Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

Within the frozen "present," crimson karmic fire burns fiercely.

Time and space froze, and the gods stood still.

Xia Jie is actually not capable of being a time-stopping star god, especially the Last King who travels in reverse.

At least Xia Jie can't right now.

More precisely, because of the 'balanced' exertion, he could no longer do what he had done for a moment.

In order to prevent the time stop from being lifted by "equilibrium", he gave up directly competing with other star gods in the realm of time. He changed his timeline from the normal y-axis to the x-axis, which is perpendicular to the y-axis.

When the personal timeline is perpendicular to the real timeline, the temporal misalignment gives Xia Jie ample time to act.

The other star gods aren't fools, so this timeframe won't be infinite either.

Xia Jie threw Fu Li's old body into the karmic fire, sacrificing her body to strengthen the independence and stability of this special spacetime, so that "the present" would not be shattered too quickly by the light arrows and hammers from the future.

This is a 'balance' of cost and power that he actively achieved.

Then, Xia Jie traveled throughout the universe, searching for the sealed divine bodies of the gluttonous.

At the edge of the shade of the Tree of Existence, on the boundary of the universe's end, Xia Jie saw a tiny point of light.

As merely 'Floating Dawn', his gaze and the power of his destiny could not penetrate the light spot to see beyond the world.

The point of light is the future that the pioneering star god forged at the cost of his own life. It leads directly beyond the world, incredibly small, yet full of hope and the unknown.

"Rin Tohsaka must have entered the Hakutetsu from here."

Because her memories have been disturbed by mystery and destruction, Xia Jie is currently unsure how Rin Tohsaka got in.

But that doesn't stop him from guessing.

Xia Jie, who possesses the "upward perspective," knows that there is no distance in the void; worlds can be said to be infinitely distant from each other, or they can be said to be closely intertwined.

They can even overlap into one.

Rin Tohsaka, this rich yet poor young lady from Fuyuki City, must have traveled here through the "Second Law: Parallel World Interference" at the time of the world's intersection.

Magician's amazing skills +1.

Xia Jie didn't intend to linger. She scooped up a gluttonous fragment, about the size of an adult's thumb, encased in amber beneath the spot of light.

Prior to this, he had already visited Hatopia in the Lost Souls Starfield and obtained a slumbering glutton from the depths of Yalilo-VI.

Although the power of gluttony has been fragmented and its concepts and driving forces have been partially plundered, its most fundamental "insatiable thirst" remains.

Because of the power of "balance", the divine remains that Xia Jie obtained, based on the narrow "present", were only a slice of her timeline and not enough to be used as a substitute.

Xia Jie threw the divine remains into her own fiery body, watching them gradually crystallize as they burned, transforming from greedy flesh and blood into immaculate memories, which then flowed into her destiny.

He could sense that some fundamental change was taking place within him.

Because objective philosophical ideas are eternal and immortal, destiny itself is immortal, including the order encompassed by harmony.

Therefore, what is happening now is not a one-way engulfment, but a two-way fusion.

While memories merge with gluttony, gluttony also pollutes memories.

If we compare destiny to a river, then a portion of the source of the river called gluttony becomes the source of the river of memory.

The river of memories has become more abundant and wider, but it has also been affected by new driving forces, resulting in changes in water quality.

Xia Jie couldn't take away the most fundamental driving force; she only obtained a kind of "persistence" from this eternal hunger.

A passion for flavors, a sense of accomplishment, and all the vibrant experiences of the world.

Thus, 'memory' is no longer peaceful.

At the same time, the logic of behavior deviates greatly from the philosophical concept of memory. Since the challenge to the gods, Xia Jie, whose inner self has always been unstable, has become much more stable due to the loss of purity of memory.

"Stop! This will only bring disaster to the galaxy!!!"

The voice was very, very soft, so soft that Xia Jie thought he was hallucinating. But Xia Jie was never one to say, "It's probably just my imagination." After a moment of doubt, he immediately realized that someone was talking to him.

"I must stop you, you thief who usurped the place of memories!!!"

A tiny, desperate cry once again echoed in this universe where Xia Jie should have been the only living being.

"Really?"

Xia Jie looked at the light spot that symbolized pioneering. Within that light spot, a hand was slowly reaching out, desperately trying to squeeze into the spacetime amber that Xia Jie had frozen.

It is the hand of 'Star'.

"How did they manage to find me? Why aren't you following your main storyline? What are you doing here...?"

"That's right. It's only natural that Xing would come to me. As long as I exist, no amount of scripts or main storylines matters."

"I even jumped onto the x-axis and was still able to catch up... well... it's probably because of my exploration of destiny, or rather, a broader kind of exploration. It's not surprising that this smaller version of Akivili, with the help of others, was able to locate this spacetime."

"In Xing's eyes, I must be quite intimidating, right?"

Click, click, click—

As they pondered, cracks appeared in the amber-like spacetime, and a pair of hands firmly squeezed up the spacetime where Xia Jie was.

Wherever her hands touched, the cracked amber showed signs of melting, transforming from solidified amber into soft jelly. Then, a rather disheveled girl with golden eyes and gray hair barged in, her eyes filled with immense determination.

Within those golden eyes, a crimson figure, shrouded in karmic burdens, was reflected.

When someone exists, looks like a villain, speaks like a villain, and does like a villain.

Then he is the villain.

Unfortunately, due to her own perverse sense of humor, Xia Jie almost always manages to meet the above conditions.

Such is its nature; what can be done?

However, since Xia Jie started using her cheat code, she has had such a smooth journey that it's hard to find any reason for her to turn to the dark side and become extreme in her beliefs.

He was having a very successful time.

Even if he were to turn evil, there doesn't seem to be any evil desire worth committing.

After all, he's achieved pseudo-omnipotence, so aside from scaring people like this, he really has no reason to mess with the Hagis.

As for the chaotic metaverse...

Those immortals were simply tired of living and were finding new ways to torment themselves; it wasn't Xia Jie's fault.

Xia Jie, in her fiery form, lowered her head slightly, carefully observing the intruder from the x-axis universe.

A dozen or so immense forces of destiny rejected the tiny gray-haired body.

Expansion, preservation, joy, abundance, harmony, end, destruction...

Each one reached the level of a Commander, and some even reached the energy scale of a Star God.

The situation is clear: multiple Star Gods, under their own pressure, are maximally strengthening and projecting their power onto the protagonist, 'Star'.

As he gradually gains control of the surging power within his body, 'Star' will become stronger and stronger.

Will the embarrassing situation of squeezing into this universe never happen again...?

The humanoid karmic fire didn't think so.

He said to the star in front of the light spot:

"Even though you're the main character, I will win."