Chapter 2090: Chapter 50: That’s Right, I Love You Too!

The stars have dissipated.

Above the firmament, beyond the planets, in the endless dark void, the divine form constructed from the brilliant light of the stars gradually disperses, turning into a meteor shower that sweeps across the entire planetary system.

Among them, a meteor unwaveringly descends straight towards the Silverpeak Domain.

Ian is currently in slumber—or rather, in the deepest meditation.

Just moments ago, he achieved becoming a Star God... Though not completely successful, he indeed temporarily acquired the power of the Sixth Echelon, that power itself being a perpetual motion machine, with a will that could command the Great Universe, overturning everything and creating everything with its might.

Even though this power has departed from him, the experience, the sensation, that feeling of controlling the aether and universal space-time as if maneuvering his own body, still provides him with extraordinary strength.

Simply relying on this ’sensation,’ Ian has the confidence to attempt another ’Star God Ascension,’ and succeed with a hundred percent certainty.

But not now.

There are still the two major issues of the ’Cradle Wound’ and ’The End’ that need resolution.

The Cradle Wound, for the time being, let’s not discuss it; this technical issue is the easiest to solve, and Ian has previous experience.

Only The End...

Ian can feel that he is close to touching the truth of The End, a truth that past Star Gods never perceived, or rather never had the opportunity to perceive.

Just now, through the Star God Power, he saw the essence of The End beyond the Cradle... those incessantly shifting gravitational waves, the forces traversing various dimensions, the chaotic, inexplicable, eternal instincts, the space-time trenches in the material world akin to event horizons...

It’s not that Star Gods cannot observe this kind of End.

It’s that they cannot observe The End in this way.

In that instant, Ian understood in his heart what makes him different from other Star Gods—prior Star Gods observed The End entirely as the ’Aether Environment End,’ while what he observed was The End under the ’Non-Aether Universe Environment.’

The Star Gods are the Aether, they are the Ether Space-Time itself. If the Great Universe is the Dao and the Logos, then the Star Gods are a race that has already united with the Dao and mastered the Logos.

Their gaze is like a touch, their perception can cause the universe to collapse, their thoughts can change the universe’s space-time, altering it superluminally.

When they see, the ’Aether’ has already changed what they see.

But because of this, when the aether departs, they cannot observe nor touch The End. Conversely, The End cannot touch them either.

Ordinary Humans also cannot observe The End... because the space-time trench surrounding The End is akin to an event horizon, drawing near will cause distortion and collapse, and any matter or force in the material universe cannot penetrate it.

It is almost like a ’barrier to another universe.’

Only Ian, because he is still half-human, because his Ascension was only half-complete, being half-human and half-light, could smoothly observe The End under the ’Non-Aether Environment.’

It is a kind of... ’gravitational wave’ flickering and flowing across dimensions at light speed, even beyond light speed, what appears before Ian is just a cross-section of it in the four-dimensional material world, a mere ’tentacle.’

Its essence is in a place extremely distant... which is not quite accurate either, the connection between The End and its essence cannot be measured by spatial distance; rather, it is ’an extremely distant past or future.’

To put it another way, [The End] should be a massive space-time jellyfish, not acting in accordance with Humans’ accustomed concept of time, with its essence residing in a certain timeframe and extending its ’tentacles’ towards other timelines... At the very moment its tentacles appear before Humans, it becomes a distorted, shadowy blur of space-time.

As a super life that can rival Star Gods, it certainly must be a super life that is also ’united with the Dao, coexistent with the Logos,’ it must exist beyond time and space, dwelling in infinite parallel space-times.

In other words, its tentacles likely penetrate not only multidimensional space-time but also infinite parallel universes?

Thus... it cannot see, or rather, it is difficult for it to perceive individuals that ’exist only in one universal space-time,’ ’existing in only a few dimensions.’

This is one possibility.

In fact, Ian has another speculation.

If Star Gods are ’light beings’ nurtured from the light of cosmic creation,

Then could ’The End,’ as the name implies, be the ’singularity life’ born at the end of the Great Universe’s infinitely distant future, when it contracts into unity, falls into ’The End’?

Destruction and creation are merely concepts conceived by Humans, this superficial entity, which can only walk on a unidirectional time arrow.

To life that transcends time, isn’t the cosmic birth singularity also a destruction? Isn’t the cosmic end singularity also a creation? Ultimately, it is all the same.

[End] and [Creation]... are naturally born as companions.

The End has an intricate relationship with Black Holes, capable of traversing the temporal axis, although moving along the spatial axis is difficult... If it was born from the massive black holes created by the collapse of primordial stars after the inception of the universe, then the Star Gods shouldn’t have missed it—according to the information Ian retrieved from the Great Aether Circulation, the Star Gods were already planning how to alter the universe at that time, unlikely to overlook The End.

In reality, the Star Gods likely have already sensed this, which is why they refer to The End as such, yet they too cannot figure out the precise nature of the ’Non-Aether End,’ just as The End cannot comprehend what the Star God represents with those ’twisted aether universes.’