My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 532 Chu Zhu ascends to the heavens in one step and achieves the truth of the universe?
Chu Zhu belatedly realized something: was it possible that the Omnipotent Lord didn't actually possess a clear understanding of friend or foe? Was he simply driven mad by uncontrollable rage, killing anyone he encountered? Only before, there were only insects here… but now, only he remained…

The next instant, Chu Zhu sensed something, and his expression became subtle and strange. His mind raced, and Chu Zhu made a decision. With a thought, a fictional body instantly detached from his physical form. His true body gradually disappeared!

Even though all of this happened right in front of the Almighty Lord, at the moment his form dissipated, the Almighty Lord still relentlessly pursued the fictional body.

"As expected... as brainless as ever!" Chu Zhu thought to herself.

……

In this situation, where there was no fierce fighting and it was just a simple chase, the world of yellow sand gradually recovered.

Where his body had previously vanished, Ji Ying began to reassemble, as if piecing together fragments. His body remained tall and expressionless, and shadows appeared around him one after another. These were the nine he had summoned earlier!

These shadows gazed at the distant scene.

They watched as individual insects, barely emerging, then, with the spread of energy and the increase of 'entropy,' multiplied from one to two, from two to four, and after a few breaths, became densely packed again, joining the war together.

In this situation, the Almighty Lord quickly stopped solely pursuing Chu Zhu and prioritized fighting the insects again. The battle seemed to have returned to its initial state!
However, there was an extra Chu Zhu who was wandering on the edge.

Finally, a shadow spoke, breaking the silence.

“That guy… is not a chosen one of destruction at all! He is a traveler on the path of the truth of destruction.” The third shadow spoke, his voice carrying a hint of solemnity: “Simply being like that is not enough to show the pure destructive power he displayed before.”

“Yes,” the seventh shadow said coldly, “rather than a benefactor of destruction, he is more like… an apostle of the truth of destruction!”

Finally, Seventh Shadow lowered its voice, its tone trembling slightly, but quickly added, "However... while it's very similar, it's unlikely to be too similar."

“It is indeed impossible,” another being spoke up: “Although the trigger for the awakening of the truth of destruction was indeed the ‘prototype’ that emerged from ‘that place’…”

“If that prototype were still alive, I believe He might have become an apostle of truth! But now, He is already a part of truth… In a sense, He is dead! So…”

"?!" Chu Zhu's eyelids twitched incessantly. He was currently lurking among the group, first using his memories, then employing stealth power, and finally adding a series of supernatural abilities to conceal his aura. Perhaps it was because there was a fictional being in the distance, or perhaps it was because they were indeed not good at sensing, that they failed to detect Chu Zhu.

After listening to their words, Chu Zhu murmured to himself, "Originally, I was wondering... could that person who destroyed the truth before be Kevin... or some other old acquaintance?"

Destroying Truth—the very name sounds incredibly sophisticated. There are only forty-nine of them in the entire universe! No matter how you look at it, they're at the very top of the food chain… If things were really as he imagined, this journey to outer space might not be too dangerous… What a pity!
“It’s no different from death…” Chu Zhu lowered her eyes, her mind filled with a myriad of thoughts.

at the same time.

"Is it possible," the original Third Shadow spoke for the second time, "that since one such being could be born, it's possible that a second... a third... perhaps this time will be..."

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" This time, three figures vehemently refuted the claim: "That is the prototype of universal truth!"

The Third Shadow said, "However, this place... is too peculiar! This is the origin of that 'human empire'."

The words "Human Empire" seemed to possess some strange power, silencing all other beings...

"...I still have reservations! I think it's impossible."

"Furthermore, Your Excellency the Consul... you previously broke a taboo! We are ultimately just shadows of memories, observers, and recorders! Your direct involvement in the 'drama' is a grave mistake!"

Upon hearing this, Ji Ying nodded expressionlessly: "I know... but what I did was to enter the Origin Land... It's just a pity that even though we saw 'him' appear, we couldn't sense how he appeared..."

suddenly.

The nine shadows suddenly made their move.

As for Ji Ying, his body trembled, and a vast darkness spread out, enveloping the surrounding world and sealing off space.

However: "Interesting!"

Chu Zhu's voice, tinged with amusement, rang out, and then, a vast divine realm suddenly appeared.

In the world of Journey to the West, many saints appeared out of thin air in front of the shadow.

With a flick of his sleeve, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable unleashed a terrifying chaotic light. The Moral Heavenly Venerable, with the Eight Trigrams above his head, appeared sacred and embodying the natural order of the Dao. The Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable, wielding the Four Swords Diagram, unleashed a devastating power…

These terrifying beings were all locked in a silent battle with the shadows.

On this timeline, the saints have truly reached the level of gods! However, compared to before... they are now like NPCs, without emotions, without souls residing within them, simply fighting.

"Is this the Realm of the Mind...? It's actually appeared here... No wonder it's the cradle of that human empire..."

"Damn it! Are those illusionists...? They must be?"

"Strange...how can he be so strong?!"

Chu Zhu ignored the words spoken by the shadows; his gaze, sharp as a sword, was fixed on Ji Ying's body. Ji Ying seemed to be pondering something, standing quietly.

"Could you please open your heart..." Chu Zhu said slowly, "Let me peek into your memories!"

"?" Ji Ying was stunned for a moment, then his voice seemed to carry a hint of inexplicable meaning: "Aren't you... the Walker of Destruction?"

"Wait, do you mean..."

In fact, it wasn't just him. Many of the surrounding shadows also cast their gazes in that instant, even as they were attacked by the saints and placed at a disadvantage—and strangely enough, they showed no anger or anything like that. No, it felt more like joy? Wait… shouldn't these beings, if they were from another universe, be devoid of emotion?

Chu Zhu frowned, his thoughts racing. The conflicting information gave him a sudden, bad feeling.

With this in mind, Chu Zhu decided that he could not continue to stagnate like this. Since he couldn't kill them with the power of destruction before, he would use his control skills this time. He charged forward without hesitation: "...Memory World!"

Everything seemed destined to become a memory! Forcibly transferred from three dimensions to two, set as an eternal image of memory...

However, Ji Ying seemed to have confirmed something. He raised his palm, and a sliver of light appeared. Immediately, his figure froze, but he didn't care, only staring intently at Chu Zhu.

"!!!" Chu Zhu was inexplicably confused, and that bad feeling grew stronger and stronger.

Suddenly, the entire world of Journey to the West was violently shaken.

"? Hmm?" Chu Zhu's gaze suddenly sharpened. He saw that among the nine shadows around him, four shadows had silently begun to burn and turned to ashes.

And then.

The world of Journey to the West has been shattered.

It doesn't look like it was crushed; it's more like... the world of Journey to the West was torn apart?

Why did it burst?!
Chu Zhu saw it; it was an unprecedentedly complex and dense cluster of stars, the surrounding scenery a magnificent celestial spectacle beyond his imagination. Simply put, the density of the surrounding stars… was at least ten times, perhaps even twenty times, greater than anything he had ever seen before…

It created a sense of eternal daylight that is difficult to describe in words!

"...This feeling is!" Chu Zhu suddenly felt a grandeur that was hard to describe in words, as if his soul was being sublimated, his perspective was being elevated without limit, and the power within his body was also rapidly increasing.

He, or rather, it seemed, understood the essence of the Eighth Realm! Then, with unstoppable momentum, he entered the Ninth Realm, perfectly absorbing the power of the gods… becoming a true god! And he is still rapidly advancing…

Reaching the divine realm is not the end; Chu Zhu continues to improve...

Chu Zhu sensed something was amiss. This feeling was too comfortable; although the power was expanding, there was no sense of obstruction, as if everything was under his complete control. It was as if he had stood at this level for a very, very long time! Now, all he needed to do was reclaim what he had lost: "So, the Journey to the West was... torn apart by me?"

finally.

Chu Zhu seemed to have broken through to a new level. He finally realized, belatedly, that something was wrong with him. After a moment's thought, he understood.

"...So that's how it is. I can't feel any excitement at all! I can't even feel anything unusual! Or rather, I do feel something unusual... but I still don't feel any fear because of it!"

This doesn't actually fit Chu Zhu's personality.

He would be overjoyed if he found the opportunity to break through to the eighth realm. But to advance so rapidly to the ninth realm would be a little unsettling... though he could barely accept it!

But given the current situation...

"This kind of acceptance can only mean... I have lost my emotions!" Chu Zhu murmured softly. He felt that he was seeing more and more, more and more grand, as if he had touched the truth of the universe. As a result, his thinking was getting slower and slower.

Time seems to have turned into amber.

Memory and consciousness, finally... came to a complete halt!

……

Within the Infinite Divine Realm.

Chu Zhu suddenly opened her eyes, her forehead covered in cold sweat, her pupils filled with astonishment and disbelief.

"What the hell is that?!"

"I've been possessed..."

"No, no! It's not that feeling... If it were possession, I should have activated the reset function instantly! But now... it feels more like?"

Countless pieces of information collided and intertwined in his mind. Chu Zhu gasped and made a bold guess: "...The truth of memory?!"

There's only one possibility left!

Chu Zhu's eyes flickered as she recalled what those guys had said: Kevin was suspected to have become the prototype of the forty-eighth truth, the truth of destruction... At the same time, those people believed that Kevin was 'no different from being dead'.

If his previous situation was similar to Kevin's... except that he was targeted by the Truth of Memory! Then everything seems understandable—that state was indeed not much different from death—he was "integrated" by the Truth of Memory.

"No, my situation might be even worse than Kevin's! Kevin, after all, seems to have been born because of him, but I seem to have merged into an existence that has existed for a very, very long time..."

After all, the number on the other side is third! If we look at it on a cosmic scale... third, that means it must have been born in an incredibly ancient time... hundreds of millions of years ago? Or even longer?!

All those words, in the end, amounted to nothing more than…

"What kind of heaven-defying rubbish is this!" Chu Zhu cursed, as countless divine domains merged into his body, but at this moment they could not bring him the slightest sense of security.

One term after another flashed through his mind, such as 'the uniqueness of the Great Luo Golden Immortal', 'the unification of all counterparts', 'the unification of laws', 'the conversion to Buddhism'...

"Wait, there's more... I remember, it seems that in the previous timeline... we confirmed that the being that invaded the solar system had a similar face to me! Could it be... no way..."

Chu Zhu woke up in the ancestral temple, looking somewhat dazed.

Although he didn't know which of his guesses were correct, or perhaps they were all wrong... he was at least certain that those guys had come specifically to find him.

"But...didn't you initially say you were just after our supernatural powers?! How come now..."

"And the initial description of him as ruthless doesn't quite add up..."

"Or perhaps, this is the reason why my good brother had to die? The other side's initial target was actually my good brother... but they concealed it very well! Little by little, they lured my good brother into the trap... because he died the moment he fell into the trap! Naturally, he couldn't give me any new information... so, I didn't receive a single hint about it in the future?"

Chu Zhu paced back and forth in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. If that's the case... it makes perfect sense, it makes perfect sense!

Finally, he gave a wry smile. "Damn it," he thought, "why isn't there a diary this time?" This was proving incredibly difficult and left him completely at a loss!
"No, no, no, this timeline definitely left its mark!" Chu Zhu rubbed his temples. "It's just that I used to obtain this information through artificial intelligence... but no artificial intelligence was left on this timeline! Maybe the diary is hidden somewhere right now, but I just don't know it... Hmm?"

(End of this chapter)