Chapter 91: Stop

There was no earth-shattering sound, no collapse or wailing could be heard.

When that behemoth extended from the hub and unfolded its vast and magnificent body in the sky, the whole world seemed to fall into silence.

Only lonely and scattered singing echoed.

"Thinking of hometown, thinking of hometown, hometown is so cute... people of hometown, how are you now, always thinking of you, a lonely guest in another land, lonely and desolate..."

At that moment, even time seemed to stop abruptly.

Then, reversal, began!

The infinite palms controlling the sky and the earth, from this moment, gently pulled the lead wire in their hands, once again holding everything, everything seemed to be controlled by invisible hands.

Everything that was cracked was healed again, everything that collapsed was rebuilt.

It was as if after being frozen again and again, the continuous images formed under the control of invisible hands made the outline of the town rise again in the dilapidated and collapsed ruins.

Everything that had passed away returned, and everything that was destroyed awakened from the ashes.

Even time seemed to start moving backward!

【This is the creation theory of the sage... the entire Rift Realm is built on her creation theory.】

In the ghost-work ball, a numb voice came: 【It's been so many years, is she still alive? Damn, this time it's really digging up a T-Rex from a grave...】

Ji Jue could no longer speak.

If it were someone else, perhaps they would be shocked by the magnificence and incredibility of the scene at this moment, but as a user of fluid alchemy and Non-Aggression, he could deeply feel everything happening inside the Rift Realm at this moment, and even the operation and attainments behind this magnificent appearance that surpassed all imagination.

It was as if, like a true god!

When the countless time records buried under the earth and the town reshaped before his eyes combined, it was as if the rift of time had been opened again.

Reproducing the door leading to four hundred years ago.

At both ends of time, the town and the Rift Realm reflecting each other like mirror images actually produced thousands of connections... gradually, an invisible bridge was built!

But now, the door appeared, but it was still sealed.

Even if it looked close at hand, the distance was like heaven and abyss.

Unreachable.

Above the sky, that towering and magnificent tower stood, isolating the past and the future, standing in front of the door.

When the miserable rift appeared on the high tower, the reflection formed by time on both sides, the bridge that mercury had painstakingly built, dissipated without a trace.

Along with the Tower of Tianyuan, it collapsed and broke.

Only the pitch-black abyss remained.

Everything that was reborn turned into ruins again, everything that was rebuilt fell to the ground again, leaving only wreckage... just like everything that happened at the other end of the distant time.

Above the sky, the behemoth formed by countless palms paused for an instant.

In the lonely singing, wailing appeared again.

Like crying and wailing.

Blood-colored tears fell like a rainstorm, broken wreckage fell, turned into twisted monsters, and turned around to join the magnificent and lonely singing again.

Once again, rebuilding everything from the ruins...

Once, and again.

Just like the countless reincarnations tried in the past, endless.

Never stop.

"This is mercury's creation theory, its name is [First Cause]."

The prophet said: "Mercury combined the Ember and Aether paths, based on causality, building a chain from the past to the future—His power can make absolute causal relationships appear in the past and future, and use this to trace back, reverse time, to constitute this 'recursive' scene."

"What exactly does she want to do?"

In the long silence, Ji Jue looked at the world of life and death before his eyes, whispering softly.

But that answer, he already knew well.

Besides retrieving everything in the past, are there any other answers?

Besides taking back everything that was lost, is there anything else worth a sage being so painful and crazy?

Some say that the Supreme Good is history and the world itself.

They are born from the origin, extending to the end of the doomsday, welcoming the end.

Everything in the world, whether it is order or chaos, life or death, war, peace, the change of regimes and the change of mountains and rivers, everything will be woven into a complex tapestry that covers everything and reaches everything.

Everything is fixed in the tapestry of the Supreme Good.

Precisely because of this, everything still has a chance to be retrieved, as long as one can return to that day, as long as one can catch up with that wedding that can never be reached...

"Before the age of chaos, there was a saying: before the box is opened, no one knows whether the cat inside is dead or alive."

The prophet said slowly: "Perhaps, in history, the destruction of everything is already doomed. But before everything is destroyed, there is still a chance to remain.

As long as she can save the soul before destruction, then everything still has room for maneuver."

For this, she spared no cost.

In the remaining time, she poured all her power, chasing the position of the sage, weaving her creation theory into this appearance.

Hoping that one day, she could rely on the simulation of tools, infinitely approach the past time, and then pass through the Gate of Eternity, returning to that day.

But she failed.

No matter how many times she tried, no matter how huge the price paid.

It was not because of insufficient ability, nor because of calculation errors.

It was precisely because of the collapse of the Tower of Tianyuan!

The tapestry woven by the Supreme Good was destroyed by her own hands, and she could no longer trace back along the trajectory.

Terrifying chaos and destruction cut a deep valley that could not be crossed in history and time, a scar that could not be healed. It also separated her and everything she loved at both ends.

Thus, everything could no longer be reversed.

She became because of this.

Everything is doomed.

If the sage of Ember is formed by destiny, then this is the forging of destiny she received.

She cannot reverse her origin, even if she is the sage representing the origin, just as the dragon representing the end will eventually welcome the end.

Even if she racked her brains, used all her time to search for the scattered old time of the past, she still couldn't make up for the vacancy, no matter how small the error was, after countless repetitions, it would turn into a distant phantom completely different from reality.

Even at any cost.

Even if she created hell with her own hands, imprisoning herself in it...

Exhausting changes, repeating again and again but gaining nothing, in the desperate reincarnation, the end welcomed is not the end.

But the beginning of eternal torture.

"Crazy, right?"

The prophet sighed, "There are still so many futures waiting to be developed, but humans would actually waste a lifetime on things like 'returning to the past'."

"...I don't think so."

Ji Jue shook his head: "As a mother, wanting to see her child again, wanting her to live a happy life, what is crazy about that?"

Even if it is thousands of deaths, even if it is sacrificing everything.

Whenever she remembers each other's appearance again, all the prices paid become insignificant.

"If it were me, I would probably do the same." He said softly.

The prophet asked: "Even if it means creating hell?"

Ji Jue was silent, not answering.

In the brief silence, the prophet looked at him and sighed inexplicably:

"...You really are exactly the same as her."

If she had known this, she might have been more cautious when choosing a collaborator, but now, she didn't care about these minor details.

Nor did she regret it anymore.

Since awakening self and consciousness, she had done too many things she would regret... only this time, she would rather regret it than face failure.

But inexplicably, she couldn't help but think: did the mercury of that year also make up her mind like this?

She closed her eyes and sighed silently.

Now, everyone is the same 'person'.

BOOM!!!

When the phantom of the Tower of Tianyuan collapsed again, everything in the Rift Realm turned into ruins again. In the rain of blood and tears, the lonely singing continued, and palms stretched out persistently, correcting everything, rebuilding everything.

Endless.

The sage sang lonely in the tears, once, and again.

Until the wings were ignited in the changes of time, until the limbs turned into ashes in the burning, still refusing to stop!

Not hesitating to use herself as a sacrifice.

Vainly stretching out her hand, wanting to touch that cheek from four hundred years ago.

But everything was doomed.

The closer she got to the time when the Tower of Tianyuan still existed, the stronger the curse she bore became.

Every time she reversed time, she would receive a backlash from Tianyuan again. When reason and soul were constantly worn away, what remained was only obsession.

Just like throwing her corpse into the abyss again and again, hoping that one day, she could step on her own bones and reach the other side.

In the vain and hopeless torture, hoping for a future that would never arrive, wanting to return to the past that could never be touched.

In the endless reincarnation, what will you become in the end, mercury?

When soul and flesh burn out, and ashes and embers are scattered into the cracks of time, is it a complete return to nothingness? Or, as a true evil thing, born from the embers of pain and despair?

Before that, everything should be over...

"Stop, mercury."

The prophet opened her eyes, towards all this, towards the Rift Realm, and gave the final order.

She said: 【Stop!】

At that moment, the singing stopped abruptly.

Sky, earth, creations, ruins, and even mercury itself that shrouded the entire sky, everything stopped abruptly... the miserable wailing erupted from above the sky, ravaging everyone's eardrums.

From the workshop hub that rose from the ground, from the prophet's order, it changed again, just like it had done countless times in four hundred years...

The high tower like a blade rose from the ground, ascended to the sky, replaced the phantom of the Tower of Tianyuan, stood between the sky and the earth, and completely pierced mercury's unrecognizable body!

Once again, imprisoning the sage in a cage called a workshop!

Making everything in the endless reincarnation stop abruptly.

Stagnation.