Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 424 Conceptual Constraints
Xu Feng first anchored on the current time, as time travel is a very mysterious field.

The basic method of traveling from the future to the past is simply jumping from one point to another. When returning from the past, it cannot even guarantee that the 'present' has not changed.

The time travel of super-powerful beings extends the timeline they occupy.

Xu Feng is not yet a super strong person. Fortunately, this world is not a multiverse and its size is limited.

Going back from the present to when they first arrived in the cycle of reincarnation is very simple and consumes very little power. However, going back from when the East Blue Team arrived to the past encounters considerable resistance.

Countless streams of information crashed into Xu Feng, the weight of the world pressing down on his soul.

This pressure was immense, and Xu Feng searched for weaknesses in the gaps of history—the less influence a region had on cause and effect, the easier it was to traverse.

In many worlds, due to the rules at the time of their creation, some naturally occurring spacetime wormholes are even created. Traveling to the past through those spacetime wormholes does not even consume any extra energy.

Limited by this situation, Xu Feng could no longer carry too many items when traveling.

It would be impossible to bring back something as enormous as the 'Little Mount Sumeru'.

Although he can control the past and future of the entire Lesser Mount Sumeru, the time span covered by Lesser Mount Sumeru is relatively independent of this cycle of reincarnation; its billions of years ago are not the billions of years ago in Guilty Crown.

All Xu Feng could bring was the projection of the Imaginary Mount Sumeru.

With his Ancient Blood abilities nearly fully unleashed, Xu Feng skillfully opened time portals to the past.

His self-perceived time had passed for a long time... In this process of traveling through time and space, the time of self-perceived time is not very important; the core is energy reserves.

Once the stored energy is exhausted, this time travel will stop, and then instantly return to the original position due to the rebound of the world's rules.

This kind of rebound is very damaging.

Without enough energy to protect themselves, even a powerful being capable of traversing time and space would be severely injured in this way.

After consuming a small portion of his internal energy, Xu Feng discovered that all matter in his area had ceased to exist.

At this stage, it became very difficult for him to continue retracing time.

Even if all the energy in the body is exhausted, it is impossible to move forward to the next level.

In the void, the nearly infinite world bubbles faintly projected bits of information into the eye of heaven... This is the vision of the strong. Ordinary people would not be able to perceive anything here and would only instantly become a mass of the most basic particles, turning into a part of the void.

at this time.

A light shone in the area.

In the land illuminated by the light, the endless void transformed into energy, which in turn transformed into matter, culminating in an unprecedented explosion at the very end of that instant.

The stars are laid out like a network within the world.

In this universe, the area covered by voids is the largest, and galaxies are like the pulp of a loofah, forming veins in the starry sky like nerves.

Of course, the network itself is extremely extensive, with each segment consisting of several galaxies.

"Is this how the world came into being? I thought I would witness the seven-day creation..."

Xu Feng locked onto the moment of the explosion.

In this past, he witnessed the origin of the universe, but because he focused all his energy on the moment of the world's birth, by the time he had finished gathering the information, time had already passed.

But the 'past' is not important.

As long as Xu Feng existed at that point in time, returning to that point in time would be very easy.

Subsequently.

Xu Feng once again used the Reality Concretization Illusion Technique to create a replica of himself, which then transformed into a beam of light and entered the world as the light covered it.

After creation, that light continued to roam the universe.

They merely left their mark on the world without changing anything, quietly awaiting the birth of human civilization and the arrival of the reincarnators.

Xu Feng then spent some time protecting this past.

Only when its own energy was almost exhausted, leaving only enough to barely protect itself and return to the present, did it return to the time point anchored at Mount Sumeru.

In the vision of Xiangzi and the other reincarnators of the East Sea team, nothing happened in the world. Time did not flow at all in their own time, and everything was still.

They could not imagine that Xu Feng had done countless things during that frozen time.

After Xu Feng returned to the present, he frantically absorbed the energy from the Lesser Mount Sumeru and used its power to draw upon the surrounding void. The commotion caused by this energy absorption was enormous; even small dimensional worlds would be ravaged by the energy storms generated by this absorption.

The 'Will of Evolution' tried to escape from the less stressful Mount Sumeru, but it crashed into the iron wall again.

"It seems... the situation of the battle hasn't changed much..."

Xu Feng reviewed everything that had happened from the time the East China Sea team entered the cycle of reincarnation until the current point in time. If the light he left behind at the beginning could play a role, the situation of his battle with the "evolutionary consciousness" in the past would definitely have changed.

No matter how subtle the change, it always proves that the light had an effect.

"No, that light definitely existed. It returned to me the instant I entered the cycle of reincarnation, and it has done many things since the world was born, but all the preparations and arrangements made in advance have not worked..."

After spending half a month restoring himself to his peak condition, Xu Feng once again turned his attention to the 'evolutionary consciousness' suppressed by Mount Sumeru.

"The Fourth Revelation: When I traveled back in time before, I didn't observe the existence of the previous three human civilizations. I arrogantly assumed that those three revelations were three natural disasters that occurred on Earth. Now that I think about it, I was too naive back then..."

"However, that light... does not seem to be entirely useless; a change has occurred with the Apocalypse Virus."

The core of 'evolutionary consciousness' is an indivisible consciousness.

Xu Feng can strip away the various energies attached to the core of 'evolutionary consciousness', but he is helpless against this core alone.

It can't even sever its consciousness from this world.

Perhaps a stronger individual with more sophisticated techniques could further split this consciousness and subdue it, but Xu Feng would find it difficult to do so now, even though he used the Reality Manifestation Fantasy Technique to draw upon the power of the future.

Perhaps his strength can reach an even higher level in the future, but the height he can reach now is only the height that he will inevitably reach if nothing unexpected happens.

"Continue backtracking."

Xu Feng made up his mind: "This time I must find out why it can continue to draw energy from the world of Guilty Crown without any hindrance."

Having replenished their energy and gained experience from their previous time travel, they were able to travel through time and space.

The second backtracking is much simpler.

This time, the energy consumed to travel back to the beginning of the world was less than half of what it was the last time. This allows Xu Feng to do more at this stage, such as continuing to try to travel back to an even more distant past, attempting to trace the origin of that light.

Soon, Xu Feng, whose energy was nearly depleted to the critical point, suddenly found himself back at... the point before the time travel.

The two versions of themselves merged together in the reverse flow of time and space.

This sudden fusion was more terrifying than the rebound at the world level. Under the backlash of spacetime, Xu Feng's meridians instantly became chaotic, and his whole body swelled up like an inflated balloon, becoming as large as a mountain in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, Xu Feng now has many ways to solve this problem.

In an instant, hundreds of dream worlds were born, absorbing the rampaging energy, sorting it out, and returning it to Xu Feng's body.

"Time has formed a cycle!"

Xu Feng stared intently at the 'evolutionary consciousness' inside Mount Sumeru.

The more we investigated, the more we realized how terrible this 'thought' was.

"To be precise, it's about to form a ring... the fourth ring... from origin to end. This thing records everything that happens inside this world. No matter how much time is jumped, it can only wander within the range from the origin to the end of the world... unless, it jumps to 'outside the ring'!"

Interfering with the connection between this idea and the world of Guilty Crown requires more than just jumping out of one 'loop'. This thing has triggered three apocalypses before. In other words, with the fourth apocalypse that is about to form a loop, it needs to jump out of four timelines that have already become 'loops'.

Of course, theoretically, it is possible to jump out of the first loop, and jumping out of the subsequent three loops should not be too difficult.

It just means facing more risks.

Unless one's strength far surpasses this 'evolutionary consciousness,' such an act of tracing back in time would inevitably be quite dangerous.

Should we continue?

Xu Feng realized that the God had indeed arranged a world with extremely high difficulty this time.

The quality of this 'thought' was far too high. Even though he managed to suppress it using the power he borrowed from the Reality Materialization Illusion Technique, he still couldn't do anything to its core.

Its origins can likely be traced back to the most powerful characters in the entire multiverse.

In the infinite multiverse, the greater one's strength, the greater the gap between each stage.

Xu Feng's own strength is among the top in the entire multiverse, but compared with the top characters in the multiverse, the gap is still immeasurable.

The current situation is very similar to the world of "The Ring" when I entered it during a period when I was weaker.

Surviving a monster is one challenge, suppressing a monster in plain sight is another, and eliminating a monster is yet another... Completing each challenge requires raising your strength by a whole major level!
Of course, the rewards from the main god will vary depending on the difficulty of the task.

"The Supreme God arranged this world to test my potential!"

Xu Feng learned of the God's purpose.

It will continue to plan future enemies based on the performance in this battle.

In fact, his strength is now almost up to par. When the 'oxen and horses' are fattened up to be used for plowing, he can solve some problems for the God.

Perhaps, 'evolutionary consciousness' is one of the problems that the main god wants him to solve. This problem is relatively controllable among the many problems that reincarnators need to solve, and it can be used as a trial-type reincarnation world.

However, the main god seems to have overestimated Xu Feng.

"Unless one's own strength truly reaches the level achieved by the Reality Manifestation Illusion Technique, and there is enough time to imprint my mark on the entire timeline from the creation of this world to this point in time, otherwise... it is impossible to truly eliminate this kind of monster."

"From the perspective of the rules of the main god, whether or not to eliminate this monster does not affect the East Sea Team. If this monster is really eliminated, the reincarnation worlds arranged by the main god in the future will probably all have reincarnation worlds with extremely high difficulty, no less than this monster..."

"Actually... it's not like this thing can't be used!"

An idea popped into Xu Feng's mind.

The Fourth Apocalypse has not yet been completed. In this cycle, the timeline from creation to the present cannot stop Xu Feng.

This was a very long time.

During this period, 'evolutionary consciousness' originally absorbed a lot of chaotic energy such as the power of faith... These energies that make up 'evolutionary consciousness' will also affect this consciousness to some extent.

The 'evolutionary consciousness' that ultimately manifests is something that can be utilized.

This is an existence that Xu Feng could not kill even after exhausting all his efforts, including using the overpowered ability 'Reality Materialization Illusion Technique'.

If utilized properly, this kind of existence can play a significant role.

then.

After Xu Feng's injuries sustained during his time travel had fully healed, he attempted to trace back through time again.

This time, he once again left a ray of light at the moment of creation of the world.

This time, the light did many things.

For example, before the birth of human civilization, another kind of human-like creature was guided to emerge on a planet in the Milky Way. This creature also believed in the light and had a mind as pure as the Virgin Mary.

That's right, this civilization is Ultraman.

The genes obtained in the world of Ultraman Tiga had the opportunity to develop within that world.

This civilization has left many traces in the universe.

Seven years after the Origin Stone fell to Earth, in order to prevent the crisis of the apocalypse ten years prior, which was about to occur due to the arrival of the Reincarnators, a significant portion of the powerful beings in this civilization transformed into light to protect Japan, thus becoming part of the apocalypse.

After the Reincarnators descended upon this world.

The 'Evolutionary Consciousness' has become stronger in combat and has more moves, but its killing intent when facing reincarnators has also weakened considerably. For example, after Zhao Yingkong obtained the 'Void Genome,' it did not attack Zhao Yingkong continuously as it did during the first reincarnation.

It is constrained by a sense of justice.

"Its thinking is too resilient; a single constraint can only have a slight impact based on its original understanding, and more constraints need to be imposed..."

Xu Feng calculated the time.

The East Sea Team can only stay in this world for a limited time. Once the time to complete the mission is up, they must return to the Main God Space.

In tracing back through time, Xu Feng could experience an incredibly long period of time.

But repairing injuries and replenishing energy... these things can only consume the present and future time.

"Based on the overall calculations, it is possible to impose approximately twelve layers of constraints on the 'evolutionary consciousness'... Hopefully, these twelve layers of constraints will still be effective when I return to this world!"

(End of this chapter)