Ironclad Group Chat: Red and Black Lists Engraved with Heroic Epics

Does this logic chain have to be this smooth?!

She understood that, rationally speaking, this was actually the best outcome. After all, no one had died on this road.

Except for Lagos.

But emotionally, she just couldn't accept it!

Damn it, she's started having her left and right brains working against each other too?

[Yao Guang: I see. This is the full picture of "completing cause and effect." The future Xi Lian secretly passed on her words to her past self, allowing her to initiate the eternal cycle of reincarnation and learn how to obtain the power to break the deadlock by remembering the universe. And after everything is completed, it's time for her to help the next "self."]

[Bai E: But fate is too cruel to Xi Lian. Does this mean she will struggle in the cycle of reincarnation for eternity? Thirty million lifetimes is the end of our mission, but for her, it's merely the end of one complete cycle?]

How can it be so torturous?

The people in the Milky Way were completely dumbfounded.

The concept of eternal reincarnation can even be nested within each other?

[Star: Stop talking! I'm going to explode!!!]

It's getting worse and worse...

Seeing Xing huddled on the sofa, crying and wriggling pitifully, Ma Zhua was speechless on the spot.

How should I persuade him?

Try to look on the bright side. Xi Lian hasn't left yet, has she? You two can chat for days on end... Is that even human?!

Help! What should I do?

Within the light screen, the Black Tower sighed, "This is perhaps a choice that every Pure Child must face."

Xi Lian understood completely: "This means I will remain in the [past]."

Black Tower shrugged: "Not only that, you will close the causality of Onpharos. This is a closed world, so the influence of [memory] on it will all be concentrated into the influence of [you]."

"No more Star Gods will intervene in this history, and there will be no more causal gaps. Therefore, the present will be fixed and become indestructible."

[Yao Guang: But based on the same logic, once it's closed, it's hard to imagine what other method could bring her back.]

Black Tower frankly stated, "There are two paths, only one of which is correct. The machine head didn't tell me the answer."

"But the consequences of this mistake are predictable—because of the lack of causality, there is a certain probability that the Iron Tomb will make a comeback."

[Qingque: Seriously? Neither of these two paths was particularly good to begin with, and now there's a penalty for choosing the wrong one?]

[Screw Gumu: Speculation. Perhaps it's not punishment, but rather that even the Great Sage himself couldn't determine which path was better. And remarkably, this time He didn't act unilaterally, but instead returned the right to choose to Miss Xilian herself. After she makes her decision, the Great Sage will then prune the branches of reality accordingly.]

[Black Tower: That makes sense, but this feeling of being calculated so precisely isn't really that pleasant.]

[March 7th: So, what is Miss Xi Lian's answer?]

After hearing the information brought by the Black Tower, Xi Lian was filled with emotion, shaking her head and laughing: "Even the gods in the Milky Way are so unreasonable."

After clearly presenting the whole story to Xi Lian, Hei Ta did not advise her on which path to take: "My advice: Don't overthink it, just ask your own heart first."

She was biased about this matter, but what could she do? She was a rebellious person too. Even if the consequences might be severe, she wouldn't morally blackmail Xi Lian.

"If you choose the first path, you might be able to exist as a memory spirit, and even travel with the Star Train for a period of time."

"Even I can tell that you care about them, especially Xing."

"But if you choose the second path..." she said earnestly, "then you may have already missed the chance to say goodbye."

After all, not breaking through Onphalus's shackles is a necessary condition for this path to be possible.

Xi Lian hesitated for a moment, but only for a moment. With a blink of her beautiful eyes, she regained her usual radiance.

"I've made up my mind, Ms. Black Tower."

Perhaps missing the chance to say goodbye isn't such a bad thing. If I could have truly stayed by her side for a while, maybe her heart would have softened quickly, and she wouldn't have been so resolute anymore?

On the train, Xing felt as if her heart was being tightly squeezed, making it difficult to breathe. She pinched her philtrum to try and stay awake.

She fully understood that Xi Lianxiao had not chosen someone who was good to her, but rather someone who would allow her to have a clear conscience.

Xi Lian would never choose the first option, not even if it was for her sake, because she wanted the Golden Descendants and the entire galaxy to no longer have to fight to the death with the Iron Tomb!

She's the kind of person who, once she makes up her mind, will step into hell with a smile, even if it's hell ahead!

But... it's not only those who have entered hell who feel pain.

"Just this once, please?" she pleaded on the train, knowing it was hopeless.

……

Within the light screen, Hei Ta smiled with satisfaction. No further communication was needed; she understood Xi Lian's choice: "I thought you needed time to carefully consider it."

Xi Lian smiled faintly and said, "The answer is obvious, isn't it? But I do need some time... to overcome the sadness in my heart."

She looked up at the sky, as if she could see from that direction the star train she had never actually boarded.

But perhaps it was fate's compensation to her; in her memory, in the incarnation of a star, she had already experienced it once.

Xi Lian murmured, "Her gentleness is always just right, she'll surely... forgive me, won't she?"

[Star: I... if, I mean if I don't forgive you, can you not go?]

[Xi Lian: Hmm...that's a tough question. Everyone else is moving towards the future, while one person is going back to the past alone, protecting everyone on the most distant scale. How heroic, how great! My comrades can carry the entire galaxy on their shoulders; I want to be that heroic, that great person too. You'll give me that chance, right♪?]

[March 7th: Miss Xi Lian, you... aren't you too gentle? I can't take it anymore, I can't stop crying...]

[Bai E: Xi Lian, you...]

Bai E felt a deep, indescribable sorrow. It was a journey she would embark on alone, the loneliest and most arduous trek, yet she managed to depict it with such romance.

She's already great enough! But why can't she enjoy the fruits of victory commensurate with her greatness?

[Star: I...]

Xing's heart was bleeding, and her lips were trembling.

No, no, I won't give it to them! No matter what you say, I won't give it to them. This incredible opportunity to shoulder the responsibility for all living beings in the universe is enough for Star-Kiwili to enjoy all by himself!

[Star: Yes.]

After saying just one word, Xing buried her head in a pillow and burst into tears.

She couldn't bring herself to say it. How could she bear to refuse Xi Lian's plea? And she spoke of it with such longing.

She's gone astray!