73: Communication with Lucy

The moment her brain capacity neared 100%, Lucy's body gradually began to disintegrate.

Her state was like a small bottle that, one moment, contained small soybeans, and the next, those soybeans turned into a mountain; bursting was inevitable.

Moreover, although Lucy's body had been strengthened, its evolution speed was far behind that of her soul.

Right now, her soul was as powerful as a burning supergiant star—a star millions of times more powerful than the average sun!

Gradually, Lucy's soul stopped increasing in quantity and began to shrink, becoming more condensed.

That change was exactly like transforming from a soft sponge into tough, super dark silver.

This was a qualitative sublimation, exchanging quantity for a metamorphosis of quality.

At the same time, her soul, along with her perspective, returned to the past.

During this process of flowing back through the river of time, her soul was like a small boat traveling upstream, beginning to constantly absorb a special residue of power.

This power remained in the past of history and belonged to a part of the time power.

Ye Feng had held the time stone and was very familiar with this high-level energy capable of affecting time.

Lucy's small boat, swimming back through this river of time, was absorbing this time power.

This time power was inscribed into her soul, gradually becoming a special linear mark.

This linear mark seemed like a Taoist talisman or a Western magic rune, yet it was completely unlike either.

As a whole, it looked like a winding, flowing river.

This special line flickered in and out of existence, seemingly eternally stable, yet also eternally fluctuating.

It was just like the wave-particle duality of light, possessing two characteristics: eternal stability and unstable, random motion.

Moreover, the temporal aura upon it had completely condensed, as if to pull Lucy's soul into a special, higher dimension.

Finally, Lucy's soul disappeared from the real three-dimensional world.

The area where she resided became a four-dimensional world!

At this moment, her soul could reach the entire universe and observe all information in the world.

Lucy could no longer exist within the three-dimensional world, yet she could observe the entire three-dimensional world.

That state was like us looking at a two-dimensional painting; no matter how large the world inside was, we in the three-dimensional world could see it all, with no secrets left.

Likewise, for an existence in the four-dimensional world looking at us, it was just like three dimensions looking at two—there were no secrets.

However, Lucy's four-dimensional world was very small, only the size of a molecule.

At the same time, this four-dimensional world, as well as her four-dimensional soul, was incomplete. Even after exhausting the support of the entire world, she had only ascended to a quasi-four-dimensional soul; she was still missing that last bit and had not completely upgraded into a four-dimensional existence.

But for the entire world, and for the world will, this was still a huge step forward!

The door to the four-dimensional world had been opened for them!

The entire world of Lucy was about to begin the starting point of the era of four-dimensionalization.

Although Lucy's evolution was not entirely complete, as long as she had reached the quasi-four-dimensional level, achieving full four-dimensionalization in the end would not be a problem.

At this moment, Ye Feng already understood that the key to her soul upgrading into a quasi-Four-Dimensional Lifeform was that very line.

Just as Ye Feng continued to collect data from the scene, Lucy's soul finally returned from the past of the river of time.

She returned to that point of space that had become quasi-four-dimensional.

Then, her gaze fell upon Ye Feng.

At this time, Lucy was already a brand-new existence, comparable to a multiverse-level lifeform in the Marvel Universe.

Her will contained both the original part of Lucy and the part of the world will.

She was like a company where the original Lucy and the world will each held 50% of the shares.

"Hello, traveler from outside the world!"

Lucy extended an invitation to communicate to Ye Feng.

She could see that Ye Feng was only a three-dimensional lifeform, but certain powers within him—such as the conceptual modifier, the time and space power he controlled, and those special dimensional domain technologies—had all reached the quasi-four-dimensional level to some extent.

Relying on these powers, Ye Feng could contend against quasi-four-dimensional existences.

Moreover, there were certain things about Ye Feng that she could not see through at all, such as the private Dark Plane that belonged entirely to Ye Feng.

This made her wary, so she chose not to act, but rather to communicate.

"Hello, Lucy, congratulations on successfully ascending to a Four-Dimensional Lifeform!"

Ye Feng also responded.

However, Lucy was stunned and did not respond for a moment.

At this time, it was still the original thoughts and memories of Lucy that were influencing her.

She knew she might have become a god-like existence, but she did not know she had become a Four-Dimensional Lifeform!

Although the former Lucy had been a college student, she had never thought about so much.

Although she now possessed endless insight and knowledge, she had not clearly realized this point.

"Am I now a Four-Dimensional Lifeform? Like the advanced Four-Dimensional Lifeforms in those stories where we, as three-dimensional lifeforms, look at two-dimensional pictures?"

She was unsure, so she asked Ye Feng, the outsider.

Because she could be certain that Ye Feng possessed something with massive computing power, which proved that Ye Feng was not some god or demon, but a technologically advanced lifeform.

Although Lucy was a quasi-Four-Dimensional Lifeform, her four-dimensional abilities were instinctive and not known to her consciously.

It was just like when we get sick but cannot figure out what is wrong with us.

Just because something is yours does not mean it is necessarily mastered or known by your wisdom and consciousness.

"Yes! To be precise, you are currently a quasi-Four-Dimensional Lifeform and are only one step away from ascending to four dimensions. The reason you have disappeared from the eyes of the world is that ordinary three-dimensional people cannot see the existence of the four-dimensional world, nor can they see you in the four-dimensional world. You can send information to them, but you cannot let them observe you!"

Ye Feng explained her situation to her.

"And you need to understand your situation from a technological perspective; only then can you accelerate your evolution toward four dimensions and figure out how to become a Four-Dimensional Lifeform."

What he said was entirely true.

Although Lucy was now a quasi-Four-Dimensional Lifeform, until her cognition of herself reached the standard and until she was clear on how to ascend to a Four-Dimensional Lifeform, she could not find the direction and could not directly cross this final step.

The world will could only push her to this point, but the most crucial step had to be taken by her.

"I see! Thank you for your guidance. Can you provide me with more information? I am still a bit confused about my current state!"

Lucy said.

Even after traveling through history and seeing infinite information, before fully understanding this knowledge and information, her own cognition and mindset still remained at a very low stage.

"How about this: let us exchange information. You give me the information from when you traveled through the river of time, as well as your feelings in that state. And I will give you my cognitive understanding of three dimensions and four dimensions."

Ye Feng proposed.

And Lucy, being able to release that special USB drive to humanity, was not a person with strong defenses.

She agreed without hesitation.

The two exchanged information, and the content was so vast that all the computer systems of all humanity in this world combined could not store the terrifying, astronomical amount of information they exchanged.

After completing the information exchange, Ye Feng began to parse this information by combining it with the various data he had collected.

And Lucy also began to learn the knowledge Ye Feng gave her, and would occasionally ask Ye Feng for advice.

Now, she was completely like a studious student.

The world will of this world did not come out to stop their communication.

After nearly a year of research, Ye Feng finally found the essence of that mysterious line with time attributes.

Rule!

That was the manifestation of the Time Rule, the brand of the Time Rule in Lucy's soul.

Once the Time Rule manifested and became her brand, it was like a tough steel cable, pulling Lucy's soul from the three-dimensional world into the four-dimensional world!

The Time Rule was the key.

And Ye Feng also successfully recognized the basic introductory knowledge of the Time Rule.

And all the knowledge about time he had researched was merely a phenomenon of an extension of one aspect of the Time Rule.

It was just like looking at Mount Lu from different angles; every side you see is Mount Lu, but they are all different and not the whole of it.

And the true Mount Lu itself was something on a higher, greater level.

The Time Rule was the same.

The rule itself possessed powerful strength, and even its brand was the same; it could borrow the powerful strength of the rule.

Now, when Ye Feng looked at void concept-type powers, he understood their essence.

They were some kind of rule!

Void power, in essence, might not be some four-dimensional existence, but rather an existence capable of utilizing rules.

The power of rules was extremely strong; even just to recognize it, even though Ye Feng only had introductory-level cognition, his soul bore tremendous pressure at this moment.

When he recognized the introductory mysteries of the Time Rule, an extremely faint brand of the Time Rule was also etched into his soul.

This brand was only one ten-thousandth of Lucy's!

However, this made Ye Feng's soul feel as heavy as if an ordinary person were carrying a burden of over a hundred pounds.

To recognize rules, one must pay a price; one must bear their weight!

Ye Feng had learned another piece of knowledge.

Once the Time Rule was recognized, it would brand the soul, which gave Ye Feng's time and space abilities an improvement of no less than a hundred times compared to before.

His time-stop area was larger, his time-reversal ability was more powerful, and he could see a more powerful river of history.

After coming into initial contact with rules, Ye Feng finally understood that things like four dimensions, three dimensions, and dimensional domains were not the focus of future research.

Rules were the core of future research!

However, to research rules, your level must be high enough to bear the heavy load brought by the pressure of the rules.

Ye Feng understood that recognizing rules and constantly upgrading his divine body, letting it advance toward a more powerful direction, was the foundation and the key.

After completing this exploration, Ye Feng stayed there, communicating with Lucy while continuing to research his Fourth Generation Divine Body blueprint.

This time, due to the influence of the Time Rule, he was able to achieve localized time acceleration.

Consequently, this made Ye Feng's work on the Fourth Generation Divine Body design speed up significantly!