Chapter 2795: The Most Familiar Stranger!
This was also the reason Jiangnan had never dared to activate Black Hole Devouring Star!
Because it didn't just erase memories, but also the feelings, sensations, everything experienced during that time!
It was like forcibly removing that experience from your life entirely!
Since it was fundamentally erased, you wouldn't recall it, nor realize that the memory was missing!
Back then, Jiangnan had gone a long time before he heard others discussing things he didn't know about, and only then did he realize that some of his memories were missing!
He even suspected for a time that he had returned to the wrong reality!
But Jiang Fan had lost all his memories and experiences?
Then what was left of him now?
When a person is born, it's like a blank sheet of paper. It's the various experiences that add color to this paper, creating a unique life painting that belongs only to you!
But when all memories, experiences, and feelings disappear completely, what can remain?
Only a blank sheet of paper remains. All emotions are erased, humanity is gone, leaving only the emotionless, indifferent, unwavering divinity!
So Jiang Fan's Force of Will was white?
Jiangnan was stunned: "No! If the Sea of Energy erased all your memories and experiences, then how do you know the past so clearly?"
Jiang Fan's gaze shifted: "Remember the book pages on the Sea of Energy? I am very clear about where I came from, which reality belongs to me..."
"So I looked back at the past, as an observer, and saw everything that had happened from my birth until now. Following that line, that timeline, I looked again and again, and remembered it all!"
"Because the past cannot be changed. The line that belongs to me, that book, will not deceive me!"
Jiangnan was lost in thought: "Looking at the contents of the book pages doesn't cost memories? Whether past, present, or future?"
Jiang Fan shook his head: "No. As long as your consciousness enters that Life Forbidden Zone, you pay the price. It has nothing to do with where you look..."
"Infinite pasts can be observed, infinite presents can be observed, but the future... it's best not to look, if you want the future to retain its possibilities."
Jiangnan secretly clenched his fist. It was indeed close to what he had guessed!
But what Jiangnan hadn't expected was that just entering would cost something?
Jiang Fan, he...
Jiang Fan gently stroked the inscription on the stone tablet: "Ridiculous, isn't it? The one who experienced all that was me, and I remember it all perfectly through the book pages..."
"But I don't know the feeling in my heart when I carved this line. I don't know the emotions in my chest when my beloved fell and entrusted everything to me. I don't know what was going through my mind when my elders and brothers willingly sacrificed everything for me, becoming stars in the sky, as I knelt on the ground, roaring and weeping!"
"I have become a complete observer. The protagonist of the story is me, and the story belongs to me. But why... can't I empathize? That is clearly me, yet it feels as strange as a stranger!"
"The most familiar stranger... Heh~"
Jiang Fan looked up at the starry sky: "I remember which stars they became..."
"But under the same starry sky, the stars can no longer guide my way..."
"I can speak of these things calmly, recall everything calmly, as if watching a movie, telling someone else's story..."
Jiangnan was silent. So this was the truth?
The reason Jiang Fan went straight to seek revenge as soon as he came out of the black hole wasn't because he was angry or hateful in his heart!
It was only because he had read his own story and judged that this was what he should do...
All the joys and sorrows of the past, everything, had vanished into smoke!
But was this Jiang Fan still the same Jiang Fan as before?
Although they were the same person, would they really still be the same person?
Jiang Fan's current state was more like a god...
A god who is neither sad nor happy, with thoughts that transcend everything in the world!
"Entering the Absolute Final Black Hole... do you regret it? If you hadn't made that choice back then, maybe everything would be different..."
Jiang Fan shook his head: "Regret? No... Perhaps the former me would have regretted it? But now I can't produce that emotion..."
"In the Life Forbidden Zone, I didn't come away empty-handed..."
"I just want to tell you: Don't become me! You are different from me. You have your own path to walk, a path different from everyone else's..."
"Find your own answer as soon as possible, and then make your choice. Otherwise, everything is but illusion and bubbles!"
Jiangnan felt a tightness in his chest. He knew that Jiang Fan must know something!
In the Life Forbidden Zone, he could even be omniscient!
"You don't intend to tell me directly?"
Jiang Fan closed his eyes: "That is your story... not mine. I cannot be the one to point it out..."
Jiangnan took a deep breath and slapped his own cheeks hard!
"Don't be too sad either. Although the past has disappeared, it doesn't mean it's the end. The life painting has returned to pure white. We can add colors to it again!"
"This is still a new beginning, a new era, isn't it?"
Jiang Fan tilted his head: "No need to comfort me. I am not sad either..."
"A new beginning? Perhaps..."
"Do you want to learn the God-Sealing Method? It can help you resist the wear and tear that the Sea of Energy inflicts on your will, if you still have the courage to touch the Life Forbidden Zone!"
Jiangnan grinned: "Why wouldn't I learn? Stopping is the last thing a qualified Era Lord should do, right?"
"Besides... given the current situation, I'm afraid I don't have the luxury of being afraid!"
Xun Zu was breaking through, the unknown starlight of the Silicon race, the small movements of the Matter Alliance—the most chaotic times were about to arrive!
Without formidable strength to withstand the pressure, the higher you climb, the harder you fall!
Even a strong alliance like the Carbon Alliance could be sunk by the giant wave. Besides, he still had to pull Jiang Fan's main body out of the black hole!
"Good! I'll teach you!"
As he spoke, Jiang Fan raised his hand and pointed at Jiangnan's forehead. The entire content of the God-Sealing Method appeared in Jiangnan's mind!
Jiangnan's mouth twitched. So convenient?
He examined it carefully. It was an ultimate application of the Force of Will!
All memories and experiences were engraved and turned into longing to maintain the existence of the consciousness body!
The more he saw, the more shocked Jiangnan became!
Jiang Fan was really something else. How did he come up with such a method?
Although complex, given Jiangnan's total willpower, it wasn't very difficult to cultivate!
Jiang Fan said: "Note that the God-Sealing Method is not omnipotent. It can only resist the wear and tear on the Sea of Energy!"
"If you try to do something that goes against truth in the Forbidden Zone, the God-Sealing Method won't work!"
"For example, entering a present, past, or future that does not belong to you. Coexisting with another 'you' in the same time and space..."
"This will trigger serious and unpredictable consequences. The operating laws of this world are not as solid as you think. On the contrary, they are very fragile..."
Jiangnan broke out in a cold sweat!
Damn! What level of enlightenment had Jiang Fan reached? What profound topics were they discussing?
The operating laws of the world? Rules?
Sigh~
(๑•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Understood. I'm always cautious about such matters. By the way, you said you're trapped in the Life Forbidden Zone and can't return to reality. How did you send this will avatar out?"
Jiang Fan said indifferently: "I can't return to the book page of my present. The Absolute Final Black Hole binds me..."
"The past is also impossible, because there would be two of me. There is no past without me either, because that would violate the truth. I don't exist..."
"So I can only wait for an opportunity. In fact, this present, for the me who entered the black hole in the past, belongs to a future book page. But only one present exists at the same time in three dimensions..."
"Can't enter the past, no chance in the present. I can only set my sights on the future. I have the ability of omniscience. Those who call my true name can be perceived by me, which creates a thread of connection with me. I can then use other abilities to send my will out, transferred onto the body of the one who called my true name!"
Even Jiangnan was stunned by this!
This was way too complicated? Someone like Ta Luo, hearing this, would probably have an egg frying on their forehead on the spot, right?
(⌒﹏⌒;) "Th-this kind of thing? This is why the Starry Sky Races dare not call your true name?"
Jiang Fan nodded: "Yes. Those who say my name will be sensed by me."
Jiangnan frowned: (｡･ˇกˇ･) "That's not right? I used to call your name every day, but I never summoned you. How come this time..."
Jiang Fan did not get impatient and explained: "It's a matter of timing. The Final Black Hole isolates everything. On ordinary days, when you call my name, I can't sense the connection."
"Some time ago, the Final Black Hole swallowed a supermassive black hole, causing a slight disturbance and loosening the seal. At that time, the Angel Race's Atiya called my true name, and I seized that opportunity to send out a strand of will!"
"Such coincidences don't happen all the time. That's why I returned at this point in time. It's both coincidence and necessity."
Jiangnan grinned widely. Good grief!
So the Angel Race had brought about their own destruction?
On ordinary days, they never called. Atiya just had to open her mouth and say it. And now look!
They called the Angel Race out of existence!
"On the Matter of How Saying Two Words Led to the Destruction of an Entire Holy Celestial Kingdom"?
But given this situation, pulling Jiang Fan's main body out of the Life Forbidden Zone was probably not a simple matter!
After all, Jiangnan himself hadn't even figured out his own black hole yet, let alone entered a naturally occurring one!
Not to mention that was the largest Absolute Final Black Hole in the entire starry sky!
But if you don't try, how do you know you can't do it?
Jiangnan's expression turned serious:
"I have already mastered the God-Sealing Method!"