"Stop the Red Moon from dying out? Do the Merfolk Remnants really have that kind of power?"
Su Bai had always felt that he knew a great deal. After all, he had struggled in the Nightmare World for over ten years in his previous life. Yet as Wu Heng revealed these secrets of the Nightmare World, all Su Bai could do was listen. It was hard to analyze things he knew almost nothing about.
"There's actually a very simple way to stop the Red Moon from dying out." Rather than answer Su Bai directly, Wu Heng continued, "Just as the Red Moon stitched that world together with its immense power, an even greater power could stop it from dying out."
"But obviously, those creatures that grew stronger through the Red Moon's power don't possess that kind of strength. That's even more true of those merfolk." Only then did Wu Heng answer Su Bai's question. "So they came up with a relatively simple method."
"Controlling time."
"Time?"
"Yes." Wu Heng looked at Su Bai and nodded. "If today's Red Moon will die out in ten years, then the Red Moon of ten years ago will die out in twenty. So their initial experiments were actually very simple. They wanted to send themselves back into the past, to a time before the Red Moon died out."
"For these Eerie, going back into the past isn't actually all that difficult. They can even do it without passing through the Void Sea. But they soon abandoned that initial experiment."
"If they went back into the past, their past selves would also exist at that point in time?" Su Bai guessed why those beings had abandoned the experiment.
"Exactly. These creatures are greedy brutes. They would never tolerate two versions of themselves existing in the