139: Dimensional Observer and Pond Ripples

The Three Ancient Masters left the Pond at the Cloud Court with a sense of lingering regret, but the impact they brought was far from over.

What they took back was not just those profound words regarding the "Pond" and "Reality," but also an intuitive sense of the Lord of the Cloud Court's unfathomable strength.

This feeling was like a pebble thrown into a higher dimensional plane, stirring up a subtle yet far-reaching ripple.

On a certain absolute level where even the concept of space and time is blurred, there existed some transcendent collective consciousnesses.

They were not life in the traditional sense, but more like observers and recorders of the Laws, watching the birth, death, and Reincarnation of countless planes with cold detachment, rarely intervening themselves.

They called themselves — "Dimension Observers."

At this moment, these consciousnesses, which rarely fluctuated, engaged in a subtle "exchange" due to an anomalous stream of information fed back from a lower dimension (relative to them).

Information Fragment A (Derived from the Time Ash Dominator's time reversal records): 【Target individual 'Yun Feng', behavior pattern cannot be fitted, existential paradox. Preliminary judgment: His 'definition' authority level seems to touch upon the 'Origin Setting' level. Threat level: To be assessed. Associated events: Pond, Golden Koi, fish food.】

Information Fragment B (Derived from the Chaos Dominator's Chaos perception): 【Target area 'Cloud Court', rule stability is abnormal, underlying logic presents 'absolutist' characteristics. Detected high-concentration, high-activity 'unknown Origin energy' (tentatively named 'X-Factor'). Energy source highly overlaps with the individual 'Yun Feng'.】

Information Fragment C (Derived from the Void Glass Dominator's analysis of Reality and Illusion): 【Individual 'Yun Feng's cognitive framework regarding 'Reality' and 'Illusion' exceeds the upper limit of existing 'observation models'. His very existence constitutes a potential variable to current dimensional stability. Recommendation: Initiate deep observation protocol.】

These cold streams of information were exchanged and analyzed among the observers.

An existence that could be unanimously judged by the Three Ancient Masters as "touching the Origin Setting," "absolutist rules," and "cognitive framework exceeding models" had already far exceeded the category of "anomaly," looking more like a... systematic BUG.

Finally, an observer will representing "execution" authority made a decision:

【Initiate 'Deep Observation Protocol - Level 7'. Deploy 'Logic Probe - Type γ' into the target area. Mission: Analyze the essence of 'X-Factor', decipher 'Yun Feng's existence logic, and assess his impact on dimensional matrix stability. If judged as an 'uncontrollable high-risk variable', authorize the execution of 'information isolation' or 'logic deletion'.】

An intangible, formless "probe" composed entirely of pure logic Laws silently pierced through layers of dimensional barriers, infiltrating towards the plane where the Cloud Court was located like the most subtle virus.

It had no physical body, no energy fluctuations, and its form of existence determined that it was almost impossible to be detected by conventional means.

Its task was to infiltrate the core and analyze the Origin.

Meanwhile, by the side of the Pond behind the Star Gazing Hall of the Cloud Court.

Yun Feng had just fed that Golden Koi, which had a golden mark on its forehead, a special piece of fish food containing a trace of Chaos Dao Rhyme.

After the Golden Koi swallowed it, its scales flashed with an imperceptible, profound brilliance, and it swam even more happily, stirring the Pond water into circles of ripples.

Just at the moment when the "Logic Probe" was about to touch the outer rule barriers of the Cloud Court —

In the Pond, that Golden Koi seemed to have its attention attracted by a particularly round pebble at the bottom, and subconsciously spat a bubble in that direction.

"Pop~"

A trivial bubble, produced from the fish's mouth, rose, and burst.

However, at the microscopic scale of this bubble bursting, the weak water element fluctuations it contained, which had just been baptized by the Chaos Dao Rhyme, happened to produce an unexpected, one-in-a-quadrillion-probability... resonance interference with the intangible, formless "probe" that was trying to merge into the rules at a specific logic frequency.

It was like a high-precision key, at the moment of being inserted into a keyhole, getting jammed by a tiny grain of sand that happened to roll by, stuck in the finest tooth groove.

That "Logic Probe," which concentrated the technology of high-dimensional observers, did not trigger any alarms nor was it bounced back the moment it touched the Cloud Court's rules; instead, due to that extremely accidental resonance interference, its internal precise logic chain instantly suffered a small "logic storm."

【Warning: Encountered unknown logic interference.】

【Error: Infiltration protocol failed.】

【Core command conflict... attempting to recompile...】

【Compilation failed... logic chain collapsed... initiating self-destruction program...】

【Destruction program interfered with... information stream dissipated...】

There was no explosion, no flash of light.

The "Logic Probe" was like a popped soap bubble, silently annihilated in the cracks of dimensions.

All the mission commands, observation data, and even its own existence logic it carried turned into the most primitive, disordered information fragments, which were immediately assimilated and absorbed by the incomparably thick Chaos Dao Rhyme on the periphery of the Cloud Court, becoming a tiny bit of nourishment for this land.

By the Pond, Yun Feng seemed to sense something; he lifted his eyes and glanced at a certain spot in the Void, which was exactly the coordinate where the probe had been annihilated.

His eyes were calm, without any ripples, and he just gave a soft "Eh."

"Just now... it seemed like a little bug wanted to fly in?" He muttered to himself, then shook his head and laughed, "Must be an illusion. In such a sturdy place, where would a bug come from."

He lowered his head, looking at the Golden Koi that had finished spitting the bubble and was now swimming leisurely, and nodded approvingly: "You've got good energy today; it seems that fish food works quite well."

On a higher dimensional observation plane.

The observer will responsible for the mission received the final signal transmitted back by the probe — not a report of mission success, nor an alarm of encountering resistance, but a stream of invalid information that was extremely chaotic, full of contradictions, and then came to an abrupt end.

【Logic Probe - Type γ signal lost. Last information: ...bubble...fish...error...】

The observer will fell into a silence lasting several standard time units (which was already long for them).

Bubble? Fish? Error?

This completely exceeded the scope of their logical understanding.

The Type γ probe was one of their most cutting-edge tools used to analyze high-dimensional difficult phenomena; how could it fail on the periphery of the target area because of low-dimensional concepts like "bubble" and "fish"?

【Analysis: The target area 'Cloud Court' possesses an incomprehensible 'logic immunity' or 'probability distortion' phenomenon.】

【Re-evaluation: Individual 'Yun Feng's threat level upgraded to 'Dimension Level'. Associated factors: 'Pond', 'Golden Koi' marked as high-risk associated terms.】

【Resolution: Suspend direct intervention. Initiate 'indirect observation mode', continuously collect relevant information. Submit anomaly report to the higher observation sequence.】

The Dimension Observers, for the first time when facing an individual from a lower plane, chose to retreat cautiously.

That place called Cloud Court, and that figure feeding the fish, were branded with a deep red mark representing "extremely dangerous" and "incomprehensible" in their cold logic cores.

They could not understand why a logic weapon capable of analyzing the Origin of the world would lose to a bubble spat out by a Golden Koi in a Pond.

And this seemingly trivial confrontation had already silently spread its influence.

Although most of the information fragments dissipated after the probe was annihilated were assimilated by the Chaos Dao Rhyme, there was still a trace of an extremely weak logic mark belonging to high-dimensional observation technology, drifting like dandelion seeds towards unknown corners of the endless Void Sea...

Yun Feng knew nothing of this, or rather, did not care at all.

He only felt that the Golden Koi was exceptionally lively today and the Pond water was exceptionally clear.

He yawned, stretched, and felt the sunshine was just right, suitable for a nap.

"Nie Li," he called out lazily, "Tell those neighbors outside that the weather is nice recently. Tell them to stop thinking about competing with each other all the time, and instead bask in the sun more and get some calcium."

"Yes, Court Master."

Nie Li's figure appeared in the distance, bowing in response.

Although he did not understand what "getting calcium" meant, he would do as the Court Master said.

Outside the Cloud Court, those Holy Land Leaders who had been hit hard by the "Sweeping Disciple" incident received this nonsensical notification.

They were first bewildered, then fell into deep thought.

"Bask in the sun? Get calcium?"

"What does this mean? Could it be a new piece of guidance from the Yunting Master?"

"Sunlight... is the source of all growth! Calcium... although I don't know what it is, since the Master mentioned it, there must be a profound meaning!"

"Quick! Pass down the order, all Disciples are to pause their Cultivation and collectively bask in the sun for three hours every day at noon! Carefully comprehend the Dao within it!"

Thus, a strange scene appeared on the periphery of the Cloud Court: thousands of Holy Land Disciples, Elders, and even some of the Leaders themselves, moved their meditation cushions and sat on the floating islands punctually every day, devoutly... basking in the sun.

Long Qianyuan passed by, saw this, scratched his head, and said to Nie Li: "Chief Steward Nie, are they... collectively comprehending the Dao? Can one comprehend the Dao by basking in the sun?"

Nie Li looked at the sun in the sky with an expressionless face and said slowly: "If the Court Master says it can, then it can."

He added a sentence in his heart: Even if it can't, getting a tan is quite healthy.