Bai Yi clearly felt he was dreaming.
In the dream, he saw black rain pouring down from the sky, like an endless black tide, washing over the entire world;
He saw dense fog spreading across the land, with hundred ghosts wandering at night, spectral phantoms drifting through empty cities;
He saw the earth’s crust cracking, continents sinking into deep seas, magma spreading from surging fissures;
An intangible sense of despair wildly spread through the shattered world, with face after face falling expressionless.
Then countless streaks of light descended from the heavens, like a massive field of flame-burning meteorites…
This dream had been continuing for some time.
From initially being blurry and short, it gradually became clearer and more profound. Vaguely, he could sense that these were events that had occurred on the original timeline.
—At the moment the title “White King” appeared, he had accidentally captured information from other timelines.
However, he was obviously not yet powerful enough to directly read these messages. He could only spend time afterward constantly suggesting to himself psychologically, entering dreams and repeatedly trying to recall the scenes he had seen.Until recently, when he saw almost the same scenes, Bai Yi finally confirmed that there was nothing more to remember.
—This was all he could recall.
He wandered like a ghost through dream images constantly jumping, with fragmented information making everything in the dream seem like a rapidly skipping film, with many crucial points glossed over.
He only saw that this world seemed to collapse in the blink of an eye, destroyed by successive disasters that wiped out most of existence.
In the dream, the Bai Yi tormented by nightmares for eighteen years had no system descending to help him gain power from the nightmare. Without any extraordinary abilities, he was caught completely off guard by changes as dramatic as the world’s collapse.
Perhaps fortunately, as the world was nearly destroyed, the strict physical laws were also torn to pieces. This once magicless world had clearly become an extraordinary world.
He was surprised to discover that he could actually exercise extraordinary powers from the nightmare instance in the real world, though he had to learn everything from scratch. The nightmare instance that had troubled him for eighteen years had apparently become his most precious source of power.
In the madly fast-forwarding dream, he raced against time at an even more frantic speed, desperately improving himself before the world’s complete collapse. He spread all the extraordinary powers he had analyzed to every survivor he encountered. Through his selfless transmission, more and more survivors managed to stay alive.
—But compared to Bai Yi, they were just ordinary mortals. In terms of both talent and will, they were far behind. No matter how powerful the extraordinary abilities were, they required sufficient time to learn and accumulate. Although the survivors who gained extraordinary powers improved their survival rates and could survive parts of disasters that would have previously killed them, they still could not escape when faced with stronger disasters.
—The arrival of Return to the Void was too sudden, and they had far too little time. The speed of world destruction was always faster than human improvement. Even Bai Yi, who was currently improving the fastest and was most powerful, could only protect himself.
On the day when the Return to the Void truly arrived, as the final world remnants slowly sank into the nightmare’s depths, Bai Yi, who had been frantically improving himself, finally completed his transformation, escaping his inevitable fate.
—And so the entire truth unfolded before his eyes.
The fate of the world, the fate of all beings, the fate of infinite time and space, and his own fate.
Here’s the continuation translation:
If the laws of this cosmic ocean did not have absolute destiny, even in inevitable destruction, there would be a glimmer of life…
Then he, symbolizing hope and vitality of infinite worlds, after all worlds and all living beings had fallen into destruction and death, his survival was almost inevitable, provided he exhausted all his efforts.
—If he also died, wouldn’t it mean the universe’s laws had gone wrong, that not even a trace of life existed in destruction?
In a certain sense, the destruction of infinite worlds instead infinitely increased his probability of survival…
He drifted alone in the void, experiencing an unprecedented silence—something he had infinitely longed for, but if forcibly granted by destiny, he could not bear it. ℟𝒶Νọ𝔟ΕŞ
He was determined to reverse the predetermined fate.
The talent “Rhythm of All Things” that had troubled him for over a decade now became his absolute hope. The rhythm of all things not only included the living beings of a realm, but also the rhythm of time, space, destiny…
Thus, he forged the principles of all things he had comprehended into one, sensing the rhythms from other time-spaces within infinite time and space, searching in a near-eternal duration.
…
“Huh…”
When Bai Yi awoke, the night outside the window was pitch black.
The familiar system panel appeared before his eyes, those distorted words hovering between illusion and reality—
__________
Name: Bai Yi
Age: 18
Titles:
Pseudo · Child of the World
[Passive Halo: Lucky Buff]
[Note: Before you betray your current stance, you will always possess this title’s halo bonus, like a spokesperson for the world, obtaining the fortune of an entire world.]
[—At this moment, the world favors you.]
Hope Bearer
[Active Skill: Hope Resonance]
[Note: You, symbolizing the ultimate hope of infinite worlds, are blessed with power from the root of infinite worlds.]
[In a fate where despair approaches, you can rely on your uniqueness to consume the hope and blessing from infinite worlds within your soul, to sense countless world remnants in the endless nightmare’s depths, and resonate with the most hopeful world remnant, entering it to obtain possible counters to a desperate fate.]
[—That is, by consuming the “hope” bestowed upon yourself, actively choose to enter the nightmare instance you need. You must carefully consider it; consuming too much will cause you to lose “hope”.]
White King
[Active Skill: Divine Awakening]
[Note: An ordinary title born in the initial timeline, spread through countless timelines, nurtured by the faith and tales of infinite living beings across time and space, transforming an ordinary title to possess sacred qualities and a legend transcending time and space.]
[White King equals Bai Yi, but Bai Yi does not necessarily equal White King. When you completely merge with this title, it will be the moment of essential elevation to godhood.]
[Before completing the elevation, you can only temporarily use this title’s active skill, entering a “Divine Awakening” state. This state will cause overwhelming brain stress, which only complete essential elevation can fully master, currently maintainable for a maximum of three minutes.]
[In the Divine Awakening state, the “Rhythm of All Things” talent will be forcibly elevated to 100%, achieving complete awakening. In the 100% awakened state of “Rhythm of All Things”, you will listen to the voices of all things in the world, perceive rhythms from different time-spaces, and glimpse fragmented information from other time-spaces.]
[Warning: Since your true talent “Rhythm of All Things” has not awakened to 100%, and is forcibly temporarily elevated by the title, you cannot perfectly master this talent. You will only have a certain probability of briefly perceiving rhythms from different time-spaces. Before your essence is completely elevated, please use the Divine Awakening state cautiously. Once you cannot control it, your thoughts and rationality will burn away.]
Talent: Rhythm of All Things Lv50 (50% Awakened)
[Note: Will temporarily awaken to 100% in Divine Awakening state.]
Life Skills (not displayed below level 1):
Bewitch Lv10
[Note: Perfectly qualified as an evil cult leader. No special performance needed; followers would want to join actively.]
Iron Stomach Lv10
[Note: After experiencing upgraded dark cuisine and bodily transformation towards the supernatural, no poison in the current world could harm you—to the extent of being able to eat poison as a snack. The only thing that might break through the Iron Stomach would be further developed dark cuisine by yourself.]
Personality Mask Lv10
[Note: Multiple personality was like an instinct for you. You could simultaneously play roles of protagonist, supporting character, villain, narrator, director, and screenwriter—the entire world was your stage.]
Acting Lv10
[Note: No one could see through your lies.]
Extraordinary Skills:
Culinary Art Lv10
[Note: Evolved from dark cuisine skill, fully experienced on Bai Xiaoxi, your dark cuisine skill proficiency reached current limits, like an art form. Calling yourself a culinary artist would be no problem. To breakthrough the limit, feeding cats would no longer be useful; finding more diners might lead to a new stage of culinary art.]
Praise of the Blind Lv10
[Note: Whether hiding unremarkably in crowds or gaining others’ favor was as simple as eating and drinking. Your essentially transformed self had completely mastered controlling your sense of existence, able to transform into the most unremarkable passerby or easily become the only dazzling existence under the spotlight.]
Web of Thoughts Lv50
[Note: A special skill related to the “Rhythm of All Things” talent, leveling up with the talent’s awakening. Currently able to easily connect minds with people worldwide.]
Points: 730
Card Slots:
【Ghost in the Rainy Night ★★】
【Flower Speaker ★★★★】
【Puppet Master★★★】
【Lawless Person★★★★】
【Depression Artist ★★★★】
【Heavenly Master of Divine Calculation ★★★☆】
Inventory:
Nightmare Crystal (Green) x120, Nightmare Crystal (White) x210, Puppet Master’s Diary (Transformed into supernatural item, currently able to display partial behaviors of those causally connected to the subject—deeper causality, clearer events)
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The distorted writing reflected in the youth’s hazy pupils, he gazed distantly out the window, the night deep as ink.
Something was about to happen…
The phone beside the pillow lit up briefly, a news item appearing on the screen, not attracting much attention:
[2:10 AM, Multiple Locations in Edun Kingdom Experiencing Earthquakes…]
The youth’s fingertips moved slightly, a card’s light flashing momentarily in mid-air, two virtual shadows gently floating within the radiance.
Ten minutes later, the Special Case Investigation Team’s special contact phone rang, with the Heavenly Master of Divine Calculation who had recently established contact on the other end.
Li Fufeng heard the person on the other side speak softly, “Be prepared.”
“…I saw the prelude to the Return to the Void.”
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