Chapter 746: Chapter 16: The Completed Imaginary Tree
Contemplating seriously the insights and feelings just experienced, Gu Mo began to ponder gently.
He felt that amidst the quick flickers of his own thoughts, there was a sudden flash of wisdom that he seemed to vaguely grasp.
However, for a moment, he couldn’t fully comprehend it clearly.
Or rather, he had indeed caught that spark of inspiration, but could only form a vague idea, unable to unravel the tangled threads within. Even with a god-like computational power, able to mobilize all his knowledge to piece it together, there were still too many missing pieces of the puzzle.
"The accumulation is still far from enough; I must indeed continue to consolidate the fundamentals..."
The White-clothed Daoist slightly furrowed his brows. After a while, he somewhat helplessly gave up this pointless action. With just a thought, he backed up all his previous thoughts, organizing and summarizing them, carefully storing them in the deepest hidden waves of his spiritual consciousness.
——This is the memory palace exclusively constructed within his thoughts.
Even though he can’t make sense of it now, it doesn’t mean he won’t figure it out later. By first backing up every thought and sensory information of that moment, he can slowly research it later... he won’t give up on any inspiration, even if they may not always prove useful.
In the current situation, there is nothing much to be done, for knowledge resembles a circle. The more knowledge one has, the larger the circle, the wider the area of contact, the more unknowns arise. Gu Mo naturally does not dare to claim he has pried open the principles of this world, at most he has reached the level where he can touch and begin to understand "Law" and "Principle."
But he does not feel discouraged, because precisely because of this——
As his own circle enlarges, it comes into more contact and collision with the unknown, thus gaining more opportunities to grasp and glimpse.
"Thought experiment... Anthropic principle... Maybe I can..."
Standing within the Giant Tower, lost in his own thoughts, Gu Mo withdrew his gaze, no longer looking at the Giant City District outside, but turned around to observe the interior scenery of the Giant Tower behind him.
From the outside, it appears to be a Heaven-Reaching Tower, piercing through the Moon’s mantle and crust, rooting and growing vigorously from the Earth’s core, like the flourishing root system or wheel spokes of a gigantic plant. The massive tower body passes through each Moon Ring City layer within the Inner Sea of the Moon, finally reaching near the surface.
Even in the highly developed Immortal Technique and technology of the Moon Sea, various rumors, and urban legends cannot help but circulate; perhaps this is a commonality among people, regardless of how rich the productivity is, how abundant the materials, how fulfilled the spiritual needs——
Yet the curiosity remains a natural trait, a deep-seated need to explore the unknown.
So there are rumors claiming that this is the true palace of the Emperor, filled with all kinds of luxurious indulgences. Others claim it is the Moon’s internal passageway, usually used to transport massive materials and has military functions, hence not open to the public...
However, in reality, none of these are true.
Truly inside the Giant Tower’s space, it is actually hollow.
Inside, there is only a giant white pillar with a cracked surface running through, growing from a bottomless abyss below and extending straight upward. Thus, ultimately, this white giant pillar, resembling the branch of a World Tree, extends all the way upwards, also reaching near the surface.
The surface of the white giant pillar is rugged and uneven, but extremely thick, hundreds of meters in diameter.
And it is emitting exceptionally astonishing Magic Power...
As a natural result, this is the Imaginary Tree... at least the massive white pillar with the cracked surface in front of Gu Mo belongs to part of the Imaginary Tree’s branch. Thus, the true nature of the Giant Tower becomes quite obvious, it’s essentially a Moon-level Restriction Device——
Made entirely of specially crafted Immortal Gold as the base material, it seems like a plain metallic shell, yet every inch is meticulously treated with Technique, and the seemingly smooth surface is actually filled with densely engraved molecular-level Cursed Talismans.
The internal space is also compressed, folded, or stretched through Technique, truly vast and broad, yet also winding and complex.
Within such a pre-constructed Restriction Device, the alien plant manipulating information and records can only be guided to grow within a designated direction and space, ultimately inevitably being shaped into someone’s ideal state.
As the present scene demonstrates——
The Root of Imagination, which should have sprouted and grown on Earth, is now growing inside the Moon, even becoming the thriving root system supporting the prosperity of the entire Sea of the Moon.
And the entire Imaginary Tree is wrapped within the Restriction Device, forming the basic framework that supports the stacked mechanical composite structure within the Moon.
"Interesting, truly interesting..."
Approaching the inner side of the railing, looking through specially made glass at the massive white branch inside, Gu Mo glanced downward, unable to restrain his amazement, seemingly especially appreciating everything before his eyes, showering admiration without reservation.
The abyss below appears bottomless, with rotating stairs and platforms spiraling around, bright lights descending layer by layer...
But still remains particularly profound, making one wonder whether it’s a bottomless pit...
"It truly is exactly the same, this indeed must be the true power of world creation." Gu Mo couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at this anomaly domain born just five minutes ago, feeling very amazed. This amazement stems from familiarity yet unfamiliar setting.
From the details, this is indeed his original conception.
From the very beginning, he intended to prune the Root of Imagination into this shape, including the restraint device, which was a pre-prepared blueprint, aimed at thoroughly exploiting the Imaginary Tree without wasting a single bit of its Qi Power.
Because, in Gu Mo’s view, the nature of the Imaginary Tree is akin to the positioning of the Holy Spear Lengominia, only differing in that it is not some Divine Era Spirit Armor, but an unimaginably living organism...
After all, despite its lack of consciousness, it possesses desires for survival such as "disliking being harvested," "wanting to live," "undying," "unforgiving."
——These are naturally behavioral traits that only living organisms possess.
And after Earth’s initialization, the Anomaly Domain began to appear. According to the hypothesis of Concealer Ophelia, the Anomaly Zone gains "proof" from within the Imaginary Tree and "outputs" it to the surface; if there is an Imaginary Tree, the Anomaly Zone will not disappear. Conversely, without cultivating an Imaginary Tree, the Anomaly Zone world cannot be maintained.
This is naturally very similar to the positioning of the Holy Spear Lengominia—
As the Storm Anchor of the Lock-based Star, connecting the tower between the world surface, the body of the Holy Spear serves as the Pillar of the End fixing the world surface, its function is to firmly nail the world’s surface to the planetary ground, like the Human World, it’s just a layer of skin, a sheet...
Just a thin layer of film attached to the planet’s surface, so a special tack is needed to fasten it securely, preventing reality from peeling off and falling from the world.
The Imaginary Tree also has the same effect, when it is well-planted on the ground, the world of the Anomaly Zone can be maintained.
And when the Imaginary Tree is felled, the world of the Anomaly Zone naturally reaches the time to vanish.
Considering such a scenario, Gu Mo naturally has reason and thoughts to process the Tree of Imagination as a world anchor, and it also happens to be timely for asset transfer, attempting to limit the possibility of the Alien God descending using the tree body as a carrier, and this conception has now been directly realized.
Just like his supplementation and revision of history, custom-tailored life conceptions based on the demands of several passengers—
Everything has been realized.
Even strategically focusing on the Moon over Earth as the time approached modernity was exceptionally successfully executed, manifested alongside the creation of this Anomaly Zone Domain world, when the world line was created and expanded.
"This Imaginary Tree is indeed very mature now, the Alien God likely won’t let it go..."
Gu Mo closed his eyes, slightly dispersing his senses, swiftly extending along the branches of the giant tree, encompassing the entire massive plant with Divine Thought.
A seed that should have landed on Earth was cleverly transplanted to the Moon through a grafting technique using the absorbed anomaly history records for reverse influence. Although the Moon is far inferior to Earth, it does not need to compete with other Roots of Imagination for the Earth Vein’s magic power.
Instead, it monopolizes the planet’s entire Earth Vein magic power.
Ultimately, it can naturally grow robustly to this extent.
But precisely because of this mature development, it is probably very close to meeting the body conditions to host the Alien God’s descent, and Gu Mo felt he should also make some preparations. His plan is to find a way to quickly free himself from the shackles of the Imaginary Tree, and then take the opportunity to cut down the tree himself!
Want to descend?
That’s really beautifully thought out, he’ll just use the tree directly for himself. After use, he won’t keep it; instead, he will cut it down himself, leaving no loopholes for the other side.
Gu Mo cheerfully made his decision, yet he was also somewhat curious—
The next moment, his figure appeared directly on the Moon Surface, then he looked toward the massive blue planet, the Star Pupil quietly reflecting the Earth’s silhouette.
There was nothing.
No fragments of its former facade, everything was a refreshed white wilderness.
The land was nearly all snowy white, the entire earth was bleached, no traces of civilization remained, the glorious journey of humanity, the nations developed through generations, all surface constructions... all of these, everything, was completely washed clean.
"Indeed, it’s already reached this step..."
Gu Mo sighed slightly; this is the world line of FGO.
After piercing through all singularities and defeating Gai Tia at the Divine Hall of the Crown of Time, the Chaldea group reclaimed the future, only to lose it once again shortly thereafter.
The entire Earth was initialized...
Huge Storm Walls appeared on the planet surface, covering vast areas, and inside the vortex are the Anomaly Zone Domains belonging to paranormal phenomena.
