Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 488 - 458 Three Directions that Changed History

Chapter 488: 458 Three Directions that Changed History

Right now, I cannot determine just how much time has passed on Little Bowl’s side.

It’s not only because of the chaos of time in the Doomsday Era, but also because comparing the flow of time between different eras is inherently impossible. This is completely different from comparing the flow of time in two separate spaces. Although "now" is perpetually moving forward, whether "a certain point in the future" also advances concurrently is a fundamentally flawed proposition from the outset.

From this perspective, the fact that I could communicate normally with Little Bowl in the Void Realm, who was obviously experiencing time flow, now seems rather puzzling.

Also, when pondering issues related to time, I recalled the previous interactions with Mazao across the river of time with the End of the World Great Inconstancy Huang Quan, which led me to realize more possibilities.

I can interact with characters from past history, in other words, I can transmit energy and information to the past, wouldn’t this cause changes to history?

Or is it that the current "now" hasn’t changed because my actions of altering history are destined events on this timeline?

That afternoon, I met Lu Chan at the mansion again.

He seemed to have something to report to me, and I coincidentally wanted to consult him, as his insights and knowledge far surpassed that of Mazao and me combined. Seeing that I seemed to have questions, he made a gesture indicating for me to ask first.

After listening to my question, he nodded slightly and said, "You want to ask if you can change history through some means, and thereby change the present, right...

"Well... that depends on how you specifically intend to change things, and what exactly you want to alter."

"What do you mean?" I asked, curious.

"In the world of demon hunters, there are more than one way to alter history," Lu Chan said, "Although all of them are extremely difficult, there are some who can achieve it easily, such as the Great Demon Silver Moon...

"Since you’ve had more than one encounter with her, you must have witnessed her methods of altering history, right? The method she employs is one of the ways to alter history, also among the relatively easier ones to accomplish.

"According to the documents I know about Silver Moon, strictly speaking, her power doesn’t really cross time and space to alter past facts, but rather forges the historical records of the world through the power of the Illusion Technique, essentially deceiving the world.

"The world has a memory, the entangled cause and effect and established facts lie deep in the layers of time and space, like the code supporting the events and visuals in a computer game－invisible but crucial. Silver Moon can modify the ’memory of the world’ in a way that benefits herself, making the ’now’ corrected into the corresponding state by the world... this should be quite easy to understand?"

I understood, and once again felt the formidable power of Silver Moon.

Ordinary illusion practitioners at most can hypnotize sentient beings and animals, but Silver Moon hypnotized the world itself. Needless to say, the scope of her power couldn’t possibly extend worldwide, at best just the time-space region where she resides. Even so, it’s terrifying enough.

A demon with such power truly seems almost omnipotent. It makes me wonder how I managed to defeat her so easily at the time.

"Of course, that kind of power doesn’t directly affect you Impermanence folks. Because even if the world remembered you incorrectly, as long as you haven’t forgotten yourselves, the world’s corrective force cannot alter your existential state," Lu Chan continued, "And the second method to change history is to genuinely send yourself, or your power, back to the past time and space.

"Then, there will be three different outcomes: The first outcome: since already established history has this thing called corrective force, if you recklessly try to change it, you’ll be suppressed by this corrective force.

"Either you travel to the past but cannot make any successful changes or, although you’ve successfully crossed over, inexplicably lose your memories, which can only be restored at the time point you began the time travel, possibly never recovering throughout your life; or, even more straightforward, like death’s visit, the corrective force directly brings you to demise...

"In the history of Luo Mountain, those unfortunate or fortunate individuals embroiled in bizarre incidents crossing time, and those powerful demon hunters ambitious to alter history—there are four to five hundred recorded cases alone, and probably more unrecorded ones. Eventually, everyone learned to stay away from studying these aspects."

"Time travel" is actually such a common occurrence? Given that it’s a number spread throughout the entire history of Luo Mountain, in reality, it should still be quite rare, yet it far surpassed my imagination.

"You said this is just the first outcome... so there’s a possibility of ’successfully changing history’?"

I thought of Mazao, she might be someone from another time trying to prevent the Doomsday. If history couldn’t be changed at all, then all her efforts would be for naught.

"Of course, there is," Lu Chan replied, "Those engulfed by the corrective force, after all, are demon hunters in the Being/Presence/Destruction/Space realm. If it’s someone in the Great Success Rank, they can initially contend with the historical corrective force. That’s the second outcome.

"Just that the result after contention isn’t very ideal either. Although not fully proven, the changed history may very likely generate a parallel world, with the outcome of the change inherited by the parallel world. In other words, even if you succeed in altering history using this method, it won’t affect our current present."

Mazao is also in the Great Success Rank, which seems to explain why our current actions don’t affect the Doomsday Era Little Bowl is in... As I internally verify this with my observations, I inquire, "Then, what if the person trying to alter history isn’t at the Great Success Rank... but is Impermanence?"

"Compared to the Great Success Rank, Impermanence certainly can achieve a lot more, tweaking the established present through history modification without creating parallel worlds; this can be achieved, albeit at the cost of immense power. And that’s the third outcome," Lu Chan said. "The specifics, since they pertain to the domain of Impermanence, I’m not particularly familiar. But just a little thought makes it clear: such an act distorts the established timeline itself.

"The higher the degree of change to the present, the more power is required; likewise, the further back the time point from the present, the more challenging the alteration becomes.

"Take ’reviving past deceased’ as an example; if you only wish to resurrect a handful or a dozen unaccomplished ordinary people or weak demon hunters, the difficulty shouldn’t be too high; but if you wish to revive ordinary people or demon hunters capable of great achievements, or even historically great figures and demon hunters of the Great Success Rank... then you’d better think of how to open the third door first."

At this point, I recalled what the Master of the Divine Seal once said.

Once, in response to No.1’s question, "Can you revive the dead?", the Master of the Divine Seal answered, "Even reviving all deceased in human history is possible," and acknowledged having the power to alter the past.

This answer is, of course, based on the premise of fully repairing the divine seal. I felt as though, for the first time, I had an intuitive understanding of the gap between Impermanence and the Complete Divine Seal.

Moreover, according to this theory, Shan Liangyi seemingly also cannot whimsically change the present through altering history... But if he doesn’t mind entering a parallel world, he’d certainly have his way; even if insisting on changing the original timeline, as a God who opened the third door, his degree of freedom would surely be much higher.

And for myself, to change history, I must first be able to perceive historical information itself. Currently, I still cannot directly investigate historical information like Mazao—not because I can’t perceive it, but rather, I perceive it but cannot comprehend it.

It’s like facing unfamiliar conceptual information akin to computer code; my experience isn’t enough to translate it into an understandable form.

By synchronizing real-time perceptions with Mazao through the Fake Water Moon, it could bypass this step and directly proceed to alter history.

"Well, did my answers bring clarity to you, oh God?" Lu Chan asked.

"Thank you, I’ve gained a lot," I said, "Next... what was it you wanted to report to me?"

"There are two matters," Lu Chan said. "Firstly, last time you informed me about a traitor leaking information from Mingzhuo’s Influence to Taoyuan Village and requested a covert investigation... I have gathered some findings."

As he spoke, he handed me some documents and continued, "Based on the results of my tracking through connections, it is likely information leakage occurred from one of the Luoshan Branch Bases under Mingzhuo. However, which exact branch base leaked the information, I have yet to pinpoint; I can only provide three suspect locations.

"I marked them with red circles on the map here and noted suspicion levels from high to low with numbers one, two, and three marked beside them.

"Additionally, these documents provide introductions to these three branch bases and the basis for suspecting them..."

Seeing his meticulous and highly efficient working style made me feel as if I had employed a secretary or a steward with significant administrative capability.

As he explained, I skimmed through the documents and, after he paused, asked, "Then... what’s the second matter you want to report?"

Lu Chan looked at me deeply, then said, "Liu Shuying has requested a meeting with you."

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