Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

No, it wasn't just him; all the figures were depicted as black and white penguins.

All future lives, all afterlife, are depicted as black and white penguins!

Suddenly, countless stars appeared in the night sky, reflecting off numerous tributaries and illusory shadows.

Each and every future, each and every afterlife, transformed into Buddha Tuomo Ling. He smiled slightly, confident and composed, and took a step forward, about to enter Cheng Cheng's body, seize the opportunity for immortality, surpass the "abstract" Primordial Heavenly Venerable "Su Yuan," and attain the dual deity status of "Harmony" and "Immortality"!

The Nine Revolutions Divine Venerable: Tracing back to the past, pervading the future!

This was the plan He devised when He noticed the cuckoo chanting His name. Regardless of whether Kasyapa Ruomu succeeded, as long as He replaced the Chaos Demon with her, the one who would attain immortality in the future would surely accept her and bear this karma.

The weak fear the consequences, while the strong fear the causes.

Once this cause is planted, the "Tathagata Buddha" has secured an inevitable victory—

He assimilates the person who seeks enlightenment in the future, replaces the present with the future, usurps and kills the immortal star god newly born in this experiment, and ultimately seeks enlightenment himself!

"May the world be in harmony, may all stars shine together, and may the Buddha's boundless merits be praised! May all people be of one mind, may all things share the same root, and may the winds of blessing sweep across the earth!"

Amidst the chanting, the future form of Buddha Thodoling appeared before him, and "Cheng Cheng" couldn't help but sigh.

late.

Even if He were to sever His own body and abandon all humanity at this moment, and forcibly ascend to immortality, He would still give the "Buddha Tathagata" a wedding dress.

The Buddha's trap was not set in a day. From the moment the cuckoo chanted His name in the abyss, He had already laid the trap in the narrow passage of fate, waiting for Cheng Cheng to fall into it.

Although the Immortal Star God is far stronger than the Nine Revolutions God "Buddha Tathagata", the two are of the same rank—they have not yet become their complete immortal selves, and their rank is still half a step away.

A difference of half a step can be as vast as an insurmountable chasm.

I am no match for the "Buddha Tathagata" and have no means to resist the "assimilation of the future body".

In the blink of an eye, it would be impossible to find a way to defeat the "future body"!

So, facing the approaching steps of Buddha Tuomoling, "Cheng Cheng" neither flinched nor avoided them; instead, he opened his arms as if embracing the whole world.

"It seems you already know... that you have nowhere to escape."

Buddha Thodol chuckled and reached out to touch it.

however……

"No way to escape? Buddha, Thodol... Haven't you heard that there's always a way out?" Cheng Cheng chuckled. "As long as I want to leave, the path is right beneath my feet!"

The next moment, His body collapsed into dust and drifted away with the wind!

[Rollback]!

This is the earliest game mechanic of Fate/Grand Order, which in theory could not possibly appear in reality... However, for Cheng Cheng, who is now surrounded by the nine elemental substances and whose body has become completely immortal, and who is only one step away from achieving immortality, it is not difficult to reverse time and space, return to the past, and reverse cause and effect with "memory".

Since I can't find a way to fight you right now, I'll go back to the past and think about it slowly!

Spring and Autumn Cicadas!

It is said that:

"A cold wind blows through the narrow path of fate, cicadas sing through spring and autumn as youth returns. Destiny brings both creation and defeat, the gods may regret, but I do not!"

…………

…………

[Experiment Log: Experiment 29642, before the Abyss Invasion]

Using his immortal power to travel back in time, along with his "good corpse" and "evil corpse," "Cheng Cheng" returned once again to the world simulated by the scepter.

To ensure he had enough time to think of a way out of the predicament, Cheng Cheng poured a large amount of imaginary energy into the authority to rewind time, so he didn't know when it would land.

However, with just one glance, everything was revealed:

"This is... the cycle in which Sylvia and the others are reborn, a thousand years ago."

Upon learning this information, "Cheng Cheng" paused for a moment, looking at the "good corpse" and "evil corpse" beside him.

If I remember correctly, that "Hungry Demon" was known as "The Corpse Obolos".

So one's "good corpse" is...

"Past, future, present..."

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is... I understand! I understand!"

Cheng Cheng has gradually come to understand everything.

"So, this isn't the first time I've attained immortality... nor is it even the first time I've faced the 'Tathagata Buddha' directly."

Throughout countless reincarnations, He has reached the end of His life countless times, yet He has fallen each time under the Buddha's future killing trap.

Each time He is defeated, He can only use the power of rewind to go back to the past and start the cycle of reincarnation anew.

After each regression, He would separate His good and evil selves and release them into the world, where they would transform into the Amber God and the Hungry Demon, thus beginning a new cycle of worldly stories and reincarnation.

So……

In past cycles of reincarnation, where is the "I" who is purely divine, and the "self-corpse" full of humanity?

After only a moment's thought, He guessed the answer through the authority of His wisdom:

The protagonist, Cheng Cheng, who experiences adventures, love, hate, and growth along the way, is the self-corpse left behind after He stripped away His humanity.

And this pure divinity, standing a thousand years in the past and transcending the world, is itself—

Fate: The Immortal Crown.

His task was to guide "Cheng Cheng" to continue the cycle of reincarnation while researching ways to resolve the issue with "Buddha Tathagata".

This was not without effect—when Cheng Cheng was able to directly draw the "Six Blades of the Overlord" from Mu Zimi's card pool and kill Kasyapa Ruomu with "All past events vanish like smoke," it was a killing move that he had researched for the "Buddha Tathagata" from countless reincarnations ago.

But He ultimately overlooked one crucial point—Buddha's trump card was never the past, but the future that no one could decipher.

"The past is gone, but the future cannot be reversed."

That makes sense.

At the beginning of each cycle, the self-corpse "Cheng Cheng" will embark on an adventure, gather source matter, and after experiencing all the stories, go to the narrow passage of fate to prove immortality.

Then, humanity was replaced by pure divinity, and they encountered a future death trap set by the "Buddha Tathagata". Unable to resist, they had no choice but to rewind and rewind... In the end, they released the two corpses of good and evil, severed the "self-corpse" of humanity, and started a new round of stories.

Immortal and unique, transcending cause and effect, transcending time.

If we compare the immortal Star God to a giant dragon, then pure divinity is a finger of the dragon, and "Cheng Cheng" is merely the insignificant tip of the fingernail—he is the self-corpse stripped away by pure divinity for "cultivating the Dao"; and all the stories are a closed-loop experiment repeatedly staged by pure divinity in order to defeat "Buddha Tathagata"—

Just like the priests' endless simulation experiments in order to create an immortal crown.

The two of them, though taking different paths, arrived at the same destination and were essentially the same.

But the seed will eventually grow into a towering tree, and the story will eventually come to an end—either by defeating the "Buddha," or by repeating this endless cycle.

Cheng Cheng's eyes were clear, and his mind was calm and undisturbed.

"I'm not in a hurry."

Breaking the eternal killing scheme of a Nine-Turn Divine Venerable is a slow and painstaking process. If one round fails, the next round will be fought again; at worst, one can go back in time, set up a new plan, and start the cycle again.

The most important thing right now is to stabilize the timeline and not disturb the cycle of reincarnation, so that the new self-corpse "Cheng Cheng" can complete the predetermined plot and grow smoothly.

Thinking of this, Cheng Cheng looked up at the sky, his gaze seemingly piercing through the false heavens, meeting the eyes of the divine official beyond the heavens.

"As expected... the Source Essence is unique, and now that it's all in my hands, the Divine Ritual Official must be frantic with worry over the disappearance of the nine Source Essences, right?"

With a light laugh, following the original course of history, "Cheng Cheng" extended his hand.

[Majesty], [Victory], [Foundation], [Beauty], [Wisdom], [Kindness].

The six portions of primordial matter were returned by Cheng Cheng, transforming into six primordial demons who returned to the system of the simulated world.

Next...

[Understanding], [Glory].

He casually tossed these two essences far away, and eventually someone will possess them, establishing the Kingdom of Konoma and the Elf Empire, beginning a thousand-year conflict...

Finally, what remains is...

Cheng Cheng squatted down and slapped his good and evil corpses awake twice.

"What happened?" The benevolent corpse opened its eyes blankly, completely bewildered.

"Damn it, you dare hit me!?" The evil corpse instantly bristled, its anger rising.

The good corpse and the evil corpse awoke at the same time. Just as they were about to curse, they saw "Cheng Cheng" throw a glittering gold coin at them: "Use this to fulfill your wishes."

[Kingdom] Origin.

One of them will become the demon of hunger, destroying the world; the other will become the god of amber, protecting a thousand years of peace.

At this point, all nine portions of the source essence on "Cheng Cheng" were discarded, and the twenty-two blasphemous cards were also returned to the simulated world, resulting in a significant decrease in his divinity.

But it did not disappear.

What sustains His divinity now is the vast amount of imaginary energy He absorbed while walking through the narrow passages of destiny—this power does not belong to the simulated world, nor can it be taken away; it belongs solely to Him.

This is why Fate/stay night allows Cheng Cheng to travel between two cycles and share the source essence, thus doubling his originally unique power.

With all the arrangements complete, He stretched out His hand, pointed His sword finger, and aimed it at His own soul, making a resolute slash!

A figure, carrying all of humanity, love, hate, entanglements, and ordinary past, detached from supreme divinity and slid down, gently falling to the ground.

This is his final and most essential self-corpse—the "protagonist" named "Cheng Cheng".

With a slight effort, He erased all memories of the deceased, sending this body, which carried humanity, to the distant future, back into the womb of the former mortal mother. He allowed him to be born anew, to grow anew, and to experience all adventures and bonds anew.

Between heaven and earth, the figures of mortals vanished, leaving only an indescribable, supreme, pure and transparent golden divinity, silently suspended in the void.

From this point on, a new cycle of reincarnation was firmly anchored, and the world line came to a perfect conclusion.

In the story that follows, the golden divinity will lurk in the shadows, researching ways to deal with the "Buddha Tathagata"; while the self-corpse "Cheng Cheng" will, like a larva, constantly experience many adventures, fattening itself up, and eventually turning itself into the purest "nutrients" to nourish this supreme divinity, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

Pure divinity glanced at the world once more, then fell silent.

…………

Earth, Dongshui City.

Cheng Cheng lit a cigarette, typed on the keyboard with one hand, and engaged in a fierce online debate with someone on the forum:

"What kind of Yu-Gi-Oh! is this? Such an arrogant name! Even 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' wouldn't dare call itself Yu-Gi-Oh!"