Eternal Night

Chapter 311: The Origin of the Ring
(PS: Please show some mercy, everyone. It's almost the Spring Festival. Please don't give me any more rewards this month. I can't bear it. Please give me more time to save my manuscripts so that I can spend the Spring Festival with my family, wife and children...

The new leader's update will be on the 22nd...)
"Come in, don't stand at the door."

Wu Xianxiao penetrated the entrance to the demon world, and what he saw was not anything strange. There was only an ordinary single-family courtyard in front of him, with front and back gardens. It was a one-story building, and a man was sitting on a chair in the front garden reading a newspaper.

This is not true, but it is definitely not false either. It is the first layer of truth, beneath which other truths are hidden.

However, Wu Xianxiao did not dare to look deeper than the reality in front of him. He felt the danger. Once the deeper truth was known, it would immediately cause some unexpected disaster. The Huanglian fragments he carried could not be immune to him. When he looked at the truth, the truth would not notice him.

So Wu Xianxiao stood at the gate of the courtyard and did not step in immediately.

Instead, the man sitting in the courtyard laughed, greeted Wu Xianxiao, and motioned him to come in.

Wu Xianxiao stared at the man for two seconds, then walked into the courtyard. At the same time, the man picked up the newspaper and stood up. He turned around and opened the door, while extending his hand to invite Wu Xianxiao to come in. When he saw Wu Xianxiao walking towards the room, he smiled and walked in first.

The interior of the house is not a dangerous place, but a very ordinary home environment, with a fireplace, a sofa, a small dining room, bookcases, etc. It looks ordinary yet warm.

"Just sit anywhere." The man waved his hand and went to the dining room to turn on the gas stove and start boiling water. After Wu Xianxiao sat on a small chair, the man poked his head out of the dining room and asked, "What would you like to drink? Tea? Or coffee?"

Wu Xianxiao didn't even think about finding out the truth on the next level. He said, "Anything is fine... Are you the original Demon City Lord?"

"Wait a moment, it will be quick."

It was indeed very fast. After a few dozen seconds, the man came over with two cups of drinks. Wu Xianxiao subconsciously looked into the cups and saw that they were two cups of Coca-Cola.

The man laughed, took the cup and drank it all, then said to Wu Xianxiao: "Yes, I am the original Lord of Demon City. You can call me Zero, or the Original. So... what is the purpose of your visit?"

Wu Xianxiao stared at the man for several seconds before he said, "You are staring at me, so why are you asking me the purpose of my visit?"

The man smiled and shook his head, "No, I'm not watching you. What I mean is that I watch all the aliens who come to this world, not just you. But soon, this world will usher in the end of this era, and my watch will be refreshed. As long as you don't enter this world again, you will no longer be watched by me. Good news, right?"

Wu Xianxiao ignored him and asked, "Where are the others being watched?"

The man spread his hands and said, "They will become the nutrients of this world and the Demon City. They will also enter the reincarnation of the next era and become residents of this world. Then, they will wash away the outer mark in reincarnation again and again. In the end... they will almost be gone."

Wu Xianxiao was silent for a moment and then said, "What if I want to take the people from this world away? What price do I have to pay?"

"No way."

The man shook his head and said, "They are essentially just incomplete information. Their original bodies have already died many times. Once the era ends, they will enter the next reincarnation. No matter where you take them, unless the Root consumes itself to make up for their incompleteness, they will perish at the moment the era ends. This has nothing to do with whether I am willing to let them go."

Wu Xianxiao looked at the man in silence, and the man smiled in response. After a while, Wu Xianxiao nodded and said, "What if I cut off the reincarnation? What will happen to them?"

"Cut off the cycle of reincarnation."

The man sighed and said, "Don't get me wrong. I don't mean to laugh at you. It's just that the last person who said he wanted to break the cycle of reincarnation was killed by you. Yes, it was the black dragon. He tried to break the cycle of reincarnation, but gave up after trying and became desperate. The same was true for the one before that, and the one before that... Okay, let me answer your question first."

"Let's not talk about whether you can break the reincarnation cycle, because whether you have the prerequisite to break the reincarnation cycle is a prerequisite. Let's say you break the reincarnation cycle. According to my calculations, the people who survived in this era can be completed by the scattered information, and their virtual lives with incomplete information will be transformed into real lives. At the same time, the sense of déjà vu of past reincarnations that troubled them will slowly disappear, and they will gradually inherit some of the talents and dispositions of their previous reincarnations. It's almost like progressive completion."

The man clapped his hands and said, "If you want to take someone out of the sky, then congratulations, severing the reincarnation cycle can indeed give them real life."

"But?" Wu Xianxiao said with narrowed eyes.

"But... yes, but how can you break the cycle of reincarnation?" the man laughed.

Wu Xianxiao remained silent, then he pulled out the Heroic Spirit Crushing Blade and said to the man, "I'll kill you and then go kill the End Giant."

The man hummed three times. Facing Wu Xianxiao's sword, he didn't even react. He just said, "In theory... yes, but it's just a theory. Let's put it this way. Killing me and then killing the Apocalypse Titan will indeed cut off the reincarnation cycle. But let's not talk about whether you can do it. Just say that if you kill me and then kill the Apocalypse Titan... this world is gone, directly destroyed, and all the past lives attached to this world, as well as the remnants of their current information will be annihilated in an instant." "It does cut off the reincarnation cycle, but the result is a clean white void."

Wu Xianxiao said nothing. After a few seconds of silence, he took out the magic conch from his personal space, and then took out the Whispering Skull.

He first said to the Magic Conch: "Magic Conch, is what he said true?"

A female voice mixed with the sound of waves came from the magical conch: "He knows the truth."

Here it comes, here it comes, some correct nonsense that I haven’t heard for a long time.

Wu Xianxiao didn't waste any time and directly picked up the Whispering Skull and said, "Analyze the words of the magical conch."

Green light appeared in the skull's eye sockets, and then the skull said in a gloomy and hoarse voice: "The original Demon City Lord knew all the truths of this world. He did not lie, but was limited by his level and could only tell the truths he knew and understood. According to estimates, with the cognition of use as the core, when the user reaches the root level, he can use other methods to solve the reincarnation problem of this world."

Wu Xianxiao then nodded silently, and the man's eyes widened, as if he was looking at a peep show, his face full of curiosity and desire, and he almost said, "Lend it to me for fun."

Wu Xianxiao then looked at the mayor of the original Demon City and asked, "Is there any way to cut off the reincarnation?"

The man put away his curious expression, thought for a moment and said, "If you want to break the reincarnation cycle, you need to know what you are facing first. I will give this opportunity to every visitor who comes here, or the outsider who is dragged in by me... Unfortunately, they are not qualified to know the whole truth. They either know part of the truth or cannot know even part of the truth. I can only 'collect' them as nutrients and consumables for the continuation of this world, as well as gods and strong people for the next reincarnation. Now, I will also give you this opportunity."

The man pointed at the cup in front of Wu Xianxiao and said, "To break it, you can use any means, not limited to your extraordinary power, your weapons, or the instruments transformed by pollution, which is what you call fantasy objects. All of them are fine. If you break it, you will be qualified to know the whole truth. Then, if you defeat me, you will be qualified to fight the Apocalypse Titan. If you defeat the Apocalypse Titan, you will cut off the cycle of reincarnation. It's that simple."

It's really simple.

Wu Xianxiao picked up the cup and drank it without saying a word. Then he squeezed the cup hard with one hand, but no matter how hard he squeezed, the cup remained intact.

“It seems regrettable that you don’t even know part of the truth…” The man looked at it for a long while and shook his head slightly.

Wu Xianxiao directly handed the cup to the man, then stood still with the knife raised and said, "Come on, hit me with this cup."

The man was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you sure?"

Wu Xianxiao just looked at him silently. The man smiled and raised the cup and gently threw it at Wu Xianxiao. The speed was not fast and the force was not great, but at that moment, Wu Xianxiao felt as if the mountains, rivers and the world were falling on him. However, he was calm and did not move at all. He just chopped the cup in the man's hand with a knife.

A knife flashed by, Wu Xianxiao put away the knife and retreated, and the man reached out to take the cup back. He looked at the cup in his hand, and the cup slowly showed cracks, and then broke into two. This scene made the man silent for a long time, and then a smile appeared on his face, a sincere smile, as if relieved, and not a false professional smile like just now.

"…Finally, I've waited for this."

The man put down the broken cup, walked past Wu Xianxiao to the TV, pressed a button on it, and said to Wu Xianxiao: "Come, let's see the truth first... the whole truth, of this world, of the Doomsday Titan, of me, and..."

"The truth of this reincarnation."

Wu Xianxiao looked at the TV. A black and white picture appeared on the screen, and then color. The next moment, everything around Wu Xianxiao disappeared, and he himself disappeared as well. All his consciousness turned into the picture scenes on the TV.

It was in the chaos and haze, above the infinite height, an object full of mosaics fell straight down from the highest point, and countless worlds were annihilated along the way. It was not because they were destroyed by this huge object, but because of deeper reasons, some kind of anchoring and causal reaction, these worlds that relied on this giant object collapsed.

As the giant fell, more and more worlds were annihilated and disappeared. However, as these worlds were annihilated and disappeared, the speed of the giant's fall began to slow down, but the giant also became more and more illusory...

At this time, another giant object appeared above the zenith, and then countless worlds appeared looming, and a world happened to appear below the falling giant object, and the giant passed by the side of this world. Although it was only for a moment, some light particles from the giant fell into this world, and this world was also rendered with a little bit of the color of the giant.

This color is called...

ring.

(End of this chapter)