What exactly is life?

Life is an open system, which eats, absorbs, and absorbs other negative entropy bodies, excretes high entropy through metabolism, maintains its own low entropy state, and maintains the order of its own system.

In this way, the definition of life is really very broad, human beings are undoubtedly life, Warcraft is undoubtedly life, elements, goblins and even constructs can be regarded as life, even if it is a legendary powerhouse, it is just a complete transformation of their original life system, becoming a more efficient and powerful existence.

So, can the world be seen as life?

Every time Joshua thinks about the path he should take next, he thinks about this question: if the world in his body is really born in the future, then will 'Joshua' as the essence be a super life wrapped in a world as a body, or is he equal to that world? It is not yet possible to confirm this situation, so we can only take it one step at a time, but when it comes to whether the world itself can be regarded as life, Joshua believes that the answer is yes.

At least, under the large multiverse system in which the Microf world is located, the 'world' that can draw energy from the void, maintain its own order, and can continue to grow, change, and evolve is essentially a giant life beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and it can even obtain self-will, that is, the steel python, through the complex system in the body, that is, the various information, energy and soul cycles generated by the civilized race society.

But there is a problem in this way - since the world is life, then the world will also die one day, and its specific manifestation should be the end of the soul cycle, the destruction of civilization in the body, the death of intelligent individuals, the cessation of the material cycle, the collapse of complex matter and energy structures into simple, disordered elementary particles and elements, until the end, the outer wall of the world will collapse, and the whole world will turn into countless steel particles and heat that slowly disappear in the void.

In this case, how did the 'evil god' come into being?

Surrounded by countless 'Chaos Magic's, Joshua felt like he saw many, many lights, countless lights and shadows flickering, which were stored in the remains of the evil gods, and there was information about the past tens of millions of years, if not years. In the past years, the 'Abundance' evil god has destroyed countless worlds, and in the world galaxy, the long world void area, and even the void vortex, may just be the traces of its 'passing by'.

But why was it born? It doesn't make sense at all! There will be undead after death, that is because the soul itself is actually a living tissue that can be independent of the body, he can also absorb the free elements in the atmosphere, and expel the abandoned soul structure in the body through energy exchange, and the life span of the soul is even much longer than that of the human body - the undead are not dead at all in essence, it is a peculiar, living life!

But what about the evil gods? If the evil god is the undead spirit of the world, then it should be converted from the steel python, but the existence of the steel python is based on the wisdom of civilization, and the wisdom civilization is destroyed, and there is no information flow and soul reincarnation in the world that can maintain the existence of the steel python, the steel python is different from the soul of human beings, the world dies, it also dies, order will be transformed into disorder, everything will dissipate, and it will never become an evil god, which can roam the multiverse, destroy other worlds, and infect the normal order, which is more like a product of a 'virus' than the undead.

Joshua has studied chaos for a long time, because the evil god is the real enemy in his heart, far more terrifying than the abyss and demons, but for various reasons, Joshua has never been directly in contact with the so-called 'chaos', he is the result of indirect contact with the projection, dependency and erosion of the evil god - but now, he is around the evil god itself.

Therefore, in the darkness that seemed to be 10,000 meters deep in the sea, Joshua stretched out his hand and touched the materialized, as if the 'darkness' around him was nothing.

If the universe is an independent closed system, then the entropy will inevitably increase due to the mutual conversion and transfer of energy within this system.

To put it simply, if the universe is a system with extremely uneven energy distribution at the beginning, then high-temperature objects will always transfer energy to low-temperature objects, and finally achieve complete equilibrium of energy, and as a result, the macrocosm is completely still, and any orderly movement cannot happen, and everything turns into a sea of heat that is constant and colder than death.

If the nothingness before the birth of the multiverse is that nothing exists, there is nothing, and the 'balance' created by 'eternal stillness' is like the eternal and unchanging, disordered but balanced sea of heat after the heat death, then the so-called initial fire is to forcefully stuff the information of 'existence' into nothingness.

It disrupts the primordial equilibrium, distinguishes between high and low temperatures, between light and dark, nature, and between life and death.

High energy transfers energy to low energy, which is the beginning of motion, and the source of the breaking of 'eternal stillness' and the birth of everything in the world.

And now, what Joshua is doing is similar to the deed of the Initial Fire illuminating the Void and creating the multiverse.

He lit his own 'fire', so that all the chaos around him was not dark and disorderly, but became organized.

In the central Black Forest, in the deepest part of the Fountain of Chaos, Joshua stood indifferently in the center of the bottomless chaos magic, and now, a silver flame burned in his palm, and this flame was constantly emitting a stream of materialized light, illuminating the darkness around him.

No, perhaps, it should not be said 'shine', but 'erosion'!

It can be seen that the flame in the center of Joshua's palm emits an incomparably bright light, and as soon as this light comes into contact with the magic of chaos, it will quickly dissolve into intangibility - but if you look closely, you will find that the essence of this light is actually an incomparably tiny aggregate of steel power! These aggregates emit light that is visible to the naked eye because of their high energy, which is the essence of optical flow.

These steel power aggregates, which can only be observed through nanoscale microscopes, are constantly eroding the surrounding chaotic magic, converting it into the energy they need, and then rapidly replicating themselves, this process is completely exponential, and soon, all the deep chaos magic around Joshua is actually gnawed away by these particles of steel that are constantly replicating and self-increasing, and completely disappearing!

If it were other beings who had been exposed to the power of chaos magic, they would definitely be stunned when they saw this scene—you know, in the past, only the truth that chaos magic eroded the matter of order, how could there be a statement that the power of order could in turn devour chaos?

But Joshua knew that there was nothing strange about this, since Chaos Nothingness could be transformed into Order, then Order must also be able to devour Void Chaos—otherwise, where did the first world come from? At that time, there were no naturally occurring steel crystals and void beasts that could give birth to the prototype of the world. The so-called erosion is just because the power of the Chaos Demon is too great, which has suppressed the order.

As long as you are strong enough, you don't have to worry about erosion.

In the silver cocoon, Joshua reconstructed his own thinking organs, he used the power of steel to construct a matrix of calculations in his body, control devices and storage facilities, he used the network of divine souls and tachyon particles as a medium for information transmission, input and output, this is a kind of thinking system that completely surpasses humans and supercomputers in the usual sense, and can provide incredible computing power.

Through this thinking system, Joshua can easily control a large number of nanometer or even atom-sized microscopic particles, and manipulate them to make different actions. With the ability to process down to the microscopic level, the warrior designed for himself a kind of self-replicating and multiplying steel particle clusters that were completely controlled by him, which was the magical version of the 'von Neumann machine'.

It can use the program designed for it by Joshua as a template for action, constantly absorbing the high-energy magic and matter around it, and then self-replicating, in the design, it can even be cast into a world completely infected by chaos magic, and then in the crazy self-replication, it will swallow all the chaos forces, transforming it into an ordinary, inanimate world...... If Joshua added normal matter to its self-replicating program, then even swallowing a world would only take a little more time.

The flame in Joshua's palm is actually the factory that makes the 'Steel Cluster', and the light is the trajectory and channel of the 'Steel Cluster'' action, the light shines through the darkness, which means that the surrounding chaotic magic is completely devoured, and everything is controlled by Joshua's hands, swallowed and eroded by his steel power! Occupied by complete order!

This is the weapon that Joshua meditated on and created against the world-class chaos, which completely belongs to his 'Light of Order'!

"The concentration of Chaos Mana has dropped significantly, and the overflow information flow of the Abundant Evil God has disappeared within the observable range, but the main body of the Chaos Fountain is intact, and the underlying structure is still covered."

An endless stream of information fed back from the cluster of steel into Joshua's thinking network, and in the next moment, he ordered in a deep voice in his spirit: "Lift the first restriction and continue to release the 'Light of Order'!" ”

Suddenly, at the bottom of the dark Chaos Spring, the silver light was flourishing, and the immeasurable chaos was boiling.

In the middle of the Black Forest, around the Fountain of Chaos, countless misty dark mists surged, eroding the surrounding space and everything, and here, the dirt and rocks, along with the Black Forest, were transformed into an extremely strange and strange substance, which was inert and barely reacted with any energy.

And high in the middle of the Black Forest, more than a dozen cracks opened in the space, and in each crack, a white-gold rattan emerged, and many bulging translucent crystals were exposed on the rattan, which was the observation organ of the legendary Warcraft Platinum Vine Mother, at this time, it was monitoring the every move of the Fountain of Chaos, and waiting for the arrival of other human legends.

The Northern Empire Human Legend, Joshua Van Radcliffe has entered the Fountain of Chaos alone, and has been told to other legendary powerhouses, and whether it is the Prison Sky Dragon who is controlling the riot monsters or the human legends who are still cleaning the Black Forest, they are not complaining about the recklessness of the warriors, they seem to have long been used to it, or think that this is normal, but even so, there are two legendary powerhouses who temporarily stopped the cleaning operation in their hands, but hurried over, ready to assist Joshua in suppressing the chaos magic.

And now, they have arrived, the platinum vine located in the south and east trembled, it sensed that two high-energy beings were flying from high in the sky at dozens of times the speed of sound, it was not the full strength of the other party, but considering that in order to avoid too much impact on the environment of the Microf world, it was already considered a hurry.

Soon, two streams of light fell from the sky and came to the middle of the Black Forest, where they could be seen as two women, one of whom had long green hair and elven ears, and the other had a crystal plate special hair, but he couldn't see his face clearly.

The two are none other than the natural mentor Garanord and the sage Fayna of the East China Sea, as legendary powerhouses, the two have known each other for a long time, after simply nodding to each other, they all looked at the rattans stretched out from the cracks in the space, feeling the gaze of the two legends, the platinum vine mother shook her limbs slightly, and said softly in a distorted voice: "The Flame Prison Lord has been in the Fountain of Chaos for a long time, although these chaos magic powers are thick, but they can't help him, but I am afraid that he will come into contact with the evil god's body and lose himself by the impact of the evil god's information flow." ”

Joshua is well known for several battles in Mycrof, namely the suppression of the Beast Tide, the smashing of the Northland Time Gate, the slaughter of the Northland White Dragon, the battle in the Blood Moon Abyss, the battle with the Church of the Seven Gods, and the Battle of the Dragonscourge in the Holy Mountain. In these battles, Joshua has shown great heat and pure destructive power, and the field after his battle is like hell, and according to intelligence, Joshua has the power to create the 'sun', and even his legendary real body is powered by a miniature sun as a power source.

Coupled with the daily joking title from the Lord's Mansion, the title of 'Flame Prison Lord' has gradually become the current synonym of Joshua, which can not only express the essence and majesty of Joshua's power, but also refer to him as the lord of the Moldavian Lord, and the warrior himself does not seem to exclude it.

"The power of the Flame Prison Lord, I believe in it."

In this regard, Faina nodded slightly, she returned from the Star Sea World, and even had a certain amount of communication with the Atrium Civilization, so she naturally knew the source of the other party's title of 'Flame Prison Lord', so she simply called it like this, the sage looked around at the surrounding environment, and couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "But the situation around here seems to have deteriorated compared to thirty years ago-isn't it true that you haven't restricted these chaotic forces recently?" ”

In this regard, Fujimu also appropriately expressed her helplessness: "Originally, here, I blocked it with the platinum ancient dragon, but in recent years, the year before yesterday, it has divided into countless splits, repeating the cycle of life, and before it returns, I can't support it." ”

It was indeed a helpless thing, and Fayna didn't say much, but just as she lowered her head, ready to take a closer look at the current situation of the Fountain of Chaos, and then consider how to help Joshua, the natural mentor on the other side sighed softly.

"Wait, something isn't right."

Galanord frowned—this time, she still came as a clone, but this clone contained forty-five percent of the power of the nature master's body, which was enough in most cases, but just now, Garanord felt an incomparably terrifying force that threatened the life safety of her clone: "There is a change within the Fountain of Chaos, we need to be prepared-"

Just as the nature mentor was about to remind Fayna and Fuji Mother to be careful, suddenly, in the originally deep darkness, like a bottomless abyss, a few scattered silver points of light suddenly lit up, and in the rolling chaotic darkness, as if something even more terrifying was expanding, as if it wanted to tear this layer of skin.

"It's!"

On the side, Faina, who had discussed each other's strength with Joshua at close range, narrowed her pupils, she had already sensed the essence of those silver points of light, the sage stood in the air, she held up a psionic shield, and then said in a serious voice: "This is Radcliffe's steel power!" ”

And in the next moment, with Faina's voice, a dazzling stream of light broke through the dark outer layer of the Fountain of Chaos and shot straight into the sky of the Central Black Forest!

Rumble - Suddenly, the black clouds rolled, and the thunder exploded one after another, and with the sound of thunder as an accompaniment, the Chaos Spring, which was originally like a lake, quietly surging on the ground, suddenly seemed to be like a fountain, and suddenly spewed out a black stream of chaos magic power, whether it was the Platinum Vine Mother, Garanord or Faina, they all quickly retreated and avoided, but this black chaos magic Liu had just flown halfway, and it was quickly 'transformed' into a shining silver brilliance from the inside out!

The silver light collapsed in mid-air, turning into a 'heavy rain' composed of fine crystals, this rain fell from the sky, falling on the earth that had been corroded by the magic of chaos for hundreds of years, and I don't know what material it had become, and suddenly, with a faint hissing sound, black smoke rose wildly, and the originally solid, black land immediately turned into a large area of white and yellow gravel, with silver-white light surging in the inner layer of the gravel, like pulsating blood vessels.

In just a few tens of seconds, almost sixty percent of the eroded land was purified by silver light, and two legendary powerhouses, a legendary demonic beast, watched this scene with wide eyes - and at this time, the originally dark spring of chaos had turned into a piece of silver amber that was beautiful, but it gave people an incomparably dangerous and terrifying feeling! It wasn't a lake, but condensed amber, and countless clusters of steel converged into a translucent solid structure, allowing the three legends to clearly see Joshua standing at the bottom of the original Fountain of Chaos.

And Joshua also saw them, the warrior raised his head, and nodded at the natural mentor and others who were located at a high altitude and could not even be seen by normal people from a distance of thousands of meters, and said hello, and after a moment, after an instant, when Joshua was sure that the chaotic environment around him had been almost purified, he raised the 'flame' in his right hand.

And with the movement of the warrior, all the pulsating, condensed steel clusters all turned into misty mist, and then gathered together, like a silver tornado of light, were sucked into the inconspicuous silver flame, and this recovery process only took a dozen seconds.

From beginning to end, it took less than a minute from the time the Fountain of Chaos appeared to the time when the silver light burst out and purified the surrounding environment. The source of chaos that had caused great distress to everyone in the McCrove world, but who didn't know how to do it, was easily swept away by Joshua, and all of this really happened in the eyes of the nature mentor, Fayna and the Platinum Vine Mother.

"This ......"

Faina, who originally thought she was calm and rational, resisted the urge to exclaim, she blinked her eyes and said in a low voice: "This is a specialization in the art industry?" The inheritor of the sage purifying chaos is so powerful? ”

But why didn't the Church of the Seven have such means?

"It's like a natural enemy."

On the other side, the nature tutor patted her chest, and she narrowed her eyes, trying to hold back her frightened thoughts as much as she could: "And, this light ...... It's alive! ”

Galanod was not wrong, Joshua's light of order, the cluster of steel he created, like the black fog created by the Sanctuary civilization, was the 'living force', the power that constituted his current incarnation, and the silver light was not only alive, but also a part of Joshua's mind and life today.

But Joshua, who was located in the depths of the original Chaos Spring, didn't care about the sky and the careful thinking of his friends, and the warriors at this time had already noticed that in the depths of the earth not far from him, there was a distorted chaotic circle of light that could not be observed with the naked eye.

Its radius is about forty meters, which is not very large compared to the area originally occupied by the Fountain of Chaos, and at the periphery of this aperture, there is a majestic dark chaotic aura that is deriving, and the surrounding land rocks that were originally purified with great difficulty are suddenly rapidly eroded, and the darkness at the bottom of the bottomless abyss is rapidly recovering.

Undoubtedly, that is where the last remnants of the Evil God of Abundance lie.

So Joshua didn't hesitate to step forward, approaching the spreading mass of chaotic magic, he ignored the advice and stop of the sky, Galanod and Faina and others, and strode to the front of the warped aperture.

Joshua raised his hand as if to touch the aperture, and on his hand, a silver light flowed.

He touched the aperture.