Chapter 2754: Revisiting Philifa, Local Spellcasting Permissions

————I won't make it for this chapter, I'll make it up tomorrow~~

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If Primordial Spirit Communication were impossible, Xia Chengyue's true body certainly could not go over; he could only continue to communicate via light signals. And even if Primordial Spirit Communication were possible, he had to consider the possibility of offending the other party.

Time urged Xia Chengyue to decide to use a clone to attempt Primordial Spirit Communication with this mysterious light cluster; after all, no one knew when this mysterious light cluster might suddenly disappear, just as it had suddenly appeared before.

Primordial Spirit Communication is the most direct and frank form of exchange between High-level Cultivators; there might be some concealment, but one cannot lie. However, this method of communication, which is akin to sharing a portion of one's thoughts, is not something everyone can accept, as they feel their thinking has been violated.

Xia Chengyue naturally did not mind; he had already reached the realm of unity of knowledge and action, where his inner and outer selves are one. He was more than happy that more people could experience and understand his thoughts; as for privacy issues, those could be hidden.

On Earth, he had engaged in Primordial Spirit Communication with several High-level Cultivators, sharing his views on individual Cultivation, Matrix research, and all things in the world, and these were wonders that ordinary people could hardly experience.

What kind of experience is it to communicate with an alien? Xia Chengyue did not know either, but he could already look forward to it.

Primordial Spirit Communication seems to be a non-local effect; as long as both parties are within each other's range of Primordial Spirit Perception, it is sufficient, and it is not a connection of Primordial Spirit Power. At this moment, this mysterious light cluster was within the perception range of Xia Chengyue's Primordial Spirit clone, though Xia Chengyue felt somewhat uncertain about whether he was within the other party's perception range.

If he were truly within the other party's perception range, how could there be absolutely no reaction?

That was a peculiar lifeform born in an Anti-matter Nebula; it is unknown since when, but some of the free anti-matter atoms in the nebula happened to form a mysterious composition that became the original body of this Light Cluster Lifeform.

The Anti-matter Nebula itself is a miracle in the Universe, a remnant from the time of the Universe's birth; in this Universe of positive matter, it must be consumed for every second it exists, and consumed for every day it exists.

The expression on Xia Chengyue's true body on Earth at this moment was as if God had appeared before him and was smiling at him; what an incredible miracle of Psionic Creation!

Xia Chengyue also thought of a story from a science fiction novel he had once read: a beam of light is born from a supernova explosion, and after experiencing various complex cosmic environments, it eventually evolves into a peculiar light-wave lifeform!

The probability of a monkey randomly hitting keys on a keyboard and typing out a world-famous masterpiece is far greater than that; compared to free anti-matter atoms forming life, a monkey writing a masterpiece is almost an inevitable event.

Of course, Xia Chengyue could not possibly do that, because he discovered that this light cluster was gradually developing self-awareness, and this had to start from when Xia Chengyue appeared in this Anti-matter Nebula.

Because of the Annihilation Reaction!

All of this, which had never appeared in countless years in the past, instinctively attracted this light cluster, making it begin to chase after this fresh point; this was already the budding of self-awareness.

Although the original body of this Light Cluster Lifeform did not appear out of thin air due to quantum fluctuations, it was composed of countless anti-matter atoms with no pattern to speak of; this kind of coincidence is no less than water molecules in the ocean suddenly satisfying a specific combination for life, forming a lifeform composed entirely of water molecules.

When Xia Chengyue attempted to conduct Primordial Spirit Communication, it connected directly, and Xia Chengyue immediately judged that the other party was definitely a lifeform, and furthermore, an Energy Lifeform similar to the Primordial Spirit of a High-level Cultivator.

Humans occasionally boast of being "Children of the Stars" because everything that constitutes us comes from supernova explosions, but compared to the light cluster that can be called a "Child of the Universe," the title of Child of the Stars might seem rather tacky.

Xia Chengyue could not imagine the size and scope of the Anti-matter Nebula at the time of this Light Cluster Lifeform's birth; even its current residual state, having been annihilated by positive matter, is at least measured in light-years.

In the communicated information, Xia Chengyue transmitted his own background information: the Milky Way, the vast galaxy, the Solar System, a life-bearing planet, the appearance of humans, and the image of Xia Chengyue's true body.

Upon learning this information, Xia Chengyue immediately thought of the "Boltzmann Brain" on Earth; this was a conjecture proposed by the Austrian scientist Boltzmann, based on quantum fluctuation theory, that the probability of a self-aware entity being born out of thin air in the Universe far exceeds the probability of our specific Universe appearing.

Xia Chengyue was also a bit envious, but looking at it from another angle, he, who is one with the Original Realm, was already the Universe itself; he was the father of the "Child of the Universe," and Xia Chengyue could only use that to comfort himself.

At this moment, Xia Chengyue's mood was somewhat complex.

The light cluster, which had been unconscious and left with only instinct for hundreds of millions of years, suddenly discovered that its world had some fresh things, whether it was the Annihilation Reaction that Xia Chengyue had initiated at the very beginning, or the various activities in the Anti-matter Nebula afterward.

It was indeed a super Primordial Spirit, without a doubt!

The original body of this Light Cluster Lifeform was extremely vast, even far exceeding the current Anti-matter Nebula.

A former cradle could no longer contain the body of the Light Cluster Lifeform, and it ultimately chose to abandon its body; there were too many mysteries of transformation in this, somewhat similar to human Cultivation. Unknowingly, this Light Cluster Lifeform had made the choice most suitable for it.

Although this "former anti-matter lifeform," "current energy lifeform" had already been born for who knows how many hundreds of millions of years, the budding of its self-awareness was influenced by Xia Chengyue; was he about to have an extra cheap son?

Moreover, this light cluster lifeform in its Primordial Spirit form was huge, and having opened everything to Xia Chengyue, it could be easily destroyed by Xia Chengyue.

The Great Thousand Worlds have nothing that is not strange; human thought can transcend the limits of technology, but when this lifeform, which can be called a cosmic miracle, was placed before Xia Chengyue, this kind of shock was no longer something that any language or text could describe.

But unlike Xia Chengyue merging with the Original Realm, this mysterious Light Cluster Lifeform seemed to have no self-existence; when it transmitted information over, it was as if a High-level Cultivator had completely opened their Primordial Spirit to Xia Chengyue.

After realizing this, Xia Chengyue suddenly discovered that all of his own actions might influence this Light Cluster Lifeform, just as a child instinctively imitates its parents after being born.

After a moment of disorientation, Xia Chengyue had almost obtained all the information about this mysterious Light Cluster Lifeform——

And the Universe has been born for over ten billion years.

However, how did this Light Cluster Lifeform change from a material lifeform with an anti-matter body into an energy lifeform similar to a Primordial Spirit?

Xia Chengyue continued to learn more——

A week ago, the light cluster had just "found" Xia Chengyue; it could be said that it wasn't that Xia Chengyue discovered the light cluster after replenishing his clone's energy, but that the light cluster had been waiting for him there.

And the information transmitted by this mysterious Light Cluster Lifeform was extraordinarily vast; Xia Chengyue almost thought he had come into contact with the essence of the Universe, similar to how he thinks in the form and mindset of the Original Realm.