Chapter 1533: Tampering with Probability

Another question Chen Ling couldn't answer.

He pondered it seriously for a long time, but eventually shook his head:

"I don't know."

"But... even if I could really bring these souls to the next world, how would I handle them? What do you mean by 'new life'?"

"If you mean resurrecting all these people, that's impossible. For one, they aren't souls of the living, and for another, they don't have physical bodies... Besides, if they were resurrected in the next world, wouldn't there be two of everyone in that world? Wouldn't the world be in chaos?"

Chen Ling's explanation was a bit convoluted, but Su Zhiwei understood what he meant.

Su Zhiwei felt a bit regretful... but she also felt that this hypothesis was a bit too fantastical, so she just nodded in the end:

"...Alright, I was just mentioning it."

Su Zhiwei looked at the sky, a trace of fatigue appearing deep in her eyes. She looked at Chen Ling again:

"The Lingxu Domain should start making moves within these next two days... However, your Twilight Society's intelligence network shouldn't be any worse than ours, so I won't sync it to you in real-time. If there's anything important, we'll be in touch."

"Alright."

Su Zhiwei waved at Chen Ling, her figure flickered, and she vanished without a trace.

Chen Ling, wearing his red-bottomed, black-patterned opera robe, stood alone at the edge of the river, his gaze slowly turning toward the direction of the Northwest Lingxu Domain...

"Is it starting..."

Chen Ling muttered to himself.

……

Lingxu Domain.

Clang—

The morning glow leaped over the horizon, slowly spilling onto the gravel road in front of the Lingxu Ancient Temple. As a melodious bell rang out, a figure sitting cross-legged in the center of the temple slowly opened their eyes.

"Lord Lingxu, the time has come." A figure spoke respectfully outside the temple.

With slightly wavy hair fluttering in the wind, Wu Tongyuan, wearing plain monk's robes, slowly stood up from the ground...

His gaze looked into the distance, where a half-finished tower stood on the horizon. Wu Tongyuan's gaze was deep and weary.

"Hmm."

Wu Tongyuan replied faintly.

"My Lord, the civilians in the domain and the construction workers heard that you were going to try to activate the Akashic Tower today, so they all ran to the streets near the tower to watch... Although we have already blocked off the roads in advance, they are still very concerned about this event, and no matter how we persuade them, they refuse to leave..." The person hesitated for a moment, then asked tentatively,

"Do we need to force them to leave?"

"...No need." Wu Tongyuan shook his head. "There is no point in burying one's head in the sand. They have the right to know everything."

"Yes."

Wu Tongyuan said no more and walked down the steps toward the foot of the mountain, the hem of his plain monk's robes fluttering in the wind.

The many people at the foot of the mountain were incredibly excited when they saw that plain-robed figure descending!

"It's Lord Lingxu!!"

"Lord Lingxu has finally come down the mountain!"

"I heard Lord Lingxu is going to activate the Akashic Tower today to try and find a way to solve the Red Star problem. Is that true or false?"

"Of course it's true. Work at the Akashic Tower has completely stopped today, and even the outer scaffolding has been removed... This is the first time I've seen the exterior of that thing. It's really beautiful... Not in a flashy way, just very ordinary, but... very high-end?"

"Nonsense, every brick and every angle of the Akashic Tower has been precisely calculated; they are the most perfect curves."

"Do you think Lord Lingxu will succeed?"

"He definitely will, that's Lord Lingxu! A powerful existence who single-handedly suppressed a world-ending calamity! The 'sculpture' of the Calamity of Delusion is still stuck outside the wall!"

"Go Lord Lingxu!! We support you!!"

"Lord Lingxu must succeed! I'm still waiting for my husband to come home from the construction site! We haven't seen each other for so long!"

“……”

Voices rose and fell from both sides of the mountain. Wu Tongyuan glanced at the sea of people, and his shoulders seemed to grow heavier.

He didn't respond, and didn't even continue along the main road, instead taking flight directly toward the location of the Akashic Tower.

At this time, the area around the Akashic Tower had been cleared. The original factories and dormitories had been temporarily emptied, and the surrounding buildings were all quiet. Only the mysterious half-spiral tower rising into the sky shone brightly in the morning light.

The Akashic Tower was indeed not yet finished, and the top was still an open-air "skylight," but the core base area had been completed.

Wu Tongyuan walked slowly into the tower. His pupils clearly reflected every brick and tile here. Those bricks, meticulously carved according to mathematical curves, looked like countless surging information streams in his eyes, extending to the end of the void...

According to Wu Tongyuan's calculations, the current Akashic Tower had about 70% of the efficacy of its perfect state, but the remaining 30% was the hardest to build and would consume a massive amount of manpower and time.

Since that was the case, it was better to try it out in advance. After all, from a cost-effectiveness perspective, the current Akashic Tower was already sufficient.

The interior of the Akashic Tower was too quiet, like a huge and precise vase. Wu Tongyuan looked up and could see the blue sky through the "skylight"-like top of the tower...

Wu Tongyuan slowly closed his eyes, and at the same time, a domain expanded from within his body.

The moment the domain expanded, everything around him seemed to be replaced by various formulas. The rules of this world jumped wildly in the void in the form of numbers!

And every brick of this unfinished tower contained a massive stream of information, intertwined with each other like a burning mathematical torch!

Wu Tongyuan raised his hand and began to tamper with the rules of the space within the tower in the void. As the Lingxu Numbers constantly intervened in the tower, even the ethereal fate seemed to be quantified by numbers, beginning to gradually twist and deform...

The Lingxu Numbers began to intervene in the study of "probability."

The probability formula for events occurring gradually deviated from its original track under Wu Tongyuan's manipulation. Everything that seemed incredible to the outside world would become commonplace here.

As if to verify this, Wu Tongyuan took nine copper coins of different shapes from his pocket. With a light flick of his thumb, these nine copper coins flipped in the air...

Cling-clang—

The nine copper coins flew through different heights and arcs in the air, eventually falling messily onto the floor of the tower.

The copper coins bounced continuously on the ground, their points of impact and directions of flight extremely disordered. But eerily, after spinning for a while, every single copper coin stood perfectly upright on the ground...

What is the probability of tossing nine copper coins at once and having them all stand upright on the ground?

Inside the Akashic Tower,

The probability is 95%!

After confirming that the Akashic Tower was indeed functioning, Wu Tongyuan breathed a slight sigh of relief, but then his gaze became increasingly solemn...

He looked up at the void above his head.

Next,

He would begin to make contact with the "Akashic Records."