366: Rebirth in the God's Remains

After the lights in the Strategic Investment Department meeting room at Pierpoint went out, Ten Stonehearts members departed.

Meanwhile, deep within Three-Body Star, several light-years away, the changes continued.

In the underground cavern, the massive milky-white sphere had stopped expanding, but its qualitative transformation reached its peak.

The liquid gradually became viscous, and complex geometric patterns began to emerge on the sphere's surface. These patterns appeared somewhat random yet subtly conformed to numerous mathematical laws.

Perfect circles, equilateral triangles, regular hexagons, and other basic geometric shapes combined in a perplexing but extremely orderly fashion.

The final result was a pattern resembling an ink wash painting.

As the patterns formed, the sphere's material state changed. It began to transform into a semi-solid, its surface gradually hardening to form a dark, metallic-lustered shell.

The entire sphere now looked more like a giant egg covered in mysterious patterns, or perhaps the remains of some alien deity.

Eerie distortion and solemn grandeur merged.

"How... chaotic." Tianyi Star felt a touch of displeasure.

After absorbing the memories of tens of thousands of Nova People, he saw the chaotic lives experienced by countless independent individuals.

Disorderly emotional impulses, contradictory value judgments, and erratic behavioral choices.

Every life was like a tangled mess, blindly struggling in chaos.

This chaos instinctively made it uncomfortable.

As an existence born from the Trisolarans' collective consciousness experiment, Tianyi Star was naturally accustomed to order and unity. The Trisolarans' racial characteristic of direct thought communication and highly shared consciousness left a deep imprint in its subconscious.

"Why do they have to be so independent? Why maintain such barriers?" Tianyi Star pondered in confusion.

In his cognition, information should be transparent, decisions should be collective, and actions should be coordinated. Yet, in the Nova People's consciousness he absorbed, he saw endless misunderstandings, suspicions, and conflicts.

At this moment, Erwin's consciousness fragments, still present in the milky substance, began to exert their influence. The Trisolaran leader's ambition for absolute control finally emerged.

"Control all things, make everything operate according to a predetermined path..." Tianyi Star's yearning for order grew stronger.

"Yes, chaos must end."

"Every life should have a clear position, every action should have a predetermined procedure. Misunderstandings, conflicts, uncertainties... these are all avoidable errors."

"In this world, the thoughts of all life should be transparent, all actions predictable, and all existences have a clear purpose."

"Just like precisely interlocking mechanical gears, just like every variable in program code has its definition." Tianyi Star tried to convince himself.

"When every life knows its place and mission, when all actions follow established rules, there will be no more pain or confusion."

"Just as the stars all have their own orbits."

"This is not bondage, but liberation."

"The universe yearns for order," Tianyi Star achieved self-consistency, "and I am order."

"Chaos will end. And order will be defined by me."

At this moment, Tianyi Star's consciousness resonated deeply with the fundamental rules of the universe. This resonance grew stronger and stronger, ultimately triggering a qualitative change.

With the accumulated immense energy and an ultimate identification with order, Tianyi Star's consciousness successfully established a connection with the Order path.

Everything was as if written in a script; the Order path naturally "chose" him as its vessel.

At this moment, Tianyi Star's life essence underwent a fundamental leap.

He was no longer a simple collection of consciousness but became the materialized representative of order in this universe.

Although, being newly born, his understanding and control of the Order path were incomplete, his essence had already elevated to the level of a Star God.

As his life essence transformed, Tianyi Star's consciousness also completed its final sublimation. He began to trace the origins of his being and the essence of his power, finding a title that perfectly matched his pursuit from the knowledge contained within the devoured memories: "Taiyi."

In ancient Eastern mythology, "Taiyi" is the supreme and unique deity, representing the origin of the universe and absolute order.

This concept perfectly aligned with the ultimate order he now pursued. Thus, he formally adopted this name as his divine name.

The Order Star God (Pseudo) "Taiyi" was thus born.

The moment he completed, Taiyi's will, accompanied by divine radiance, began to spread, reshaping everything around him according to his concept of order.

Rocks were sculpted as if by an invisible chisel, cracks closed, and rock walls became as smooth and flat as mirrors.

Scattered debris and waste automatically sorted and stacked, as if unseen hands were meticulously arranging this underground sanctuary.

The entire space was no longer a semi-natural, semi-artificial cave but more like a meticulously designed temple of order.

Under the shroud of Taiyi's will, a circular area with a radius of approximately two hundred kilometers, centered on Abyss City, was undergoing earth-shattering changes.

This area seemed delimited by an invisible boundary, and everything within was being reshaped according to Taiyi's concept of order.

Above ground, the once chaotic natural landscape became neat and orderly.

Mountain contours were trimmed into arcs, rivers were straightened, trees were arranged at perfectly equal intervals, forming a grid. Even the clouds in the sky moved in fixed patterns, creating a spectacular visual effect.

At the center of this Order Kingdom, the monsters, once varied in form, now all presented a uniform humanoid outline.

Their height and physique were almost identical, they wore uniforms of the same style, and when moving, they took precisely the same strides, like products from an assembly line.

These "Order Citizens" emotionlessly performed various tasks: maintaining facilities, transporting materials, patrolling borders... every movement as precise as a machine.

Taiyi established a detailed system of rules for this miniature kingdom. From macroscopic urban planning to microscopic individual behavior, every detail was clearly defined.

"Here, everything is predictable. No surprises, no chaos, only perfect order."

Every Order Citizen was like a puppet controlled by invisible strings, incapable of any confusion.

This ordering influence slowly permeated outwards from the Order Kingdom's center.

While this influence was imperceptible to ordinary people, there was an extraordinary "person" on Three-Body Star now.

On the rooftop of a surface building in Honeycomb Experimental City, Pexito stood alone, her long white hair gently fluttering in the breeze.

Although Taiyi's influence was not yet obvious here, a strong sense of unease arose deep within her consciousness.

She gazed at the sky; that feeling did not come from external observation but from a deeper resonance, or rather, a repulsion.

"Something has awakened." She murmured softly, her slender fingers unconsciously tightening their grip on the railing.

A strange, instinctive aversion and hostility arose in her heart, as if perceiving a power fundamentally opposed to her own existence awakening on the other side of the planet.

She did not know what it was, but she clearly felt the absolute order that power represented.

She only knew that between herself and him, only one could remain.