Taixu Gathers

"Mr. The Awakened One... well, let's just call him 'Mr.' for now." At the end of the corridor, Liu Bai looked at the Awakened One and asked, "Can you pull people from the past?"

"Recruiting people? It used to be possible, but not anymore."

The idea that a higher-level timeline can simultaneously contain the past, present, and future is no joke, but the problem is that this guy has locked down the present timeline...

This guy's setting clearly doesn't allow any super strong person to travel back in time and change the history he's already corrected—it's a double standard.

Abilities like predicting the future and rewinding the past are still usable, but the idea of directly interfering with the past, present, and future is wishful thinking.

Of course, in the past, it was possible to pull people from parallel worlds, but now all parallel worlds have been closed...

"Is he/she a very important person? If you don't mind, I can... well, help you find a similar one from the World Bubble in the Sea of Quanta, or make one."

Parallel worlds similar to the Intrinsic World were directly eliminated, but many strange and unusual worlds seem to have become World Bubble —moreover, even without these strange and unusual worlds, the World Bubble themselves are not lacking in things similar to parallel worlds.

In fact, the Imaginary Tree has the greatest impact on the convergence of many worlds into one.

The Awakened One is quite concerned about the Imaginary Tree. He took a look at it last time and found that all the branches related to parallel worlds on the Imaginary Tree were gone.

The once exceptionally lush Imaginary Tree, if described in terms of human hair, is now basically just a ring of hair on the top of the head and some loose hair... Well, it'll probably remain half-bald like this for the rest of its life.

However, not many people discovered this, after all, noobs are not worthy of viewing the Imaginary Tree.

"I don't think what I need is a substitute..."

"... Well, there is another way." The Awakened One looked at the helpless Liu Bai, thought for a moment, and thought, well, since he's already half a simp, he might as well go all the way.

In the end, it's just about bringing people from the past, not some kind of cosmic reorganization. If it weren't for the special circumstances now, this wouldn't actually be very technically demanding.

"But may I ask you one question: why don't you go yourself?"

"There are too many contradictions for me..."

"I see."

So, the big shots are agonizing over the plausibility of the plot, huh?

"In that case, please come in."

As soon as the Awakened One finished speaking, a spatial door as tall as a person opened, and the Awakened One and Liu Bai entered together.

"Please wait a moment while I make some preparations. In the meantime, you are welcome to wander around."

It was the same space where they had played chess before. The human the Awakened One vanished into the space in an instant, accompanied by the vast sound of the space.

The Awakened One's method is very simple.

Since ordinary people aren't allowed to light lamps these days, then let the magistrate do it!

If ordinary people have lamps in their homes, why don't they just hand them over to the magistrate to light them?

He temporarily relinquished a portion of his authority over the world, letting Liu Bai exercise it as he saw fit. Now, his focus was on how to make this authority seem less like authority.

Well, understanding is very important to this guy. The Awakened One doesn't want Liu Bai to understand some universal truths too early—after all, he's not ready to run away yet.

As for Liu Bai, after looking around for a while, he really couldn't find anywhere to wander off to.

This is such a big, empty space! Last time there was even a chessboard, but this time the chessboard is gone! What's there to see?

So, with nothing else to do, Liu Bai summoned a ball of fire in his hand and played with it...

When the Awakened One returned, he found this guy playing with something involving the law of causality...

Okay, causality doesn't seem to matter much to people at their level.

The Awakened One revealed an illusory human form, holding a strangely shaped object in his hand.

"Here, this... should be called the World Editor. You can try editing it using human code. If you don't know where to start, you can just talk to it. It can generally understand and can make some changes."

To prevent the possession by spirits that act irrationally, the Awakened One thoughtfully endowed this thing with life characteristics. Of course, it didn't give it intelligence; one could only say it possesses a kind of AI.

"Wow... that sounds really interesting—can it edit Honkai?" Liu Bai felt like he had some kind of game-breaking device in his hand.

"..."

The Awakened One fell silent. Well, he admitted it. Honkai was just like that; he'd forgotten all about it.

"Please feel free to do as you please."

Anyway, I think it's pointless for you to lead the team to Honkai. If you don't want to fight anymore, you can delete it. It's not like I'm the one fighting Honkai, so it's none of my business.

To be honest, Honkai 3rd is only missing the Finality, right? Besides, the Awakened One thinks the Finality is indeed a terrible monster from a mortal's perspective. It's a game, and the experience of the pros is the most important thing—plus, Honkai 3rd isn't even our own creation.

One third party and one player, who cares about Honkai 3rd...?

"Hmm... I'll take a look."

Liu Bai started fiddling with the editor in his hand.

"Hmm... Can I only program, but not look up information? Um... but the code..."

The figure of the Awakened One nodded calmly—if it could help you find a bunch of information, what's the difference between that and helping you understand the world!

What I need is for you to use voice input; it would be best if you didn't touch anything at all!

Liu Bai glanced at the Awakened One, and then said nothing. After all, he was the one using Jue Zhe's things. To the Awakened One, it would be strange if Jue Zhe really asked him to understand the underlying logic of the world.

"Hmm... In that case, let's first set up a moon in the same real-world location as the moon, but in Imaginary Space. Then, fix this place as the refresh point for the Herrscher of Finality. The original Herrscher of Finality and her power cannot leave this area in any way."

Liu Bai felt he couldn't go too far, so he simply turned the Herrscher of Finality into a copy.

If we can't beat her, we'll just stop fighting and leave her there...

Okay, Liu Bai actually has a bit of a collecting desire. He's just missing a Herrscher, and he's itching to collect them all—even if he destroys them and gets the cores out, that would be fine too.

Then just feed it to anyone, and you'll have collected everything, right?

If we can't win, then we'll just occupy the moon. That's practically like having our own Finality in our own backyard, right? We're not losing either way.

Besides, with so many preparations already made, it wouldn't be right not to throw a punch or two.

The Awakened One next to him tilted his head. Hmm, this guy really has been making a lot of unnecessary noise...

Go ahead and play around with it, it's just a Honkai 3rd anyway...

Soon, the word "Completed" appeared on the editor's screen.

"Then, about, well, Asahi and the others..." Compared to the Finality, which was purely a gimmick, Liu Bai was much more cautious in this regard.

Honkai Energy played around with freely, but Lin Chaoyu and the others can't!

The Awakened One really wanted to say that you just need to tell it to bring over someone from a certain point in the past, but, well, he said before that he couldn't bring over people.

From a human perspective, it's somewhat strange to change one's tune now.

Let's wait and see... If this person is truly stuck in a misunderstanding and can't get out of it, then I'll speak for myself.

Suddenly, the Awakened One noticed that Liu Bai glanced at him, seemingly quite hesitant.

"You can change it as you please, don't worry about me."

Anyway, since the World Editor can't reorganize the universe, whatever else you want to do doesn't affect me...

"Then I'll change it..." Liu Bai paused for a moment, "First of all, um... I need a place where all the souls of the world, from the past to the present... no, from 60,000 years ago, can rest in peace and slumber, which is... in the deepest part of the Sea of Quanta."

Liu Bai didn't know if this was feasible—in terms of "modifying the past to a certain extent," his request seemed quite excessive, but he had to give it a try.

The Awakened One: "??????"

This thing is changing the logic of the world!

Then...

Yes, the world really is starting to operate this way. The Awakened One can sense that the world's rules are beginning to loosen, and people are being given the green light.

... I made a mistake; perhaps I shouldn't have even used this method.

As long as a reasonably plausible path emerges, this subconscious mind can make that path successful... fucking narrative layers.

You really don't make any sense at all.

And the world... are you really going to just spread your legs and let people play with you?

What to do when the world is full of sluts and bitches?

Oh no, I have to go check out this place where souls slumber. The concept of "world" is too big. So many souls gathered together, even though it is still insignificant compared to the Sea of Quanta itself, the potential impact cannot be ignored.

Completed— Liu Bai looked at the notification that appeared above with some surprise.

Wow, that's really true...

"Now, four souls are being released from the Land of Souls' Sleep: Lin Chaoyu, born in 1440 AD in the current civilization, and Jiang Wanxi, Jiang Wanru, and Ma Yanqing, who are related to her. Their souls will arrive in the vicinity of the Chariot of a Thousand Worlds in the Sea of Quanta in a manner that is about to awaken."

Completed.

Liu Bai looked at the Awakened One: "Hmm... it seems that some things still need to be handled more tactfully?"

No, no, no! This isn't just a turn!

"What you say makes sense." The Awakened One nodded, his expression obscured.

"Could you please pick up these four people near the Chariot of a Thousand Worlds?"

"... It's my duty."

Chapter 602 Gathering of the Great Void

"Ah... why do I always... cough cough, I look like I'm thirty?"

Ma Yanqing stroked his beard with some displeasure.

With three senior sisters and a grandmaster watching, Ma Yanqing didn't dare utter a single vulgar word.

"Why do you all look like you're in your twenties, senior sisters?"

"Because I asked the Awakened One to take your peak period." Liu Bai tapped Ma Yanqing's chest. "... Not bad, Seventh Brother."

"Well..." Ma Yanqing scratched his head indifferently, "After all, I've lived a long time. Although I'm at my peak, it seems to be my physical peak. My cultivation level and such seem to have been preserved."

Ma Yanqing knew that his grandmaster had seen through his progress to the Sword God Realm.

The other three also seemed to understand something upon hearing Liu Bai and Ma Yanqing's conversation.

"I was over seventy when I entered the Sword God Realm."

Ma Yanqing stroked his beard, a hint of emotion on his face.

In his old age, he surpassed the pinnacle that men could reach, "still water," and his sword heart reached the realm of the Great Void, and he comprehended the essence of the sword spirit in the Five Elements.

"But I never expected to see my senior sisters again in my lifetime... This world is truly amazing."

"It's not just in your lifetime, but the four of you have actually died once."

Liu Bai glanced at Lin Chaoyu and the Jiang Sisters.

"Yanqing doesn't care. Are you all ready to go see your master?"

"...yes."

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Chaoyu, who was in the lead, slowly nodded.

"Is Master alright?"

"That's good—you don't need to feel too much burden. Your master actually felt quite guilty about what happened back then."

Lin Chaoyu's actions were treasonous, but Fu Hua's decisions at that time were 90% wrong, pushing them to that point. Everyone is partly to blame, so no one should criticize anyone else.

However, the dead always receive preferential treatment, Fu Hua has probably felt increasingly guilty towards Lin Chaoyu over the years.

"Just keep a calm mindset. No one was right about what happened back then... Third brother, fourth brother, you two listen up too."

"... Yes, I will follow Master's instructions."

The two sisters, dressed in what appeared to be Miao ethnic clothing, nodded.

Jiang Wanxi touched her younger sister's head. The white hair that her sister had been corrupted by the Honkai, which she remembered, had completely disappeared.

Jiang Wanru was also touching herself in disbelief—clearly, the Honkai had had a significant impact on the lives of the two sisters.

"Perfect timing, our sect is holding a banquet, let's go together—thank you, the Awakened One."

"... It's alright."

Compared to what I've experienced today, what is this little thing?

"Just go out through this door—I won't follow you any further."