All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 373 Return, the Long River is on the verge of destruction!
Chu Xiu had always believed that the River of Time had eroded the dungeon world, washing away some of its contents and creating a large number of time fragments, as well as various mutated powerful beings.

But that's not actually the case.

The passage of time is not an erosion, but a cleansing, filtering out the "mutations" and restoring the copy to its original state.

This is the true nature of the river of time.

In this process, each mutated individual pollutes the river of time, making its ability to cleanse the world increasingly weaker, until it can no longer be cleared.

This leads to changes in the world, making it unable to cycle between birth and death.

Time will no longer be scattered.

In this vicious cycle, everything flows towards nothingness, which will eventually lead to the annihilation of time.

Players, on the other hand, are in the position of "cleaners," improving themselves through dungeons and, after reaching the tenth rank, salvaging impurities from the River of Time to delay their demise.

Therefore, there is no such thing as an eternal server.

The "eternal service" is the ultimate.

The Time Traveler is the player's final form. The only way for the player to extend their survival time is to salvage Time Fragments and slay mutated monsters.

As for the level 19 players, all they can do is salvage on a larger scale.

Once a "source of pollution" appears that players cannot deal with, then the annihilation of the long river may come at any time!

This is the endless spacetime, and the current order!

"I suspect that the creation of the All-Heavens Game was to cultivate a large number of players above the tenth rank. Especially the nineteenth rank players; if there were enough of them, they could completely clean up the River of Time, thus ensuring that annihilation would never come!" Chu Xiu added.

This is why, after reaching level ten, players have no further limitations and can upgrade indefinitely.

They can now descend into the River of Time, so they no longer need to go to dungeons.

Even if the server is lost, it won't be a big problem.

"Then why is there a final copy? And what is the purpose of the Transcendence Mark?" Li Changhe asked.

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu shook his head: "I don't know! But I suspect that the final instance is related to the birth of the All-Heavens Game, and may even be related to the formation of the Myriad Realms. As for the Transcendence Mark, it is a kind of authority and also an item, and it should be unique!"

He had a premonition that the existence of the final copy might be far beyond his imagination.

"None of that matters. The most important thing right now is to eliminate the strange Heavenly Dao!" Zhou Wushang said. "While we are here, external time is stationary, which means we have essentially controlled it. But if we leave, it will pollute the entire River of Time, and it is very likely to break the critical point and trigger the River of Time's annihilation!"

Some things may contradict common sense.

For example, according to the consensus of the Overlord Forum, players will only perish after the River of Death ends.

But could it be that the river of time only ceased to exist because the players perished?
"How confident are you?" Li Changhe suddenly thought of a question: "Since bosses in dungeons of level 10 and above might appear, if a player is killed by one, will they truly die?"

This problem is very serious.

Players have always relied on [something] to be resurrected.

But if they cannot be resurrected.

There are many things they dare not do, and many high-stakes gambles they cannot afford to lose.

"I don't know!" Chu Xiu shook his head and said, "But it can't kill me! Besides, all these years we haven't been waiting for you, we've been waiting for him!"

As he spoke, he looked at Chu Feng.

He added, "The three Heavenly Emperors, Huang Ye, Chu, and others, working together, can counter the strange Heavenly Dao and suppress it temporarily! Under these circumstances, if Zhou Wushang and I join forces, we can eliminate it!"

In fact, Chu Xiu himself was also capable of eliminating the strange Heavenly Dao.

But the cost is too high, potentially consuming the entire trilogy world, preventing him from obtaining the mark.

That would be a losing proposition.

"Just tell me how to do it!" Chu Feng said.

Then, the Ruthless Great Emperor walked over, glanced at Chu Xiu, and said, "If things proceed according to your plan, the Lord of the Bronze Coffin might briefly awaken and regain full consciousness. Can you be sure that after seeing his 'three incarnations,' he will still be willing to die?"

This is what she is most worried about.

But Chu Xiu smiled and said, "Don't worry, you don't want Ye Fan to become someone else, but Chen Nan doesn't want to become Ye Fan either!"

Then, everyone took action.

First, Zhou Wushang went out, which led to the emergence of the strange Heavenly Dao.

Immediately afterward, Chu Xiu took action, holding off Lin Beixuan in the darkness. Then, the Three Heavenly Emperors acted, drawing upon the consciousness of the Bronze Coffin Master within the strange Heavenly Dao. Using its power, they suppressed the strange Heavenly Dao.

Chu Xiu, on the other hand, suddenly let go of everything and was killed by Lin Beixuan of Darkness.

The next moment, Zhou Wushang appeared with all his power and skills, and used the Return to the Void Heavenly Art to capture even the Dark Forest Beixuan and the strange Heavenly Dao in his palm.

With a burst of power, it swallowed whole.

The next moment, the dungeon settlement page appeared.

[Instance: Shrouding the Heavens World]

[Rank: First Place (Ultimate prize not included)]

[Points: 30 million]

[Attributes that can be brought out: 100%]

[Skills that can be brought out: All]

[Note: Dungeon rewards can be used without restriction in Blue Star, the River of Time, and the final dungeon. When entering normal dungeons, you can choose whether to bring skills; if you choose to bring them, they can still be used.]

On the surface, it seems like an ordinary settlement.

But in reality, the rewards from this instance were far greater than expected.

Name: Chu Xiu

Rank: 19 (10+9 Marks)

【strength:?】

【agile:?】

【Spirit:?】

【physical strength:? 】

[Cultivation Period: 11 Billion Years]

[Mental Strength: 1 trillion (+ Imprint)]

[Dharmakaya: The Infinite Body, the Mind-Only God, the Spirit Returning to Nothingness]

[Skill: Return to the Void Heavenly Art (No Level Required)...]

He couldn't reach the Sacrifice Path level through cultivation within the dungeon, but after leaving the dungeon, his tenth rank plus nine marks allowed him to reach the nineteenth rank!

Furthermore, the mental strength reached a terrifying "one trillion".

It is more than ten thousand times that of a normal tenth-order item.

"Marks above the tenth rank seem to be completely different from transcendence marks!" Chu Xiu discovered that this mark itself did not provide any benefit to him.

Only after one has the "mark of transcendence" can one be used to elevate one's status.

But unlike ordinary marks, the "Heavenly Heart" he obtained this time can be released externally.

In other words, he can possess the same power outside as he does in the world of imprints—a power so strong that it can suppress even a ruthless emperor above the level of sacrificial rites with a single thought.

Nearly invincible.

If he so desires, he could even devour the river of time and eliminate all impurities.

However, when he looked at the endless space-time, he was taken aback: he realized that he had misunderstood something. It was not that the players could not clean up the pollution of the River of Time, which caused the purging effect to become worse and worse, but that the myriad worlds themselves were moving from order to disorder!
Similar bizarre phenomena related to the natural order are escalating.

The root of the problem lies not in the river of time, but in the myriad realms themselves.

And the source involves the ultimate truth!

All defilement, the so-called annihilation, originates from the ultimate source—it is the origin of the "plot correction power" and the source of the rules governing the destruction and rebirth of all the heavens and myriad worlds!
But it is being lost.

The number of cases leading to "mutations" is increasing!
A polluted river.

The next extinction is almost here!
"So, only if players obtain the 'Mark of All Heavens' can the annihilation of the River of Destruction be delayed? Theoretically, if all the marks of the myriad worlds are collected and controlled by players, there will be no more annihilation?" Chu Xiu wondered.

But then he shook his head.

"It's too late!" Chu Xiu looked at the matchmaking interface: "I must get the 'Transcendence Mark' as soon as possible, and then go to the final instance to see what exactly happened there!"

(End of this chapter)