Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

time.

Although it is merely a system and concept artificially created to represent the movement of matter, it possesses the power to smooth over everything, enough to cause the prosperous to perish, the loving to hate, and the true to become false... but the prerequisite is that one must have time.

In this endless abyss, all matter returns to chaos, all things return to the unknown and darkness, and all time loses its meaning.

But humans need meaning, and human nature needs meaning.

"...86397, 86398, 86399, 86400."

In the mental space, the split personality of Bugu, who was "automatically memorizing numbers," once again memorized 86400, leaving a mark on the page to prove that another day had passed.

Then, she started from 1 again and kept reciting.

Cuckoo focused her attention on the page, which was densely covered with tally marks. She counted them carefully; there were nine hundred and forty-nine in total.

Today marks the thirteenth year since we fell into the abyss.

The divine crisis of the legendary is weaker than that of the true god. In addition, with Bugu's own ability to lie and her advantage of knowing time, she is able to maintain her humanity even more perfectly.

To celebrate growing another year older, the cuckoo closed its eyes and entered the spiritual world.

It was a motel in the middle of a desert.

Here, everyone at the Joyful Hotel has prepared a New Year's Eve dinner for her. Cucumber juice swirls in glasses, and a sumptuous feast is laid out on the table, including: stir-fried crisp cucumber, garlic cucumber slices, cucumber salad, cucumber soup, steamed cucumber, cucumber rolls, cucumber tempura, cucumber balls, cucumber fried rice, cucumber jelly, cucumber jelly cake, cucumber cookies, cucumber milk pudding, braised cucumber, cucumber noodles, pickled cucumber, and freshly squeezed pure cucumber juice...

The Solè doll Mujika raised her hand, picked up the guitar, and lightly plucked the strings with her fingertips, offering everyone a song called "Spring Shadow".

As the melody began, the magical girl Mu☆Mu☆Lu raised her hand, scattering tiny starlight specks that floated in mid-air, drifting gently to the rhythm of the music; Little Mu stood by the dining table, tiptoeing, waving her little hands up and down, hopping and skipping.

The Great Love Immortal Venerable drank cup after cup of cucumber juice; Mu Naixu leaned back in her chair, the black cat on her shoulder squinting its eyes, lazily resting; Officer Rabbit sat upright, quietly enjoying the performance.

The group laughed and joked to the music, and time slowly passed.

"Ugh……"

The cuckoo sighed deeply.

Everything was so beautiful... but she knew these people weren't them.

These are merely personalities that I have split off through my abilities.

The real Mu Nao, Mu☆Mu☆Lu, Little Mu, Rabbit Officer... have already jumped into the river of reincarnation and are welcoming their respective new lives.

Are you feeling lost?

Tong Chuxue brought the cucumber juice to her and gently shook it. The transparent glass clinked together, making a crisp sound.

"Ah."

Cuckoo leaned back in his chair, completely relaxed, and murmured, "I know that in the next cycle there will be a leader, Freya, and Cheng Cheng, proving that they were able to withstand the erosion of the 'Primordial Chaos'... But Mu Zimi will also exist in the next cycle."

“Mu Zimi is a born [Basic] Chaos Demon, but now, the primordial chaos has never been defeated, which means…”

"That means it was you who defeated the primordial chaos." Tong Chuxue nodded. "And you already know the method, right?"

Correct.

The unified harmony and the chaos of the mechanism are completely opposite concepts. Therefore, the harmonious power of "Kasyapa-rajamu" perfectly restrains the power of primordial chaos.

Simply by reciting that passage, or by creating a mental image of Kasyapa Rumo, one can attract the attention of the celestial deity "Buddha Tathagata," causing Him to notice this world and send down the reincarnation of "Kasyapa Rumo," "Mu Zimi," to replace the chaotic demon "Nyarlathotep."

Afterwards, freed from the corruption of chaos, Sylvia and Freya may retain their humanity in the abyss and eventually descend to Earth as gods.

Next comes the timeline I am familiar with: the establishment of the Primal God Cult, the birth of Mu Zimi, and the sealing of the "previous lives" of Motis and others as personalities in Sylvia's mind world until Cheng Cheng's intrusion, when Kasyapa Ruomu revealed his killing intent, together they fought against the World Honored One, and finally fell into reincarnation.

Time will close the loop, which is the best outcome.

But Bugu's long-term plan to help Cheng Cheng achieve immortality in the abyss was precisely to achieve a "better outcome"—while Cheng Cheng achieved immortality and salvaged everything, to prevent the "Buddha Tathagata" from casting his gaze upon this world.

She knew that once the Buddha turned his gaze upon this world, she might lose herself again and become the Buddha's incarnation.

At the end of everything, the celestial being "Buddha Tathagata" is the final boss.

Unfortunately, there are no more options left.

The cuckoo let out a long sigh.

If the primordial chaos continues to erode them, both Sylvia and Freya will be completely corrupted into demons, and everything will be lost.

Tong Chuxue grasped Bugu's hand: "So, go do it."

Bugu's fingertips trembled slightly, her eyes swirling with hesitation and reluctance: "But if...if I were to become the incarnation of the World Honored One again, you, all of you might also..."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone at the gathering turned around.

Mu Naixu, Mu☆Mu☆Lu, Xiao Xiao Mu, Rabbit Officer, Tong Chuxue, Fully Automatic Number Memorization Personality...

No one offered words of comfort, nor did anyone show any sign of retreat. Each face wore a gentle yet unwavering smile, and their eyes held a resolute determination to break through all darkness.

This heavy bond came crashing down, and all the struggle in Bugu's heart turned into a long, soft sigh:

"Sigh... okay."

She looked up beyond the spiritual world, into the depths of nothingness, and at the people torn apart by chaos and trapped in darkness. Her tone carried a hint of helplessness, a hint of indulgence, and a tenderness born of desperation: "Sylvia, Freya, Boss... this time, what you owe me is truly countless."

The wind subsided, and the lingering sound echoed softly.

"So, once all of this is completely over, you absolutely, positively must come and save me!"

With the knot in my heart settled, there was no more hesitation.

Cuckoo composed herself, the softness in her eyes vanishing completely. Her consciousness abruptly returned, retracing its steps to that ancient, silent abyss. Gazing at the unchanging, pitch-black waves, her lips parted slightly, and a series of chanting sounds pierced through layers of chaos, resounding throughout the void:

"Universal harmony, stars shining brightly, boundless merit praises the Buddha! All people are of one mind, all things share the same root, the winds of blessing sweep across the earth—"

Chapter 162, If We Meet Again

Beyond the heavens, the Asidna Galaxy.

At the summit of Mount Sumeru, eighty-four thousand tiers of glazed stone steps stretch across the sea of ​​clouds.

All the Buddhas sat in rows on lotus thrones, and the Bodhisattvas gazed intently into meditation, quietly awaiting the "Tathagata World Honored One" Buddha Dhammarajiva to expound the supreme path.

Buddha Dhammarajiva sat on the central thousand-petaled seven-jeweled lotus throne, expounding on dependent origination and emptiness, impermanence, the cycle of birth and death, and the suffering and joy of reincarnation, explaining the karmic cycle of cause and effect in the world and the suffering of sentient beings' attachments. Celestial music played spontaneously in the void, and golden lotuses sprang from the ground. All the holy beings present were immersed in the Dharma, silent and still, forgetting the self and the external world.

The Buddha preached for a long time, then suddenly stopped speaking.

He lowered his gaze, his eyes piercing through layers of clouds and the heavens, casting a distant view into the dark depths of space billions of light-years away.

In the vast, dark sea of ​​stars, two stars hover together, endlessly revolving around a dark sun.

Within that pitch-black sun, a young girl's lips parted slightly, and she recited: "Universal harmony, stars shining brightly, boundless merit praises the Buddha! All people are of one mind, all things share the same root, the wind of blessing sweeps across the earth—"

Upon seeing this, the Buddha's eyes were clear and compassionate, devoid of sorrow or joy.

All the beings in the heavens were filled with doubt and looked up at the lotus platform. They saw the World-Honored One raise his hand and gently pick up a white lotus that had fallen to his knees, revealing a multitude of eighty-four thousand heavenly beings.

At that time, all the gods, humans, monks, and bodhisattvas, seeing the Buddha holding up a flower, were all silent, none of them able to understand the Tathagata's secret meaning: the supreme path was being expounded to a profound point, why did the World-Honored One suddenly stop the Dharma teachings and hold up a single flower?

At that time, only the elder Mahakasyapa Rinpoche, sitting there, suddenly broke into a knowing smile.

Buddha Dhamma Ling smiled and nodded, acknowledging her. Kasyapa Rinpoche understood the Buddha's intention, put his hands together in gratitude, and thanked his teacher for transmitting the Dharma with his heart.

The disciple Ananda was puzzled and asked for the reason. Therefore, the Buddha Dhammaling told Mahakasyapa: "I have the true Dharma eye, the wondrous mind of Nirvana, the true formless form, the subtle Dharma gate, which is not established in words and is transmitted separately outside the teachings. I entrust it to you. You should protect it well and ensure that this Dharma lineage continues without interruption."

Kasyapa received the Buddha's instructions, bowed at the Buddha's feet, and silently withdrew to sit down.

Then, following the gaze cast by the World Honored One, she stepped into the River of Reincarnation and entered the world surrounded by two stars.

In the years that followed, the story of "Buddha holding up a flower and Kasyapa smiling" became widely circulated in the Asdna system and became a popular tale.

…………

Beyond mythology.

The divine official's original divine body suddenly trembled, and in the darkness, he discovered the gaze from the World Honored One.

At the same time, a World Honored One named Kasyapa Namo sent an envoy to break through the boundary, reincarnate, and plunge into the eternally silent abyss.

"He discovered it after all..."

The priest lowered his eyes and sighed softly, a profound sense of powerlessness welling up within him. He dared not even entertain the slightest thought of intervention: "It is fate, it is destiny. The World-Honored One has issued a decree; it seems the experiment of the 'Immortal Crown' will end in the next cycle of reincarnation."

Meanwhile, in the utterly silent abyss.

After the cuckoo finished reciting that Zen saying, it suddenly had an epiphany and exclaimed with emotion, "Alas! I never imagined I was actually an incarnation of the World Honored One... Damn it! I almost fell for it!"

Fortunately, the World Honored One's attention was focused on this world and he did not deliberately target her, such a tiny being.

Therefore, the cuckoo was not instantly assimilated into the incarnation of the Buddha; it was merely infected with a little bit of the homophonic meme virus.

Using the power of the "moon," Bugu tried to hypnotize the meme virus, then looked into the desolate abyss—only to see countless holy Buddhist lights blooming from nothingness, golden light sweeping across the eternal darkness.

In an instant, darkness receded and the unknown vanished, leaving only the primordial chaos, oblivious to its fate, recklessly charging towards that supreme Buddhist light.

"After all, the original chaos itself was chaotic in its own mind," Bugu said thoughtfully.

In the next instant, the supreme and harmonious chanting of Sanskrit resounded throughout the abyss, forcibly stripping away, dismantling, and purifying the layers of chaotic mist. Nyarlathotep, the "Primordial Chaos," twisted and struggled violently, its thousands of chaotic tentacles flailing wildly, but ultimately it could not withstand the overwhelming light of Buddha, and all its violent actions were in vain.

All falsehoods and chaos subside and return to order amidst the melodious chanting of sacred sounds.

The entire abyss was thoroughly cleansed by the Buddha's light, the ancient chaos vanished completely, and the turbulent tides of the quantum sea were forcibly locked. The fate of the chaotic demon collapsed toward its death, ultimately transforming into a magnificent, golden, and supreme Dharma wheel.

[Basic] Source quality.

Amidst the radiant Buddha light, Kasyapa Ruomu's ethereal figure slowly emerged.

She turned her head and glanced lightly at the place where the cuckoo was. After a moment of contemplation, she raised her hand and gently picked up the condensed source essence.

Beneath his feet, the Buddha's light condensed into a surging river of reincarnation, its waters rippling. Without the slightest hesitation, Kasyapa Namo leaped into the turbulent river, only to be swallowed up by the torrent of reincarnation in an instant.

"Time eventually comes full circle..."

Cuckoo gazed at the disappearing figure and sighed softly.

From this point on, Kasyapa Ruomo will fall into the next cycle of reincarnation, reborn as a chaotic demon on Earth. After being sealed in Mu Zimi's mind by Sylvia and Freya, he ultimately dies from a single blow from Cheng Cheng and Mu Zimi, who "don't care about the past."

There wasn't much she could do to help with the rest.

The cuckoo composed itself, a faint warmth rising in its eyes.

Okay, next I'll slowly find Sylvia and the others, and tell them the good news that I'll definitely meet Cheng Cheng in the next round.

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