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

At the same time, Xia Jie's memories began to become disordered and entropy increased. Many key memories were shrouded in a misty fog, and even clear thoughts became hazy.

Trying to focus her mind, Xia Jie's head was filled with laughter that was both joyful and slightly wicked and manic. Then, a gentle rhythm of the heart began to play, becoming the accompaniment to the laughter, as if to lead Xia Jie's mind to the ultimate state of perfect harmony among all people.

Destruction, mystery, joy, and harmony were unleashed in succession, and the combined power of these abilities produced a remarkable effect.

Coincidentally, due to the breakthrough of the original body, the current embodiment of spiritual protection is Xia Jie's version.

As long as it doesn't reach a level that affects one's true self, this protection will not reject superficial spiritual intervention.

Now, the main body is in seclusion to purify its true self, seeking to realize the first cause of emptiness, while the avatar is left behind to inspire new ideas in battle.

Whether there's a chance or not, just try your luck. Who knows, a useful idea might pop into your head sometime?

The crystal's body disintegrated under the crushing force of the giant hammer and the entropy within it. Each fragment was encased in translucent amber, trembling like mosquitoes inside the amber, trying to reassemble.

The concept of "mutual" implies that the stronger one's inner self, the weaker one's outer self; this is the principle of balance.

With a single blow, all four crystal bodies shattered into pieces.

Within that divine body, Xia Jie's mind was swirling amidst mist, laughter, and song, trapped in a state between ignorance and lucidity.

Reason sinks due to ignorance, while the naked ego, untouched by civilization, rises in the ocean of the subconscious.

Those who sink and those who rise meet in a state between waking and dreaming, sparking a kind of unrestrained inspiration that is hard to find in either wakefulness or sleep—one that respects logic yet is also wildly imaginative.

Many abilities that are difficult to reproduce in this world due to differences in worldviews become possible to be realized with the help of inspiration.

He remembered that, including the phrase "all things perish, all colors return to emptiness," the Buddhist atmosphere of the Collapse Iron World was quite strong.

That being the case...

The clear and solemn chanting, amidst the violent crystal oscillations caused by the body's disintegration, coalesced into a coherent form:

“Om! Observe that which is neither empty nor extinguished, neither form nor impure,”

“Immeasurable magnificence remains constant in this very moment,”

"Evolution is a cycle of constant progress, change, and movement,"

"It is the so-called—the Great Crimson Lotus of Eternal and Endless Karma!"

Starting from the fragments of pure blue glass lotus petals behind 'Fu Li', a filthy, turbid crimson flame ignited, carrying endless malice towards the world, licking every strand of karma and cause and effect, burning brighter and brighter under the raised giant hammer.

"The cause and effect are impure, and the great cause is not empty."

Therefore, the red lotus is never empty.

The twisted humanoid form, forged from the karmic fire of the Crimson Lotus, rose from Fu Li's corpse and calmly observed its second hammer strike in the frozen space-time.

He transformed the appearance of the destiny of memory from ice crystals that freeze all things into karmic fire that burns away cause and effect. While maintaining the core concept, he jumped from the cycle of cause and effect to a state of stillness without cause or effect, successfully freezing the entire universe temporarily.

All things cease, leaving only silence.

The empty shell called Fuli, built from memories, has been shattered and suppressed, but the Star God of Memories remains unaffected.

The twisted humanoid form, formed from crimson karmic fire, looked up at the descending giant hammer, its heart calm, only slightly moved.

These star gods fought without restraint. If they hadn't been distracted and caused the universe to misremember the size of this space, creating an infinitely expanding dimensional pocket, that blow would likely have affected many civilizations.

However, it was quite a coincidence.

Memory, ice crystals, frozen.

Preservation, amber, condensation.

Memory is the amber of life; freezing it is the preservation of the present.

There's quite a lot in common between the two.

The same love for beautiful things led to different fates due to differences in how they were maintained.

He needs to find a way to swallow up the storage and protection, integrate the philosophy of storage and protection, and complete a conceptual expansion of the destiny of memory.

Otherwise, the upcoming war of gods will be a bit difficult, and he has no doubt that some star gods who seem to have fallen will come back to life during the war, or that a new god will suddenly emerge from some corner of the universe during the war, or even a few peerless powerhouses similar to the number one genius Zandal will appear and kick him around, since the main storyline is not yet finished.

Even if he could traverse the entire universe's memories, he couldn't be certain that he knew everything. Even setting aside the myth of creating unknowable and mysterious star gods, these memories might have been tampered with by some masters of destiny.

It's not to be taken seriously at all.

Speaking of the Star God rising from the dead, I wonder if a greedy glutton like myself, who desires to unify all destinies and control the past, present, and future of all living beings, would actually come back to life on the spot...

Hey! I have an idea!

Instead of trying to swallow up and protect it, why not first take down the Greedy's account, then devour Fuli, and starting with the Greedy, swallow all the half-dead Star Gods, and carry out a thunderous fusion in the course of destiny!

Chapter 186 Star

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 accurately, because of the exertion of 'balance', he could no longer do it even for a moment, which he had done before.

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 his 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 part 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 thirst.

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

"real or fake?"

Xia Jie looked at the light that symbolized pioneering. Within that light, 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'.

'You even managed to find me? Why are you coming here instead of following your main storyline...?'

'That's right, it's normal for Xing to 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?