I am Jinshan Youxia

Strange fog was everywhere.

He didn't see the legendary reincarnation at all. He spent a long time guessing what reincarnation was like, but it was like entering an ancient city after an earthquake.

After wandering aimlessly for a few minutes, amidst the broken brick and tile ruins, a hunched figure sat in a high-backed chair. As Zhang Chengyi approached, the mist gradually dissipated, revealing the figure's wrinkled, aged face.

“You’ve finally come, Outer Demon.” Her voice was weary.

I skipped today.

I should be able to update by noon tomorrow, and I'll most likely start catching up on what I missed before, since I'm currently out of town and can't go back.

Just a heads up, this book is free for a limited time now... I don't know if my absence today will affect the free offer, we'll see.

Chapter 402 Reincarnation

"It really is me."

Zhang Chengyi wasn't too surprised; he had long suspected that the outsider might be him. "Are you Meng Po?"

"You can call me that," Meng Po said calmly, sitting there. "From the moment you attempted to descend into this world, we knew you would succeed."

"No matter how much we resist, it will all be in vain in the end."

"The world is destined to be destroyed, so I have been waiting for you for a long time when the underworld is destroyed."

When she laughed, more wrinkles appeared on her face, making her look very old.

"At this time?" Zhang Chengyi suddenly realized why these gods and Buddhas thought the world was doomed before he arrived, and why they rushed to run away, not knowing where they had gone.

It is clear that time is a definite existence in this world, and its arrival will directly crush things like the timeline or the flow of time, thereby destroying the world that constantly cycles through time.

If he doesn't help, the world with its shattered core will surely perish, just like the world of Inuyasha.

So this was the great calamity, and he was the outer demon.

"So you deliberately divided the world apart?" He roughly understood what the gods and Buddhas had done.

Being able to manipulate the world in which one exists is definitely worthy of the title of god or Buddha, but it is actually quite abstract. Actively cutting off the world is equivalent to shortening the lifespan of the world. Once the original timeline collapses, other possibilities will continue to collapse and perish at the fastest speed.

“No one would believe that an external demon could destroy the world just by descending.” As Meng Po spoke, her body suddenly flickered, and a somewhat familiar, beautiful female face detached from her body, then overlapped with the face of an old woman, making her appear somewhat transparent.

"Hmm, I think I've seen you before." Zhang Chengyi stared at the young face that had just separated and merged with his own, rummaged through his memories, and found his target—

This old woman who calls herself Meng Po actually has the face of a female ghost who used to be under his command.

He couldn't possibly be mistaken; it was the face of the female ghost from the True Immortal Temple.

“Master.” Meng Po’s face showed a complicated expression, then her body flickered again, returning to a calm and gentle smile, “She is me, and I am her, only she is my past life, and I am her present life.”

“The past life is the future, and this life is the past…” Zhang Chengyi suddenly realized the key point: “Reincarnation is the time scale of this world.”

This is so bizarre, traveling to the past and future through reincarnation.

No wonder there's this saying about how many lifetimes it takes to become an immortal or a god. It turns out that you don't need to endure that much time at all. For gods and Buddhas on a real time scale, they can become immortals in the next second.

How could things be so messed up? Time loops, this world...

"It seems you understand, sir." Meng Po's body had become so transparent that it was almost a phantom in a wisp of green smoke. "The beings of the Three Realms are reborn in the Six Paths of Reincarnation, like a spinning wheel of fire. Since the Buddha, the cycle of birth and death has become the paradise of the gods and Buddhas who sit in the Thirty-Three Heavens."

"This world has no future; it is only your arrival, sir, that has accelerated this process."

She looked at Zhang Chengyi, who was trying to swallow her with his corpse energy and white balls, and sighed, "Everything is predestined. I am fused with the six realms of reincarnation, and I cannot escape my fate."

"The underworld has collapsed, the cycle of reincarnation has crumbled, this world is beyond saving, and there is no fun to be had."

"They used everything to keep you temporarily trapped in this time, sir. You must be careful."

"Also, if you want to save Sister Xiaoqian and the others at other times, try to find the reincarnation of the Arhat Subduing Dragon in the future. He might know where the Moonlight Box is..."

The sound stopped abruptly, and Meng Po vanished completely.

"The Moonlight Box? The Arhat Who Subdues Dragons?"

Zhang Chengyi looked at the ruins turning to ashes and the trembling, collapsing underworld before him, a strange smile on his face.

"Trapped me? Interesting..."

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Half an hour later, in the mortal realm.

"With so many movies involved, including high-energy worlds like A Chinese Odyssey, if there were more Hong Kong films and even TV series, this world might be much more powerful than we imagine..."

"But it's also much more troublesome."

When Zhang Chengyi flew out of the Bone-Eating Well, the smile on his face had not yet faded.

The trouble was minor; what really mattered was that he hadn't encountered a local who knew he was a modder and still took the initiative to attack him in a long time. The last one was Barbatos, the Destroyer Dragon of the Dark Multiverse in DC.

Even now, his body in DC is still enjoying the pleasure of every opponent he encounters.

He didn't care about being used; he only cared about being happy and pleasing to the eye. After killing a few Batmen with mental problems and forcibly appropriating Barbatos's power that had invaded his body, everything became wonderful. He was taken by the Batman Who Laughs to one dark multiverse after another, which crippled many of the Flash's abilities to reboot the world and travel through time.

There aren't many complicated puzzles or pursuit plots; you just fight the enemies as soon as you see them, and you also have Batman with his overpowered brain.

Happiness and relaxation in every sense of the word.

"Damn it." Zhang Chengyi saw that the mortal realm was covered with dark clouds, the yin energy was soaring to the sky, and ghosts were flying and darting about in the air. He cursed subconsciously.

Then I understood why the ghosts in the underworld had disappeared.

"This is fucking ridiculous! The cycle of reincarnation is collapsing, but the ghosts don't disappear..."

"Gaia!"

"Shh!"

Gaia appeared with a hearty smile, holding a monstrous ghost with a blue face, white mouth, and red eyes in her left hand and a long-haired ghost covered in blood in her right. She asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"

"After I went to the underworld, they came out?" Zhang Chengyi asked with a frown.

The next problem is huge. Without a reincarnation mechanism, how will he deal with the dead people and the large number of ghosts in this Hong Kong variety show world?

The world of Inuyasha is too shattered. There are no rules about heaven or where the souls that ascend to heaven go. Even the underworld was completely shattered and disappeared because of what he did. The world of the Celestial Dragons is even more devoid of souls.

Even if he wanted to humanely destroy the ghosts of this world, he couldn't. Ghosts turn into ni (a type of spirit) when they die. The undead nature of the living grass combined with the collapsing cycle of reincarnation...

To be honest, Zhang Chengyi's head was buzzing when he first thought about how to deal with the endless stream of ghosts.

"Yes," Gaia answered affirmatively, then asked, "Dad, can I try some?"

"Wait a minute." Zhang Chengyi noticed the blind spot. He pulled the two ghosts away from his daughter's mouth. "Don't eat random things." Then he asked, "When will you be able to catch them?"

Gaia stared at the two ghosts, nonchalantly saying, "Just eat those seven delicious creatures, oh, maybe it's because of the chains?" She herself didn't quite understand, but it didn't matter. As long as she was happy, there was no point in worrying about other things.

"The rules are interacting, and the world is collapsing at an accelerating pace..."

Zhang Chengyi's expression became even more serious.

Chapter 403 is probably about saving the world.

"Gaia, bring back the monster that fell to the mortal realm."

Zhang Chengyi didn't think for long before giving orders to his daughter.

He hasn't figured out how to deal with these demons yet, but the lost monsters in the Inuyasha world are more important.

There are far more ghosts in the underworld than living people in the mortal world. Even if most of them are kind and harmless spirits, their presence can still make nearby living people sick. We don't even need to consider the small number of ghosts who intentionally harm, eat, or kill people.

Of course, catching ghosts at this point doesn't really make much sense.

"receive."

Gaia disappeared from the spot.

Zhang Chengyi didn't need to worry about whether or how his daughter could find and capture the monsters. The superpowers of the planet's monsters were outrageous. They hadn't changed their frivolous and greedy habits, but their ability to get things done was absolutely top-notch. Just the ability to fly around the Earth in a few seconds by controlling gravity was enough for Gaia to do whatever she wanted in most worlds.

Once your abilities reach a certain level, your tolerance for error will increase indefinitely.

Using the two Bone-Eating Wells to analyze the Hong Kong comic book world, Cui Zi said, "Lord Rat God, the structure of this world is already extremely dangerous. There are too many parallel worlds born from repeated overlaps of time, and there is no longer a main timeline..."

In summary, the timeline, or reincarnation, is not something that originally existed in the world of Hong Kong variety shows. Rather, it is more like an additional rule that extends from the essence of the immortality of living beings.

The gods and Buddhas who control reincarnation constantly use reincarnation to divide the world, creating more parallel universes that belong to them, and then use time to interfere. In order to ensure that the existence of other parallel universes will not be affected by the main universe, the gods and Buddhas simply divide up the main universe.

The method is simple: create a limited number of parallel universes, and the world can recover on its own. Creating a large number of them will only shrink the world, just like how the Inuyasha world was reduced to only one solar system by the time Zhang Chengyi got his hands on it.

The original state of the Hong Kong variety show world is impossible to know. The entire world has been cut into countless pieces, and the gods and Buddhas anchor and play with it through reincarnation. The current structure is that countless bubbles are tied together by reincarnation, squeezed into a ball, barely serving as the world.

There is absolutely no future to speak of.

Just as Meng Po said, if things continue like this, the world will be destroyed sooner or later.

Zhang Chengyi particularly admires Richard Sanchez's concept of time and space: no matter how tragic the past was, it cannot be changed casually. Otherwise, once you manipulate time, it will happen countless times, and you might even repeatedly rewind time to what you ate in the morning.

Most importantly, once the experience of altering the past is initiated, other versions of him or other people who possess time-traveling technology will also travel through time again due to various events. In the infinite timeline deduction, there will always be a time when technology or ability is leaked. Under mutual interference, the main timeline will become a sieve through which visitors from parallel timelines frantically travel, and the ending will inevitably lead to tragedy.

The gods and Buddhas in the Hong Kong variety show world are much more ruthless. Having mastered time, they directly severed the main world, cutting off infinite possibilities and preventing others from threatening their status.

The price was that the world was lost.

"Those guys really show no mercy in ruining their own world."

Zhang Chengyi shook his head. The world he was in, or rather the timeline he was in, was just one of many bubbles in the Hong Kong variety show world. Due to the collapse of the underworld and the end of reincarnation, the bubble was collapsing at an extremely rapid pace.

If nothing unexpected happens, the world will collapse and fall into other bubbles in just a few days or even a few hours at most.

Locals will most likely merge with their 'selves' in other timelines. Due to the different timelines, they may have a few dreams or see things or events that feel familiar, making them feel like they have experienced them before, but in essence, they are the same person.

To achieve independence, one needs a stronger essence that can disregard the cycle of reincarnation.

As for outsiders, they will most likely fall out along with them, and probably won't even end up in the same bubble.

That's why he felt that catching ghosts was meaningless.

Based on the personality of the gods and Buddhas in Hong Kong variety shows, it's absolutely impossible for them to try to confront him head-on in the next bubble. The so-called temporary trapping of him is probably just using a large number of bubbles to delay the time it takes for him to find the gods and Buddhas.

"Lord Rat God, Gaia's actions have accelerated the collapse of the timeline. You have three hours left," Cui Zi reminded her.

Zhang Chengyi came to his senses and immediately caused a large number of white balls to crawl out of the Bone-Eating Well.

Since the bubble is about to burst, he wants to collect as many things as possible in the remaining time. Everything in the current world carries specific rules, especially extraordinary items and powers. For the White Dumpling World, the more rules one knows, the faster one can approach the corresponding world.