Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 567 Law of Causality

Chapter 575

Xu Ran nodded and said no more.

He turned around and looked once more at the Order Prison that suppressed the first Blood Prison Lord.

At this moment, the immortal demon was still roaring and struggling madly.

The entire divine prison was shaking violently, as if it might break free at any moment.

"In the end, it was just a rule set up casually; it won't trap him for long," Xu Ran calmly commented. "It seems we need to address the problem at its root."

He took a step, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, he appeared above the Order Prison, looking down at the monster below that represented chaos and madness.

"You shouldn't have woken up."

Xu Ran's voice was devoid of any emotion, as if the will of Heaven were proclaiming judgment.

"You shouldn't exist in this world either."

"Roar!"

The first Blood Prison Lord seemed to understand his words, and struggled even more violently. His chaotic face stared intently at Xu Ran, conveying endless resentment and killing intent.

"Let me see what your roots really are."

Xu Ran extended his right hand and slowly pointed with his index finger.

This time, there was no sword light, no laws, and no energy at his fingertips.

There was only a profound emptiness, colder than absolute zero, more desolate than ultimate nothingness... "nothingness".

His fingers pierced through the barriers of the Order Prison and pointed at the chaotic face of the first Blood Prison Lord.

Just as Xu Ran's fingertips were about to touch the demon.

Mutation, rebirth!
The first Blood Prison Lord's frantic struggles suddenly ceased.

His chaotic face, that blood-red vortex, began to twist and change, and finally, it coalesced into a... eye!
A huge, indifferent, and endlessly malicious vertical pupil, yet with a hint of mockery and amusement!
The vertical pupil was neither round nor spindle-shaped, but a constantly rotating black vortex composed of countless incomprehensible symbols!
The moment that eye opened.

A terrifying will, surpassing even the first Blood Prison Lord and exceeding the limits of this universe's cognition, has descended!
"Om-"

The Divine Prison of Order, which Xu Ran had personally set up, crumbled inch by inch under the gaze of this eye, turning into the most primordial cosmic dust!
That will is neither power nor law.

Rather, it's a higher-dimensional... "gazing"!
It's as if an artist is looking down at the world in his painting.

One glance from him was enough to shatter the landscape in the painting!

"So you've finally come out..."

Xu Ran paused for the first time.

He stared at the strange vertical pupil, and the "interest" in his eyes intensified.

"Hidden behind a drop of 'polluted blood,' spying for so long, I thought you would never show yourself."

That vertical pupil seemed to pause for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a vast, ancient, and distorted spiritual wave, whose language system did not belong to this universe at all, yet whose meaning could be understood by any living being, resounded throughout the entire starry sky.

"You...can see me?"

The voice carried a hint of surprise, a hint of curiosity, and an air of superiority, as if a god were scrutinizing an ant.

"I can see you?" Xu Ran smiled faintly. "Not only can I see you, I also know where you come from."

"On the ancient road to the end, where all paths lead to ruin, there is only a pathetic creature trying to prove 'transcendence' through 'mistake'."

"..."

That grand will fell into a long silence.

A moment later, an icy killing intent a billion times stronger than before suddenly descended!

"Who...who are you?!"

In this universe, beings who know about the "Ancient Road to the End" are extremely rare.

And those who know that there is a "Wan Dao Gui Xu" (a place where all roads lead back to ruins) on the ancient road are definitely no more than a handful throughout history!
As for those who can succinctly capture his essence—using "error" to prove "transcendence"...

Unprecedented!

The seemingly insignificant creature before him had a far more terrifying origin than he had imagined!
Who I am is not important.

Xu Ran withdrew his fingers and slowly clenched his fist.

"The important thing is that your 'path' is wrong."

“You transform your ‘mistake’ into a drop of ‘black blood’ and cast it into all the heavens and myriad worlds, polluting each and every world, observing their fall and destruction, in order to prove that your ‘mistake’ is ‘correct’.”

"In my opinion, this behavior needs to be corrected."

"Correction?"

That vertical pupil revealed the utmost mockery and disdain.

"You? A 'crippled' person whose very existence is incomplete?"

"Do you know that with a single thought, I can reduce this world to nothingness, and all things to emptiness?"

"Do you know that the 'order' and 'rules' you cherish are nothing more than child's scribbles in my eyes, easily punctured?"

"is it?"

A strange smile appeared on Xu Ran's face.

"Then how about we make a bet?"

"bet?"

“I will stand here and not move.”

Xu Ran held up one finger and pointed to himself.

"You, do everything in your power to 'erase' my existence."

"If you can do that, this universe, along with everything I own, will be yours."

"If you can't do it..."

Xu Ran's eyes suddenly became deep, as if they contained the birth and death of billions of stars.

“You can leave your erroneous ‘path’ here, along with your ‘existence’ itself.”

Upon hearing this, the world fell silent!

Tu Feng, who was far away, was already on the verge of a breakdown by that incomprehensible conversation.

But he still understood. Senior Xu Ran was making a bet with an unimaginably terrifying being from an unknown place...!
The stakes are everything between us!
What audacity! What madness!
"..."

The huge vertical pupil stared intently at Xu Ran, seemingly judging the truthfulness of his words.

How dare a "disabled" person provoke an existence that transcends this world?
Is this ignorance is bliss? Or... does he really have some hidden cards he can't comprehend?

“Interesting… so interesting!”

“Countless ages have passed since I embarked on that path, and no living being has dared to speak to me like that.”

"Alright! I'll grant your wish!"

"Let me show you, you ignorant ant, what true... 'annihilation' really is!"

The moment the words fell.

The eerie vertical pupil, with its deep black vortex, began to spin wildly!

"Om-"

It was silent, yet it surpassed all the roars since the beginning of the universe.

A kind of "fluctuation" that cannot be described in words and cannot be perceived by any living being spread out instantly from the center of that vertical pupil.

This is not an impact of energy, not the annihilation of laws, and certainly not an attack on the soul.

It is a higher-dimensional... "tampering"!
It is a forced conversion of "existence" to "non-existence"!

Tu Feng, standing some distance away, was the first to feel this terror. He was horrified to discover that his memories of Xu Ran were rapidly becoming blurry and fading!
It's like an ink stain that's been submerged in water, rapidly dissipating.

"Senior...Senior Xu Ran..."

He tried to pronounce the name, but found that his tongue was as if bound by invisible shackles, making every syllable incredibly difficult.

Then, he witnessed an even more unbelievable scene.

The spaceship beneath his feet, an ancient vessel crafted from an unknown divine tree that carried them across the star field, was gradually becoming transparent at its edges, turning into nothingness!
why?
A sudden realization flashed through Tu Feng's mind, only to be enveloped by an endless chill.

The reason the Sky-Crossing Boat is here is because Senior Xu Ran boarded it!

If Senior Xu Ran "never existed," then his boarding of the Sky-Crossing Boat would be a false "cause," and naturally, it would not produce a real "effect"!
This ship is being erased from the level of "effect" by the disappearance of its "cause"!
Is this the method of that terrifying being?
It's not about killing or destroying, but about completely and cleanly "deleting" a person from the most fundamental "logic" and "cause and effect"!
Tu Feng looked up, gazing into the depths of the starry sky.

He saw that the starlight, which should have been emitted tens of thousands or even millions of years ago, suddenly twisted and stopped strangely when it reached the edge of the Burial God Starfield, and then... disappeared.

It's as if the "past" from which they came is being forcibly rewritten by a powerful force.

The entire universe is "forgetting" Xu Ran!
“Ant, your biggest mistake is to use your shallow ‘reality’ to try to understand what ‘nothingness’ is.”

That grand yet icy voice echoed through every temporal and spatial fault.

"Your so-called 'existence' is nothing more than a ripple in the long river of cosmic memory. And I am the will that determines the course of this river."

"Now, your ripples should subside."

【The Law of Causality: The Great Annihilation】!
The black vortex spun to its maximum!

In an instant, an unimaginable power of "emptiness" transformed into an invisible and intangible torrent, transcending the dimensions of time and space, and precisely enveloped Xu Ran!
It washes away Xu Ran's "past".

They were trying to dig out the origin of his birth from the source of the river of time.

It covers Xu Ran's "present".

He was trying to erase the "coordinates" upon which he stood from the grid of space.

It severed Xu Ran's "future".

They tried to cut off all the possible "causal lines" that could extend from him!

Past, present, and future, a trinity, all vanishing simultaneously!

This is a sure-kill situation, an "ultimate concept" attack that is impossible to defend against or avoid!
Because when your "past" no longer exists, what will you use to "defend" yourself?

In Tu Feng's eyes, Xu Ran's figure had become extremely dim, like a thin shadow that could be blown away by the wind at any moment.

The light around him was distorted, the laws were wailing, and the entire Burial God Starfield was groaning under the unbearable burden of forcibly "eliminating" Xu Ran's existence.

Countless colossal beast skeletons silently turned to dust.

Those shattered stars are rapidly heading towards heat death.

This space is being "rejected"!
Reject Xu Ran, who is about to become "non-existent"!

However, at the very last moment before this "annihilation" was completed.

Xu Ran, whose figure had become so faint as to be almost invisible, moved.

He did not launch any earth-shattering counterattack.

He just... gave a slight smile.

"So, this is your 'Way'?"

His voice, though not loud, clearly pierced through the invisible barrier of the "Great Annihilation," resounding deep within the soul of every living being.

"Using 'error' to cover up 'correctness' and 'falsehood' to replace 'truth'."

"Unfortunately……"

Xu Ran raised his head, and for the first and only time, his deep eyes met those huge vertical pupils.

"You chose the wrong person."

“Have you ever thought about a question?”

"If my 'existence' is not merely a 'ripple' in the long river of cosmic memory..."

"But... what about the 'riverbed' that carries this long river?"

The moment the words fell.

"boom!!!"

The entire universe seemed to have been struck hard by an invisible hand!
The "emptiness" power that enveloped Xu Ran and was frantically erasing all traces of him was like hitting a dam that could not be crossed and could not be understood!
Do not!
That's not a dam!
That is... "axiomy"!
It means "one plus one equals two"!
It is "the shortest distance between two points on a straight line"!
It is "existence is existence!"
It is the most fundamental foundation upon which all rules and order in this universe, and even in all the heavens and myriad realms, are built!
You can destroy a star with power, distort space with laws, and even reverse a period of time.

However, you cannot make "one plus one" not equal "two"!
Because once this most basic "axiom" is shaken, everything built upon it—mathematics, physics, laws, the great principles—will collapse instantly, and the logic of the entire universe will cease to exist!

Xu Ran's "existence" is none other than such an unquestionable and unalterable "fundamental axiom"!
He is not part of the history of the universe, but rather a prerequisite for the universe to "become"!

Trying to erase him is tantamount to trying to prove that "this universe does not exist"!
This is a paradox!
An ultimate paradox that can break down any logic and any law!
"Zizzi-"

The terrifying power of the [Law of Causality - Great Annihilation] emitted a piercing wail the moment it came into contact with Xu Ran's "fundamental axiom"!

It is being "corrected"!
It's like a faulty program encountering the lowest-level firewall. Not only does it fail to infiltrate, but it is also reverse-tracked and cleaned by the firewall's powerful "correct" logic!
The altered starlight instantly returned to normal.

Those forgotten memories resurfaced in Tu Feng's mind in an unprecedented and profound way, and were imprinted in the deepest part of his true spirit!

The airship that was about to disappear shone brightly and became even more solid than before!
The "memory" of the entire universe has not forgotten Xu Ran. Instead, it has engraved his "existence" into the most fundamental logic of all things in a more profound and essential way!

(End of this chapter)