The Grand Finale, Part 1

hiss...

Without a sound, all movement in the surrounding void instantly reversed and returned to its original state.

Countless Lin Hui suddenly transformed into phantoms and merged into one.

These Lin Hui, created by the power of complexity, have no cause and effect and are completely unrelated to the surrounding void. If they were allowed to leave freely, the balance of all things would be broken.

It will instantly and drastically amplify the Source Disaster, and then accelerate the process into the Great Annihilation.

"Is that enough?" Yi's figure slowly emerged, standing facing Lin Hui.

His body returned to its previous state of rapid, blurry changes.

In reality, this so-called fight was nothing more than a game to them.

Only by truly and completely shattering the opponent's True Status can it be considered a life-or-death battle. And in the face of their status, even if Lin Hui's status is higher, truly killing him would inevitably cause the aftershocks to destroy the entire cycle, leading to the premature outbreak of the Great Annihilation, and the eternal annihilation of all things.

Because the Change Status has already merged with the concept of change, this is the essence of the True Status.

To destroy him is to Destruction True Authority itself.

Once successful, the True Status is destroyed, the cycle of change is lost, and in an instant, it will enter the Great Annihilation.

Similarly, Lin Hui is the same.

He had long since merged with the power of prosperity and Propagation. Destroying him meant that all things would no longer increase or Propagation, but would only decrease forever, until they shrank and completely returned to nothingness.

This is even more terrifying than the Great Annihilation.

At this point, the two returned to normal.

"The True Status itself represents a link in the cycle of all things, and most of them are indispensable. Are you so sure that I wouldn't dare to really kill you?" Lin Hui laughed.

"... Those who have achieved True Status so far are only you and me. This statement is meaningless." Yi seems to have a penchant for saying things that are meaningless.

Lin Hui stopped speaking, but a flash of blue light appeared in his eyes.

Suddenly, a blue ripple appeared out of thin air in the surrounding void.

Time reversed wildly, going back billions of years.

Gradually, familiar figures of Yi's former disciples, teachers, and relatives began to emerge from the ripples.

His blurry, shifting figure began to twist and flicker, but soon gradually stabilized, finally solidifying into the image of an ordinary scholar dressed in gray cloth.

The scholar carried a long sword on his back, his face calm, as if nothing could stir any emotion within him.

But his deep golden eyes were fixed on everything within the blue ripples. Though there was no emotional fluctuation, he was unwilling and reluctant to look away.

"Alright, I've given you your past. Remember to sever ties with cause and effect; you should actually be better at that than I am. Remaining untouched by countless transformations is something controlled by your position," Lin Hui said with a smile.

Yi did not respond, but simply stared at the blue ripples in silence.

Swish.

The next moment, his figure vanished, and when he reappeared, he had already entered the world reshaped by the blue ripples.

That world was vast and expansive, comparable to a planet, and inhabited by hundreds of millions of people.

In order to appease Yi, Lin Hui completely restored the entire world he once lived in. After severing causality, this small world became completely independent of the void and no longer interacted with the outside world.

He also planned to do the same for Clear Jade Mountain.

Isolating cause and effect is easy, and doing it is even less strenuous than him, so investing a little money to win him over is nothing.

In a flash, the blue ripples vanished, as if they had never existed.

Lin Hui was left alone, floating in the void.

"Since we've already done it, let's just restore everything completely..."

He reached out and grasped the hilt of the sword, slowly pulling it out.

hiss...

As the sword was drawn from its sheath, ripples of blue light surged and appeared around him.

With each ripple that appears, the microcosm surrounding Clear Jade Mountain also reverses time.

Moreover, a complete light blue world sphere also condensed once again, a new world created by the Mist Man World, a one-to-one replica.

Countless living beings were completely reversed, returning to the original, familiar world of the Mist Man World Lin Hui knew best.

In the distant void, countless particles of all things swarmed in and entered this world sphere.

Just a few minutes later.

Clear Jade Mountain and the Mist Man World, two major regions, each a spherical space with a diameter equivalent to a million light-years, were thus reshaped.

Countless people who should have died long ago were resurrected by Lin Hui, simply to satisfy his longing for the past.

This area is completely isolated from cause and effect, forming its own cycle.

Having done all this, Lin Hui was finally satisfied and turned his gaze to the distant void.

Next, the final step...

"Wind Disaster..."

He reversed everything, but the only thing he couldn't bring back was the Fusionist related to his teacher. So in the separate world that was reversed, there was no Seven Extinctions, no Black Elder, and no Xiling Ghost, Hei Yin, or others.

Therefore, the Wind Disaster became an obstacle blocking his way.

"It's time to put an end to this."

He fused the Blood Seal with himself, and his evolution reached its peak.

With a thought, the scenery around Lin Hui changed out of thin air, instantly transforming into a pure azure blue.

This is the Core District of True Wind Energy, where Wind Energy has long been completely transformed into real power and integrated with the power of complexity.

Just like dealing with Yi, to completely replace Wind Disaster, we must thoroughly defeat them at their source.

The source of the Wind Disaster is the Rank, which is part of the Destruction Status. Behind the Rank is a vast power representing the Void Death, a power as powerful as the Void Life.

Lin Hui chose to only defeat its position, rather than letting the Void Life and Void Death it represented engage in a protracted war.

For the other Celestial Venerables, achieving this would be virtually impossible, but for him...

"The destructive function represented by Wind Disaster is to break down all things in a flowing manner, allowing them to enter a large cycle, and then rapidly purify all things, categorizing everything and accelerating the cycle."

"This is indeed extremely difficult to replace. But..."

Lin Hui smiled slightly.

"From this point onward, the purification and return of Wind Energy is unique."

He spoke softly, almost as if reciting aloud.

Even though there was no medium for sound waves to travel in the void, his voice seemed to be in the air itself, rapidly spreading outwards in a ring of transparent ripples.

The ripples expanded rapidly, faster and faster, covering an ever-growing area.

This is expanding at an alarming rate.

Just like in his previous battle against Yi, Lin Hui used the same tactic this time: positional suppression.

He acted with extraordinary power driven by his status, forcibly reversing the fundamental rules governing everything.

Because it only targets Wind Disaster, it will only provoke resistance from the Wind Disaster themselves; the forces behind the other rules remain as silent as chickens.

Every rule is backed by a massive force, so even Lin Hui, at his current supreme level, must be extremely careful lest he inadvertently disrupt the normal operation of the other levels, causing the Great Annihilation to erupt prematurely.

No matter how many of the Celestials with distorted status die, it will not have a significant impact, because their status will not be shaken by their deaths.

However, the True Status are different; they represent the position itself, and once affected, the foundation for the stable operation of all things will collapse.

When an ordinary position encounters trouble, it can cause everything to become distorted and undergo dramatic changes. However, when a pillar-type position encounters trouble, it can lead to Great Annihilation.

Lin Hui is now like a doctor performing heart surgery on a patient, and must be extremely careful to ensure that he does not cut into the aorta or other major blood vessels of the heart.

Furthermore, after cutting out the Wind Disaster, one must immediately Wind Energy infused with the power of complexity as a substitute to plug the leak. Otherwise, if it takes too long, a major leak will occur.

At this moment, what he needs to do is to gradually strip away and transfer the Disaster Energy of the Wind Disaster to his own Wind Energy using the positional suppression technique.

This is cheating by using positional suppression.

Because it's cheating, it only works for a short time. Before long, the Destruction True Authority will realize it's been corrupted, automatically retaliate, and restore itself to its original state.

Lin Hui was exploiting this time difference.

"From this moment forward, the function of mitigating Wind Disaster will be entirely attributed to Wind Energy."

He declared again, using super-rules to force countless universes, dimensions, and realms to adapt to the new rules.

This is the most terrifying aspect of the Celestial Venerable.

The Twisted Celestial's extraordinary intervention was enough to make his words law, influencing all universes and all time and space in the void, changing the past, present, and future.

However, since ordinary Celestial Venerables can only affect distorted void, they are not actually affected.

This is also why the Twisted Celestials can keep intervening without worrying about affecting the foundation of the cycle.

However, someone like Lin Hui, a true top-tier Celestial Venerable, must be extremely careful.

If we are not careful, the cycle will be disrupted, destroying or giving rise to True Status.

In other words, Lin Hui has mastered the power of the Void Life Void Life, and can use it to create all things to remedy any problems that arise.

If it were any other position... it would be impossible to do this.

Then the second sentence was spoken.

In an instant, drastic changes began to occur within the entire void and Black Domain, in countless dimensions and the entire slowly operating great cycle system.

The Great Merit of Wind Disaster —decomposition and purification—are rapidly dissipating.

Meanwhile, Wind Energy quickly took over, beginning to replace wind Wind Disaster and making up for the Destruction Status role of the Source Disaster cleaner.

Lin Hui floated silently in mid-air.

After two consecutive extraordinary interventions that have impacted the operation of everything, the next step is to wait for Wind Energy to fully take over and adapt to its new ecological niche.

This is actually a seizure of a portion of the Destruction Status; it is a higher Rank that forcibly tears apart a portion of the Destruction Status. Therefore, a counterattack from the Destruction True Authority is inevitable.

He must overcome this biggest hurdle.

Otherwise, all the previous changes will be reversed, rendering them futile.

Lin Hui floated in the void, his body gradually becoming translucent.

He broke free from distortion, became completely real, and avoided being affected by any distorted elements within the cycle.

Time flies.

He remained suspended there, motionless, for an unknown amount of time.

Within Clear Jade Mountain and the Mist Man World, all beings are immortal and eternal.

Lin Hui was also among them, enjoying everything he was familiar with in a sub-body form.

He resurrected all his former friends and disciples as before. There was no fighting among them, and those who were killed would quickly revive. Everything seemed like a game.

At first, everyone found this kind of existence novel, stable, and satisfying.

Unfortunately... it was alright in the short term, but soon a thousand years passed, and many people began to feel world-weary, bored, and repeatedly attempted suicide.

Ten thousand years later, more than 90% of the people began to indulge in pleasure, because no matter what, time was never used up, they were immortal, and there was no longer any concern about safety.

All that's left is enjoyment and endless emptiness.

And Lin Hui happens to be True Status Venerable who governs Propagation, so as long as he doesn't want to, no one will face the risk of childbirth.

In this isolated world, the population will remain constant.

Lin Hui's true form is resisting the Destruction Status, and the Wind Disaster is gradually being replaced. However, within the isolated world, things are gradually transforming into something else entirely because of his blessings...