Returned
The main world.
Thirteen years ago.
Inside the relatively intact underground palace, a group of people dressed in gray robes were praying earnestly; they were members of the Eternal City cult.
They believe that Doros is a higher-dimensional god far beyond humanity, and that they can gain immortality within Doros and use Doros's space-time, which is far beyond reality, to return to the past and travel to the future.
After extensive research, they created Gate of Restraint that summoned Doros but prevented its power from spreading, thus forming the Egg of Doros Doros. In reality, at this juncture, Doros dared not spread.
Subsequently, after a series of unknown experiments, this group of cultists successfully modified more than a dozen creatures to adapt to the Egg of Doros. Just as they were preparing to modify themselves, a series of unknown changes occurred, and the experiment began to spiral out of control.
Subsequently, Old Hu from the Countermeasure Bureau took over the place with his men. After paying a considerable price, they quelled the riot in Doros. From then on, the underground palace was taken over by the Countermeasure Bureau, which required a large amount of manpower and resources every three years.
However, there has been a small, little-known change.
Using the unique structure of the underground palace, the gray-robed figures confined Doros's immense power behind the stone gate. Through various rituals, they restricted Doros's gray light, and in the pitch black, they began to Extraction Doros's power.
Unbeknownst to them, within the Egg of Doros lay a future visitor. Lu Li, shimmering with a pale blue light, maintained his own timeline unaffected by Doros, while the blue flames in his hands ceaselessly enveloped Doros' chains. They had just joined forces to trick Iger, and Lu Li was certain that if he relaxed and gave Dauros an opportunity, Doros would not hesitate to kick Lu Li out, reducing the competition.
Time in the main world was flying by. The gang of the Eternal City had Extraction Doros's power several times, Doros had allowed the Eternal City to manipulate him. After all, his power was destined to be kicked out of the main world. The only thing that was still under control was the chain in Lu Li's hand.
Finally, more than ten creatures injected with the special drug were placed into Doros's body. These creatures, combined with Doros's power, quickly separated from their original bodies and mutated into another kind of creature.
The flow of time within Doros's body is unpredictable. The dozen or so creatures inside grow rapidly. Occasionally, the Eternal City will summon these creatures out, and after observation and recording, they will be released back.
Lu Li saw the toad inside. It was the first experimental subject, and it experienced the longest time flow inside Doros's body, thus gaining the ability to absorb the power of time to save its life.
The second experimental subject is a cicada, which has gained the ability to slow down the time of certain things. Soon, Zhao Qiansun will obtain this cicada and slow down the game time interval.
Lu Li had no recollection of the other test subjects, except for the snake in test subject number Number Seven.
"It's almost time!" This message flowed through Doros's body, and Lu Li nodded.
The members of the Eternal City outside saw the gate suddenly release its radiance. They quickly activated their restraint measures, but a blue light broke through the gray light from inside the gate and jumped out. As soon as Lu Li came out, he felt an endless force of repulsion.
It wasn't just the main world's rejection of extraterrestrial beings, but also the past's rejection of the future. Lu Li looked at his naked body, which had begun to become illusory, its human appearance almost unsustainable, revealing the ever-intertwining rings of life and death, past and future within him.
"Take him down!" The cultist from the Eternal City, dressed in a gray robe, didn't understand who Lu Li was, but because of his appearance, the restrictive stone gate had become extremely unstable.
Some malevolent spells flew towards Lu Li, but Lu Li didn't even glance at them. He turned to the Egg of Doros inside the stone gate and asked, "Are you sure you don't want my help? Don't misunderstand, I just genuinely want to help you."
However, there was no movement inside the stone gate. He had other plans for the chains. The moment Lu Li stepped out, Doros intercepted the chains, preventing Lu Li from taking them with him.
Lu Li sighed. As expected of an old hand, if Doros let Lu Li make the arrangements, then that chain would become the next snake egg. It seems that he can't trick an old hand like Doros.
Feeling the growing repulsion from the past, Lu Li knew he had to do the right thing. Turning to the gray-robed figures, he knew they should all be annihilated in the right time. Lu Li chuckled and said to the cultists still attacking him, "You seek eternity, don't you? Look! This is eternity!"
Lu Li's human form was torn apart, revealing the underlying principles: the connection between life and death, the intertwining of past, present, and future. An eternal time ring appeared in this world, and the gray-robed people seemed to see heaven. That time ring, symbolizing eternity, endless perfection, was just like the principles of this world, something they had pursued their entire lives. The time within their bodies began to surge violently, all flowing into the ring.
Blue flames flickered, the ring contracted, and Lu Li's humanoid disguise reappeared. Some matter was absorbed and used to create a black robe, restricting his ability to reveal time and reason.
Lu Li moved his body, absorbing all the time of those cultists, finally establishing a certain foundation in the main world so that he would no longer be easily rejected.
Looking at the various experimental data recorded by these cult members, this data is useless to humans, but if someone of a higher level were to view it, it would not be difficult to discover traces of Lu Li, this visitor from the future, existing within Doros's body.
Blue flames ignite, and all this data is to be destroyed. In the original history, this data was indeed all mysteriously lost. Time will always provide the correct answer.
After inspecting the underground palace and finding no information revealed, Lu Li walked towards the outside. As he walked through the passage, Lu Li suddenly sensed that someone from the future was observing this place. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a vision of the future appeared in the ring. It was as if his past self, or perhaps his future self, was using his Past Sight.
Lu Li instantly sensed that if that other self were to see him, the repulsive force of time would instantly repel him. So, Lu Li's blue flames flashed, and he knew he absolutely could not leave any information behind during this period.
Ten years later, Lu Li saw a blurry, floating image through his Future Sight. The screen went black for a while, and then Old Hu from the Countermeasure Bureau was running through that passage.
Feeling that time and space had stabilized once again, Lu Li's figure flashed, and he left the underground palace. Looking at the City of Sound, which was not so prosperous ten years ago, the place where the Mi University was located was just a desolate forest.
Young and vigorous, and still in his prime, Old Hu, along with Zhao Qiansun and six other members of the Countermeasure Bureau, had just received news of an uprising by the forces of time below and were heading towards the underground palace.
Main world, I'm back!