Eternal Night

Chapter 628 Absolute View of Space and Time!
Wu Pifu was completely dumbfounded.

This is different from what he imagined!

What does it mean to transform a person who has fallen into depravity into a human being?
That sounds really mysterious... Why can't it be about killing some monster or some enemy?
Something feels off.

Wu Pifu was completely baffled. He began to feel fortunate that he had taken off the title of Louis XVI and was now wearing the title of Deception Jewel.

"...Seventy hours?"

Wu Pifu's first test lasted only seventy hours.

In the faction memories he obtained, the Time Spirit civilization greatly revered the number seven, using it as a limit in many important matters or when counting.

According to the information recorded in the crystal, the three trials are progressive. The first trial gives him seventy hours to complete, starting from the moment he obtains the crystal. After completing the first trial, he has seventy hours to rest before starting the second trial, which has seven hundred hours, roughly a month for a human. If he completes that as well, he will have another seven hundred hours to rest before the final trial...

No time limit!
Judging from how bizarre the first task was, Wu Pifu was already having a headache about the next two tasks. The second task had ten times the time limit, and the third task had no time limit. Who knows how bizarre it would be!

"...Can't you just give me a combat mission? Just tell me where to go, who to kill, and who to bring back. That would be much better."

Wu Pifu muttered to himself, examining the crystal in his hand closely.

At this moment, his five teammates also gathered around, looking at the crystal in his hand with a mixture of envy and fear.

One of the team members said directly, "That's right. Young Master Wu's strength should have reached the level of sublimation long ago, but in order to be able to overpower those old... that's why he has been suppressing it. Now it's time for him to undergo the sublimation test."

Another team member said, "I wonder what Young Master Wu's test will be? Exploring a new world? Or negotiating with an ancient civilization? It can't be maintaining the Wheel of Time, can it? That's something only the Ascended Ones can do."

Wu Pifu didn't answer, but just shook his head. He put away the crystal and turned to ask, "What do the books in this library record? Has anyone read them?"

The team members were still discussing what the test mission was, and they didn't want to ask directly, since it was related to their advancement. But who knew that Wu Pifu would ask an unrelated question.

They looked at each other, and one of the female Time Spirits said in a crisp voice, "Captain, I know a little about this. The information in the Great Library is very comprehensive, starting from almost the ancient times of our race. Although it suffered many losses due to several catastrophes, it is still almost the complete record of our race's history, culture, society, and civilization."

Wu Pifu gazed silently at the vast library for a long time before finally saying, "Civilization...?"

A moment later, Wu Pifu bid farewell to the five team members. He held the crystal in his hand and pondered for a moment before gently pressing it.

The Chronosphere faction also possesses penetration technology, but unlike the completely unknown penetration technology of the mainframe, the Chronosphere's penetration technology relies on absolute spacetime, penetrating the dream world and other points in time from the side of spacetime, and this crystal is the proof of penetration.

Wu Pifu pinched the crystal, and after the thought of penetrating it appeared in his mind, he disappeared from the spot in the next instant. At the same time, the crystal also disappeared, turning into a crystal-shaped mark on his wrist.

Then, Wu Pifu felt as if he had been twisted into a roll, becoming a strangely shaped minced meat, and was being put into a washing machine and spun around and around. Red and white, flesh and internal organs were all churned into a strange lump, and then squeezed out through very tiny holes...

By the time Wu Pifu came to his senses, he had already been lying on the ground vomiting for at least a minute.

"...No, how can this penetration be ten thousand times more terrifying than the mainframe's?!"

Wu Pifu stood up cursing, but even after standing up, he still felt dizzy.

The penetrating reaction was so terrifying that he never wanted to experience it again.

But even he reacted so strongly, how did those spacetime spirits, whose strength was far weaker than his, manage to penetrate it? Could it be related to that skeletal body?
Wu Pifu couldn't figure it out. After regaining his senses, he began to look around. After only a few glances, he immediately realized something and took off into the air, looking down from mid-air.

"...Again?"

Wu Pifu sighed, but his eyes gradually turned fierce.

This is... his hometown!
His memories of the 21st century, his hometown, his parents, and the city where he grew up...

The last creator of the parallel world was already considered a mortal enemy in his mind, the kind of enemy who would fight to the death if they met. And now the Time Wheel is doing this again.
Wu Pifu felt a surge of killing intent. He remained silent in mid-air for a while, then vanished in a flash, arriving at a street a moment later.

It was completely dark, around midnight, but several streets in the city were brightly lit, marking the start of the nightlife. The street Wu Pifu had come to was the entertainment street, and he sensed that he himself was also enjoying himself on this street.

Unlike the last parallel world where he directly replaced his 21st-century self, this time in this parallel world, there was actually another version of himself, and he was having a blast. Not only was he drinking too much, but he might even have taken some kind of drug. Wu Pifu sensed all of this from afar, and he finally understood what the phrase "transforming his former depraved self into a human" really meant.

"So it really does mean exactly what it says?" Wu Pifu walked into the nightclub with an icy expression. Along the way, anyone who glanced at him would ignore him after his eyes became slightly glazed as his inner energy surged, allowing him to enter Wu Pifu's private room.

In this private room, besides Wu Pifu from this era, there were also three other "youngsters" he had killed in a parallel world. They were also having a blast, and not only that, they kept urging Wu Pifu to take more drugs.

When Wu Pifu pushed open the door and walked in, everyone looked at him, and he raised his hand to clear the room.

But the moment he raised his hand, he suddenly covered his head, unable to believe it... The instant he appeared in this room, the memory of the scene before him actually appeared in his mind, except that his gaze was that of the person sitting on the sofa, the original Wu Pifu who was having a blast!
He once actually saw a man who was 3.5 meters tall walk into a room with his head down, and was making a gesture of raising his hand.

"Who the hell are you... Holy crap, that's tall..."

At the same time, this sentence also appeared in Wu Pifu's memory.

"Who the hell are you... Holy crap, that's tall..."

Just as the person next to him was about to start cursing, Wu Pifu pointed a finger, and a gentle force burst into his mind. The next instant, the young master fainted.

Then Wu Pifu simply tapped his finger repeatedly, and everyone except Wu Pifu himself fainted, and all their memories of this part were wiped clean.

At first, Wu Pifu was terrified. Because he had taken drugs, he sat there shaking his head in fear, drooling.

However, in Wu Pifu's memory, both the screams and the scene of them fainting were happening right before his eyes and appearing in his memory; the two completely overlapped at this moment.

"...So that's how it is. Is this absolute spacetime?"

Ignoring Wu Pifu's initial cowardly demeanor, he walked up to him and slapped him unconscious. As the memories of his past flashed by, he also understood the terrifying implications of this trial mission...

Time-traveling island!

A self-created closed loop of a time-space island!
"Transforming your former depraved self into a human" may seem harmless, but if it involves an absolute concept of time and space, any decision you make at this time will become something you have encountered in the past. That would be terrifying, because if you are not careful, your life will be endlessly looped in this way, becoming a closed loop of time and space where you meet your future self in the past, and then your future self comes to the past to change yourself!
For example, Wu Pifu's original method of "reform" was to directly kill his fallen self in a parallel universe.

See? It's that simple. Just kill anything that isn't human. Once it's dead, it's naturally human, or its flesh and skin are human. It doesn't make much difference, right?

However, under the absolute spacetime concept, he killed his past self now, which immediately caused the grandfather paradox, even though this grandfather was his past self. This would form a closed-loop murder case spanning hundreds of years where he killed himself!
After knocking out the initial Wu Pifu, Wu Pifu sat on the floor of the room in confusion, completely unsure how to complete this test.

Brainwashing is certainly possible, and even erasing the memory of seeing one's future self is entirely possible. However, this would also create a closed loop of time and space, because the past self showed absolutely no signs of repentance, even until the onset of the illness. Therefore, this kind of "transformation into a human" is simply impossible.

He only has seventy hours of mission time, and if the mission fails, he will be trapped in the Chrono Wheel faction forever.

Unless he has unlimited time, waiting until the initial Wu Pifu falls ill, is frozen, and then sent to the future, where his personality breaks down and iterates until the final version of himself appears, only then can he be considered transformed into a human. But there isn't enough time in that scenario.

Wu Pifu's mind was in a frenzy. He patted Chu Zui Wu Pifu, causing him minor, harmless pain, while racking his brains for a solution. Suddenly, he paused, lifted Chu Zui Wu Pifu up, and carefully used his strength to sense his body, repeatedly channeling his internal energy into it. This level of perception was enough to reach the cellular and even molecular levels, let alone the human genome.

wrong!

Something's definitely wrong!!

Initially, the Wu pifu had no lesions!
He...doesn't have ALS!?

"Wait a minute, wait a minute..."

Wu Pifu felt his mind go blank, and a sudden, unknown fear gripped his heart.

He remembered that when he was diagnosed with ALS in the 21st century, his parents checked their own genes, as well as those of relatives, distant relatives, and even ancestors, and confirmed that no one on either his father's or mother's side had ever had ALS!
His ALS had a mysterious origin, and no cause could be detected by the medical community. Moreover, the onset was extremely rapid, so rapid that his parents did not even have time to react. In a short period of time, it had progressed to cardiac arrest, so in the end, they had to freeze him into a cryogenic state.

If Wu Pifu's original physical body was completely intact and had no lesions or genes for ALS, then why did he develop the disease and reach the stage of cardiac arrest in a very short time?
It's like... it's like God suddenly sent a disease upon us!
However, now this God has materialized, transforming into a burly man who is three and a half meters tall.

"No, this isn't just a sudden resurfacing of memories. If my 21st-century self was forcibly given ALS because of my current self, does that mean the world was already corrupted by the dream world back in the early 21st century? I'm not returning to a parallel world, but to the real 21st century, my true homeland!?"

"Absolute spacetime concept, absolute... Could it be that from my birth to my future, everything is truly an absolutely predetermined fate?"

At that moment, Wu Pifu broke out in a cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)