Chapter 714: Who Is the One Who Stands Alone Against the Eternal?

Song Shuhang had heard a classmate from the neighboring Finance department say at school, "Wealth never disappears, it just transfers."

He found it very reasonable and arrived at the conclusion: "Resurrection chances never disappear, they just transfer."

Because according to the original progress bar, he should have encountered the liquid metal giant hand's attack in the Confucian 'Jin Lian World,' then died again and again in the 'Jin Lian World,' and also revived again and again.

But now the Confucian faction has been strengthened and has also gotten in touch with Senior Bai Two, so the resurrection chances freed up from this part have logically transferred to the myriad heavens and worlds, turning into all sorts of coincidences.

Tired.

Out of moves.

Do whatever you want.

'Sandy and Young Lady Kagiyama Hina should be fine, right?'

Before falling into darkness, his mysterious seventh sense activated, throwing Sandy toward Kagiyama Hina's direction, and he used the disposable flying sword life-saving version Senior Bai had given him.

He had originally wanted to unfold his domain and unfold the comic universe of 'I Am Legend' to resist that kind of danger, but the result was that he was instantly one-shotted.

'The foundation at this stage is solid. Once I get back, I'll push my cultivation progress for a month or two. Forget math if it's no good, but I must spend time learning spells properly!'

Song Shuhang vaguely remembered hearing Senior Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan's signature, slightly demonic Xingdefan Sect laughter.

Did Senior Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan happen to be randomly assigned to the same spacetime as Gensokyo this time?

Can't figure it out, but hopefully he's fine too. The enemy this time seems no simple matter. By the way, why hasn't the resurrection happened yet?

Just as he was thinking this, his consciousness took flight, and his whole person drifted as if passing through layer upon layer of abstract conceptual space, full of incomprehensible things, not knowing how long his consciousness flew.

Suddenly, the scene around him shifted, and rather sci-fi building clusters appeared before his eyes.

Did the Dream Entering talent activate?!

Everywhere was gray — sky, buildings, ground — and pale-blue energy torrents spread everywhere. This was a world of steel, magnificent and grand beyond any civilization he had seen so far. Even Thanos's fleet didn't have this kind of grandeur.

Whose memory is this?

The activation conditions of his Dream Entering talent were also traceable.

At least before entering the dream, he would have had some degree of 'contact' with the target. Among the people he knew and had deep connections with, who had this kind of family background?

【Causality lockdown complete, beginning consciousness net fishing】

【Anchoring invading individual 'Song Shuhang,' fishing failed, switching to establishing consciousness link.】

【Establishing】

Wtf?!

Which senior, please hear me explain!

Song Shuhang knew his Dream Entering talent could be detected by big shots, and even

when entering Su Tuoni's dream he had almost been killed in passing, but now the other party was clearly showing they knew him!

But in this state, he couldn't do anything. Gradually, as if something was wrapping him up, all the surrounding scenes began to blur.

He didn't know how long it had been when Song Shuhang woke up groggily, but had no physical sensation.

'An unfamiliar ceiling.'

Did he revive?

Song Shuhang tried to get up, but couldn't move. Only the surrounding space and images were being perceived in a full 360-degree, no-dead-angle manner.

A man with an ordinary, good-natured appearance stood in front, a warm smile on his face: "Welcome to the territory of the Hiling Divine System."

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Immediately after, silence fell.

"The images he can contact have already been transferred from the past to the present, and the consciousness link has been established. Why is there no response?"

The man waved his hand: "Hello, can you understand Chinese?"

"One moment." Song Shuhang's voice spread out,

Hey, Senior Su Lin, are you there? There's something on this side that needs handling.

Strangely, Song Shuhang didn't see the chat group before his eyes — perhaps it was related to the fact that he was truly having a dream.

Maybe the Dream Entering talent hadn't activated, and he really was dreaming. Compared to this kind of dream, he still felt dreaming of Senior Bai would be better.

"Looks like there was no spacetime interference." The man coughed once and said again:

"Welcome to another macro-world of the void. Hello, friend from another world. I am the Empire's Emperor Chen Jun. Let me briefly explain the current situation."

"Song Shuhang, you are already dead."

"Nani?!" Song Shuhang made a sound.

"I'm not making a Fist of the North Star reference"

"Sorry."

"Are you really making a reference?!"

"My apologies."

Song Shuhang's acceptance ability was still fairly strong. He noticed some familiar faces to his left rear.

Senior Kaguya, did you win your resurrection match?

Senior Emiya, why are you just watching? Why are you holding hands with Young Lady Matou right in front of Dada Liya? Have you betrayed us?

Wait.

What did this senior who just called himself Emperor say this place was?

"Hiling?"

"I suppose no lengthy self-introduction is needed. You should recognize us."

At Chen Jun's thought, the banner that had previously hung horizontally on the Hakurei Shrine's torii — 'Hiling Empire Spacetime Administration Film Shooting Group First Gensokyo Team Building' — appeared on the screen.

"Uh, we checked the Spacetime Administration, and they never set up any film shooting group."

What if I said we're Marvel's Spacetime Administration, would you believe it?

Song Shuhang didn't know how to describe his current mood; if he absolutely had to, it would probably be "f***ed a dog."

That's not right though!?

How did he end up connecting with this Emperor?!

"What exactly is going on with me?"

Song Shuhang discovered his appearance was a bit strange, like a translucent ball floating in midair, with a crystal below emitting a peculiar energy.

"I just noticed you appearing in my past, so I seized this chance to use the information stream to build you a consciousness carrier."

"Don't misunderstand, we mean no harm. It's just that the current Zero-Number Gensokyo isn't very safe, and we wanted to communicate with you."

Chen Jun waved his hand, and a screen flew over from afar.

A muscular squirrel-person with thick arms and thick legs, one arm carrying the half-body Song Shuhang was repairing, the other arm carrying Kiyama Asami, sprinting at top speed through the sky.

【Hehe~ hehehehehe!】

Someone who looks a lot like Senior Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan — well, that's Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan.

【Out of kindness I bestow upon you a stroke of fortune — why do you flee? Enter my cauldron!】

Setting aside the squirrel that evolved into Sandy-Bendy, has Senior Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan finally gone mad?

Rumble rumble rumble—!

Countless glazed-colored fire lotuses rained down; the muscular squirrel threaded through the gaps between the fire lotuses with exaggerated agility, fleeing in haste.

The void shattered, the strange-fire tide surged on and on without end, heaven and earth and all things were devoured, swept along with the flames into a massive alchemy cauldron.

Song Shuhang "stared" at this scene for a long while, struck as if by lightning, too stunned to speak.

"You were just killed by him, and he's now set his sights on your soul."

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He shouldn't have offended Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, right? Surely it couldn't be because of that time he happened to run into seniors like Xiao Xun'er in All Heavens City and went to buy Battle Through the Heavens on their behalf?

Senior Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan shouldn't know about it, and he shouldn't be that petty either.

"Um, this senior, how did you end up finding me?" Song Shuhang tried to sort out the current situation.

"Although we originally wanted to find you, right now it's you who came to us on your own."

Chen Jun, surprised, reiterated: "You have a very powerful ability; this consciousness link can last until your ability ends."

This was precisely Song Shuhang's strange point:

"I can't actively control this ability, and the prerequisite for activating it is a certain degree of contact. I don't even know you, senior!"

"How should I put this," Chen Jun's expression was a bit complicated, he scratched his head and said: "You said you'd give me a Dao title, and right now I'm still carrying you while running for my life — of course… it's not me in control."

Song Shuhang was stunned for a moment, "Sandy?"

"That's a biological observation device built from Ah-Jun's characteristics; you can also think of it as a squirrel." Sandora used the remote to make the squirrel perform a jumping motion.

Crackle pop

Song Shuhang seemed to hear the sound of his heart shattering, while his non-existent phantom limbs began to scratch the ground.

"This is my wife, Sandora." Chen Jun said: "We have a cooperation with Yakumo Yukari of Zero-Number Gensokyo, and have been observing that universe."

Anyway, Zero-Number Yuki-mama isn't here either, so a bit of embellishment won't affect things. Moreover, the situation is special now — the Yakumo Yukari of Shadow City has been caught up in it and has already vanished.

"We can cooperate."

"Cooperate… does senior mean the matter concerning Gensokyo?"

Song Shuhang reacted quickly, and a contract written in unknown characters appeared before him — a contract, with the heading "Confidentiality Agreement."

The general meaning: Without permission, the existence of "Hilal" may not be disclosed to others in any form.

"Actually, among your group, one or two people have already discovered that 'Sandy' isn't an ordinary squirrel." Chen Jun added.

"Why not seek out other seniors?" Song Shuhang deliberated: "I'm only a junior, I'm afraid…"

He got halfway through his sentence, because at that moment Chen Jun and the others' gazes converged on the images on the many screens.

【Gu Yue Fang Yuan used cultivator Qu Yanping to break through reincarnation, scheming his whole life. Though he came close to success, in the end he was one move short, refined in an instant by the Fallen God, his existence becoming a carrier.】

Beside it were written records and appearance comparisons of Su Lin's identity.

Supreme. Reversed.

O~K~, got it.

"…" Song Shuhang, unfazed by the strange, signed the confidentiality agreement with his consciousness, feeling a vague guilt: "Senior, that's a movie."

My dear friend Gao Moumou, you bastard can be proud now.

"A movie, huh… there are many holes when we compare the information we've observed — for instance, Hun Tian Di gets along quite well with you all."

Chen Jun's gaze toward another screen was rather complicated; after a pause: "Originally, that was the case."

【Hehe~ hehehe~~~ Scalding-hot squirrel, run!】

Low laughter echoed.

The Yan Di Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, refining the myriad beings of Gensokyo and hunting down the squirrel-and-Hang — no matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem fake, and that was how it appeared even to Song Shuhang.

Senior Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, look at what you've done?

That said, Song Shuhang felt that this Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan was nine parts out of ten not right.

One by one, divine-system runes merged with Song Shuhang's clump of consciousness; in no time, a translucent human figure constructed from Song Shuhang's information stream appeared in this area — a young man who looked like a good person at first glance.

'Hurry up, is the facial expression analyst in position?'

Chen Jun deployed through the mind link.

Receiving a response, he stepped forward and shook Song Shuhang's hand, and under the chronicler's record, completed this historic diplomatic opening.

Song Shuhang: "?"

"Procedure, procedure." Chen Jun changed the subject: "Before we exchange information…"

Whoosh!

A group of people rushed forward, scrambling to fire off questions, and the scene instantly descended into chaos.

"The Three Great Divine Domains and the Macro World are all watching—what exactly happened to those three back in the Imaginary Number Tree!?"

"May I ask how many universes you've eaten?"

"Why did Emiya Shirou attack his foster sister? And what about his past life before the Myriad Cycles of Reincarnation!?"

"Drag them away."

Soon, the scene returned to solemn silence.

Chen Jun's face darkened; these fellows had completely thrown his face away, and this was still a formal occasion. "Don't mind them."

"It's nothing, I'm used to it."

It gave him a sense of déjà vu seeing the seniors from Nine Provinces Number One Group and the cultivator world—people were always asking Song Shuhang these things too, as if it were 'exploring the secrets of the ancient past.'

"Ajun, there's a new ranking up." Shandora shouted.

Everyone's eyes were drawn over. The All Heavens Gold List on the screen manifested a new scene. To be honest, although no one knew where this thing came from, it really did leak quite a bit.

This tiny universe, temporarily created and reinforced, along with the covert 'inverted' memetic analysis and detection underway, had turned up nothing unusual.

But it was always better to be prepared.

【Clearly you turned your back on all living beings and set foot upon the River of Time.】

【Then why does this ancient history not exist, and why is there no trace of you upon the River of Time either?】

"Under the effect of World Interference Theory, we actually have a certain understanding of each other as well—it's just that a few gaps still need to be filled in."

Chen Jun looked at Song Shuhang's information body and said with a smile:

"It's been quite a few years. You fellows only dug it out now that you've reached Fantasy Land Number Zero."

"That's the Desolate Heavenly Emperor called Shi Hao, right?"

"I know about Severing Myriad Ages."

【One day, I will, amidst the vast and unfathomable world-lines, trace back through Myriad Ages and illuminate all the heavens.】

"It's Senior Shi Hao, no doubt." Song Shuhang said instinctively: "Why is he only ranked fifth?"

【For the sake of reunion, there is now only the path of subtraction unto emptiness, to finally achieve the Dao Fruit.】

Wait, it's Senior Meng Qi?!

【In the years to come, if she stands above the eternal night of Myriad Ages, she shall share the long years with us.】

In the scene, the white-haired, red-eyed girl walked step by step toward the end of time, with the joyful, happy figures of all living beings behind her.

【Fantasy Land's Top Ten Abnormalities TOP5, Protagonist: Illyasviel von Einzbern】

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【"Brother. Miyu, I missed you so much."】

Su Doupo Cangqiong grabbed the All Heavens Gold List, the force in his hand gradually increasing until he nearly tore it apart:

"I told you to search for the Shi Hao who 'Severed Myriad Ages,' to rank the Meng Qi who 'subtracted unto emptiness'—and you give me this kind of ranking?! Do it over!"

【Your Majesty. I can't do it! This is already the absolute limit of interference and modification! This... this really is Severing Myriad Ages and subtracting unto emptiness!】

This useless thing.

"I want my brother."

The white-haired girl before him said in a cool, clear voice.

"Enough." Su Doupo Cangqiong glanced at the next ranking—【Fantasy Land's Top Ten Abnormalities TOP4: 'The Supreme Sword Sect Suppresses the Shattered Cycle,' Protagonist: Emiya Shirou】.

"Turning the false into the real, just to pad the numbers—that's enough, I suppose."

"Your brother's here."