Twilight Speaker

Chapter 229: Paradox Box, Twenty Years in the World
An entire year was cut off and disappeared, turning directly into a bottomless abyss that was impossible to cross!!

Chen Xiang's spirit suddenly trembled, and he retreated from the river of time. Standing on the rooftop, he was shocked to find that the entire reality began to collapse! !

High-rise buildings, skyscrapers, passers-by, and even the earth, stars, and the universe.
Everything is collapsing!

"The end of time."

The young man spoke in a low voice:
"This is history's counterattack. It has voluntarily annihilated a year. All people and things in 2024 will be destroyed on this day. 2025 will disappear, and in 2026, everything will be back to normal."

"By 2026, those who were part of this history will have kept the memory of 2025, but it will be just a memory, not the actual experience."

After a pause, he sighed:

"But you, me, and us, don't belong to this period of history at all, so we can't skip 2025, and we can't go to 2026. You should understand what I mean."

Chen Xiang looked at everything that was collapsing, snapped his fingers, reversed himself, and went back again, back to a moment ago, back to the time before the end of time.

He frowned:

"No, if that's the case, then what's wrong with you? You are me, the me before I traveled through time."

"Yes." The boy interrupted, "You haven't discovered it yet?"

Chen Xiang was stunned for a moment, squinted his eyes slightly, and carefully comprehended, and was shocked to find that his own existence was actually disappearing!
It is not death, but dissipation. As a great being who holds the power of death, he is already immortal even after death. However, once his existence is completely dissipated,
He will become an eternal historical ghost, losing his past, losing his future, and staying at this moment forever!
Chen Xiang was shocked.

"Now."

The young man said in a low voice:

"The only way to prevent your [fundamental existence] from dissipating is for you to temporarily become a bridge and send me to 2026. Then I will go to the year 1500 of the Divine Calendar and become Chen Xiang."

Chen Xiang's brows were tightly knitted:

"what about me?"

"You will continue to stay before the old calendar year 2025."

The young man said calmly:
"When I leave, I will strip away most of my memories, authority, etc., and turn them into a book of pseudo-omniscience. At this moment, you and I hold most of the authority of truth, and can be called pseudo-omniscience."

As he spoke, he stood up and continued:
“And then, everything will form a complete closed loop.”

Chen Xiang lowered his eyes:

"I understand. After you go to the year 1500 and reincarnate and travel through time as me, you will go through history again, and then go back in time to become me at this moment, and then."

After a pause, Chen Xiang took a deep breath:

"And then, I will become who you are now?"

The boy nodded:

"That's right. This is a closed loop, but it's also a paradox, a dilemma, a [paradox box]. Just like the three gods trapped in the [paradox box], you and I are trapped, and the cycle repeats itself."

Chen Xiang understood everything completely.

Time came to an end again, and everything began to collapse. The boy turned to look at Chen Xiang:

"It is better to be trapped in the [Paradox Box] than to be completely destroyed. There is always a way to break the dilemma."

Chen Xiang was silent for a moment, his body stretched and expanded, standing in the long river of time, and then fell down with a loud bang!

He turned himself into a bridge that spanned the bottomless abyss. The boy stepped on Chen Xiang's body and tried to walk to the other side.

"You're too heavy!"

Chen Xiang groaned. It was already difficult for him to transform into a bridge, and the young man carried too much authority. It was too heavy! "I know, I know."

The young man on Chen Xiang's back sighed. With every step forward, his authority and power diminished.
When he successfully reached the other side and stepped on Chen Xiang's body bridge to the other end of time, all the authority and power he possessed had fallen into the abyss of time.

The boy finally stripped away most of his memories, turning them into the book, and then became a pure soul halo, the origin.
The origin of the soul flowed down the river of time and disappeared at the node of 1500 in the divine calendar.

Chen Xiang retracted his body, took the book that contained most of the boy's memories, left the river of time, and gasped heavily.

“I’m going to go earlier.”

He said to himself tiredly, every time he looked back on the past, it was a heavy burden.
If we stay in 2024, it won’t be long before everything comes to the end of time and collapses. It would be better to go back to an earlier past and recuperate temporarily.

Without hesitation, Chen Xiang grabbed the book and went back in time again, forcing himself to go against the flow 20 years.

Lunar calendar 2004.

“Paradox Box.”

Chen Xiang landed in a certain city, coughing slightly, looking gloomy. Those who tamper with history will surely be hit back by history.
But he didn't expect that history's blow would be so fierce, directly violating logic and going against common sense.
This can almost be said to be reversing cause and effect, turning everything into a paradoxical closed loop, causing Chen Xiang to lose his "beginning"!
Now he is in a nearly unsolvable paradox.
I am destined to travel through time and reincarnate to the year 2024 in the Divine Calendar at the end of the year 1500 in the Lunar Calendar with the help of my other self.
After going through so many things, he finally went back to 2024 and helped another self to travel to the year 1500 in the divine calendar.
This cycle repeats itself without beginning or end.

This is the dilemma of the paradox box.

If you want to break the paradox box, it is very simple. All Chen Xiang needs to do is refuse to travel through time and reincarnate to the year 1500 in the divine calendar in the next cycle.
But in that case, he will also lose his past, lose the foundation of his existence, and become a historical ghost.
In other words, Chen Xiang must actively maintain the existence of this closed loop until he can jump out of the paradox box without breaking the closed loop!
"No wonder."

Chen Xiang sighed softly:

"No wonder the Three Pillars are trapped and unable to leave. The [Paradox Box] that trapped them must be much more powerful than the [Paradox Box] I am experiencing now."

He saw it very clearly, and immediately thought of a real way out of the predicament - that is to become strong enough to transcend time and return to the abyss while maintaining a closed loop existence.

However, to be able to transcend time and maintain a closed loop existence, one needs to become the "greatest".

This is the only solution I can think of at the moment.

"The three gods are all the greatest, so what is the paradox box that can trap them?"

Chen Xiang thought about it, but immediately shook his head. There was no point in thinking about it too deeply.

"Predicament. How can I get out of this predicament?"

He slightly tampered with reality at the moment, entered his identity information into the official files, and lived alone in the city.

Chen Xiang gradually became intoxicated by it. In this era, there were no supernatural beings, no gods, no betrayers, and no enemies.

He can truly relax and live like an ordinary person.

Ten years later, Chen Xiang had gotten used to being an old man and wanted to change his identity. He thought of Lusalem, who had once turned into a child.

Chen Xiang also turned into a five-year-old child and was adopted by a couple.
He went to school, read, and experienced all kinds of worldly things, just like a truly ordinary person, and almost never showed himself in front of others until another ten years later.

The year 2024 in the old calendar.

Chen Xiang, who looks like a teenager, comes to the rooftop. After more than ten years, he uses his extraordinary power again to take out the book that contains the memories of the previous teenager from the void.
Chen Xiang sat on the rooftop, quietly flipping through books, reviewing his past, feeling absent-minded, feeling emotional, and sighing.

Until he heard a wave of void behind him, and a withered old man in his twilight years walked silently behind him.

"Are you confused?" Chen Xiang closed the book and said softly, "I have been thinking about it for twenty years and I have found a way out."

The withered old man in his twilight years suddenly became alert.

(End of this chapter)