The universe will eventually die.
Stars will burn out, black holes will evaporate, time will lose all meaning, and entropy will erase every civilization.
To escape this end, the civilization of the previous universe encoded an evolutionary algorithm into a low-entropy information stream and scattered it across countless worlds.
On Earth, it is called spiritual energy.
In ancient texts, it is called the Dao.
To the immortals, it is ascension.
In the eyes of the gods, it is an elevation into the realm of laws.
In the hands of the sages, it is the selection of a civilizational template.
At the Dao-Origin level, it has its true name:
The Endgame Escape Algorithm.
But in Lin Guanlan's eyes, it is merely the universe's source code, still waiting to be deciphered.
He begins cultivating with no spiritual roots, journeys from Earth to the sea of stars, ascends into the Immortal Realm, and ultimately reaches the threshold of the Observer System.
The question he wants to ask is not “How does one become an immortal?” but:
If ascension is merely a copy, if immortality is only a backup, and if the universe is destined to die, does my first-person self still have any chance of reaching beyond the end?
You have to use some tactics to block a group without 100% evidence? According to what you said, it's not 100% proof that a person was killed with a knife? After all, he was still alive when he was stabbed, so he died of bleeding, not stabbing, right?