Chapter 269

Good good good! You're just piloting a Gundam here, right?

Xue Xuan "drives" Pangu's true form, bloodily abusing the Dao Ancestor and Ming He, two saints, leaving Zhao Si speechless: "... Although I know Pangu's true form is meant for this, but with your setting, didn't you just strip the saints of all their prestige?"

"Now we can abuse saints, so won't the future protagonist have to blast Pangu to pieces? The combat power is inflating too much..."

【Players don't need to worry; for the simulated protagonist, glory is temporary, while submitting to fate is eternal……They will always submit to this iron law, from the initial Jin Bing, to later Jiao Ming, Xue Xuan, and even the future protagonist, none will truly experience power inflation.】

【In this situation, if we keep letting the simulated protagonist crash and suffer, it might affect your mental and physical health……So this round we arranged Pangu's true form as a mechanical deity descent, to reduce the psychological pressure caused by players constantly losing.】

【As for whether the future protagonist will experience power inflation……Under the broad background of the Primordial worldview, even if the protagonist inflates further, they won't surpass saints and Pangu, so please rest assured, players.】

【If you insist on suffering, then this system isn't unable to help you adjust the difficulty a bit……】

Don't!

Upon hearing this, Zhao Si was frightened into waving his hands repeatedly, refusing the system's "goodwill"……

Right.

After thinking, Zhao Si suddenly thought of a problem he had long overlooked:

"Based on the various basic settings deduced from chapter three's puzzle, every Primordial future faces the fate of destruction……So when chapter one's future enters the degenerate era, will there not also appear another Xue Xuan in Jin Bing's perfect Primordial?"

Zhao Si has been curious about this problem:

In the simulation game, different dungeons are essentially not different time points of the same world, but rather distinct new worlds directly generated by the game according to the script; this has long been verified, because the world lines of the three protagonists are independent.

Moreover, the repeated restarts of the same dungeon's protagonist, although called "time reversal," actually have little to do with time; all side-story worlds are independent worlds!

Therefore, rather than saying the protagonist is rewinding time, it's more accurate to say they keep crossing over into new worlds.

So, on this basis, the Gold Bing world of Chapter One will eventually, due to the passage of time, reach the future time point of Xue Xuan; in that case, wouldn't the future still have a Xue Xuan existing? 【Player thinks: "What does 'anchor point' mean?"】

Zhao Si's curiosity, the system did not directly answer, but suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated question.

"Anchor point?"

Suddenly questioned, Zhao Si was slightly stunned, but still quickly gave his answer: "An anchor point is to bind the unstable thing to a stable thing, making that unstable thing stable."

【What is the anchor point of that game?】

"Of course it's the simulated protagonist!"

【Then your question has already been answered.】

Ah? Zhao Si was dazed, subconsciously thinking the system was again speaking in riddles, but after thinking carefully, he gradually realized the meaning...

"The clearance standard for each chapter is that the protagonist does not die; this is essentially because the protagonist is the only true anchor point, so as long as the protagonist does not die, the world can exist stably."

Zhao Si pondered: "In other words... completing the great ending's primordial wilderness, it will no longer perish?"

【Yes, all worlds of the great endings will not perish; the stable existence of the protagonist anchor point has already changed the world's essence…… Under Gold Bing's efforts, the primordial wilderness of Chapter One is not merely eliminating the Lich War and Fengshen Journey to the West; it has become eternal, and there will no longer be a Dharma-ending age.】

【Therefore, Chapter One is called the Eternal Primordial Wilderness; based on this, naturally there will not be a second Xue Xuan existing.】

Zhao Si raised an eyebrow:

"You mean... Gold Bing will still be the protagonist in the future? He will never lose his protagonist identity?"

【Yes.】

"Then in Chapter Three, why is he not the protagonist anymore?"

【Because, in essence, Chapter Three is not the future world of Chapter One; it is merely a projection of Chapter One…… The reason Chapter Three heads toward the Dharma-ending age and even destruction is precisely because the Gold Bing within it is fundamentally not the protagonist and cannot achieve the effect of an anchor point.】

Ah?!

Zhao Si scratched his head:

"You mean... the 【original Gold Bing】 in Chapter Three is actually also a pirated version?!"

【Of course, every protagonist is unique; if a previous-generation protagonist appears in other chapters, he is merely a "projection".】

【In fact, each chapter is actually an independent world, and its protagonist is always unique.】

After receiving the system's detailed explanation, Zhao Si suddenly realized: No wonder Gold Bing's future is so miserable; it turns out he is merely a "projection", fundamentally lacking the protagonist's halo!

That is to say, not only the Gold Bing beside Xue Xuan is a pirated version, but even the original Gold Bing in the "Eternal Primordial Wilderness" is also a pirated version...

"No... it cannot be called a pirated version, for his memories and experiences are the same as the authentic Gold Bing, only lacking the protagonist identity."

"In his view, he merely suddenly lost the protagonist's halo..."

Thinking this way, Zhao Si suddenly felt that Gold Bing was pitiful, for he would think he merely lost his protagonist identity, but in fact he is fundamentally a copy...

"However, this false news that 【protagonist identity will be lost】 has really messed up Xiao Heizi!"

Zhao Si couldn't help but sigh: first, the so-called "primordial wilderness destruction, eternal primordial wilderness will lose its anchor point" from Minghe, this erroneous information troubled Xue Xuan mentally and physically, thus he always thought the correct clearance method should be to reunite Pangu and reopen heaven and earth.

If it weren't that he was forced with no other option, he would absolutely not consider entering the "Eternal Primordial Wilderness"!

And the erroneous information from the pirated Gold Bing that 【entering the "Eternal Primordial Wilderness" will lose protagonist identity】 made Xue Xuan suffer immensely, causing him to dare even less to enter the "Eternal Primordial Wilderness"...

It can only be said that the reason Xue Xuan's clearance difficulty in this round is so high, aside from his father Minghe constantly speaking in riddles, the biggest cause lies in these two pitfall-inducing false messages! "Fortunately, everything has finally come to light, and the much-tormented Xue Xuan has also reached the time to step into the perfect ending..."

【You promised Gold Bing's revenge words, and also obtained the consent of Pangu's consciousness.】

【Of course, a real fight is definitely not possible, after all you still need to bring Him into the Eternal Primordial Wilderness; afterwards He will be your biggest reliance, you cannot be too excessive.】

【So the final result is, you summoned Pangu's consciousness from within your body, then, under Gold Bing's excited gaze, you fiercely elbowed Him once!】

【The force is naturally not large, but your acting is superb; with just three parts of force you managed to produce the feeling of exerting full force to avenge and repay hatred......】【In this regard, you and Gold Bing both understand implicitly, but at the moment your elbow went down, Gold Bing could not help but shed tears.】

【This old senior who has experienced three generations of demon‑person conflicts, witnessed and participated in countless grudges and wars, after countless ages have passed, has finally managed to avenge himself......】

【With one elbow down, you solemnly and sternly said to Gold Bing.】

【"Today, the Golden Heaven Emperor slays the Heavenly Dao for all beings!"】

【"The Heavenly Dao that toys with the calamities of the masses, unjust, is already dead!"】

【You did not deceive him, because after the Heavenly Dao was reorganized into Pangu's will, He in fact had already died!】

【"The Heavenly Dao is dead......"】

【No one knows how much of his tears are excitement and joy, after all his face doesn't have a fan‑shaped statistical chart...... but it can be seen that he is truly happy, happier than ever before!】

【He smiled, tears flowing out.】

【「Thank you。」】

【He said sincerely.】

【At this moment, he was no longer a pirated copy, nor was he the 'original'…… He was the true Golden Heaven Emperor.】

【The Golden Heaven Emperor thanks you!】

……

And in the outer heavens, the true form of Pangu, who had been battling the myriad sages, suddenly ceased its motion.

Seeing this, the myriad sages seemed to sense something, so they ceased their attacks and merely gazed upon this supremely powerful divine form, each with different expressions.

He was about to meet the end of his life……

The scene of Pangu's fall while creating heaven and earth had never been witnessed by anyone, so countless people had made their own speculations about it.

All knowledge of Pangu creating heaven and earth is merely later generations' speculation; no matter how closely it matches reality, it remains speculation.

And now, an excellent opportunity for verification lay before the myriad sages……

Pangu remained motionless.

Looking closely, the formerly weathered middle-aged figure had already grown old: his sturdy stature gradually stooped, his muscles weakened, his skin sagged.

His dark black beard and hair were also dusted with white frost.

He had indeed grown feeble with age……

From youth to middle age, then to old age.

From an ordinary human form to that of a lesser giant, and finally to the true giant who split heaven and earth.

In the brief span of battle, he lived through an entire lifetime.

It is almost laughable that the divinities born from his death are all innately immortal, while this Pangu, the giant who split heaven and earth, is said to have a lifespan……

But this precisely confirms that birth, aging, sickness, and death are the natural law; any truly existing life will ultimately face ruin and death! "This is simply the principle of heaven and earth."

The Dao Ancestor, muttering to himself, unconsciously stroked his white beard: "Splitting heaven and earth, the decline of the Dharma… another cycle…"

Fortunately, this is a cyclical process of rebirth: when Pangu dies, the Primordial Wild is reborn; when the Primordial Wild is destroyed, Pangu is resurrected.

Now that Pangu is about to die, it is time for the Primordial Wild to be reopened! Not only the Dao Ancestor, but the other seven sages share this thought:

Although Pangu's rebirth itself is an unexpected accident, the fact that he can return once means he can return countless times in the future, and the Primordial Wild will never perish.

All worries are merely overthinking.

All that remains is to wait for the Primordial Wild to reopen……

【Just then, the previously sluggish and motionless true form of Pangu suddenly moved again; in the gaze of the myriad sages, he silently glanced at them.】

【That gaze was utterly empty……】

【For some reason, the myriad sages suddenly felt uneasy, as if something beyond their expectations was about to happen……】

【Their feeling was correct.】

【For in the next instant, a violent explosion erupted suddenly; the true form of Pangu, upon whom great hopes had been placed, shone with the brightest, purest light under the watch of the myriad sages!】

【Boom!!!】

【The boundless 'being' transformed into a streaming particle flow that shot forth!】

【The explosion instantly destroyed nearly everything in the outer heavens; the myriad sages hurriedly joined forces to resist……】

【And when everything had ended, the myriad sages, full of anticipation, looked again, only to find themselves stunned.】

【Pangu turned to dust and vanished completely into Chaos, while the imagined Primordial Wild heaven and earth left no trace.】

【The myriad sages merely stared blankly as a fragment of the Primordial Wild was violently blasted by the explosion's force, neither biased nor off-target, and struck squarely into that gorgeous seven‑colored vortex!】

【An unexpected new cycle was quietly completed……】

【But it was not the cycle the myriad sages had imagined—'Primordial Wild becomes Pangu, Pangu becomes Primordial Wild'—but rather a cycle between material Primordial Wild and conscious Primordial Wild.】

【The world of consciousness, by its nature, shall never perish; thus a brand‑new era has begun!】

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(End of chapter)