Chapter 463: The Original Battlefield Was Real

The battlefield scene before him vanished.

The two supreme combatants touching time had influenced past and present; Kamikawa Mitsu could no longer see the past through this place.

Yet he did not care about any of this—he stood frozen there.

To an outsider, it might seem Kamikawa Mitsu had been petrified, turned into a stone statue, utterly motionless.

He was stunned by the words spoken by the latter, barely believing what he had heard, thinking it an illusion—but he knew it was not an illusion.

After a long silence, Kamikawa Mitsu finally came to his senses, yet his shock remained undiminished.

He had considered whether he had fallen into an illusion or illusion array, given that this place was saturated with deathly yin energy capable of corroding the minds of gods and demons.

He quickly dismissed the thought.

If deathly yin energy had corroded his mind and caused hallucinations, those hallucinations should have driven him to demonic corruption, downfall, or madness.

Deathly yin energy corrupts gods and demons only into demonic affliction; there has never been a record of it merely causing surprise.

Kamikawa Mitsu had heard that phrase clearly—it mentioned “the Original Battlefield”!

One coincidence was coincidence; two coincidences were still coincidence.

But what about the third? Kamikawa Mitsu understood the principle: things do not happen thrice by chance.

Most crucially, this third coincidence was not vague. The first two appearances of figures identical in appearance to the fictional characters Cangjie and the Ancient God were merely appearances—he had never learned their true names, so he could only treat them as coincidence, not confirmation.

Similarly, the severing of the River of Time only proved the existence of beings transcending time—beings capable of interfering with the River of Time—but it did not prove that the River of Time had been severed by the future side, as Kamikawa Mitsu had imagined.

It could still be coincidence.

The third was different—it mentioned “the Original Battlefield,” a place imagined by Kamikawa Mitsu himself.

The Original Battlefield was a fictional place he had invented; it did not exist. Even if the name might coincidentally match another,

the Original Battlefield was not merely a name—it was the battlefield where gods and demons had fought, where the Immortals, the Supreme, and the Ultimate had all clashed.

The one who spoke of the Original Battlefield was a Supreme—and he had said he regretted not killing his opponent in the Original Battlefield. Clearly, the Original Battlefield he referred to was a place where the Supreme himself had fought.

A place where even a Supreme had fought—and called the Original Battlefield.

Such a coincidence was absurdly improbable.

“It became real. My invented Original Battlefield became real.”

As Kamikawa Mitsu spoke, he suddenly realized something and gasped:

“No—it’s not that the Original Battlefield became real. It’s that everything I invented has become real.”

The third coincidence confirmed that his invented Original Battlefield truly existed. If his invented Original Battlefield had become real, then what of the first two coincidences he had dismissed as mere chance? Perhaps they were real too!

Know that these three "coincidences" are all interconnected.

The fictional character Cangjie bore an identical appearance to a past Supreme, and that Supreme’s descendant participated in a cataclysmic war spanning countless worlds.

The severing of the River of Time was spoken by a Supreme during a cataclysmic war spanning countless worlds.

The Original Battlefield was mentioned by a Supreme who was involved in a cataclysmic war spanning countless worlds.

All three were tied to the same cataclysmic war.

Kamikawa Mitsu could not help but think: if his invented Original Battlefield had become real, and the severing of the River of Time had become real, and the fictional characters had become real—were all these merely parts of the initial script he had created?

Could this cataclysmic war be none other than the war between past and future that he himself had invented?

Previously, he had considered that something must have drawn the Immortals and Supremes of countless worlds into this war.

At first, he thought it was the secret to achieving Supreme or Ultimate status—but the phrase “cannot retreat” had made him reject that idea.

Now, reconsidering it,

what if the reason was the war between past and future?

That reason alone would be sufficient to draw every Immortal and Supreme of countless worlds into battle.

As for the meaning of the phrase “cannot retreat,”

Kamikawa Mitsu felt it might be… connected to Him!

No one understood better than he did the reason behind the war between past and future.

It was Him!

He and another game-player had created the war between past and future, using all living beings as pawns and the entire span of time as the game board.

As for why He had chosen to play this game with the other game-player,

Kamikawa Mitsu did not know.

Because he had never considered it deeply—within his scripted narrative, such a being as Him, and the other game-player, who caused all living beings to tremble in dread, were not meant to be known.

The Initial Realm had always been his fabricated lie.

Facing a lie, he naturally could not let all living beings discover it was a lie.

The only way to prevent living beings from investigating—or even realizing it was a lie—was mystery and the unknown.

Whether human or divine, the unknown power is always the most awe-inspiring and the most terrifying.

Fear keeps gods, demons, spirits, and buddhas from touching it—so even if living beings were curious, they dared not probe too deeply, fearing entanglement, and instead only sought strength, strength enough to earn the right to glimpse this secret.

Thus, Kamikawa Mitsu devised a realm that was nearly impossible to attain.

The Ultimate, transcending time, moving freely between past, present, and future—yet even such beings were treated as pawns. Thus, for living beings to gain the right to glimpse the secret, they could not reach the Ultimate, but must at least reach the Supreme.

And the Supreme, too, was elusive and intangible.

In essence, the “lie” Kamikawa Mitsu had designed was nearly impossible to uncover.

That was why he had never considered who He and the other game-player were, or why they played.

These were secrets beyond the reach of all living beings.

If he had designed the identities of He and the other game-player, and designed the reason for their game, and then built subsequent scripts based on that reason, someone would inevitably trace the clues across the scripts and uncover their identities and motives.

At that point, living beings would lose their fear of the “lie.”

Then, perhaps even the truth—that the Initial Realm was false—would be discovered, for any design inevitably has flaws.

Once the ending was set, people would look back and examine each script event—and inevitably find the flaws.

After all… there is no wall that does not leak.

After all… there is no perfect thing in this world; all things have flaws.

Recalling all this, Kamikawa Mitsu felt a chill run down his spine.

If everything I invented has become real, does that mean He and the other game-player truly exist?

Kamikawa Mitsu felt regret.

He regretted how he had invented two unsolvable entities—essentially creating torment for himself.

Remember, He and the other game-player play their game using all living beings as pawns—Kamikawa Mitsu, as one of the living beings of this world, was among them.

Therefore!

Kamikawa Mitsu himself might be a pawn in the game of Him and the other game-player.

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