Chapter 85: Dreams of the Past
It seems that there is infinite light coming towards you.

But the brilliance contained in that intense light was so dazzling that Ji Jue could not see anything clearly. All he could feel in the instant of rotation was the unique aura that came from the Supreme Good and the Gate of Eternity.

So pure, without any flaws.

It was as if he had jumped into the torrent of time and let it carry him to an unknown and distant past.

Until the infinite light faded from my eyes.

A breeze blew from afar.

The sound of the bell echoed in the square. Birds were startled and flew up and down. They lowered their eyes curiously from the branches and looked at the visitors who did not belong here.

Ji Jue looked around blankly, only to find that he seemed to be back on the ground again.

But it was clearly not the case on the ground. The ruins were gone, the collapsed high-rise buildings disappeared without a trace, and only slightly mottled buildings stood on the streets.

A stream of people were walking around, chatting and laughing, passing by him, leaving only faint ripples.

In the distance, the church bells echoed, as if in celebration.

"What's this?"

Ji Jue stretched out his hands blankly, subconsciously trying to touch the things around him, but his palms passed through them without any hindrance, leaving only ripples like water waves.

"We traveled through time?" He could hardly suppress his doubts, and at the same time, he was the first to deny such an idea.

This is not the real world, but more like a reflection in time, so incomplete...If you look closely, you will find that some of the flower pots on the roadside are constantly flickering, the flowers are changing, and the colors are hard to determine.

The drooping branches of the willow tree were twitching constantly, unable to hold a fixed shape.

The faces of pedestrians are mostly blurry and hard to see clearly, and the sounds are so far away. In many places, the buildings and scenery are not even colorful, and even the positions are constantly changing.

At the end of the sky, the majestic tower that rises into the clouds is so glorious and shining—but cracks keep appearing and opening from it, and at the same time, quickly recovering.

It's like a game full of bugs.

"What on earth is this?"

"A fragment of time, a reflection of the past, nothing more."

The prophet stared at everything in front of him: "This is the phenomenon that Mercury has collected... the results of the workshop's completion over the years -

——Her hometown would have looked like before it was destroyed."

【Fuck! ! 】

In Ji Jue's arms, the Ghost Worker Ball shook violently, as if it had finally come online: [I understand, I finally understand why that bastard Mercury is working so hard but getting no reward, and expanding his workshop to the entire Rift Realm! ]

This is the most difficult problem for Tiangong to understand.

Control the rift and manipulate everything.

It certainly sounds exaggerated and terrifying.

But in fact, there is absolutely no cost-effectiveness at all.

In order to achieve the same effect, there are countless secret rituals in the Tianyuan system, even several rift realms can be pieced together.

If it is windy, it will blow. If it is rainy, it will rain.

The workshop can be completely controlled from the center. There is no need to go to great lengths to transform the entire rift into a part of the workshop. The cost of such a huge project is simply an astronomical figure.

No matter how crazy Mercury is, he can still solve a math problem.

Besides, the bigger the workshop is, the better it is. The first thing a workshop should ensure is to maximize the effect of alchemy, not the scope of influence.

With Mercury's ability, if the radiation range of the workshop could be reduced by half, no, even by one third, it would not have fallen to the current out-of-control level.

[It’s not that Mercury wants to cover the rift with her workshop, it should be the other way around, she needs this rift to become her own workshop.]

The Ghost Ball suddenly realized: [The entire Rift has been transformed by her into a work with the workshop as the core, a collector specially built for the Supreme Good and the Eternal Gate!
So many blessings and materials were consumed, and dozens or even hundreds of years were spent, just to complete the collection of time! 】

Just like in remote areas of Yacheng or small gathering points outside the city, where the signal is poor, some people will hold up huge pot covers to receive the signal.

The entire rift has been transformed by Mercury into an unprecedented huge receiver!

With such an outrageous scale, even a saint would go bankrupt and even borrow endlessly...

For a long time, it has been independent of the present world, floating among the stars, endlessly chasing the sun, trying to capture the scattered past in the darkness.

Day after day, year after year.

For four hundred years, it has been constantly collecting relevant time, piecing it together and repeating it tirelessly, trying to trace back the past.

Everything on the ground is just a manifestation of this achievement.

The records and events hidden in this deep well are the treasures she truly wants to obtain!

"What on earth does she want to do?"

Ji Jue strolled among the past records and couldn't help asking questions.

"Haven't you seen it already?"

The prophet gazed at the old times and sighed softly: "It's just that I want to return to the old days, that's all."

Want to take back everything I once had.

Want to take back his homeland, his loved ones and their future from death and the predetermined ending... from the disaster he brought upon himself!

The town that keeps reincarnating day after day, and the giant Tianyuan Tower that keeps collapsing above the sky.

And all this cannot be repaired...

Finally, in front of Ji Jue's eyes, among the countless phenomena, what appeared was a fleeting phantom, that lonely figure wandering among the ruins.

I used my bare hands to dig and move the rubble with all my strength, but all I saw were piles of bones.

She bent down, hugged the half-bloodstained wedding dress, and cried silently.

No screams can be heard.

This is the price of mercury.

In an instant, it was as if a flash of lightning flashed across my mind, and everything I had seen before entering the rift, all that ancient history and past, seemed to finally be connected together.

"The disaster in the town was caused by mercury, right?!" Ji Jue turned around suddenly and asked, "Is it because of the collapse of the Tianyuan Tower?"

boom!
The scene of the earth collapsing and the sky splitting appeared again in the reflection of time.

Amid the wailing of the broken tower, the natural disaster once again emerged from the sky, and the underground fire spread, devouring everything.

The wails and cries echoed in the wind.

Devour everything.

All the blessings that belonged to Tianyuan disappeared, leaving only endless evil changes. The prosperity and glory that were established because of this were gone with the wind, and all that was left was the broken appearance that seemed to be eternally engraved in time.

Tianyuan is out of position!

"Destroy the Lord of Eternity, sever the Tianyuan Tower, break the world that has been stagnant for thousands of years, and cut off all the evil karma accumulated by the Eternal Empire - the long-cherished wish that has been passed down for 1,200 years has been fulfilled in the hands of Mo Zhe, and mercury is the crucial key."

The prophet said: "The edge of change that cut off Tianyuan was honed and recreated by her...but what is the price? What is the price?"

She said, “The price is losing everything.”

Just as everything appears before your eyes.

The moment the Tianyuan Tower is shattered, all participants will suffer the backlash of the collapse of order - no matter what the original intention is, from the beginning of the fall of the Eternal Empire, endless disasters will spread across the earth.

This was the evil she had caused.

She knew she was going to lose everything, and she should have known better.

But she loves too much, and there are too many things she can't give up.

Even if he sought help from the sage of the ether, erased his original name forever, and modified his past history, fate was not something that could be fooled so easily.

She thought that after the fall of the empire, she could retire and return to her hometown. But after everything was over, she had nowhere to go except the ruins.

Everything she held dear was destroyed with the fall of the empire.

First there was a natural disaster, then an earthquake, followed by the distortion caused by the loss of Tianyuan, and the war that broke out in the chaos... Everything she cared about was completely destroyed in just seven days.

Daughter, brother, sister, mother, friends... even every ordinary person who recognized her name, were all destroyed by the disaster.

Only the lonely sage is left, wandering among the ruins and deserts, receiving honor and curse.

"How ironic! She personally ended the rule of the Eternal Empire, hoping to create an ideal country, but in the process she created disasters and spread endless harm...

Therefore, he became the first cursed person in history to survive the disaster."

The prophet looked around at the false yesterday and sighed: "Even if I spend the rest of my life and all my efforts to make everything return to the time before the disaster, I want to get back what I lost.

But what is lost is lost, even if it is fake, it cannot be returned.

All that is left is this false dream and the endless cycle of suffering. "

In the brief silence, Ji Jue was stunned for a long time: "Can't you do it?"

"It can't be done."

The prophet answered with absolute certainty.

So Ji Jue remained silent.

As if frozen, I stared blankly into the air, seeming to hear the whistle of a receding train and a vague and distant singing.

How can it not be done?
It is obvious that saints are above this earthly world, and it is obvious that the ashes of creation are infinite!

This world is too vast and too gorgeous.

The Twelve Great Virtues, the Nine Great Evils, the Federation, the Empire, Middle-earth, the Security Bureau, Huangji, the Ring of Taiyi... so many blessings, so many abilities, and so many powers that are beyond his reach.

He once, no, still has fantasies.

Perhaps when I am strong enough in the future and have enough power, I can recover all that I have lost, and even prevent that disaster from happening.

“I thought there would be a chance.”

He talked to himself, but didn't know who to talk to.

"She thought so too. What you saw was the outcome." The prophet sneered, "People cannot change their past, nor can they choose the reasons for their achievements...

What is gone will eventually be gone, no matter how unwillingly you are or how many regrets you have.

That’s why the present is more valuable than the future.”

She was indifferent at first, unable to suppress her contempt, but in the end, she couldn't help but pause and just sighed: "Why do you let a puppet like me who can't even control my own life teach you such a truth, Ji Jue?"

"Who knows?"

Ji Jue murmured softly, talking to himself: "Who would be willing to do that?"

When faced with fate, should we bow our heads in obedience, endure in silence, or resist beyond our capacity?
What lay before him was the tragic end left behind by the pioneers.

(End of this chapter)