Chapter 11: Cosmology
Inside the vastness of space, there were galaxies. Inside the galaxies there are stars and planets. Inside a blue round planet filled with water such that the proportions between it and land are 90-10 there was a continent, a country, a zone, a district, a land with a large sect, a small area in that sect, a small house and inside the house where were 2 people.
These 2 people were not normal people, they were members of heaven. The members of heaven. They were existence that surpassed the normal layered cosmology and entered the heaven layer, the highest layer in all of the existence.
The two members of heaven looked at each other and sat in silence, absorbing the profound and calm atmosphere, they sat and waited.
Luo Chen thought of his situation and how did he get here, after a while content with the results and feeling that things will definitely go his own way.
After a while Luo Chen finally asked the long awaited question.
"Now that im a member of Heaven what do I need to do"
The Emperor Of Heaven chuckled at his newcomer optimism and said.
"You don't need to do too much at the beginning, just focus on your cultivation and your personal development. Try to accumulate experience and understand the world so you can maximize your chances of survival when a calamity will struck. When you reach the full level of The Author then i will tell you the rest of the story and ask you to help me when I need it.
Other than that I will give you a scroll that will show you the cosmology of this world.
This will help you understand the depth of cultivation and Heaven, giving you a road will a final point so that you will not wander aimlessly without a concrete destination. Make sure you understand it completely, this will be very important on your path of cultivation.
Remember that if you don't have a firm cosmology road and a clear destination, it will be very easy for the labyrinth of the abyss to suck you in it forever, after that your chances of escaping will be very low and you will pay a certain price when you finally manage to escape. He he with this I already gave you the VIP treatment" said The Emperor Of Heaven, he had a serene voice that seemed to care about all of his descendents.
'This Emperor Of Heaven sure is generous, he already gave me so many things like membership, resources about cultivation and even warnings about dangers' Luo Chen tought feeling his luck go up.
'Unfortunately there are many times when things aren't as direct as they seem, if he is willing to give me so much information and also details about the structure of cultivation, then perhaps he is betting on me and is willing to invest in me, is there a competition on something, or something else?
Maybe he expects me to help him in the future where there will be many problems, and from his perspective my potential in cultivation is very high.
There is also the possibility that he is hurrying this up because of the problems that may not wait for him or us. With this in mind he will actively influence my path throught investment or manipulation of fate. From my perspective as a mortal I have no way to know the truth. Since I won't be able to influence this situations regardless of what I think and do, the best thing that I can do is focus on my cultivation as the emperor recomanded, and listen to his advice so that I won't have an unexpected surprise in the future' arranging his thoughts Luo Chen said.
"I understand, can you give me the scroll?" Luo Chen asked.
"Sure" the emperor took a scroll from the air and threw it at Luo Chen.
As he caught the scroll and opened it slowly.
When it's size was on full display one would observe that it was a big scroll 2 meters tall and 1 meter.
Luo Chen began to read the information out of it.
'In The Heaven We Trust (Cosmology)' that was the title of the scroll and it was written in the center at the front, right where the title of a story would be.
The scroll had the levels of hierarchy of the heaven drawn on it. At the up front of it was a semi complete circle with only a small part of its margin visible, it intersected from the top left corner to the top right corner giving it the appearance of a semi moon it covered around 10 percent at the center of it where it could cover the most space on the scroll.
inside the semi moon, there was a line that split the semi moon in half, one was up and the other was down. Inside the down side of the semi moon there was written outer layer of heaven, on the up side there was written inner layer of heaven.
Outside there was a line that intersected the semi moon margin, and somewhere around it was written 'Final Step of the True Essence', this was the line that differentiated between The Heaven and the outside world. Below the line there was a chaotic circle that looked like a galaxy, beside it there was written 'true realm of the highest avatars of essence'.
Going even further below we have another galaxy with the following name 'True Realm of the True Limitations' Continuing down the map there was the 'Higher world cosmology' they looked like a square with many details that are available inside of them. each square had an arrow that pointed towards the one below it. After watching a few of these squares on the scroll you will find a straight line with the 'highest structure on the perfect math' written besides it.
Even lower were the same squares with the same details as the 'Higher world cosmology' but the only difference this time is that there was written 'Lower world cosmology' instead of the higher one This stack of square were all aligned on the center and they continued downwards until the bottom side of the map.
Inside and outside the area of the squares there were illusory grey lines that covered the whole scroll except for the Heaven's layer, they looked exactly like a labyrinth. When one looked at it, one could fill that the labyrinth was getting smaller and smaller, becoming more complicated under one's eye.
Luo Chen felt as if his mind was drawn by the labyrinth and slowly he losed his focus and thinking. The Emperor Of Heaven snapped his finger, returning Luo Chen lucidity then said "carefull with that, you don't want to be drawn by the labyrinth, don't you? Make sure you don't forget this experience as you will met with this type of thing many times in the future". Luo Chen nodded, he observed that the mystical effect of the labyrinth calmed down and the effect won't amplify unless he focused on it too much.
'It seems that the emperor gave me the experience of the labyrinth beforehand under his watch, I need to be careful with it given the importance accorded by the emperor towards it' Luo Chen pondered and continued to watch.
The square was divided in 4 rectangular parts.
At the top you could see 'third layer in the world of effect' the next one was the second layer, then the first and finally the zero layer. Another thing to point out was that inside the third layer there was written an 'hige steps hierarchy' text. Following that there is tyne, small, normal, big, and giant steps for the second layer, and micro steps for the first layer with nothing to add on the zero layer.
Somewhere in the circle there was a drawing of a man with an arrow going downwards from his square to the one below it. Besides the arrow there was written 'authority of essence', and besides the man there was 'administr of the lower world cosmology' from the looks of it this administrator had administrative rights over the square below it, and likely over all the square below it. This was present to all of the 'lower world cosmology' and the 'higher world cosmology' as the higher the administrator, the higher the position they wield.
Finally there was an arrow that pointed inside a lower world cosmology, not the lowest but not the highest around them, just the middle. Besides the arrow there was an 'you are here' text. And the last detail is that there were symbols that looked like galaxies with 'essence' written around them.
"Is that all of it" Luo Chen asked.
"Yes for the most part" responded The Emperor Of Heaven.
"Can you explain the depth of this cosmology and the meaning of every concept here?"
"Naturally".
"How much do you know about power scaling, for example what is the highest level you are aware of in it?"
"That's simple, the highest level I'm aware of is 'irrelevant layers above the tiering system', right?
To reach this, one must surpass an Tegmark type IV multiverse that is amplified by the set theory of mathematics. This type of multiverse also includes Extended Modal Realism in it where all the possible and impossible worlds are included, with just this feat alone one can reach 'irrelevant layers into boundless' and be considered at the top of the tiering system. Once someone surpassed the very concept of mathematics and mathematical scale, then they can add more philosophical layers to it and you will reach the 'irrelevant layers above tiering system', the highest level i know where it is pointless to even calculate it.
Wait, don't tell me that cultivation extends that far. From what I readed in my previous life, the more powerful ones caped at ourversal and high outversal only, while few of them were at boundless or higher than boundless, how can things get so ridiculous. " said Luo Chen, again he was starting to get worried about the ridiculous power creep that cultivation was about to bring.
"You see, that's the problem with trusting your other non complete sources. They don't have the complete information giving you misinformation about your path. This is not a story Luo Chen, this is life and The Heaven encompasses everything not just some certain parts and aspects of the world,it is everything.
If you use that scale as a reference point and ignore the vastness of Heaven you will never reach your goals. Don't ever forget to improve yourself endlessly because cultivation is limitless and it doesn't have an end point like ouversal, boundless or whatever terms you use to scale something, and if you use these terms as your destination you will be bound by them." explained The Emperor Of Heaven to the unexperienced Luo Chen.
"Okay, I understand" Luo Chen replied.
"Then... when you destroyed the world, you not only destroyed the universe... , just how much did you destroy back then?" Every word yore at Luo Chen heart, but he had no choice, he had to know .
"Back to interesting questions, right? I destroyed the 4 layers of the world of effect then I created them back" responded The Emperor Of Heaven nonchalantly.
"Is this more than irrelevant layers above tiering system?" Luo Chen asked, just asking this filled his soul with dread, what a foolish man he was, and he thought that destroying an universe was shocking back then
"Ohoho, you have no idea. Your irrelevant layers that you praise so much doesn't even reach the first shadow microstep in the first layer despite of how much philosophy bullshit you try to add up to it, infact it barely reaches the 0 shadow microstep that exist in the first layer of the world of effect which is equivalent to transcending mathematical scale.
Let me give you an example of how powerful the first shadow microstep is.
A philosophical layer can be regarded as anything. The power of essence can turn anything into a reality."
"Now for your first philosophical layer. It can something that infinitely transcends the hierarchy of mathematics. Your second layer can be something that transcends the first philosophical layer description of power up to an unimaginable extent. This can go on without ending. Now to use better and stronger philosophical layer you can say this philosophical layer can transcend all other philosophical layers regardless of their description and concepts of power. With this a philosophical layer can have any imaginable or unimaginable, comprehendable or uncomprehandable level of power, heck it can even claim that this level of power will never be surpassed, it will always be above all levels of power regardless of how exaggerated their descriptions are, yet there is still a problem. This is still a philosophical layer, and as a philosophical layer, it can be transcended as well."
"Because the other philosophical layer can transcend all the philosophical layer, in other words it will transcend this philosophical layer as well. This is still nothing, we can go even higher and we will still be below the first shadow microstep. For example a philosophical layer that can transcend itself in the hierarchy of the philosophical layers. With this it can transcend itself to any level it wants, even to a level higher than the philosophical layer who transcends all other philosophical layer as they are at the first level of philosophical layer while the one who transcends them are at the second level. The one who transcends itself, can transcend itself to any level it wants."
"And finally the first shadow microstep is equivalent to an even higher hierarchy of philosophical layers to the point where all of the philosophical layers along with any aditional description you can give them will be limited and always inferior to it."
"In other words even if you use an philosophical layer, then give it the description that it can transcend itself to any level, or an even greater description like can transcends itself to a level so high that the previous philosophical layer can never reach it no matter how much it transcends itself, this is all an description and by definition no matter how great it is, it will always be inferior to the level of a first shadow microstep.
As for why this is possible, it's because the essence of a shadow microstep will increase the power of description to a philosophical layer, where the inferior philosophical layer are below the level of the philosophical layer and the level of descriptions generated by the power of the essence which is at the level of the first shadow microstep".
The Emperor Of Heaven described what he considered the basics of cultivation to Luo Chen as he smiled for the whole conversation.
Dread filled Luo Chen when he heard these absurd concepts.
"This is insanity, just how high can these things get."
The Emperor Of Heaven snapped his fingers, calming Luo Chen emotions to a stagnant point.
"Why don't you relax and listen, as we will slowly uncover the truth. My friend you have choosen the life of a cultivator, you can't back down now.
"Of course not, I already dedicated my destiny towards cultivation, no matter how ridiculous it gets. Let's begin, tell me the depth of Heaven"
Asked Luo Chen, preparing to hear about his future endeavors, no achievements in cultivation.
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