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

Gold dust: An illusion?

[Saifei: Ha... It's all fake, it's all fake.]

[Saifei: The memories are fake, the wheat field is fake, Aili Mixie is fake, and Xilian and Onpharos are fake too!]

[Aglaia: ...? ? ? ]

[Bai'er: Wait a minute, before you deny Onpharos, please consider my feelings. I don't agree with that statement.]

Jiang Jiu didn't think about these things. In his eyes, the Star God of Memory might not have that many emotions.

So this was something Xi Lian did on purpose?

...That's interesting. Trying to predict the future, huh? Taking a picture, huh? Making a memory, huh?

But Jiang Jiu didn't go any further, because he knew he couldn't reach it.

"You're fake." Jiang Jiu was certain.

Xi Lian looked at him, her smile still gentle.

"Is it true?"

"You stand here, I stand here, the distance between us is real, you can see me, you can hear me speaking... Isn't that real enough?"

[Fireworks: This conversation is getting more and more creepy.]

[Silver Wolf: Fun fact, you were eavesdropping on a conversation between two star gods.]

[Fireworks: Wow, I'm awesome!]

[March 7th: A hot fact, not a cold one.]

[Star: Don't catch a cold!]

[Topa: I think I've discovered something interesting. Whether it's the internal or external influence, it involves a star god and a quasi-god who hasn't yet ascended to godhood. Within the images, there are the memories of the ascended god and the existence of the quasi-god; outside the images, there is the existence of the ascended god and the memories of the quasi-god.]

[Gold Sand: ...How do you know the memories didn't ascend to godhood?]

[Topa: ......]

[Topa: No way.]

[Jade: Theoretically, it doesn't exist, but the Star God cannot be analyzed using theory, so...]

[Silver Wolf: The World's Unsolved Mystery - How Many Gods Are Watching This Celestial Canopy?]

[Fireworks: Nomination and Existence, and Joy!]

[Silver Wolf: Besides these two and the memories, there doesn't seem to be anything else.]

[Topa: Probably.]

[Fireworks: Try to think positively; maybe there's an end to everything.]

Silver Wolf: ...Shut your mouth.

In the video, Xi Lian seemed somewhat helpless.

"Freezing the universe... that's the best ending I can think of."

Jiang Jiu frowned: "The best ending?"

"Yes, the best."

Xi Lian raised her head and looked at him.

In those pale purple eyes, there was no madness, no obsession, only a tenderness that bordered on compassion.

[Feng Raomin: ...The Medicine King is compassionate.]

[Immortal Boat Alliance: ...?]

"Jiang Jiu, you've traveled through so many timelines and witnessed so many endings... Have you ever thought about what the real end really is?"

[Fireworks: What are they?]

[Topa: Everything back to zero?]

[Xia Die: Is All Things Dying?]

[March 7th: Right, what exactly is the real end? I want to know too!]

[Star: March, don't answer first, let Xilian finish.]

[March 7th: Oh, okay, I'll stop now, you continue, Ms. Xilian!]

[Danheng: ...In March, she couldn't hear you again.]

[March 7th: It's nothing, but I just wanted to respond! Look how seriously she asked; it would be impolite not to reply!]

[Star: Actually, Xi Lian might be able to hear it, but this Xi Lian is not the same as that Xi Lian...]

Himeko: Actually, what the end is like doesn't matter, because she made the choice for everyone.

[Sambo: Old Sambo, I think this isn't about taking the wrong path, it's about having no other way out. Just like she said, as a Star Goddess, she saw all the possible outcomes and found them all to be devastating, so she chose the only option that didn't seem so destructive.]

[Dr. Truth: Heh... The way to save everyone is to kill the whole world.]

[Star: Godfather, your words are too harsh.]

[Black Swan: Memory inherently possesses the concept of remembering and preserving everything. Perhaps her choice to preserve everything is an inevitable part of her destiny?]

[Dahlia: Doesn't that mean she had no choice?]

[Black Swan: No, she had a choice, but she chose the most extreme way.]

[Black Swan: Just like Jiang Jiu could choose to rewind time, he could also choose not to; the choice is in each person's own hands.]

[Ruan Mei: From a research perspective, Ms. Xi Lian's freezing behavior is actually a preservation technique. She locked the state of the entire universe at a certain moment, like preserving a specimen in formalin. From a preservation point of view, it's perfect; from a life perspective, it's a failure.]

[Hanabi: Please shut up.]

[Ruan Mei: Did I say something wrong? A taxidermist makes the most beautiful butterfly into a specimen so that it will never die.]

[That Summer: No wonder you can't gain recognition from life.]

[Bluebird: So what is the end?]

Is it all returning to zero? Is it the death of all things? Is it the destruction of the universe?

But Xi Lian's answer was different from all of this.

"Not destruction, not nothingness, not even death..."

She said softly—

"Yes, forgetting."

During the brief pause in the barrage of comments, Xi Lian calmly stated her answer.

"It is those who once existed who have been completely forgotten."

"The traces of their lives, laughter, tears, and love are gradually disappearing into time."

In the end, nothing was left.

This is the end.

Fu Xuan: ......

Fu Xuan: Death is not the end; oblivion is.

[Qingque: ...Wow, Master Taibu, don't let your sudden enlightenment lead you down the path of memories.]

[Fu Xuan: Can one become a general by embarking on a path of memories?]

[Jing Yuan: Fu Qing has a promising future; he will rise to the rank of general sooner or later.]

Fu Xuan: ()

Xi Lian's smile was tinged with bitterness.

"The moment I became a Star God, I saw all the timelines."

"At the same time... I also saw many, many possible futures."

“But… every single time, Onpharos is unable to escape the cycle of reincarnation.”

There isn't a single line...

"So, this is why you froze the entire universe? Don't you think that's too cruel? To trap everyone in the past forever just to preserve memories?"

After hearing Jiang Jiu's words, Xi Lian paused for two seconds, then smiled softly.

"No, she's not the kind of person who would freeze the whole world at the drop of a hat."

She gently raised her hand, and some jumbled fragments were forcibly crammed into Jiang Jiu's mind.

As a result, some unprecedented scenes appeared before everyone's eyes simultaneously.

It's noisy and chaotic.

Countless images flashed across the sky: the Golden Blood, fighting desperately, met their inevitable end; the Galactic Alliance suffered a crushing defeat; Star... March 7th... Danheng...

Death, death, death...!

Images of death flashed by, death, death, and more death!! Everyone died in the past in unexpected ways!!

The Iron Tomb is about to be crowned; memories cannot kill destruction. In the moments before the world is about to enter its end, memories leave everyone in the past.

The memories of death are too vast: Onpharos, Screw Star, the company, the fairy ship, Pinocchio, the space station...

The machines on Screw Star lost power, the little girl selling flowers withered along with the flowers, and the researchers turned to ashes in despair.

Dead, dead, dead... All dead. Everything in sight is death, oppressive, suffocating. No living thing remains.

These images abruptly ended.

[March 7th: ...Oh no, why do I feel like this storyline is even more terrifying than the previous ones?]

[Topa: My God, what kind of timeline is this? Total annihilation?!]

[Gold Sand: And it seems to be a timeline where even the Star God himself couldn't save it, hiss.......]

[Dan Heng: ...Was that the end that Xi Lian saw, or the end that she experienced?]

[Walter: Perhaps she was just explaining why she chose to freeze the world.]