"I'm not exactly sure what kind of substance music is."

"This information comes from some cosmic consciousness."

"Cosmic consciousness includes former high-dimensional beings. After they die or are destroyed, their consciousness fragments float through the universe and can be captured by stars, allowing us to obtain related information. Most of our knowledge is acquired this way."

Golden Tree said so.

"Music is a crucial fulcrum in high-dimensional space."

"But this is all I know."

Time is four-dimensional, music is five-dimensional.

Zhou Yi had an uncontrollable thought arise.

It seems these high-dimensional entities have quietly integrated into various fields of this low-dimensional world. They seem so natural, making one feel as if it should always have been this way.

"Could the entire 11 dimensions be encompassing the Earth?"

"Of course."

Golden Tree answered confidently.

"High dimensions must fold their dimensions and get decomposed by the space here when entering low dimensions. In this world, they may seem unremarkable, but in their high-dimensional space, they might easily be entities that can destroy a star system."

"Why do they all have to enter low dimensions?"

Zhou Yi asked in confusion: "Is it for traveling? Or to obtain something they want from other forms of life?"

"Humans often integrate into the low-dimensional worlds they create too, this is something you should be able to understand."

"Us?"

"Stories, movies, games, comics, novels created by the old humanity are all lower-dimensional worlds you've created, aren't they? Yet you too are always immersed in them, unwilling to come out."

"..."

Indeed.

Zhou Yi was momentarily bewildered.

By this logic, humans have this tendency too.

"The high-dimensional world is extremely pressured and cruel, so they enter the low-dimensional world to obtain what they can't in their own world."

"I don't know about others, but this is indeed the case with time creatures."

"In four-dimensional space, time is everywhere, they exist like grains of sand in a desert, living precariously in space. They are nudged and moved by the universe's energy."

"Even the weakest among them are Transformers, but there, they are like a drop in the ocean, unable to control themselves, just drifting in the immense energy tides."

Zhou Yi immediately understood.

Just like humans. In human society, living, competing, and working are ubiquitous, with pressure and negative emotions continually accumulating.

So humans choose their own low-dimensional worlds, entering artificial entertainment worlds to relax and forget worries.

Time creatures are just another kind of higher-dimensional human.

But that being said.

Time Master seems rather different from traditional life forms.

Zhou Yi said: "Is Time Master equivalent to a societal collective consciousness made up of time creatures? Or a high-dimensional civilization made up of time creatures?"

"That is a possible understanding."

"Time Master is a life form with the scale of a star system, and the Solar System is just a part of its body."

"In fact, high and low dimensions can get along well because there's no conflict or contradictions. It's only among similar kinds that a potential resource competition relationship exists, which will erupt when resources are scarce and survival is difficult."

Zhou Yi agreed with the first part but disagreed with the latter half.

"Indeed, competition amongst similar kinds is inevitable due to the same ecological niche. But if this competition can be maintained within controllable limits, it serves as a motivation for the whole group."

"It seems you lean towards the optimistic faction."

"What do you mean?"

"In general, there's a different value perception within cosmic consciousness, where the optimistic faction believes that changing the world is hopeful, and that one should spare no effort even if only getting infinitely close to eternity."

"On the contrary, the pessimistic faction believes life is ultimately just a temporary existence, and nothing one does can escape the final chaos and extinction. Therefore, they choose to enjoy life, doing whatever makes them happy."

Golden Tree elaborated further.

"Two completely different cosmic views also give rise to entirely different outcomes and behaviors."

"You are a Fire Gatherer, and String Civilization belongs to the Fire Thief, precisely because of this internal difference."

Zhou Yi was bewildered: "Is String Civilization a pessimistic faction?"

Seeing that they dominate the Heavenly People and Seeders, and even hunt the Golden Tree, Sun, and even attempt to capture the Time Master, Zhou Yi thought it was an optimistic faction.

"The biggest feature of pessimistic factions is ignoring all existence outside of itself, acting solely for its own decisions. Their pessimism isn't about themselves, but towards the outside world."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

"Pessimistic factions consider the outside only as resources and enemies, while optimistic factions believe integrating into the outside is the way to go further. This is a fundamental difference."

"There is a large, unknown consciousness that says dimensions and life are inversely proportional. Both pessimistic and optimistic factions are its perceptions, let's call it the High-dimensional Nameless One."

"Conventional wisdom suggests that the higher the dimension, the higher the level of evolution, and the closer it is to the real universe."

"But the Nameless One, having wandered through many dimensions, found that the reality is quite the opposite, counter-intuitive and against instinct."

"Life's innate instinct is a continuous process of moving from low dimensions to high dimensions."

"But, paradoxically, the lower the dimension, the closer it is to the true universe."

"Simply put, one-dimensional is the true nature of the world, and two-dimensional, three-dimensional, four-dimensional, are derivative spaces born from it."

Zhou Yi was taken aback by this.

The concept of deriving multi-dimensional spaces was quite comprehensible.

After all, one-dimensional could be crudely visualized as a line, which makes up the planes of front and back, left and right, which is considered two-dimensional, then adding the direction of gravity up and down, commonly known as three-dimensional.