Jackie Chan Adventures: I, the Mirror God, Master of Fear

Chapter 198 The Truth About Time

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Please do not attempt to trace my whereabouts through communication, because I have likely already left the realm of balance.

I've finally, in some way, briefly escaped that damn balance. Celebrate! Hooray!

After those two sentences, the screen suddenly turned into seven colors, and then a small rubber figure appeared, constantly making flower-scattering motions.

Each time flowers were scattered, a special fluctuation swept across the entire area, and the alchemical runes throughout the basement underwent a change, as if they were testing something.

Lin Luo:.
It seems they knew the limits of their fear tolerance after thirteen scans.

The screen slowly went black, but the text continued to appear.

Hehe, I've gone off on a tangent. Actually, this letter wasn't about catching up or asking any questions.

Rather, it was a small breakthrough in my research on the void.

But before I get to that, I'd like to share some thoughts.

Our ancestral planet is really lively!
I sensed many things, such as the revival of the past, and the fact that the gap between us and them is still as vast as that between a firefly and the moon.

You must be careful not to have the idea that if you become powerful or reach your limit, you can contend with gods and demons.

As a future collaborator with the Void, I solemnly remind you: never, ever underestimate the power of the primordial demons and the immortal gods.

Their power is beyond everyone's imagination.

You asked me to write a book called "To Live".

I've thought about it and actually written down some thoughts; please take a look.

As the text reached this point, a hole suddenly opened at the bottom of the screen, gradually revealing a book with a black cover.

The book cover features only two ancient, demonic characters: 【Alive】

Lin Luo was taken aback, clicked his tongue, and reached out to pick it up.

hum~
A green aura appeared and then quickly disappeared.

The book automatically turned to the first page.

The first rule for survival: Never touch unfamiliar supernatural objects before using negative magic, substitute dolls, disaster transfer, divination, or crisis detection. Otherwise, if the object contains curses, alchemical poisons, traps, explosives, mediums, anchors, or other additives, you will already be dead.

Fear, you were too careless!

Lin Luo:.
Very good, excellent. As expected of a masterpiece by Greed, it's quite something.
Take a deep breath.

Wow~
The book is automatically flipped through.

[Article 213 of Living: After reaching a level of life where you can discard racial characteristics such as breathing and eating, you should minimize the frequency of such physiological characteristics as breathing and eating when you are out in public. Absolutely prohibit meaningless actions such as deep breathing, as that will increase your chances of attracting other people's attention.]

Remember, you can only have everything if you're alive.

Lin Luo:.
Touch~
He closed the book, raised his hand, and tossed the thing into a corner of his Fear Collection Space. If he really had to live like this, Lin Luo would rather die!
Looking at the big screen, the text continued to appear.

[9 seconds, you really can't stand it anymore. Try to watch a little longer. I don't want to find any new friends. They might not be as tolerant of me as you are. Although I don't know why, you are the only one who understands the twisted balance as well as I do. The others are just a bunch of brainless brutes.]

Lin Luo's lips twitched, and he closed his eyes.

This guy hasn't revealed the matter of the void yet. It concerns immortal gods, it's a matter of life and death. He can't get angry, he can't leave, and he's speechless.
After calming herself down, Lin Luo reopened her eyes and looked at the screen.

The text has already begun to continue.

Alright, you are indeed afraid. Now it's the void's turn.

Lin Luo: Still testing the waters?

The void is the gap between spaces, a place completely devoid of matter. It is also the extreme of reversal, where the smallest must become the largest. Therefore, theoretically, it is merely a sliver of space that does not exist between spaces.

Once inside, they will be as infinitely large as the real world.

It's like entering another layer of nothingness, where you can observe the world but cannot influence it, nor can you leave the void.

After detecting the traces of the past, I knew that a new era was about to begin.

Regardless of what new era it may be, I believe that damned balance of yin and yang will continue to operate in the world. So I accelerated the pace of my research.

On July 31, 2001, according to the Blue Star Calendar, I captured a tiny particle in the void.

This particle has no properties, cannot be destroyed, and is even unobservable to some extent, but it further confirms the existence of the void.

As I continued my research, in September I discovered something in the void particles.

I named those things "Void Cells." They are not cells in the sense we know them, but they have some similar characteristics, and they are intricately connected to something terrifying.

time!

Time in the world is out of order, and it seems to split apart.

Unfortunately, my research is still insufficient, but I have some guesses and some hypotheses that I would like you to work on.

At this point, Lin Luo's expression had become completely serious, and everything above seemed to be overturning something.

Alchemy is a truly terrifying profession. If there were no restrictions, perhaps those goblins could actually observe the balance in a petri dish.

Fortunately, there are rules in the world, and no matter how much trouble one causes, one cannot touch the essence of the world.

Otherwise, it might be these alchemists who would destroy the world.
but
Lin Luo thought of the Blade Dragon. Although wizards weren't as terrifying as alchemists, they were about the same.
If the future is an "Age of Witchcraft," these researchers can't afford to ruin the world, right?
Thinking about it, Lin Luo banished the idea from his mind.

If that era truly arrives, even if they ruin everything, there will be immortal gods to mend the world.

Those guys want to be above the rules, so naturally they have to uphold the rules; otherwise, if the rules collapse, demons will be unleashed.
He had barely started to let his mind wander when the words in front of him captured all his attention.

The look in Lin Luo's eyes grew increasingly serious and solemn.

After reading it thoroughly, his expression turned completely somber.

He put his hands in his pockets and turned around.

And it was at this moment that the butler opened the door.

Lin Luo vanished instantly, and when he reappeared, he was already on a high mountain.

At the summit of this mountain, a fierce wind whipped up clouds and mist, blowing incessantly.

Unlike on Earth, there aren't many emperors in this world who come here to perform the Fengshan ceremony.

But it remains the foremost of the Five Sacred Mountains.

The evil god slowly floated to the front of a cracked earth temple.

The earth god temple was covered with cobwebs, and a handprint was clearly visible on the top of the temple, seemingly left by the winged tribe.
"The power of time, huh?"

Lin Luo silently reached out and stroked the altar: "I wonder what price you paid for using up your time. I hope you felt some fear."

The divine power of fear manifested in gold, making the earth god temple even more sacred.

The evil god's crimson eyes were filled with complex emotions as he pondered the words he had just heard.

So this is the truth behind time travel?
Future Jade, Future Demon Dragon.
That's it
This split seems to be all-encompassing and still ongoing. I don't know how long it has been going on, but recently it has been a critical moment.

If I'm not mistaken, there might be parallel worlds that are not completely split.

This allows the world to briefly bypass the time paradox, creating the possibility of traveling between the future and the past.

Moreover, and most incredibly, because this split is still in its final stages, if you travel to the past, you could actually change the future of another timeline.

I don't know whether we belong to the past or the future in this division.

If it were the future, then if someone traveled to the past in another time and space, it would be possible to touch the power of time and let time change the present.

So, if you're afraid, you might need to help me with something, which will also help you.

Go, find the fragments of time, return them to the annals of history, and repair the damage to time.

Let those so-called parallel worlds disappear or completely split up, otherwise the world might descend into chaos!

∞ Remain.

(End of this chapter)