Chapter 22: Search

After that, the Island ugly kept searching for the place his master was looking for while his master spent his time with Bella.

Virus passed most of his time by eating different kinds of tasty food and wine, as he had become quite fond of various types of tastes as it was a novel experience to him.

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A MONTH LATER

Just like that, a month passed by. However, since the planet was too enormous, they were still unsuccessful in finding the place Virus was looking for. Though they had discovered a variety of similar caves under the ocean, none was what Virus was after.

Currently, Virus was pondering to himself with a rueful smile, 'It's taking a lot more than I thought.'

'Ella must have missed me, right?' he wondered before continuing, 'Maybe I should go back and let the Island ugly look for it and let me know when he finds it.' After having some thoughts of going back, shaking his head, he suppressed that notion in his head.

It was at this moment when the island ugly suddenly called upon Virus, "Master I seem to have found another place… it might be the place you're searching for, as according to the scan, there seems to be something very similar to a scroll inside."

Hearing this, Virus' eyes shone brilliantly as he stood up jubilantly. He was truly excited at the thought of finding it.

"Bring me close to it and give me the suit device… I'll go there alone, you and Bella remain here" Virus ordered.

"Yes, master." Both of them replied at the same time.

Then the ugly brought Virus the underwater suit device with which he would be able to breathe underwater and move at whatever speed he desired.

Putting on the suit device which was in the form of a wristwatch, Virus went to the back of the spaceship which now had dived into the very bottom of the ocean itself.

Before going out though, a little worried, Bella uttered, "Master... please be careful."

"Don't worry Lil beauty, I will." He replied in response as he pressed a button on the wristwatch-like suit device as a suit started appearing on him automatically.

Hearing the response, a smiling Bella queried in a joking tone, "why are you still calling me little beauty?"

"Because I like calling you both Bella and Lil beauty, they both suit you well, I'll come back soon." As Virus said this, the bottom of the spaceship opened up as Virus dived into the pressurized water of the ocean. Strangely though, no water could enter inside the spaceship.

After Virus dived inside the water, he didn't even need to struggle to swim as he was able to move like he was flying in the sky itself. So, a minute after starting to advance towards the direction of the cave, he finally arrived at his destination as he impelled himself to move under a mountain-like huge rock where he entered a place with no water in it.

Going inside, Virus pressed a button again as the suit vanished, then he began searching the place when he found the ancient scroll he was looking for. However, astonishingly, right now, the scroll wasn't that ancient.

After spotting the scroll, sighing in relief inside, he thought 'So it's already here… fortunately, I'm in luck.'

Seeing the Scroll he started thinking about his past world, remembering a certain chain of events which had taken place there in his past, the future.

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By using the Cultivation Techniques of the Cultivation Multiverse, people of Virus' past world couldn't cultivate at first as they realized the force and energy used to cultivate didn't seem to exist in their universe, a specific energy or force that the cultivators of the invaded multiverse called Qi.

And then, mankind was on the verge of being disappointed by this fact, when, after much experiments and comparison were made, someone discovered a shocking truth!

This person began her work by believing that a certain type of energy needed to exist in their universe too and that a world without any kind of energy was most likely implausible to exist! She knew that she just needed to understand Qi and its characteristics in order to pinpoint the needed energy with similar traits in their own universe.

So with this, after years of struggle, she finally succeeded in developing a new method and inventing a device to study the so-called Qi of the Cultivation Multiverse, and through the result of this study she realized the stunning truth that Qi was in fact very similar to an energy that had already existed everywhere in their own universe since the very beginning… Dark Energy!

The answer had always been right in front of them! However, the notion of using this ancient and abandoned basic-knowledge energy in that way never seemed to be a possibility at all considering the characteristics it had!

As a result of that study, mankind was able to discover that this energy was a kind of force/energy which was almost the same as Qi but clearly different as it had a little more purity and some other fundamental dissimilarities between them. But it was basically the same like how the word 'fire' was pronounced and written differently in two different languages... though they essentially meant the same.

Anyway, since she had refound this energy/force after seeing Qi, mankind began one of its biggest studies of deliberation, experimentation, and comparison while making adjustments to the Qi gathering treasures and [Cultivation Techniques] of the cultivation world, changing it in brilliant ways through the use of other technological devices, minds, and AIs.

At last, as expected, their efforts and struggle bore fruit as mankind ultimately found a simple adjustment method through which they were able to modify the Cultivation Techniques in a way so that instead of Qi, it would gather and function through… God Force!

What was 'God Force'?

Actually, since a certain woman was able to make this groundbreaking rediscovery which was assured to change the entire course of the whole universe forever from that point onwards, she was given the right to bestow an additional name to the so-called 'Dark Energy'.

And that was when 'Dark Energy' was given an additional name called the "God Force"! With the reason behind this naming being the resolute belief of this energy leading mankind toward their long lost dream of achieving 'Godhood'!

Anyway, after the adjustments of the Cultivation Techniques began, humanity converted all of them according to the "God Force", so they would be able to cultivate by using those Cultivation Techniques but this time with "God Force" as the fuel.

But far before this, when all of the Cultivation Techniques and the information of the other Multiverse of Cultivation were collected and brought back to Earth, before most of them weren't read and researched by others, when they had at first just uploaded everything together to the [Main AI]'s database, What no one realized and figured, not even the [Main AI], was that the [Virus] had accessed all of the data regarding those Cultivation Techniques and other information 0.9 seconds faster than the [Main AI], and at that short period of time 'it' had found only one thing which piqued its interest, and that thing's description greatly shocked [Virus] as it excited 'it' to no ends. Then, after seeing every information related to it, without a moment of hesitation, 'it' deleted everything that was related to it entirely.

After seeing the information regarding the exact location of the ancient scroll, [Virus] figured it has been found inside a cave under the ocean of an ancient ruined lifeless planet which seemed to have been destructed for an innumerable number of years.

After that, [Virus] promptly sent the person who found the ancient scroll together with all of his companions at that specific time to their afterlife through his own special means as they were silenced. Although after finding the scroll, they hadn't even read it at all as they had just tossed it to the pile of Cultivation Techniques like total garbage. Moreover, [Virus] also destroyed the ancient scroll in which the information was written.