Chapter 1140: Collapse Manifestation, Multiple Cycles

At the beginning, Xia Duo did not attempt to control these Order Forces whose forms were not yet stable; he simply kept perceiving them and observing them.

He switched perspectives back and forth, from a general macroscopic view to a differentiated microscopic view.

It was not until Xia Duo believed he had a relatively good understanding of these Order Forces that he began a true rehearsal for constructing an Order Cycle.

But in reality, this could also be considered as formally constructing an Order Cycle—at least that is what Xia Duo thought; if he could succeed now, there would be no need to take risks at the Ascension Ritual.

It was similar to how certain programs in his hometown would be pre-recorded to ensure the effect, and then the performers would lip-sync.

Constructing an Order Cycle is essentially pushing a certain type of Order Force to start from the leader of the order, pass through the entire scope covered by the order, and then return to the leader of this order.

Xia Duo decided to start with the Order Force of the 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】 series; the reason, naturally, was that a circle of people from the Development Department was gathered at the foot of the Code Sculpture.

Of course, the difficulty of just this first step was truly not small.

Constructing an Order Cycle must start from oneself; currently, the Order Force on Xia Duo, viewed generally, was like a wisp of swaying blue smoke, or like some kind of indescribable electron cloud.

And viewed in detail, it contained countless branching powers, which represented all of Xia Duo's social relationships in this world, and these branching powers were also constantly changing, making them elusive. (Some were not led by himself.)

To accurately find the Order Force representing the 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】 series from within it, without a certain level of skill, would be like looking for a needle in a haystack—almost impossible to find.

And for Xia Duo to have reached this step, he actually already possessed quite a bit of skill.

First, Order Forces led by oneself and Order Forces led by others have completely different feelings at the level of Perception.

Second, Xia Duo did not start this rehearsal by directly selecting a certain Order Force to construct a cycle; instead, he chose to familiarize himself with these Order Forces first.

As long as one's Perception is strong enough, even with identical Order Forces, one can find the differences between them.

And Xia Duo happened to belong to the category with stronger Perception!

But even so, knowing there were differences, if he only started from himself, it was still very difficult to distinguish which one represented the 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】.

Xia Duo's relationships were complex, but the relationships of these Daxia Territory residents under the Code Sculpture were much simpler, especially with so many people; one only needed to look for those with the same nature among the differentiated Order Forces.

"As expected, having strong Perception is great!"

Very quickly, Xia Duo found the type of Order Force representing the 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】 and locked onto it in his Perception.

Although this did not change its ever-changing characteristics, Xia Duo could infinitely amplify the presence of this Order Force—which he led—within his Perception.

It was approximately equivalent to temporarily ignoring all other Order Forces completely, having only it in his eyes!

……

Since he could not yet directly control the Order Force, Xia Duo still cast spells using the Micro Magic Net unfolded by his Arcane Fire simultaneously with the external Great Magic Net environment.

Soon, waves of Magic Net fluctuations, rich in regularity and changing changes, spread outward with Xia Duo as the center.

At the same time, at the level of Perception, the frequency of change of the 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】 Order Force began to drop sharply, just like an electron that originally existed in the form of a probability cloud, which suddenly collapsed into a concrete electron the moment it was observed.

As the spell continued, the Order Force became increasingly stable, but this was still far from the goal Xia Duo wanted to reach.

To make the Order Force completely stable, one must push it to complete a cycle; otherwise, once the spell stopped, it would return to its initial state.

However, for Xia Duo, he did not need to do anything extra now; he only needed to continue casting the spell.

The spell used to construct an Order Cycle in the Ascension Ritual is a Guidance-type spell; what its Principles are, Xia Duo did not yet fully understand. He only knew that as long as the spellcasting was not interrupted, he could eventually construct an Order Cycle.

Soon, Xia Duo's spell reached a critical moment; the Order Force had stabilized to the extreme. In his Perception, the Order Force no longer had any changes, but immediately after, the next moment, a new change appeared—

That Order Force had become less!

Order Force, since it is a type of power, can naturally be quantified. Although Xia Duo had not yet found a way to quantify it, in his Perception, the degree of this "becoming less" was enough for him to perceive.

It was just like how heavy a pound of Iron is versus half a pound of Iron; even without a scale, an average person can distinguish their weight by feeling.

Regarding the portion of Order Force that disappeared, Xia Duo speculated while casting that it very likely went to other carriers of this 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】 order.

And as the spell continued, the Order Force continued to decrease, and the speed was not slow. Just as Xia Duo was hesitating whether to interrupt the spell, the Order Force increased out of thin air.

Following that, the Order Force went on like this, decreasing on one side and increasing on the other, only the speed of decrease was much faster than the increase.

This was exactly like the swimming pool drainage problem he had done when he was studying; he estimated that in less than two minutes, his "swimming pool" would be exhausted.

Time passed bit by bit, and Xia Duo's heart gradually became anxious. Although he knew that Order Force was born from order, and as long as order did not perish, Order Force would not perish, he still could not help but think about what would happen if the Order Force disappeared.

One minute, one and a half minutes, two minutes—just before Xia Duo's last bit of Order Force disappeared, the increase speed of the Order Force exceeded the decrease speed.

"Does it have to wait until it's full, then continue to decrease?"

In the Ascension Ritual, Xia Duo was not the leader of the Order Force, but a participant swept into the Order Cycle. In the later stages of the ritual, perceiving the increasingly grand Order Cycle, it was also difficult to perceive the details within it.

However, in this current situation, it was hard not to make him think of the "swimming pool" problem again.

……

Sure enough, after experiencing a round of being "full," the 【Kaotuobu-Working Group】 Order Force began to decrease again. By this time, even if Xia Duo were slow-witted, he understood that this was the so-called "Order Cycle."

At the same time, he also understood that the goal of constructing an Order Cycle was not just to push it through one or two cycles via spells, but to make it achieve an automatic cycle.

"Sure enough, the Princess had already started the Ascension Ritual from the rehearsal, or even before the rehearsal!"

After figuring this out, Xia Duo also temporarily stopped the spell. He knew that wanting to make the Order Force achieve an automatic cycle through just one spell was very unrealistic.

This was likely also a relatively long-term plan.