Chapter 636: Information Mapping

"I already know your origins and your intentions."

As a Great Venerable, Li Heng pierced through the Causality of Xinghai and Dimu with a single glance, knowing they were Immortal Gods of the Old Heavenly Court who had escaped the First Tribulation when the Heavenly Court collapsed in the past.

However, these two Immortal Gods were only at the Peak Divine level; although they were top-tier, first-echelon existences in the Great Void of this era, they could not enter his Dharma Eye and were not worth his attention.

Except for... the place they came from.

Xinghai and Dimu were startled, just about to reply, but before they could answer, Li Heng continued.

"The old acquaintances you seek do indeed exist, but in this World of mine, there are only three, and according to seniority, they can only be considered your juniors and subordinates. Are you sure you want to see them?"

The two were silent.

Just their own juniors and subordinates, not old friends equal to them? How to put it, it was somewhat unexpected, but still better than nothing, better than coming here for nothing.

"May I ask if the Senior knows where our other old friends are?"

After hesitating for a moment, Xinghai asked.

"Where they are is for you to find out yourselves; what use is it to ask me? However, I do have a connection with your Heavenly Court, so I can tell you some information. For instance, the Three Elders of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity were killed by me. How about that?" Li Heng said with a half-smile.

Xinghai and Dimu's eyelids twitched instantly.

Those three old fellows who were especially good at clinging to life were dead? And killed by this Senior before them, said so nonchalantly—would they be walking into a tiger's den?

Xinghai spoke immediately, his expression solemn.

"The Senior did well to kill them. I had long found those three old bastards unpleasant. When we worked together in the same hall in the past, they were always secretly stirring up trouble and being sarcastic. They deserved to die."

He agreed with every decision of Li Heng very "sensibly," and Dimu nodded along without the slightest hesitation.

"You two are quite clever. Rest assured, those three had a path to death. Besides the Three Elders of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity, I have also encountered a batch of your Heavenly Court's Immortal Gods, but that batch of Immortal Gods is no longer considered people of your Heavenly Court, and with your abilities, you cannot reach them."

What Li Heng was referring to was the branch of Immortal Gods who had defected to the Multiverse Alliance.

Xinghai and Dimu listened, confused—what did it mean they were no longer people of the Heavenly Court? But they dared not ask. It was unlike a classroom where a teacher asks students if they understood the problem; few people would raise their hands to say they didn't understand, and could only lie to themselves that they did.

"Alright, that is all I have to say. If you want to see your juniors and subordinates, you may enter my World to see them, but do not cause trouble, otherwise, you will bear the consequences."

Li Heng dropped the final sentence, and his figure vanished before the two. It was only after a long while that the two reacted, looking at each other; the Divine Dragon sees its head but not its tail indeed, even they, as Peak Divine, could not react in time—his strength was unimaginable.

"What should we do now?"

Dimu frowned and said.

Although it was said that their juniors and subordinates could be considered old acquaintances, there was a significant gap between them and the old friends she had expected.

Xinghai glanced at Dimu and spoke.

"You must know, since we have already come..."

On Li Heng's side, he was currently traversing the Wujin Daxukong, viewing the Infinite Heavens and Myriad Worlds as dust, and in an instant, he arrived at the Small Thousand World where Xinghai and Dimu had been hiding.

When he had just pierced through the Causality of Xinghai and Dimu, he also learned the location of this Small Thousand World, and what was inside—the Solar System, Earth!

Entering this Small Thousand World.

Li Heng saw the very familiar Solar System, and that azure planet. He scanned everything with a single look, piercing through the past and future, and discovered that this Small Thousand World was a Reincarnation world model.

Every 129,600 years, it would undergo Reincarnation; the world would return to Emptiness, then create itself again, with the clear rising and the turbid descending, evolving into a world once more.

And each Reincarnation was vastly different; for example, the previous Reincarnation was a vast continent, in which there were countless gods and demons with the power to carry mountains and cross seas, to chase the stars and catch the moon.

But in the end, none of them achieved Transcendence, and all returned to Emptiness.

Until this current Reincarnation, which evolved into the Solar System in Li Heng's cognition and the Earth in his cognition.

Li Heng's gaze was deep, lost in thought.

Clearly, this Solar System and this Earth were not Li Heng's hometown either. The history that occurred on this Earth was also similar yet different from his memories, with quite a few discrepancies; for instance, the Great Ming on this Earth had stood up and directly become a great power.

What exactly was going on?

He had already searched through the origin and end of this Small Thousand World, understood the infinite possibilities, and grasped the final variables, but he had never detected any anomalies.

This Earth had evolved naturally.

Admittedly, natural evolution was not impossible.

It was like the monkeys with typewriters of Shakespeare; as long as the scale of space and time was large enough, what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; the appearance of another Earth, or even an identical Earth, was not impossible.

It was just that based on his past experiences, he was more inclined toward another possibility. That was that this Earth was his old home, or perhaps an information mapping product of an Earth with an extremely special status.

The relationship between them was like that of an original novel and fan fiction.

As early as the beginning of the Present World, he had already encountered many people or things that were similar yet different: Dao, Confucianism, Buddhism, the Hundred Schools of Thought, the Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, the Three Provinces, Yan Caichen, Ning Chixia, and so on. He had even heard information about visitors from outside the territory who were suspected to be from Earth.

Although after he became powerful, he searched through all the space and time of the Present World and did not detect any abnormalities; everything was a natural evolution.

The more doubts he had in his heart, the thicker the smile on Li Heng's face became.

It was truly an interesting phenomenon.

Was a certain Earth the culprit behind this information mapping phenomenon? Or were the appearances of these Earths just one of the products of the information mapping phenomenon?

Regarding this point, he was more inclined toward the latter.

After all, how vast is the universe?

Even if Earth were special, other places could also be special, or even more special. To think that because it was one's own hometown it must be incomparably special and the unique supreme one? That would be falling into the trap of cognitive bias and being somewhat arrogant; this was not the character of Li Heng.

This kind of thinking undoubtedly fell into a quagmire similar to the geocentric theory, believing that the world one is in is the center of the universe, the only one of everything. But in reality, looking at the true universe, the heliocentric theory and more complex models are the truth. Oneself, the world, are very small.

As for why he concluded that this was an information mapping phenomenon, there was actually one final reason. That was that right now in his line of sight, this azure Earth had countless Causal Chains, breaking through the Void and extending to an Unknown place, impossible to trace.

This was the countless Causality produced by information mapping!