Chapter 1418: Real Vs Phantom Entanglements.

The force and energy behind the concept of skin, and the concepts of shape, form, and color, were the same, so removing it tampered with far more than he meant to. It was like how removing the concept of iron in the blood would change the color of blood and render it unable to carry oxygen.

"At least, it still has its phantom layer. So I hope I didn’t lose too much with that edit," he said, being optimistic.

With the Supreme Metac laid bare before him, he didn’t hesitate to throw himself into studying it. His goal was still to find the power of the Dao Source he’d borrowed when he made the Supreme Metac.

He was basically dissecting the Supreme Metac and examining it with the world’s most powerful observation tool. This was the only way he could solve the problem.

Black Loki couldn’t help because he couldn’t observe entanglement states the way he could in the spark of power. He, on the other hand, could, and he already knew the Supreme Metac inside and out, since it had fused with his mind, so he had the best chance of figuring out the exact source of power.

Technically, he already had the answer inside his head. He just didn’t know it yet, so this examination was more of an introspection to pinpoint what he was missing.

Whether he could identify the source of power and replicate it was up to fate, but it was possible. Making a new Supreme Metac with what he copied was not so easy.

His only hope of growing the 4-D prototype was to find a way to create new Supreme Metacs in the spark of power. Since he had already failed with two other options, this was his last chance.

Fortunately, he found what he was looking for. He saw that, aside from the initial entanglements, other entanglements had been added.

The Name Supreme Metac should be a Grand Dao with 15 units of commonalities, but he had upgraded it into a Cosmic Dao with 19 units.

Each unit of commonality should have 18 entanglements with the other commonalities, and the entire structure should have 171 channels because of the entanglements. But what he sensed was vastly more than that.

He sensed that the entanglement between commonalities was no longer one-on-one between two units at a time. So it was no longer one-to-two, one-to-three, one-to-four, and so on until one-to-nineteen.

The entanglement was now grouped with more than two units entangled at a time. So it was one to two to three to four to five to six...to nineteen, one to three to two to four to five to six...to nineteen, one to two to four to three to five to six, and so on and so forth. This was just three groups.

Each group entanglement had a different amount of commonality in it. Each group had between 2 and 19 units.

Another difference between the groups was their order of engagement. The groups with 19 units were the most because there were more ways to arrange 19 units than the rest combined.

If there had been four commonalities of A, B, C, D, they could form groups of AB, AC, ABC, ABCD, ACD, ABDC, AD, ACBD, ACDB, ADCB, and so on for a total of 32. As a result, there were 1.28 × 10^17, or 1.28 quintillion, different entanglement groups among the 19 units of commonality.

If a unit of commonality was a point, the previous state of entanglement was 18 lines drawn from that point and away from it, forming some kind of dandelion. Now the entanglement state resembled the root system of a tree.

Despite how extensive the entanglements had become, the number of channels was still the same. There were still 171 channels, and every unit of commonality was connected to the other 18 with one channel.

But because of the differences in the entanglement states, more information traveled, and more interactions happened through the channels than before. A channel that should be responsible for the interaction of 2 units of commonality was now responsible for interactions between two groups of up to 19 units.

As a result, the web of interaction had become more complex. After all, 1.28 quintillion different groups were now interacting in a mind-boggling manner.

Of course, the units of commonality themselves had changed. They had become more robust and now carried more instructions, which allowed them to possess more connections and interact in a more complex manner.

When he saw this, he said, "Wow. If I had this many entanglements, I too would transform from a skeleton into a phantom."

"What I created initially is shit compared to this. I can’t even believe that they are related in any way. One looks like the doodling of a child and the other looks like the masterpiece of a century."

To make sure that he had found what was responsible for the power of Supreme Metacs, he took out another Supreme Metac from the 4-D prototype to examine it.

He took the Molting Freedom Supreme Metac and stripped it apart. Then he combed through every commonality, examining their entanglements.

Like the Name Supreme Metac, he found the original 171 entanglement states, which he determined were Real Entanglements. He called them real because they were responsible for making the channels.

Then he found the Phantom Entanglements, which interacted through the 171 channels and didn’t create new channels. But while they were largely invisible, their existence meant the commonalities carried more information and vibrated more because their interaction rates increased.

The Phantom Entanglements were also responsible for the phantom structure of the incomplete Supreme Metac. So he thought the name was fitting.

The two Supreme Metacs were mostly similar in the number of Real Entanglements and Phantom Entanglements. But they differed in the kind of instructions, output of interactions, and rate of useful interactions.

The commonalities in the two Supreme Metacs carried different instructions, so even if they had the same kind of entanglements, the instructions they carried would interact differently and produce vastly different outcomes.