Chapter 2858: Predicament!
"How is it?"
After the Black Hole Heavenly Emperor was completely devoured by the Absolute Final Black Hole, everyone immediately looked toward Jiang Fan, anxiously asking!
Jiang Fan's eyes were deep: "That disturbance just now did indeed create a slight connection between me and my main body!"
"But such a disturbance is far from enough to let my main body break free from its restraints. The resistance is still there. However, it's enough to reconfigure the ability stars through this connection."
Wang Youzhi clicked his tongue. So it still wasn't working, huh?
But Zhong Yingxue raised the heart seed that Jiangnan had left behind.
(｡･ˇ～ˇ･)っ♡ "Xiao Nan is fine! The Liuli heart seed is still beating. That's Xiao Nan's heartbeat. He should be alive and well!"
Looking at the flickering, beating heart seed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he was alive!
Jiangnan had really gone into the Absolute Final Black Hole, huh?
Thinking back to the scene just now, it even felt a bit unreal!
Jiang Fan continued, "Now it all depends on Jiangnan's own actions—whether he can influence the Absolute Final Black Hole through fusion!"
"Or find my main consciousness in that Life Forbidden Zone..."
Everyone's hearts tightened again, their eyes fixed unblinkingly on that Liuli heart seed!
Success or failure rested on this single move!
And Jiang Fan's gaze toward the Absolute Final Black Hole was extremely profound.
He murmured, "Some answers... only you can find. I hope this time, you can discover something..."
As he spoke, Jiang Fan raised his hand toward the starry sky...
"Otherwise... all of this is nothing but a flower in a mirror, a moon on the water—all illusions..."
Everyone looked at Jiang Fan in confusion. What was he talking about with such obscure words?
......
In the Fifth Dimension Life Forbidden Zone, Sea of Energy.
Jiangnan's figure suddenly appeared here, still in the form of Liuli Body!
A life level surpassing everything gave Jiangnan the ability to survive in the Fifth Dimension!
The moment he entered, Jiangnan was stunned by the scene before him!
The Sea of Energy below was silver-gray, incredibly vast, steaming with wisps of mist, while the surroundings were absolute nothingness!
The Sea of Energy was not calm; spatial inflation occurred all the time!
Normally, Jiangnan was a frequent visitor to this Life Forbidden Zone, having been above the Sea of Energy countless times!
But Jiangnan had never seen such a vast Sea of Energy—boundless!
Jiangnan stood above it, as insignificant as a speck of dust!
Steeling himself, Jiangnan did not choose to directly charge into the book page and attempt to fuse with and control the Final Black Hole, breaking its stable state!
Finding Jiang Fan's main consciousness in this Sea of Energy and bringing it back was a simpler and safer method!
So he decided!
Jiangnan directly began moving above the Sea of Energy!
Here, there were no concepts of time, space, distance, or anything else!
Wherever Jiangnan wanted to go, he just had to think about it. Concepts like faster-than-light or warp speed were utterly useless here!
(｡･ˇ口ˇ･) "Brother Fan? Brother Fan! Can you hear me calling? I've come to fish you out!"
"If you can hear me, just make a sound!"
Jiangnan shouted, using his will to project his voice. Jiangnan himself knew he was speaking, but whether the sound actually transmitted or whether anyone could hear it was uncertain!
Jiangnan also dared not spread his will too far!
This was the Life Forbidden Zone! As long as one existed here, they had to endure the erosion of the Sea of Energy at all times!
Jiangnan relied on the Eternal Liuli Body plus the Soul-Sealing Method to resist the erosion!
If he actively spread his will, then what was the point of sealing?
Just as Jiangnan was aimlessly wandering above the Sea of Energy, sure enough, those light spots appeared again!
They transformed into countless books and pages, neatly arranged in the void, surrounding Jiangnan!
No matter where Jiangnan flew, no matter how his will drove his body to move!
These displayed past, present, future, and countless possibilities always revolved around Jiangnan in the void, never dispersing!
Jiangnan didn't know how long he had been shouting. There was no concept of time here!
He only knew that he shouted until he couldn't anymore, got tired, and his throat went hoarse, yet he received no response!
Nor did he see any trace of Jiang Fan's main consciousness...
It was as if only Jiangnan existed in this Life Forbidden Zone!
Jiangnan gritted his teeth. This couldn't go on!
This Life Forbidden Zone must have an edge, right?
I'll do a carpet search, and I refuse to believe I can't find Jiang Fan!
So Jiangnan randomly picked a direction and shot off in that direction!
The speed of thought was already astonishing!
Just think about it, and it happens!
But... there was no end!
The scenery beneath him was unchanging—the boundless silver-gray Sea of Energy!
Jiangnan had completely lost his sense of time. He only felt that he had flown until he was exhausted, even to the point where the Soul-Sealing Method was about to fail!
It seemed like at any moment, he might plunge headfirst into the Sea of Energy!
Startled, Jiangnan quickly slapped himself twice, glaring to stay awake!
Could this bizarre Life Forbidden Zone have no boundaries?
Or maybe he had never moved from his original position at all?
How was he supposed to find Jiang Fan's main consciousness?
Saying it was like looking for a needle in a haystack was an understatement!
"Since I can't find Brother Fan in the Life Forbidden Zone, I'll have to find a way through the Absolute Final Black Hole!"
Jiangnan immediately activated Fate Knowledge, and all the causal lines pointed toward that reality!
Jiangnan steadied his mind and charged without hesitation!
He dove headlong toward that book page!
But the expected scene did not occur!
A huge resistance emanated from the book page, preventing Jiangnan from entering!
He couldn't break through!
Jiangnan's heart skipped a beat!
He tried again, but still failed—the resistance remained!
Now Jiangnan was panicking!
Again and again, he rammed into his own book page, but without exception, the page seemed to refuse his entry!
Normally, each time Jiangnan activated Black Hole Devouring Star, he would first arrive at the Life Forbidden Zone, then return to the book page, and only then could his consciousness enter the black hole to control it!
Earlier, when Jiangnan activated Black Hole Devouring Star, he had already entered the Life Forbidden Zone once, and the process of entering the book page went smoothly!
That was why the black hole lit up with Liuli-colored eyes and could take human form!
But when the Black Hole Heavenly Emperor merged into the Final Black Hole, Jiangnan arrived at the Life Forbidden Zone again!
This time, however, he couldn't get out no matter what!
"Damn! Damn it all! Why? Which link went wrong?"
Jiangnan was truly panicking!
If he couldn't enter the book page, his awareness couldn't return to the black hole, let alone merge with the Final Black Hole to achieve control!
He would be forever trapped in the Life Forbidden Zone, unable to escape!
An overwhelming sense of loneliness enveloped Jiangnan, making his heart and body ice-cold...
If he really couldn't go back, what then?
Jiangnan shook his head. Calm down!
Calm down! Getting anxious was useless!
At this moment, Jiangnan looked at the content on the book page!
The content was frozen—it was the scene of him just merging into the Final Black Hole, with everyone worriedly looking at the Liuli heart seed!
Jiangnan remembered what Jiang Fan had told him!
Because of the stable state of the Absolute Final Black Hole, it had bound Jiang Fan's main will, preventing his return!
Now that Jiangnan had merged into the Absolute Final Black Hole, it was equivalent to entering the Life Forbidden Zone through the Final Black Hole!
Normally, Jiangnan could rush into the book page smoothly because the black hole was something he had transformed into?
So it worked?
But the size difference between the Black Hole Heavenly Emperor and the Final Black Hole was too great—a gap of one hundred million to one!
Having the Black Hole Heavenly Emperor diluted within it, even if Jiangnan wanted to get out, he would face the resistance of the Absolute Final Black Hole!
He was faced with the same situation as Jiang Fan?
Now Jiangnan was completely dumbfounded!
He hadn't managed to fish out the ancestor, but had instead trapped himself there?
The plan had been aborted before it even began!
The only good news now was that Jiangnan could withstand the Fifth Dimension—the erosion wouldn't affect him!
Otherwise, he would definitely be washed clean!
Jiangnan kept telling himself to calm down. Solutions come from thinking!
Since he knew the stable state of the Absolute Final Black Hole was the reason he couldn't get out, then finding its unstable state would allow him to escape!
Just like when Jiang Fan used the Absolute Final Black Hole to devour other black holes, creating disturbances that let him send out will clones!
Jiangnan's eyes lit up. If it couldn't be done now, then look backward!
The Final Black Hole must have had moments of disturbance!
So Jiangnan searched backward along this line of reality!
He found the past!
He even watched the Pinnacle War backward again...
The past was already fixed, so it could be viewed!
Finally, Jiangnan found the moment of disturbance of the Final Black Hole!
In the past book page image, it was the time period when he first tried to help Jiangfan retrieve his main body, configure Jiang Fan's ability stars, and throw black holes into the Absolute Final Black Hole!
Jiangnan gritted his teeth and tried to squeeze in!
Sure enough, the resistance was smaller, and although this resistance was still strong, Jiangnan might be able to force his way back if he pushed hard enough!
But the moment his hand touched the book page, a terrifying thing happened!
The hand Jiangnan had extended into the book page was crushed by an extremely terrifying force!
This force was one Jiangnan had never experienced before—majestic, powerful beyond resistance!
It felt like... absolute truth!
Jiangnan was terrified. He even felt that if he pushed further in, he would definitely be ground to pieces!
Frightened, he quickly pulled his hand back, and the crushing force disappeared!
Jiangnan was still in shock!
"What's going on? Was that... the power of truth?"
Jiangnan remembered that Jiang Fan had told him!
This world contained truth, and the power of truth was inviolable!
This was a page of the past. The past was fixed and could not be changed!
And in the past page, Jiangnan was in the process of throwing a black hole into the Final Black Hole!
If Jiangnan chose to go out at this point in time, wouldn't there be two Jiangnans in the past?
How could two versions of the same person appear at the same time?
Such a situation was completely disallowed!
It was a violation of truth!
So truth intervened. If Jiangnan insisted on going in, he would be crushed by truth!
Jiangnan scratched his head anxiously!
Damn! What was he supposed to do?
He couldn't appear in a past where he already existed!
Could he appear in a past where he didn't exist?
Aside from this time, when was the last time the Final Black Hole was disturbed?
That time Jiang Fan came out wouldn't work either—Jiangnan was training in the Eternal Gale at that time!
Jiangnan frantically searched backward!
He actually found a time tens of thousands of years ago when the Final Black Hole naturally devoured a black hole!
A disturbance occurred!
Jiangnan was about to enter!
But then he stopped!
If he went in, wouldn't he be going back tens of thousands of years?
At that time on Lan Xing, humans were still terrifying upright apes, right?
What good would it do for him to go back? Even the ancestors of Xuexue and the others hadn't been born yet, let alone them!
And once he actually returned through this node, he would face another problem!
Even if he stayed hidden and didn't interfere with the past, waiting for tens of thousands of years until Lan Xing reached modern times...
As soon as Little Jiangnan was born, there would be two Jiangnans in reality again!
That would create a conflict again, and he would probably be crushed by truth!
What if he went back and left some information on a rock, waited tens of thousands of years, and maybe it would be discovered?
Then he could inform Yang Jian and the others to create a black hole, throw it into the Final Black Hole, create a disturbance, and give himself a chance to get out?
Damn! That was even more unreliable!
How could such a coincidence occur in the world?
How much information would he have to leave on that rock for a blind cat to stumble upon a dead mouse?
Besides, the past might change because of this!
If he messed up, reality might collapse!
Everything now might cease to exist. The risk was too great; he couldn't try it!
The idea of going back to a certain point in time was directly rejected by Jiangnan!
There was simply no way to operate!
And contacting the outside from the Life Forbidden Zone was impossible. Even that Liuli heart seed was fake, a lie!
It wouldn't connect with Jiangnan in the Fifth Dimension Forbidden Zone. That was just a lie Jiangnan told to reassure Zhong Yingxue and the others!
He couldn't go back to the past, couldn't go back to the present—so only one option remained!
Find a moment in the future when the Final Black Hole fluctuated, then rush back!
Maybe to the line of reality, he would be "nonexistent" for a period of time, but at least he could go back!
Jiangnan raced back to the present book page!
Just as he was about to look into the future and find a suitable disturbance node!
But his gaze abruptly stopped!
Jiangnan thought of an extremely serious problem!
The past and present were determined, but the future was not!
Countless choices created countless different futures. Each choice could lead the future in a completely different direction!
You didn't know if it was good or bad!
But the problem was, once the future was observed, it became fixed!
The Fifth Dimension was different from the Fourth Dimension!
Perhaps Jiangnan could look into the future and really find that disturbance node!
But what if that node was tens of thousands of years from now?
And during this time, no disturbances occurred? What then?
Should he go back or not?
What if the future he saw, during the time he was absent, Xun Zu broke his shackles and killed everyone—a bad future? How could he be sure?
At that moment... Jiangnan suddenly understood everything Jiang Fan had once told him!
What he once vaguely understood, he now fully comprehended...
Jiang Fan had chosen a disturbance node in the future to come back!
That was why he had disappeared for over three thousand years...
He was lucky. This future was acceptable, and it had only taken three thousand years!
But it was also unfortunate...
And what about him?
Did he really want to look into the future...
Jiangnan, who had always been fearless, suddenly lost the courage to move his gaze over!
He stood alone, caressing the book page of his own reality, and weakly crouched down!
In the vast Life Forbidden Zone, there was only Jiangnan...
"System, my dear... are you there?"
"Dear? Dear... Please talk to me, say something, okay..."
Jiangnan's voice carried a slight tremor!
But the system gave no response!
Infinite loneliness surrounded him, swallowing him up...