Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

Memory is the opening act of a dream, but now the pages are blank, the song is unfinished, the dream will eventually end, and the journey is still ahead.

Chapter 176, Eternal Calamity ∞ Return

[Experiment Progress: 99%]

[Experiment Log 01: In the 29642nd cycle, "Buddha Tathagata" noticed this experiment and intervened; in the 29643rd cycle, humanity gathered all nine factors for the first time, and the experiment entered its final stage—under the guidance of the administrator, they entered the "Crossroads of Fate" to conduct the coronation ceremony of the "Immortal Crown."]

[Experiment Log 02: In the final stage of the experiment, "Buddha Tathagata" laid a killing formation in the narrow passage of fate, attempting to possess the experimental results with his future body; the electrical signal "Cheng Cheng" conducting the ritual was unable to cope and used memory-related authority to rewind time, arriving at the beginning of the 29642nd cycle.]

[Administrator's Note: The administrator's previous question has been answered: The electrical signals that inexplicably appeared, inheriting the "Kingdom" factor, and severing the "Glory" and "Understanding" factors, were precisely the "Pure Divinity" that had approached immortality.]

[Experiment Log 03: "Pure Divinity" severed its three corpses, using its own corpse to inherit all the trajectories of the mortal body "Cheng Cheng," replicating all the encounters of past cycles. The experiment will ultimately output one of two results: "Buddha Tathagata" successfully possesses the body; or "Pure Divinity" deciphers the future body and successfully attains enlightenment.]

[Experimental Progress - Error Log: Eternal Infinity Regression]

[Eternal Recurrence: To ensure the closure of the timeline, "Pure Divinity" intended for "Cheng Cheng" to remain at the crossroads of fate, ultimately defeating "Buddha Tathagata," and initiated Eternal Recurrence through a continuous time loop, causing the experiment to stall.]

[Administrator's Note: It is known that "Pure Divinity" refers to *Fate: The Immortal Crown*, the instrument through which the electrical signal "Cheng Cheng" was able to traverse the reincarnation interference experiment. But where did the *Fate: The Immortal Crown* used by Cheng Cheng in the initial cycle originate?]

[Experiment Log - Eternal Recurrence (Recorded by Ellef Medici, the experiment leader and observer of various world lines):]

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #1】

The object Cheng Cheng is in a normal cycle and comes to the narrow passage of fate, where he encounters "Buddha Tathagata". Pure divinity attempts to sever its own projection in the river of reincarnation.

Failure. Object Cheng Cheng returns to the beginning of the loop.

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #42】

It was detected that Cheng Cheng's humanity had slightly increased, but he was still in a normal cycle. His pure divinity attempted to sever the link with Mu Zimi using the "Overlord Six Blades".

Failure. Object Cheng Cheng returns to the beginning of the loop.

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #486】

The object Cheng Cheng did not follow the normal cycle. In the "Queen's Death" incident, he did not choose to face it with Freya, but instead kept trying to go back and challenge the electrical signal "Vilet", causing his humanity to continuously decline.

By repeatedly rewinding and killing to seize the flame, Cheng Cheng successfully defeated Vilette and the Inverted Demon, but his humanity was reduced to a negligible level.

Cheng Cheng, through repeated rewinds, married all the beautiful women he knew, building a vast harem.

In order to maintain his perfectly correct image, Cheng Cheng, the object of his affections, begins to kill his wife over trivial matters, showing no humanity whatsoever.

The loop failed, and the object Cheng Cheng no longer has the potential to become immortal. Pure divinity actively initiated a rollback.

The tentative code name for this cycle is "The Pride Line".

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #1234】

The game "Destiny: Immortal Crown" was not played normally because Cheng Cheng, who was in a car accident when he was young, was no longer obsessed with "Yuan Shen" and therefore did not receive the game.

As a result, a huge bug appeared in the loop, and electrical signals from Sylvia, Freya, Cuckoo, and others began to appear on Earth in the 29642nd loop. They became Cheng Cheng's classmates, senior classmates, and childhood sweethearts, and were all confessed to by Cheng Cheng, becoming his mother, master, and so on.

[Beauty] The Holy Grail's essence manifested, and Cheng Cheng received the power of Freya and Himegami, successfully winning the Holy Grail War and making a wish.

The loop failed, and the object Cheng Cheng no longer has the potential to become immortal. Pure divinity actively initiated a rollback.

The tentative code name for this cycle is: "Lust Line".

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #8848】

After a long cycle of accumulation, a significant increase in the humanity of the subject Cheng Cheng was detected. The experiment leader, Ms. Ellef Medici, intervened and stored the overflowing humanity of the subject Cheng Cheng outside of the "Scepter δ-me2961" to prevent it from being discovered by pure divinity.

Pure divinity once again challenged "Buddha Tathagata," successfully killing one of his future incarnations and gradually grasping the weaknesses of that future incarnation, but still no match for the complete Nine Revolutions Divine Venerable "Buddha Tathagata."

Failure. Object Cheng Cheng returns to the beginning of the loop.

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #33333】

The detection indicates that Cheng Cheng's overflow of humanity has reached a point that cannot be ignored.

The experiment leader, Ms. Elle Medici, attempted to refine the overflowing humanity into a Nine-Turn Divine Artifact, which might open up a path to destiny called "humanity".

The refining failed, but the eighth-grade immortal artifact "Human Emperor Sword" was successfully refined, and tests showed that it has a special restraining effect on "Buddha Tathagata".

The Human Emperor Sword has been placed outside the cycle of reincarnation, and the challenge of pure divinity still failed, with the target, Cheng Cheng, returning to the beginning of the cycle.

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #65536】

Through countless reincarnations, Cheng Cheng infused the Human Emperor Sword with humanity, bringing it to near the level of the ninth revolution, almost equal to the imaginary energy contained in pure divinity.

The great Elle Medici personally intervened, engaging in dialogue with both "Cheng Cheng" and "Pure Divinity," and successfully proved:

"Even though divinity is supreme and holds power over the universe, the meaning of existence for all things is defined by the insignificant 'humanity.' Through endless cycles of reincarnation, even the insignificant 'humanity' has the potential to overcome 'divinity.'"

Only meaning can resist "nihilism".

The experimental objective was adjusted. Instead of prioritizing "creating an immortal star god," the experiment aimed to help humanity overcome divinity and create a Nine-Turn God with an "immortal" destiny.

…………

【＞＞＞Eternal Return #65537】

Cheng Cheng embarks on the cycle of reincarnation once more...

"I am you, and you are me."

Fate is on a narrow path.

The Buddha, Dhamma, stood with his eyes lowered, showing no anger, no sorrow, and no joy.

"You...don't you understand yet?"

The next moment, a phantom river suddenly appeared beneath the Buddha's feet. It flowed from an unknown source, laden with the past, but abruptly cut through Cheng Cheng, splitting into numerous tributaries. These tributaries, too, continued to differentiate, and the river itself became a maze of narrow passages of destiny!

The River of Reincarnation!

The tributaries represent countless futures, and the more distant future is the afterlife.

From the rushing, dark river, figures emerged one after another. Among them was a band guitarist dressed in a red and black suit and wearing a mask, behind whom appeared nine golden Buddha statues: some pointing to the sky and touching the earth, some smiling with flowers in hand gestures, and some forming mudras that illuminate the entire world. Suddenly, they overlapped and merged, transforming into a single golden body filling the heavens and earth, seemingly compassionate yet blissful, solemn yet humorous, pure yet free. Its head bore a Buddha-like topknot, displaying the thirty-two major marks and eighty minor marks of a Buddha. Besides this, there was nothing else; everything was an illusion—the golden body of the Tathagata!

All that happened in the past!

"Humph."

This time, pure divinity is fully prepared.

To combat the past and future incarnations of the "Buddha," He underwent a total of 65,537 reincarnations, finally developing the sixth form of the "Six Blades of the Overlord" in the last reincarnation. He also received a promise of help from the witch in that previous reincarnation…

Now is the final battle against the God!

"Here comes the knife!"

As soon as he finished speaking, lightning flashed across the starry sky, obscuring the stars and transforming it into a vast ocean.

The eternally silent void suddenly trembled violently. Nine wings, encompassing all truths, abruptly unfurled and trembled wildly. Terrifying power of destiny surged and boiled, converging entirely in his right hand, transforming into a crimson-gold divine blade that slashed straight at Buddha Tuomoling!

The fifth move of the Overlord's Six Blades - All past events vanish like smoke!

More than 60,000 reincarnations, the helplessness and despair of having one's fate in the hands of others, all the accumulated depression and resentment, are severed here!

The longsword was suddenly swung out, silently disappearing into the void, leaving only a resounding battle cry echoing throughout the universe, shaking the heavens:

"I will not dwell on the past in this life!"

The longsword slashed out, planets shifted, and the sun erupted with a flare. At that moment, the Asdna system was plunged into darkness, as recorded by a historian:

"In the 3157th year of the Amber Calendar, a celestial dog ate the sun, and the daytime was darkened again, an ominous sign."

The blade's light illuminated the starry sky, piercing through illusion and reality, severing all the karmic ties between Mu Zimi and her past lives in the long river of reincarnation!

One by one, the brilliant starlight disappeared, carrying with it all the events of the past.

However, Buddha Tuomaling above the starry sea smiled slightly, as if he had everything under control!

"Have you seen this clearly... Cheng Cheng, can you sever ties with the past, but can you escape the future?"

At this moment, in the distance of the River of Reincarnation, figures flew out one after another. There was Cheng Cheng, who became a hunter of destiny after being spotted by Lan during a high jump on the school playground; there was Cheng Cheng, who fell into demonic ways and abandoned Yuan Shen while playing Ming Chao; there was Cheng Cheng, who starved to death from not drinking rice and oil since childhood; there was Cheng Cheng, the magician who won the Holy Grail War; there was Cheng Cheng, the King of Konoma who had a harem...

In all the future, in all the afterlife, black and white penguins are seen!

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"!

"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 Thodolin had already arrived before him...

"Ha ha……"

This time, Cheng Cheng did not back down.

He looked at Buddha Thodol, suddenly stretched out his left hand, and let out a long howl:

"Sword, come!"

Boom—!

Beyond the narrow passage of fate, in a garden under a starry sky.

Ellef Medici watched this scene, patted the Emperor's Sword beside her, and chuckled, "What's borrowed and returned is borrowed again, right?"

The Emperor's Sword suddenly resonated, its golden light, which shone brightly throughout the heavens, broke through the void, and instantly crossed the narrow passage of fate, landing in Cheng Cheng's palm.

On the front of that longsword were engraved the Holy Grail, a sword, coins, a scepter, a dragon vein, a tiger tally, a tree branch, a Dharma wheel, and books—not the nine elemental substances, but symbols of every girl closely connected to Cheng Cheng throughout the long cycle of reincarnation!

"A Nine-Turn Divine Artifact? No... it's only close to the ninth rank..."

Buddha Thomoling's expression finally changed.

However, Cheng Cheng paid no attention to any of that, only staring intently at him. His sword light surged forth like water, meeting the countless future lives, and he roared once more:

"I have no desire for an afterlife in this life!"

The longsword thrust out, and there was a faint sound of water in the air, as if it had entered the River of Reincarnation, splitting into two, then four, then eight, flowing down the river and reaching everything, meeting the future bodies that came against the tide, different futures, different afterlife!

"Not seeking the next life" is a sword strike involving cause and effect. In addition, the sword lent by the witch, which is full of humanistic power, is precisely restraining the "harmony" power that is based on human beings!

The pale golden light, carrying a human power many times greater than the sands of the Ganges, surged forward.

Countless future beings and countless phantoms of past lives were dissolved and annihilated layer by layer amidst the vast sword light!

“Elef... Su Yuan? You really did try to stop me…”

Buddha-Thomaling's expression changed; he had never anticipated this attack, and now it was too late to dodge, so he could only take it head-on.

A brilliance a billion times greater than that of a supernova bursts forth in the narrow passage of fate!