It was a huge stone pillar.

These stone pillars were carved with incredible and strange patterns. Their twisted lines outlined some mysterious and strange images. Light emerged from the sky and fell on the hexagonal base in front of them. Some kind of heavy curtain blocked the existence inside, and only a vague silhouette could be seen.

That shadow looked like a human, but Fang Zheng knew very well that it was definitely not a human.

"I don't know who you are."

A voice sounded in Fang Zheng's mind.

"But I can feel the power you hold, a power I am very familiar with. Who are you?"

"That's a hard question to answer, but for now? You can think of me as someone who cleans up the mess for the goddess of order."

Fang Zheng sighed and took a step forward.

"Nyarlathotep is no good. I hope you can be more polite than him. In fact, since you claim to be omniscient and omnipotent, I think you should understand my intention. You have something I need. Either you give it to me honestly, or I will have to kill you and take it from your body... Anyway, the result is the same."

“…”

The world was immersed.

Then, the space began to tremble.

In just a moment, Fang Zheng felt that the world had changed.

At this moment, he is still himself, but he is not only himself, he has become one of countless him, he appears in different places and countless backgrounds at the same time. He stands beside Nymph, accompanying her to look at the towering mountains of Dunwich. He also stands by the Nile, watching the slaves shouting horns and pulling the huge stones to build the pyramids. He saw the moment when humans stepped into the universe, and also witnessed the fuse of the beginning of the world war.

But there is more to it than that.

He - or they still exist, not only in human form, but also in other forms. For example, an eagle soaring with its wings spread, a giant whale lurking in the depths of the sea, a tiger or leopard catching prey, or even a flower, a tree, or an ear of wheat swaying in the wind. Soon, the world begins to be magnified.

Then, Fang Zheng began to feel himself outside the earth.

On a certain planet, he is worrying about how to hold a ceremony to praise the gods; on another planet, he is longing to destroy everything. He is an animal and a plant, an organic and an inorganic substance.

The concept of Fang Zheng was infinitely dispersed at this moment and fell into different places in different worlds in different timelines.

And gradually, he was no longer himself.

However……

"hehe."

Along with the laughter, time began to reverse rapidly again.

How to make all this not exist? It's very simple, just don't let it happen. Time is flowing, and everything in the world is moving forward in accordance with the flow of time. Fang Zheng doesn't need to take Yog-Sothoth's trick at all. He just needs to go back in time to before Yog-Sothoth played tricks on him, then everything Yog-Sothoth did will be meaningless.

Because none of this has happened yet.

The flames were boiling, and the dazzling light penetrated the entire multi-dimensional space, like a ray of guiding sunlight tearing through the darkness and bringing tangible order to the disordered world.

“——!”

The space trembled suddenly, Fang Zheng opened his eyes and looked at the pedestal in front of him again. Behind the curtain, the shadows that originally surrounded that figure were now lying on the ground in a mess.

“…This is a test.”

After a while, the voice sounded again.

"I don't think this is the right way. If you do that, you won't be yourself anymore."

“…So, you can’t do it.”

"certainly."

Fang Zheng nodded.

"The self and the world are contradictory. It is impossible for an infinite self to exist. When the self becomes the self, it will inevitably be separated from it. Sorry, I didn't graduate from the philosophy department, and I don't have much research in this area, so if you come to discuss this philosophical issue with me, then I won't bother you."

Fang Zheng knew what Yog-Sothoth had done. In fact, he could feel the power of the Goddess of Order just now. In other words, everything he had experienced was also the method thought up by the Goddess of Order - to divide oneself into countless parts and then integrate them into the equally countless chaos in order to achieve fusion.

However... Fang Zheng refused.

In his opinion, if this experiment succeeded, there would be no benefit, but if it failed, he would be dead. In any case, a consciousness needs to maintain its self, and if it cannot maintain its self, then it is equivalent to death. And if it cannot maintain its self, it means merging into disordered chaos. But on the other hand, if you want to maintain your self, you will definitely not be able to merge into chaos.

Of course, this is also a contest of strength between the two sides. If Fang Zheng is not as good as Yog-Sothoth in controlling time, then he can forget about going back in time. It's like tug-of-war. The party with less strength will be knocked down by the other party directly, without even a chance to get up. At that time, Fang Zheng will be really finished.

Fortunately, as a time dragon, Fang Zheng's understanding of time is not much worse than Yog-Sothoth's, and he also holds the First Flame - the first flame that created the world and established order, which is not so easy to be separated. It can be said that in the "tug of war" just now, Fang Zheng used the First Flame as a beacon to stabilize his own existence, and then collected all the scattered timelines.

This was obviously not the answer Yog-Sothoth wanted, but Fang Zheng didn't need to see its expression. As Fang Zheng said, if you are willing to give, then give it. If you don't want to give it to me, then take it away.

Finally, after a moment, the figure behind the curtain raised his hand slightly, and soon, a shining cube appeared in front of Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng took the cube and squeezed it hard.

Soon, the scene in front of me changed again.

This time, what stood before him was the infinite void, and the Goddess of Order suspended in it.

"The 321st experiment..."

Looking at the glass jar containing the black meat in her hand, the Goddess of Order became noticeably uneasy.

“I hope it doesn’t succeed.”

"……?"

Seeing the uneasy expression on the Goddess of Order's face, Fang Zheng blinked and stared at her in confusion. He wondered if he had heard something wrong. It was reasonable to say that the Goddess of Order was worried about the failure of the experiment, but was she worried about the success of the experiment?

If you are worried about the success of the experiment, why not just not do it?

You did it three hundred and twenty-one more times?

Is there something wrong with the brain of this goddess of order?

However, just as Fang Zheng was thinking about these questions in confusion, he saw the Goddess of Order casually throw the glass jar in her hand into the void, then raise her hands and place them on both sides of the glass jar. Soon, dazzling light emerged from the hands of the Goddess of Order and gradually transferred to the dark piece of meat sealed in the glass jar.

As the divine power was injected, the dark piece of flesh began to wriggle more and more, twisting its body constantly, and the dense tentacles on its body also danced. Then, the divine light became more and more dazzling, as if it was compressed to a limit, and then...

Everything in front of Fang Zheng's eyes turned white.

When he opened his eyes again, everything around him had returned to normal.

Damn, this is another prediction of what will happen next. Let’s wait and see in the next episode.

Seeing this, Fang Zheng rolled his eyes helplessly.

But no matter what, he had gotten what he was supposed to get, and the only thing left was...

Fang Zheng took a look and found that his current achievement progress was [8/? ], so the remaining two should be Shub-Niggurath and Azathoth as expected.

But...what did the Goddess of Order mean?

Although the previous scene did not last long, the meaning revealed in it made Fang Zheng feel uneasy. The expression of the Goddess of Order at that time was even a little desperate. She seemed to be looking for an answer, but did not want to know the answer... Well, this gave Fang Zheng a very bad premonition.

As for the outcome...

The only way to know is to find Shub-Niggurath.

When Fang Zheng returned to the real world, he frowned. Now he was sure that the Goddess of Order had done some experiment here, and the core of that experiment was the squirming black meat that Fang Zheng had seen before. If Fang Zheng's guess was correct, then that black meat should be Azathoth. In other words, the Goddess of Order chose to create a guy like Azathoth in this world?

So why did she create Azathoth?

In the memory given by Nyarlathotep, the Goddess of Order seemed to be seeking a solution by creating Azathoth, but Fang Zheng also remembered that she said that it was risky. However, in the memory obtained from Yog-Sothoth this time, Fang Zheng found that the Goddess of Order was obviously beginning to fear that kind of risk - perhaps she might gradually realize the true meaning of the risk she had been thinking about before?

Unfortunately, these memories are sporadic and there is no complete paragraph...

But no matter what, at this point, Fang Zheng could no longer continue to be leisurely. He still had no news about Shub-Niggurath, but Fang Zheng had his own way.

Even if he couldn't use the prophecy spell, Fang Zheng was still a prophecy wizard, and a god at that. Sometimes, his premonitions were just as important.

After resolving the matter in Dunwich, Fang Zheng returned to his residence in Arkham and began to look for his next destination on the world map. Now Fang Zheng is eager to find clues about Shub-Niggurath and obtain the last ancient memory from her to find out what the goddess of order did and what the significance of Azathoth's existence is in it.

This time, Fang Zheng's premonition led him to the East.

To be exact...Japan.