The circular track suddenly accelerated, and countless holographic images exploded. He Xiao saw Shen Linyue, wearing a white lab coat, recording: [April 1st, 23:59, Attempt to inject consciousness into the novel world]. The last page of the experimental log was, in fact, the story outline of "Don't Be Mad, Villain" written by himself.
"Impossible!" He Xiao staggered backward, the overturned reagent bottle spilling purple liquid. The solution meandered on the ground, perfectly matching the chain marks in the He family dungeon.
The woman in the ice coffin suddenly ripped open her clothes, revealing a barcode beneath her collarbone that stung his eyes. "You always ask why we drink blood on the first day of each month," she said, pointing to the constantly flashing code. "This is a genetic lock, requiring decoding of parent-child gene fragments—what you think is heart-stripping to prolong life is actually..."
"It's the anchor point for maintaining the quantum entanglement state," He Xiao blurted out, as modern memories flooded back. He touched the ice coffin with trembling hands, and the iris scanning lock opened instantly—this was clearly the security system of the laboratory in 2035.
A rustling sound came from outside the tree hollow. The girl with the beauty mark was eating blood apricots; each slice made her ten years younger. When she transformed back into her teenage form, He Xiao saw the words on her school badge: Time and Space Administration 2045.
"Brother finally remembered?" The girl licked her bloodied lips. "Back then, you secretly initiated the Möbius Project, trapping Mother in a novel for thirty-seven years of reincarnation..."
Suddenly, her hidden arrow pierced He Xiao's left eye. In the excruciating pain, memories of his past life flooded back—when the laboratory exploded, he was the one who personally uploaded his mother's consciousness into the novel world. And the so-called transmission of the book was merely the system's final save file before its collapse.
"Why did you choose me as the villain..." He Xiao crushed the hidden arrow in his left eye, his mechanical prosthetic eye flashing red light, "Because only the Xuan Yin Body can withstand the time paradox!"
The girl's laughter suddenly twisted. Her skin peeled away, revealing metallic bones: "The Administration has detected a spacetime anomaly; this world will be annihilated in seven days. But if you wish..."
He Xiao's sword was faster than her words. As the Shattering Star Sword pierced the girl's brow, the entire space began to collapse. He picked up the ice coffin and leaped into the particle orbit, murmuring softly amidst the spacetime turbulence: "This time, it's my turn to be the observer."
Blood Apricot Grove vanished in the blinding light. He Xiao's mechanical eye read the last data stream: [Novel world source code has been rewritten, new character loaded—Administrator He Xiao, permission level ∞]
As the light faded, he stood outside the delivery room. Through the glass, he saw himself from 1999 being carried by a nurse, while Shen Linyue, covered in blood on the delivery bed, suddenly turned her head and gave him a smile reminiscent of their first meeting across time.
The Möbius strip on his wrist began to reverse, and the ice coffin in his arms turned into stardust. He Xiao finally understood the true purpose of the Blood Jade Gu—it was a time cocoon that his mother had woven for him through thirty-seven reincarnations.
When the spacetime rift opened, the sky of the cultivation world transformed into a circuit board. He Xiao stood atop Sword Inquiry Peak, watching the Milky Way hang upside down like a torrent of data—those twinkling stars were clearly binary instructions being loaded.
"Warning! Unauthorized system intrusion!"
Mechanical sounds descended from the clouds, and thirty-seven starships deployed their hive matrix. He Xiao's mechanical eye automatically identified the model: TM-2035 Time-Space Correction Ship, equipped with causality weapons—the very world-destroying weapon he had helped design before his transmigration.
The Shattered Star Sword trembled in his palm, and the two characters "逍遥" (Xiaoyao, meaning carefree and unfettered) on the hilt suddenly cracked open, revealing a miniature holographic projector. As the blue light swept across his pupils, He Xiao finally saw the true face of the inscription on the sword—it was his mother's handwritten diary, each word burning:
[Xiao'er, if you're reading this, it means we've failed at least 36 times. Remember, don't trust anyone claiming to be from the Management Bureau, including...]
The text abruptly ends, replaced by a horrified image of Shen Linyue. In the holographic projection, she is being pierced by metallic tentacles, while in the background, the screams of young He Xiao echo: "Mother! Cut the neural connection!"
"So this sword is a memory vessel." He Xiao stroked the scorching blade, then suddenly plunged it into his own heart. Blood splattered onto the star map birthmark, activating the hidden administrator privileges.
The entire cultivation world began to pixelate and reorganize. The fleeing cultivators were frozen into data models, and mountains and rivers were decomposed into green code. Only the starships of the Time and Space Administration became increasingly clear, with blood-red emblems emerging on their hulls.
"Target locked. Execute formatting procedure."
As the starship's main cannon charged, blood suddenly oozed from He Xiao's prosthetic eye. He saw countless world lines intertwining before his eyes, each branch representing the moment Chen Linyue vanished. The instant the countdown reached zero, he made his most insane move—plunging the Shattering Star Sword into a Möbius strip in the void.
"Initiate the observer protocol!"
A quantum storm swept across the heavens and earth, and He Xiao's physical body began to collapse. He transformed into a humanoid radiance, traversing between starships, each flash rewriting a line of world code. The causality weapon on the first starship suddenly reversed its firing position, and an apricot grove sprouted out of thin air in the engine room of the second starship...
"Warning! A logical paradox has occurred!"
Starships self-destructed one after another, turning into fireworks, but the image froze at the moment of the explosion. He Xiao pulled a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses from the data stream—this man had a name tag around his neck: [He Xiao, Chief Architect of the Time and Space Administration]
"You've finally arrived." The future self removed her glasses, revealing a mechanical prosthetic eye. "Thirty-seven reincarnations, just to wait for me to tell you the truth in person?"
The fingertips of the two He Xiaos simultaneously touched the void, and the cultivation world suddenly faded into a holographic laboratory sandbox. Shen Linyue, dressed in a hospital gown, lay in a life support pod, her body riddled with tubes. An electronic screen outside the pod displayed: [Vegetative State: 37 years]
"That year, the lab exploded, and to save your mother, you uploaded her consciousness into the world of a novel." Future He Xiao pulled up the surveillance footage. "But a system malfunction caused a time distortion; one second in reality equals ten years in the book."
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