201: Chapter 200 The Truth of the Secret Realm and the Squirrel [Ratatosk]!!!

Chapter 200: The Truth of the Secret Realm and the Squirrel [Ratatoskr]！！！

After hearing what Wuzhiqi said, Sun Po thought to himself, "It seems that a talisman costing 120,000 spiritual value points is truly different."

He said indifferently, "As long as it's useful, that's good. Well, have you discovered anything peculiar about this secret realm?"

Wuzhiqi said, "Master, the secret realm we entered is one secret realm, but it is also countless secret realms existing simultaneously."

Sun Po asked, "What does that mean?"

Wuzhiqi pondered for a moment and said, "Master, this secret realm is a structural existence that is very difficult to explain using common concepts.

Before you enter, it could be any secret realm—one that has existed or one that has never existed. Once you enter this secret realm, its possibility for you, Master, is determined. Just like the Fenglei Mountain Range determined after the Master enters, it is the finally determined possibility and thus becomes the inevitability of the result. At this time, the Master can be said to be in this secret realm, or can be said not to be in this secret realm. Perhaps there is another identical secret realm in this world called the Fenglei Mountain Range, or perhaps there isn't. This Fenglei Mountain Range appeared precisely because of your entry, Master."

Having listened to Wuzhiqi's abstruse words, Sun Po suddenly thought of a very famous animal. That was a cat, and its owner was named Schrödinger.

Schrödinger's Cat had an extremely high notoriety on the Earth where Sun Po lived in his past life. Even a non-engineering student like Sun Po had heard of its name.

Along with Zeno's Tortoise, Laplace's Demon, Pavlov's Dog, Maxwell's Demon,

Shakespeare's Monkey, and Lorenz's Butterfly, they are collectively known as the Seven Divine Beasts of the Palace of Science.

It is not a specific cat, but a thought experiment proposed by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 during discussions with Albert Einstein.

In Schrödinger's conception, a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box.

If the detector inside the box detects radioactivity, the flask will be shattered, releasing poison to kill the cat.

When people open the box, the cat they see is either alive or dead.

But according to the Copenhagen interpretation, the atoms in the atomic radioactive source are in a superposition state of decay and non-decay, and the cat should be in a superposition state of being alive and dead.

This thought experiment was originally a rebuttal by scientists against each other during debates to illustrate its absurdity, but this seemingly contradictory experiment later became a part of the basic picture of quantum mechanics on Earth.

Then wouldn't this secret realm also be in a quantum superposition state all along? And after Sun Po and the others entered, this state ended?

Schrödinger's Cat is only a quantum superposition of two states, life or death, but the fissure entrance of this secret realm is a superposition of countless different quantum states?

Or was he overcomplicating things?

Is this secret realm simply a secret realm blind box? There isn't that much complexity to it; it just has many variations of secret realms. Every contestant entering it is like drawing a prize, randomly generating different secret realms to face each entrant?

Sun Po felt that this thing was still like looking at flowers through mist, and asked doubtfully, "Then if I hadn't entered this secret realm before, what kind of situation would this secret realm have been in?

Is it an entity that keeps changing into different secret realms? Or some abstract entanglement of cause and effect?"

Sun Po originally thought Wuzhiqi was going to say a bunch of abstruse things again, after all, this thing's current description was truly abstract—so abstract that Sun Po could barely understand it.

However, Wuzhiqi said, "Oddly enough, although its manifestation is so abstract, it is not a constantly changing entity, nor is it some abstract causal entanglement.

It is just an ordinary entity. Originally, I was unable to see or hear how the entity of this thing existed.

But relying on the help of the Master's magical talisman, it allowed me to instantly see more and hear more. Although I still cannot understand many things, I have already found the key and the crux among them, and I have a method to crack it.

I have already seen the core of this secret realm. It is an ordinary-looking branch with a grayish-white color.

But it seems to be changing all the time, and it bears no trace of fate.

Before the contestants entered, I saw that the branch's bark was pale and cracked, making it no different from firewood used for heating in winter.

And when the first contestant entered the fissure of the secret realm's entrance, a trace of green began to be born on the withered skin of this branch. The contestant's fate and this branch rapidly linked together in a form I could not understand. At that very instant, the branch seemed to have traces in the river of destiny and the river of time.

But it was only for a fleeting moment that the traces of the branch disappeared. A cluster of green leaves had already grown on its surface, and within those green leaves were flowers and fruits, together forming a scene resembling a metropolis.

Afterwards, every time a contestant entered it, a new cluster of green leaves, flowers, and fruits would grow. With each contestant entering, this branch became a bit more lush. However, I sensed that this branch had a somewhat excessively rejuvenated feeling; it's hard to say whether this might be the last opening of this secret realm.

But regardless, this secret realm, the branch at its core, the Fenglei Mountain Range where you are, Master, and the various secret realm scenes where other contestants are—at this moment, to me, I can see them all clearly and hear them all distinctly.

Although I still do not understand the reasons for the formation of this secret realm, this competition holds no secrets for me anymore."

Sun Po was shocked and delighted in his heart, shocked on the one hand by the power of the wanjie dongxi talisman.

Wuzhiqi put it simply, but Sun Po deduced the strong points of this wanjie dongxi talisman from the information it provided before and after.

First of all, when Wuzhiqi first entered the secret realm, although it could hear more clearly than when it was inside the domain, it could only hear some sounds of fate and obtain some fragmented information; as for seeing, it couldn't see a thing.

His original intention in making the Clairvoyant Decree and Clairaudient Decree was just to let Wuzhiqi see and hear farther, so as to find some direction for Sun Po's guesses and gather some intelligence.

But he didn't expect that the wanjie dongxi talisman actually gave Wuzhiqi not only ordinary functions like full-map audible and visible perspective, but even added playback, frame-by-frame viewing, and video/audio analysis functions for Wuzhiqi.

Although limited by the fact that Wuzhiqi perhaps hadn't met certain basic knowledge standards yet, causing it to be unable to understand the content phenomena presented in the video,

this did not prevent Wuzhiqi from finding the crux from this practically frame-by-frame video playback. This was not only enough to help Sun Po find a direction, it was already to the extent of helping Sun Po map-hack and look up a strategy guide!!

Expensive things indeed only had one shortcoming, and that was that they were expensive. But this was Sun Po's shortcoming, not the wanjie dongxi talisman's shortcoming.

Furthermore, exchanging 120,000 spiritual value points for a full map guide of this global tournament—how is that expensive?!

This is simply too cheap!!!

He also hadn't expected that he just wanted to open a small cheat, but his own mod loading system proactively went hard for him.

Moreover, Sun Po also captured key information from Wuzhiqi's words.

A withered branch with a grayish-white color? Green leaves? Flowers? Fruits?

Was it really openly the World Tree Yggdrasil?

Sun Po had such a guess previously. After all, Thor, the God of Thunder and Vedfolnir heard by Wuzhiqi were all things from the Norse mythology of Sun Po's past life.

But he didn't have exact evidence to prove his guess was correct. Now, everything that Wuzhiqi saw and heard corroborated Sun Po's guess without exception.

In Sun Po's impression, the World Tree Yggdrasil in the Norse mythology of his past life was precisely a huge ash tree, and one of the characteristics of the ash tree's bark was precisely its whitish color.

But it was like firewood, a withered branch? Sun Po associated this with the burning, tattered ancient scroll he saw when bestowing True Names upon the Celestial Soldiers.

Could it be that these legendary divine items had all fallen into ruin? Therefore, was this huge secret realm actually formed by relying on the World Tree Yggdrasil?

Then would a secret realm also be formed by relying on that burning, tattered ancient scroll?

If a secret realm could be formed, the most numerous things in it would surely be the True Names of Celestial Soldiers and Celestial Generals. If the current official authorities could really find such a secret realm and successfully explore it, the strength of the Yanhuang Ancient Country would definitely achieve a huge leap, and it might even be entirely possible to suppress the other four nations.

However, those were all subsequent matters; Sun Po felt that he should still focus on the present first.

Sun Po asked, "Wuzhiqi, in that case, do you know how to break out of this Fenglei Mountain Range secret realm next?"

Wuzhiqi spoke, "Just continue to follow the Wind-Roaring Giant Apes and send the Tianhe Naval Forces to sweep through the monsters in the secret realm."

At the same time, Wuzhiqi's voice resounded in Sun Po's mind, "Master, there is a unique existence in this secret realm. If all the other monsters are somewhat incomplete, only this one is complete. It is a squirrel named Ratatoskr.

It lives alone outside every leaf world and is active on the trunk. This scoundrel has the ability to fool fate and deceive rules with words. What communicated with me earlier was not some remnant soul of the Ventilating Great Sage; that was a fake identity it created, yet it deceived me in this secret realm. There is also a possibility that our conversation can be heard by this scoundrel. Next, I will tell you in my heart how to target this scoundrel. At the same time, outwardly, I will discuss with you how to strive for more points to make it let down its guard. After we break through the Fenglei Mountain Range secret realm, we will settle accounts with it. Master, remember not to mention its name verbally; this scoundrel can hear it."

Hearing this, Sun Po replied verbally without changing his expression, "Alright, then let's follow your advice."

Immediately turning his head, he instructed Overlord Xiang Yu, "General Xiang, since the Armored Rock Boars in this secret realm are of great benefit to you, you should lead the Tianhe Naval Forces to kill and sweep through the secret realm to accumulate points. Wuzhiqi and I

will go check out other directions."

In an unknown space, a squirrel with golden-red fur was holding a damaged blade in its paw and speaking human words, "What unprecedented person of a blank fate? Isn't this an idiot?

Not walking the broad road pointed out by Lord Ratatoskr, you insist on taking the path and taking a detour?

Fooling such an idiot isn't even fun anymore."

At the same time, hearing Wuzhiqi's words, ripples had already arisen in Sun Po's heart. Ratatoskr!!

It was yet another animal living upon the World Tree Yggdrasil in the Norse mythology of his past life.

Legend has it that the giant eagle Vedfolnir lives at the top of the crown of the World Tree Yggdrasil, while the wicked dragon Nidhogg that devours the roots of Yggdrasil is said to live at the roots.

The giant eagle Vedfolnir monitors the Nine Realms and controls the fierce wind that can blow across the Nine Realms unceasingly for three days and three nights, while the wicked dragon Nidhogg gnaws on the tree roots, eventually causing the World Tree Yggdrasil to collapse. This is also the source of Ragnarok in Norse mythology.

And Ratatoskr is the squirrel inhabiting the middle part of the World Tree Yggdrasil in Norse mythology, whose name means "drill-tooth".

It dwells in the middle part between the giant eagle Vedfolnir at the top of the tree and the wicked dragon Nidhogg at the roots, which is the middle position of the trunk.

It constantly moves on the World Tree, running up and down, transmitting aggressive remarks between the giant eagle Vedfolnir at the top of the tree and the wicked dragon Nidhogg at the roots to each other, thereby causing the relationship between Vedfolnir and Nidhogg to continuously worsen, becoming suspicious and hostile toward each other.

Yet Ratatoskr would rejoice over this.

The spread of this thing was not very wide, but it was something Sun Po hadn't expected for a moment.

Then putting it that way, there is simply no remnant soul of the Ventilating Great Sage in this secret realm?

From beginning to end, there is only a group of Norse mythological creatures from legends of his past life?

Then why did this thing specially pick the identity of the Ventilating Great Sage to disguise itself? What deeper meaning is there in this?

But Wuzhiqi didn't mention it, and Sun Po didn't ask either, only replying in his heart, "Alright, what is this squirrel's combat power like?"

Wuzhiqi's voice continued to resound in Sun Po's heart, "Combat power? A single Wind-Roaring Giant Ape could fight a hundred of it. Although this thing has complete spirituality and extremely high divinity on its body, its combat power is shockingly low."

Sun Po thought to himself that it was normal. Even in the Norse mythology of his past life, this squirrel was a character who fanned the flames and liked to make fun of others; presumably, its combat power wouldn't be high anywhere.

Sun Po thought in his heart, "What about now then? How can we find this squirrel Ratatoskr?"

Wuzhiqi smiled in its heart, "My lord, although this scoundrel is sharp-eared and sharp-eyed in this secret realm and fancies itself clever, it is a character who likes to fool others and watch the fun. The reason for its disguised identity probably lies precisely in this."

Although it often runs about on the tree, as long as we make a big enough commotion or fun spectacle, this guy will smell the scent and come right over.

If you ask me, since it likes to watch the fun, we might as well give it a big show to watch."

Sun Po replied in his heart, "Explain in more detail."

Then, following Wuzhiqi's account, Sun Po felt more and more expectant in his heart.