The Fourth Era
"here……"
"It's a desolate place."
Perception was maximized, but nothing was detected, only an utterly pure emptiness.
This seems to be the end of the road to zero.
There was nothing there.
The sky wanders aimlessly in the universe; it can still be called the universe, right?
It's just empty here.
There is nothing, nothing exists.
There is not a single element in the entire space.
Not to mention gases, liquids, solids, planets, life...
"This must be what it looks like after everything has been reset."
In previous lives, I died before returning to zero.
Regardless, they were all killed by the enemy, not waiting for the world to reach zero before they died.
Therefore, Lu Cang has never personally witnessed the scene after it was reset to zero.
Now I see all of this.
Cang Qiong couldn't help but sneer.
Everything returns to the final emptiness, a world where nothing exists...
No matter what other ideals or wishes they may have, they are no longer important.
What can one find in this world?
It's like being dead.
Cangqiong used all his mental energy to think, but he couldn't figure out what he could do in this world.
Soon, a year had passed.
Aside from its own existence, it seems that there is no concept of time.
Time is the manifestation of the flow of matter.
But in this universe, nothing exists, and no matter is in motion.
Three years...
The heavens are still counting.
If you forget to count, you'll forget the time.
ten years……
The idea of an empty universe, a universe with nothing in it, has been repeated countless times.
Cang Qiong gradually began to have a feeling that he might be in some kind of illusion.
Even so, the sky is still keeping count.
Remember the time, because only by remembering the time can you stay clear-headed. If you forget even the concept of time, you might even lose your own existence.
Twenty years...
Twenty years is just a very short journey in a lifetime.
Having gone through four cycles of reincarnation, the heavens have already experienced tens of millions of years, even though this time is not entirely in the real world.
For example, in the time of dreams, or in some trial grounds where time is chaotic, or in forbidden areas where years seem to pass like days.
From a spiritual perspective, tens of millions of years have indeed passed.
Twenty short years is indeed nothing in the grand scheme of things; it passes in the blink of an eye in the long run.
However, these twenty years of starting from scratch were particularly difficult.
This reminded the sky of Kumironi.
In my past life... it seems that only Kumironi is still alive.
Did she also spend that period of starting from scratch alone?
The God of life cannot die.
But it also means another painful price to pay...
That means you can't die even if you want to.
Even if someone else controls Kumironi's mind and tries to make him give up his life, Kumironi will not die.
Because she herself cannot do it.
The God of Life is eternally established, His divine position cannot be relinquished, and His divine foundation and divine power are eternally permanent.
If you can't even die, then spend your time in this empty, zero-based world.
Just how painful is this?
Fifty years...
Another thirty years have passed.
Cang Qiong didn't know how long he had been walking, or even whether he had left at all.
Nothing exists, nothingness.
Gradually, it makes people lose all senses. Even if they know they are flying forward, the scenery in their eyes and the feedback from their senses are all unchanging.
No matter which direction it moves in, it remains stable and unchanged.
Perhaps I never moved in the first place?
A sense of numbness gradually crept into my heart.
Fifty years is not a long time for a demigod. Even people who queue up to see Izparut can wait for fifty or even a hundred years.
But here.
What it brought to the heavens was dullness and numbness.
Cang Qiong sat down in the void.
I'm already tired from walking.
One hundred years...
Unexpectedly, another fifty years have passed since I sat down.
A century has passed in the blink of an eye.
Throughout these hundred years, Lu Cang has remained clear-headed.
Two hundred years...
My sense of time seems to have become dulled.
Fortunately, it still keeps track of time and keeps counting.
With an absolutely stable rhythm, it keeps track of time at all times, but unknowingly, another hundred years have passed.
From the initial feelings of restlessness and emptiness.
My mind gradually calmed down again.
Deep down, I began to accept the fact that there was nothing here.
What else can we do?
The only thing we can do is keep walking.
Cang Qiong never considered giving up hope; even in dire straits, he was determined to try and find a chance to survive.
Even if two hundred years have passed in this place where there is nothing.
Cang Qiong never considered using death to free himself.
Five hundred years...
Before we knew it, another three hundred years had passed.
Time no longer felt long.
It felt like it passed in the blink of an eye.
Every day, my mind is empty, utterly empty, facing an eternally silent void.
Rather, the world in our minds is much richer than the emptiness of the real world.
There is a long time to come.
A period of time so long that it's unclear whether time even exists anymore...
It was enough for the heavens to think through everything that had happened.
The heavens establish a kingdom in the spirit, reenacting every scene that has ever happened.
Three thousand years...
It feels like a dream, even though it spans such a long period of time.
I suddenly noticed this point in time, three thousand years ago.
It was the heavens that discovered an atom.
A single atom.
In this world of zeroing out, there are still things that haven't been zeroed out.
This discovery awakened the heavens.
Take this atom and hold it in your hand.
However, the moment the atom came into contact with Lu Cang's divine power, it vanished completely, like ice and snow melting away.
this……
The sky did not show any emotion.
I just quietly looked at my hands, at the atoms that seemed to have never appeared before.
Fortunately, memory doesn't fail.
Otherwise, the heavens would truly believe that what just happened was merely an illusion, a dream.
"It is a material entity."
The heavens spoke.
This has been the case for three thousand years.
The first words spoken.
Keep going; there might be many more things in this world that we haven't discovered yet.
Let's move forward in the direction of discovering that one atom.
Four thousand years...
Five thousand years...
a thousand years……
Another five thousand years have passed, and since then, the heavens have made no new discoveries, having already traveled in this direction for so long.
But perhaps, it didn't fly very far.
Without special equipment, even a demigod wouldn't be able to travel very far in ten thousand years.
Twenty thousand years...
Thirty thousand years...
As the span of time gradually increased, consciousness suddenly awoke, and ten thousand years had already passed.
Anyway, there's nothing in this world.
The only thing the heavens can do is imagine in their minds.
Imagination is the only thing in the sky that can relieve boredom.
Fifty thousand years...
One hundred thousand years...
130,000 years...
The lonely hours passed quietly like this, and flying had become the conscious instinct of the sky. If there were another person in this world who saw the sky here, they would see a walking corpse floating around like a zombie.
Drifting alone in this empty void.
Maintain the posture and remain motionless.
"The sky?"
But suddenly, a distant sound broke the silence.
Cang Qiong suddenly raised his eyes.
In my perception, I saw a familiar figure.
Does it look familiar?
It may be familiar, but it's also become unfamiliar.
Because 250,000 years have passed.
"Heart...a thousand illusions?"
This person is none other than [the one mentioned].
They were the war criminals who wanted to destroy humanity in the lower realms at that time.
【The Illusionary Heart Clan - A Thousand Illusions of the Heart】
Cang Qiong's eyes were instantly filled with light!
What are you doing here?!
Whoosh!
Cang Qiong's body instantly unleashed all its power, his divine kingdom unfolded, and he arrived in front of Xin Qianhuan in an instant, not giving it any chance to escape!
Xin Qianhuan, however, remained motionless despite seeing the approaching, menacing sky.
They had no intention of hiding or running away.
"you……"
"you!"
"Finally... finally I can see a living person!"
When Xin Qianhuan saw the sky, she burst into tears!
A living person!
There really are living people!
I don't know why it's the sky, but it's great.
That's really...wonderful.
Cang Qiong was also stunned. He immediately realized that Xin Qianhuan might have had the same experience as him, having spent so long in a world where everything had been reduced to zero.
But it's alright.
Xin Qianhuan has not disappeared.
It did not disappear like that atom we saw 230,000 years ago.
So many years have passed.
Cang Qiong didn't care about the time it took; he breathed a sigh of relief.
"alright……"
"Calm down."
"I am real, and you probably are too."
Xin Qianhuan wiped away her tears and nodded excitedly, "Mmm...Mmm!"
After Xin Qianhuan calmed down.
She then told the heavens everything that had happened before she came into this world.
Xin Qianhuan has experienced more than three million years in this zero-based universe.
Her life before was as short as that of an ant.
Before arriving in this Fourth Era, she had only lived for a thousand years.
More than three million years, but that is more than three thousand millennia.
Converted to the years a centenarian has lived, it is equivalent to ten days in a hundred years.
Xin Qianhuan recounted everything that had happened, detailing every single thing.
This even includes things that happened before I entered the illusionary world.
Perhaps because she hadn't spoken for so long, she didn't use her consciousness to quickly transmit information to the heavens. The two chatted for a long time, like old friends who hadn't seen each other in ages.
We've been talking for ten years...
The sky also selectively revealed a lot of information.
However, the heavens did not reveal everything; they still kept a lot to themselves.
"Imagination... a void and chaotic substance."
"And then I arrived here."
"After that, I tried to imagine nothingness and chaos, but there was no response."
After arriving here, Xin Qianhuan tried everything she could, but the final response was nothing.
It took ten years to understand the whole situation.
The two of them have plenty of time.
"I'll try to imagine it too."
The heavens closed their eyes.
My mind is filled with fantasies of nothingness and chaos.
The hazy chaos gradually became clearer, and following Xin Qianhuan's guidance, the outline of that chaos was gradually sketched in the mind.
A sense of terror suddenly rose in Cang Qiong's heart.
He suddenly opened his eyes.
Before them stood a being enveloped in silver light, its eyes devoid of joy or sorrow.
God of Time.
However, it wasn't Eichator.
Rather, it is the Time God of the Fourth Era.
The moment it appeared, the world seemed to come alive.
No, it can't be said that it has become more vibrant.
Instead, it was the vast sky and the myriad illusions around him that made him feel the surrounding space and time restless.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, atoms appeared out of thin air in the previously empty space, and they piled up and turned into matter.
Matter condenses, fuses...
Expansion.
They transformed into planets.
There was nothing on it, just a completely desolate planet!
But upon seeing these planets, Xin Qianhuan's pupils contracted; these were the planets she had seen when she arrived.
But as she remained in this universe.
These planets seemed to evaporate, disappearing naturally, getting smaller and smaller, until they were as small as atoms. Xin Qianhuan had tried to preserve the last of the matter in this world.
But no matter how hard it tried, it could not leave behind any of the world's matter.
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