Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

Considering the timing, location, and countless trials and errors, Jiang Jiu felt it was worth the gamble.

Thus, through the efforts of both sides, the line shifted towards nothingness.

......

However, nothingness is uncontrollable; ordinary people would die if they touched it. Where would they find so many opportunities to try and fail?

Nihilism amplifies even the slightest emotion and diminishes the desire to keep moving forward.

You can't give up and accept death.

You are doomed.

The power of nothingness is never a gift; it is a loan, and the interest is yourself. The further you go, the more you owe, until one day you find that you can no longer repay it.

It took Jiang Jiu a long time to understand this principle during his second great reincarnation.

When he first stepped into the void, its power almost pulled him into the abyss, but he strangely managed to control it.

He didn't know the reason at the time, but now he can guess some of it.

Compared to the first great cycle, the initial stage of this line was much smoother, but the fall was also much faster.

The whisper of nothingness caused his ethereal power to go completely out of control with just one use. He almost fell into the vast ocean of nothingness before he could kill the enemy he wanted to kill.

There is no cure, no way to retreat, and no way to escape.

Every death is an accelerator, and every moment of despair pushes him toward the abyss of nothingness.

This time, he completed the first timeline, but he only stopped at the first timeline.

.......

Compared to the despair of the first storyline, dying in this one is probably a little easier.

Although it wasn't much better.

"..."

After reading through these memories, Jiang Jiu nodded knowingly.

"Both answers are dead files."

He rested his chin on his hand, chuckled, and looked at the system: "What an unreliable, useless system."

"Both of my choices are dead ends."

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Chapter 264 The Host's Authority is Above All Else

The system didn't respond, but Jiang Jiu didn't care.

Faced with these memories that could be described as despair, Jiang Jiu didn't actually have much emotion.

Although he knew better than anyone that these were things that had truly happened in the past, he still didn't have any complicated feelings.

Is it important?

important.

Because this journey has been incredibly difficult.

Rather than empathizing with his past self, he just wanted to figure out why he had gotten to where he was today.

Because of his will?

While this answer might be cool if followed, it's obvious that it's impossible no matter how you look at it.

And coincidentally.

Now, getting the answer is very simple for him.

"It doesn't matter if either of the two paths leads to a dead end; just find a third one."

Jiang Jiu rested his chin on his hand, his fingertips tracing random lines, pulling the wheel of cause and effect back to its very beginning.

It wasn't that the Iron Tomb had just been born, nor was it the beginning of an end line, but rather, for him, it was the moment when the third great cycle began.

Jiang Jiu is now a Star God. For him, time and cause and effect are no longer linear and irreversible. Because of his identity, he transcends this world and has the power in his hands, which is almost equivalent to a certain degree of omniscience and omnipotence.

His gaze fell upon his own powerless self, and that fleeting glance pulled him onto the path of "existence."

After some thought, He decided to simply grant the messenger a destiny without giving him any power; He merely allowed him to exist.

Why not just give it to the messenger directly?

The system suddenly spoke up and asked a question.

"Because of nothingness."

『......』

Jiang Jiu repeatedly altered some of the predetermined times in his life, and attempted to subtly interfere in some places where he was destined to fail. After pushing himself to the brink of death once again, he fell into a brief period of contemplation.

"Why is life so hard?"

His dissatisfied assessment.

"The path of existence emerges from the end of nothingness; without reaching the end of nothingness, one cannot see what existence truly is."

"But the path of nothingness is too troublesome."

"So...why not just give the Envoy of Existence the power directly?"

For a fleeting moment, Jiang Jiu wondered if the system might have been sent by another star god to cause trouble.

"Given this power, yes, the first few paths are easier now, no longer afraid of the void. But then what?" He casually explained, "Is this path completely dead end? You worthless system, tell me this path won't lead to the Star God, how do I solve it?"

『......』

"The host's authority is paramount; all commands must be obeyed by the host."

"Okay, then shut up."

『......』

The system obediently shut up.

Jiang Jiu rested his chin on his hand and thought for a moment, feeling as if something was missing.

A mask silently appeared beside him.

Then, in the next moment, the mask was easily grabbed by a hand and then, as expected, exploded into a burst of fireworks.

Jiang Jiu waved his hand lightly, and the surrounding mist mostly dissipated.

"doing what?"

Aha sensed something amusing, and even created a human-shaped figure of himself, sitting down next to Jiang Jiu. He said with a grin, "Are you in trouble, little madman? Aha's here to help you!"

"what?"

While Jiang Jiu was considering the feasibility, Aha began to aggressively promote himself.

"Aha is a very powerful star god. Aren't you worried that you might lose yourself if you go too far into the void? Aha can help you! Hahahaha!"

Aha sat down next to Jiang Jiu with a grin, swinging his legs back and forth like a mischievous child. The human form he sculpted for himself was very young, and it was impossible to tell whether he was male or female. He wore a mask with a perpetually wide grin on his head. He tilted his head to look at Jiang Jiu, and after waiting for a while, seeing that Jiang Jiu did not react, he moved a little closer.

"You little madman, you don't actually believe Aha, do you? Aha is incredibly powerful! Super powerful! So powerful that even Aha himself is afraid of him!"

Jiang Jiu finally turned his head and glanced at him. "Were you ever afraid?"

Aha blinked.

"No."

He honestly said, “But Ahab thinks that if Ahab is afraid, it must be because Ahab can’t find any fun.”

"You owe Aha a good laugh, so why don't you become Aha's servant!"

Jiang Jiu tilted his head slightly.

He knew, of course, that Ahab was referring to the past, not the present.

Is it joyful? Indeed, it is the lifeblood of resisting nothingness.

He paused for two seconds, then suddenly remembered what was missing.

Where are the bullet comments? I don't think I've ever seen them before.

"...Pfft." Jiang Jiu couldn't help but laugh.

"Joy, existence, bullet comments? Interesting, so that's how it is. Existence is my safety net, ensuring that I can be pulled back by existence when things get out of control."

"That's interesting. Creating something like bullet comments seems like a good idea."

After all... the path of saving the world is too lonely and too easy to despair.

A little bit of chatter now and then seems nice?

Seeing that Jiang Jiu seemed to be making something really interesting, Aha immediately came over: "What is this! It looks so interesting! Aha wants to play with it too!"

Jiang Jiu dragged out the system panel and created something similar to a live streaming room.

The difference is that this live stream only has actors, not viewers.

This was destined to be a quiet and deserted live stream.

"I can set it however I want, right?"

The host's authority is paramount.

"Row."

It's quite easy to create a virtual audience, but what to say?

He can't interfere with the past and the future one by one, so he can only provide a framework and let the rest be left to the individual.

Initial personality definition: positive, encouraging, and ambitious.

Jiang Jiu looked at these entries, paused for two seconds, and then completely overturned them.

"Do you think you're on a bright and idyllic mission? What use is this kind of thing under this kind of pressure?"