My Ironclad System is ahead of schedule.

"Yes, I'm glad you like it." Huang Quan smiled.

The two quickly finished their food. After they finished eating, Ji Yuan planned to help Huang Quan clear the table. However, Huang Quan took the initiative and collected all the tableware first.

"You should go do your own thing. I'll handle the rest."

Her movements were swift, giving Ji Yuan no chance to intervene, and she directly urged Ji Yuan to create new life.

Seeing this, Ji Yuan had no choice but to pick up the equipment and begin creating life forms that could resist the erosion of the void.

Huang Quan washed the kitchen utensils clean, and after finishing, she returned to Ji Yuan's side, kneeling and watching his actions. The abilities of life science were too profound for Huang Quan to fully comprehend.

All she could see was Ji Yuan constantly striving.

He was proving to himself that he could forge a new path.

Within his life-creating device, which resembled a rice cooker, life forms emerged one by one, and then resisted the erosion of nothingness.

However, just like the creatures created before, these new lives were also swallowed up and disappeared by nothingness.

……

Looking at the corpse lying on the ground.

At this moment, Ji Yuan was also deeply lost in thought.

The erosion of nothingness is too intense; any life that appears in this memory will be completely affected by nothingness and will eventually perish.

The ultimate fate of all living beings is death, and once death occurs, everything that has happened before becomes meaningless. Life has no meaning, only nothingness…

What exactly constitutes existence?

All things that exist will eventually disappear and ultimately vanish into nothingness.

Ji Yuan then created a new group of creatures.

These creatures inherit the memories of their ancestors from generation to generation, and also possess an extremely rapid reproductive capacity. Can such inheritance withstand a moment of nothingness?

He didn't expect this to resist the void; he just wanted to see if his approach could lessen the erosion of the void.

However, his idea soon fell through.

Those newborn lives soon died.

After briefly calculating the survival time, Ji Yuan muttered to himself, "From birth to death, it didn't exceed fifteen minutes. This kind of creature with inherited memory still hasn't shown a survival time that surpasses other creatures."

He has already tried dozens of methods, but still hasn't found the right path.

He was still thinking about what to do next when the aroma of food wafted into his nose again.

Ji Yuan turned his head and saw Huang Quan handing him a bowl of food.

She smiled like a married woman.

"It's time to eat again, Ji Yuan, you should eat first."

"……it is good."

Ji Yuan pondered for a moment, then took the food and began to eat. Huang Quan also ate beside him. As she ate, she watched Ji Yuan's slightly disheveled appearance, a smile involuntarily appearing on her lips.

After finishing his meal, Huang Quan didn't rush to wash the dishes. He simply put the utensils aside, looked at Ji Yuan earnestly, and asked, "Ji Yuan, do you want to continue eating after you're done?"

"of course."

Ji Yuan did not hesitate at all.

"Hmm." Huang Quan nodded slightly, seeing that Ji Yuan hadn't given up. Then she grabbed Ji Yuan and pressed his head against her thigh. Ji Yuan's strength was far inferior to Huang Quan's, and he was pinned down without resistance.

"Take a good rest before continuing to create life."

"This..." Ji Yuan instinctively wanted to get up and continue rolling, but Huang Quan's fingers pressed on the back of his head, and she said in a gentle, wifely voice, "If you want to get up, I'll just knock you out with my hand."

Ji Yuan: "..."

Why do you speak such harsh words in such a gentle voice?

Faced with this, Ji Yuan had no choice but to make a gesture of surrender.

"I surrender, I surrender, I'll just go to sleep now, okay?"

"Ah."

Huang Quan nodded in satisfaction.

Ji Yuan then rested with his head on Huang Quan's lap.

Huang Quan, meanwhile, was staring intently at Ji Yuan's experiment.

She had seen many people resist the void before, but without exception, they only temporarily alleviated the void's erosion of them. No one could escape the shadow of the Void Star God 'IX'.

But looking at Ji Yuan's handsome face lying on her lap, Huang Quan sensed an unusual vitality emanating from him. His presence was striking even in this land tainted by nothingness.

Can he do it?

Or failure?

Huang Quan gripped the long sword in his hand tightly.

He wasn't one of those infected by the void; he fought against it entirely with his own burning passion. Huang Quan had already decided that if Ji Yuan showed any signs of being infected by the void, she would draw her sword and sever it all.

She had already fallen into the water; she absolutely could not let the people on the shore who were trying to save her fall in as well.

It is better to be unable to save oneself than to harm others.

Huang Quan reached out and gently stroked Ji Yuan's cheek.

About eight hours later, Ji Yuan woke up.

He rubbed his eyes, intending to conduct the experiment again. But just as he was about to begin, Huang Quan stopped him once more.

"Have a meal first, then do the experiment."

"it is good."

Ji Yuan waited for Huang Quan to cook another meal before continuing his experiments.

……

In Huang Quan's memory world, there seems to be no concept of time. Huang Quan always estimates the time to cook for Ji Yuan and then urges him to eat.

After finishing his three meals, Ji Yuan fell into a deep sleep again on Huang Quan's lap.

Huang Quan had been looking at him with gentle eyes the whole time, like a wife watching her husband leave for work, full of tenderness and anticipation. However, a wariness of emptiness remained in her eyes. But she concealed these worries and wariness very well, not wanting Ji Yuan to see them.

She only wanted to support Ji Yuan in his current state.

With that thought in mind, she watched as the creatures that emerged from Ji Yuan's biological manufacturing machine died once again.

How many times has this happened?

Hundreds, or thousands...

I don't remember the details of the underworld very well.

Her memory wasn't so clear, but Ji Yuan, as a life scientist, remembered it very clearly.

"The 2,215th attempt failed; the method of infecting the surrounding area still yielded no results. Does this mean that nothing exists in the face of nothingness?"

Ji Yuan thought to himself.

No, that's impossible.

Ji Yuan absolutely did not believe that nothingness was predetermined, just as he did not believe that he was destined to die young.

My destiny must not be lost.

I am destined to exist.

The thousands of experiments he had conducted had left Ji Yuan feeling mentally exhausted, but his fear of his predetermined fate and his unwillingness to accept it invigorated him.

Ji Yuan's mind was racing.

Where there is nothingness, there must also be existence. What kind of existence lasts forever?

Even if their universe is destroyed, they will not be affected.

Ji Yuan thought of something else.

The Tree of Imaginary Numbers.

The foundation that constitutes everything in the universe is filled with imaginary energy between galaxies, a existence even more mysterious than nothingness.

Can its existence resist nothingness?

Maybe!

Ji Yuan then thought of his conversation with his teacher Ruan Mei, about creatures made of imaginary energy, creatures that could rush into the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.

No, simply entering the tree of imaginary numbers is not enough.

It must be able to leave an imprint on the tree of imaginary numbers.

The traces left by such a creature can endure as long as the Tree of Imaginary Numbers; its traces will never disappear.

Its existence constitutes a part of existence itself. Even if the universe is destroyed and restarted, this trace will still exist alongside the imaginary number.

As long as it exists, it is not meaningless.

Is it difficult to create such a creature?

It's huge, incredibly huge, even bigger than I could ever imagine.

But it’s not impossible.

If I think of that kind of creature, then it means that it must exist.

What doesn't exist in the past or present will exist in the future.

Ji Yuan thought for a moment, his eyes filled with extreme excitement.

Huang Quan watched him from the side, feeling the dazzling presence emanating from Ji Yuan at this moment. Even the emptiness in her memories seemed to recede at this moment.

he……

"I have an idea."

Ji Yuan said excitedly to Huang Quan.

“I’m telling you, there’s no path in life that can’t be changed. Listen to me, I’ll lead you down a different path.”