Chapter 546: Dividing the Future

"My memories before I was three years old have completely disappeared!"

"Ever since I can remember, my parents have taken me wandering around the inner world."

"Because of some inexplicable [curse], I can never stay in the same area for too long."

"The Blue Taro Country is the country that has been here for the longest time. My father even thought he had found a way to temporarily block the [curse]."

"It's a pity that the accident happened!"

"But since then, I have stayed in the Blue Taro Country for more than ten years without encountering any accidents."

"Is the curse gone? Or is the target of the [curse] not including me in the first place?"

In the practice room, Chen Qi, who had completed his second self-channeling, was meditating quietly.

…

The theft of special genes has been confirmed, and this could only have happened before Chen Qi was three years old.

But Chen Qi's memory before he was three years old has disappeared.

Chen Qi has only two ways to find the "real murderer".

The first is to conduct self-channeling for the third time, where the mind travels through the shadow of the soul and travels back to the past.

The second is divination. Through the gray silk thread tied to the body, which represents the gray bloodline, one can follow the clues and find the real murderer.

Chen Qi, of course, wants to grab them with both hands and not let anyone go.

…

After spending another half day to completely calm down his mood.

Chen Qi finally started channeling for the third time.

Perhaps for others, it is extremely difficult to discover and lock the shadow of the soul.

Not to mention penetrating one's own consciousness into the shadow of the soul.

Even if the consciousness enters the shadow of the soul, there are many dangers, and you will get lost if you are not careful.

But for Chen Qi, he had already sneaked in several times.

It’s really a breeze.

Chen Qi can do it even without borrowing the psychic secrets from Tianwu Conjuration Academy.

…

But if you want to travel back to your childhood, the risk of getting lost is too great.

Of course Chen Qi must use more professional psychic techniques.

The most exquisite thing about the art of channeling is that what enters the shadow of the soul is the projection of the mind, and there is no way to get lost.

…

After just one attempt, Chen Qi succeeded.

This success rate is enough to make those true disciples who have channeled themselves tens of thousands of times but only sleep every day feel ashamed to death.

The mystery of the soul's shadow cannot be explored at the silver stage.

Even though the psychic skills of the Tianwu Conjuration Academy are very mysterious, only a very small number of geniuses with unlucky luck can achieve them.

…

"This is my past!"

Time began to flow back, and Chen Qi became an outsider, quietly watching his life begin to reverse.

One year, two years, three years...

Seven Killers, Wu Daoqi, Insect World

Chen Qi just browsed through his past quietly, only stopping when he had a sudden impulse.

…

Whenever this happens, it is Chen Qi's reflection.

Because this often means that he could have made a better choice at the time, but his choice was not perfect.

But this is purely an afterthought. Unless you can predict all your futures, how can you choose the best option among them.

But if it could be done like this, it would be even sadder!

…

Time went back a little bit, and Chen Qi finally returned to his mortal age.

Looking at the familiar Blue Taro Country, Chen Qi felt extremely emotional.

What a wonderful fate. He was so precarious back then that he could one day turn around.

Then Chen Qi really appeared on the day when he turned over.

…

However, even in the [past], Chen Qi still did not see the existence of bronze dice.

Chen Qi was not surprised at all. After all, he didn't see it when he was spiritually awakened.

In the past, Chen Qi murmured to himself in the air, as if he was talking nonsense.

This scene looks extremely weird and funny.

…

"What is certain now is that the past is also different from the past!"

"When I first entered the Shadow of the Soul, this world was still a bit empty."

“But as I kept going back in time, the world started to feel more and more real.”

"If my past life is regarded as a movie, then as time goes back, the resolution will gradually increase!"

“Is this due to the accumulation of information, or other factors?”

Although Chen Qi doesn't know why as time goes back, the world becomes more and more real.

But the deeper the consciousness goes into the past, the easier it is to get lost. The reason is found.

It’s because the world is so real that we can’t tell the difference and are more susceptible to interference.

…

"The next step is my boring and boring mortal life!"

"If I really went back to the past now, I would also want to pretend to be x and get slapped in the face!"

"It's a pity that this is only the past after all. Even if it is true, it is only the past."

"It's hard to calm down here, and messing around will only make you lost forever and unable to return to the present."

Chen Qi is very aware of the real danger of entering the Shadow of the Soul, which is that everyone wants to change their past.

…

But the more you change, the more entanglement you have with the past will become deeper and deeper, and eventually you will be completely stuck in the quagmire from which you cannot escape.

Especially those who are not doing well now are even more eager for change.

Fortunately, Chen Qi has turned around, otherwise he would have had to perform "Rebirth: My Life of Pretending to Slap in the Face".

…

Time continued to flow back, and Chen Qi returned to his childhood and saw the familiar orphanage.

Then time went back, and Chen Qi returned to the happiest moment of his life.

But Chen Qi only savored it for a moment, and then continued to move back.

…

"Incredible, really incredible!"

"In this world now, I can't even tell the truth from the false!"

Chen Qi appeared when he was three years and 100 days old, and the little kid crawling on the ground opposite him was himself.

But Chen Qi's eyes were not on himself at all, but he kept looking at the world around him.

To be honest, if the world was not just an extremely small amusement park, Chen Qi really couldn't find any evidence of its "falsehood".

…

Chen Qi's return to the past was really just a return to a "documentary world" with himself as the first-person perspective.

The world is the horizon.

Only what you have seen with your own eyes and what you have cognized in the past is real, and everything else is nothingness.

…

“Logically speaking, as I grow older, I should know more and more about the world.”

“Especially after entering the inner world, my knowledge of the world should become more and more real.”

“But in the Shadow of the Soul, everything is completely the opposite.”

“The stronger I am, the more false my knowledge of the world is!”

“Why is that?”

“Could it be…”

Looking at the world in front of him that was hard to tell whether it was real or not, Chen Qi suddenly thought of the Heavenly Soul.

Perhaps the world has never changed, but only human beings’ knowledge of the world has changed.

…

“If you think of the world as a house!”

“When life was just born, it saw its most primitive state, a rough house.”

“But with the input of external information, life renovated the rough house with its own knowledge.”

“Intelligent life replaced the reality of the world with its own knowledge of the world.”

“The more and deeper the knowledge of the world is, the more parts of the real world are replaced.”

“This is probably why the world in the Shadow of the Soul is so weird.”

The discovery of this truth made Chen Qi think of the debate between the experience school and the learning school.

Sure enough, they were not just arguing casually.

…

"Next, it's the most critical moment!"

"I sensed that my past is being destroyed!"

The next moment, Chen Qi appeared in "Yesterday".

At this time, Chen Qi was exactly three years and 99 days old.

It was still an amusement park, and it was still a little kid playing.

But the whole world was collapsing, and half of the amusement park had turned into a blank.

And this trend is gradually spreading.

…

"It turns out that what I lost was not the memory before the age of three."

"It's my memory, which is being lost every moment!"

"It's just that the memory of three years old is insignificant, and it's usually forgotten. I didn't notice it at all!"

"Is this collapse trend due to the decay of [Life Elements]?"

Chen Qi stopped in front of a blank space, with a cold look in his eyes.

…

Why the loss of life elements would affect one's spirituality, Chen Qi finally understood.

Because the decay of life elements would completely erase part of Chen Qi's memory.

This is equivalent to destroying part of Chen Qi's cognition.

It was only because the knowledge before the age of three was so small and insignificant that it did not have much impact on spirituality.

…

According to Chen Qi's calculations, for every element type lost, he would lose one year of memory.

That is to say, the original Chen Qi had as many as 91 types of life elements.

And once the life elements were less than 80, it meant that Chen Qi would lose at least 11 years of memory.

This was equivalent to erasing his entire youth, and it would be strange if there were no spiritual problems.

…

"I didn't expect the hidden dangers in my body to be greater than I expected!"

"200 days, within 200 days, I must completely solve this problem!"

"Otherwise, if I lose another year of memory, my spiritual talent will decline!"

For the first time in a long time, Chen Qi once again felt the urgency of time.

He would never allow his life to go backwards, nor would he let his glory come to an abrupt end.

…

“No, it’s too risky!”

“How can things go as planned these days? Especially with the arrival of a disaster star and the air of disaster!”

“I have to learn from Senior Sister Shen and give myself enough time.”

“200 days is still too little!”

Chen Qi looked at the collapsing “past world” and his mind began to work at high speed.

There must be a way to temporarily slow down the collapse of the world.

He has not thought of a solution to the decay of life elements in the real world.

But this is the memory world, it must be possible.

…

“Forget it, since I saw […] and glimpsed a little bit of the mystery of wisdom, I have never shown the true power of wisdom!”

“Now there is only this way!”

Although the current situation is a bit troublesome, it is far from desperate enough for Chen Qi to throw the dice.

Chen Qi decided to reveal one of his trump cards and show his real skills.

…

“Be born, the door to the future!”

The blazing golden flame of wisdom spread and burned on Chen Qi’s body.

The next moment, Chen Qi placed his left hand directly on the blank space.

And just at the moment when the golden flame touched the blank, an incredibly old wooden door slowly appeared.

Its shape was exactly the same as the Door of the Future that Chen Qi took away from the Nantian Society's treasury.

…

"Eighty percent, the Door of the Future I created is only 80% true to the real Door of the Future."

"But it's enough!"

"The birth of the Door of the Future redivided the past and gave birth to the future."

"Where I am now is the future!"

With the birth of the Door of the Future, the collapse of the world was paused.

But visible to the naked eye, holes appeared on the wooden door, as if insects were constantly biting.

Obviously, the stagnation of destruction is only temporary.

Once the Door of the Future is completely destroyed, the past world will still be destroyed.

…

“10 minutes, the Gate of the Future can only buy me 10 minutes in the real world.”

“I could have kept creating the Gate of the Future to buy myself more time.”

“The price is just to consume wisdom!”

“But this is too troublesome, and I can’t keep my mind here.”

“In that case, I curse!”

“My body cannot enter the Gate of the Future within two years. As a price, the Gate of the Future in the Soul Shadow will exist for two years.”

As Chen Qi cursed himself, in the real world, the ancient painting turned into a brand and merged into Chen Qi’s body.

At the same time, the real Gate of the Future and the one created by Chen Qi had some kind of connection.

The next moment, the Gate of the Future, which was originally eroded and riddled with holes in the Soul Shadow, turned back time and instantly recovered.

…

In this way, the crisis in Chen Qi’s Soul Shadow was temporarily resolved.

And the essence of Chen Qi’s curse was nothing more than using psychic magic to let the Gate of the Future protect him from disaster.

Since psychic arts can give treasures their own spirituality, of course, they can also apply certain characteristics of treasures to themselves.

This is essentially still within the scope of adjusting one's own life operation system, and it can be regarded as a wonderful use of the curse after being promoted to silver.

...

But if it is just a curse on the flesh, it is not enough to project the power of the Gate of the Future into the Shadow of the Soul.

Even if it is projected into the Shadow of the Soul, it will only appear in the present, not in the more distant past.

In the Shadow of the Soul, the Gate of the Future created by Chen Qi with wisdom is the key.

It is precisely because of its existence and the mutual fusion of the two that the Gate of the Future, a useless thing, has been transformed into magic.

It has become the dividing line that cuts the past and gives birth to the future in the Shadow of the Soul.

...

And the reason why Chen Qi only gave himself two years is, of course, because the ability of the Gate of the Future to resist disasters can only last for so long.

The current Gate of the Future is equivalent to being bombarded by the decay of life elements every moment.

It is already very good to be able to persist for two years.

In this way, Chen Qi's self-rescue time has reached two years and two hundred days.

This time budget is definitely enough.

…

"What a pity!"

"My memory before the age of three has been completely erased."

"It is impossible to find clues from the soul shadow."

"In this case, I can only follow the clues through the Tianji technique!"

"Fortunately, I have learned a lot of things, so I can cram when the time comes."

"More than two years is not enough for me to learn the Tianji technique."

Chen Qi now has only one way to go, which is to use the Tianji technique.

…

After a rest, Chen Qi performed the first Tianji divination.

What Chen Qi did was also very simple, just letting his mind drive the Tianji fragments and keep moving along the gray thread.

But when Chen Qi really performed the Tianji divination, he found out why the Tianji technique was so pitfall.

The gray thread did not lock on a certain target, but was linked to a network.

It was a network composed of tens of thousands of nodes. Chen Qi didn't know which node to start with.

...

Chen Qi felt that the divination of the heavenly secrets was unreliable, but if his divination results were seen by other divination masters, they would definitely be so angry that they would vomit blood.

Because when they performed the divination of the heavenly secrets, there were at least hundreds of thousands of nodes.

And if it was like Chen Qi, who divined such a long-term event, it was just their luck to have less than 1 million nodes.

Chen Qi's precise locking in a small range was enough to make their eyes sparkle with envy.

And the reason why Chen Qi could do this was certainly not by luck.

This was real strength. Other second-level divination masters could not see the threads entangled with them.

…

“Since we don’t know which node to start with, then we’ll just choose all of them!”

“The True Truth is not short of money, and the Southern Heaven Society is not short of intelligence capabilities.”

“I don’t believe that we can’t find a breakthrough by bombing more and flooding.”

After making the decision, Chen Qi randomly selected a node and rushed down with his mind driving the fragment of the secret.

…

Time and space turned, the world was in a trance, and Chen Qi suddenly found himself in a bustling alchemy city.

This was the first clue he got.

However, when Chen Qi looked around and collected enough information.

I found out that this place was not now, but more than ten years ago.

This was the first time Chen Qi encountered such a situation.

Obviously, the first node Chen Qi found was a long-standing island in the sea of ​​information.

That is, those long-standing solidified information.

…

Chen Qi remembered everything around him, left this node the next moment, and went to the next node along some connection.

It was a huge mountain, but it seemed that a plane crash had occurred.

Although Chen Qi was confused, he still recorded everything.

…

In this way, Chen Qi explored one node after another.

Three days later, he finally visited tens of thousands of nodes throughout the network.

Then Chen Qi got tens of thousands of fragmented, unconnected, and extremely long time span information.

…

If this information was from a complete puzzle, with Chen Qi's wisdom, he would have pieced together the truth in an instant.

The key to the problem is that this information comes from different puzzles.

It's like there is a book with a small piece torn out of each page.

It would be strange if Chen Qi could directly piece together the contents of the entire book.

…

What Chen Qi needs to do now is to first determine which page each fragment comes from.

That is, to conduct a complete investigation and verification of each node information.

This can only use the intelligence system of the Nantian Society.