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

"Really? Ultimately, why must people accept death instead of living on?"

'When a person dies, doesn't everything they experienced in life become meaningless?'

'I've decided, when I grow up I want to be a biologist who studies lifespan!'

After listening, Xia Jie felt a slight stirring in her heart, as if something was about to break through the dusty soil of her memories.

"Is this the original intention that I forgot the very next day?"

Lao Xia just scratched his head, lamenting the unrealistic naivety of his childhood ideals, and ultimately achieving nothing.

The moment I stepped off the school bus as a child, my memories shifted to elementary school.

At that time, he was still innocent, but his domineering nature was growing stronger. Simply put, it was the most chuunibyou (delusional) episode.

Xia Jie's soul shrank into her new body, listening to the voice of her heart, which had changed due to her mental growth.

How much can I accomplish in this world? And what will my fate be?

'No, I don't want an ending. I don't want to be a mortal sinking into the mire of time. I want to reach the top of the world and witness infinite wonder!'

There's a saying... "Until immortality, all is vanity."

One day, I will no longer be a passerby in time, but rather time will become a passerby in my life!

"Wow, that's awesome. So I actually said something like that back then. Ding Zhen could tell at a glance that I read it while reading The Insect World."

The throbbing in her heart intensified slightly, but the dull-witted Xia Jie remained oblivious, instead gaining a profound understanding of what it meant that "people cannot even empathize with their past selves."

Memories change, then change again, and then change once more.

Xia Jie saw herself in middle school, who repeatedly got full marks in biology through hard work and interest, but found that she was not a genius and her intelligence was not enough to develop immortality technology in the 21st century. Her ideals gradually withered and she began to give up in middle school.

Xia Jie saw herself in high school, half hardworking and half self-destructive; she saw herself in college, half confused and half living for the moment; she saw herself as an adult, scrolling through posts on the sofa, talking about beating up the Corpse Immortal of Ten Thousand Industries with top-tier skills, on the eve of her transmigration.

After that came a major turning point in her life. After receiving the blessing of the miracle "Challenge Space", Xia Jie unleashed an infinite black flash with her rekindled life and dreams!

The self-proclaimed clay maker, Lu Ziyun who opened her domain, the five constellations who joined forces to create a four-in-one domain to annihilate Tianyuan, the sacrifice of the Sun Chariot, the Space Undying Slash that ended everything, the gathering through the soul passage—all these past events gradually became clear before Xia Jie's eyes, and the sense of enlightenment in her heart became more and more obvious...

It seems that some answer is already on the page, but I subconsciously ignored it due to the inertia of my thinking.

Almost there, just a little bit more!

Click—!

The flashback of memory abruptly ended here, because the long yet fleeting 30 seconds had already passed, and the light rain that burned away logic finally broke through Xia Jie's extraterrestrial body, which had been strengthened by the principle of adaptation and universal resistance.

Death has come.

In the struggle between the infinite and the infinite, the demigod of memory begins to burn.

However, Natsuki, who was engrossed in the Jujutsu Kaisen rerun, was completely unaware of this.

When consciousness opened its eyes, what it saw was an endless expanse of pure white.

This is a pure white space that resembles both a challenge space and a passageway for the soul, similar to the revolving lantern scene that appears when the water clock dies.

However, no one asked Xia Jie how she felt, whether she was heading south or north, and no entity from the Unified Body jumped out to say, "You're so strong!"

There is only Xia Jie here.

"Is this my limit? Is this the end of my fighting spirit and patience that I'm so proud of?"

"I can't understand it, I can't master it. Could it be that the arrogance and laziness that come with power have diluted the purity of my heart?"

"No, it has nothing to do with power. I am not pure enough to be easily influenced by inflated power."

"Wait, pure? Pure... what is pure, and what is purity?"

"Can my present self, which has abandoned causal logic in order to become the perfect god of memory, truly be considered to have high purity?"

"Burning away cause and effect, abandoning logic, and transforming into pure memory, I am certainly perfect and pure, but am I really still myself? Or am I merely a divine memory cloaked in my skin?"

"Ultimately, why do I pursue purity? Is it to become stronger, because I think it's cool, or because I believe that this is the mindset of a truly strong person?"

"There are two motivations for doing something: I want to do it, and I need to do it. The difference between the two is like heaven and earth."

"Now that things have come to this, what is the purpose of imbuing my life with the pursuit and meaning of 'strength'? And why have I embarked on this path of no return for the strong?"

"Is it really because you want to experience the thrill of battle, and witness the unknown possibilities that defy conventional destinies?"

Shouldn't I be on the path of "self"?

"My conscious demand for purity may be going against the true meaning of purity."

"I follow my own path, I am my own master. Didn't I already understand this principle when I fought against Tengen?"

"Having the ability to rewind infinitely, what made me yearn to do things with my heart and with clay, and then why did I stop trying?"

"Could it be that I subconsciously feel that the me who now possesses 'infinite' power and can create all things with a single thought is necessarily stronger than the me who was full of determination back then?"

"In the end, if I do not follow my heart and act accordingly, what am I to be?"

Xia Jie finally understood.

Along with sudden enlightenment comes a constant stream of burning fighting spirit and an endless stream of crystal-clear inspiration.

At this moment, he had a tiny bit of his own understanding of the sword cultivator's idealistic approach to allocating combat power:

Common miscellaneous fish:

3 + 3 + 3 = 9

A First Glimpse:

3+3+3=3×3×3=27

Some success:

3 + 3 + 3 = 333

Entering the inner sanctum:

3+3+3=3^3^3=3^27

Integration and mastery:

3+3+3=3↑↑↑3

Reaching the pinnacle:

3+3+3=8+3=∞+∞/2

Just like Gojo Satoru, who doesn't yet know how to reverse the technique and whose body is still severely injured.

For Xia Jie, who has just achieved enlightenment, the battle has only just begun.

For the unified entity, which is bound by desire and is trying to break free from its constraints, the battle is already over.

Hmm... an end in every sense of the word.

Chapter 97 Break through, then break through again, then break through once more.

Actually, the four mistakes I summarized earlier never existed in the first place.

'My only mistake from beginning to end was failing to carry out my own will to the end.'

The smallest unit of strength is the implementation of one's own will.

In other words, without one's own will, true strength cannot even begin.

'My starting point was to save the sun, moon, and universe, not to become the true god of memory. As long as I can ensure the birth of all things, what difference does it make whether I pursue the purity of memory or not?'

When Xia Jie swallowed the memories of the entire universe whole, she felt that doing so was the right thing to do.

As the rain of logic arrived, Xia Jie felt that doing so was wrong.

Now, Xia Jie feels once again that what she did was actually not wrong at all.

看山是山，看山不是山，看山还是山。

This is probably what is meant by "negation of negation" or "returning to simplicity".

'I understand now. I am choosing power; power must conform to me, not change me to conform to power!'

'I am not a slave to external things like power, purity, or strength; I am only a slave to myself. Only I can be controlled by myself. I want to be my own god!'

There's no such thing as purity. Whether it's laziness or retreat, I've always been 100% myself.

'Even my goal of helping all living beings in the universe is the same; I am indeed fighting for the happiness of all living beings, but that does not mean I must fight.'

'I fight because I want to, not because the masses need me; I am a strong person driven by interest, not a hero driven by duty.'

Therefore, I refuse to be a defined strongman, and I refuse excessive self-definition; I only need to be myself.

This is all that Xia Jie has come to understand. Although he has not been able to figure out a way to break through the rain of logic head-on, what he has come to understand is a correct mind.

The spell power of the sorcery system, the innate supernatural power of the spell seeker system, and the magic power of the magical girl system are all related to the heart.

All three systems have their idealistic aspects, and they converge in Xia Jie's body, and not only that...

Don't forget, the causeless and effectless body outside the realm is just a special dharma body that Xia Jie created using binding, barrier techniques, and causal resistance, not his innate supernatural power.

Yes, ever since he elbowed the Corpse Immortal of Ten Thousand Industries and the Law of Cause and Effect, Xia Jie has never used his innate supernatural power.

It wasn't that he didn't want to use it, nor that he wanted to keep it as a trump card, but rather that his innate supernatural power had always been in a seed state.

As the former false world's causal law, Xia Jie buried her destiny deep within the causeless and effectless Earth, drawing power from the root of the false causal law.

Afterwards, his destiny consumed nearly half of those seven hundred-plus wishes to strengthen and supplement them, to absorb the advantages and idealism of the three systems, but without allowing them to take shape.

Even when using memory techniques to unify magic and gain omnipotence, Xia Jie also allocated some of the omnipotence to her own destiny.

The reason was simple: Xia Jie wanted to see what kind of thunderous power her carefully nurtured seed of destiny could produce.

After a long period of nurturing, the natal spirit even possessed the power of supernatural abilities before they were fully developed, but Xia Jie could not use them in order not to interfere with its gestation state.

The "Seed of the Inner Universe, the Seed of Causality, the Seed of Innate Supernatural Power, and the Unsolved Mystery" originated from Xia Jie's curiosity about the primordial cause of the universe's birth. It can also be said to be the first cause of the creation of heaven and earth, the cause of all effects, the cause without cause, the first driving force, the primordial variable, the primordial cause and effect, and the primordial logic.

This curiosity remained unanswered even after Xia Jie activated the Karma Burning and transformed into the Akashic Records of the Sun, Moon, and Universe.

In the metaverse, there are actually quite a few people who try to obtain answers to similar ultimate questions by making wishes.

When faced with a problem that exceeds the limits of the technology tree, Cupid's wish-granting technology, which is somewhat shrouded in mystery, provides a rather ambiguous answer, much like the magic conch shell in SpongeBob SquarePants.

In short, Xia Jie only understood everything that happened after the Big Bang, but never managed to see the cause of the Big Bang itself.