Original reversed time and altered history.
Thus, before the eternal years, the crying ape child was destined to obtain that drop of dragon blood, and was also destined to embark on a path of devouring heaven and earth.
Or, when the concept of Original ascended to the third stage, everything that had happened within the void was destined history for his birth.
This was a glimpse of the power of the third stage.
Causing the effect before the cause.
Because in the distant future, Original transcended to the third stage, everything happened in the eternal years before.
And this inversion of cause and effect, under the authority of Original, could even affect Chen Luo, who had also been promoted to Grand Lord!
This was Original, the Grand Lord who wielded time.
But every Grand Lord, in the instant of omniscience, would comprehend their own true name.
No, it should be said that only beings who comprehended their true names could withstand the onslaught of infinite information.
From the moment Original possessed the Heavenly Dao, he was constantly in the Eternal Tribulation.
Tens of thousands of years of scouring had shattered his self, allowing him to split into eighteen oblivious Void Refining avatars.
But the core point never changed: he wanted to live, to live forever, until this moment of becoming a Grand Lord.
Accumulating for countless years, killing the world that nurtured him, slaughtering countless beings across eons.
Under his solitary, endless accumulation, he could only barely grow step by step into the sin that devoured heaven and earth, with his nascent Void Refining consciousness.
But this was still not enough. For countless eons, Original had survived entirely by sacrificing all beings.
The scouring of the Eternal Tribulation had never truly stopped.
Until the very end, until that drop of unknown black blood truly helped him overcome the Eternal Tribulation.
With the great tribulation passed, the newly born third-stage existence naturally comprehended his true name.
Original, the Grand Lord who wielded time.
The moment he broke through, Original pulled Chen Luo into the distant past.
In this process, Original repeatedly consolidated the reality of his existence and weakened Chen Luo's power.
Until finally, he completely killed Chen Luo.
But at this moment, within the gray void, gazing at the vast, boundless white humanoid figure, Original was so shocked that he forgot to speak.
Infinite energy converged from the void, and with every passing second, this humanoid figure, formed by the convergence of white light, grew stronger.
Phantoms of the river of time faintly appeared beside him, but with just a single breath, time trembled.
Billions of principles condensed behind him, and under the flow of endless radiance, he seemed to be the eternal, unchanging truth within the void.
A pair of ink-black pupils, like polished lacquer, calmly gazed at the minuscule Original in his palm, as if looking at an ant.
Before crossing the Eternal Tribulation, Chen Luo's status had already reached the critical point before the third stage.
But even he, at such a stage, faced the risk of being lost for endless years before the Eternal Tribulation.
Until the Mother World completely sacrificed itself and merged into him, saving Chen Luo countless years of accumulation, allowing Chen Luo to awaken instantly amidst the eternal tribulation.
And the reward from the Doomsday Game, the opportunity to awaken his true name, swept away the dust in Chen Luo's heart in that fleeting moment of clarity, allowing him to understand his true name.
∞
Chen Luo, the Grand Lord who wielded infinity.
When Chen Luo also broke free from his cocoon, his power was not inferior to Original's.
But after a single breath, Chen Luo's power doubled.
With every passing second, no, from the moment Chen Luo existed, his power began to expand like the Big Bang, with no end in sight.
Absolute power meant absolute authority.
When Original rolled back the history of the middle layer of the void, Chen Luo saw two worlds before him.
One was a world constantly correcting history, located within the river of time.
The other was a world independent of time, in which only Chen Luo existed.
In that corrected historical era, Chen Luo casually flicked a drop of blood, which transformed into a golden dragon capable of contending with Grand Lords.
He stood independently outside of time, calmly watching Original complete the cause and effect.
And when Original intended to strike at Chen Luo's domain world, Chen Luo, outside of time, extended his hand towards time.
Original, the Grand Lord trapped within time, was thus held within Chen Luo's palm.
In the brief moment their gazes met, Original understood everything Chen Luo had revealed.
But this drove him to near madness!
"How can there be such a cheating authority?!"
"Grand Lords are merely omniscient! Not omnipotent!! You are cheating!!!"
Original could not accept the current situation. He had schemed for eons, even accepting a contract with an unknown existence when he was on the brink of death outside the void.
But even so, the moment he achieved Grand Lord status, he believed all his sacrifices were worth it.
Causing the effect before the cause, he could rewrite any fact unfavorable to him.
His existence was noted by the time and space of the void.
This was the eternity he desired! The immortality he craved!
Even the gazes from the depths of the void, spying on him, did not make him feel threatened.
He was the Grand Lord of Time; as long as time flowed within the void, he was an eternal and indestructible being.
But all of this became a joke in front of Chen Luo. The golden dragon that had fought him so fiercely was merely a drop of blood from the giant of light before him.
Even while in the other's palm, Original's connection to time was constrained to the point of near loss.
But in response to Original's accusation, Chen Luo calmly nodded:
"I did cheat."
Under Original's stunned gaze, the giant raised its head and instantly pierced through time and space.
Outer Void - Material Realm.
The former location of the third planet in the solar system was now empty.
But Chen Luo's gaze penetrated the void and the boundless river, arriving here.
The river of time in the material realm condensed in Chen Luo's eyes, and the phantom of a life-bearing planet slowly emerged.
The phantom of the planet began to reverse, and everything that had happened on it was being undone.
This was the history that had once occurred on this planet.
When time returned to that summer, at an anime convention in Donghai City,
A slacker of a youth, wearing sunglasses, was admiring the various young ladies at the venue.
Under Chen Luo's gaze, not through any external loading, but from the depths of the youth's soul,
In the place called the True Spirit, a golden fragment flickered, and a voice appeared in the youth's ear.
[Congratulations on obtaining the Infinite Cooldown System. From now on, all your skills will have no cooldown time.]
That was the beginning of the story, but not Chen Luo's origin.
Ignoring the noisy Original in his palm, Chen Luo's gaze paused as he tried to decipher the "infinity" that had once remained in his True Spirit.
But when time reversed again, Chen Luo was surprised to find that
The youth had appeared abruptly in the venue after the comic exhibition began.
Chen Luo was slightly taken aback and pondered his own origins.
But it was only now that Chen Luo was surprised to discover,
There was no memory of anything before the comic exhibition; it was all blank.
Even thinking carefully, after the doomsday, Chen Luo had never cared about his so-called family.
He had appeared so abruptly within the world.
Chen Luo, who now wielded infinity, was very clear that he had not taken any action to correct the cause and effect of his own birth.
Therefore, the only explanation was that Chen Luo's appearance itself was the means of some higher-level existence.
"Interesting..."
Thinking this, Chen Luo looked down at the venomous Original in his palm.
A bad premonition made Original subconsciously lower his head, but Chen Luo's voice plunged him into complete despair:
"Then, your time belongs to me."
"No!!!!"
Amidst Original's shrill scream, Chen Luo gently closed his palm.
Original's screams abruptly ceased, and the Grand Lords far in the depths of the void were all struck dumb with fear.
"What! What is going on?!"
"Did any of you notice how He appeared?!"
"Dead! The aura of that Time Grand Lord has completely vanished! The river of time is once again masterless!!"
But what shocked them even more was that the youth's aura had begun to taint the river of time.
Not only was Original completely killed, but his authority was also seized by this youth.
Chen Luo slowly opened his palm. In his palm now were only the two worlds still symmetrically orbiting, but Original was nowhere to be seen.
"Time..."
But it wasn't over yet!
Under the horrified gazes of the Grand Lords, Chen Luo slowly extended his hand.
The gray nothingness of the middle layer, under the movement of the colossal hand, transformed into flowing iridescence.
Hum!
Chen Luo's palm seemed to pierce through some boundary and suddenly disappeared from the void.
And the Grand Lords in the infinite iridescent layer, looking at the giant hand reaching down from above, fled in terror!
The giant hand paused slightly, then suddenly reached for a Grand Lord with nine dragon heads.
"It's you!!! That damned brat!!!" Long Jiu finally confirmed the youth's identity the moment he was caught.
But this also became his last words.
Bang!
The dignified Grand Lord, with a single squeeze of the giant palm, completely turned into nothingness.
The nearby Candle Dragon and others dared not utter a word.
After crushing Long Jiu, the giant hand had no intention of continuing the slaughter and was gently withdrawn into the middle layer of the void.
However, no one noticed that the color of the infinite iridescent layer seemed to have become dimmer.
....
Within the middle layer of the void,
Chen Luo looked at his retracted hand and softly uttered:
"Evolve..."
At this moment, Chen Luo already wielded three great authorities.
A feeling of inspiration made Chen Luo stop his slaughter of the Grand Lords. He could feel that his current state was almost perfect.
When the crisis was resolved, Chen Luo looked at the two worlds still rotating symmetrically in his hand.
"It's time to end this."
With a single thought,
The two worlds slowly began to merge.
In the hands of the giant of light, a chaotic orb slowly formed.
This was a world that subtly surpassed the higher ranks.
And within this world, countless beings who had once followed Chen Luo slowly awoke from their slumber.
As they gazed at the colorful world before them, a natural understanding dawned in their hearts.
...
In the former Starfire City,
A white-robed youth walked slowly along the streets. Everyone was rejoicing in the changes to the world and their own enhancements.
And no one could sense the youth moving through the crowd.
The youth looked gently at his people in other parts of this world.
The land of the Soul World had completely recovered, and the Lin sisters, piloting their battle armor, flew towards Starfire City, following their inner senses.
And in the merged Immortal Dao world, the beings slaughtered by Chen Luo had regained their lives.
Everything was as if it had been a dream.
But the Dao Masters like Long Ji transformed into rainbows and flew towards the east of the world. They knew that the person they were looking for was there.
In Starfire City, the youth stopped in front of the City Lord's Mansion and gently pushed open the gate.
In the courtyard, a white-furred, beast-eared girl's ears twitched slightly. The next moment, she rushed directly into the arms of the youth who had just opened the door:
"Master!!"
Patting Xiaoyue's little head and looking at his companions in the courtyard, Chen Luo smiled gently:
"I'm back!"
After a brief reunion, Chen Luo was engulfed by the cheering crowd.
....
After the pleasantries, Chen Luo finally managed to send away the reluctant disciples, pets, mounts, and subordinates.
Chen Luo pulled Hu Tao and went to a corner alone.
Chen Luo looked at the bright-smiling girl before him with complex emotions. A warm radiance flowed from Chen Luo's heart and directly merged into the girl's body.
This was the last remnant of the Mother World's Great Origin, and also the origin of Hu Tao's birth.
Yes, when Chen Luo traced back the history of the Mother World, he discovered that not only his own origin was abnormal.
Even Hu Tao was a blank slate with no past.
The difference was that Chen Luo could see through Hu Tao's origins.
After the white light merged, Hu Tao's bright smile became gentle. She blinked and gently hugged Chen Luo:
"Thank you."
Before the Doomsday Game descended, the Great Origin instinctively sensed Chen Luo's unexpected appearance.
Under normal circumstances, the Great Origin of a lower-level world, even if it were also third-stage, should be an unknowing rule-based existence.
Upon sensing the anomaly, it should instinctively reject Chen Luo.
But after countless years, no one would have thought that a being who wielded infinity would elevate this world to a transcendent upper rank.
Driven by an inexplicable impulse, the Mother World's Great Origin not only did not reject Chen Luo but even differentiated a mortal avatar.
A girl who should only exist in fantasy.
The girl was unaware of her origins but was instinctively attracted to the youth.
And the world itself instinctively rescued Chen Luo time and time again.
Until now, when the cause and effect became clear, Hu Tao, who knew everything, ascended to the rank of Grand Lord.
However, the girl remained the girl herself.
The ancient saintess was favored by the gods, and now, the god had been embraced by her.
In the warm atmosphere, the girl looked up at Chen Luo and said:
"I've grown up! Let's get married!"
Chen Luo nodded gently: "Okay."
Under the envious gazes of everyone, the girl, who was the embodiment of the world, fulfilled the contract initially made during the doomsday.
...
After the story of the Mother World concluded,
Within the void, the giant of light, wielding the chaotic world, also strode towards the deeper reaches of the void.
The moment the giant stepped into the infinite iridescent layer, the Doomsday Game's prompt sounded in his ear:
[Void factors have changed, target game world is undergoing fusion, game progress has been corrected.]
[Game World No. 10, rank elevated to Super Rank, Doomsday Chapter Act Two begins.]
[Act Two: Shadow of Primordial Darkness!]
[Hidden World Boss "Dark Demon Grand Lord" is being deployed...]
A beam of white light, carrying the controlled Dark Demon, flew straight towards the chaotic world.
But the giant, who controlled the world, casually grabbed the white light.
Under the Dark Demon's terrified gaze, the giant exerted a slight force, and the Grand Lord who wielded darkness turned into nothingness.
[Dark Demon Grand Lord has been killed... Game progress significantly altered... Player has ascended to the rank of Grand Lord and wields the absolute element "Infinity".]
[Doomsday Game progress in World No. 10 has been halted!]
[Player Chen Luo, the game has sent you an invitation. Please proceed to the deepest part of the void...]
White light emerged from the chaotic world, forming a beacon that entered the giant's mind.
At this moment, the world was completely liberated from the Doomsday Game.
The giant spoke no words. After a brief pause, holding the world, he began to run.
The giant, comparable to a galaxy, caused the entire infinite iridescent layer to tremble as he ran.
And the originally flowing and iridescent layer was becoming increasingly dim.
The infinite flowing light was pulled into straight, colorful lines beside Chen Luo as he advanced towards the end of everything!
When Chen Luo's speed reached a critical point, the running giant transformed into a soaring golden dragon.
With a dragon's roar, a stream of light pierced towards the deepest part of the void.
On the path, amidst the infinite iridescence, enormous vortices appeared before Chen Luo. These were vortices where all True Spirits converged, and they also converged towards the deepest part.
Under the convergence of straight, colorful lines, at the deepest part of the infinite iridescent layer,
A giant white light cluster, which could be considered magnificent even to Chen Luo at this moment, appeared before him.
The light cluster was composed of countless smaller light spheres, each containing civilizations, worlds, and Great Origins.
This was the true form of the "Doomsday Game."
Around the light cluster were iridescence so bright it was blinding, as if everything in the void was reflected here.
And the endlessly spreading vortices of True Spirits extended all the way to beneath the light cluster.
It seemed that there was something even deeper beneath the light cluster.
[Welcome, Person of Infinity.]
The golden dragon dissipated, and the youth slowly approached the light cluster and slowly extended his arm.
The moment the light cluster touched his arm, all information became clear in Chen Luo's mind.
Several void years ago,
A golden fragment shot out from the bottom of the void and directly entered a Great Origin world in the outermost void.
After entering the world, the golden fragment transformed into a True Spirit, becoming the youth.
Simultaneously with the appearance of the golden fragment, a drop of black blood also flew out from the bottom of the void.
Unlike the fragment, the black blood was not peaceful; it directly tore through the Doomsday Game and stole a component of the Doomsday Game.
Before this drop of black blood dissipated, it had also visited the world where the golden fragment had descended.
There, it reversed time, attracted a highly malicious Grand Commander, gave him the item to initiate the doomsday, and then initiated the highest game difficulty of the Mother World.
Afterward, this drop of black blood, in the middle layer of the void, reversed the fate of Original, who was destined to die after breaking through the world billions of years ago, and at the last moment, pushed him to the position of Grand Lord.
The subsequent contract was to have Original create the most despair.
Until, all despair was severed by Chen Luo.
This was the origin of all the karma Chen Luo had experienced.
...
Slowly retracting his hand, Chen Luo also understood the purpose of the Doomsday Game.
The Doomsday Game did not intend to bring individual Great Origin worlds to ruin.
Its very existence was to delay the doomsday of the entire void.
The void was not naturally formed, but no one knew its origin.
The Doomsday Game, however, had existed since the beginning of the void.
According to its information, the void was created by a great existence, and it was responsible for stabilizing the entire void.
But countless years ago, an anomaly occurred in the deepest part of the void, forcing the Doomsday Game to drag individual worlds into desperate situations.
In desperation, these worlds would unleash the power of their civilizations and beings. The power of race-founding existences was what the Doomsday Game sought, and it was its reliance for strengthening itself and stabilizing the void.
But even with all its efforts, the anomaly at the bottom of the void continued to seep out.
The manifestation of this anomaly was the all-consuming blackness.
That drop of black blood was one of the effects of the anomaly's influence, as was the dimming of the entire void's iridescence.
The Grand Lords at the apex of the void usually dared not speak loudly, for a loud voice could attract that dark anomaly and swallow them whole.
At the same time, the Doomsday Game desperately hoped that through the stimulus of doomsday, a savior could be born within the void.
It desperately wished for this savior to travel to the deepest part of the void and resolve the anomaly.
This savior could be an absolutely powerful individual or a civilization that had reached its limit.
But unfortunately, over countless years, no game had reached its conclusion.
Until this time, when this special individual, formed from the golden fragment, arrived here.
[Person of Infinity, please make your choice: do you wish to proceed to the deepest part of the void?]
Chen Luo nodded gently:
"Let me see, the origin of the fragment that constitutes me, and what this doomsday that can destroy the void truly is."
Saying this, the youth directly stepped towards the soul vortex that continued to extend downwards.
And as the infinite colors converged, what remained in the end would not be absolute beauty, but the purest black.
Piercing through the infinite iridescent layer,
The straight, dazzling lines transformed into lightless darkness.
Chewing sounds and desperate cries continuously echoed in the darkness. Even Chen Luo's powerful body showed signs of being eroded.
But Chen Luo paid no heed, instead channeling the authorities he wielded to constantly strengthen himself, while flying towards the end of the soul vortex.
The helix forged by souls had been diluted to its extreme. All the outer shells of the soul were stripped away, leaving only the purest True Spirit, which, in this darkness, pointed a vague path for Chen Luo.
...
Time, matter, and information gradually lost their meaning.
After an immeasurable scale of time and space,
Chen Luo finally followed the extremely faint path of the True Spirit to the end of everything.
Pop...
Chen Luo pierced through a curtain of blackness,
A broken starry sky appeared before his eyes.
The wreckage of extinguished stars floated at the center of the starry sky. The moment he saw it, Chen Luo knew this was the primordial sun that all Great Origin worlds in the void could observe.
But this sun, which nourished all things, had now completely extinguished.
What the worlds within the void saw was merely the residual light before the primordial sun's extinction.
And this residual light had persisted for countless scales of time.
The rules of this starry sky were suppressed to the extreme. Chen Luo even felt as if he had returned to the realm of his domain.
After cautiously surveying his surroundings for a moment, Chen Luo flew directly towards the wreckage of the primordial sun.
Along the way, he passed through shattered stardust.
It seemed that a civilized planet had once existed here, but now, all was void.
Chen Luo remained vigilant of everything around him, but until he reached the wreckage of the primordial sun, nothing unusual happened.
Thump...
Chen Luo advanced onto the wreckage of the sun, continuously moving towards the area of greatest pressure.
In the silent world, only Chen Luo's footsteps were so clear.
When Chen Luo had crossed more than half of the wreckage, an unexpected existence appeared before him.
A black circular hole the size of a human head floated in the air. At the edge of the opening, tiny droplets of liquid constantly flowed, seemingly trying to seep out.
And on the other side of the opening, there seemed to be an endless amount of black liquid trying to flow over.
This black liquid was identical to that drop of black blood!
This was the source of all anomalies.
But what truly surprised Chen Luo was a corpse next to the opening.
This was a youth clad in blood-colored armor, emitting an aura that even made Chen Luo's gaze falter.
But the youth's head had been removed by an unknown existence and casually discarded not far from the opening.
Yet, even such a corpse faintly suppressed that black opening.
Chen Luo could see that if not for the pressure emanating from this corpse, the black blood from the other side of the opening would have directly surged into this world.
But what surprised Chen Luo even more was that the removed head looked exactly like him.
"You've come..."
A weary voice echoed in Chen Luo's mind, and memories resurfaced in his mind.
A trace of crimson reflected from the depths of his pupils.
Chen Luo slowly moved forward, and the residual corpse gradually turned to dust.
Everything was clear in his heart. Chen Luo took the place of the residual corpse, sat cross-legged before the mouth of doomsday, and used his infinite power to suppress the black blood constantly surging from the other side of the black hole.
The youth played with the chaotic orb in his hand and softly murmured:
"The appointed time is near...."
[End of Book]
Concluding Remarks
Thank you to all the readers who have come this far. Free novels don't have much reader stickiness. I am very grateful that you have read this far.
All the plot holes have been filled. As for the final big plot hole, it will be filled in another book.
Tomato has been writing books for a year and has finally completed a book. It's too difficult!!!
The update for "Doomsday Descends" will resume tomorrow.
As for the book about the other world, it probably won't be written, as there's an issue with the cheat. Becoming stronger by sleeping with girls is too overpowered in the current environment.
The book about the senior sister has no outline, is purely original, and has no cheat. I can't write it, haha.
The task for March is likely to complete the "Doomsday" book and draw a conclusion to my previous writing.
Then, I might start a new book in April.
Perhaps, I will write an outline, perhaps...