Chapter 2174: Chapter 63: Like Music, Inspiring Every Heart That Yearns to Dance
Ian became the pride of the local community, an exception as a student admitted to the Mystic Academy, becoming the academyâs top student, and then personally taught by two Yanjiang masters who had been secretly watching over him all along.
Sometimes it was Cheng Yin Chuan, an irritable yet protective, generous, and open-hearted elder. Other times it was Zhe Youguang, a gentle and resilient elder who guided the way.
Regarded as a child of the younger generation, cared for by many senior brothers and sisters, that warm feeling seemed like a true family, making Ian somewhat reminisce about his old home on Earth, in that oriental country, which had some cultural similarities with Yanjiang.
It was there that he learned the truth about the âAlien Fire Seed,â about the fierce loss of the Lost Epoch, about the boundless depths of Subspace, and even amidst the ancient seals of Yanjiang, surrounded by countless crises, he obtained the materials for his Fifth Energy Level.
That was perhaps the most dangerous and yet safest source of the Top Seatâs Blood in all of Terraâitâs almost impossible for anyone to bypass the seal and the God of Sparksâs own power to separate the Top Seatâs Blood, but for a Prophet holding the Rites of the Star Gods, itâs merely a matter of trying countless times through Reincarnation.
The Forgemaster and Fate Weaver couldnât comprehend Ianâs actions: "The power you just used has already exceeded the upper limit of the Fifth Energy Level, no matter what kind of Aether it is, it will lead to actions of The End... Why wonât you wait a few more years, until..."
"Repairing the barrier takes too long." Ian directly interrupted: "It requires hundreds of years, which for The End and me is just a blink of an eye, however."
He spoke solemnly, with an utterly serious voice: "By then, you will all be dead."
"I cannot accept it, cannot accept someone dying on the eve of dawn, no matter who it is, whether friend or foe."
"As for The End... it cannot be avoided at all. It is not any kind of creature, as we know, it is the embodiment of âUniversal End,â the singularity of âeverything ending.â"
Ian turned his head, looking at The End beyond the distant Cradle, after growing to the current stage, he finally understood what those twisted spaces-time around The End were.
Those are closed time-like curves, dreams derived from the power of The End as the âuniverseâs end.â
Just as Ian initially speculated, The End can walk on the timeline, but not because it is a mere time-axis life form, rather because at the end of the universe, all the matter in the Infinite Great Universe will revolve around an âaxis,â the rotation of the entire universe distorts space-time into an extreme state, so much so that time loops, forming a natural âring.â
That axis is the essence of The End.
This form of the Universal End could be termed the âGödel universe form,â under such conditions, traveling through space-time isnât even considered a miracle, but rather an inevitable instinct, The Endâs fragments carry some of The Endâs power, hence they are surrounded by countless closed time-like curves.
Any beings that approach it without the power to Transcend Time and Space will be directly teleported to other timelines, or even directly sent back to the âMoment of The End,â completely embracing their destruction.
From the very beginning, there was no method to stop or avoid The End, as it is an end spreading from the conclusion, a âfutureâ that can only be delayed but cannot be blocked.
The reason it waits near the Cradle is that the Cradle will eventually be destroyed, it can even be said that Terra Cradle has already been destroyed by The End in the future, hence The End waits indifferently since the outcome is already predestined, it doesnât care whether humans who can only walk along the time axis can live tens of thousands or even billions of years longer, it doesnât care, it just needs to wait to get the result it wants.
âIt transcends time and space, cause and effect, even logic, as âThe End.â
âAs long as it exists, there is bound to be an âend.â
After realizing this, Ian understood, what he must do is definitely not to âstop The End,â this is something not even the collective Star God can achieve.
What he has to do is not escape either.
But to confront it head-on.
"I will go to fight The End." He declared: "Only through battle can impossibly find a miracle among countless improbabilities, to create the ending I desire."
"Fight The End?! Heavenly Father and the others have already failed!" This statement undoubtedly shocked the two masters, while Ian retorted: "So does that mean we shouldnât fight?"
"Because the predecessors failed, the successors cannot explore the unknown?"
"Because the predecessors failed, the successors will inevitably fail?"
"There is no such reasoning."
"Lunatic..."
The Forgemaster, who was about to completely merge into the seal, muttered to himself: "What exactly are you thinking... Why have I never been able to understand you, from beginning to now..."
"You donât need to understand."
Ian turned around, he still needed to seal other Terra masters: "Everyoneâs life is a dance in the universe, and wishes and dreams are the music, I know your desires, hence I can understand everything about you."
"And you canât hear my music, so naturally you think I am crazy."
"Ian." Fate Weaver posed the final question: "What exactly do you see in the future?"
And Ian, looking towards the distant cosmic vacuum, smiled from the heart: "Luckily, I see nothing."
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