Chapter 183 Night Candle Rules 61 "You are not invincible!"...
The anchor point was so light that it disappeared without Nanmen Jue exerting any force when it landed in his hands.
But she heard a clear, cracking sound of something enormous shattering.
She knelt stiffly in place, still leaning forward, her fingers curled up rigidly, as if she were holding a precious treasure that she would protect with her life.
Everywhere was noisy, but her world was deathly silent.
It seemed like many people were shouting something. To Nanmen Jue's ears, it was a jumble of noise. She shook her head vigorously, and her senses gradually returned. She heard someone calling her name.
Someone grasped her half-raised hand, and she looked at them with hope, but her eyes dimmed again.
It was a soft, delicate hand with pink stars painted on its nails, a stark contrast to Nanmen Yu's strong, slender hand with its short nails.
It took Nanmen Jue a while to react before she noticed that blood-red and shimmering blue lines were rapidly flowing into her arm, and Yu Wanyan was kneeling in front of her, her expression filled with fear.
“Come back to life, Nanmen Jue, think of something,” Yu Wanyan said in a low voice, “I don’t want to die yet.”
what happened?
Nanmen Jue felt her thoughts becoming very dull, or rather, her brain didn't want her to recall anything terrible, deliberately suppressing her thought process. At this moment, she wasn't thinking about anything; only a strong sense of exhaustion enveloped her.
All that I had longed for, hated, loved, felt guilty about, and fought for for so long, has vanished.
She wanted to close her eyes and sleep for a very, very long time, and it wouldn't matter if she didn't wake up.
But it was too noisy around her, and she couldn't sleep.
At first, many people were calling her name, but now that's gone; all that's left is screaming.
Nanmen Jue was startled, suddenly realizing where she was, and she looked up.
The Judge's domain of ghosts has been shattered, and they should have returned to the reality of this apocalypse. They were pulled into the domain from different locations around the world, but now they are all in the same place.
wrong.
This place felt like reality, but the entire field of vision was shrouded in a layer of gray matter, as if someone had added a gray filter to the lens of an eye. Some scarlet points of light floated around, enveloping everyone.
The screams were chaotic, loud, and came from a great distance.
Something is influencing reality.
Nanmen Jue was now insensitive to pain. She belatedly realized that the flesh and blood she had just condensed were twisting and disintegrating where the scarlet light had touched.
She knew why people were screaming.
These points of light also enveloped Yu Wanyan, whose flesh and blood were twisting. Her fair forearm had become pitted and uneven, as if it had been gnawed by insects. However, she did not inject the puppet's flesh and blood into herself. Instead, she acted as a transfer station and transported the entire puppet to Nanmen Jue.
What are you doing? If you don't want to die, shouldn't you be passing it on to yourself? This was originally meant to be a life-saving measure for yourself, wasn't it?
Nanmen Jue wanted to ask that question, but she didn't make a sound.
"It's done! It's done! Hahahaha! I did it!"
Zhang Jin's ecstatic laughter was jarring amidst the cries of pain. Nanmen Jue narrowed his eyes and looked in Zhang Jin's direction.
For Zhang Jin, the battle in the Ghost Realm is about using the enemy's strength against him. Protected by the rules, he is invincible. Even crows cannot kill him. Therefore, the Ghost Realm must be broken and the Judge must die.
But now, the shattering of the Ghost Realm doesn't seem to have affected him at all. Instead, it has provided him with some kind of key power. He floats in mid-air, surrounded by scarlet light spots that emerge from the earrings on his ears and spread to all parts of the world.
Then these points of light returned from another direction and seeped into Zhang Jin's body.
Ying Yao lay on the ground, while the crows remained in mid-air. They too were entangled by the scarlet lights, being devoured and decomposed by them.
Nanmen Jue believed that the situation was extremely urgent, as if even a god could die if she wasn't careful, but she remained calm, as if nothing had anything to do with her.
Something huge and heavy blocked her brain.
"What is that?" the crow asked in astonishment.
He was not alarmed. Even if this transformed body died here, it would only weaken Him for a period of time. But He glanced at Nanmen Jue and felt an indescribable anxiety.
Nanmen Jue's current condition is very wrong. She seems to have lost the ability to act independently. This is the first time that He has felt the fear that Nanmen Jue will really die.
Nanmen Jue always finds a way to overcome difficulties, and he always has the perseverance to survive even in the most challenging times... But now Nanmen Jue has given up on everything.
What exactly is Zhang Jin's earring?
If He could control something that had only briefly regained its strength, how could the Supreme God allow Him to control something so dangerous?
What powerful artifacts are in this space that He has never heard of?
“It is my honor to shock you.” Zhang Jin stopped laughing and gave the crow a polite bow, but a strange smile appeared on his face. “If the God had not been devoured by me, He would probably be even more shocked than you now… What a pity that I didn’t get to see His expression.”
The crow remained cautiously silent.
He sensed an extremely dangerous aura emanating from Zhang Jin. Even when Zhang Jin absorbed his energy to attack him in the Ghost Realm, he had never felt so powerless.
Zhang Jin reached out and touched his earlobe, smiling as he said, "Let me introduce you, this is [Entropy Jin]."
Entropy Ash?
They originally thought that the guild's name was chosen by Zhang Jin based on the will of the main god and combined with his own name, but it turns out there were other reasons.
The raven felt its power fading and closed its golden eyes. "I've never heard of this item before."
Zhang Jin smiled, his facial muscles trembling with excitement, "Great God, tell me, what are these so-called props?"
The crow did not speak.
"What is the Cycle Space? What are points? What are items? We pay points to obtain items from the Main God, and Nanmen Jue can also pay points to obtain item-related effects from you. So tell me, what are these things in essence? What is it that makes us all risk our lives?"
The crimson light spots spilled out even faster, and Zhang Jin became even more excited. He laughed loudly a few times, his face contorted as he announced the answer: "The answer is—entropy!"
"Now I understand everything. Everything is about the increase and decrease of entropy. The Supreme God wants despair and fear, and you want destruction and rebirth. You both draw power from the increase of entropy. No matter who controls the reincarnation space, the universe will eventually head towards ultimate destruction and disorder. This space is the balancer that controls the entropy of the universe!"
"Crow God, if I heard you correctly, you told the main god that this space came from your mother? Is your mother the creator goddess?"
The crow seemed to realize something, and an incredulous look appeared in its eyes. "This...this is Mother's stuff?"
The rules and items in the Reincarnation Space are all set by the God. Ultimately, the God uses the energy of the space to create a huge sandbox, putting all the worlds into it to participate in this game. He is not the owner of the space, and therefore does not have all the authority over it.
If the supreme deity can utilize space, then why can't humanity bypass them and directly utilize space?
Of course it shouldn't be possible!
Without the aid of tools, humans cannot even use the concept of "energy," so how could they possibly obtain such great authority?
But the facts are right before our eyes: this human named Zhang Jin has clearly obtained what belongs to their mother. All things in the world are controlled by entropy. When Zhang Jin can manipulate the increase or decrease of entropy, he will become a true creator god.
He can mold the world into whatever shape he desires.
Even when it was at a disadvantage in its past struggles with the gods, the raven had never felt such fear.
"How did you..." The crow's voice disappeared. At this point, it seemed pointless to pursue the matter further. Zhang Jin had won, and He couldn't think of a way to stop him.
Zhang Jin answered His question, “How did I get this? It’s a complicated story, and I only have a vague understanding of it myself. The Supreme God told me that destroying the world’s anchor point would destroy the cycle of reincarnation, but He wouldn’t let me do that. Creating a cycle of reincarnation requires a lot of energy, and I’m responsible for protecting the anchor point.”
His smile was almost sweet. “After protecting you so much, your mother seems to think that my existence can stop you two, so I sacrificed ‘me’—I am Entropy Ash, and Entropy Ash is me. I live and die with the universe, I am immortal and indestructible, do you understand?”
The crow remained silent for a long time.
Ying Yao, who was lying on the ground, raised his head. The light had already engulfed his left arm. His body trembled, but he still maintained his rationality. "Zhang Jin, is that your real name?"
“Good question.” Zhang Jin’s gaze became distant. “After I became Entropy Ash, I haven’t thought about my own name for a very, very long time. I think my name is… Haoyu. Yes, my name is Zhang Haoyu! Hahahaha, so my name is Zhang Haoyu!”
He would cry one moment, laugh the next, reminisce for the past, and then become ferocious.
"So, Nanmen Yu's death was...completely irrelevant to you," Ying Yao said in a low voice.
“How can you say it’s unimportant?” Zhang Jin said. “Her ability is so special that it allows me to absorb energy twice as efficiently. Now that she’s gone, I have to do the work myself.”
"The Mother Goddess wants you to maintain the balance of the universe, but what you've been doing, including now, isn't it increasing entropy?" Ying Yao suppressed the trembling in his throat. "You even sacrificed your soul to the Supreme God. You've lost your body, your soul, and your name. Are you still yourself if you survive like this?"
His words struck a nerve with Zhang Jin, who stared at him intently, his expression vanishing completely.
“A piece of trash who can’t even survive doesn’t need to worry about how I’ll survive,” Zhang Jin said coldly.
He raised an arm and pointed at Ying Yao on the ground. Crimson light points frantically converged, condensing into a giant arrow at his fingertip.
“You know what? Entropy is the arrow of time,” he muttered nervously. “Becoming a part of me means maintaining the balance of entropy—”
"Bullshit! Stop spouting nonsense, you stinking idiot!"
Yu Wanyan, who had been supplying flesh and blood to Nanmen Jue, suddenly looked up and started cursing.
"Why all this mystical nonsense? The symmetry of time has never been violated. The second law of thermodynamics describes an isolated system where energy transfer is directional. Even if you were a god, you couldn't convert all the absorbed energy into useful work without any other effects. You've trapped us, absorbed energy, and created structures. Whether it's the Judge's Ghost Realm or the domain you've created now, it's an open system that's constantly doing work. Your existence and actions are paradoxical; you're contradicting yourself! Claiming to be the embodiment of entropy? Don't make me laugh."
She was still holding Nanmen Jue's hand. Because some parts of her body had disappeared, her fingers were not as strong as before, and it seemed that she might lose her grip at any moment. However, her eyes were sharp and her voice was loud and powerful.
"In the end, you're still just an ant struggling under the rules set by these gods. If I'm not mistaken, you've been controlling the entropy of all of us from the very beginning—forcing us to fight while using candles to create safe zones. You have to maintain a balance in the entropy of your space, and that's your weakness. You're not invincible!"
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Author's Note: This whole thing is driving me crazy! Please don't take it too seriously, I'm just making this up. (orz)
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