[You've discovered that this kind of bloodline-based race is truly overpowered. After the ancients used the power of myriad transformations to open the source, all kinds of life truly exist in the universe.]
[Among the two lower tiers of the Nine-Nine bloodline, once the head is lost, it can never regenerate; however, the bloodline tier will not decrease when passed on to offspring: if two couples with eighty-one heads are both reduced to only one head, their offspring will still have eighty-one heads.]
However, when you reach the highest level of ninety-nine heads, if the number of heads is incomplete, once you accumulate enough energy equivalent to your entire body, you can immediately regenerate a head and regain a life!
[The strength provided by this bloodline is truly immense, equivalent to increasing a person's combat power and survivability by dozens of times—even when encountering an opponent they cannot defeat, they can use self-destruction to wear them down.]
The biggest problems are the split personality and the somewhat abstract appearance of a bunch of heads around the neck.
[Furthermore, this long river of time is named "Yuanjiu River" because the Jiujiu clan occupied it for an extremely long period of time.]
Over a long period of time, most beings in the Emperor's Fall Universe believed that this long river originally belonged to the Nine-Nine Clan, and was the place of origin for their unique bloodline.
Yun Shou: "..."
He's not showing up here because he has something to complain about.
Rather, it was because a figure in green had already appeared in the corner of his eye.
This time, he took the initiative to greet them first.
"Hello, old days."
The man in blue was taken aback, seemingly not expecting his future brother to be so composed after meeting him.
Even though he's only a quasi-Dao Lord in the future (a fact I realized after getting closer), why does he seem so fearless?
Could it be because... he was able to escape my boundless ancient sea and return to his own future timeline?
He Yuan was filled with doubts, but on the surface he maintained a natural demeanor and replied in a gentle and polite manner: "Hello, future."
"Yuan Jiu Changhe..."
You gaze upon a bizarre and wondrous river of cosmic time before you.
Dimensions intersect, and time condenses, forming a chaotic river of time that stretches across nine trillion light-years, resembling an aurora borealis.
This long river is the causal core of this universe, much like the chaotic spacetime causality of those ancient universes within the boundless ocean of the future.
Everything that has passed, everything that is in the present, everything that has not yet happened, and everything that will be born in the future will be born and destroyed through this long river.
"The future is about to be born."
Yun Shou thought to himself, "This is not contradictory."
Even without a future-oriented principle, one can still influence the future.
The ten streams of fortune that Bai He previously scattered in the Yuan Tian Realm were tantamount to changing the future: ten true immortals would be born in this realm in the future.
Fate can influence the future; it can be determined that a certain person will inevitably be born, that person will inevitably be named Wang Xiaoming, and that Wang Xiaoming will inevitably save the world, and so on...
[Besides maintaining the causality of spacetime, the primary function of this ancient river for other living beings is to provide time travel.]
When you step into this ancient river, you may be affected by its power of time, potentially traveling to the past or returning to your original timeline.
Unfortunately, that's all in the past; we can't go back.
Since He Yuan sealed the right to comprehend and use the ancient Dao principles at that "100-year" point in time, the Yuanjiu River has also lost its effectiveness.
No matter how one travels or provokes within this chaotic river of time, all will remain peaceful.
Feeling rather disappointed, you wander aimlessly along the long river, until... you bump into a middle-aged man.
[A remarkably handsome, charismatic, and mature man exuding an aura of strength, his eyes filled with a sense of weariness and helplessness.]
[He's probably an older man, because you're not even 30 yet, he couldn't be younger than you.]
"Why has the River of the Emperor's Source (Genju River) stopped flowing?"
A middle-aged man sighed, "What exactly has changed in this universe?"
[During your casual conversation with him, you learn that he originally intended to travel back in time via the Yuanjiu River to save his daughter and son, son-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother and father, as well as himself and his wife.]
"Why not just say you saved your whole family, including yourself, instead of padding the word count?"
You feel like your brain's CPU is a bit overloaded.
[Saving your son and daughter-in-law, daughter and son-in-law, and parents is one thing... but what does it mean to save yourself and your wife?]
If it were only the first six people, or if the first six included his wife, then it would be somewhat understandable.
[That means this man's family died in the past, and he chose to enter the Eternal River, using random time-space teleportation to travel back in time and save those people.]
But why include himself?
Could it be that at some point in the past, when this man, his wife, four younger relatives, and two older relatives were all about to die, his future self appeared and saved all eight of them?
"I went back in time to save myself"—this is a classic causal loop from the old universe.
[If he hadn't gone back in time to save his past self, that version of himself would have died, and he would have been erased from the timeline. This is the principle of cause and effect.]
But he still exists... This is called the collapse of cause and effect!
[If he hadn't gone back in time to save you, he should already be dead in the present. How could he still be alive and talking to you?]
Even if his future self didn't intervene, his past self would still survive due to various other factors... but in that case, his memories would likely be altered!
But he still remembers that he went back in time to save those people!
[You quickly deduced the truth: it was because He Yuan blocked the general rules that Yuan Jiu Chang He lost its ability to travel back in time, causing a whole host of causal timelines to collapse.]
This led to a situation where "a person died in the past, but is still alive now."
Thinking that you were also trapped at the scene during this time, you and he reached out and shook hands, giving each other your names.
"Hello, I'm Fifteen."
"...I am Loya."
"Do you like playing Arknights?"
【"What?"】
After a few meaningless remarks, you said with empathy, "I also want to go back to the past. I want to save my 'past' self."
Yun Shou thought to himself, "He's talking about me; he cares about me."
[You're referring to yourself, of course. You need to pull yourself out of this period where the old ways cannot be replicated.]
"whispering sound."
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