Chapter 1508

"Wuming Titan?" Black Swan froze for a moment.

"You will see with your own eyes how important the role of 'Memory' plays in this world... and how we will unleash the tide of 'Oblivion' to crush the ambition of a star god♭"

"So, you've been hiding here all along?"

"Exactly. Curious how I found out?" Night Moon said calmly, "Not that complicated. The path just now was precisely the starting point of San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue's 'Opherus Journey'."

"Starting point?"

"Do you remember? The threefold fate entwined Opherus, and three beings on par with 'Envoy' left traces in this world."

Black Swan pondered slightly: "'Zandal', 'Tumu', and..."

"Yes, the answer belonging to 'Memory' has still not surfaced to this day. The Liuguang Yiting also sought the answer. Thus, the Memory Thief spent a long time chiseling a narrow passage, attempting to peek into this world." Night Moon shifted tone, "But within the Memory Field, a force has always kept them at bay. When San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue's spirit was seized, a ripple of 'Memory' protected her, bringing her here."

"Can it be understood that this hypothetical 'Memory' Envoy has been resisting this world's intrusion by the Memory Court—until the Astral Express arrives?"

Night Moon nodded satisfactorily: "Not bad, very sharp."

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Shinigami.

"Wait, something doesn't seem right? Is this 'Memory' Envoy waiting for the arrival of the Astral Express?"

Yoruichi pondered with her head down for a long time, finally realizing exactly what was wrong—

"How did that Envoy know the Astral Express could solve the Opherus problem? Is he an old acquaintance of the Astral Express? Does he know the strength of the Soul Society?"

Unreasonable.

Simply too unreasonable!

Urahara Kisuke sat on the sofa, gently swaying the paper fan in his hand, "Yoruichi-san, what you need to note is that resisting the Memory Court's surveillance isn't a matter of one or two days—it's been ongoing since long ago. In other words, it's possible that even before Mikhail, Tiern, and those old-generation unnamed guests joined the Train... even earlier, that 'Memory' Envoy had already been waiting for them."

"Earlier... how early would that have to be?"

The more Yoruichi spoke, the colder her back felt, a drop of cold sweat sliding down her cheek.

"You shall bear the Arrogant Sun until the hoary dawn becomes evident."

Urahara Kisuke slapped the paper fan onto his palm with a "pa", slightly narrowing his eyes, "Looking back now, the person who once gave that individual a divine revelation in the White Mire Dream is very likely that 'Memory' Envoy. He foretold the arrival of the Astral Express to Opherus over thirty million cycles ago, and from that time onward, he has been resisting the Memory Court's surveillance."

"This is practically foreknowledge of the future?! The divine revelation of the Fire Pursuit Journey can still be called 'program' guidance, but that Envoy is simply too outrageous!"

"If it's foreknowledge, then Ailiou, the Star Core Hunter, could also do it. I fear there must be countless threads connecting that Memory Envoy and Ailiou." Urahara Kisuke said, "But as things stand now, this Memory Envoy is not only alive, but thriving. It's just unknown why he has hidden himself until now, refusing to show himself."

"It is he who relinquished part of his power, allowing the Memory Court and Black Swan to peer into Opherus, and protected San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue when she was seized. Then, by the hand of the Astral Express, he broke Opherus's endless cycle... behind every coincidence in Opherus lies the arrangement of that 'Memory' Envoy."

—

"But, why?" Black Swan still didn't quite understand.

"Go see for yourself, bird. Everything is in memory." Night Moon waved her hand, and before the two of them appeared the figure of San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue—this was her state when she first arrived in Opherus.

"This door... truly... magnificent?" San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue covered her mouth in astonishment.

Black Swan examined her closely: "This is, San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue's memory."

San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue placed her hand on the door, gathered her strength, and pushed forward, but no matter how hard she tried, the door showed no sign of opening.

"Not a budge. How come I get turned away at the door as soon as I arrive... a thousand-mile journey, halted at the gate? Too miserable!"

Black Swan wondered: "Is she trapped?"

Night Moon: "Keep watching, interesting things are about to happen."

Suddenly, an electronic sound came from midair:

"Scepter δ-me13: '>>> Warning: Object lacks access permission.'"

San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue was startled into a jolt, nearly jumping on the spot, then hurriedly looked around: "What's going on, what did I touch?"

">>> Executing formatting protocol λ003-097: Formatting object ██████"

San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue instinctively raised her hands in front of her: "This, this is what? Formatting?!"

"██ Warning! Illegal operation detected ██████"

"████████████"

"Hey, stop activating yourself! How do I shut this thing down—"

">>> Warning, warning, warning warning warning—"

The electronic sound continued for a while, then suddenly became choppy; after the warning broke off, the electronic sound fell into an eerie silence, and then—

">>> Operation authorized, protocol name: 【█████】"

">>> ██████ come back █████ star █████"

Faintly, a familiar name seemed to echo, Black Swan furrowed her brow slightly: "Huh?"

San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue weakly exhaled: "Finally stopped... wait a moment, you just mentioned, did you refer to the star?"

—

Absolute Zero.

"Brother, strange things keep increasing."

Ling stared at the motionless door before San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue, feeling that the truth of Opherus was beginning to develop in a suspicious direction.

"Clearly San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue arrived at Opherus earlier than Star and Dan Heng, so why would the system shout out Star's name? According to Opherus's timeline, San Yue Qi Yue Yue Yue Yue Yue hasn't even left the Great Tomb, Tibao hasn't become a demigod, and Star's arrival is still a thousand years away!"

Ling paused, then continued: "The current Opherus gives me a very strange feeling, like a book... someone has already read to the end, then started flipping to the first page and secretly marking it."

"Hmm, I have a similar feeling too—the prophecy given to Bai E in the dream spanned thirty million ages, but if the 'Memory' Envoy possesses foreknowledge, that's understandable; however, could this system also have it?" Zhe scratched his head, equally bewildered.

"No way! Little Zhe!"

Nom shook his head, causing the BomB in his hat to sway as well: "Based on Nom's experience, it's obvious this system is being remotely operated by someone!"