Universal Civilizations

**SPOILER ALERT!**
***The text below spoilers the entire ending of the Novel***

In Version 1, there were three universal powers that were upholding a peace that had lasted for ten thousand years, since the era of exploration. They were the Federation of Light, the Crimson Dynasty, and the Arcane Church. The Silver Revolutionary Army had yet to be formed, the one responsible for the Supernatural Disaster was still fighting for dear life on some desolate planet, the World of Light had not come into existence, the World Tree Civilization had not yet invaded from the beyond, and the Shattered Star Ring that contained Planet Aquamarine was still budding inconspicuously along the fringes of the explored universe.

## History

The Celestial Star Alliance was located in the fifth last paragraph, and it was the Iteration just before the **three Universal Civilizations**. The fourth last section was the new Iteration after the Great Reboot, and the **three Universal Civilizations** were the final civilizations developed by the new Iteration. During that period, there was no such thing as the World Tree. The **three Universal Civilizations** slowly multiplied, and they finally discovered the Sanctum and learned all the information about Iteration.

Because the previous Celestial Star Alliance’s plan was very desirable, the **three Universal Civilizations** inherited it and improved it, forming the ‘Information Form stripping plan’.

However, the **three Universal Civilizations** at that time knew very well that with their accumulation, they did not have the absolute confidence to survive the Great Reboot and did not want to risk it all. Therefore, the true goal of this plan was not to completely overcome the Great Reboot but to buy more time for themselves. They wanted to strip away the Information Form state of the entire universe and try to imitate the operation of the Celestial Star Alliance. They wanted to exist in the secondary dimensions and the dark side of the universe in the New Iteration era and continuously reboot.

However, the difference was that the **three Universal Civilizations** followed the mindset of the Celestial Star Alliance and made almost perfect improvements. Thus, they successfully peeled out the ‘Information Form state’ of the entire Iteration and formed a closed dark side universe in the next Iteration. It existed based on the Information Form state and was like a ‘virtual’ world, ‘developing side by side’ at a faster time flow. It was like a parallel line, difficult to intersect with the ‘real’ Iteration’s main universe and difficult to interfere with each other.

However, the cycle of the dark side universe was not the same as the Celestial Star Alliance. Instead, it formed a ‘small reboot’ pattern. The **three Universal Civilizations** of the Second Iteration used the characteristics of the Sanctum to add new patterns every time the universe was rebooted, allowing the dark side universe to be included in the influence of the Sanctum.

What was different from the ‘Great Reboot’ was that every ‘small reboot’ in the dark universe did not return to zero but was formed based on a fixed Information Form state template, which meant that there would definitely be organizations like the **three Universal Civilizations**. Before the **three Universal Civilizations** came into contact with the Sanctum, their development trajectories were the same. Han Xiao called this situation ‘dark side Iteration’.

Therefore, every time the dark side universe went through a small reboot, there would be an improved version of the dark side Iteration. It was just that there was a chance for ‘Information Form Mutation’ to occur. The **three Universal Civilizations** used this method to buy themselves more time, and they obtained more opportunities to test their luck.

**However, this plan could not bring about eternity.** After some calculations, **there was an upper limit** to the information form stripping plan. **Their dark side universe would only exist in the third iteration at most. If they were to go through the Great Reboot and enter the fourth iteration, then their dark side universe would disappear… unless they could enter the real iteration main universe from the dark side universe and turn from ‘virtual’ to ‘real’**.

Therefore, after the **three Universal Civilizations** successfully entered the dark side universe, their goal was to break the seal of the dark side universe and return to the real main universe of the third Iteration.

Since the Sanctum was not affected by the Iterations, the **three Universal Civilizations** used the message board of the Sanctum to record the experience of each trial and error. They made ‘themselves’ of the next dark side Iteration improve the path according to the previous experience, as well as create some key devices to improve the situation of the next dark side Iteration. This was the origin of the World Tree.

The **three Universal Civilizations** had added an Information Form Materialization device when they were in the second dark side Iteration (second last message), but in the third dark side Iteration, an information form mutation occurred. From a mechanical device, it turned into the World Tree with life force and went berserk… This was what Han Xiao experienced when he was a player in his previous life.

In the end, the **three Universal Civilizations** of the third dark side Iteration still opened the Sanctum and understood everything. Thus, they left behind the control terminal of the Information Form Materialization device. In the current fourth dark side Iteration, the Information Form mutation occurred and inherited the nature of restraint. But there was a change in its manifestation which became the World Tree’s natural enemy, which was also the Pivotal Snake.

On the other hand, in the second dark side Iteration, the **three Universal Civilizations** had used the Information Form Materialization device that had yet to mutate and failed in the end. They had discovered that the reason was that there was a bridge that lacked the ‘True State’. Han Xiao had also figured out the concept of the ‘True State’, which was actually the Information Form carrier that existed in the true universe.

In other words, the dark side universe had to form an Information Form connection with the true universe. Only by being able to interfere with each other would the Information Form Materialization device work. Therefore, the **three Universal Civilizations** of the second dark side Iteration launched a plan, trying to change the underlying laws of the next dark side Iteration, causing the two ‘parallel lines’ of the dark side universe and the true universe to deviate and finally intersect.

In the end, when the third dark side Iteration arrived, the underlying laws of the dark side universe changed, and they successfully projected themselves into ‘reality’. They successfully obtained a part of the Information Form carrier of the true universe, which was the existence of ‘**Players**’. Through ‘log in’, these individuals who lived in the true universe turned their ‘True State’ into ‘information form state’ and were pulled into the dark side universe to form the Information Form interface. This was everything that Han Xiao and countless players had experienced in his previous life.

However, the World Tree went berserk in the third dark side Iteration. After the World Tree War in his previous life, the **three Universal Civilizations** obtained the Sanctum pathway from the Holy Accord Organization and learned everything. They inherited the heritage of countless civilizations, and their technology improved by leaps and bounds. At a level that the players could not come into contact with, the **three Universal Civilizations** came up with a new plan. They gathered the power of civilizations and built the ‘control terminal’ of the World Tree. At the same time, they lowered the cost of the World Tree going berserk in the fourth dark side Iteration. Other than that, due to the players’ version updates, the **three Universal Civilizations** of the third dark side Iteration felt that the True State’ bridge was not stable enough, so they decided to spend a lot of resources strengthening the ‘True State’ connection with the next dark side Iteration.

Because the dark side universe and the true universe had already formed a preliminary Information Form interference, the **three Universal Civilizations** decided to build a stable interference bridge instead of intermittent bridge-like logins. The only targets they could choose were these individual Information Form records that had already been logged into the dark side universe, so they randomly selected a target to enter the dark side universe completely, forming a stable connection.

As long as this idea was correct, the dark side universe would be able to reverse-transform the ‘Information Form state’ to the ‘True State’ through this interference bridge, break free from the seal, and return to the true universe… In a more understandable way, **it would be like installing a carrier bag for the so-called ‘reality’, which contained the entire dark side universe and the entire Galaxy World**.

After knowing all of this, he had a rough guess about what happened after that. He suspected that the reason why he had ‘transmigrated’ was actually because he had been randomly selected as the ‘stable interference bridge’ that strengthened the Information Form entanglement between the dark side universe and the true universe.

His own Information Form state had been completely captured, and he had come to this dark universe from the ‘reality’. Therefore, his ‘real’ self had disappeared, and he no longer had any information about himself. He had never seen his other self, who should be a ‘player’, all these years. Han Xiao suspected that this was the reason.

As for the dark side universe of the fourth dark side Iteration, it caused the time of the true universe to regress by ten years. Han Xiao did not know the reason, but he guessed that it was because the third dark side Iteration had more Information Form interference with the true universe when it was ‘capturing’ him, which affected the other party’s time. However, he did not know if this was a reversal of time across the entire universe or only across a small area. However, from another point of view, this was also proof that the dark side universe used the ‘True State’ to create Information Form entanglements that could already cause a substantial change to the true universe.