Chapter 234: Tree And Sea Cosmology's Third Pole, Dimensional Realm
Venti's turquoise eyes shimmered with unimaginable excitement.
With each major stage of Teyvat's development, the dividends returned from the world's growth were beyond comprehension. Every god would experience a qualitative leap.
While a god's rank might not see significant change, their power would absolutely surge.
Could a First-tier Primary God of a small universe compare to a First-tier Primary God of a great universe?
He already possessed the strength to shake stars, and at full force, his power reached the scale of a stellar system. Once Teyvat ascended to the level of a great universe...
As a First-tier Primary God, he would undoubtedly hold galactic-level might.
"Old man, what do you think we'll reach this time?"
Zhongli clasped his hands behind his back. "You already know the answer, Barbatos."
Venti twitched his lips. "I'm just asking for your opinion."
In the city-state—
"Two-One-Zero," Riku was directing the humans, who had learned construction, to build new streets and expand the city-state. Though exhausted, he had never felt so joyful.
"Lord Riku, we've encountered eleven large settlements approaching the city-state. Rough estimates suggest about thirty thousand people, and they say dozens of other settlements, large and small, are migrating here too."
Riku nodded. "Very good. Soon, our city-state will reach a population of one million."
Currently, the city-state had over 800,000 people, gathering more than half the population of the Lucia Continent. Riku estimated that the global human population numbered around two to three million.
Clenching his fists, Riku's fighting spirit surged. "Soon, the city-state will be able to expand outward, developing more land and civilization."
With the help of seven gods, human civilization had already begun to take shape.
He hadn't chosen a centralized system, nor a parliamentary one, but instead adopted the system used by the nation of Liyue.
With the gods imparting knowledge, he had come to understand the pros and cons of various systems—and more importantly, humanity's countless desires.
Thus, civilization would be built by humans, while the gods supervised those responsible for building it. This was the ideal structure.
Humans were short-sighted. When they veered down a destructive path, the gods would pull them back before they ruined their civilization.
In the nation of the Elves—
Nahida had granted Think Nirvalen her blessing, making her a divine follower with full authority to execute her will.
All the other races who had been enslaved for labor were released, and slavery itself was abolished.
Naturally, this faced resistance—but all opposition was promptly eliminated by Nahida.
She directly followed Lord Noah's example.
As a branch of the World Tree, she took over the planet's memory and marked the Elves with sin values based on their actions.
However, given this was a time of war, she relaxed some conditions. Unlike Sumeru, she didn't enforce things as strictly.
Even so, many Elves still bore heavy sin.
The criteria were simple: anyone who hindered the continuation of Elven civilization was guilty. Those who contributed to its prosperity were virtuous.
The old ones who blindly followed Kainath's will to wage war, using their kin as fuel—they were all guilty.
Nahida was surprised. "A full one-fifth of the Elves are deeply guilty... It's hard to believe."
Even when Sumeru was riddled with corruption, the guilty accounted for less than one percent.
"Still, the greatest sin lies with Kainath."
"He neither loved his people nor bore any sense of responsibility."
Think stood respectfully behind Nahida, full of reverence and awe.
"The Lord God speaks truth. Kainath never had any sense of duty. He treated us as mere expendables. Only you are the true god."
Nahida nodded. "The sinners have already been marked. When the worlds merge, they shall all be cast into the Abyss."
She looked up, her clover-shaped eyes glowing softly.
"It has already begun..."
In a phase space inaccessible to other races on the planet—
This place was called the Garden of Lore, created by the Fairy race's progenitor Alram before falling into slumber, after being shattered by Artosh.
Alram, the Goddess of Love, had created this sanctuary for her people to escape the war.
Fairies were tiny beings no larger than Paimon, with butterfly wings on their backs. They gained strength by absorbing the love stories of other races and could also transform into flowers.
All Fairy-kind could communicate telepathically, which led to many being captured by the Elves and enslaved as communication devices.
However, the majority of Fairies now slumbered deeply in the Garden of Lore...
Here, the Fairies were absolute rulers, capable of creating anything—even life itself.
Thus, no other race dared to attack them, assuming they could even find this place.
"Wow... So many love stories all of a sudden!"
"What happened?"
Teyvat and Disboard had begun to interact, with parts of Teyvat's power overlapping into Disboard.
...The system continued its calculations, establishing a link between the two universes' cores, slowly transferring the entire Disboard Universe into the Tree and Sea's cosmology.
At this moment, in Noah's eyes unfolded a scene from a higher-dimensional perspective—
A grand-scale universe migration.
Within infinite dimensions, the Disboard Universe appeared like a dazzling sphere—surrounded by three rings: one silver, one gold, and a larger pure white one.
This brilliant sphere was expanding endlessly, powered by the three surrounding rings.
They were the highest authorities of this universe: Ouroboros, Kabbalah, and Alpha.
The Star Grail was diffusing its power throughout the universe, increasing the mass of the Three Truths.
Then, the Star Grail stopped injecting power, and the Disboard Universe ceased expanding.
At that moment, a higher power enveloped the Disboard Universe, causing it to gradually become transparent.
Of course, this "transparency" did not mean it became see-through—it was vanishing from this superdimensional layer entirely.
"What... is this power?"
Noah was shaken. He couldn't comprehend it—a universe had simply disappeared.
Its next appearance was directly inside the Sea of Quanta.
The Sea of Quanta surged with a ferocious quantum tsunami. Its ripples reached vast distances, even brushing the base of the Imaginary Tree.
Under the assault of the quantum tsunami, the Teyvat and Disboard Universes overlapped.
Though now superimposed, the two universes existed in separate dimensions—like parallel worlds.
Yet it was not mutual interaction. Rather, Disboard was being funneled unilaterally into Teyvat.
Matter, rules, concepts, truth, energy...
[Ding! Annexation protocol initiated.]
[Ding! Beginning calculations.]
The world of No Game No Life currently existed as a medium-sized universe with a hypergalactic volume. Its core potential had reached standard single-universe level, and its Ring of Truth would be dismantled and fused into the Teyvat Universe.
With a total mass reaching the standard single-universe level, it would merge into Teyvat. The edge of the Teyvat Universe would open, rapidly expanding to a standard single-universe scale.
Teyvat's existing Truths—Kabbalah had reached high single-universe level, Ouroboros had reached high single-universe level, and Dream Truth remained at weak single-universe level.
A new Truth, Alpha, was added at standard single-universe level.
Teyvat's combined Truth mass now slightly exceeded the standard single-universe level, though still short of the high single-universe level.
All rules of the Disboard Universe were perfectly integrated into the Teyvat Universe. Identical rules merged, resulting in rule mass equivalent to standard single-universe level.
Newly added rules ranged from standard to weak single-universe level.
Teyvat Universe gained several new foundational blueprints, establishing prerequisites for the birth of a new cosmology.
Disboard's Star Grail would merge with the Heart of Teyvat. The resulting cosmic core would break through the unification limits of a single-universe level, reaching high to super single-universe level.
Pan-Human History, upon Teyvat's expansion to standard single-universe size, would spread across the entire cosmos and all time-spaces. The True Name Concept would be enhanced, granting mythological power matching the nature of each true name.
Pan-Human History would become the trunk, branching into countless tributary Human Histories. Each subspecies would possess its own stream of Pan-Human History.
All gods of the Teyvat Universe who controlled rules would become conceptualized.
The ranks of the gods would rise along with the universe's expansion, their mystique increasing until they matched the identities granted by the new cosmos.
The fate shackles of all life in the Teyvat Universe would be completely released. The upper limit of that liberation would match the upper limit of the current universe—fate shackles referring to the total potential a being could reach, or rather, the complete liberation of all possibility.
The Catalog of Life would be fully unlocked. Teyvat's lifeforms would diversify infinitely.
All energy forms would be fully liberated. The Teyvat Universe would auto-generate every energy its beings could comprehend.
The Dimensional Gap would be opened to the gods of Teyvat for the creation of subsidiary universes.
Teyvat would gain an instinct to automatically capture surrounding worlds.
Teyvat would initially gain the ability to circulate with the Sea of Quanta, becoming the third pole beside the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta.
The Teyvat Universe was accepted by the Great Will of the Tree and Sea and was bestowed a name: the Dimensional Realm.
Final Result:
The Teyvat Universe attained a standard single-universe scale. Its Truth mass touched high single-universe level, its growth potential reached weak multiversal level, and it gained a 2% special aura of multiverse level. The Great Will of the Tree and Sea anchored Teyvat as the third pole of its great world.
[Ding! Calculation complete.]
[Shall annexation begin?]
Noah was stunned by the system's results.
It was natural for Teyvat to reach single-universe level after annexing Disboard.
What shocked him wasn't that—but the final conclusion.
The Great Will of the Tree and Sea had actually anchored Teyvat and forcibly designated it as the third pole alongside the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quanta.
This...
Noah was baffled. "System? What's going on? It's already surprising the Tree and Sea didn't treat Teyvat as a parasite and cast it out. But calling it the third pole? This is too unexpected!"
[Ding! Calculating.]
[Calculation complete.]
[The Tree and Sea Great World is currently in a weak multiversal state, striving toward true multiversal evolution. But its potential has been exhausted, and it lacks the force to evolve further.]
[Teyvat, on the verge of reaching single-universe scale and containing all essential multiversal elements, provided the necessary thrust. Thus, the Great Will accepted the Teyvat Universe and proactively enabled interaction between the Imaginary Tree, Sea of Quanta, and Teyvat.]
Noah rubbed his chin, eyes filled with joy and faint doubt.
"Is interacting with the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quanta truly good for the Teyvat Universe?"
Even if the Teyvat Universe had reached single-universe scale, its volume was minuscule compared to the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quanta.
It was as if the Sea of Quanta were a vast pond, and the Teyvat Universe a mere clam within it—utterly insignificant.
Moreover, the Imaginary Tree was the birthplace of countless Truths.
While those Truths might not be comparable to Ouroboros or Kabbalah and were technically Laws rather than Truths, within the Tree and Sea Cosmology, Laws and Truths held equal status.
Only outside that great world would Laws rank half a tier below true Truths.
That such a small universe as Teyvat could become the third pole—Noah still found it hard to believe.
[Ding! For the Teyvat Universe, this is indeed a benefit. It supports a tripartite balance within the Tree and Sea Great World.]
[Following its interaction with the Sea of Quanta and Imaginary Tree, under the Tree and Sea's influence, the Dimensional Gap will rapidly and infinitely expand until it balances with both the Sea of Quanta and the Imaginary Tree.]
Noah understood now and twitched the corner of his mouth. "So they were eyeing the Dimensional Gap, huh? No wonder it's called the Dimensional Realm. That makes sense now."
He had thought the Tree and Sea Great Will had taken interest in the Teyvat Universe itself.
But in a way, that wasn't wrong either—the Dimensional Gap inherently wrapped around Teyvat and was meant for creating intersecting universes in the future.
Any world that possessed a Dimensional Gap held a sliver of potential to access the multiverse.
[Ding! Now that the Dimensional Realm has become the third pole of the Tree and Sea Great World, the host's Dimensional Authority shall rise to super single-universe level.]
Noah held back the excitement pounding in his chest. With such great benefits, surely some cost would follow. There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
"Then... System, what's the price?"
[After the Dimensional Realm becomes the third pole, the host may only access 1% of its authority, strictly limited to a region equivalent to one standard super single-universe scale surrounding Teyvat.]
Noah calmly asked, "How much of the total Dimensional Realm does that cover?"
[Ding! 1.76%.]
Hearing such a pitiful number, Noah couldn't help but raise his head and flip off the Tree and Sea's Great Will.
"So stingy! I gave you the momentum to ascend to true multiverse status, and this is all I get? Are you feeding a beggar?!"
"I'm not even asking for full dominion over the Tree and Sea—but you won't even give me the title of Lord of the Third Pole?"
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