A Bug!

"So, did that mistake happen?"

"Perhaps."

"Perhaps none of you have ever actually tried using the Future Chapter, but I used it many times when I was the first to do so."

"I don't know how many times I started over in order to find a way that wouldn't go wrong and that would allow each of my future selves to follow this path and complete the cycle."

"And in this endless cycle of starting over, I discovered something interesting."

"The Future Chapter cannot let me see what will happen after I die."

"But usually, death is not the only outcome, and as long as death is not the only outcome, my future will continue indefinitely."

"Unless all future possibilities point to death and no variable points to survival, all the lines will come to a complete end at some point."

"And the way to go back to the past in the Future Chapter is to replace myself and travel to the future is the same."

"This means that there will never be another me in a universe, which is also the uniqueness of the Future Chapter."

"No matter what I achieve in the future, if I go back to my infancy, I will be an infant with nothing."

"All I brought with me are memories and chapters."

"If I travel to the future, even if I have nothing now, as long as I have something in the future, then the me who travels to the future will have everything that I have in the future."

This is a very simple example. If I have a healthy body in the future, I will naturally inherit this healthy body after I travel to the future.

In the past, I was frail and sickly, and had nothing. If I could go back to the past, I would still be frail and sickly, and have nothing.

"What if I went back to the past before I was born, or traveled to the future after I'm already dead?"

"It doesn't work, that is, it won't work."

"But there is one exception: when I am not myself, but someone else."

"For example, I could have been my grandfather before I was even born."

"Or rather, after I die, I can become my offspring."

"What if I don't have a grandfather or any descendants?"

"It's okay to have no descendants, but it's a paradox to have no grandfather. If this premise is removed, I will not exist."

"What I mean is, if we don't consider that scenario, what would happen if I went back to the past or traveled to the future?"

"What if the answer is that we can't go back to the past, nor can we travel to the future?"

Is this a limitation of the future?

"Not necessarily... It could also be a limitation of our thinking."

"After all, we can't imagine a future without me, a future where I don't exist. How would I be born into that world?"

"I am indeed dead now, right?"

"That's right."

"But I'm still thinking about it, isn't that right?"

"That's right."

"We cannot deny that our thinking is false, because if we deny that, then everything we are saying now would be meaningless."

"Do I think, therefore I am?"

"Interesting. I should have thought of this sooner..."

"In the beginning of time, who passed on the teachings?"

"Before the upper and lower realms were formed, how could we investigate them?"

"The darkness is both bright and dim; who can fathom its depths?"

"How can one recognize Feng Yi's image?"

"Bright and dark, what is the purpose of this?"

"What is the origin and transformation of the three harmonies of Yin and Yang?"

How did all things in the universe come into being when there was nothing at all, when the universe was still nothingness?

If all of this was created by God, then how was God born?

This is like the chicken-or-egg question. If everything appears out of thin air, then did I also appear out of thin air?

Logically speaking, this doesn't make sense.

Many years later, who knows how many years later.

In a certain galaxy, a tiny insect, as small as a mosquito, flew into a certain planet and traveled through the atmosphere to reach the surface.

This planet has an extremely primitive level of technology, similar to ancient Earth.

However, the concentration of energy within this star field is outrageously high.

When Ao Zuo's energy radiated throughout the universe, the energy index of the entire universe suddenly increased, and the number of life forms also experienced an explosive growth.

Meanwhile, in a small village on this planet, a thin young man lies ill in bed.

The young man opened his mouth and breathed heavily. Suddenly, a small insect flew in from outside the window and crawled into his mouth.

"Hmm!"

The man suddenly widened his eyes and covered his mouth. His pupils trembled, but he couldn't utter a word.

"Uh..."

The man's body trembled, his bones cracked and popped, his stomach spasmed, and his body began to convulse uncontrollably.

At the same time, a seductive melody began to resonate in the man's mind.

"Evolution, evolution, evolution..."

After an unknown amount of time, the man's body stopped convulsing, and he struggled to get out of bed.

His eyes changed, becoming unusually calm.

Just then, a thin, sallow-faced boy walked in carrying a bowl. "Brother, why are you up?"

The man looked at the boy but did not respond. Instead, his gaze swept indifferently across the room.

He put on his straw sandals and stood up. The boy quickly came over to help him up. "Brother, what are you doing? Where are you going?"

The man still did not respond to the boy, and with the boy's help, he went outside.

The man looked up at the sky. It was night, and countless lights shone brightly in the universe.

The boy looked up too, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

The man turned his gaze to the boy. "What's your name?"

Ah?

The boy was stunned. "Brother... what's wrong with you now? I'm Cheng Yi..."

Li Chengyi.

The man nodded and then sat down on a chair outside the courtyard. There was a small stove outside the courtyard, on which a pot of medicine was being simmered.

There were also many herbs of unknown use scattered around the stove.

The man picked up one of the plants. "What's this?"

Li Chengyi quickly said, "Yanchun, the doctor said it can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, expel impurities, and guide qi. It is used by major sects to refine elixirs."

"We used to have them everywhere on the back hill, but ever since that old skinflint fenced off the back hill, we haven't been able to get any anymore..."

"Sister Lin Lan brought out a few plants for me, saying I should brew them for you to drink, it might just cure your illness..."

The man's gaze sharpened, and he directly crumpled the grass called Yanchun into a ball in his palm. Soon after, a wisp of black smoke rose from the man's hand.

When the man opened his hand again, the herb was gone, replaced by a black ball in his palm.

Of course, it's more like a pill than a black sphere.

The man looked at Li Chengyi and then handed him the pill.

"Have eaten."