The Last Sentinel

[Academy Newsletter]: The Ming Dynasty government has released the "New Era Gold Book" regarding the current cosmic environment. The book explicitly defines the current cosmic environment as a state of war, abolishing all normalized social order, imposing a night curfew on over 90% of the area, and simultaneously mobilizing the Ming Dynasty for war. College entrance exams and strategies for eligible soldiers have been changed, the monopoly of high-level martial arts academies has been abolished, and two new dungeons, "The Mysterious Han" and "Mythical Tang," have been added. "The Mysterious Han" is a PvE dungeon focused on development and growth, while "Mythical Tang" is a high-intensity PvP dungeon requiring credentials for entry and prohibiting unauthorized entry…

"[Academy Newsletter] Extra! The Human Emperor Qingluan, one of the three emperors of the Heavenly Court in all realms, has emerged from seclusion and promulgated the [Ascension Plan]. The Azure Emperor has publicly revealed the treasured manuals of Zixiao Palace—the [Law of Time], [Law of Space], and [Law of Power], among other cultivation techniques. The Azure Emperor announced that all immortals willing to go to Huaguo Mountain to suppress the natural disasters will have the opportunity to receive the enlightenment of the Great Dao Laws and become high-ranking immortal officials in the Heavenly Court. On the day the Heavenly Laws were issued, all realms and the holy lands of the immortal races were filled with excitement, and people eagerly signed up."

In the newspaper, someone stroked the long, silvery-white metallic hair, their slender fingers lightly tapping the table, and a mocking laugh echoed in the large conference room.

"The creatures in my hometown universe are really cute."

"Compared to the monsters and freaks I'm encountering now, Charlie is practically my precious darling."

In the dimly lit office, a man in a black trench coat leaned back in his leather chair, his long, slender hand lightly supporting his chin, his fingertips gently craning his cheek, while his other hand casually held a newspaper outstretched on his lap.

His long, silvery-white hair cascaded loosely over his shoulders, making his black leather armor uniform appear even more somber and lonely. On his chest was a metal plaque with three lines of text written on it.

Academy: Pangu Entropy Academy

Name: Ye Feng

Gender: Uncertain · Apache attack helicopter / Male

Place of Origin: One Universe, Carbon-Based Universe, Andromeda Third Arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Orion Constellation, Solar System, Blue Star

Identity: Freshman

Grade: Freshman

Department: Entropy System

Mentor: The Mysterious Merchant

Beneath the nameplate, a mysterious multidimensional positive deformation gear mark shines brightly.

It's Ye Feng, the Ye Feng who can't go home.

Even Ye Feng himself felt like crying when he talked about it.

I was perfectly fine when I escaped from the river of time and went home, but who knew I would encounter so many problems on the way.

The story begins with Ye Feng bidding farewell to his ruthless stepmother.

On that day, after Ye Feng bid farewell, he crossed the river of time, retracing his previous path, and was about to return to his own timeline.

Unfortunately, a black hole appeared on the way here!

What is a black hole?

It's something that can devour even light!

As expected, Ye Feng was directly sucked into the black hole, and then he encountered the nightmare that would haunt him for the rest of his life—the unscrupulous businessman mentor.

Ye Feng still remembers every detail of his first meeting with his mentor.

Within the black hole, all was nothingness. Ye Feng's spiritual body was instantly reduced to a thin, ethereal sheet. Just as it seemed Ye Feng was about to perish here, a divine thought emanated: "Having lived in a black hole for so long, this is the first time I've encountered carbon-based life!"

The ethereal and transparent Ye Feng looked around: "Who?"

Immediately after, a bald, middle-aged man in a white coat with a large belly appeared in front of Ye Feng: "Hello, I am the mysterious businessman of this black hole."

"A businessman?" Ye Feng looked at the middle-aged, balding, pot-bellied man in front of him. "Don't you look like a carbon-based life form too?"

The mysterious merchant laughed: "No, I am not a carbon-based life form, or rather, I am not even a life form!"

Ye Feng said, "But we look almost the same!"

The mysterious merchant waved his hand and said, "I'm sorry, you can't understand my form of existence. I belong to an uncertain, adaptive form. In other words, whatever your consciousness thinks I should look like, that's what I look like. I have no form, yet I have countless forms."

Ye Feng blinked: "So, I thought you were bald and pot-bellied, and now you are bald and pot-bellied?"

The mysterious businessman said, "Yes, that's it!"

Ye Feng said, "What if I wanted you to be a mature woman in black stockings and high heels... ah!"

The mysterious merchant stopped, looking at Ye Feng who was covering his face: "Young man, you're very rude! You actually started fantasizing about someone who isn't even a life form. Your brain clearly doesn't have hormones or dopamine, so why did you say such things? Was it a prank?"

"Alright, I'm not going to waste my breath on you. Strangers aren't welcome here!"

"Get out of here! Don't interfere with my business!"

You think I'll just leave if you tell me to?

I, Ye Feng, am not some casual person!

Ye Feng said, "I came here to do business with you!"

The mysterious merchant paused for a moment, then sized up Ye Feng: "Young man, doing business requires capital. Do you have any? The moment you walked in, I scanned you from head to toe, and there's nothing of value to be found!"

Ye Feng said, "Please don't judge me like that. You have no idea about the terrifying consumption desires of us carbon-based life forms! Come on, show us your goods."

The mysterious merchant shook his head and said, "Young man, did I say I wanted to trade with you? You are not qualified to trade with me at all! I am not a casual merchant. It's not like you can just trade with me whenever you meet me. You need to meet two conditions."

Ye Feng asked, "What are the conditions?"

The mysterious businessman raised a finger and said, "These two conditions are essentially two screening methods for client qualifications!"

"First, you need to find a circle of any size, calculate the ratio of its circumference to its diameter to a certain number of decimal places, and the infinite non-repeating numbers will disappear, replaced by a regular arrangement of numbers. Then, use base-11 to convert these regular numbers to get a formula, and then interpret this formula yourself."

"Secondly, taking you as an example, fold your three-dimensional space to create a fourth dimension, while simultaneously connecting the beginning and end, making cause and effect the same. In layman's terms, it means freezing your own time, making you the only point on the timeline, merging your past, future, and present! This is the 'severing of the three corpses' in cultivation!"

"Then input your data one and data two into the formula, and you will get the coordinates of the black hole where I appeared. Then you can trade with me."

Ye Feng blinked: "I have met both of the conditions you mentioned."

The mysterious merchant asked, "How could that be? Did you calculate the value of π?"

Ye Feng said, "Of course, I calculated the God formula for π on my first day at Nantianmen, but I was interrupted by a rogue! As for what you said about severing the three corpses, I didn't sever them. I reconciled with my three corpses. We acknowledge each other and coexist. I call this skill 'Ancient Ones Before'."

The mysterious merchant shook his head and said, "You were interrupted on the first condition. How can being interrupted count as a result? The second condition, 'Severing the Three Corpses,' requires eliminating the past and the future, but you were drinking and making merry with them. How can that be acceptable? Young man, you're so cunning that I even suspect you're in the same line of work as me! Colleagues don't do business with each other. You'd better leave now; our time isn't right, we can't do business together!"

Seeing this, Ye Feng felt somewhat annoyed. His right eye turned slightly red, and a halo of light emanated from his right pupil.

The mysterious merchant raised his hand and said, "Wait!"

Ye Feng turned around, and before he could react, the right half of his face was gouged off!

The mysterious businessman cupped half of Ye Feng's face, examining Ye Feng's right eye with great interest, and kept asking, "How did this thing get inside your body?"

Ye Feng said, "You mean the Eye of Entropy Increase? This was passed down to me by a senior!"

The mysterious merchant said, "Inheritance? Then why didn't you inherit a pair? You only inherited one? This thing should have two! One for the left eye and one for the right eye!"

Ye Feng said, "Senior Ye used his left eye himself; I only have his right eye."

The mysterious merchant lamented, "There's only one. What good is it?"

Ye Feng added, "However, my senior has already passed away."

"Ah!" The mysterious merchant exclaimed with ecstatic joy, "Really? Really? That's wonderful! A dead senior is a good senior! Quickly take me to your senior's grave, gouge out his left eye, and put it in yours! Then you'll be amazing!"

Ye Feng watched as the other man examined his right eye as if it were a walnut, and a chill ran down his spine: "Brother, I don't even know where my senior died, and his left eye is nowhere to be found either! Where am I supposed to find his left eye?!"

"Young man, you're mistaken!" The mysterious merchant shook his head and said, "This is an Entropy Eye! Do you know that? This thing wouldn't even be broken down if you threw it into a black hole. Its form is so stable it's almost unbelievable; even if I wanted to break it down, I couldn't! That's why the Entropy Eye has a special meaning!"

Ye Feng asked, "What does it mean?"

"A token!" The mysterious merchant leaned closer and said, "Whoever possesses these Entropy Eyes can attend the Calamity Academy! They will learn the supreme calamities that destroy the super-dimensional multi-dimensional universe!"

Ye Feng couldn't help but ask, "The Academy of Natural Disasters? What's that? And what's the Super-Multidimensional Universe?"

The mysterious merchant said, "Please, I'm a businessman, not a university professor. With your current limited knowledge, it's difficult for me to explain so many advanced martial arts terms to you. What I can tell you is: find the place where your predecessor fell, then I'll help you find the left eye, get you into the Calamity Academy, and then the Calamity Academy will tell you everything you want to know!"

Ye Feng asked, "Is this Calamity Academy powerful?"

"That must be amazing," the mysterious merchant said. "This academy specializes in producing Cataclysmic-level fighters. Not to mention anything far removed, even the Cataclysmic beings in your own parallel universe—like the Machines, the Zerg, and Chaos—are all graduates of this academy!"

Ye Feng said, "I see, no wonder it's called the Calamity Academy!"

The mysterious merchant seemed to have thought of something else, and patted Ye Feng on the shoulder, saying, "By the way, the name 'Catastrophe Academy' is just something we two keep to ourselves. If you encounter outsiders, be sure to say 'Pangu Academy' or 'High Martial Arts Academy,' never 'Catastrophe Academy'! To them, the words 'Catastrophe Academy' are like a carbon-based human insulting someone's mother—it's an absolute humiliation, and they'll hunt you down!"

Ye Feng nodded: "Understood. So, senior, according to you, my pair of Entropy Increase Eyes are the academy's admission notice?"

"That's right!" the mysterious merchant said. "And you are my best product!"

"Just imagine, if they sold you—no, introduced you to Pangu Academy—how much would they have to pay me!"

"Hahaha—"

"A rare commodity is worth hoarding! A rare commodity is worth hoarding!"