Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 168 The reality of the world

【My friend, what are you looking forward to? 】

[A simple sarcastic remark left you stunned on the spot...]

“You’re not dead?!”

[You were completely unprepared for this sudden change, and you practically screamed in shock!]

Subconsciously, you immediately prepared to attack, the divine power within you surging continuously, as if it would smash everything in front of you into pieces in the next moment!

[But the resurrected Red-Haired Monster God Emperor remained calm: "Fight if you dare!"]

"I'm not afraid to tell you, I'm extremely weak right now. If you use too much force, I'll die in front of you!"

“But if I’m killed, I won’t be able to survive. The world will lose its support, and I’ll have no choice but to die…”

[Instantly, your pupils constricted, and you suppressed the surging divine power in your body and didn't release it...]

【However, you quickly controlled Him, making it impossible for Him to resist.】

This is easy for you. After all, you've ruled the Ming Dynasty for over eighty years, and the first wave of the "Divine Power Heavenly Army" has almost reached the end of their lives. Consequently, a vast amount of divine power has been channeled into you, making you far stronger than at the peak of your previous life. Even at the peak of the Divine Emperor's power, he wouldn't necessarily be able to defeat you, let alone his current weak state.

【So you easily controlled Him.】

However, He didn't seem to want to resist. Facing your tangible hand, He was first amazed, then sneered: "I knew that you, this evil god who came from nowhere, would have the ability to usurp my divine power..."

At this point, you gradually recovered from the shock of the dead being resurrected, and you couldn't help but frown: "Stop talking nonsense! Answer me, why can you be resurrected?"

"The fact that you were able to possess Him just now clearly means He's already dead, otherwise your resurrection wouldn't have been possible... But now He's actually alive again, and even kicked your spirit out. This really confuses you: How can He even be resurrected?"

【"resurrection?"】

As if he had heard something amusing, he said happily, "I have always been alive!"

"Then you..."

He laughed and said, "That's just starvation to the point of death. Of course, if he starves for a few more years, he might really die of starvation..."

"However, according to your view of life and death, I have always been dead... Anyway, it's very complicated. You can understand it as being both dead and alive!"

[Both dead and alive? ]

[What Schrödinger's Hakimi! ]

[No, it's Zhu Dingye's Hakihuang...]

You felt like complaining, but ultimately held back due to the current situation... You continued, "I don't care whether you're dead or alive. I just want to know how to prevent the merging of the Ming and Qing timelines."

"What two timelines?"

The Divine Emperor rubbed his head in confusion: "What are you talking about?"

As He spoke, He seemed to suddenly reflect on something, and then suddenly realized, "Are you talking about the Qing Dynasty outside?"

He couldn't help but laugh, "You don't think that's another time and space, do you? Well... it's almost the same, but it's definitely not another time and space."

【you:?】

【What's the meaning? 】

[No matter how receptive you are, you'll still be stunned at this moment: Isn't that another timeline?]

"Of course not! How could I possibly master the power of manipulating time and space?" The Divine Emperor laughed, "You've made so many blind guesses. It seems you truly don't understand me or this world very well... Well, although you refuse to share secrets with me, I have no need to hide them now. I'll share them with you, the Evil God from Beyond."

[And so, a completely new worldview, beyond all your conjectures, was slowly revealed by the resurrected God-Emperor...]

【…】

[“In the 17th year of Chongzhen’s reign, the rebels captured the capital. I was forced to climb Coal Hill with Wang Chengen and hang myself on that old tree…”]

He sighed, "Perhaps even Heaven took pity on me. As I was hanging myself, an inexplicable force responded to my dying resentment and used my observations to illuminate a fantasy world. Everything within it originated from my observations."

"However, illusions are illusions after all. The only way to ensure the stable existence of illusions is to find a physical entity to support them. This physical entity must be as similar to the real thing as possible..."

"Guess what the entity that carries this illusory world is?"

[The Divine Emperor asked with a smile.]

[And you, bewildered, subconsciously followed His train of thought: To carry an illusory thing, you must use a similar entity. The entity used by the illusory world can only be...]

"Is it the heaven and earth itself?"

【"correct!"】

Having received the correct answer, the Divine Emperor spoke in a teachable tone, "This real entity that carries the illusory world is the world itself!"

“Thus, the imaginary world has long been dependent on reality. Although the two worlds are different in many ways, they have always been superimposed on each other…”

“And so, once the illusory world begins to waver and dissipate, the things of the real world will appear within… If one looks out from within at this moment, it will be as if the real world is invading the illusory world.”

[“Or as you said, it’s like two different timelines merged together…”]

[After hearing this, you finally understood the true nature of this world...]

[Contrary to your previous assumptions, this isn't two parallel worlds merging together, nor is it the abnormal becoming normal. Rather, it's an imaginary world superimposed on a real one...]

[Thinking about it this way, those "Qing Dynasty time travelers" and "normalization of scientific laws" you encountered earlier can actually be explained clearly: precisely because the Divine Emperor, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, is dying, the illusory world is also experiencing turmoil and dissipation, which allows some real things to appear in the illusion.]

[For example, people from the Qing Dynasty inexplicably traveled through time, and some malfunctioning scientific laws became normal again...]

[The reason you think of this as a "historical fusion" is simply because the two are similar in actual performance, and because your perspective differs from the Divine Emperor's, you unconsciously think in that direction.]

[In this way, the truth is revealed...]

[There are not two timelines existing simultaneously in the world, but there has always been only one timeline, but there are two worlds superimposed on each other.]

[In the real world, history continues to develop normally, from Chongzhen's hanging to the end of the Ming Dynasty, from the establishment of the Shun Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains, until now, the 25th year of Qianlong's reign!]

[In the illusory world, history has been completely changed under the influence of the God-Emperor...]

[Of course, perhaps this can indeed be seen as two parallel historical lines, because the historical processes of the two have indeed taken different branches...]

After you finally grasped this entire worldview, you naturally asked this question.

[“Then… can the illusory world continue to exist?”]

The Divine Emperor smiled and said, "Guess."

……

(End of this chapter)