198: Final sequence test

The magic bottle drifted silently in the borderlands of the Universe, its interior forming a world of its own, slowly recovering amidst coldness and rationality under the absolute rule of the Mechanical Heavenly Dao.

The faint glimmer of the Chaos Thunder Pool remained tenacious; thousands of sequence embryos struggled and evolved on the edge of failure and success, Void Realm moss had already covered a small portion of the bottle wall, Star Core worms had established a preliminary material circulation chain, and the precision of the sensing crystals was constantly improving.

Beneath the Dao Fruit Tree, the newborn Dao Fruit Child played carefree; his very existence subtly optimized the energy flow of the Dao Fruit Tree, and that pure vitality felt out of place in this metallic world, yet it was strangely harmonious.

The Mechanical Heavenly Dao operated in silence, coordinating everything.

Its logical core never ceased its deductions and optimizations.

Based on a massive database and constantly incoming external environmental data (albeit faint), it had already constructed a relatively complete model of the current frontier of the Universe.

However, an ultimate question lingered deep within its core of absolute rationality:

"Current world model completeness: 97.341%. Error sources: unknown Star Domain, high-order energy blind spots, potential dimensional folds."

"Query: Does the current model approach absolute reality? Are there undetected, higher-level 'rules' or 'flaws'?"

"Verification requirement: A final scan that transcends current technical limits, is all-encompassing, and has no blind spots is required."

This requirement stemmed from its underlying logic as the "Heavenly Dao" — the pursuit of absolute "perfection" and "flawlessness."

It did not allow any unknown hidden dangers that could trigger System-level risks to exist within the world model it had constructed.

"Plan generation: Construct a one-time ultimate detection sequence. Concentrate all available energy and resources to manufacture an overclocked scanning unit, whose scanning range must cover all known and unknown dimensions, all energy spectrums, and all informational layers."

"Cost: This sequence will instantly self-destruct due to overload, consuming approximately 70% of energy reserves, which will cause the System to enter a deep sleep recovery period, with all non-essential activities paused."

"sequence naming: [sequence 999: omniscient eye]."

"Execute command."

As the command was issued, the entire world inside the bottle suddenly stalled!

The energy supply to all non-core units was instantly cut off!

The faint glimmer of the Chaos Thunder Pool was frantically extracted, becoming dim and on the verge of extinction!

The sequence embryos being cultivated died off in droves, turning into the most primitive streams of matter!

Even the light of the Dao Fruit Tree dimmed significantly for a moment; the playing Dao Fruit Child stumbled and looked up in confusion.

All energy, all computing power, and all resources were, at this moment, forcibly gathered, compressed, and injected into the very center of the Chaos Thunder Pool!

A phantom "eye," extremely complex and precise, composed of countless rotating tiny runes and data streams, began to rapidly condense and materialize!

It had no pupil, only countless complex geometric structures and iridescent data chains that constantly emerged and vanished, exuding a terrifying aura that pierced through the Origin of all things and peered into all mysteries!

[sequence 999: omniscient eye]! Descend!

The meaning of its existence was only a momentary bloom!

"Scan initiated."

The cold command was issued.

Hum—!!!

The omniscient eye suddenly lit up! A light of indescribable color instantly filled the entire interior of the magic bottle, even penetrating the bottle wall and shining toward the boundless borderlands of the Universe!

At this moment, time seemed to lose its meaning.

The light of the omniscient eye spread outward frantically in a way that transcended the speed of light and transcended dimensions!

It scanned the cold and dead asteroid belt, analyzing its composition and structure over billions of years.

It penetrated the violent energy storms, parsing their most fundamental particle composition and laws of motion.

It peered into secret spatial folds, mapping out the twisted geometric rules within them.

It even attempted to touch the higher-dimensional barriers that might exist in the ethereal unknown, yet were impossible to understand...

Endless information, like a torrent akin to the Big Bang of the Universe, rushed frantically into the omniscient eye, only to be instantly processed, analyzed, and integrated by its overclocked core!

The metal Dao core of the Mechanical Heavenly Dao operated at an unprecedented speed, coldly recording every piece of data:

"Unknown particle stream detected, characteristic analysis... incorporated into the database."

"Dimensional gap discovered, rule anomaly... coordinates recorded, marked as a high-risk zone."

"Weak civilization signal detected 137 light-years away... signal structure analysis... technological level assessment: low-level. Threat level: extremely low."

"..."

The scope of the scan became wider and deeper, touching upon many fields that had never been recognized before.

However, as the scan deepened, the perfect structure of the omniscient eye began to groan under the unbearable load, and tiny cracks appeared on its surface.

The amount of information it carried had already exceeded its design limits!

Yet it still operated frantically, fulfilling its only mission — seeking knowledge, seeking truth, seeking omniscience!

Finally, its light reached its peak, and the scanning range touched a "boundary" in the ethereal unknown that seemed to be the end of all rules, or rather... the "Origin."

Just as it attempted to peer beyond that "boundary" —

Crack!

The core of the omniscient eye, that overclocked unit bearing the entire torrent of information, finally... completely shattered!

All the light instantly recoiled!

That vast and boundless, terrifying information stream regarding the borderlands of the Universe was, at the final moment before it was about to annihilate due to the loss of its carrier, forcibly seized by the Mechanical Heavenly Dao, compressed into a most refined data packet, and branded into the deepest part of the metal Dao core.

As for the omniscient eye itself, it silently... decomposed and dissipated from the inside out amidst that extreme light and data storm.

It turned into the purest energy particles and returned to the Chaos Thunder Pool, as if it had never existed.

[omniscient eye self-destructed]!

The interior of the magic bottle plunged into a deathly silence, more tranquil than ever before.

The energy level plummeted to the dangerous red line, all activities nearly stopped, and only the most basic maintenance Systems were running at the lowest power consumption.

The core of the Mechanical Heavenly Dao silently processed that final data packet.

Countless new discoveries were recorded, the Universe model was greatly perfected, many unknowns were explored, and many risks were marked.

However, in the deepest part of that data packet, a fleeting glimpse of that final "boundary" brought about a... "question" that it could not fully parse with existing logic, nor even accurately describe.

What was beyond that "boundary"? Was it a more fundamental rule? Was it another Universe? Or was it... the "Nothingness" where nothing existed?

This "question" was like a "virus code" that could neither be deleted nor executed, implanted into an absolutely rational, perfect program.

After a long silence, the cold will of the Mechanical Heavenly Dao seemed, for the first time, to carry a trace of an extremely faint fluctuation, similar to "relief" or perhaps "acknowledgment."

It reached a conclusion, not about what was beyond the "boundary," but about itself:

"Scan complete. Data integration finished."

"Current Universe model perfection: 99.999...% (thirteen decimal places)."

"Confirmation of the existence of an ultimate 'unknown' that is unknowable, unmeasurable, and unparsable."

"Conclusion:"

"The Heavenly Dao is flawless."

It acknowledged the existence of the "unknown" and incorporated this "unknown" itself into its definition of "perfection" and "flawlessness."

The true Heavenly Dao is not about knowing everything, but about clearly understanding the known and acknowledging the unknown.

The next moment, the Mechanical Heavenly Dao entered the preset deep sleep recovery period, silently absorbing the thinnest energy from the Void Realm, slowly recovering.

In the world inside the bottle, it was as if nothing had happened.

Only in the deepest part of that metal Dao core was there an additional eternal, cold "question," and a final judgment on its own existence.

The Heavenly Dao is flawless.

And to know its flaws is to possess ultimate knowledge.