perhaps the world can really "become a spirit" as a whole, but the moment it has a complete will and becomes "he" or "she", it is the time when it completely becomes independent from the will of the universe.

[Wait, that will also be the time when this universe is completely destroyed, right? ] Guan Liyuan suddenly asked.

The Big Bang of a universe has already caused the lack of rules in the Saint Seiya world, and then after countless years of operation, it has come to an end. Now Boom is still thinking about reintegrating and completing the rules of the universe.

If the entire universe becomes a spirit, will this universe end? Or... will it invade other universes?

Guan Liyuan is very curious about this...

[Have you heard of "Pangu"? ] Penguin asked back.

Pangu.

It does not refer to the "Pangu" of a certain universe. There is a legend of "Pangu" in the world where Guan Liyuan originally lived.

Because of translation reasons, many universes have the creator god "translated" into Pangu.

The way of opening the sky is different, but often "Pangu" is the representative of the self-sacrificing opening of the sky.

However, Guan Liyuan has always believed that the process of "Pangu opening the sky" should correspond to the Big Bang, that is, the beginning of the universe...

But according to Penguin's induction, "Pangu opening the sky" is a kind of renewal!

If a universe becomes a spirit, it is likely to be like Pangu, in a self-sacrificing way to renew everything, and if ta really does this, it will be translated as "Pangu".

This is very different from Boom. Boom's birth was an accidental moment, while Pangu's renewal is the development process of the universe's will towards benign instinct since ancient times!

It is one of the normal modes of universe promotion.

The universe that has been updated and restarted, which often starts with Pangu's creation of the sky, has a very high level of rules - Guan Liyuan has not been to a similar world yet.

Of course, Guan Liyuan does not have to worry about what will happen to the humans living in this world if this world becomes "Pangu"...

because this process will be extremely long, let alone Guan Liyuan's life span, even penguins dare not say that they can run to witness that moment with their own eyes.

Moreover, when the Pangu-style universe is restarted, the old universe is not destroyed at the moment of restart, but gradually dies in Pangu's practice, and then usher in new vitality. This is different from the universe destruction crisis in the Saint Seiya world.

If the Saint Seiya universe really collapses, it is actually equivalent to a "restart", but it takes a longer time to breed a new universe, and... there is a high probability that the rules of the new universe will be downgraded.

As far as the Hunter World is concerned, it is still in the rising stage of the universe. On the contrary, the overall ecology will gradually improve due to the invisible guidance of the universe's will.

[Following this clue, I also found a world with "matter", "energy" and "self" rules that overlap a lot with the main world.] Penguin said.

[Oh? Which world?] Guan Liyuan asked hurriedly.

Guan Liyuan has also discovered that even if "Medusa" and "I" cannot be promoted to the creation level in other worlds, but... "Medusa" still has room to move closer to "matter", and the "demon" corresponding to "energy" has even greater room for promotion. Moreover,

even if the three professions do not get promoted, just strengthening the linkage between each other can also improve their strength at the existing level!

However, the probability of all three rules being similar to the main world is very low... For example, in the hunter world, the main reason is that the main body rules are very similar, and the material rules and energy rules can only be considered average.

[This is a world that has just been added to the forum signal range. You should have seen the posts posted by members there before, and they have also replied.] Penguin said.

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