From the end of the world

Chapter 459: Three Directions of Changing History

Now I can’t tell how much time has passed on the small bowl’s side.

Not only is it because of the chaos of time in the doomsday era, but also because the flow of time cannot be normally compared between different eras. This is completely different from comparing the flow of time in two different spaces. Although the "now" is advancing all the time, while the "now" is advancing, whether "a certain time point in the future" will also advance with it is a proposition that is wrong from the beginning of the logic.

From this perspective, the fact that I was able to communicate normally with the small bowl in the virtual world, which was obviously changing over time, seems to be something suspicious.

Also, when thinking about issues related to time, I also thought about the previous interaction between Ma Zao and Huang Quan, the doomsday god in history, across the river of time, and then I realized more possibilities.

I can interact with characters from past history. In other words, I can transmit energy and information to the past. Wouldn't this cause historical changes?
Or is it that the reason why the "present" I am in has not changed is because my act of changing history is itself an event that is bound to happen on the timeline I am in?
That afternoon, I met Lu Chan again in the mansion.

He seemed to have something he wanted to report to me, and I just wanted to ask him for advice, because his knowledge and experience were far richer than mine and Ma Zao combined. Seeing that I seemed to have questions, he made a humble gesture, indicating that I should ask questions first.

After listening to my question, he nodded slightly and said, "Are you asking yourself whether you can change history and the present through some means...

"Well...it depends on how and what you want to change."

"How?" I was curious.

"In the world of demon hunters, there is more than one way to modify history." Lu Chan said, "Although any of them is as difficult as ascending to heaven, there are also ruthless characters who can easily accomplish it, such as the great demon Yin Yue...

"Since you have had contact with her more than once, you should have seen her methods of modifying history, right? The method she used was one of the methods of modifying history, and it is also relatively easy to implement among all the methods.

“According to the documents I know about Silver Moon, strictly speaking, the power of Silver Moon did not really cross time and space to modify the facts of the past, but it forged the historical records of the world through the power of illusion, that is, it deceived the world.

"The world has memory. A large number of causes and effects and established facts that have occurred are deposited in the deep layers of time and space, just like the code that supports the events and screens of computer games. Although it cannot be seen by the naked eye, it plays a key role. Yin Yue can tamper with the 'memory of the world' in a direction that is beneficial to him, so that the 'present' is corrected by the world into a corresponding form... This should be easy to understand, right?"

I understood it, and at the same time, I felt Yin Yue’s power again.

Ordinary illusionists can only hypnotize people and animals with self-awareness, but Yin Yue hypnotizes the world itself. Needless to say, the scope of her power cannot really be the whole world, at most it is only the space-time area where she is. Even so, it is still terrifying.

A monster with this kind of power is indeed almost omnipotent. For a moment, I couldn't even remember how I defeated her so easily.

"Of course, that kind of power cannot directly affect you, the Great Impermanence. Because even if the world remembers you wrongly, as long as you don't remember yourself wrongly, the world's correction power cannot affect your form of existence." Lu Chan continued, "And the second way to change history is to truly transmit yourself, or your power, to the past time and space.

"Then, there will be three different results here: the first result is that since the history that has already happened also has the force of correction, if you rashly try to change it, you will be suppressed by this force of correction.

"Either you travel to the past, but no matter what changes you make, they won't go smoothly; or even if you travel successfully, you lose your memory for no apparent reason, and you won't be able to recover until the time you start traveling, or you may never be able to recover in your lifetime; or, just like Death Comes, you will be murdered by the correction power, and it will kill you directly...

"In Luoshan's history, there are four or five hundred records of unlucky or lucky people who traveled through time and space and were involved in some incredible and bizarre events, as well as powerful demon hunters who were ambitious to travel through time and space to change history. There are probably even more who did not leave any records. Later, everyone learned their lesson and stopped studying this aspect."

Is "time travel" such a common thing? Although considering that this is a number scattered throughout the history of Luoshan, it should actually be rare, it is still far beyond my imagination.

"You said this is only the first outcome... In other words, does the possibility of successfully changing history still exist?"

I thought of Mazao, who might be the one who traveled through time to prevent the apocalypse. If history could never be changed, then all her efforts would be in vain.

"Of course there are." Lu Chan replied, "The ones who will be overwhelmed by the correction force are the demon hunters in the level range of formation, residence, destruction and emptiness. If they are at the great perfection level, they can initially compete with the historical correction force. This is the second result. "But the result after the competition is not very ideal. Although it has not been thoroughly proven, the changed history may generate a parallel world, and the result after the change will be inherited by the parallel world. Regardless of whether it is true or not, even if this method successfully changes history, it cannot affect our present."

Ma Zao is also at the Dacheng level, which seems to explain why our current activities have no impact on Xiao Wan's doomsday era... I verified it in my mind with my own experience and asked, "Then, what if the person who tried to change history was not at the Dacheng level... but Da Wuchang?"

"Compared to the Great Perfection Stage, Great Impermanence can certainly do more. Under the premise of not creating the so-called parallel world, it is also possible to forcibly change the present by modifying history, but it must consume extremely huge power. And this is the third result." Lu Chan said, "The specific situation, after all, involves the field of Great Impermanence, and I don't particularly understand it. Just think about it and you will understand that it is an act of distorting the already established timeline itself.

“The greater the degree of change in the present, the more power is required; at the same time, the further away from the present, the more difficult it is to change.

"Take the example of 'reviving the dead by modifying history'. If you just want to revive a few or a dozen ordinary people who have accomplished nothing or weak demon hunters, it shouldn't be very difficult. But if you want to revive ordinary people and demon hunters who can make great achievements, or even revive great people and demon hunters at the great level in history... then it's better to think about how to open the third door first."

Hearing this, I remembered what the Lord of the Divine Seal had said before.

When faced with the question from Number One, "Is it possible to resurrect the dead?", the Lord of the Divine Seal replied, "Even if I want to resurrect all the dead people in human history, I can do it," and he also admitted that he had the power to change the past.

This answer is of course based on the premise that the divine seal is completely restored. I feel as if I have intuitively felt for the first time the gap between the Great Impermanence and the complete divine seal.

And, according to this theory, Shan Liangyi doesn't seem to be able to change the future by reincarnating into history at will... But if he doesn't mind turning into a parallel world that is still in doubt, then he can do whatever he wants; even if he insists on changing the original timeline, as the god who opened the third door, his freedom will definitely be much higher.

As for me, if I want to change history, I first need to be able to perceive the historical information itself. Right now, I am not able to directly investigate historical information like Ma Zao - it's not that I can't perceive it, but that I can perceive it but I can't understand it.

It's like being faced with conceptual information that is as unfamiliar as computer program code. My experience is not enough to translate it into a form that I can understand.

If we can simulate the real-time synchronous perception of Shui Zhongyue and Ma Zao, we can skip this step and directly start to modify history.

"How about it, did my answer solve your doubts, Lord God?" Lu Chan asked.

"Thank you. I've learned a lot." I said, "Next...what do you want to report to me?"

"Well, I have two things to say." Lu Chan said, "First, last time you told me that there was a traitor in the Mingzhuo force who leaked information to Taoyuan Township, and asked me to secretly investigate him... I have already gained something here."

As he spoke, he took out some information and handed it to me, and continued: "Based on the results of my tracking using my personal connections, it is very likely that the information was leaked from the Luoshan branch base under Mingzhuo. However, I cannot pinpoint which branch base leaked the information for the time being, and can only give three suspected locations.

"I have marked them with red circles on the map here, and marked them with numbers one, two, and three from most suspicious to least suspicious.

"In addition, the information here is an introduction to these three branch bases, as well as the basis for judging that they are suspicious..."

Watching him work efficiently and attentively, I felt like I had hired a secretary with strong administrative skills. Or maybe a butler.

While he was explaining, I picked up the materials and scanned them. When he stopped, I asked, "So...what is the second thing you want to report?"

Lu Chan looked at me deeply, and then said, "The shadow of the willow tree has requested a meeting with you."

(End of this chapter)