I am immortal with scientific thinking

Time and space, even in this universe, are the most basic foundations of the world in the eyes of billions of living beings.

No matter which world we are in, we cannot escape the definition of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, and we cannot escape the foundation that life needs to carry. It can be said that without space, there is no so-called reality.

With the creation of space, yin and yang are born, the five elements circulate, earth, wind, water, fire, races multiply... Only dynamic changes can ensure that the world has an inexhaustible power to flow forever, and on this basis, the initial concept of time of living beings is born.

Time and space, together forming space-time, flow forward endlessly on the scale of the universe and constitute the foundation of everything in the human world.

But if this foundation is not as solid, stable, and orderly as humans imagine, then the consequences will inevitably be devastating.

After all, the legacy of blood, the continuation of race, the inheritance of civilization, even the rumored immortality, and everything else, are all closely related to time.

But if there is a problem with timing...

"You mean to say that at that particular moment, your time changed from the sequential progression of past, present, and future to future, present, and past?"

Lin Chen fell into deep thought, his eyes became extremely solemn, and even revealed a hint of surprise.

"That's right." Meng Xian sighed, with memories on his face, but also with an inexplicable look, "After midnight, I was in a trance, and when I came to my senses, I found myself in the cave without knowing when."

"I realized something was wrong and immediately checked the situation. I found that I was in a cave somewhere in Kunlun Mountain. The power of the Yuan Shen that I cultivated in my body and the enlightenment of the dream were a little less than what I remembered. Even many things in the storage ring had been used by me, but they returned to their original state... All these things made me realize that after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, not only did I fail to enter the next day, but I went back to yesterday!"

If we sort out the timeline of this matter,
After midnight, Mengxian should be at today.

The Dead River incident occurred yesterday.

After midnight, today is the day that Mengxian is in, and the next day is tomorrow.

Logically speaking, the order of time should be downstream, from yesterday to today, and then to tomorrow.

But something happened that was beyond all of their expectations. After the Dead River incident, the order of time changed from downstream to reverse. Not only did he fail to go to the next day as originally planned, but he went back to yesterday when the Dead River incident occurred.

The long river of time and space is vast and mighty, flowing endlessly, and always moving forward. On that day, many people underwent extraordinary changes.

"…After realizing that time had been tampered with, I immediately contacted all the fellow Taoists in the alliance, and summoned the people from the Dead River Sect who were related to this matter and the elders of my Nanhua Dream Sect. I found that nearly half of them, like us, had returned to the past."

"Even at this point in time, a number of familiar strangers have appeared in the Dead River Sect. The number of people present clearly exceeds the total number of disciples and elders of the Dead River Sect, but each of them has corresponding memories and identities that are familiar to each other. We can even trace traces of their existence in this world... It can be said that except for the number not matching our own memory, none of us can find any problems with the other party!"

"I realized something was wrong, so I and a few fellow Taoists immediately returned to the Dead River Sect and used the might of the Heaven-Covering Universe Formation to seal it off, hoping to thoroughly investigate the cause of the incident."

"But the power of time and space is simply beyond our reach. On the contrary, various anomalies have occurred during the investigation."

"First, there was the Nascent Soul Elder who inexplicably turned into a baby, and all memories related to him were erased from our minds. Even though I used dreams to forcefully retain this existing reality, even so, I couldn't remember who exactly disappeared."

"Afterwards, many people turned to ashes on the spot, as if they had experienced thousands of years in an instant. Some people also suffered a mental breakdown and became extremely crazy. From his incomprehensible and chaotic words, we roughly pieced together a fact, which is that this day was only experienced twice by us, but for him, it became a time cage that could not be escaped even if he experienced it thousands of times..."

"Time, the foundation of the universe and the most fundamental time of all things... has become chaotic."

After hearing what happened, Lin Chen pondered for a moment and said.

"That's right. After realizing the seriousness of the facts, we realized that we must resolve this matter as soon as possible. Otherwise, the area of ​​time chaos will expand from the Dead River Sect to the entire world, and the consequences will be devastating."

Meng Xian said in a deep voice,
"If even the most basic space and time cannot be stabilized, and countless spaces of the past and future are condensed into one point in time, the world will collapse without being able to withstand it."

“So at that time we immediately decided to contact the Immortal Alliance headquarters in Kunling Mountain and retrieve all the historical records of millions of years and various ancient secrets. We even planned to contact Tiangong Island and several major immortal sects that possessed ancient treasures. But what we didn’t expect at that time was that any means of external contact were completely cut off at that moment. We lost contact with the outside world, just like an isolated island in the vast ocean, and were completely blocked in that dark space…”

"Why is this?" Lin Chen frowned, but soon reacted, "There is a problem with time and space, you can't contact the outside world... The time doesn't match?"

"That's right, we are disconnected from the outside world." Meng Xian said with a heavy expression, "All means have lost contact with the outside world, whether it is the curse method, the secret technique of heaven, or the dream communication... everything has lost its effect."

"Just like your dream yesterday cannot enter your dream tomorrow, and the meteorite today cannot kill you like it did a quarter of an hour ago, the confusion of time has completely cut us off from the outside world."

"During this process, huge changes occurred within the Dead River Cult. Various relics buried in ancient history, the future we don't understand, and strange people from all over the world in the present world all appeared in this extremely chaotic time and space, sweeping in countless people from all over the world."

"At that time, even if we were Heavenly Venerables, we probably wouldn't be much better off than ordinary people, because no one knew whether we would turn back into babies in an instant and be completely wiped out from all traces between heaven and earth. Even now, I can't tell whether any of my fellow Heavenly Venerables died in that extremely strange aberration."

"After all, in that chaotic space-time, the past and the future, cause and effect and logic, all human cognition based on space-time, or everything that was founded, are meaningless..."

"Is this so..."

Although Lin Chen couldn't imagine the horror of it, he could probably describe it with a cold joke.

That is, all the money you have worked hard to save for a lifetime, and all the value generated is taken away by your boss, and then he transfers your brain to a new body, allowing you to live a new life but without any memory of your previous life, and then work for him again for the rest of your life.

Just like this, you will always be working in the endless cycle of reincarnation from life to life, without earning a penny, but you are completely unaware of it.

By then, you might even be lectured, and this is happiness.

In this chaos of time and space, everyone may disappear. The wealth they have accumulated, the immortality they have gained, everything they possess... will be lost when time cannot flow smoothly.

But when everything a person pursues, insists on, possesses... is lost, then is there any meaning in their efforts?

"…Then how did you solve the matter later?" Although the disorder of time and space was simply not something that could be solved at their level, according to Meng Xian's narration, at that time, except for the Fairy Yue Ling and the previous generation's leader of the Fairy Alliance, Old Jian, all the Heavenly Masters of the Fairy Alliance came there.

If this matter really cannot be resolved, the entire Immortal Alliance may collapse silently, and the Dream Immortal in front of him will not die in the dream.

It is precisely because the other party escaped in the past that the current situation has occurred.

So the original question must be solved...

"not solved."

As Lin Chen was stunned and then looked slightly surprised, Meng Xian shook his head:
"At that time, no one was solving this problem."

"Then how did you return to the original state?"

Lin Chen frowned deeply.

"...We don't know what happened." Meng Xian was silent for a long time before he sighed, "In a place like that where time and space are disordered, logic, sequence, cause and effect, these human cognitions based on the flow of time are completely unable to explain the situation at that time."

"The only thing we can remember is that when everything is restored to its original state, we are here...tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Lin Chen carefully recalled the conversation just now and quickly reacted, "You mean after midnight, the day after today when you should be here... tomorrow?"

"That's right." Meng Xian confirmed Lin Chen's words.

"What about today? After 12 o'clock midnight, where should you be today?" Lin Chen suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Disappeared."

“Disappeared…?”

"Yes, it disappeared." Meng Xian's tone became very heavy at this moment, "Whether it is the hour wheel, the quarter clock, the calendar...anything related to time, it clearly shows that everything we have about today has disappeared.

"When we left the Dead River Cult and returned to the real world, we discovered that not only the place we were in, but even this world, any traces of today had uniformly disappeared."

"Time just naturally jumped from yesterday to tomorrow, and almost no one noticed anything unusual. At that time, this point in time belonging to today was completely erased from history by some mysterious force without any of us noticing..."

Disappeared today?!
Hearing these words, Lin Chen felt an inexplicable sense of uneasiness in his heart.

He always felt that something very important had happened during that disappearing day, so much so that the torrent of time in this world had completely skipped it.

"What happened after that? What happened after that?"

"After that..." Meng Xian was lost in memory again after hearing this. "After that, in order to erase the impact of this incident, I will personally erase all traces of this incident in the entire world. Except for a few Taoist friends in the alliance who participated in this incident, no other outsiders will know about it..."

"That's it..."

Lin Chen stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and suddenly frowned, feeling something was wrong:
"We are clearly talking about the fall of your Nanhua Dream Sect, which is related to your so-called dream of the end, but in your story, it seems that you didn't mention this..."

"I have already mentioned the person who brought us this apocalyptic dream..." said the Dream Fairy.

"Are you referring to the...Dead River God?" Lin Chen reacted quickly.

“That’s right. After all this ended and we arrived today, only one of the Death River Gods that floated up from the Death River remained. The others disappeared…” Meng Xian said, “After experiencing a huge danger, we couldn’t care less and took action directly to search the other party’s memory.”

"In the other person's memory, we were surprised to find that although the other person was that person, the memory in his mind did not match our memory in this world at all."

"In his memory, Taiyin Tianzun was not possessed by the devil, and the four of us, Yueling, Canghai, Taixuan, etc., did not ascend to the top of the Tianzun position. Instead, two other Tianzun who were completely unknown to us dominated the Immortal Alliance."

“After the death of Elder Jian, Heavenly Venerable Taiyin also disappeared inexplicably. Heavenly Venerable Yimu and Elder Jian were killed one after another by the Heavenly Demon. Meanwhile, several Heavenly Venerables of the four demons were born, causing the number of Heavenly Venerables of the two paths to surpass that of our Immortal Alliance. This gave the Heavenly Demon the opportunity to destroy the Heaven-shaking Universe Formation…”

"In their time and space, the demon used some unknown means to quietly replace the entire Hunyuan Five Elements Sect, and then invaded the center of the earth, completely distorting the geomagnetic field of this world, thus triggering a terrifying ground fissure that affected the four seas of Middle-earth. It also used an unprecedented formation to lead the moon, which had no Moon Spirit Fairy stationed there, to the mortal world, causing the collapse of the entire world..."

"In order to save the world, the Immortal Alliance had to offer the five-colored stones in Kunling City. While successfully repairing the world, it also lost control of the Great Array of Covering the Heaven and Earth."

"Then demons rose up from all directions, the ancient races returned, and the old evil gods revived..."

"This world has fallen into a third catastrophe that is comparable to the bloody battles among all races and the ancient demonic disasters..."

Having said this, Meng Xian suddenly paused and looked at Lin Chen with an inexplicable look. When the latter looked back at him with a questioning look, he slowly said:
“And at the end of the third catastrophe, a visitor who was rumored to be from a foreign land led his forces to defeat the ancient myriad races, sealed the old evil gods, unified the entire world, and almost became the ultimate winner of that era…”

Foreign visitors, you mean... me?

Lin Chen showed a strange look on his face and continued:
"Then what? What happened then?"

"Then he didn't know what happened. The world suddenly changed, and this world was coming to an end..." Meng Xian's voice echoed in Lin Chen's ears, "In order to save everything, he risked sinking into the Dead River and returning to the past, just to find the alien traveler, kill him, and save the end of everything..."

"Because in his view, the foreign visitor who ended the third catastrophe was both a savior and... a destroyer." (End of this chapter)