Chapter 476: This Time I Will Not Lose Again (Grand Finale)

Sure enough.

His game of chess against the terrifying being was a gamble between the victory of the past and the future.

And then the future ceased to exist…

The river of time stopped evolving.

His game against the terrifying being was a gamble decided by the victory of past and future. If the future kept going on indefinitely, time would inevitably surpass the past — that was unfair, since the future could be infinite, but the past was only that stretch of time.

Therefore, the future's outcome was destined.

Starting from that most tragic future in which He was born, the future no longer had a future. Time seemed to pause, halting at that cruel future, which became the future's outcome.

The river of time also stopped evolving.

At this sight, Kamikawa Mitsu thought of those six Supreme beings of the future. They had once said they had gone to the future and seen that the outcome was already destined, which was why seven Supreme beings of the future went against the current to the past to annihilate Him.

The facts were not wrong.

He had made the future destined, made the future have no future, leaving only cruelty, with the outcome fixed.

No wonder the seven Supreme beings of the future would go to annihilate Him.

All of this was caused by Him, only no one knew it was an unavoidable result.

For the sake of the chess game, sacrifices had to be made, and a price had to be paid.

Including the Supreme beings, all only knew the future was destined. Every being who reached that era was doomed to destruction. They did not know that the future's outcome was not actually destined — as long as the chess game won, the future and even the entire world would begin anew with new hope.

However, it could not be spoken!

The gamble between past and future required a reason, and He bore this blame, becoming the crux of the great war between past and future.

He personally laid out this chess game, personally opened this chess game.

"He played this game for the sake of all living beings and the world, yet the world does not know of His sacrifice. He bears the great blame. If the chess game fails, the people of the world will never know any of it, and He will become a sinner for all ages."

Kamikawa Mitsu said no more as he reached the end.

How heavy a burden — no one could help Him, only He Himself. This was truly bearing all living beings and pressing forward.

Knowing the truth of the chess game.

Kamikawa Mitsu remained in this void, and things were still continuing.

That was His gamble against the terrifying being.

A gamble between past and future.

The future wanted to annihilate the past, the past wanted to annihilate the future. It seemed to start because of Him, and the past was only protecting, yet they did not know that their victory or defeat decided the world's course even more.

Kamikawa Mitsu did not watch the process of this chess game.

He already knew the result of this game; there was no need to keep watching. What should be thought about now was another question.

That was himself.

He was Him, and he was also He.

If someone were here now, especially one who had passed away here, they would surely notice that Kamikawa Mitsu's temperament was gradually changing.

Perhaps it was witnessing too much, equivalent to having gone through everything He had done and experienced.

Perhaps it was staying too long in this void — that is, within His memories — and by subtle influence, Kamikawa Mitsu's temperament was shifting, drawing closer to Him.

If before, when seen before the altar, Kamikawa Mitsu and He were only similar flowers, then now Kamikawa Mitsu was Him, exactly the same.

That composure, that calm, that resolve.

The one who had passed away would surely be certain — He had returned!

The current Kamikawa Mitsu was Him; He had recovered His memories.

But if Kamikawa Chie were here, she would form a different view from the one who had passed away.

She could see that Kamikawa Mitsu had indeed become the same as Him, yet the light within those deep eyes had not changed. That gaze belonged to the Nisan she knew — the Nisan who doted on her, who had orchestrated the entire script of the Initial Realm for her sake.

Kamikawa Mitsu had not changed.

True, he had recovered His memories. One could say the current him and Him were no different — he knew His thoughts, knew His experiences, knew everything about Him.

But that was all it was — knowing.

As Kamikawa Mitsu himself knew, no matter what, he was himself; this could not be changed.

The current him was simply equivalent to having one more set of memories.

Just as he, as Wang Zun, had transmigrated into Kamikawa Mitsu's body and become Kamikawa Mitsu — he had merely gained Kamikawa Mitsu's memories, his heart had not changed, he had only accepted Kamikawa Mitsu's memories.

"Is this what you did for me?"

Kamikawa Mitsu murmured softly. From Wang Zun transmigrating into Kamikawa Mitsu's body, this should be one of the arrangements He had left behind, its purpose being for today.

Having obtained His memories, yet Kamikawa Mitsu remained Kamikawa Mitsu.

He needed Kamikawa Mitsu — needed a Him who was Him yet not Him — because He had already lost once to the terrifying being, and the terrifying being understood Him. But Kamikawa Mitsu was Him yet not Him; this was a difference.

Put plainly, if it were simply rebirth and recovering memories, He would be playing the terrifying being a second time, and the result might well be losing a second time.

A change was needed — a variable to twist this restarted chess game.

Kamikawa Mitsu was precisely that variable.

"Chie's blessed mouth… was it an arrangement you made, or his?"

Kamikawa Mitsu thought of Chie's blessed mouth. Was this His arrangement, or something left by the terrifying being to guide Kamikawa Mitsu?

After thinking, he leaned toward the latter.

The terrifying being had given Kamikawa Chie her blessed mouth, in fact intentionally steering Kamikawa Mitsu, accelerating this process.

He remembered very clearly that the one who had passed away had told the First Sacred Being that he had arrived at the altar earlier than expected.

The terrifying being should have been looking forward to another gamble all along. Such a being could not be thought about with ordinary people's ideas, yet Kamikawa Mitsu understood the terrifying being, because he was Him, having once played against the terrifying being.

All the truths, all the mysteries were now solved.

And at this moment.

Kamikawa Mitsu had finished watching Him play against the terrifying being—He was indeed about to lose.

Only one final move needed to fall, and it would declare His loss in this chess game of wits.

That final move was the last battle of the Yin Earth world!

Until the very last moment of defeat, He never gave up, forcibly carving a path of survival out of a certain-loss situation. That's right! It was in this last battle that He walked into the Gate of Reincarnation.

This was also why that Supreme One would say they could not retreat, because they already knew this last battle was a guaranteed loss—the only way was to stall, to stall until He walked into the Gate of Reincarnation.

So they could not retreat; they had to keep stalling.

"Such good intentions. No wonder the Departed and the First Sacred Spirit became skulls, because they too were chess pieces in His game, willingly becoming chess pieces. Only in the last battle did they lose, and they died.

But they were special—unable to truly die, they became skulls, eternally sheltering the Gate of Reincarnation here, while also guiding me.

I truly wish I could talk with you, my previous life."

Kamikawa Mitsu's gaze fell into that empty river of time, which had already evolved to the last battle—him walking toward the Gate of Reincarnation.

Watching His back.

Watching Him stride with light yet steady steps, not a hint of panic, toward the Gate of Reincarnation. Though this journey meant He would go to His death, and He would no longer exist in the world, He went without hesitation, never once feeling fear from beginning to end.

Then He stepped into the Gate of Reincarnation.

At that moment, He who had never turned around did turn around—not to linger on this world before death, not to look upon the world once more, but to raise His head and gaze toward the horizon.

At that moment, Kamikawa Mitsu's gaze met His.

He was looking at Kamikawa Mitsu!

Separated by memory, separated by vast distance, the two locked eyes.

"The rest is up to you, my next life."

He smiled faintly, turned, and walked into the Gate of Reincarnation. From then on, He no longer existed in this world.

……

Yin Earth, the altar's Gate of Reincarnation.

Kamikawa Mitsu walked out of the Gate of Reincarnation.

"Welcome back. What should I call you now?" The black skull floated up, judging from the change in Kamikawa Mitsu's bearing that the other had recovered his memories.

"Kamikawa Mitsu," Kamikawa Mitsu murmured softly.

……

Spring departed, autumn came.

Day after day.

Three years had passed since Kamikawa Mitsu recovered His memories.

Three years—for gods and demons it was but a blink of passing clouds and smoke; for ordinary people three years is long; and for the world, three years can see many things happen.

In these three years, including the Initial Realm, far too many things had happened.

Kamikawa Mitsu used the Script System, constantly planning scripts, accumulating Script Points to level up. With the help of the Departed and the First Sacred Spirit, the scripts progressed very smoothly and developed rapidly.

Now.

The Initial Realm had become the名副其实 strongest world in existence; all beings of the myriad heavens and worlds—whether gods, demons, immortals, or even Supremes—held awe for the Initial Realm.

The myriad heavens and worlds had also achieved great interconnection in these three years. Under Kamikawa Mitsu's guidance, with the Jixia Academy TV drama script, they flourished.

Today.

It was exactly three years since Kamikawa Mitsu recovered his memories.

At this moment, he stood atop Hangu Pass, behind him were Kamikawa Chie, Gui Kui, Tsuchimikado Xia Mei, the Departed, the First Sacred Spirit, and so on—his family, confidantes, and friends.

"System—no, I should say you. I know the System is the last remnant of your will. Thank you for your companionship all these years. Using you one last time, your mission ends, but my mission should now begin. I will inherit your will and carry your share of the game forward."

A supreme aura radiated outward—over three years, Kamikawa Mitsu had reached the Supreme realm.

As the words fell, Kamikawa Mitsu spoke leisurely:

"System, exchange for the character—Him!"

Accompanied by that familiar system notification sound, at this moment Kamikawa Mitsu achieved the Sole One!!

Now he was Him, and even more so himself.

Having achieved the Sole One, Kamikawa Mitsu was not overly excited, calm and steady, slowly raising his eyes to gaze into the distance, as if to see through everything.

One step forward.

He appeared above the river of time, and a figure also appeared before him.

It was "the other chess player"—the terrifying being.

"Come, let this game begin. This time I will not lose again."

A cool and calm voice came from his mouth.

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