Chapter 92: Stop

There was no sound of heaven and earth collapsing, and no sound of collapse and wailing could be heard.

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

Only lonely and scattered singing echoed.

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

At that moment, even time seemed to stop abruptly.

Then, reversal, begin!

The infinite palms controlling the firmament and the earth, from this moment, gently pulled the guide wire in their hands, controlling all things again, everything seemed to be manipulated by invisible hands.

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

It was like a coherent image formed under the control of invisible hands after freezing again and again, making the outline of the small town rise again in the ruins of decay and collapse.

Everything that passed away returned again, everything that was destroyed woke up from the ashes.

Even time seemed to start retreating!

【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: 【So many years, she is actually still alive? Damn, this time it really is digging up a Tyrannosaurus Rex from a grave...】

Ji Jue couldn't speak anymore.

If it were someone else, perhaps they would be horrified 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 beyond all imagination behind this magnificent appearance.

It was like, a true god.

When the countless time records buried under the earth combined with the small town reshaped before his eyes, it was like opening the rift of time again.

Reproducing the door leading to four hundred years ago.

At both ends of time, the small town and the Rift Realm reflecting each other like mirrors, actually produced thousands of connections at this moment... gradually, building an invisible bridge!

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

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

Unreachable.

Above the firmament, 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 spent so much effort to build, dissipated without a trace.

Along with the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan, it collapsed and broke.

Only the pitch-black abyss remained.

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

Above the firmament, the behemoth formed by countless palms paused for a moment.

In the lonely singing, wailing appeared again.

Like crying and wailing.

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

Once again, from the ruins, reshape everything...

Once, and once again.

Just like the countless cycles attempted in the past, endless.

Never stop.

"This is mercury's creation theory, its name is 【First Cause】."

The prophet said: "Mercury combined Ember and Aether paths, based on causality, constructing a chain from the past to the future—Her power can make an absolute causal relationship appear in the past and future, and use this to trace back, reverse, 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 he already knew the answer.

Besides retrieving everything in the past, is there any other answer?

Besides taking back everything that passed away, is there anything worth a sage being so painful and crazy?

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

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

All things and phenomena in the world, whether 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 all and reaches everything.

Everything is fixed in the tapestry of Upper Good.

Precisely because of this, everything still has a chance to be saved, 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 preserve the soul before destruction, then everything still has room for maneuver."

For this, she spared no cost.

In the remaining time, she exhausted all her power, chasing the position of 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 through the Eternal Gate, return to that day.

But she failed.

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

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

It was precisely because of the collapse of the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan!

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

The 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 like the dragon representing the doomsday will eventually welcome the doomsday.

Even if she racked her brains and used all her time to search for the old time scattered in 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 if she spared no 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 cycle, the end welcomed is not the end.

But the beginning of eternal torture.

"Very crazy, right?"

The prophet sighed lightly, "Clearly there is still so much future 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 to let her spend a happy life, what is crazy about that?"

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

Whenever recalling each other's appearance again, all the costs paid become insignificant.

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

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

Ji Jue was silent, not answering.

In the brief silence, the prophet looked at him, sighing 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.

And no longer regretted it.

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

But inexplicably, she couldn't help but think: did the mercury of that year also make such a determination?

She closed her eyes, sighing silently.

Now, everyone is the same 'person'.

Boom!!!

When the phantom of the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan 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 again, correcting everything, reshaping everything.

Endless.

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

Until the wings were ignited from the change of time, until the limbs turned into ashes from 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 Tian Tian Yuan still existed, the stronger the curse she bore became.

Every time she reversed time, she would receive a backlash from Tian Tian Yuan 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 futile and hopeless torture, hoping for a future that would never arrive, wanting to return to the past that could never be touched.

After endless cycles, what kind of thing will you become, mercury?

When the soul and flesh burn out, and the ashes and embers are scattered into the cracks of time, is it completely returning 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, toward all this, toward the Rift Realm, giving the final instruction.

She said: 【Stop!】

At that moment, the singing cut off suddenly.

The sky, the earth, the creations, the ruins, and even mercury itself covering the entire firmament, everything stopped abruptly... the painful wailing burst out from above the firmament, ravaging everyone's eardrums.

From the workshop hub that rose from the ground, from the prophet's instruction, 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 firmament, replaced the phantom of the Tower of Tian Tian Yuan, stood between the firmament 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 cycle stop abruptly.

Stagnation. ===== CHAPTER 93 =====