From the end of the world

Chapter 484 The Denominator is Zero
Although life for life is rare in combat, it is also a classic tactic. When forced into a desperate situation, it is understandable that one would use the tactic of self-destruction with the determination to die rather than surrender. Even a coward who is as timid as a mouse in daily life may burst out with impressive willpower when he knows that he is doomed to die.

But Huang Quan was not forced into a desperate situation. On the contrary, he was always in a state where he could escape unscathed at any time if he wanted to. Just as he said at the beginning, if I gave up the fight and turned around to run, it would be very difficult for him to catch up and kill me; and if he made the same decision, it would be difficult for me to really kill him.

Therefore, even if he cannot win this battle, there is no need to sacrifice his life. Unless he thinks that killing me here is more important than his own survival. For the immortal Great Impermanence, this is simply ridiculous.

In order to pursue my own wishes, I can also give up the peaceful life of living with the heaven and earth, and throw myself into a situation where life and death may be in danger at any moment. But even I will not do anything with suicide as the premise.

What is he doing this for?
Now I don't have the time to think any more, I can only try my best to escape from the black sphere that is gradually approaching me. However, the yellow and black magic array all around released an extremely strong binding force, trapping me inside like a seal. I tried to use fire teleportation, but it seemed to be malfunctioning and could not be activated; I tried to use the step of ignoring space, but it was useless, as if there were indestructible walls around me that were preventing me from leaving.

In my perception, the black sphere that keeps expanding behind me seems to be a "door".

Although it sounds puzzling to regard a spherical object as a "door", I can judge that once swallowed by the black sphere, I will be transferred to another place. This reminds me of black holes. In some science fiction stories, black holes are regarded as bridges connecting other universes.

As for where the black sphere was connected to, I had no idea. I just felt that my intuition was sending out alarms like crazy.

Once swallowed to the other side, the outcome is no different from death, or even more desperate than death.

The terror beyond death that erupted from my soul forced me to squeeze out even more strength. All my potential should have been realized to become my current strength, but now I can actually go one step further and output 120% of my power.

At the moment when the black sphere was about to touch me, I broke through the restraining force of the surrounding yellow and black magic circle and was about to rush out of the range of the magic circle.

And even this struggle was in vain.

The grave soil that formed the yellow and black magic circle suddenly turned into the shape of Huangquan. It seemed as if he had burst out the last strength of his life, roared and crashed into me, pushing me into the black sphere behind.

My vision was suddenly swallowed by black water, and Huang Quan followed me into the darkness.

The battle between me and Huang Quan ended here.

At the same time, I sensed the changes in the two waves of mana in the distance. The battle between Willow Shadow and Taoyuan Village Lord, who had been entangled in conflict, seemed to have come to an end. Their mana fluctuations disappeared at the same time, like a candle flame being blown out.
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Darkness, darkness, darkness—

I was surrounded by darkness everywhere.

The so-called darkness is not a color. In a strict definition, color is the reflection of light, while darkness is the state of no light. In other words, the essence of darkness is "nothingness". I am now embraced by "nothingness".

Normally, even if I was in darkness, I should be able to feel the space and time I was in. However, after entering the black sphere, I seemed to be teleported to a void where even space and time did not exist. There was really nothing here, and nothing would happen.

I have learned in books in the past that the birth of the universe originated from a big bang, and time and space began to appear from here. Before the big bang, the universe was just a point, called a "singularity". I believe that many people who have learned this knowledge have had questions, where did this singularity come from, and what happened before the birth of the singularity.

No one can answer this question, and it is considered a "meaningless question". Because time is the quantity that describes the change of events, the "time" before the birth of time cannot be described. Just like there is no entity corresponding to the number "zero" in the real world, just trying to answer it is a waste of time and a violation of logic.

And at this moment, I am in this illogical darkness.

Huang Quan followed me in, and I turned around to look at him. Even though I could only see darkness, I had a feeling that he was there.

In this place, the action of "turning your head" is meaningless. This action can only be performed if you are in a certain space, and here there is no concept of "direction". I can't even feel my body or my soul, nor can I feel my superpowers or the flames spreading in the real world. Even my consciousness is unclear, as if only a little bit of my true spirit is left.

"Where is this place?" I asked.

Even though I couldn't feel my mouth, there was no concept of "sound" here, and I wasn't even sure if I asked the question, I still felt like I asked it.

And a response came from the side of me. Although I couldn't tell whether it was the other party's response or my own random thoughts, I still felt that I heard a response.

"This is 'nothing'." Huang Quan said. It is said that a person's self is formed through interaction with others. A person must establish his self through people outside of himself. In other words, once I feel that this response is not coming from someone outside of myself, but an echo from within myself, then my self will dissolve in this darkness. At least, this is what I feel.

"'Nothing'?" I asked.

"To put it simply, it is the area outside the world." Huang Quan said, "I exiled you to the outside of the world. Here, there is neither time nor space, nor life nor death.

"You will spend time here without time. Neither a moment nor eternity, but nothing."

In a mathematical fraction, if the numerator remains unchanged, the smaller the denominator, the larger the number. One third is larger than one quarter, one half is larger than one third... If the denominator is set to "infinitesimal", the result of the fraction will become "infinity".

Even if it is "infinitesimal", it is not really zero, but infinitely close to zero. So when the denominator is zero, can we get a number larger than "infinity"?

However, zero cannot be a denominator. Just like trying to find an entity corresponding to zero in the real world, trying to get a mathematical fraction with a denominator of zero is also meaningless and violates the basic logic of mathematics.

And now I have been exiled to a region that even mathematics cannot describe. What I am about to face is a meaningless "time" that is longer than eternity and in which even death will die.

Although I know there is no need to ask, I still ask: "Is there a way to go back?"

"Go back?" He seemed to smile.

Then he said: "There is neither past nor future, neither before nor after, neither coming nor going...

“There is no direction, no distance, no movement, no stopping…

"You can't go back because you are stuck in 'nothing'. You can't do anything here.

“But you don’t have to despair. You have to ask why, because here, there is neither hope nor despair…

"Neither you nor me..."

With that, his voice faded and disappeared along with his presence, never to be heard again.

he died.

Although there is no life or death here, how else can one express his disappearance using existing language except "death"?
It was normal for him to die. I had already destroyed more than 90% of his soul, and he came with me to a place that neither matter nor souls were allowed to exist. He was as fleeting as bubbles in the sea. The one who spoke to me just now was probably his last remnant soul, and now that remnant soul finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Not to mention the remnant soul, even the complete Great Impermanence cannot survive in this empty place. Only a spiritual being like me who can barely exist in the form of a true spirit can survive.

No...actually I can't either.

Although I cannot calculate how long I have existed in this void, if I continue like this, I will be destroyed sooner or later. Because in the final analysis, I do not have a true self-realized spirit. It may not matter if I abandon my body and soul for a short period of time, but if I do this for a long time, my self will truly fade away and disappear.

This seems to be the first time that I clearly felt the limits of this state.

Moreover, after losing the recognition of others, my self also lost its own reference system, and seemed to be becoming thinner and thinner at a faster rate. Slowly, I even suspected that I had not communicated with Huang Quan just now, and that those were all my own hallucinations, inner echoes, and self-talk formed by random thoughts.

I had to maintain myself through thinking. Since there was nothing worth observing and analyzing here, I could only recall the past. However, after losing my brain and soul, the two media for preserving memory, I, who usually had a photographic memory, found it difficult to recall the past clearly.

The past is like a passing cloud, just like looking at the scenery on the shore while lurking under the water, everything is like blurry fleeting shadows and gradually loses its color.

(End of this chapter)